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We study the evolution of linear density fluctuations of free-streaming massive neutrinos at redshift of z<1000, with an explicit justification on the use of a fluid approximation. We solve the collisionless Boltzmann equation in an…

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We consider a particle moving with equation of motion $\dot x=f(t)$, where $f(t)$ is a random function with statistics which are independent of $x$ and $t$, with a finite drift velocity $v=\langle f\rangle$ and in the presence of a…

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We test the fluctuation theorem from measurements in turbulent flows. We study the time fluctuations of the force acting on an obstacle, and we consider two experimental situations: the case of a von K\'arm\'an swirling flow between…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-10 S. Ciliberto , N. Garnier , S. Hernandez , C. Lacpatia J. -F. Pinton , G. Ruiz Chavarria

We present a theoretical foundation for relativistic astronomical measurements in curved space-time. In particular, we discuss a new iterative approach for describing the dynamics of an astronomical N-body system. To do this, we generalize…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Slava G. Turyshev

Data assimilation (DA) is a fundamental component of modern weather prediction, yet it remains a major computational bottleneck in machine learning (ML)-based forecasting pipelines due to reliance on traditional variational methods. Recent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Ran Cheng , Lailai Zhu

We reexamine results obtained with the recently proposed density functional theory framework based on forces (force-DFT) [Tschopp et al., Phys. Rev. E 106, 014115 (2022)]. We compare inhomogeneous density profiles for hard sphere fluids to…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-02-28 Florian Sammüller , Sophie Hermann , Matthias Schmidt

Using a microfluidics device filled with a colloidal suspension of microspheres, we test the laws of diffusion in the limit of small particle numbers. Our focus is not just on average properties such as the mean flux, but rather on the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Effrosyni Seitaridou , Mandar M. Inamdar , Rob Phillips , Kingshuk Ghosh , Ken Dill

Spontaneous imbibition (SI) is a process by which liquid is drawn into partially saturated porous media by capillary forces, relevant for subsurface processes like underground fluid storage and withdrawal. Accurate modeling and scaling of…

Mathematical models that accurately predict the mechanical behavior of blood can contribute to the development of biomedical devices and medications which are relevant in clinical applications. The models existing in the literature are…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-08-27 Corina S. Drapaca , Zhifeng Zhang , Ruifan Meng

Among various analytic approximations for the growth of density fluctuations in the expanding Universe, Zel'dovich approximation and its extensions in Lagrangian scheme are known to be accurate even in mildly non-linear regime. The aim of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Ayako Yoshisato , Takahiko Matsubara , Masahiro Morikawa

Nonspherical collapse is modelled, under the Zeldovich approximation, by six-dimensional random walks of the initial deformation tensor field. The collapse boundary adopted here is a slightly-modified version of that proposed by Chiueh and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Lihwai Lin , Tzihong Chiueh , Jounghun Lee

Relativistic generalization of hydrodynamic theory has attracted much attention from a theoretical point of view. However, it has many important practical applications in high energy as well as astrophysical contexts. Despite various…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-12-23 Leila Shahsavar , Malihe Ghodrat , Afshin Montakhab

The frequency-dependent response of a one-dimensional fermion system is investigated using Current Density Functional Theory (CDFT) within the local approximation (LDA). DFT-LDA, and in particular CDFT-LDA, reproduces very well the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2010-04-01 Michael Dzierzawa , Ulrich Eckern , Stefan Schenk , Peter Schwab

Many applications in aerodynamics, particularly in closed-loop control, depend on sensors to estimate the evolving state of the flow. This estimation task is inherently accompanied by uncertainty due to the noisy measurements of sensors or…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-01-07 Jeff D. Eldredge , Hanieh Mousavi

We present an optimal detrended fluctuation analysis (DFA) and applied it to evaluate the local roughness exponent in non-equilibrium surface growth models with mounded morphology. Our method consists in analyzing the height fluctuations…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-04-19 Edwin E. Mozo Luis , Thiago A. de Assis , Silvio C. Ferreira

A massive, nonrelativistic scalar field in an expanding spacetime is usually approximated by a pressureless perfect fluid, which leads to the standard conclusion that such a field can play the role of cold dark matter. In this paper, we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-14 Borna Salehian , Mohammad Hossein Namjoo , David I. Kaiser

The purpose of this work is to generalize the frozen Gaussian approximation (FGA) theory to solve the 3-D elastic wave equation and use it as the forward modeling tool for seismic tomography with high-frequency data. FGA has been previously…

Geophysics · Physics 2018-12-05 James C. Hateley , Lihui Chai , Ping Tong , Xu Yang

We use some fractal analysis methods to study river flow fluctuations. The result of the Multifractal Detrended Fluctuation Analysis (MF-DFA) shows that there are two crossover timescales at $s_{1\times}\sim12$ and $s_{2\times}\sim130$…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2015-06-26 M. Sadegh Movahed , Evalds Hermanis

We address an original approach for the convergence analysis of a finite-volume scheme for the approximation of a stochastic diffusion-convection equation with multiplicative noise in a bounded domain of $\mathbb{R}^d$ (with $d=2$ or $3$)…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-02-20 Caroline Bauzet , Kerstin Schmitz , Aleksandra Zimmermann

The low-T part of the phase diagram in self-assembling systems is correctly predicted by the known versions of the density functional theory (DFT). The high-T part obtained in DFT, however, does not agree with simulations even on the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-11-20 A. Ciach