Stealthy interactions are an emerging class of nontrivial, bounded long-ranged oscillatory pair potentials with classical ground states that can be disordered, hyperuniform, and infinitely degenerate. Their hybrid cry...
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The Weissenberg effect, or rod-climbing phenomenon, occurs in non-Newtonian fluids where the fluid interface ascends along a rotating rod. Despite its prominence, theoretical insights into this phenomenon remain limit...
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A method is developed for the optimal estimation of the parameters in a fully nonlinear model of flow in a channel. The data assimilated consist of values of the water surface elevation during a given interval. The me...
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A method is developed for the optimal estimation of the parameters in a fully nonlinear model of flow in a channel. The data assimilated consist of values of the water surface elevation during a given interval. The method is based on the adjoint method of optimal control. It is shown that accurate values of the parameters can be estimated, and the estimates are stable with respect to random perturbations of the data provided that data from a sufficient number of locations are available for assimilation.
We consider a family of three-dimensional, volume preserving maps depending on a small parameter epsilon. As epsilon --> 0+ these maps asymptote to flows which attain a heteroclinic connection. We show that for sma...
We consider a family of three-dimensional, volume preserving maps depending on a small parameter epsilon. As epsilon --> 0+ these maps asymptote to flows which attain a heteroclinic connection. We show that for small epsilon the heteroclinic connection breaks up and that the splitting between its components scales with epsilon like epsilon(gamma) exp(-beta/epsilon). We estimate beta using the singularities of the epsilon --> 0+ heteroclinic orbit in the complex plane. We then estimate gamma using linearization about orbits in the complex plane. While these estimates are not proven, they are well supported by our numerical calculations. The work described here is a special case of the theory derived by Amick et al. which applies to q-dimensional volume preserving mappings.
A new mechanism for the creation of structures in two-dimensional turbulence is investigated. The forced Navier-Stokes equations are solved numerically in a periodic square in the limit of zero viscosity. The force is...
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A new mechanism for the creation of structures in two-dimensional turbulence is investigated. The forced Navier-Stokes equations are solved numerically in a periodic square in the limit of zero viscosity. The force is a white-in-time random noise acting in a narrow band of high wavenumbers. The inverse-cascade process and the presence of the boundary lead ultimately to a pile-up of energy in the lowest wavenumber (Bose condensation). In the asymptotic limit where the enstrophy cascade range is negligible, Bose condensation is solely responsible for the generation of coherent vortices and intermittency in the system. We present the evolution of the velocity and vorticity fields through the later stages of the condensate state, and explore the possible implications for atmospheric turbulence constrained by the periodic domain about the earth.
We describe here a new technique and a package for rapid reconstruction of smooth surfaces from scattered data points. This method is based on a fast recurrent algorithm for the Delauney triangulation followed by rati...
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We describe here a new technique and a package for rapid reconstruction of smooth surfaces from scattered data points. This method is based on a fast recurrent algorithm for the Delauney triangulation followed by rational interpolation inside triangles. Preprocessing of data includes sorting and takes N log(N) time. Afterwards the computational cost is a linear function of the amount of data. This technique enables a user to construct a surface of any class of smoothness and degree of convergence. Our package reconstructs surfaces that can be uniquely projected either on a plane or on a sphere. The graphical section of this package includes three dimensional transformations, shading, hidden surface removal, interactive adding points into triangulation by mouse, etc. The graphics has been implemented on Iris-4D, SUN-4 and IBM-5080.
The environment inside biological cells is densely populated by macromolecules and other cellular components. The crowding has a significant impact on folding and stability of macromolecules, and on kinetics of molecu...
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We study the semi-classical limit of the Schro¨dinger equation in a crystal in the presence of an external potential and magnetic field. We first introduce the Bloch-Wigner transform and derive the asymptotic equ...
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We study the semi-classical limit of the Schro¨dinger equation in a crystal in the presence of an external potential and magnetic field. We first introduce the Bloch-Wigner transform and derive the asymptotic equations governing this transform in the semi-classical setting. For the second part, we focus on the appearance of the Berry curvature terms in the asymptotic equations. These terms play a crucial role in many important physical phenomena such as the quantum Hall effect. We give a simple derivation of these terms in different settings using asymptotic analysis.
A new rotation symmetry for steady Hele-Shaw flows is reported. In the case when surface tension is neglected, it is shown that if a curve L moving with constant velocity U is a solution to the Hele-Shaw problem, then...
A new rotation symmetry for steady Hele-Shaw flows is reported. In the case when surface tension is neglected, it is shown that if a curve L moving with constant velocity U is a solution to the Hele-Shaw problem, then the curve L obtained from a rotation of L about its center by an arbitrary angle is also a solution with the same velocity U. Similar results hold for the case with surface tension if and only if the Schwarz function of the curve L is regular in the fluid region and at most a linear function at infinity. Several examples in which this principle is used to generate new solutions to the problem are also discussed.
Rigorous theories connecting physical properties of a heterogeneous material to its microstructure offer a promising avenue to guide the computational material design and optimization. The spectral density function χ...
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Rigorous theories connecting physical properties of a heterogeneous material to its microstructure offer a promising avenue to guide the computational material design and optimization. The spectral density function χ̃V(k), which can be obtained experimentally from scattering data, enables accurate determination of various transport and wave propagation characteristics, including the time-dependent diffusion spreadability S(t) and effective dynamic dielectric constant εe for electromagnetic wave propagation. Moreover, χ̃V(k) determines rigorous upper bounds on the fluid permeability K. Given the importance of χ̃V(k), we present here an efficient Fourier-space based computational framework to construct three-dimensional (3D) statistically isotropic two-phase heterogeneous materials corresponding to targeted spectral density functions. In particular, we employ a variety of analytical functional forms for χ̃V(k) that satisfy all known necessary conditions to construct disordered stealthy hyperuniform, standard hyperuniform, nonhyperuniform, and antihyperuniform two-phase heterogeneous material systems at varying phase volume fractions. We show that by tuning the correlations in the system across length scales via the targeted functions, one can generate a rich spectrum of distinct structures within each of the above classes of materials. Importantly, we present the first realization of antihyperuniform two-phase heterogeneous materials in 3D, which are characterized by autocovariance function χV(r) with a power-law tail, resulting in microstructures that contain clusters of dramatically different sizes and morphologies. We also determine the diffusion spreadability S(t) and estimate the fluid permeability K associated with all of the constructed materials directly from the corresponding spectral densities. Although it is well established that the long-time asymptotic scaling behavior of S(t) only depends on the functional form of χ̃V(k), with the stealthy hyperuniform a
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