On slow flows of the full nonlinear Doi–Edwards polymer model

The full Doi–Edwards model constitutive equation derived by Palierne (Phys Rev Lett 93:136001-1–136001-4, (2004) is discussed in detail. The corresponding configurational probability equation is next solved for slow flows, and the solution is used to calculate the material constants: zero-shear viscosity and the normal stress differences.     

两相流体非线性渗流模型及其应用

基于三参数非线性渗流运动定律、质量守恒定律及椭圆渗流的概念,建立了低渗透介质中两相流体椭圆非线性渗流数学模型,运用有限差分法与外推法求得了其解,导出了两相流体椭圆非线性渗流条件下油井见水前后开发指标的计算公式,进行了实例分析。结果表明:非线性渗流对含水饱和度分布影响较大;非线性渗流使得水驱油推进速度比线性渗流的快,使油井见水时间提前,使得石油开发指标变差;非线性渗流使得同一时刻的压差比线性渗流的大,使石油开发难度加大。这为低渗油藏垂直裂缝井开发工程提供了科学依据。     

Acoustic Torque Acting upon Nematic Liquid Crystals

There is plenty of experimental evidence that the propagation of an ultrasonic wave in a nematic liquid crystal affects the director n, which represents the average molecular orientation, thus producing detectable optical effects. There have been several attempts to explain these observations on the basis of a coherent variational theory. We consider here a general theory for nematoacoustics that incorporates flow effects and that has been recently proposed in E.G.?Virga (Phys. Rev. E 80:031705, 2009). An explicit application of the proposed theory to a simple computable case was given in G.?De?Matteis and E.G.?Virga (Phys. Rev. E 83:011703, 2011) by linearizing the corresponding balance equations derived from the basic theory. This study was done in order to estimate phenomenological parameters involved in the theory and by using available experimental data. After reviewing the results previously obtained, as a further application of the governing equations, we consider here an approximate equation for the flowless nematodynamics by introducing a second-order acoustic torque acting upon the nematic and we solve the obtained equation in a standard geometry of confined liquid crystal.     

On the asymptotic behavior of the parameter estimators for some diffusion processes: application to neuronal models

We consider a sample of i.i.d. times and we interpret each item as the first-passage time (FPT) of a diffusion process through a constant boundary. The problem is to estimate the parameters characterizing the underlying diffusion process through the experimentally observable FPT’s. Recently in Ditlevsen and Lánsky (Phys Rev E 71, 2005) and Ditlevsen and Lánsky (Phys Rev E 73, 2006) closed form estimators have been proposed for neurobiological applications. Here we study the asymptotic properties (consistency and asymptotic normality) of the class of moment type estimators for parameters of diffusion processes like those in Ditlevsen and Lánsky (Phys Rev E 71, 2005) and Ditlevsen and Lánsky (Phys Rev E 73, 2006). Furthermore, to make our results useful for application instances we establish upper bounds for the rate of convergence of the empirical distribution of each estimator to the normal density. Applications are also considered by means of simulated experiments in a neurobiological context.      

A mathematically rigorous formulation of the pseudopotential method

The Huang-Yang multipolar pseudopotential (see [K. Huang, Statistical Mechanics, Wiley, New York, 1963; K. Huang, C.N. Yang, Quantum-mechanical many-body problem with hard-sphere interaction, Phys. Rev. 105 (1957) 767-775]) is derived in a mathematically correct way using distribution theory. Up to recently, due to wrong numerical factors, only the first approximation term (the s-wave contribution) furnished correct results, and the conceptual validity of the higher approximations was in doubt, cf. [A. Derevianko, Revised Huang-Yang multipolar pseudopotential, Phys. Rev. A 72 (2005) 044701].     

Numerical simulation of generalized newtonian blood flow past a couple of irregular arterial stenoses

This paper looked at the numerical investigations of the generalized Newtonian blood flow through a couple of irregular arterial stenoses. The flow is treated to be axisymmetric, with an outline of the stenoses obtained from a three dimensional casting of a mild stenosed artery, so that the flow effectively becomes two‐dimensional. The Marker and Cell (MAC) method is developed for the governing unsteady generalized Newtonian equations in staggered grid for viscous incompressible flow in the cylindrical polar co‐ordinates system. The derived pressure‐Poisson equation was solved using Successive‐Over‐Relaxation (S.O.R.) method and the pressure‐velocity correction formulae have been derived. Computations are performed for the pressure drop, the wall shear stress distribution and the separation region. The presented computations show that in comparison to the corresponding Newtonian model the generalized Newtonian fluid experiences higher pressure drop, lower peak wall shear stress and smaller separation region. © 2010 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Numer Methods Partial Differential Eq 27: 960–981, 2011     

Strictly substochastic semigroups with application to conservative and shattering solutions to fragmentation equations with mass loss

In the paper we shall present a survey of recent results on substochastic semigroups and provide new methods for determining their honesty. These methods are applied to the fragmentation equation with mass loss, yielding sufficient conditions for the existence of conservative and shattering solutions. Our results provide a mathematical framework that clarifies the discussion of [Phys. Rev. A 43 (1991) 656, Phys. Rev. A 41 (1990) 5755, J. Phys. A 24 (1991) 3967] on shattering fragmentation in such models showing, among others, that there occurs an unexpected mass loss associated with shattering which is not accounted for by the discrete and continuous mass loss, contrary to the conjecture of [Phys. Rev. A 43 (1991) 656, Phys. Rev A 41 (1990) 5755].     

Ion soliton observation with laser induced fluorescence

Many theoretical and experimental studies of solitons in plasma have been performed [Phys. Fluids 16 (1973) 1668; Plasma Phys. 25 (1983) 943; IEEE Trans. Plasma Phys. PS 10 (1982) 180; Plasma Phys. 5 (1998) 4144] and most of the properties such as the relation between the amplitude, the velocity and the width, for soliton or soliton-dust interaction, have been obtained. The agreement between experiment and theoretical model is not always good [Phil. Mag. Ser. 39 (1895) 422; Phys. Rev. Lett. 17 (1966) 996; Phys. Rev. E 51 (1995) 4796]. The experimental observations typically involve Langmuir probes. However, the ion acoustic soliton propagation can be observed by laser induced fluorescence (LIF) in double plasma device. This direct observation of ion perturbation with LIF points out the importance of the optical pumping effect [Rev. Sci. Instrum. 72 (2001) 4372] in the measurement of fast velocity propagation of ion phenomena like solitons are. With the LIF we discovered that a train of soliton propagates easier in the device if a weak backward ion flux plasma, having a drift velocity in the range of 200 m/s is present; as faster the ion flux is, as close to the grid the solitons separation occurs; the precursors ions is in fact a collective phenomenon.     

Uniqueness of selfdual periodic Chern–Simons vortices of topological-type

In analogy with the abelian Maxwell–Higgs model (cf. Jaffe and Taubes in Vortices and monopoles, 1980) we prove that periodic topological-type selfdual vortex-solutions for the Chern–Simons model of Jackiw–Weinberg [Phys Rev Lett 64:2334–2337, 1990] and Hong et al. Phys Rev Lett 64:2230–2233, 1990 are uniquely determined by the location of their vortex points, when the Chern–Simons coupling parameter is sufficiently small. This result follows by a uniqueness and uniform invertibility property established for a related elliptic problem (see Theorem 3.6 and 3.7). Research supported by M.I.U.R. project: Variational Methods and Nonlinear Differential Equations.     

Lie group analysis for the effect of temperature-dependent fluid viscosity with thermophoresis and chemical reaction on MHD free convective heat and mass transfer over a porous stretching surface in the presence of heat source/sink

This paper concerns with a steady two-dimensional flow of an electrically conducting incompressible fluid over a vertical stretching sheet. The flow is permeated by a uniform transverse magnetic field. The fluid viscosity is assumed to vary as a linear function of temperature. A scaling group of transformations is applied to the governing equations. The system remains invariant due to some relations among the parameters of the transformations. After finding three absolute invariants a third-order ordinary differential equation corresponding to the momentum equation and two second-order ordinary differential equation corresponding to energy and diffusion equations are derived. The equations along with the boundary conditions are solved numerically. It is found that the decrease in the temperature-dependent fluid viscosity makes the velocity to decrease with the increasing distance of the stretching sheet. At a particular point of the sheet the fluid velocity decreases with the decreasing viscosity but the temperature increases in this case. It is found that with the increase of magnetic field intensity the fluid velocity decreases but the temperature increases at a particular point of the heated stretching surface. Impact of thermophoresis particle deposition with chemical reaction in the presence of heat source/sink plays an important role on the concentration boundary layer. The results thus obtained are presented graphically and discussed.     

Lorentz Gas with Thermostatted Walls

In a planar periodic Lorentz gas, a point particle (electron) moves freely and collides with fixed round obstacles (ions). If a constant force (induced by an electric field) acts on the particle, the latter will accelerate, and its speed will approach infinity (Chernov and Dolgopyat in J Am Math Soc 22:821–858, 2009; Phys Rev Lett 99, paper 030601, 2007). To keep the kinetic energy bounded one can apply a Gaussian thermostat, which forces the particle’s speed to be constant. Then an electric current sets in and one can prove Ohm’s law and the Einstein relation (Chernov and Dolgopyat in Russian Math Surv 64:73–124, 2009; Chernov et al. Comm Math Phys 154:569–601, 1993; Phys Rev Lett 70:2209–2212, 1993). However, the Gaussian thermostat has been criticized as unrealistic, because it acts all the time, even during the free flights between collisions. We propose a new model, where during the free flights the electron accelerates, but at the collisions with ions its total energy is reset to a fixed level; thus our thermostat is restricted to the surface of the scatterers (the ‘walls’). We rederive all physically interesting facts proven for the Gaussian thermostat in Chernov, Dolgopyat (Russian Math Surv 64:73–124, 2009) and Chernov et al. (Comm Math Phys 154:569–601, 1993; Phys Rev Lett 70:2209–2212, 1993), including Ohm’s law and the Einstein relation. In addition, we investigate the superconductivity phenomenon in the infinite horizon case.     

Existence of solutions for a nonlinear system of parabolic equations with gradient flow structure

We prove global existence of weak solutions of a variant of the parabolic-parabolic Keller–Segel model for chemotaxis on the whole space \({{\mathbb {R}}^d}\) for \(d\ge 3\) with a supercritical porous-medium diffusion exponent and an external drift. The structure of the equations allow the chemotactic drift to be seen both as attraction and repulsion. The method of proof relies on the inherent gradient flow structure of this system with respect to a coupled Wasserstein- \(L^2\) metric. Additional regularity estimates are derived from the dissipation of an entropy functional.     

Maximal Flow in Branching Trees and Binary Search Trees

A capacitated network is a tree with a non negative number, called capacity, associated to each edge. The maximal flow that can pass through a given path is the minimun capacity on the path. Antal and Krapivski (Phys Rev E 74:051110, 2006) study the distribution for the maximal flow from the root to a leaf in the case of a deterministic binary tree with independent and identically distributed random capacities. In this paper their result is extended to three classes of trees with a random number of children and dependent random capacities: binary trees with general capacities distribution, branching trees with exchangeable capacities and random binary search trees.     

Strange nonchaotic attractors in the externally modulated Rayleigh–Bénard system

The amplitude equation associated with an externally modulated Rayleigh–Bénard system of binary mixtures near the codimension-two point is considered. Strange nonchaotic dynamics and chaotic behaviour are investigated numerically. The creation of strange nonchaotic attractors as well as the onset of chaos are studied through an analysis of Poincaré surfaces, a construction of the bifurcation diagram and a new method for computing Lyapunov exponents that exploits the underlying symplectic structure of Hamiltonian dynamics [Phys. Rev. Lett. 74 (1995) 70].     

Renormalization group second‐order approximation for singularly perturbed nonlinear ordinary differential equations

We consider a 2 time scale nonlinear system of ordinary differential equations. The small parameter of the system is the ratio ϵ of the time scales. We search for an approximation involving only the slow time unknowns and valid uniformly for all times at order O(ϵ²). A classical approach to study these problems is Tikhonov's singular perturbation theorem. We develop an approach leading to a higher order approximation using the renormalization group (RG) method. We apply it in 2 steps. In the first step, we show that the RG method allows for approximation of the fast time variables by their RG expansion taken at the slow time unknowns. Next, we study the slow time equations, where the fast time unknowns are replaced by their RG expansion. This allows to rigorously show the second order uniform error estimate. Our result is a higher order extension of Hoppensteadt's work on the Tikhonov singular perturbation theorem for infinite times. The proposed procedure is suitable for problems from applications, and it is computationally less demanding than the classical Vasil'eva‐O'Malley expansion. We apply the developed method to a mathematical model of stem cell dynamics.     

牛顿变换Julia集的对称性

主要讨论多项式的牛顿变换Julia集的对称性问题．利用复动力系统理论,证明了多项式P（z）的Julia集的对称群是其牛顿变换Np（z）的Julia集的对称群的子群．获得了Julia集为一水平直线的充分必要条件．     

Quasi-cycles and sensitive dependence on seed values in edge of chaos behaviour in a class of self-evolving maps

In a recent paper [Melby P, Kaidel J, Weber N, Hubler A. Adaptation to the edge of chaos in the self-adjusting logistic map. Phys Rev Lett 2000;84:5991–3], Melby et al. attempted to understand edge of chaos behaviour through a very simple model. Based on our exhaustive numerical experiments, here we show that the model, with the definition of the edge of chaos given in the paper, cannot unequivocally support the idea of adaptation to the edge of chaos, let alone allow a conjecture of its generic presence in systems having the same characteristic features.     

Existence of nonclassical solutions in a Pedestrian flow model

The main result of this note is the existence of nonclassical solutions to the Cauchy problem for a conservation law modeling pedestrian flow. From the physical point of view, the main assumption of this model was recently experimentally confirmed in [D. Helbing, A. Johansson, H.Z. Al-Abideen, Dynamics of crowd disasters: An empirical study, Phys. Rev. E 75 (4) (2007) 046109]. Furthermore, the present model describes the fall in a door through-flow due to the rise of panic, as well as the Braess’ paradox. From the analytical point of view, this model is an example of a conservation law in which nonclassical solutions have a physical motivation and a global existence result for the Cauchy problem, with large data, is available.     

A Scaling Limit of the Becker-Döring Equations in the Regime of Small Excess Density

The Becker-Doring equations serve as a model for the nucleation of a new thermodynamic phase in a first-order phase transformation. This corresponds to the case when the total density of monomers exceeds a critical value and the excess density is contained in larger and larger clusters as time proceeds. It has been derived in Penrose [J. Stat. Phys. 89:1/2 (1997), 305-320] and Niethammer [J. Nonlin. Sci. 13:1 (2003), 115-155] that the evolution of these large clusters can on a certain large time scale be described by a nonlocal transport equation coupled with the constraint that the total volume of new phase is conserved. For specific coefficients this equation is well known as a classical mean-field model for coarsening. In the present paper we consider the regime of small excess density on a large time scale, but not as large as in Penrose (1997) or Niethammer (2003). We show rigorously that the leading order dynamics are governed by another variant of the classical mean-field model in which total mass is preserved.