Hydrodynamic simulation of a n + − n − n + silicon nanowire

Non-equilibrium electron transport in silicon nanowires has been tackled with a hydrodynamic model. This model has been formulated by taking the moments of the multisubband Boltzmann equation, coupled to the Schrödinger–Poisson system. Closure relations are obtained by means of the maximum entropy principle (MEP) of extended thermodynamics, including scattering of electrons with acoustic and nonpolar optical phonons. Simulation results for a quantum n ⁺ ? n ? n ⁺ silicon diode are shown.     

Darboux transformation for an integrable generalization of the nonlinear Schr?dinger equation

A Darboux transformation for an integrable generalization of the coupled nonlinear Schr?dinger equation is derived with the help of the gauge transformation between the Lax pair. As a reduction, a Darboux transformation for an integrable generalization of the nonlinear Schr?dinger equation is obtained, from which some new solutions for the integrable generalization of the nonlinear Schr?dinger equation are given.     

Plant growth – A thermodynamicist's view

The synthesis of glucose requires an increase of enthalpy and a decrease of entropy such that the Gibbs free energy increases. This is impossible by the laws of thermodynamics unless there is an accompanying, compensating process that decreases the Gibbs free energy. Schr?dinger [1] has suggested that the accompanying process should be the absorption and reemission of radiation. This process supplies the heat of reaction and the entropy increase of radiation is more than enough to offset the chemical decrease of entropy. And yet we are not satisfied with Schr?dingers proposition, because we see no connection between the entropy increase of radiation and the physiology of the plant. Therefore we propose an alternative: The accompanying process consists of the transpiration of water and the mixing of water vapour with air; in this view radiation only furnishes the heat of reaction. Received February 14, 1997     

Stability of exact solutions of the cubic-quintic nonlinear Schrödinger equation with periodic potential

The nonlinear Schr?dinger equation with attractive quintic nonlinearity in periodic potential in 1D, modeling a dilute-gas Bose–Einstein condensate in a lattice potential, is considered and one family of exact stationary solutions is discussed. Some of these solutions have an analog neither in the linear Schr?dinger equation nor in the integrable nonlinear Schr?dinger equation. Their stability is examined analytically and numerically.     

On the construction of the exact analytic or parametric closed-form solutions of standing waves concerning the cubic nonlinear Schr?dinger equation

We propose a new approach for the construction of the closed-form solutions of standing waves of the cubic nonlinear Schr?dinger equation (NLS). Through appropriate functional transformations, we reduce the radially symmetric NLS into an Emden–Fowler equation whose solution results to the derivation of the closed forms of the standing waves. We also derive the necessary restrictions under which the derived solutions are admissible.     

On time independent Schr?dinger equations in quantum mechanics by the homotopy analysis method

A general analytic approach, namely the homotopy analysis method(HAM), is applied to solve the time independent Schr?dinger equations. Unlike perturbation method, the HAM-based approach does not depend on any small physical parameters, corresponding to small disturbances.Especially, it provides a convenient way to gain the convergent series solution of quantum mechanics. This study illustrates the advantages of this HAM-based approach over the traditional perturbative approach, and its general validity for the Schr?dinger equations. Note that perturbation methods are widely used in quantum mechanics, but perturbation results are hardly convergent. This study suggests that the HAM might provide us a new, powerful alternative to gain convergent series solution for some complicated problems in quantum mechanics, including many-body problems, which can be directly compared with the experiment data to improve the accuracy of the experimental findings and/or physical theories.     

Entropy of Dynamical Systems with Repetition Property

The repetition property of a dynamical system, a notion introduced in Boshernitzan and Damanik (Commun Math Phys 283:647–662, 2008), plays an importance role in analyzing spectral properties of ergodic Schrödinger operators. In this paper, entropy of dynamical systems with repetition property is investigated. It is shown that the topological entropy of dynamical systems with the global repetition property is zero. Minimal dynamical systems having both topological repetition property and positive topological entropy are constructed. This provides a class of ergodic Schrödinger operators with potentials generated by positive entropy minimal dynamical systems that, in contrast to common beliefs, admit no eigenvalues.     

Two-dimensional accessible solitons in PT-symmetric potentials

Two-dimensional parity-time (PT) symmetric potentials are introduced, which allow the existence of spatial solitons in the model of the strongly nonlocal nonlinear Schr?dinger equation. Two-dimensional accessible solitons are found in the form of solutions separating the radial amplitude, given in terms of Laguerre polynomials, a?phase function involving quadratic, linear, and constant phase shifts, and a specific azimuthal modulation function. Shape-preserving solitons are constructed from Laguerre?CGaussian functions containing the self-similar variable and an exponential form of the azimuthal modulation, containing sine and cosine functions, when a suitable PT-symmetric potential is chosen. Interesting soliton profiles and the corresponding PT-symmetric potentials are displayed for different values of the parameters.     

Evolution Equations on Non-Flat Waveguides

We investigate the dispersive properties of evolution equations on waveguides with a non-flat shape. More precisely, we consider an operator $$H=-\Delta_{x}-\Delta_{y}+V(x,y)$$ with Dirichlet boundary conditions on an unbounded domain ??, and we introduce the notion of a repulsive waveguide along the direction of the first group of variables, x. If ?? is a repulsive waveguide, we prove a sharp estimate for the Helmholtz equation Hu???u?=?f. As consequences, we prove smoothing estimates for the Schr?dinger and wave equations associated to H, and Strichartz estimates for the Schr?dinger equation. Additionally, we deduce that the operator H does not admit eigenvalues.     

On Growth of Sobolev Norms in Linear Schr?dinger Equations with Time Dependent Gevrey Potential

We improve Delort??s method to show that solutions of linear Schr?dinger equations with a time dependent Gevrey potential on the torus, have at most logarithmically growing Sobolev norms. In particular, it contains the result of Wang (Commun Partial Differ Equ 33:2164?C2179, 2008), which deals with analytic potentials in dimension 1.     

Solution of the Navier–Stokes equations in velocity–vorticity form using a Eulerian–Lagrangian boundary element method

This paper describes the Eulerian–Lagrangian boundary element model for the solution of incompressible viscous flow problems using velocity–vorticity variables. A Eulerian–Lagrangian boundary element method (ELBEM) is proposed by the combination of the Eulerian–Lagrangian method and the boundary element method (BEM). ELBEM overcomes the limitation of the traditional BEM, which is incapable of dealing with the arbitrary velocity field in advection‐dominated flow problems. The present ELBEM model involves the solution of the vorticity transport equation for vorticity whose solenoidal vorticity components are obtained iteratively by solving velocity Poisson equations involving the velocity and vorticity components. The velocity Poisson equations are solved using a boundary integral scheme and the vorticity transport equation is solved using the ELBEM. Here the results of two‐dimensional Navier–Stokes problems with low–medium Reynolds numbers in a typical cavity flow are presented and compared with a series solution and other numerical models. The ELBEM model has been found to be feasible and satisfactory. Copyright © 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Evolution of optical solitary waves in a generalized nonlinear Schr?dinger equation with variable coefficients

We derive two types of exact analytical solutions in terms of rational-like functions for a generalized nonlinear Schr?dinger equation with variable coefficients via the methods of similarity transformation and direct ansatz. Based on these solutions, several novel optical solitary waves are constructed by selecting appropriate functions, and the main evolution features of these waves are shown by some interesting figures with computer simulation.     

Semiclassical States of Nonlinear Schrödinger Equations

The existence of semiclassical states to some nonlinear Schr?dinger equations that concentrate near the critical points of the potential V is studied by means of a local approach, variational in nature. We also discuss stability and necessary conditions for concentration. The same method is used to find multiple homoclinic orbits to a class of second‐order Hamiltonian systems. (Accepted April 24, 1996)     

Generalized Homoclinic Solutions of a Coupled Schr?dinger System Under a Small Perturbation

This paper is devoted to study a coupled Schr?dinger system with a small perturbation $$\begin{array}{ll}u_{xx} - u + u^{3} + \beta uv^{2} + \epsilon f( \epsilon, u, u_{x}, v, v_{x}) = 0 \quad {\rm in} \, {\bf R}, \\v_{xx} + v - v^{3} + \beta u^{2}v + \epsilon g( \epsilon, u, u_{x}, v, v_{x}) = 0 \quad {\rm in} \, {\bf R} \end{array}$$ where β is a constant and ε is a small parameter. We first show that this system has a periodic solution and its dominant system has a homoclinic solution exponentially approaching zero. Then we apply the fixed point theorem and the perturbation method to prove that this homoclinic solution deforms to a homoclinic solution exponentially approaching the obtained periodic solution (called generalized homoclinic solution) for the whole system. Our methods can be used to other four dimensional dynamical systems like the Schr?dinger-KdV system.     

Convergence of Lax–Friedrichs and Godunov schemes for a nonstrictly hyperbolic system of conservation laws arising in oil recovery

This paper is devoted to the compactness framework and the convergence theorem for the Lax–Friedrichs and Godunov schemes applied to a \({2 \times 2}\) system of non-strictly hyperbolic nonlinear conservation laws that arises from mathematical models for oil recovery. The presence of a degeneracy in the hyperbolicity of the system requires a careful analysis of the entropy functions, whose regularity is necessary to obtain the result. For this purpose, it is necessary to combine the classical techniques referring to a singular Euler–Poisson–Darboux equation with the compensated compactness method.     

Numerical Simulation of Drying of a Saturated Deformable Porous Media by the Lattice Boltzmann Method

A numerical study is reported here to investigate the drying of saturated deformable porous rectangular plate based on the Darcy–Brinkman extended model. All walls of the plate are maintained to a convective heat flux as well as the top and bottom faces are also subjected to a mass flux. The model for the energy transport is based on the local thermodynamic equilibrium between the fluid and the solid phases. The lattice Boltzmann method is used for solving the governing differential equations system. A comprehensive analysis of the influence of the Poisson’s coefficient, the Young’s modulus and the permeability on macroscopic fields is investigated throughout this work.     

移动载荷作用下浮冰的非线性动力学响应

本文考虑非线性、惯性和阻尼的影响, 研究了任意深度二维理想流体顶部浮冰的振动. 对相关的拟微分算子进行展开并将非线性项保留至三阶后, 完全非线性问题被简化为仅与自由面上的变量相关的三阶截断模型. 为了验证简化模型的准确性, 重点关注了自由孤立波解. 在不考虑阻尼的情况下, 采用多重尺度方法推导了三阶非线性薛定谔方程(NLS), 利用该方程预测了任意水深下原始欧拉方程中自由波包型孤立波解的存在性及三阶截断模型的准确性. 相比于Dinvay等所提出的二阶模型, 三阶截断模型的优势在于其对应的三阶NLS具有准确的非线性项系数, 能够在最小相速度附近更好地模拟冰层的动力学响应. 进一步地对自由孤立波解进行数值计算, 数值结果表明三阶截断模型在分岔曲线和孤立波波形上均与完全欧拉方程吻合良好, 准确性高于二阶截断模型. 基于三阶截断模型, 探究了匀速局域化载荷作用下的浮冰非线性动力学响应并将时间依赖解与实验测量数据进行比较, 数值计算结果与实验记录吻合良好.      

Numerical solution of three‐dimensional velocity–vorticity Navier–Stokes equations by finite difference method

This paper describes the finite difference numerical procedure for solving velocity–vorticity form of the Navier–Stokes equations in three dimensions. The velocity Poisson equations are made parabolic using the false‐transient technique and are solved along with the vorticity transport equations. The parabolic velocity Poisson equations are advanced in time using the alternating direction implicit (ADI) procedure and are solved along with the continuity equation for velocities, thus ensuring a divergence‐free velocity field. The vorticity transport equations in conservative form are solved using the second‐order accurate Adams–Bashforth central difference scheme in order to assure divergence‐free vorticity field in three dimensions. The velocity and vorticity Cartesian components are discretized using a central difference scheme on a staggered grid for accuracy reasons. The application of the ADI procedure for the parabolic velocity Poisson equations along with the continuity equation results in diagonally dominant tri‐diagonal matrix equations. Thus the explicit method for the vorticity equations and the tri‐diagonal matrix algorithm for the Poisson equations combine to give a simplified numerical scheme for solving three‐dimensional problems, which otherwise requires enormous computational effort. For three‐dimensional‐driven cavity flow predictions, the present method is found to be efficient and accurate for the Reynolds number range 100?Re?2000. Copyright © 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Modelling a recirculating density-driven turbulent flow

A mathematical model of turbulent density-driven flows is presented and is solved numerically. A form of the k–? turbulence model is used to characterize the turbulent transport, and both this non-linear model and a sediment transport equation are coupled with the mean-flow fluid motion equations. A partitioned, Newton–Raphson-based solution scheme is used to effect a solution. The model is applied to the study of flow through a circular secondary sedimentation basin.     

Orbital stability of periodic waves for the nonlinear Schrödinger equation

The nonlinear Schr?dinger equation has several families of quasi-periodic traveling waves, each of which can be parametrized up to symmetries by two real numbers: the period of the modulus of the wave profile, and the variation of its phase over a period (Floquet exponent). In the defocusing case, we show that these travelling waves are orbitally stable within the class of solutions having the same period and the same Floquet exponent. This generalizes a previous work (Gallay and Haragus, J. Diff. Equations, 2007) where only small amplitude solutions were considered. A similar result is obtained in the focusing case, under a non-degeneracy condition which can be checked numerically. The proof relies on the general approach to orbital stability as developed by Grillakis, Shatah, and Strauss, and requires a detailed analysis of the Hamiltonian system satisfied by the wave profile.