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Relaxation approximation and asymptotic stability of stratified solutions to the IPM equation

We prove the nonlinear asymptotic stability of stably stratified solutions to the Incompressible Porous Media equation (IPM) for initial perturbations in ?H1- (R2) ? ?H s(R2) with s > 3 and for any 0 < < 1. Such result improves the existing literature, where the asymptotic stability is…

Measurement of Pier Deformation Patterns by Ground-Based SAR Interferometry: Application to a Bollard Pull Trial

In this paper, we describe a new methodology for the nondestructive measurement of absolute displacements of a pier during a bollard pull trial by ground-based synthetic aperture radar (GBSAR) interferometry. This technique measures displacement patterns with a submillimeter precision in any…

Lattice differential operators for computational physics

A class of risk processes with reserve-dependent premium rate: sample path large deviations and importance sampling

For a risk process with reserve dependent premium rate, we study sample path large deviations and provide a fast simulation procedure to estimate the corresponding ruin probability.

Gravitational self-force corrections to gyroscope precession along circular orbits in the Kerr spacetime

We generalize to Kerr spacetime previous gravitational self-force results on gyroscope precession along circular orbits in the Schwarzschild spacetime. In particular we present high order post-Newtonian expansions for the gauge invariant precession function along circular geodesics valid for an…

Ten years of MIPAS measurements with ESA Level 2 processor V6 - Part I: retrieval algorithm and diagnostics of the products

The MIPAS instrument on the ENVISAT satellite has provided vertical profiles of the atmospheric composition on a global scale for almost ten years. The MIPAS mission is divided in two phases, the full resolution phase, from 2002 to 2004, and the optimized resolution phase, from 2005 to 2012, which…

On the asymptotic stability of linear Volterra difference equations of convolution type

We show that the condition is not necessary, though sufficient, for the asymptotic stability of . We prove the existence of a class of Volterra difference equations (VDEs) that violate this condition but whose zero solutions are asymptotically stable.

A nonlinear model for marble sulphation including surface rugosity: Theoretical and numerical results

We consider an evolution system describing the phenomenon of marble sulphation of a monument, accounting of the surface rugosity. We first prove a local in time well posedness result. Then, stronger assumptions on the data allow us to establish the existence of a global in time solution. Finally,…

Existence and regularity of minimizers of a functional for unsupervised multiphase segmentation

We consider a variational model for image segmentation proposed in Sandberg et al. (2010) [12]. In such a model the image domain is partitioned into a finite collection of subsets denoted as phases. The segmentation is unsupervised, i.e., the model finds automatically an optimal number of phases,…

Multiscale simulation of nano-biological flows