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Light scattering by radiation fields: the optical medium analogy

The optical medium analogy of a radiation field generated by either an exact gravitational plane wave or an exact electromagnetic wave in the framework of general relativity is developed. The equivalent medium of the associated background field is inhomogeneous and anisotropic in the former case,…

Models of polymer solutions in electrified jets and solution blowing

Fluid flows hosting electrical phenomena are the subject of a fascinating and highly interdisciplinary scientific field. In recent years, the extraordinary success of electrospinning and solution-blowing technologies for the generation of polymer nanofibers has motivated vibrant research aiming at…

Mass diffusion through two-layer media: an application to the drug-eluting stent

A mathematical model for the diffusion-transport of a substance between two porous homogeneous media of different properties and dimensions is presented. A strong analogy with the one-dimensional transient heat conduction process across two-layered slabs is shown and a similar methodology of…

Hydrodynamics of air entrainment by moving contact lines

We study the dynamics of the interface between two immiscible fluids in contact with a chemically homogeneous moving solid plate. We consider the generic case of two fluids with any viscosity ratio and of a plate moving in either directions (pulled or pushed in the bath). The problem is studied by…

Binary dynamics at the fifth and fifth-and-a-half post-Newtonian orders

Using the new methodology introduced in a recent paper [D. Bini, T. Damour, and A. Geralico, Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 231104 (2019)], we present the details of the computation of the conservative dynamics of gravitationally interacting binary systems at the fifth post-Newtonian (5PN) level, together…

On the linearization of the Belinski-Alekseev exact solution for two charged masses in equilibrium

Wavelet simultaneous approximation from samples affected by noise

Strong ergodicity breaking in aging of mean-field spin glasses

Out-of-equilibrium relaxation processes show aging if they become slower as time passes. Aging processes are ubiquitous and play a fundamental role in the physics of glasses and spin glasses and in other applications (e.g., in algorithms minimizing complex cost/loss functions). The theory of aging…

A system of degenerate parablic nonlinear PDE's: a new free boundary problem

We prove existence of solutions of a new free boundary problem described by a system of degenerate parabolic equations. The problem arises in petroleum engineering and concerns fluid flows in diatomite rocks. The unknown functions represent the pressure of the fluid and a damage parameter of the…

Comparison of SAR amplitude vs. coherence flood detection methods - A GIS application

Flood area detection from multipass Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data can be performed via amplitude change detection techniques. These methods allow flooded zones to be discriminated only when they are flooded at the time of the second passage, and not at the time of the first one. Coherence…