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Ray tracing in relativistic astrometry: the boundary value problem

Relativistic astrometry has recently become an active field of research owing to new observational technologies which allow for accuracies of a microarcsecond. To assure this accuracy in data analysis, one has to perform ray tracing in a general relativistic framework including terms of the order…

Exploring the relationship between the magnitudes of seismic events

The distribution of the magnitudes of seismic events is generally assumed to be independent on past seismicity. However, by considering events in causal relation, for example, mother-daughter, it seems natural to assume that the magnitude of a daughter event is conditionally dependent on one of the…

Existence of L$^\infty$ solutions for a reacting Euler system

A numerical study of a nonlocal model of damage propagation under chemical aggression

We introduce a differential model to study damage accumulation processes in presence of chemical reactions. The influence of micro-structure leads to a nonlinear parabolic system characterized by the presence of a characteristic length. Here, we first present an analytical description of the…

Robust design optimization for egressing pedestrians in unknown environments

In this paper, we deal with a group variable in size of pedestrians moving in a unknown confined environment and searching for an exit. Pedestrian dynamics are simulated by means of a recently introduced microscopic (agent-based) model, characterized by an exploration phase and an egress phase.…

Perottina e le altre, dai laboratori ai musei

Breve storia degli strumenti per il Calcolo scientifico seguendo un percorso tra i musei italiani che espongono materiali ad essi relativi.

Effect of an imposed flow on phase-separating binary mixtures

We study the phase separation of a binary mixture in uniform shear flow in the framework of the continuum convection-diffusion equation based on a Ginzburg-Landau free energy. This equation is solved both numerically and in the context of large-N approximation. Our results show the existence of…

Ab initio accelerated molecular dynamics study of the hydride ligands in the ruthenium complex: Ru(H2)2H2(P(C5H9)3)2

The dihydrogen complex Ru(H2)2H2(P(C5H9)3)2 has been investigated, via ab initio accelerated molecular dynamics, to elucidate the H ligands dynamics and possible reaction paths for H2/H exchange. We have characterized the free energy landscape associated with the H atoms positional exchange around…

An integrated approach for the segmentation of color images

Wavelet Bayesian Block Shrinkage via mixture of Normal-Inverse-Gamma

In this paper we propose a non-linear block shrinkage method in the wavelet domain for estimating an unknown function in the presence of Gaussian noise. This shrinkage utilizes an empirical Bayesian blocking approach that accounts for the sparseness of the representation of the unknown function…