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Effects of Knudsen diffusivity on the effective reactivity of nanoporous catalyst media

We investigate the non-equilibrium hydrodynamic effects on the reactivity of a nanoporous catalytic sample. Numerical simulations using the Lattice Boltzmann Method (LBM) show that non-equilibrium effects enhance the reactivity of the porous sample, in agreement with theoretical predictions [1]. In…

Intermittency in the velocity distribution of heavy particles in turbulence

The statistics of velocity differences between pairs of heavy inertial point particles suspended in an incompressible turbulent flow is studied and found to be extremely intermittent. The problem is particularly relevant to the estimation of the efficiency of collisions among heavy particles in…

Convergence of numerical schemes for viscosity solutions to integro-differential degenerate parabolic problems arising in financial theory

We study the numerical approximation of viscosity solutions for Parabolic Integro-Differential Equations (PIDE). Similar models arise in option pricing, to generalize the Black-Scholes equation, when the processes which generate the underlying stock returns may contain both a continuous part and…

Non-local torsion functions and embeddings

Given (Formula presented.), we discuss the embedding of (Formula presented.) in (Formula presented.). In particular, for (Formula presented.) we deduce its compactness on all open sets (Formula presented.) on which it is continuous. We then relate, for all q up the fractional Sobolev conjugate…

A priori estimates for solutions to anisotropic elliptic problems via symmetrization

We obtain a comparison result for solutions to nonlinear fully anisotropic elliptic problems by means of anisotropic symmetrization. As consequence we deduce a priori estimates for norms of the relevant solutions.

A numerical method for a class of non-linear integro-differential equations on the half line

Numerical solution of the stationary Gross-Piaevskii equation: tests of a combined imaginary-time-marching technique with splitting

The dynamics of colloidal intrusions in liquid crystals: A simulation perspective

Dispersing colloidal particles into liquid crystals provides a promising avenue to build a novel class of materials, with potential applications, among others, as photonic crystals, biosensors, metamaterials and new generation liquid crystal devices. Understanding the physics and dynamical…

GPU based detection of topological changes in Voronoi diagrams

The Voronoi diagrams are an important tool having theoretical and practical applications in a large number of fields. We present a new procedure, implemented as a set of CUDA kernels, which detects, in a general and efficient way, topological changes in case of dynamic Voronoi diagrams whose…

Time-scale energy based analysis of contours of real-world shapes