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Modification of turbulence in Rayleigh-Benard convection by phase change

Heavy or light particles introduced into a liquid trigger motion due to their buoyancy, with the potential to drive flow to a turbulent state. In the case of vapor bubbles present in a liquid near its boiling point, thermal coupling between the liquid and vapor can moderate this additional motion…

Diffusione e reazione: dal moto Browniano alla diffusione delle epidemie

I fenomeni di trasporto, e la loro generalizzazione ai casi con reazione, costituiscono un capitolo molto importante della matematica applicata e trovano utilizzo in ambiti molto vari, che vanno dalla diffusione di sostanze inquinanti in atmosfera e in mare, ai processi industriali, alla…

Shear Banding from lattice kinetic models with competing interactions

Second order scalar invariants of the Riemann tensor: applications to black hole spacetimes

We discuss the Kretschmann, Chern-Pontryagin and Euler invariants among the second order scalar invariants of the Riemann tensor in any spacetime in the Newman-Penrose formalism and in the framework of gravitoelectromagnetism, using the Kerr-Newman geometry as an example. An analogy with…

High biodiversity arises from the analyses of morphometric, biochemical and genetic data in ancient olive trees of South of Italy

Morphometric, biochemical and genetic analyses were conducted on Olea europaea L. of Campania, an area of Southern Italy highly suited to the cultivation of olive trees and the production of extra virgin olive oil (EVOO). We aimed to characterize the distribution of morphological, biochemical and…

An adaptive domain-decomposition technique for parallelization of the Fast Marching method

Orbiting frames and satellite attitudes in relativistic astrometry

Space-born measuring devices require an accurate determination of the satellite rest frame. This frame consists of a clock and a triad of orthonormal axes which provide a local Cartesian reference system. The aim of this paper is to find the mathematical representation of this triad in two cases…

Numerical analysis of the dynamics of rigid blocks subjected to support excitation

The dynamic behaviour of rigid blocks subjected to support excitation is represented by discontinuous differential equations with state jumps. In the numerical simulation of these systems, the jump times corresponding to the numerical trajectory do not coincide with the ones of the given problem.…

A multiscale approach for modelling wave propagation in an arterial segment

A mathematical model of blood flow through an arterial vessel is presented and the wave propagation in it is studied numerically. Based on the assumption of long wavelength and small amplitude of the pressure waves, a quasi-one-dimensional (1D) differential model is adopted. It describes the non-…

Entropy solutions to a strongly degenerate anisotropic convection-diffusion equation, with application to the backward-forward stochastic differential utility

We study the deterministic counterpart of a backward-forward stochastic differential utility, which has recently been characterized as the solution to the Cauchy problem related to a PDE of degenerate parabolic type in two spatial variables, with a rank-1 diffusion and a conservative first order…