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A fractional step, explicit/semi-implicit method for solving air flow equations inside internal combustion engines

Global smooth solutions to the multi-dimensional hydrodynamic model for two-carrier plasmas

The existence of global smooth solutions to the multi-dimensional hydrodynamic model for plasmas of electrons and positively charged ions is shown under the assumption that the initial densities are close to a constant. The model consists of the conservation laws for the particle densities and the…

In silico designing of vaccine candidate against Clostridium difficile

Clostridium difficile is a spore-forming gram-positive bacterium, recognized as the primary cause of antibiotic-associated nosocomial diarrhoea. Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) has emerged as a major health-associated infection with increased incidence and hospitalization over the years with…

Law of the wall in an unstably stratified turbulent channel flow

We perform direct numerical simulations of an unstably stratified turbulent channel flow to address the effects of buoyancy on the boundary layer dynamics and mean field quantities. We systematically span a range of parameters in the space of friction Reynolds number (Re<inf>?</inf>)and…

La fantasia e la memoria

Lattice Boltzmann model for anisotropic liquid-solid phase transition

By improving a one-dimensional model proposed by De Fabritiis, Mancini, Mansutti and Succi in 1998, we develop a simple reaction model for liquid-solid phase transitions in the context of the lattice Boltzmann method with enhanced collisions.Calculations for a two-dimensional test problem of…

Gamma-convergence analysis for discrete topological singularities: The anisotropic triangular lattice and the long range interaction energy

We consider 2D discrete systems, described by scalar functions and governed by periodic interaction potentials. We focus on anisotropic nearest neighbors interactions in the hexagonal lattice and on isotropic long range interactions in the square lattice. In both these cases, we perform a complete…

Runge-Kutta Discretizations of Infinite Horizon Optimal Control Problems with Steady-State Invariance

Direct numerical approximation of a continuous-time infinite horizon control problem, requires to recast the model as a discrete-time, finite-horizon control model. The quality of the optimization results can be heavily degraded if the discretization process does not take into account features of…

Wavelets and pde for image denoising

Intermittency in turbulence: Computing the scaling exponents in shell models

We discuss a stochastic closure for the equation of motion satisfied by multiscale correlation functions in the framework of shell models of turbulence. We present a plausible closure scheme to calculate the anomalous scaling exponents of structure functions by using the exact constraints imposed…