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Time and space analysis of two earthquakes in the Appennines (Italy)

In this paper, we study two earthquakes: the April 6th 2009 earthquake of L'Aquila in the re-gion of Abruzzo (Italy) and the 1997 Colfiorito earthquake in the regions of Umbria and Marche (Italy). The data sets of these two earthquakes were analysed in both time and space domains. For time domain…

Large time behavior of signed fractional porous media equations on bounded domains

Following the methodology of Brasco (Adv Math 394:108029, 2022), we study the long-time behavior for the signed fractional porous medium equation in open bounded sets with smooth boundary. Homogeneous exterior Dirichlet boundary conditions are considered. We prove that if the initial datum has…

Non hydrodynamic modes in shell models of turbulence: a Lattice Boltzmann study

A lattice Boltzmann scheme simulating the dynamics of shell models of turbulence is developed. The influence of high-order kinetic modes (ghosts) on the dissipative properties of turbulence dynamics is studied. It is analytically found that when ghost fields relax on the same timescale as the…

Spinning particles in twisted gravitational wave spacetimes

Twisted gravitational waves (TGWs) are nonplanar waves with twisted rays that move along a fixed direction in space. We study further the physical characteristics of a recent class of Ricci-flat solutions of general relativity representing TGWs with wave fronts that have negative Gaussian curvature…

Domain derivative approach to active infrared thermography

A thin conducting plate has an inaccessible side in contact with aggressive external agents. On the other side, we are able to heat the plate and take temperature maps in laboratory conditions. Detecting and evaluating damages on the inaccessible side from thermal data requires the solution of a…

Kerr metric, static observers and Fermi coordinates

The coordinate transformation which maps the Kerr metric written in standard Boyer-Lindquist coordinates to its corresponding form adapted to the natural local coordinates of an observer at rest at a fixed position in the equatorial plane, i.e., Fermi coordinates for the neighborhood of a static…

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…

The independent Component Analysis as a new tool to determine solvent content in protein crystals

Estimating the solvent content in protein crystals is one of the first steps in a macromolecular structure determination. We apply a new statistical technique, the independent component analysis (ICA), to determine the volume fraction of the asymmetric unit of proteins occupied by the solvent. The…

Rayleigh and Prandtl number scaling in the bulk of Rayleigh-Bénard turbulence

The Ra and Pr number scaling of the Nusselt number Nu, the Reynolds number Re, the temperature fluctuations, and the kinetic and thermal dissipation rates is studied for (numerical) homogeneous Rayleigh–Bénard turbulence, i.e., Rayleigh–Bénard turbulence with periodic boundary conditions in all…

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…