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A fluid dynamic approach for traffic forecast from mobile sensor data

Mixing and reaction efficiency in closed domains

We present a numerical study of mixing and reaction efficiency in closed domains. In particular, we focus our attention on laminar flows. In the case of inert transport the mixing properties of the flows strongly depend on the details of the Lagrangian transport. We also study the reaction…

Hydrodynamics of contraction-based motility in a compressible active fluid

Cell motility is crucial to biological functions ranging from wound healing to immune response. The physics of cell crawling on a substrate is by now well understood, whilst cell motion in bulk (cell swimming) is far from being completely characterized. We present here a minimal model for pattern…

Hydrodynamic correlations in the translocation of a biopolymer through a nanopore: Theory and multiscale simulations

We investigate the process of biopolymer translocation through a narrow pore using a multiscale approach which explicitly accounts for the hydrodynamic interactions of the molecule with the surrounding solvent. The simulations confirm that the coupling of the correlated molecular motion to…

Spinning test particles and clock effect in Kerr spacetime

Visbrain: A Multi-Purpose GPU-Accelerated Open-Source Suite for Multimodal Brain Data Visualization

We present Visbrain, a Python open-source package that offers a comprehensive visualization suite for neuroimaging and electrophysiological brain data. Visbrain consists of two levels of abstraction: (1) objects which represent highly configurable neurooriented visual primitives (3D brain, sources…

An asymptotic-preserving well-balanced scheme for the hyperbolic heat equations

We propose here a well-balanced numerical scheme for the one-dimensional Goldstein-Taylor system which is endowed with all the stability properties inherent to the continuous problem and works in both rarefied and diffusive regimes.

Universality of anisotropic turbulence

We review some ideas about the physics of small-scale turbulent statistics, focusing on the scaling behavior of anisotropic fluctuations. We present results from direct numerical simulations of three-dimensional homogeneous, anisotropically forced, turbulent systems: the Rayleigh–Bénard system, the…

Penalised robust estimators for sparse and high-dimensional linear models

We introduce a new class of robust M-estimators for performing simultaneous parameter estimation and variable selection in high-dimensional regression models. We first explain the motivations for the key ingredient of our procedures which are inspired by regularization methods used in wavelet…

Mining Relevant Information on the Web: A Clique Based Approach

The role of information management and retrieval in production processes has been gaining in importance in recent years. In this context, the ability to search for and quickly find the small piece of information needed from the huge amount of information available has crucial importance. One…