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2025 roadmap on 3D nanomagnetism

The transition from planar to three-dimensional (3D) magnetic nanostructures represents a significant advancement in both fundamental research and practical applications, offering vast potential for next-generation technologies like ultrahigh-density stora ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2025

Understanding building damage through the lens of the Swiss post-seismic reconnaissance mission of 2023 Al Haouz, Morocco, earthquake

Yuhan Zhu, Savvas Saloustros

A team of scientists and engineers from Swiss institutions participated in a post-seismic reconnaissance mission in Morocco following the magnitude 6.8 earthquake of September 8, 2023. We visited different heavily affected towns and villages, located from ...

Springer Science and Business Media LLC2025

Characterization of Hydraulic Rock Diffusivity Using Oscillatory Pore Pressure

Dario Sciandra

The interest of exploring deep geological resources for energy-related activities is rapidly increasing. Lowering the risks associated with these activities requires the development of fast and accurate in situ rock characterization methods. Monitoring and ...

Springer Science and Business Media LLC2025

Context-Specific Selection of Poisson cluster rainfall models for accurate urban hydrological simulations

Taiqi Lian

The Poisson cluster rainfall generation model has been underutilized in urban hydrological simulations due to challenges in reproducing fine-scale extreme precipitation. This study addresses this issue by comprehensively validating four variants of Poisson ...

Elsevier BV2025

Bike sharing systems: The impact of precise trip demand forecasting on operational efficiency in different city structures

Michel Bierlaire, Selin Ataç

Increasing environmental concerns drive interest in sustainable solutions across various fields. Vehicle sharing systems such as one-way station-based bike sharing systems (BSSs) offer one such solution in transportation, although they pose operational cha ...

2025

A simple construction of the sine‐Gordon model via stochastic quantization

Martin Hairer, Younes Pierre Zine

We present a simple PDE construction of the sine‐Gordon measure below the first threshold (), in both the finite and infinite volume settings, by studying the corresponding parabolic sine‐Gordon model. We also establish pathwise global well‐posedness of th ...

Wiley2025

A Box-Spline Framework for Inverse Problems With Continuous-Domain Sparsity Constraints

Michaël Unser, Aleix Boquet I Pujadas, Mehrsa Pourya

The formulation of inverse problems in the continuum eliminates discretization errors and allows for the exact incorporation of priors. In this paper, we formulate a continuous-domain inverse problem over a search space of continuous and piecewise-linear f ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2024

Maximum Radiation Efficiency of Arbitrarily Shaped Implantable Antennas

Erik Ralf Algarp, Anja Skrivervik, Mingxiang Gao

Performance limitations for implanted antennas, taking radiation efficiency as the metric, are presented. The performance limitations use a convex optimization procedure with the current density inside the implant acting as its degree of freedom. The knowl ...

2024

Pseudo-Three-Dimensional Analytical Model of Linear Induction Motors for High-Speed Applications

Mario Paolone, André Hodder, Simone Rametti, Lucien André Félicien Pierrejean

Literature on linear induction motors (LIMs) has proposed several approaches to model the behavior of such devices for different applications. In terms of accuracy and fidelity, field analysis-based models are the most relevant. Closed-form or numerical so ...

2024

On the difficulty of determining Kármán "constants" from direct numerical simulations

Peter Monkewitz

The difficulty of determining the slope of the famed logarithmic law in the mean velocity profile of wall-bounded turbulent flows, the inverse of the K & aacute;rm & aacute;n "constant" kappa, from direct numerical simulations (DNS) is discussed for channe ...

Melville2024

Visual and Quantitative Analysis of the Trapping Volume in Dielectrophoresis of Nanoparticles

Olivier Martin, Siarhei Zavatski

Nanoparticle manipulation requires careful analysis of the forces at play. Unfortunately, traditional force measurement techniques based on the particle velocity do not provide sufficient resolution, while balancing approaches involving counteracting force ...

American Chemical Society (ACS)2024

Extension of the multilevel radiative transfer code PyRaTE to model linear polarization of molecular lines

Aris Evangelos Tritsis

Context. Linear polarization of spectral lines, commonly known as the Goldreich-Kylafis effect within the star formation community, is one of the most underutilized techniques for probing magnetic fields in the dense and cold interstellar medium. Aims. In ...

2024

Computational Homogenization for Inverse Design of Surface-based Inflatables

Mark Pauly, Florin Isvoranu, Francis Julian Panetta, Yingying Ren, Seiichi Eduardo Suzuki Erazo, Uday Kusupati

Surface-based inflatables are composed of two thin layers of nearly inextensible sheet material joined together along carefully selected fusing curves. During inflation, pressure forces separate the two sheets to maximize the enclosed volume. The fusing c ...

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)2024

Randomized methods for computing joint eigenvalues, with applications to multiparameter eigenvalue problems and root finding

Daniel Kressner, Haoze He

It is well known that a family of n×n commuting matrices can be simultaneously triangularized by a unitary similarity transformation. The diagonal entries of the triangular matrices define the n joint eigenvalues of the family. In this work, we consider th ...

2024

CLOAF: CoLlisiOn-Aware Human Flow

Pascal Fua, Martin Pierre Engilberge, Andrey Davydov

Even the best current algorithms for estimating body 3D shape and pose yield results that include body self- intersections. In this paper, we present CLOAF, which exploits the diffeomorphic nature of Ordinary Differential Equations to eliminate such self-i ...

IEEE2024

Semi-Discrete Optimal Transport: Hardness, Regularization and Numerical Solution

Daniel Kuhn, Soroosh Shafieezadeh Abadeh, Bahar Taskesen

Semi-discrete optimal transport problems, which evaluate the Wasserstein distance between a discrete and a generic (possibly non-discrete) probability measure, are believed to be computationally hard. Even though such problems are ubiquitous in statistics, ...

2023

A new variable shape parameter strategy for RBF approximation using neural networks

Jan Sickmann Hesthaven

The choice of the shape parameter highly effects the behaviour of radial basis function (RBF) approximations, as it needs to be selected to balance between the ill-conditioning of the interpolation matrix and high accuracy. In this paper, we demonstrate ho ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2023

A stable loosely-coupled scheme for cardiac electro-fluid-structure interaction

Alfio Quarteroni

We present a loosely coupled scheme for the numerical simulation of the cardiac electrofluid-structure interaction problem, whose solution is typically computationally intensive due to the need to suitably treat the coupling of the different submodels. Our ...

ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE2023

A matrix-free high-order solver for the numerical solution of cardiac electrophysiology

Alfio Quarteroni

We propose a matrix-free solver for the numerical solution of the cardiac electrophysiology model consisting of the monodomain nonlinear reaction-diffusion equation coupled with a system of ordinary differential equations for the ionic species. Our numeric ...

ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE2023