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A hyperbolic model of chemotaxis on a network: a numerical study

In this paper we deal with a semilinear hyperbolic chemotaxis model in one space dimension evolving on a network, with suitable transmission conditions at nodes. This framework is motivated by tissue-engineering scaffolds used for improving wound healing. We introduce a numerical scheme, which…

Dixon's extended bodies and impulsive gravitational waves

A fractional PDE for first passage time of time-changed Brownian motion and its numerical solution

We show that the First-Passage-Time probability distribution of a Lévy time-changed Brownian motion with drift is solution of a time fractional advection-diffusion equation subject to initial and boundary conditions; the Caputo fractional derivative with respect to time is considered. We propose a…

Markov Processes and Fourier Analysis as a Tool to Describe and Simulate Daily Solar Irradiance

Numerical Approximations of a Traffic Flow Model on Networks

We consider a mathematical model for fluid-dynamic flows on networks which is based on conservation laws. Road networks are considered as graphs composed by arcs that meet at some junctions. The crucial point is represented by junctions, where interactions occurr and the problem is underdetermined…

Microvorticity fluctuations affect the structure of thin fluid films

The dynamic interaction of complex fluid interfaces is highly sensitive to near-contact interactions occurring at the scale of ten of nanometers. Such interactions are difficult to analyze because they couple self-consistently to the dynamic morphology of the evolving interface, as well as to the…

Application of WENO-Positivity-Preserving Schemes to Highly Under-Expanded Jets

The starting transient of highly under-expanded supersonic jets is studied by means of very high resolution weighted essentially non oscillatory finite volume schemes, coupled with a positivity-preserving scheme in order to ensure positivity of pressure and density for high compression/expansion…

Hybrid lattice Boltzmann model for binary fluid mixtures

A hybrid lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) for binary mixtures based on the free-energy approach is proposed. Nonideal terms of the pressure tensor are included as a body force in the LBM kinetic equations, used to simulate the continuity and Navier-Stokes equations. The convection-diffusion equation…

Scattering of uncharged particles in the field of two extremely charged black holes

We investigate the motion of uncharged particles scattered by a binary system consisting of extremely charged black holes in equilibrium as described by the Majumdar-Papapetrou solution. We focus on unbound orbits confined to the plane containing both black holes. We consider the two complementary…

The dynamics of p53 in single cells: physiologically based ODE and reaction-diffusion PDE models

The intracellular signalling network of the p53 protein plays important roles in genome protection and the control of cell cycle phase transitions. Recently observed oscillatory behaviour in single cells under stress conditions has inspired several research groups to simulate and study the dynamics…