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A Model for Persistent Levy Motion
We propose the model, which allows us to approximate fractional Levy noise
and fractional Levy motion. Our model is based (i) on the Gnedenko limit
theorem for an attraction basin of stable probability law, and (ii) on
regarding fractional noise as the result of fractional
integration/differentiation of a white Levy noise. We investigate self - affine
properties of the approximation and conclude that it is suitable for modeling
persistent Levy motion with the Levy index between 1 and 2.Comment: 14 pages, REVTeX, 5 figures PostScrip
Recent developments on fractal-based approaches to nanofluids and nanoparticle aggregation
This project was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 41572116, 51576114, ​41630317), the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, China University of Geosciences (Wuhan) (No. CUG160602) and the Natural Science Foundation of Fujian Province of China (No. 2016J01254). The authors of the figures that used in presented review are also highly appreciated.Peer reviewedPostprin
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Three-dimensional multi-level heat transfer model of silica aerogel
This paper was presented at the 4th Micro and Nano Flows Conference (MNF2014), which was held at University College, London, UK. The conference was organised by Brunel University and supported by the Italian Union of Thermofluiddynamics, IPEM, the Process Intensification Network, the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, the Heat Transfer Society, HEXAG - the Heat Exchange Action Group, and the Energy Institute, ASME Press, LCN London Centre for Nanotechnology, UCL University College London, UCL Engineering, the International NanoScience Community, www.nanopaprika.eu.In this paper, a 3-D multi-level heat transfer model is developed in consideration of the tortuous path of heat conduction in solid skeleton and the fractal characteristic of silica aerogel. The heat conduction is analyzed for both the secondary particle model and the cluster model. The expression of effective thermal conductivity of a multi-level model is derived. The theoretical predictions from the proposed multi-level model are compared with three sets of experimental data with different densities and porosities. The results from the proposed model show good agreement with the experimental data
Small-angle scattering from fat fractals
A number of experimental small-angle scattering (SAS) data are characterized
by a succession of power-law decays with arbitrarily decreasing values of
scattering exponents. To describe such data, here we develop a new theoretical
model based on 3D fat fractals (sets with fractal structure, but nonzero
volume) and show how one can extract structural information about the
underlying fractal structure. We calculate analytically the monodisperse and
polydisperse SAS intensity (fractal form factor and structure factor) of a
newly introduced model of fat fractals and study its properties in momentum
space. The system is a 3D deterministic mass fractal built on an extension of
the well-known Cantor fractal. The model allows us to explain a succession of
power-law decays and respectively, of generalized power-law decays
(superposition of maxima and minima on a power-law decay) with arbitrarily
decreasing scattering exponents in the range from zero to three. We show that
within the model, the present analysis allows us to obtain the edges of all the
fractal regions in the momentum space, the number of fractal iteration and the
fractal dimensions and scaling factors at each structural level in the fractal.
We applied our model to calculate an analytical expression for the radius of
gyration of the fractal. The obtained quantities characterizing the fat fractal
are correlated to variation of scaling factor with the iteration number.Comment: The final publication is available at Springer via
http://dx.doi.org/10.1140/epjb/e2014-41066-
Multifractal analysis of discretized X-ray CT images for the characterization of soil macropore structures
A correct statistical model of soil pore structure can be critical for understanding flow and transport processes in soils, and creating synthetic soil pore spaces for hypothetical and model testing, and evaluating similarity of pore spaces of different soils. Advanced visualization techniques such as X-ray computed tomography (CT) offer new opportunities of exploring heterogeneity of soil properties at horizon or aggregate scales. Simple fractal models such as fractional Brownian motion that have been proposed to capture the complex behavior of soil spatial variation at field scale rarely simulate irregularity patterns displayed by spatial series of soil properties. The objective of this work was to use CT data to test the hypothesis that soil pore structure at the horizon scale may be represented by multifractal models. X-ray CT scans of twelve, water-saturated, 20-cm long soil columns with diameters of 7.5 cm were analyzed. A reconstruction algorithm was applied to convert the X-ray CT data into a stack of 1480 grayscale digital images with a voxel resolution of 110 microns and a cross-sectional size of 690 × 690 pixels. The images were binarized and the spatial series of the percentage of void space vs. depth was analyzed to evaluate the applicability of the multifractal model. The series of depth-dependent macroporosity values exhibited a well-defined multifractal structure that was revealed by singularity and Rényi spectra. The long-range dependencies in these series were parameterized by the Hurst exponent. Values of the Hurst exponent close to one were observed indicating the strong persistence in variations of porosity with depth. The multifractal modeling of soil macropore structure can be an efficient method for parameterizing and simulating the vertical spatial heterogeneity of soil pore space
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