124 research outputs found
Structure preserving schemes for mean-field equations of collective behavior
In this paper we consider the development of numerical schemes for mean-field
equations describing the collective behavior of a large group of interacting
agents. The schemes are based on a generalization of the classical Chang-Cooper
approach and are capable to preserve the main structural properties of the
systems, namely nonnegativity of the solution, physical conservation laws,
entropy dissipation and stationary solutions. In particular, the methods here
derived are second order accurate in transient regimes whereas they can reach
arbitrary accuracy asymptotically for large times. Several examples are
reported to show the generality of the approach.Comment: Proceedings of the XVI International Conference on Hyperbolic
Problem
Functional Foods and Nutraceuticals in a Market of Bolivian Immigrants in Buenos Aires (Argentina)
This paper presents the results of a research in urban ethnobotany, conducted in a market of Bolivian immigrants in the neighborhood of Liniers, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires (Argentina). Functional foods and nutraceuticals belonging to 50 species of 18 families, its products, and uses were recorded. Some products are exclusive from the Bolivian community; others are frequent within the community, but they are also available in the general commercial circuit; they are introduced into it, generally, through shops called dietéticas (“health-food stores”), where products associated with the maintenance of health are sold. On this basis, the traditional and nontraditional components of the urban botanical knowledge were evaluated as well as its dynamics in relation to the diffusion of the products. Both the framework and methodological design are innovative for the studies of the urban botanical knowledge and the traditional markets in metropolitan areas
Functional Foods and Nutraceuticals in aMarket of Bolivian Immigrants in Buenos Aires (Argentina)
This paper presents the results of a research in urban ethnobotany, conducted in a market of Bolivian immigrants in the neighborhood of Liniers, Ciudad Aut ´onoma de Buenos Aires (Argentina). Functional foods and nutraceuticals belonging to 50 species of 18 families, its products, and uses were recorded. Some products are exclusive from the Bolivian community; others are frequent within the community, but they are also available in the general commercial circuit; they are introduced into it, generally, through shops called diet´eticas (“health-food stores”), where products associated with the maintenance of health are sold. On this basis, the traditional and nontraditional components of the urban botanical knowledge were evaluated as well as its dynamics in relation to the diffusion of the products. Both the framework and methodological design are innovative for the studies of the urban botanical knowledge and the traditional markets in metropolitan areas.Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Museo (FCNM)Laboratorio de Etnobotánica y Botánica Aplicada (LEBA
An Asymptotic Preserving Scheme for the Euler equations in a strong magnetic field
This paper is concerned with the numerical approximation of the isothermal
Euler equations for charged particles subject to the Lorentz force. When the
magnetic field is large, the so-called drift-fluid approximation is obtained.
In this limit, the parallel motion relative to the magnetic field direction
splits from perpendicular motion and is given implicitly by the constraint of
zero total force along the magnetic field lines. In this paper, we provide a
well-posed elliptic equation for the parallel velocity which in turn allows us
to construct an Asymptotic-Preserving (AP) scheme for the Euler-Lorentz system.
This scheme gives rise to both a consistent approximation of the Euler-Lorentz
model when epsilon is finite and a consistent approximation of the drift limit
when epsilon tends to 0. Above all, it does not require any constraint on the
space and time steps related to the small value of epsilon. Numerical results
are presented, which confirm the AP character of the scheme and its Asymptotic
Stability
Huertos familiares periurbanos de las costas de Ensenada-Berisso y de la Isla Martín García (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Este trabajo presenta los resultados de un estudio de la situación actual de 16 huertos familiares periurbanos de las costas de Ensenada-Berisso y de la Isla Martín García (Buenos Aires, Argentina), en relación a su contexto histórico de transformaciones ecológicas, culturales y económicas, donde se evidencia el carácter adaptativo de las prácticas hortícolas, los saberes tradicionales que las sustentan y su aporte a la agrobiodiversidad local. Se relevó la composición florística de los huertos, y se aplicaron métodos cualitativos para el relevamiento de datos etnobotánicos. Se registraron 80 taxones cultivados y productos obtenidos a partir de estos, para consumo familiar y comercialización a pequeña escala, como suplemento para la economía doméstic
Uncertainty quantification for kinetic models in socio-economic and life sciences
Kinetic equations play a major rule in modeling large systems of interacting
particles. Recently the legacy of classical kinetic theory found novel
applications in socio-economic and life sciences, where processes characterized
by large groups of agents exhibit spontaneous emergence of social structures.
Well-known examples are the formation of clusters in opinion dynamics, the
appearance of inequalities in wealth distributions, flocking and milling
behaviors in swarming models, synchronization phenomena in biological systems
and lane formation in pedestrian traffic. The construction of kinetic models
describing the above processes, however, has to face the difficulty of the lack
of fundamental principles since physical forces are replaced by empirical
social forces. These empirical forces are typically constructed with the aim to
reproduce qualitatively the observed system behaviors, like the emergence of
social structures, and are at best known in terms of statistical information of
the modeling parameters. For this reason the presence of random inputs
characterizing the parameters uncertainty should be considered as an essential
feature in the modeling process. In this survey we introduce several examples
of such kinetic models, that are mathematically described by nonlinear Vlasov
and Fokker--Planck equations, and present different numerical approaches for
uncertainty quantification which preserve the main features of the kinetic
solution.Comment: To appear in "Uncertainty Quantification for Hyperbolic and Kinetic
Equations
Adaptógenos: plantas medicinales tradicionales comercializadas como suplementos dietéticos en la conurbación Buenos Aires-La Plata (Argentina)
En el presente trabajo se presentan los resultados de un estudio sobre tres especies de las cuales se comercializan productos considerados adaptógenos: Lepidium meyenii Walp. (Brassicaceae), "maca", Morinda citrifolia L. (Rubiaceae), "noni", y Petiveria alliacea L. (Phytolaccaceae), "pipi". Los datos provienen de estudios en Etnobotánica urbana realizados en la conurbación Buenos Aires-La Plata, se presentan los usos tradicionales de las especies, sus vías de ingreso, comercialización y difusión como suplementos dietéticos en el contexto pluricultural urbano, los modos actuales de empleo y los saberes relacionados, que forman parte del conocimiento botánico local. De este modo, se evalúan las modificaciones en los usos originalmente asignados, como consecuencia de la expansión de los productos en el marco de la globalización, y los cambios consecuentes en los patrones tradicionales de saberes, creencias y prácticas referidos a estos recursos vegetale
Functional Foods and Nutraceuticals in aMarket of Bolivian Immigrants in Buenos Aires (Argentina)
This paper presents the results of a research in urban ethnobotany, conducted in a market of Bolivian immigrants in the neighborhood of Liniers, Ciudad Aut ´onoma de Buenos Aires (Argentina). Functional foods and nutraceuticals belonging to 50 species of 18 families, its products, and uses were recorded. Some products are exclusive from the Bolivian community; others are frequent within the community, but they are also available in the general commercial circuit; they are introduced into it, generally, through shops called diet´eticas (“health-food stores”), where products associated with the maintenance of health are sold. On this basis, the traditional and nontraditional components of the urban botanical knowledge were evaluated as well as its dynamics in relation to the diffusion of the products. Both the framework and methodological design are innovative for the studies of the urban botanical knowledge and the traditional markets in metropolitan areas.Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Museo (FCNM)Laboratorio de Etnobotánica y Botánica Aplicada (LEBA
A Multilevel Monte Carlo Asymptotic-Preserving Particle Method for Kinetic Equations in the Diffusion Limit
We propose a multilevel Monte Carlo method for a particle-based
asymptotic-preserving scheme for kinetic equations. Kinetic equations model
transport and collision of particles in a position-velocity phase-space. With a
diffusive scaling, the kinetic equation converges to an advection-diffusion
equation in the limit of zero mean free path. Classical particle-based
techniques suffer from a strict time-step restriction to maintain stability in
this limit. Asymptotic-preserving schemes provide a solution to this time step
restriction, but introduce a first-order error in the time step size. We
demonstrate how the multilevel Monte Carlo method can be used as a bias
reduction technique to perform accurate simulations in the diffusive regime,
while leveraging the reduced simulation cost given by the asymptotic-preserving
scheme. We describe how to achieve the necessary correlation between simulation
paths at different levels and demonstrate the potential of the approach via
numerical experiments.Comment: 20 pages, 7 figures, published in Monte Carlo and Quasi-Monte Carlo
Methods 2018, correction of minor typographical error
Weak and strong solutions of equations of compressible magnetohydrodynamics
International audienceThis article proposes a review of the analysis of the system of magnetohydrodynamics (MHD). First, we give an account of the modelling asumptions. Then, the results of existence of weak solutions, using the notion of renormalized solutions. Then, existence of strong solutions in the neighbourhood of equilibrium states is reviewed, in particular with the method of Kawashima and Shizuta. Finally, the special case of dimension one is highlighted : the use of Lagrangian coordinates gives a simpler system, which is solved by standard techniques
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