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Large-time Behavior of Solutions to the Inflow Problem of Full Compressible Navier-Stokes Equations
Large-time behavior of solutions to the inflow problem of full compressible
Navier-Stokes equations is investigated on the half line .
The wave structure which contains four waves: the transonic(or degenerate)
boundary layer solution, 1-rarefaction wave, viscous 2-contact wave and
3-rarefaction wave to the inflow problem is described and the asymptotic
stability of the superposition of the above four wave patterns to the inflow
problem of full compressible Navier-Stokes equations is proven under some
smallness conditions. The proof is given by the elementary energy analysis
based on the underlying wave structure. The main points in the proof are the
degeneracies of the transonic boundary layer solution and the wave interactions
in the superposition wave.Comment: 27 page
Two types of softening detected in X-ray afterglows of Swift bursts: internal and external shock origins?
The softening process observed in the steep decay phase of early X-ray
afterglows of Swift bursts has remained a puzzle since its discovery. The
softening process can also be observed in the later phase of the bursts and its
cause has also been unknown. Recently, it was suggested that, influenced by the
curvature effect, emission from high latitudes would shift the Band function
spectrum from higher energy band to lower band, and this would give rise to the
observed softening process accompanied by a steep decay of the flux density.
The curvature effect scenario predicts that the terminating time of the
softening process would be correlated with the duration of the process. In this
paper, based on the data from the UNLV GRB group web-site, we found an obvious
correlation between the two quantities. In addition, we found that the
softening process can be divided into two classes: the early type softening
() and the late type softening ().
The two types of softening show different behaviors in the duration vs.
terminating time plot. In the relation between the variation rates of the flux
density and spectral index during the softening process, a discrepancy between
the two types of softening is also observed. According to their time scales and
the discrepancy between them, we propose that the two types are of different
origins: the early type is of internal shock origin and the late type is of
external shock origin. The early softening is referred to the steep decay just
following the prompt emission, whereas the late decay typically conceives the
transition from flat decay to late afterglow decay. We suspect that there might
be a great difference of the Lorentz factor in two classes which is responsible
for the observed discrepancy.Comment: 20 pages, 5 figures, 2 tables, Accepted for Publication to Journal of
Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics (JCAP
Effect of disorder with long-range correlation on transport in graphene nanoribbon
Transport in disordered armchair graphene nanoribbons (AGR) with long-range
correlation between quantum wire contact is investigated by transfer matrix
combined with Landauer's formula. Metal-insulator transition is induced by
disorder in neutral AGR. Thereinto, the conductance is one conductance quantum
for metallic phase and exponentially decays otherwise when the length of AGR is
infinity and far longer than its width. Similar to the case of long-range
disorder, the conductance of neutral AGR first increases and then decreases
while the conductance of doped AGR monotonically decreases, as the disorder
strength increases. In the presence of strong disorder, the conductivity
depends monotonically and non-monotonically on the aspect ratio for heavily
doped and slightly doped AGR respectively.Comment: 6 pages, 8 figures; J. Phys: Condensed Matter (May 2012
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