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    Extremal basic frequency of non-homogeneous plates

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    In this paper we propose two numerical algorithms to derive the extremal principal eigenvalue of the bi-Laplacian operator under Navier boundary conditions or Dirichlet boundary conditions. Consider a non-homogeneous hinged or clamped plate Ω\Omega, the algorithms converge to the density functions on Ω\Omega which they yield the maximum or minimum basic frequency of the plate

    Higher harmonic anisotropic flow of identified particles in Pb-Pb collisions with the ALICE detector

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    Anisotropic flow plays a crucial role in establishing the equation of state of the Quark Gluon Plasma. The results at RHIC and LHC have demonstrated that the matter created in heavy-ion collisions behaves as a nearly perfect fluid reflected in the low value of the shear viscosity over entropy density ratio (η/s\eta/s). The higher flow harmonics are particularly sensitive to the value of η/s\eta/s in hydrodynamic calculations. In this analysis, we present the first ALICE results on the pTp_{\mathrm{T}} differential v2v_{2}, v3v_{3} and v4v_{4} for π±\pi^{\pm}, K±\mathrm{K}^{\pm}, p(pˉ\bar p) from the high statistics 2011 heavy-ion run. We investigate how these vnv_{n} coefficients evolve with particle mass and centrality for the 0--1\% and 20--30\% centrality ranges. These new measurements aim at differentiating between models that use different initial conditions, constraining further the value of η/s\eta/s and allowing to decouple the influence of the late hadronic stage from the hydrodynamic evolution of the system.Comment: proceeding of "Quark Matter 2015", Kobe-Japa
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