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Effective speed of sound in phononic crystals
A new formula for the effective quasistatic speed of sound in 2D and 3D
periodic materials is reported. The approach uses a monodromy-matrix operator
to enable direct integration in one of the coordinates and exponentially fast
convergence in others. As a result, the solution for has a more closed form
than previous formulas. It significantly improves the efficiency and accuracy
of evaluating for high-contrast composites as demonstrated by a 2D example
with extreme behavior.Comment: 4 pages, 1 figur
Hall-MHD small-scale dynamos
Much of the progress in our understanding of dynamo mechanisms has been made
within the theoretical framework of magnetohydrodynamics (MHD). However, for
sufficiently diffuse media, the Hall effect eventually becomes non-negligible.
We present results from three dimensional simulations of the Hall-MHD equations
subjected to random non-helical forcing. We study the role of the Hall effect
in the dynamo efficiency for different values of the Hall parameter, using a
pseudospectral code to achieve exponentially fast convergence. We also study
energy transfer rates among spatial scales to determine the relative importance
of the various nonlinear effects in the dynamo process and in the energy
cascade. The Hall effect produces a reduction of the direct energy cascade at
scales larger than the Hall scale, and therefore leads to smaller energy
dissipation rates. Finally, we present results stemming from simulations at
large magnetic Prandtl numbers, which is the relevant regime in hot and diffuse
media such a the interstellar medium.Comment: 11 pages and 11 figure
Ergodicity of conservative communication networks
Projet MEVALWe analyze a communication network with several types of calls. For a wide class of conservative service disciplines, we give ergodicity criteria. Exponentially fast convergence to steady state is also proved
How many digits are needed?
Let be the digits in the base- expansion of a random
variable defined on where is an integer. For ,
we study the probability distribution of the (scaled) remainder
: If has an absolutely continuous CDF then
converges in the total variation metric to Lebesgue measure on the unit
interval; under certain smoothness conditions we establish exponentially fast
convergence of and its PDF ; and we give examples of these results.
The results are extended to the case of a multivariate random variable defined
on a unit cube.Comment: 15 pages, 2 figure
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