Although much work has been done by scientists in developing communications to non-scientist audiences, much less attention has been given by them to the ways in which those messages are interpreted. Here, I look at the published work that examines [...]
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After a short elementary introduction to the exact renormalization group for the effective action, I discuss a particular truncation of the hierarchy of flow equations that allows for the determination of the full momentum of the n-point functions. [...] We discuss the optimal evaluation of endothelial shear stress for real-life case studies based on anatomic data acquisition. The fluid dynamic simulations require smoothing of the geometric dataset to avoid major artefacts in the flow patterns, [...] A multi-scale approach to the inverse reconstruction of a pattern’s microstructure is reported. Instead of a correlation function, a pair of entropic descriptors (EDs) is proposed for a stochastic optimization method. The first of them measures [...] Dynamical nonlinear systems provide a new approach to the old problem of increasing the efficiency of thermoelectric machines. In this review, we discuss stylized models of classical dynamics, including non-interacting complex molecules in an ergodic [...] We introduce a model of uncoupled pendula, which mimics the dynamical behaviour of the Hamiltonian mean-field (HMF) model. This model has become a paradigm for long-range interactions, such as Coulomb or dipolar forces. As in the HMF model, this [...] We present several aspects of the screening of charged macromolecules in an electrolyte. After a review of the basic mean field approach, based on the linear Debye–Hückel theory, we consider the case of highly charged macromolecules, where [...] The stochastic nonlinear partial differential equation known as the Kardar–Parisi–Zhang (KPZ) equation is a highly successful phenomenological mesoscopic model of surface and interface growth processes. Its suitability for analytical [...] The formation of string-gels of dipolar colloidal particles is investigated using molecular dynamics simulations. The characteristic gelation time consistently increases as the temperature of the system increases; it also increases as the density of [...] Mesoscopic systems in a slowly fluctuating environment are often well described by superstatistical models. We develop a generalized statistical mechanics formalism for superstatistical systems, by mapping the superstatistical complex system onto a [...] |
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