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Small Collaboration: Modeling Phenomena from Nature by Hyperbolic Partial Differential Equations (hybrid meeting)
Get PDFNonlinear hyperbolic partial differential equations constitute a plethora of models from physics, biology, engineering, etc. In this workshop we cover the range from modeling, mathematical questions of well-posedness, numerical discretization and numerical simulations to compare with the phenomenon from nature that was modeled in the first place. Both kinetic and fluid models were discussed
Small Collaboration: Modeling Phenomena from Nature by Hyperbolic Partial Differential Equations (hybrid meeting)
No full textNonlinear hyperbolic partial differential equations constitute a plethora of models from physics, biology, engineering, etc. In this workshop we cover the range from modeling, mathematical questions of well-posedness, numerical discretization and numerical simulations to compare with the phenomenon from nature that was modeled in the first place. Both kinetic and fluid models were discussed
Kinetische Modellierung von Gasgemischen
No full textThis book deals with the kinetic modelling of gas mixtures. It extends the existing literature in mathematics for one species of gas to the case of gasmixtures. This is more realistic in applications. Thepresentedmodel for gas mixtures is proven to be consistentmeaning it satisfies theconservation laws, it admitsanentropy and an equilibriumstate. Furthermore, we can guarantee the existence, uniqueness and positivity of solutions. Moreover, the model is used for different applications, for example inplasma physics, for fluids with a small deviation from equilibrium and in the case of polyatomic gases.Die vorliegende Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit der Modellierung von Gasgemischen mittels einer kinetischen Beschreibung. Es werden Grundlagen über die Boltzmanngleichung für Gasgemische und die BGK-Aproximation präsentiert. Insbesondere wird auf deren Erweiterung auf Gasgemische eingegangen. Es wird ein Gasgemisch bestehend aus zwei Sorten von Gasen ohne chemische Reaktionen betrachtet. Das Gemisch wird mittels eines Systems kinetischer BGK-Gleichungen modelliert, welches je zwei Wechselwirkungsterme enthält, die den Impuls- und Energieaustausch berücksichtigen. Das hier vorgestellte Modell enthält einige von Physikern und Ingenieuren vorgeschlagene Modelle als Spezialfälle. Es wird gezeigt, dass das hier vorgeschlagene Modell die wesentlichen physikalischen Eigenschaften, wie Erhaltungseigenschaften, Positivität aller Temperaturen, das H-Theorem und Maxwellverteilungen im Gleichgewicht, erfüllt. Des Weiteren können die üblichen makroskopischen Gleichungen daraus hergeleitet werden.
In der Literatur gibt es ein weiteres vorgeschlagenes Modell für Gasgemische mit nur einem Wechselwirkungsterm von Andries, Aoki und Perthame. In dieser Arbeit werden die Vorteile dieses Modells aus der Literatur und des hier vorgeschlagenen Modells diskutiert. Es wird die Nützlichkeit des hier vorgeschlagenen Modells illustriert, indem es dazu benutzt wird eine unbekannte Funktion in dem makroskopischen Modell für Gasgemische von Dellacherie herzuleiten. Des Weiteren wird für jedes dieser beiden Modelle Existenz, Eindeutigkeit und Positivität der Lösungen gezeigt.
Dann wird das hier vorgeschlagene Modell auf bestimmte physikalische Situationen angewandt: auf Elektronen und Ionen in einem Plasma, auf ein Gasgemisch, welches sich nicht im Gleichgewicht befindet und ein Gasgemisch bestehend aus Molekülen mit zusätzlichen inneren Freiheitsgraden.
Als erste Anwendung wird das Modell für geladene Teilchen erweitert und auf ein Gemisch aus Elektronen und Ionen angewandt, welches sich teilweise im Gleichgewicht befindet, teilweise nicht. Man findet solch eine Konstellation zum Beispiel bei der Fusion in einem Tokamak. Das Modell, welches hier vorgestellt wird, wird hier benutzt, da es die Wechselwirkungen zwischen Teilchen von der gleichen Sorte und Wechselwirkungen zwischen Teilchen verschiedener Sorten separiert. Dann wird ein neues Modell mithilfe der Mikro-Makro-Zerlegung hergeleitet, welches numerisch in einem Regime angewandt wird, in dem Gase teilweise im Gleichgewicht sind, teilweise nicht. Es werden theoretische Ergebnisse vorgestellt, zum einen Konvergenzraten gegen das Gleichgewicht im räumlich homogenen Fall, zum anderen die Landau-Dämpfung für Gasgemische, um sie mit Ergebnissen aus numerischen Simulationen vergleichen zu können.
Als zweite Anwendung wird ein Gasgemisch betrachtet, welches eine Abweichung vom Gleichgewichtszustand hat und makroskopisch mithilfe der Navier-Stokes-Gleichungen beschrieben wird. In dieser makroskopischen Beschreibung erwartet man vier physikalische Größen, die das physikalische Verhalten eines Gases beschreiben, den Diffusionskoeffizienten, den Viskositätskoeffizienten, die Wärmeleitfähigkeit und den thermischen Diffusionsparameter. Es wird eine Chapman-Enskog-Entwicklung des hier vorgestellten Modells durchgeführt, um drei dieser vier physikalischen Größen zu bestimmen. Zusatzlich werden mehrere mögliche Erweiterungen zu einem ES-BGK-Modell für Gasgemische vorgeschlagen um die vierte physikalische Größe zu bestimmen. Es wird eine Erweiterung präsentiert, die möglichst einfach gehalten ist, eine intuitive Erweiterung, die den Fall einer Gassorte ähnelt und eine Erweiterung, die die physikalische Motivation des Physikers Holway, der das ES-BGK-Modell erfunden hat, berücksichtigt. Es wird gezeigt, dass die Erweiterungen die Erhaltungseigenschaften erfüllen, alle Temperaturen positiv sind und das H-Theorem erfüllt ist.
Als dritte Anwendung wird das hier vorgestellte Modell zu einem Modell für Moleküle mit zusätzlichen inneren Freiheitsgraden erweitert. Die zwei Gassorten dürfen dabei eine unterschiedliche Anzahl an inneren Freiheitsgraden haben und werden beschrieben durch ein System von kinetischen ES-BGK-Gleichungen. Es wird gezeigt, dass das Modell die Erhaltungseigenschaften erfülllt, dass alle Temperaturen positiv sind und dass das H-Theorem erfüllt ist. Für numerische Zwecke wird die Chu-Reduktion angewandt um die Komplexität des Modells zu reduzieren und eine Anwendung gezeigt, bei dem eine Gassorte keine inneren Freiheitsgrade hat und die andere Sorte zwei Rotationsfreiheitsgrade besitzt.
Als letztes wird der Grenzwert des hier vorgestellten Modells zu den dissipativen Eulergleichungen bewiesen.The present thesis considers the modelling of gas mixtures via a kinetic description. Fundamentals about the Boltzmann equation for gas mixtures and the BGK approximation are presented. Especially, issues in extending these models to gas mixtures are discussed. A non-reactive two component gas mixture is considered. The two species mixture is modelled by a system of kinetic BGK equations featuring two interaction terms to account for momentum and energy transfer between the two species. The model presented here contains several models from physicists and engineers as special cases. Consistency of this model is proven: conservation properties, positivity of all temperatures and the H-theorem. The form in global equilibrium as Maxwell distributions is specified. Moreover, the usual macroscopic conservation laws can be derived.
In the literature, there is another type of BGK model for gas mixtures developed by Andries, Aoki and Perthame, which contains only one interaction term. In this thesis, the advantages of these two types of models are discussed and the usefulness of the model presented here is shown by using this model to determine an unknown function in the energy exchange of the macroscopic equations for gas mixtures described in the literature by Dellacherie. In addition, for each of the two models existence and uniqueness of mild solutions is shown. Moreover, positivity of classical solutions is proven.
Then, the model presented here is applied to three physical applications: a plasma consisting of ions and electrons, a gas mixture which deviates from equilibrium and a gas mixture consisting of polyatomic molecules.
First, the model is extended to a model for charged particles. Then, the equations of magnetohydrodynamics are derived from this model. Next, we want to apply this extended model to a mixture of ions and electrons in a special physical constellation which can be found for example in a Tokamak. The mixture is partly in equilibrium in some regions, in some regions it deviates from equilibrium. The model presented in this thesis is taken for this purpose, since it has the advantage to separate the intra and interspecies interactions. Then, a new model based on a micro-macro decomposition is proposed in order to capture the physical regime of being partly in equilibrium, partly not. Theoretical results are presented, convergence rates to equilibrium in the space-homogeneous case and the Landau damping for mixtures, in order to compare it with numerical results.
Second, the model presented here is applied to a gas mixture which deviates from equilibrium such that it is described by Navier-Stokes equations on the macroscopic level. In this macroscopic description it is expected that four physical coefficients will show up, characterizing the physical behaviour of the gases, namely the diffusion coefficient, the viscosity coefficient, the heat conductivity and the thermal diffusion parameter. A Chapman-Enskog expansion of the model presented here is performed in order to capture three of these four physical coefficients. In addition, several possible extensions to an ellipsoidal statistical model for gas mixtures are proposed in order to capture the fourth coefficient. Three extensions are proposed: An extension which is as simple as possible, an intuitive extension copying the one species case and an extension which takes into account the physical motivation of the physicist Holway who invented the ellipsoidal statistical model for one species. Consistency of the extended models like conservation properties, positivity of all temperatures and the H-theorem are proven. The shape of global Maxwell distributions in equilibrium are specified.
Third, the model presented here is applied to polyatomic molecules. A multi component gas mixture with translational and internal energy degrees of freedom is considered. The two species are allowed to have different degrees of freedom in internal energy and are modelled by a system of kinetic ellipsoidal statistical equations. Consistency of this model is shown: conservation properties, positivity of the temperature, H-theorem and the form of Maxwell distributions in equilibrium. For numerical purposes the Chu reduction is applied to the developed model for polyatomic gases to reduce the complexity of the model and an application for a gas consisting of a mono-atomic and a diatomic gas is given.
Last, the limit from the model presented here to the dissipative Euler equations for gas mixtures is proven
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
Linear Landau damping for a two-species Vlasov-Poisson system for electrons and ions
Get PDFThis paper concerns the linear Landau damping for the two species
Vlasov-Poisson system for ions and electrons near Penrose stable equilibria.
The result is an extension of the result on the one species Vlasov-Poisson
equation by Mouhout and Villani. Different from their work we do not describe
the ions as a background species but as a species which is also described by a
separate Vlasov equation. We show an exponential decay of the electric energy
for the linearised system near Penrose stable equilibria
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