{"title":"Causal implications of viscous damping in compressible fluid flows","authors":"Jordan, Meyer, Puri","doi":"10.1103/physreve.62.7918","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/physreve.62.7918","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Classically, a compressible, isothermal, viscous fluid is regarded as a mathematical continuum and its motion is governed by the linearized continuity, Navier-Stokes, and state equations. Unfortunately, solutions of this system are of a diffusive nature and hence do not satisfy causality. However, in the case of a half-space of fluid set to motion by a harmonically vibrating plate the classical equation of motion can, under suitable conditions, be approximated by the damped wave equation. Since this equation is hyperbolic, the resulting solutions satisfy causal requirements. In this work the Laplace transform and other analytical and numerical tools are used to investigate this apparent contradiction. To this end the exact solutions, as well as their special and limiting cases, are found and compared for the two models. The effects of the physical parameters on the solutions and associated quantities are also studied. It is shown that propagating wave fronts are only possible under the hyperbolic model and that the concept of phase speed has different meanings in the two formulations. In addition, discontinuities and shock waves are noted and a physical system is modeled under both formulations. Overall, it is shown that the hyperbolic form gives a more realistic description of the physical problem than does the classical theory. Lastly, a simple mechanical analog is given and connections to viscoelastic fluids are noted. In particular, the research presented here supports the notion that linear compressible, isothermal, viscous fluids can, at least in terms of causality, be better characterized as a type of viscoelastic fluid.</p>","PeriodicalId":20079,"journal":{"name":"Physical review. E, Statistical physics, plasmas, fluids, and related interdisciplinary topics","volume":"62 6 Pt A","pages":"7918-26"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1103/physreve.62.7918","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21959780","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Kinetic theory of dense fluids of rigid biaxial ellipsoids","authors":"Singh, Kumar","doi":"10.1103/physreve.62.7927","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/physreve.62.7927","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The transport equation for a one-particle distribution function f of a pure and dense fluid composed of hard biaxial ellipsoids has been derived by the Enskog method through a modification of the Taxman equation which describes the corresponding low-density fluid. The equation for f has been utilized in obtaining approximate equations of continuity, linear momentum, and energy of the dense fluid, and has then been solved through the Enskog infinite series expansion technique, and a second-order approximate formula for f has been achieved. Using this, results are derived for the hydrodynamic pressure, shear and bulk viscosity coefficients, and heat conductivity of the fluid. Fast exchange of energy between the translational and rotational motions is assumed throughout the calculation. The quantities ultimately appearing in the results, which cannot further be reduced analytically and require numerical evaluation, are the four-dimensional quadratures over the orientational coordinates of two interacting rigid ellipsoidal molecules. In the appropriate limit, all results reduce to those obtained by Enskog for a dense fluid of hard spheres, and a first-order modified Eucken-type formula for the dense fluid emerges.</p>","PeriodicalId":20079,"journal":{"name":"Physical review. E, Statistical physics, plasmas, fluids, and related interdisciplinary topics","volume":"62 6 Pt A","pages":"7927-40"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1103/physreve.62.7927","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21959781","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Dielectric response of a polarizable system with quenched disorder","authors":"Song, Chandler","doi":"10.1103/physreve.62.7949","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/physreve.62.7949","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We present and analyze a lattice model of a disordered dielectric material. In the model, the local polarizability is a quenched statistical variable. Using a reaction field approach, the dielectric response of the model can be cast in terms of an effective Hamiltonian for a finite primary system coupled to its effective average medium determined self-consistently. A real space renormalization group analysis is carried out by recursively increasing the size of the primary system. The analysis determines the length scale dependence of the local polarizability distribution. For the case of isotropic disorder considered in this paper, we show that the width of the distribution decays algebraically with increasing lattice spacing. We also compute the distribution of solvation and reorganization energies pertinent to kinetics of electron transfer.</p>","PeriodicalId":20079,"journal":{"name":"Physical review. E, Statistical physics, plasmas, fluids, and related interdisciplinary topics","volume":"62 6 Pt A","pages":"7949-56"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1103/physreve.62.7949","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21959783","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mean-field stochastic theory for species-rich assembled communities.","authors":"A McKane, D Alonso, R V Solé","doi":"10.1103/physreve.62.8466","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/physreve.62.8466","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A dynamical model of an ecological community is analyzed within a \"mean-field approximation\" in which one of the species interacts with the combination of all of the other species in the community. Within this approximation the model may be formulated as a master equation describing a one-step stochastic process. The stationary distribution is obtained in closed form, and is shown to reduce to a log-series or log-normal distribution, depending on the values that the parameters describing the model take on. A hyperbolic relationship between the connectance of the matrix of interspecies interactions and the average number of species exists for a range of parameter values. The time evolution of the model at short and intermediate times is analyzed using van Kampen's approximation, which is valid when the number of individuals in the community is large. Good agreement with numerical simulations is found. The large time behavior, and the approach to the stationary state, is obtained by solving the equation for the generating function of the probability distribution. The analytical results which follow from the analysis are also in good agreement with direct simulations of the model.</p>","PeriodicalId":20079,"journal":{"name":"Physical review. E, Statistical physics, plasmas, fluids, and related interdisciplinary topics","volume":"62 6 Pt B","pages":"8466-84"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1103/physreve.62.8466","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21959787","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"VUV absorption spectroscopy measurements of the role of fast neutral atoms in a high-power gap breakdown","authors":"Filuk, Bailey, Cuneo, Lake, Nash, Noack, Maron","doi":"10.1103/physreve.62.8485","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/physreve.62.8485","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The maximum power achieved in a wide variety of high-power devices, including electron and ion diodes, z pinches, and microwave generators, is presently limited by anode-cathode gap breakdown. A frequently discussed hypothesis for this effect is ionization of fast neutral atoms injected throughout the anode-cathode gap during the power pulse. We describe a newly developed diagnostic tool that provides a direct test of this hypothesis. Time-resolved vacuum-ultraviolet absorption spectroscopy is used to directly probe fast neutral atoms with 1-mm spatial resolution in the 10-mm anode-cathode gap of the SABRE 5 MV, 1 TW applied-B ion diode. Absorption spectra collected during Ar RF glow discharges and with CO2 gas fills confirm the reliability of the diagnostic technique. Throughout the 50-100 ns ion diode pulses no measurable neutral absorption was seen, setting upper limits of (0.12-1.5)x10(14) cm(-3) for ground-state fast neutral atom densities of H, C, N, O, and F. The absence of molecular absorption bands also sets upper limits of (0.16-1.2)x10(15) cm(-3) for common simple molecules. These limits are low enough to rule out ionization of fast neutral atoms as a breakdown mechanism. Breakdown due to ionization of molecules is also found to be unlikely. This technique can now be applied to quantify the role of neutral atoms in other high-power devices.</p>","PeriodicalId":20079,"journal":{"name":"Physical review. E, Statistical physics, plasmas, fluids, and related interdisciplinary topics","volume":"62 6 Pt B","pages":"8485-92"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1103/physreve.62.8485","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21959788","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Dust acoustic waves in strongly coupled dissipative plasmas","authors":"Xie, Yu","doi":"10.1103/physreve.62.8501","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/physreve.62.8501","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The theory of dust acoustic waves is revisited in the frame of the generalized viscoelastic hydrodynamic theory for highly correlated dusts. Physical processes relevant to many experiments on dusts in plasmas, such as ionization and recombination, dust-charge variation, elastic electron and ion collisions with neutral and charged dust particles, as well as relaxation due to strong dust coupling, are taken into account. These processes can be on similar time scales and are thus important for the conservation of particles and momenta in a self-consistent description of the system. It is shown that the dispersion properties of the dust acoustic waves are determined by a sensitive balance of the effects of strong dust coupling and collisional relaxation. The predictions of the present theory applicable to typical parameters in laboratory strongly coupled dusty plasmas are given and compared with the experiment results. Some possible implications and discrepanies between theory and experiment are also discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":20079,"journal":{"name":"Physical review. E, Statistical physics, plasmas, fluids, and related interdisciplinary topics","volume":"62 6 Pt B","pages":"8501-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1103/physreve.62.8501","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21959790","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Two scaling domains in multiple cracking phenomena","authors":"Handge, Leterrier, Rochat, Sokolov, Blumen","doi":"10.1103/physreve.62.7807","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/physreve.62.7807","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The fragmentation of two-phase composite systems such as coatings on substrates and fibers in matrices under uniaxial tension shows two regimes: the evolution of the mean fragment length with applied strain displays different power laws for small and for large strains. From theoretical arguments, we find that in both cases the scaling exponent depends on the shape parameter of the strength distribution. The exponent for large applied strains depends also, as we show, on the way (linear or nonlinear) in which the stress transfer between the two constituents takes place. We present experimental data on the sequential cracking of SiOx coatings on thermoplastic substrates that indeed show the two regimes; the detailed analysis of the data supports our theory.</p>","PeriodicalId":20079,"journal":{"name":"Physical review. E, Statistical physics, plasmas, fluids, and related interdisciplinary topics","volume":"62 6 Pt A","pages":"7807-10"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1103/physreve.62.7807","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21959953","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Frictional-collisional regime for granular suspension flows down an inclined channel","authors":"Ancey, Evesque","doi":"10.1103/physreve.62.8349","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/physreve.62.8349","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Here granular suspensions refer to very concentrated suspensions of particles within a Newtonian fluid. Under certain conditions given in the paper, the bulk stresses mainly result from the combination of frictional and collisional interactions at the particle scale. The corresponding flow regime is called the frictional-collisional regime. The constitutive equation adapted to this regime is not well known. We propose a constitutive model based on the balance between frictional and collisional interactions. We have applied this model to granular flow down an inclined channel. It is shown that the mass flow rate is proportional to the flow depth.</p>","PeriodicalId":20079,"journal":{"name":"Physical review. E, Statistical physics, plasmas, fluids, and related interdisciplinary topics","volume":"62 6 Pt B","pages":"8349-60"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1103/physreve.62.8349","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21959961","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Multistability and hysteresis phenomena in passive mode-locked lasers","authors":"Komarov, Komarov","doi":"10.1103/physreve.62.r7607","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/physreve.62.r7607","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We present the analysis of laser passive mode-locking described by complex Ginzburg-Landau equation with a saturable gain and with a nonlinearity of losses decreasing as radiation intensity increases. The hysteresis dependence of the number of pulses in steady state on pump power has been found. The laser operation therewith is multistable: the number of pulses in the established regime depends on the initial state.</p>","PeriodicalId":20079,"journal":{"name":"Physical review. E, Statistical physics, plasmas, fluids, and related interdisciplinary topics","volume":"62 6 Pt A","pages":"R7607-10"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1103/physreve.62.r7607","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21960127","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Double-logarithmic finite-size scaling behavior of the specific heat does not necessarily imply its divergence","authors":"Kim","doi":"10.1103/physreve.62.8798","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/physreve.62.8798","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In a recent paper [Phys. Rev. E 60, 3823 (1999)] Mazzeo and Kuhn presented very careful analyses of the finite-size scaling (FSS) data obtained from the numerical transfer matrix technique. In this report, as a complement to that paper, a critical argument based on numerical evidence is given against the conventional interpretation of the FSS behavior of the specific heat. The argument is likely to cast doubt on previous claims for numerical evidence for the scenario of a logarithmic correction.</p>","PeriodicalId":20079,"journal":{"name":"Physical review. E, Statistical physics, plasmas, fluids, and related interdisciplinary topics","volume":"62 6 Pt B","pages":"8798-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1103/physreve.62.8798","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21960136","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}