Zeeshan Asghar, Muhammad Waris Saeed Khan, Wasfi Shatanawi, Muhammad Asif Gondal
{"title":"Semi-analytical solution of Graetz–Brinkman problem combined with non-Newtonian Ellis fluid flow in a passive channel","authors":"Zeeshan Asghar, Muhammad Waris Saeed Khan, Wasfi Shatanawi, Muhammad Asif Gondal","doi":"10.1140/epjp/s13360-023-04632-8","DOIUrl":"10.1140/epjp/s13360-023-04632-8","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Heat transfer analysis of non-Newtonian fluids has numerous applications in the industrial and chemical engineering fields. Inspired by the prevalence of non-Newtonian liquids in chemical industries, this article aims to elaborate on the Graetz–Brinkman problem for an Ellis fluid inside the horizontal channel. The developed heat equation is first solved employing an analytical approach, i.e., the separation of variables, and then, the numerical solution of the eigenvalue problem is obtained by employing the MATLAB function bvp4c. The simulation is carried out for the situation of the isothermal walls. The temperature distribution under the impact of Brinkman number and model parameters is analyzed through various graphs. A comparison between the Ellis fluid and Newtonian fluid is also expounded. The results reveal that while using Ellis fluid, a higher heat transfer rate is achieved as compared to Newtonian fluid. The results may improve our comprehension of how non-Newtonian fluids transmit heat in a variety of situations. Furthermore, it is thought that this approach has made a significant contribution to the chemical sector in terms of developing and enhancing various types of thermal equipment.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":792,"journal":{"name":"The European Physical Journal Plus","volume":"138 11","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2023-11-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71908916","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
W. Scandale, F. Cerutti, L. S. Esposito, S. Gilardoni, R. Losito, G. I. Smirnov, A. Giribono, M. Bauce, F. Collamati, P. Valente, A. Variola, F. Galluccio, G. Hall, M. Pesaresi, K. Uchida, R. Rossi
{"title":"Beam merging assisted by a bent crystal","authors":"W. Scandale, F. Cerutti, L. S. Esposito, S. Gilardoni, R. Losito, G. I. Smirnov, A. Giribono, M. Bauce, F. Collamati, P. Valente, A. Variola, F. Galluccio, G. Hall, M. Pesaresi, K. Uchida, R. Rossi","doi":"10.1140/epjp/s13360-023-04610-0","DOIUrl":"10.1140/epjp/s13360-023-04610-0","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Bunch merging is a well-established technique to increase the intensity of synchrotrons and the luminosity of circular colliders. We suggest to exploit a combination of channeling, volume reflection and amorphous interactions in a bent crystal for beam merging in a transfer line. Two beams converging into the bent crystal along special directions should emerge in almost parallel directions. A merging scenario is discussed, and data collected by the UA9 Collaboration are reprocessed to prove its feasibility. Comparison with magnetic stacking, which is a similar process, is presented.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":792,"journal":{"name":"The European Physical Journal Plus","volume":"138 11","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2023-11-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71909067","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Qin Zhang, Pei Chen, Qin Liu, He Huang, Xiaoyang Ma, Tingting Song, Jiehong Lei
{"title":"Tunable electronic structures in C3N/WSe2 van der Waals heterostructure by biaxial strain and external electric field","authors":"Qin Zhang, Pei Chen, Qin Liu, He Huang, Xiaoyang Ma, Tingting Song, Jiehong Lei","doi":"10.1140/epjp/s13360-023-04556-3","DOIUrl":"10.1140/epjp/s13360-023-04556-3","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Van der Waals heterostructures have a wide range of applications in the semiconductor industry. Based on the superior properties of C<sub>3</sub>N and WSe<sub>2</sub> monolayers, the stability and electronic properties of C<sub>3</sub>N/WSe<sub>2</sub> vdW heterostructure under strain and external electric field are studied using density functional theory. The results show that the C<sub>3</sub>N/WSe<sub>2</sub> vdW heterostructure has a type-I band alignment and possesses a direct band gap of 0.397 eV. Furthermore, the electric field and biaxial strain not only modulate the C<sub>3</sub>N/WSe<sub>2</sub> band gap, but also induce band alignment (type I to type II) and a direct gap to an indirect gap transition, even undergoing semiconductor-to-metal transition. These results suggest that tunable electronic properties of C<sub>3</sub>N/WSe<sub>2</sub> heterostructure has the potential to be applied in semiconductor devices, especially optoelectronic devices.</p><h3>Graphical abstract</h3>\u0000 <div><figure><div><div><picture><source><img></source></picture></div></div></figure></div>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":792,"journal":{"name":"The European Physical Journal Plus","volume":"138 11","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2023-11-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71908915","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Equilibrium properties of 2D electron systems in quantum wells and graphene","authors":"M. A. Hidalgo","doi":"10.1140/epjp/s13360-023-04586-x","DOIUrl":"10.1140/epjp/s13360-023-04586-x","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>After studying the magnetotransport properties (Hall and Shubnikov–de Haas phenomena) of a two-dimensional (2D) electron system in quantum wells (QW) and graphene (Hidalgo Eur Phys J Plus 137(1):1–14, 2022), we now address the analysis of the thermodynamic or equilibrium properties of these systems (such as magnetization, magnetocapacitance or specific heat). Aside from the importance of those magnitudes by themselves, they also provide direct meaningful information about the global density of energy states of the system. Unlikely these properties, the transport and magnetotransport depend on the relaxation time, determined by the random scattering due to impurities and defects, which conditions the extended and localized character of the states. Therefore, this parameter hinders the easy interpretation of the experimental measurements and the extraction of information from them. In the present paper, we complete the study of the physical properties of a 2D electron system, just began in Hidalgo (Eur Phys J Plus 137(1):1–14, 2022), and now modelling its equilibrium properties.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":792,"journal":{"name":"The European Physical Journal Plus","volume":"138 11","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2023-11-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71908922","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. Ocampo-García, M. A. Barranco-Jiménez, F. Angulo-Brown
{"title":"On a finite-time optimization of coupled electric engines by using a freedom degrees reduction procedure","authors":"A. Ocampo-García, M. A. Barranco-Jiménez, F. Angulo-Brown","doi":"10.1140/epjp/s13360-023-04627-5","DOIUrl":"10.1140/epjp/s13360-023-04627-5","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>When dealing with physical processes involving two or more control variables, it is desirable to reduce the freedom degrees down to an amount that clarify the calculations and comprehension of such a system. One way to achieve this goal is to optimize with respect to one or several variables in order to find optimal relationships between those variables. In this paper we use optimal relationships between intensive variables that had already been found in the optimization of arrays of coupled endoreversible chemical and electric engines by means of several optimization criteria stemming from finite-time thermodynamics. This procedure is applied to analyse the thermoeconomic performance of this kind of processes in terms of an only independent variable. Furthermore, the operation of these arrays under new operating regimes was studied, whose optimum performance conditions also can be obtained applying the same methodology, because they meet the same relationship.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":792,"journal":{"name":"The European Physical Journal Plus","volume":"138 11","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2023-11-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71908925","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abdul Rauf Nizami, Muhammad Rafiq, Mustafa Inc, Hammad Alotaibi, Nadeem Ahmad
{"title":"Numerical simulations with mitigation strategies on Barabási–Albert network for the spread of coronavirus in Pakistan","authors":"Abdul Rauf Nizami, Muhammad Rafiq, Mustafa Inc, Hammad Alotaibi, Nadeem Ahmad","doi":"10.1140/epjp/s13360-023-04628-4","DOIUrl":"10.1140/epjp/s13360-023-04628-4","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Since its emergence in China in 2019, the coronavirus has exerted its impact on every nation. Throughout this period, epidemiological models have been employed to anticipate the disease’s patterns. These models rely on the random diffusion of the virus, overlooking the inherent social interactions within communities. A pioneering approach involves incorporating the concept of networks to account for these human interactions. The present study presents visual depictions of numerical simulations utilizing the Susceptible–Infected–Recovered model on the Barabási–Albert network. This enables an analysis of coronavirus dynamics in Pakistan while considering diverse mitigation strategies. The findings underscore that effective infection management involves preventing its spread into central hubs-nodes with extensive connections-and significantly curtailing social interactions within society.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":792,"journal":{"name":"The European Physical Journal Plus","volume":"138 11","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2023-11-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71908642","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. H. Tedjani, Aly R. Seadawy, Syed T. R. Rizvi, Emad Solouma
{"title":"Construction of chirped propagation with Jacobi elliptic functions for the nonlinear Schrödinger equations with quadratic nonlinearity with inter-modal and spatio-temporal dispersions","authors":"A. H. Tedjani, Aly R. Seadawy, Syed T. R. Rizvi, Emad Solouma","doi":"10.1140/epjp/s13360-023-04626-6","DOIUrl":"10.1140/epjp/s13360-023-04626-6","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>At the end of the past century, a completely new sort of soliton was discovered: embedded solitons. They were discovered in optical systems first, and then in liquid crystal theory, discrete systems and hydrodynamic models. These unique solitary waves are intriguing because they exist in settings where solitons were previously assumed to be impossible to propagate. Initially, these nonlinear waves were thought to be inherently isolated and unstable, but it was later shown that they can be stable and may exist in families. In this article, we find embedded solitons in terms of chirped periodic wave (CPW) soliton solutions for nonlinear Schrödinger equations with quadratic nonlinearity (NLSE-QN). These solutions further degenerate to chirp-free solitons such as singular, hyperbolic, kink, anti-kink, bright–dark combo, bright, dark, and solitons are recovered with the help of Jacobi elliptic functions (JEFs) and show our result graphically in 3D and 2D form.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":792,"journal":{"name":"The European Physical Journal Plus","volume":"138 11","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2023-11-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71908714","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
F. G. Alvarenga, L. A. M. Diniz, S. V. B. Gonçalves, G. A. Monerat, E. V. Corrêa Silva
{"title":"Observational constraints on the quantum Einstein-Aether model","authors":"F. G. Alvarenga, L. A. M. Diniz, S. V. B. Gonçalves, G. A. Monerat, E. V. Corrêa Silva","doi":"10.1140/epjp/s13360-023-04615-9","DOIUrl":"10.1140/epjp/s13360-023-04615-9","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We build a classical cosmological model by applying the ADM formalism to a modified theory of gravitation, based on General Relativity. The Einstein-Aether theory couples a timelike vector field to the metric, selecting a preferred local frame of reference and thus breaking the Lorentz symmetry. The intensity of this coupling is determined by dimensionless constants, and in this work, the values of these constants were chosen in accordance with the existing theoretical and observational constraints. The use of the ADM formalism generates the loss of a time-type variable known as the “time problem” which, in this work, is approached phenomenologically by the introduction of the material content of the Universe as a perfect baryonic fluid. This is the so-called Schutz formalism, in which this fluid is described by six potential fields, and a new time-like variable is defined from the fluid entropy. We consider a general model, for any perfect baryonic fluid, in a homogeneous and isotropic FLRW Universe. This cosmological model has two degrees of freedom: the scale factor <i>a</i> and the time <span>(tau )</span>. The Wheeler-DeWitt quantization scheme is then applied, and the wave function of the Universe is obtained. In this work we consider the solutions of the Wheeler-DeWitt equation that satisfy the boundary condition in which the derivative of the wave function at <span>(a=0)</span> is zero. We apply to this quantum cosmological model the many-worlds interpretation and the de Broglie-Bohm interpretation of quantum mechanics, verifying the possibility of avoiding a singularity at the beginning of the Universe.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":792,"journal":{"name":"The European Physical Journal Plus","volume":"138 11","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2023-11-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71908715","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A regular metric does not ensure the regularity of spacetime","authors":"Manuel E. Rodrigues, Henrique A. Vieira","doi":"10.1140/epjp/s13360-023-04624-8","DOIUrl":"10.1140/epjp/s13360-023-04624-8","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In this paper we try to clarify that a regular metric can generate a singular spacetime. Our work focuses on a static and spherically symmetric spacetime in which regularity exists when all components of the Riemann tensor are finite. There is work in the literature that assumes that the regularity of the metric is a sufficient condition to guarantee it. We study three regular metrics and show that they have singular spacetime. We also show that these metrics can be interpreted as solutions for black holes whose matter source is described by nonlinear electrodynamics. We analyze the geodesic equations and the Kretschmann scalar to verify the existence of the curvature singularity. Moreover, we use a change of the line element <span>(r rightarrow sqrt{r^2+a^2})</span>, which is a process of regularization of spacetime already known in the literature. We then recompute the geodesic equations and the Kretschmann scalar and show that all metrics now have regular spacetime. This process transforms them into black-bounce solutions, two of which are new. We have discussed the properties of the event horizon and the energy conditions for all models.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":792,"journal":{"name":"The European Physical Journal Plus","volume":"138 11","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2023-11-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71908716","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Thermal effects on the baryon–quark phase transition in hot hybrid neutron stars: a statistical mean-field baryonic model with the standard NJL model for deconfined quarks","authors":"S. A. Ghaemmaghami, M. Ghazanfari Mojarrad","doi":"10.1140/epjp/s13360-023-04611-z","DOIUrl":"10.1140/epjp/s13360-023-04611-z","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We investigate the thermal effects on the baryon–quark phase transition (PT), utilizing the Maxwell construction (MC) in an isentropic analysis. In order to model the structure and composition of hot hybrid neutron stars (HHNSs) with <span>(beta)</span>-equilibrated dense matter in the presence (absence) of trapped neutrinos, we use a statistical model which agrees with the Thomas–Fermi (TF) approximation for the baryonic phase and the Nambu–Jona-Lasinio (NJL) model for the deconfined quark phase. Our results show that neutrino trapping can provide a considerable softening of the equation of state EOS in the baryon–quark coexistence phase, compared with the situation governed by untrapped (free-streaming) neutrinos. Having a weak dependence on the quark vector coupling constant in the pure quark phase, the temperature meets its maximum value at the threshold baryonic density for the occurrence of the baryon–quark PT. Based on the assumption of the conserved baryonic mass, all of our HHEOS lead to the stable mass structures for a HHNS.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":792,"journal":{"name":"The European Physical Journal Plus","volume":"138 11","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2023-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71908971","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}