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Coordinated Beating of Algal Flagella is Mediated by Basal Coupling
(National Academy of SciencesProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), 2016)Cilia and flagella often exhibit synchronized behavior; this includes phase-locking, as seen in Chlamydomonas, and metachronal wave formation in the respiratory cilia of higher organisms. Since the observations by Gray and ...
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Lecture notes: Astrophysical fluid dynamics
(Cambridge University PressJournal of Plasma Physics, 2016)These lecture notes and example problems are based on a course given at the University of Cambridge in Part III of the Mathematical Tripos. Fluid dynamics is involved in a very wide range of astrophysical phenomena, ...
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The formation and evolution of reconnection-driven, slow-mode shocks in a partially ionised plasma
(EDP SciencesAstronomy & Astrophysics, 2016)The role of slow-mode magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) shocks in magnetic reconnection is of great importance for energy conversion and transport, but in many astrophysical plasmas the plasma is not fully ionised. In this paper, ...
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The fluxes and behaviour of plumes inferred from measurements of coherent structures within images of the bulk flow
(Taylor & FrancisAtmosphere - Ocean, 2016-06-01)This paper describes how measurements of the movement of identifiable features at the edge of a turbulent plume can be interpreted to determine the properties of the mean flow and consequently, using plume theory, can be ...
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Asymptotic Analysis of Asymmetric Thin Sheet Rolling
(ElsevierInternational Journal of Mechanical Sciences, 2016-04-22)An analytical model for asymmetric rolling is presented, which includes asymmetry in roll friction, roll size and roll speed, for a rigid, perfectly-plastic thin sheet deformed with Coulomb friction. This model is solved ...
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Consequences of tidal interaction between disks and orbiting protoplanets for the evolution of multi-planet systems with architecture resembling that of Kepler 444
(SpringerCelestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy, 2016)We study orbital evolution of multi-planet systems with masses in the terrestrial planet regime induced through tidal interaction with a protoplanetary disk assuming that this is the dominant mechanism for producing orbital ...
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Bivariate spatial point patterns in the retina: a reproducible review
(Societe Française de StatistiqueJournal de la Société Française de Statistique, 2016-04-08)In this article I present a reproducible review of recent research to investigate the spatial positioning of neurons in the nervous system. In particular, I focus on the relative spatial positioning of pairs of cell types ...
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Entrainment by turbulent fountains
(Cambridge University PressJournal of Fluid Mechanics, 2016-02-04)Experimental measurements of entrainment by turbulent fountains from circular sources in quiescent uniform environments are presented. Our results span almost four orders of magnitude in the source Froude number (0.004 ≤ ...
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Atomic Processes for Astrophysical Plasmas
(Institute of PhysicsJournal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, 2016)In this review we summarize the recent calculations and improvements of atomic data that we have carried out for the analysis of astrophysical spectroscopy within the Atomic Processes for Astrophysical Plasmas (APAP) ...
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The Complexity of Divisibility
(ElsevierLinear Algebra and its Applications, 2016-04-08)We address two sets of long-standing open questions in linear algebra and probability theory, from a computational complexity perspective: stochastic matrix divisibility, and divisibility and decomposability of probability ...
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Spontaneous scalarization with massive fields
(American Physical SocietyPhysical Review D, 2016-03-03)We study the effect of a mass term in the spontaneous scalarization of neutron stars, for a wide range of scalar field parameters and neutron star equations of state. Even though massless scalars have been the focus of ...
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Nonlinear tides in a homogeneous rotating planet or star: global simulations of the elliptical instability
(Oxford University PressMonthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2016)I present results from the first global hydrodynamical simulations of the elliptical instability in a tidally deformed gaseous planet (or star) with a free surface. The elliptical instability is potentially important for ...
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Small acoustically forced symmetric bodies in viscous fluids
(American Institute of PhysicsJournal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2016-03-03)The total force exerted on a small rigid body by an acoustic field in a viscous fluid is addressed analytically in the limit where the typical size of the particle is smaller than both the viscous diffusion length scale ...
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Optimal amount of entanglement to distinguish quantum states instantaneously
(American Physical SocietyPhysical Review A, 2015-11-30)We introduce an aspect of nonlocality which arises when the task of quantum states distinguishability is considered under local operations and shared entanglement in the absence of classical communication. We find the ...
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Standard model physics from an algebra?
(2015)This thesis constitutes a first attempt to derive aspects of standard model particle physics from little more than an algebra. Here, we argue that physical concepts such as particles, causality, and irreversible time may ...
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Bacterial Hydrodynamics
(Annual ReviewsAnnual Review of Fluid Mechanics, 2016)Bacteria predate plants and animals by billions of years. Today, they are the world’s smallest cells, yet they represent the bulk of the world’s biomass and the main reservoir of nutrients for higher organisms. Most bacteria ...
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Nonlinear tides in a homogeneous rotating planet or star: global modes and elliptical instability
(Oxford University PressMonthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2016-03-28)We revisit the global modes and instabilities of homogeneous rotating ellipsoidal fluid masses, which are the simplest global models of rotationally and tidally deformed gaseous planets or stars. The tidal flow in a ...
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Nonlinear hydrodynamical evolution of eccentric Keplerian discs in two dimensions: validation of secular theory
(Oxford University PressMonthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2016-03-11)We perform global two-dimensional hydrodynamical simulations of Keplerian discs with free eccentricity over thousands of orbital periods. Our aim is to determine the validity of secular theory in describing the evolution ...
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Generations: three prints, in colour
(SpringerJournal of High Energy Physics, 2014-10-07)We point out a somewhat mysterious appearance of SUc(3) representations, which exhibit the behaviour of three full generations of standard model particles. These representations are found in the Clifford algebra ℂl(6), ...
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Charge quantization from a number operator
(ElsevierPhysics Letters B, 2015-01-26)We explain how an unexpected algebraic structure, the division algebras, can be seen to underlie a generation of quarks and leptons. From this new vantage point, electrons and quarks are simply excitations from the neutrino, ...