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Turbulent jets with off-source heating
(Cambridge University PressJournal of Fluid Mechanics, 2017-08-10)Motivated by anomalous entrainment behaviour in cumulus clouds, Bhat et al. (Exp. Fluids, vol. 7, 1989, pp. 99–102) pioneered a laboratory experiment to study turbulent jets subjected to a volumetric heating away from the ...
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Diapycnal mixing in layered stratified plane Couette flow quantified in a tracer-based coordinate
(Cambridge University PressJournal of Fluid Mechanics, 2017-07)The mixing properties of statically stable density interfaces subject to imposed vertical shear are studied using direct numerical simulations of stratified plane Couette flow. The simulations are designed to investigate ...
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Kinematics of Einstein-Cartan universes
(American Physical SocietyPhysical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, 2017-05-08)We analyze the kinematics of cosmological spacetimes with nonzero torsion, in the framework of the classical Einstein-Cartan gravity. After a brief introduction to the basic features of spaces with nonvanishing torsion, ...
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The radiative role of ozone and water vapour in the annual temperature cycle in the tropical tropopause layer
(Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 2017-05-08)© Author(s) 2017. The structure and amplitude of the radiative contributions of the annual cycles in ozone and water vapour to the prominent annual cycle in temperatures in the tropical tropopause layer (TTL) are considered. ...
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Rough surface scattering via two-way parabolic integral equation
(EMW PublishingProgress In Electromagnetics Research M, 2017-04-23)This paper extends the parabolic integral equation method, which is very effective for forward scattering from one-dimensional rough surfaces, to include backscatter. This is done by applying left-right splitting to a ...
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Inverse and stability theorems for approximate representations of finite groups
The U 2 norm gives a useful measure of quasirandomness for realor complex-valued functions defined on finite (or, more generally, locally compact) groups. A simple Fourier-analytic argument yields an inverse theorem, which ...
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Imaginary geometry IV: interior rays, whole-plane reversibility, and space-filling trees
We establish existence and uniqueness for Gaussian free field flow lines started at interior points of a planar domain. We interpret these as rays of a random geometry with imaginary curvature and describe the way distinct ...
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On the Non-Existence of Blockwise 2-Local PRGs with Applications to Indistinguishability Obfuscation
(2017-04-06)Lin and Tessaro (Eprint 2017/250) recently proposed indistinguishability obfuscation and functional encryption candidates and proved their security based on a standard assumption on bilinear maps and a non-standard assumption ...
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Optimal and Player-Replaceable Consensus with an Honest Majority
(2017-03-31)We construct a Byzantine Agreement protocol that tolerates t < n/2 corruptions, is very efficient in terms of the number of rounds and the number of bits of communication, and satisfies a strong notion of robustness called ...
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Homological stability for moduli spaces of high dimensional manifolds. I
We prove a homological stability theorem for moduli spaces of simply connected manifolds of dimension 2n > 4, with respect to forming connected sum with S$^{n}$ x S$^{n}$ . This is analogous to Harer's stability theorem ...
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Cyclic mixmaster universes
(American Physical SocietyPhysical Review D, 2017-04-19)We investigate the behavior of bouncing Bianchi type IX “mixmaster” universes in general relativity. This generalizes all previous studies of the cyclic behavior of closed spatially homogeneous universes with and without ...
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An integral equation method for the homogenization of unidirectional fibre-reinforced media; antiplane elasticity and other potential problems
In Parnell & Abrahams (2008 Proc. R. Soc. A 464, 1461–1482. (doi:10.1098/rspa.2007.0254)), a homogenization scheme was developed that gave rise to explicit forms for the effective antiplane shear moduli of a periodic ...
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Tachyons in the Galilean limit
(SpringerJournal of High Energy Physics, 2017-04-20)The Souriau massless Galilean particle of “colour” k and spin s is shown to be the Galilean limit of the Souriau tachyon of mass m = ik and spin s. We compare and contrast this result with the Galilean limit of the Nambu-Goto ...
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Empirical Bayes method for reducing false discovery rates of correlation matrices with block diagonal structure
(BioMed CentralBMC Bioinformatics, 2017-04-12)$\textbf{Background:}$ Correlation matrices are important in inferring relationships and networks between regulatory or signalling elements in biological systems. With currently available technology sample sizes for ...
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Three-dimensional visualization of the interaction of a vortex ring with a stratified interface
The study of vortex-ring-induced stratified mixing has long played a key role in understanding externally forced stratified turbulent mixing. While several studies have investigated the dynamical evolution of such a system, ...
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Bubble-based acoustic micropropulsors: active surfaces and mixers.
(Royal Society of ChemistryLab on a chip, 2017-04-04)Acoustic micropropulsors present great potential for microfluidic applications. The propulsion is based on encapsulated 20 μm bubbles excited by a contacless ultrasonic transducer. The vibrating bubbles then generate a ...
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Existence of Mori fibre spaces for 3-folds in char p
(ElsevierAdvances in Mathematics, 2017-06-20)We prove the following results for projective klt pairs of dimension 3 over an algebraically closed field of characteristic $p$>5: the cone theorem, the base point free theorem, the contraction theorem, finiteness of minimal ...
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Inclination of scholars to major in information systems or computer science
(University of Cape TownFaculty of ScienceDepartment of Computer Science, 2005)This paper describes a survey of 497 final year scholars at schools in the Western Cape, South Africa. They were asked about their inclination to study information systems (IS) or computer science (CS), their knowledge of ...
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The relaxation time for viscous and porous gravity currents following a change in flux
(Cambridge University PressJournal of Fluid Mechanics, 2017-06-01)The equilibration time in response to a change in flux from Q to $\Lambda$Q after an injection period applied to either a low-Reynolds-number gravity current or one propagating through a porous medium, in both axisymmetric ...
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Goodness-of-fit tests for high dimensional linear models
We propose a framework for constructing goodness-of-fit tests in both low and high dimensional linear models. We advocate applying regression methods to the scaled residuals following either an ordinary least squares or ...
