Now the prominent Lee-Yang theorem (or Physical Review 87, 410, 1952) has almost become a standard ingredient of any comprehensive statistical mechanics textbook.If the volume tends to infinity, ...

Previously, I have calculated energy spectrum for 3D isotropic turbulent flow data which is equally spaced in all three directions and then to compute the energy spectrum, one performs Fourier ...

From a theoretical point of view, what has been the most successful approach to understanding jamming phenomena? I understand there's still a lot of debate around this subject, namely whether a ...

According to Life under a black sun, Miller's planet from Interstellar, with a time dilation factor of 60,000, should be heated to around 890 °C by blue-shifted cosmic background radiation.How they ...

I was wondering, if I were to fill a pool with gold/gold dust, what would be the optimal diameter of the grains to minimalize the friction to a point at which you would be able to swim in it ((and if ...

According to measurements, the gas from the Boomerang Nebula is expanding so fast that it's colder than the cosmic microwave background radiation... how does such a simple mechanic work on such a ...

Is there any way to find out the time required for a drop of given dimensions to vaporize after attaining Leidenfrost point?

I was surprised to find myself in a traffic jam on a highway (it's a densely populated city). If we think of vehicles on a highway as particles flowing in a pipe, when the inflow exceeds outflow the ...

This image was shown to us to illustrate how a tornado forms due to a low pressure region (also see Jet engine vortices).I find it odd that the tornado always ends up at the ground, where it is a ...

I was following the book by Landau and Lifshitz, Fluid Mechanics (2nd edition) and got stuck trying to understand one of their arguments. On the chapter about Relativistic Fluid Dynamics it is stated ...

I keep bumping into order parameters in scientific papers, reviews, articles, etc, but I can never get a firm grip on them. Order parameters seem terribly subjective to me. Basically the way I ...

The Unruh effect basically states that an accelerated observer will see warm gas of particles following a blackbody distribution with some temperature T, where as an inertial observer would see none....

It is often said that, in classical thermodynamics, entropy $S$ and energy $U$ are defined only up to an additive constant proportional to the total amount of substance $N=\sum_i N_i$ (where the sum ...

I know that "soliton" waves can consist of a crest without a trough. One would expect the reverse to be true as well.However, this Wikipedia excerpt says,So for this nonlinear gravity ...

I am studying the interaction between two spherical particles of radius $a$ in a low Reynolds number flow. Because of linearity, I know that their respective velocities will be linear in the forces ...