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A hypothesis about parallelism vs. seriality in dreams
(2019-10-10)
The current article discusses the hypothesis about parallelism vs. Seriality in dreams. The process of dream building implies the construction of a complex network of closely interrelated sources. On the other hand, the ...
Gaussian processes in complex media: new vistas on anomalous diffusion
(2019-09)
Normal or Brownian diffusion is historically identified by the linear growth in time of the variance and by a Gaussian shape of the displacement distribution. Processes departing from the at least one of the above conditions ...
Reduced description method in the kinetic theory of Brownian motion with active fluctuations
(2019-09-01)
We develop a microscopic approach to the kinetic theory of many-particle systems with dissipative and potential interactions in presence of active fluctuations. The approach is based on a generalization of Bogolyubov–Peletminskii ...
Single-trajectory spectral analysis of scaled Brownian motion
(2019-06)
A standard approach to study time-dependent stochastic processes is the power spectral density (PSD), an ensemble-averaged property defined as the Fourier transform of the autocorrelation function of the process in the ...
On the merits of sparse surrogates for global sensitivity analysis of multi-scale nonlinear problems: Application to turbulence and fire-spotting model in wildland fire simulators
(2019-02)
Many nonlinear phenomena, whose numerical simulation is not straightforward, depend on a set of parameters in a way which is not easy to predict beforehand. Wildland fires in presence of strong winds fall into this category, ...
Fire-spotting generated fires. Part I: The role of atmospheric stability
(2019-02)
This is the first part of two papers concerning fire-spotting generated fires. In this part we deal with the impact of macroscale factors, such as the atmospheric stability, and in the second part we deal with mesoscale ...
Fractional Brownian motion in a finite interval: correlations effect depletion or accretion zones of particles near boundaries
(2019-02)
Fractional Brownian motion (FBM) is a Gaussian stochastic process with stationary, long-time correlated increments and is frequently used to model anomalous diffusion processes. We study numerically FBM confined to a finite ...
Finite-energy Lévy-type motion through heterogeneous ensemble of Brownian particles
(2019-02-01)
Complex systems are known to display anomalous diffusion, whose signature is a space/time scaling $x \sim t^\delta$ with $\delta \neq 1/2$ in the probability density function (PDF). Anomalous diffusion can emerge jointly ...
Front Propagation in Random Media
(2019)
This PhD thesis deals with the problem of the propagation of fronts under random circumstances. A
statistical model to represent the motion of fronts when are evolving in a media characterized by
microscopical randomness ...
Surrogate-based uncertainty and sensitivity analysis for bacterial invasion in multi-species biofilm modeling
(2019)
In this work, we present a probabilistic analysis of a detailed one-dimensional biofilm model that explicitly accounts for planktonic bacterial invasion in a multi-species biofilm. The objective is (1) to quantify and ...