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Viscosity Solutions and Convergence of Monotone Schemes for Synthetic Aperture Radar Shape ...

SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics, Vol. 59, No. 6 (Aug. - Oct., 1999), pp. 2060-2085 (26 pages) The shape-from-shading (SFS) equation relating u(y, r), the unknown ...
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VISCOSITY SOLUTIONS TO PARABOLIC MASTER EQUATIONS AND MCKEAN–VLASOV SDES WITH CLOSED-LOOP ...

The master equation is a type of PDE whose state variable involves the distribution of certain underlying state process. It is a powerful tool for studying the limit behavior of large interacting ...
Oil

New equations predict boiling point from viscosity, gravity

José Vicente Gomez Maraven S.A. Punto Fijo, Venezuela Equations [58119 bytes] A simple numerical routine computes the normal boiling point of light and heavy petroleum fractions as a function of ...
Nanowerk

Stokes-Einstein Equation: Insights into Particle Dynamics in Fluids

What is the Stokes-Einstein Equation? The Stokes-Einstein equation is a fundamental relation in physics that describes the diffusion of spherical particles through a fluid with low Reynolds number. It ...
Physics World

Fluids only get so runny as physicists put a universal lower limit on viscosity

Fundamental constants: a minimum value of viscosity has been calculated by Kostya Trachenko and Vadim Brazhkin (Courtesy: iStock/3quarks). Viscosity is an everyday phenomenon recognizable in the ...