abstract saturated hydraulic conductivity (ks) is one of the most important physical properties of soils which is expensive and time-consuming to directly measure. hence, indirect methods, such as pedotransfer functions (ptfs), were developed to predict the ks. previous studies showed that most of the ptfs common in the literature can not suitably predict the ks. hence, this study was conducted...

Rapid variability of the TeV emission in several blazars implies a central black hole mass MBH < 10M⊙, appreciably smaller than the values estimated from the MBH −Lbulg relation, and Doppler factors for the γ-ray emitting fluid much larger than those associated with radio patterns. We discuss the conditions in the central engine required to account for the short timescales and large luminositie...

Micron-sized black holes do not necessarily have a constant horizon temperature distribution. The black hole remote-sensing problem means to find out the ‘surface’ temperature distribution of a small black hole from the spectral measurement of its (Hawking) grey pulse. This problem has been previously considered by Rosu, who used Chen’s modified Moebius inverse transform. Here, we hint on a Ram...

We study analytically the asymptotic evolution of charged fields around a Reissner-Nordström black-hole. Following the no-hair theorem we focus attention on the dynamical mechanism by which the charged hair is radiated away. We find an inverse power-law relaxation of the charged fields at future timelike infinity, along future null infinity and an oscillatory inverse powerlaw relaxation along t...

In the present article we study the Inverse Electrodynamics Model. This model is a gauge and parity invariant non-linear Electrodynamics theory, which respects the conformal invariance of standard Electrodynamics. This modified Electrodynamics model, when minimally coupled to General Relativity, is compatible with static and spherically symmetric Reissner-Nordström-like black-hole solutions. Ho...

Drilling and blasting have numerous applications in the civil and mining engineering. Due to the two major components of rock masses, namely the intact rock matrix and the discontinuities, their behavior is a complicated process to be analyzed. The purpose of this work is to investigate the effects of the geomechanical and geometrical parameters of rock and discontinuities on the rock mass blas...

Two approaches are proposed for solving inverse problems in shape optimization. We are looking for the unknown position of a small hole in a domain Ω. First, the asymptotic analysis of the underlying p.d.e. defined in a perturbed domain is performed and the so-called topological derivative is defined. Then, in the first approach, the self-adjoint extensions of elliptic operators are used to mod...

We consider an inverse problem arising from an time-dependent driftdiffusion model in semiconductor devices, which is formulated in terms of a system of parabolic equations for the electron and hole densities and the Poisson equation for the electric potential. This inverse problem aims to identify the doping profile from the final overdetermination data of the electric potential. By using the ...

The relativistic jerk, snap and all higher-order kinematical D-vectors are defined for the motion of a massive particle in a D-dimensional Minkowski spacetime. We illustrate the formalism with stationary motions, for which we provide a new, Lorentz covariant, classification. We generalize some cases to branes, explaining the relevance to uniform motion in a heat bath. We also consider some non-...