The thinning dynamics of a liquid neck before break-up, as may happen when a drop detaches from a faucet or a capillary, follows different rules and dynamic scaling laws depending on the importance of inertia, viscous stresses, or capillary forces. If now the thinning neck reaches dimensions comparable to the thermally excited interfacial fluctuations, as for nanojet break-up or the fragmentati...

Motivated by a mean field-like resistive behavior in magnetic fields commonly seen in various superconducting cuprates and organics with strong fluctuation, superconducting (SC) quantum fluctuation effects on resistive behaviors are reexamined by putting emphasis on their roles in the so-called thermal vortex liquid regime. By incorporating the quantum fluctuations and a vortex pinning effect i...

The classical nucleation theory for homogeneous nucleation is formulated as a theory for a density fluctuation in a supersaturated gas at a given temperature. But Molecular Dynamics simulations reveal that it is small cold clusters which initiates the nucleation. The temperature in the nucleating clusters fluctuate, but the mean temperature remains below the temperature in the supersaturated ga...

A survey is given of recent QCD theory advances concerning the phase diagram, in particular the indications for a critical point and adjacent first order phase transition at high baryo-chemical potential, and the new ideas concerning a further phase at high μB, the quarkyonic matter phase. The latter state might finally explain the hadro-chemical equilibrium freeze-out points from A+A collision...

We revisit the estimate of the mass fluctuation amplitude, σ8, from the observational X-ray cluster abundance. In particular, we examine the effect of the systematic difference between the cluster virial mass estimated from the X-ray spectroscopy, Mvir, spec, and the true virial mass of the corresponding halo, Mvir. Mazzotta et al. (2004) recently pointed out the possibility that αM = Mvir, spe...

A two dimensional numerical model of shallow water equations was developed tocalculate sub and super-critical open channel flows. Utilizing an implicit scheme the steady stateequations were discretized based on control volume method. Collocated grid arrangement was appliedwith a SIMPLEC like algorithm for depth-velocity coupling. Power law scheme was used fordiscretization of convection and dif...

The thinning dynamics of a liquid neck before break-up, as may happen when a drop detaches from a faucet or a capillary, follows different rules and dynamic scaling laws depending on the importance of inertia, viscous stresses, or capillary forces. If now the thinning neck reaches dimensions comparable to the thermally excited interfacial fluctuations, as for nano-jet break-up or the fragmentat...