Publications associées à Loi de Zipf

Bringing casting to microfabrication: processing and deformation of microcastings

This work extends the range of pathways for the production of metallic microcomponents by downscaling metal casting. This is accomplished by using either of two different molding techniques, namely femtosecond laser micromachining or lithographic silicon m ...

EPFL2023

Capturing trade-offs between daily scheduling choices

Michel Bierlaire, Timothy Michael Hillel, Janody Pougala

We propose a new modelling approach for daily activity scheduling which integrates the different daily scheduling choice dimensions (activity participation, location, schedule, duration and transportation mode) into a single optimisation problem. The funda ...

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2022

Dynamical low rank approximation for uncertainty quantification of time-dependent problems

Eva Vidlicková

The quantification of uncertainties can be particularly challenging for problems requiring long-time integration as the structure of the random solution might considerably change over time. In this respect, dynamical low-rank approximation (DLRA) is very a ...

EPFL2022

Explosive fragmentation of Prince Rupert's drops leads to well-defined fragment sizes

Jean-François Molinari

Anyone who has ever broken a dish or a glass knows that the resulting fragments range from roughly the size of the object all the way down to indiscernibly small pieces: typical fragment size distributions of broken brittle materials follow a power law, an ...

Nature Research2021

True scale-free networks hidden by finite size effects

Andrea Rinaldo, Samir Suweis, Amos Maritan

We analyze about 200 naturally occurring networks with distinct dynamical origins to formally test whether the commonly assumed hypothesis of an underlying scale-free structure is generally viable. This has recently been questioned on the basis of statisti ...

National Academy of Sciences2021

Dynamics and clogging of colloidal monolayers magnetically driven through a heterogeneous landscape

Ignacio Pagonabarraga Mora

We combine experiments and numerical simulations to investigate the emergence of clogging in a system of interacting paramagnetic colloidal particles driven against a disordered landscape of larger obstacles. We consider a single aperture in a landscape of ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2020

Avalanches in dry and saturated disordered media at fracture in shear and mixed mode scenarios

Jean-François Molinari, Enrico Milanese, Okan Yilmaz

We investigate shear and mixed mode fracture scenarios in inhomogeneous dry and fully saturated porous media with a 2D central force lattice model. For the fully saturated case we adopt the extended Biot's theory. The bars of the lattice break only under t ...

Elsevier2017

Avalanches in dry and saturated disordered media at fracture

Jean-François Molinari, Enrico Milanese, Okan Yilmaz

This paper analyzes fracturing in inhomogeneous media under dry and fully saturated conditions. We adopt a central force model with continuous damage to study avalanche behavior in a two-dimensional truss lattice undergoing dilation. Multiple fractures can ...

Amer Physical Soc2016

A Scaling Law to Predict the Finite-Length Performance of Spatially-Coupled LDPC Codes

Rüdiger Urbanke

Spatially-coupled low-density parity-check (SC-LDPC) codes are known to have excellent asymptotic properties. Much less is known regarding their finite-length performance. We propose a scaling law to predict the error probability of finite-length spatially ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2015

Quantifying the Differences in Geometry and Size Distributions of Buildings Within Cities

Nahid Mohajeri Pour Rayeni

There have been many studies on the spatial configuration of cities, but few attempts to quantify the difference in building patterns between the old and new parts of cities. This may be partly attributable to lack of suitable study methods. This paper pre ...

Kim Williams Books2014

Blackouts risk evaluation by Monte Carlo Simulation regarding cascading outages and system frequency deviation

Sidi-Rachid Cherkaoui, Mokhtar Bozorg, Omid Alizadeh Mousavi

In this paper, a blackout risk assessment method is proposed considering the effects of cascading outages, the active power and frequency response of the system. Here, the Monte Carlo Simulation (MCS) is used to analyze the risk of blackouts by generating ...

Elsevier2012

Hydroperiod regime controls the organization of plant species in wetlands

Andrea Rinaldo

With urban, agricultural, and industrial needs growing throughout the past decades, wetland ecosystems have experienced profound changes. Most critically, the biodiversity of wetlands is intimately linked to its hydrologic dynamics, which in turn are being ...

Natl Acad Sciences2012

Extended Uniform Distribution Accounting for Uncertainty of Uncertainty

Ian Smith, James-Alexandre Goulet

Increasingly, uncertainties are explicitly considered for important engineering tasks. Often, little case-specific information is available for characterizing these uncertainties. Uniform distributions are an easy way to describe errors in absence of more ...

ASCE2011

Power Law and Exponential Decay of Intercontact Times between Mobile Devices

Jean-Yves Le Boudec, Milan Vojnovic

We examine the fundamental properties that determine the basic performance metrics for opportunistic communications. We first consider the distribution of intercontact times between mobile devices. Using a diverse set of measured mobility traces, we find a ...

2010

Signification of the phase function parameter gamma explored with a fractal distribution of scatterers

Christian Depeursinge, Stéphane Chamot, Pierre Marquet, Elena Migacheva

The optical properties within limited volumes of diffusive media can be probed by carrying spatially-resolved measurements of diffused light at short source-detector separation (typically one scattering mean free path). At such distance, analytical models ...

Optical Society of America2010

Power law and exponential decay of inter contact times between mobile devices

Jean-Yves Le Boudec, Milan Vojnovic

We examine the fundamental properties that determine the basic performance metrics for opportunistic communications. We first consider the distribution of intercontact times between mobile devices. Using a diverse set of measured mobility traces, we find a ...

2007

Synthesis of monodispersed palladium nanoparticles to study structure sensitivity of solvent-free selective hydrogenation of 2-methyl-3-butyn-2-ol

Albert Renken, Lioubov Kiwi, Danièle Laub

A novel method for isolation of monodispersed Pd nanoparticles from a reverse microemulsion was developed using hydrocarbon evaporation and methanol-assisted particle purification from a surfactant. Fcc Pd nanoparticles of 6, 8, 11, and 13 nm in diameter w ...

2007

Vieillissement et fiabilité des parcs de poteaux bois des réseaux de lignes aériennes : l'intérêt du contrôle non destructif

Yann Benoit

The reliability of new overhead electric and telecommunication lines depends principally on the quality of their support structures. These structures are generally made of wood, metal or concrete. The complexity of a natural substance such as wood requires ...

EPFL2004