Approaching complexity by stochastic methods: From biological systems to turbulence

R Friedrich, J Peinke, M Sahimi, MRR Tabar - Physics Reports, 2011 - Elsevier
This review addresses a central question in the field of complex systems: given a fluctuating
(in time or space), sequentially measured set of experimental data, how should one analyze …

A continuum framework for mechanics of fractal materials I: From fractional space to continuum with fractal metric

AS Balankin - The European Physical Journal B, 2015 - Springer
This paper is devoted to the mechanics of fractally heterogeneous media. A model of fractal
continuum with a fractional number of spatial degrees of freedom and a fractal metric is …

Acoustic wave propagation in heterogeneous two-dimensional fractured porous media

H Hamzehpour, M Asgari, M Sahimi - Physical Review E, 2016 - APS
This paper addresses an important fundamental question: the differences between wave
propagation in fractured porous media with a uniform matrix (constant bulk modulus) and …

Turbulencelike behavior of seismic time series

P Manshour, S Saberi, M Sahimi, J Peinke… - Physical Review Letters, 2009 - APS
We report on a stochastic analysis of Earth's vertical velocity time series by using methods
originally developed for complex hierarchical systems and, in particular, for turbulent flows …

Roughness of undoped graphene and its short-range induced gauge field

N Abedpour, M Neek-Amal, R Asgari, F Shahbazi… - Physical Review B …, 2007 - APS
We present both numerical and analytical studies of graphene roughness with a crystal
structure including 500× 500 atoms. The roughness can effectively result in a random gauge …

[BOOK][B] Technical challenges of multipollutant air quality management

GM Hidy, JR Brook, KL Demerjian, LT Molina… - 2011 - Springer
In 2007, NARSTO1 was asked to assess the technical challenges of transitioning from an
individual pollutant approach to air quality management to a risk-based approach that (a) …

Development of optimal models of porous media by combining static and dynamic data: the permeability and porosity distributions

H Hamzehpour, MR Rasaei, M Sahimi - Physical Review E—Statistical …, 2007 - APS
We describe a method for the development of the optimal spatial distributions of the porosity
ϕ and permeability k of a large-scale porous medium. The optimal distributions are …

Toward the mechanics of fractal materials: mechanics of continuum with fractal metric

AS Balankin - arxiv preprint arxiv:1409.5829, 2014 - arxiv.org
This paper is devoted to the mechanics of fractal materials. A continuum framework
accounting for the topological and metric properties of fractal domains in heterogeneous …

Evolving disorder and chaos enhances the wave speed of elastic waves

M Ahumada, L Trujillo, JF Marín - Journal of Statistical …, 2025 - iopscience.iop.org
Static or frozen disorder, characterised by spatial heterogeneities, influences diverse
complex systems, encompassing many-body systems, equilibrium and nonequilibrium …

Dynamic renormalization group analysis of propagation of elastic waves in two-dimensional heterogeneous media

R Sepehrinia, A Bahraminasab, M Sahimi… - Physical Review B …, 2008 - APS
We study localization of elastic waves in two-dimensional heterogeneous solids with
randomly distributed Lamé coefficients, as well as those with long-range correlations with a …