@article{FleischhakerEversDey2010,
  author    = {Fleischhaker, Robert and Evers, J{\"o}rg and Dey, Tarak N.},
  title     = {Phase modulation induced by cooperative effects in electromagnetically induced transparency},
  series = {Physical Review A - Atomic, molecular, and optical physics},
  volume    = {82},
  journal   = {Physical Review A - Atomic, molecular, and optical physics},
  number    = {1},
  publisher = {AIP Publishing},
  address   = {Melville, NY},
  issn      = {1050-2947},
  doi       = {10.1103/PhysRevA.82.013815},
  pages     = {013815},
  year      = {2010},
  abstract  = {We analyze the influence of dipole-dipole interactions in an electromagnetically induced transparency set up for a density at the onset of cooperative effects. To this end, we include mean-field models for the influence of local-field corrections and radiation trapping into our calculation. We show both analytically and numerically that the polarization contribution to the local field strongly modulates the phase of a weak pulse. We give an intuitive explanation for this local-field-induced phase modulation and demonstrate that it distinctively differs from the nonlinear self-phase-modulation that a strong pulse experiences in a Kerr medium.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{PieperKlein2010,
  author    = {Pieper, Martin and Klein, Peter},
  title     = {Numerical solution of the heat equation with non-linear, time derivative-dependent source term},
  series = {International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering},
  volume    = {84},
  journal   = {International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering},
  number    = {10},
  publisher = {Wiley},
  address   = {Chichester},
  issn      = {0029-5981},
  doi       = {10.1002/nme.2937},
  pages     = {1205 -- 1221},
  year      = {2010},
  abstract  = {The mathematical modeling of heat conduction with adsorption effects in coated metal structures yields the heat equation with piecewise smooth coefficients and a new kind of source term. This term is special, because it is non-linear and furthermore depends on a time derivative. In our approach we reformulated this as a new problem for the usual heat equation, without source term but with a new non-linear coefficient. We gave an existence and uniqueness proof for the weak solution of the reformulated problem. To obtain a numerical solution, we developed a semi-implicit and a fully implicit finite volume method. We compared these two methods theoretically as well as numerically. Finally, as practical application, we simulated the heat conduction in coated aluminum fibers with adsorption in the zeolite coating. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley \& Sons, Ltd.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{BaumgartnerFidlerWethetal.2008,
  author    = {Baumgartner, Werner and Fidler, Florian and Weth, Agnes and Habbecke, Martin and Jakob, Peter and Butenweg, Christoph and B{\"o}hme, Wolfgang},
  title     = {Investigating the locomotion of the sandfish in desert sand using NMR-Imaging},
  series = {PLOS ONE},
  volume    = {3},
  journal   = {PLOS ONE},
  number    = {10},
  publisher = {Plos},
  address   = {San Francisco, California, US},
  issn      = {1932-6203},
  doi       = {10.1371/journal.pone.0003309},
  pages     = {e3309},
  year      = {2008},
  abstract  = {The sandfish (Scincus scincus) is a lizard having the remarkable ability to move through desert sand for significant distances. It is well adapted to living in loose sand by virtue of a combination of morphological and behavioural specializations. We investigated the bodyform of the sandfish using 3D-laserscanning and explored its locomotion in loose desert sand using fast nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) imaging. The sandfish exhibits an in-plane meandering motion with a frequency of about 3 Hz and an amplitude of about half its body length accompanied by swimming-like (or trotting) movements of its limbs. No torsion of the body was observed, a movement required for a digging-behaviour. Simple calculations based on the Janssen model for granular material related to our findings on bodyform and locomotor behaviour render a local decompaction of the sand surrounding the moving sandfish very likely. Thus the sand locally behaves as a viscous fluid and not as a solid material. In this fluidised sand the sandfish is able to "swim" using its limbs.},
  language  = {en}
}