We present a new algorithm to compute the Snell envelope in the specific case where the criteria to optimize is associated with a small probability or a rare event. This new approach combines the Stochastic Mesh approach of Broadie and Glasserman with a particle approximation scheme based on a...

The van-der-Waals version of the second virial coefficient is not far from being exact if the model parameters are appropriately chosen. It is shown how the van-der-Waals resemblance originates from the interplay of thermal averaging and superposition of scattering phase shift contributions. The...

Molecular dynamics method with the Stillinger-Weber (SW) potential has been employed to study the responses of GaN nanotubes (GaNNTs) to a uniaxial tensile load along the axial direction. It has been revealed that GaNNTs exhibits a completely different tensile behavior at different temperatures,...

We connect two different extensions of Boltzmann's kinetic theory by requiring the same stationary solution. Non-extensive statistics can be produced by either using corresponding collision rates nonlinear in the one-particle densities or equivalently by using nontrivial energy composition rules...