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EPJ PLUS - Condensed Matter and Complex Systems

The European Physical Journal Plus

Volume 132 / No 12 (December 2017)

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Focus Point on Systems and Security: Advanced Methods with Chaos and Complexity

Regular Article

Chaos based video encryption using maps and Ikeda time delay system 542

D. Valli and K. Ganesan

Published online: 27 December 2017

DOI: 10.1140/epjp/i2017-11819-7

Regular Article

Audio signal encryption using chaotic Hénon map and lifting wavelet transforms 524

Animesh Roy and A. P. Misra

Published online: 18 December 2017

DOI: 10.1140/epjp/i2017-11808-x

Regular Article

Analytical exploration of a TiO₂ nanofluid along a rotating disk with homogeneous-heterogeneous chemical reactions and non-uniform heat source/sink 555

Kalidas Das, Tanmoy Chakraborty and Prabir Kumar Kundu

Published online: 29 December 2017

DOI: 10.1140/epjp/i2017-11818-8

Regular Article

Special coupled quantum Otto and Carnot cycles 554

Selçuk Çakmak, Deniz Türkpençe and Ferdi Altintas

Published online: 29 December 2017

DOI: 10.1140/epjp/i2017-11811-3

Regular Article

Numerical modelling of phase-change material used for PV panels cooling 553

Assia Sellami, Rabie Elotmani, Khalid Kandoussi, Mohamed Eljouad, Abdelowahed Hajjaji and M’Hamed Boutaous

Published online: 29 December 2017

DOI: 10.1140/epjp/i2017-11817-9

Regular Article

On some results of third-grade non-Newtonian fluid flow between two parallel plates 552

Kamran Ayub, M. Yaqub Khan, Muhammad Ashraf, Jamshad Ahmad and Qazi Mahmood-Ul-Hassan

Published online: 29 December 2017

DOI: 10.1140/epjp/i2017-11821-1

Regular Article

Fractal analysis as a potential tool for surface morphology of thin films 551

S. Soumya, M. S. Swapna, Vimal Raj, V. P. Mahadevan Pillai and S. Sankararaman

Published online: 28 December 2017

DOI: 10.1140/epjp/i2017-11826-8

Regular Article

Numerical solution of chemically reactive non-Newtonian fluid flow: Dual stratification 550

Khalil Ur Rehman, M. Y. Malik, Abid Ali Khan, Iffat Zehra, Mostafa Zahri and M. Tahir

Published online: 28 December 2017

DOI: 10.1140/epjp/i2017-11822-0

Regular Article

Physical effect of a variable magnetic field on the heat transfer of a nanofluid-based concentrating parabolic solar collector 549

M. Tahari, A. Ghorbanian, M. Hatami and D. Jing

Published online: 28 December 2017

DOI: 10.1140/epjp/i2017-11813-1

Regular Article

On the Earth’s tidal perturbations for the LARES satellite 548

V. G. Gurzadyan, I. Ciufolini, H. G. Khachatryan, S. Mirzoyan, A. Paolozzi and G. Sindoni

Published online: 28 December 2017

DOI: 10.1140/epjp/i2017-11839-3

Regular Article

Bianchi type-VIII spinor solutions 547

Bijan Saha

Published online: 28 December 2017

DOI: 10.1140/epjp/i2017-11830-0

Open Access

Technical Report

Overdamped modes in Schwarzschild-de Sitter and a Mathematica package for the numerical computation of quasinormal modes 546

Aron Jansen

Published online: 28 December 2017

DOI: 10.1140/epjp/i2017-11825-9

Regular Article

Linear stability analysis of laminar flow near a stagnation point in the slip flow regime 545

E. Essaghir, A. Oubarra and J. Lahjomri

Published online: 28 December 2017

DOI: 10.1140/epjp/i2017-11824-x

Regular Article

Utilization of the computational technique to improve the thermophysical performance in the transportation of an electrically conducting Al₂O₃ - Ag/H₂O hybrid nanofluid 544

Z. Iqbal, Ehtsham Azhar and E. N. Maraj

Published online: 27 December 2017

DOI: 10.1140/epjp/i2017-11806-0

Regular Article

Stability of effective thin-shell wormholes under Lorentz symmetry breaking supported by dark matter and dark energy 543

Ali Övgün and Kimet Jusufi

Published online: 27 December 2017

DOI: 10.1140/epjp/i2017-11829-5

Regular Article

Duffin-Kemmer-Petiau equation in curved space-time with scalar linear interaction 541

H. Hassanabadi, M. Hosseinpour and M. de Montigny

Published online: 27 December 2017

DOI: 10.1140/epjp/i2017-11831-y

Regular Article

On the applications of nanofluids to enhance the performance of solar collectors: A comparative analysis of Atangana-Baleanu and Caputo-Fabrizio fractional models 540

Nadeem Ahmad Sheikh, Farhad Ali, Ilyas Khan, Madeha Gohar and Muhammad Saqib

Published online: 27 December 2017

DOI: 10.1140/epjp/i2017-11809-9

Regular Article

Entanglement entropy of free fermions on directed graphs 539

M. A. Jafarizadeh, F. Eghbalifam and S. Nami

Published online: 22 December 2017

DOI: 10.1140/epjp/i2017-11805-1

Regular Article

Nonlinear vibration of double-walled boron nitride and carbon nanopeapods under multi-physical fields with consideration of surface stress effects 538

A. Ghorbanpour Arani, M. Sabzeali and H. BabaAkbar Zarei

Published online: 22 December 2017

DOI: 10.1140/epjp/i2017-11800-6

Regular Article

Spin, torsion and violation of null energy condition in traversable wormholes 537

Elisabetta Di Grezia, Emmanuele Battista, Mattia Manfredonia and Gennaro Miele

Published online: 22 December 2017

DOI: 10.1140/epjp/i2017-11799-6

Regular Article

Holographic scalar fields in Kaluza-Klein framework 536

Sevda Erkan, Nurettin Pirinccioglu, Mustafa Salti and Oktay Aydogdu

Published online: 22 December 2017

DOI: 10.1140/epjp/i2017-11795-x

Regular Article

Critical indices from self-similar root approximants 535

S. Gluzman and V. I. Yukalov

Published online: 21 December 2017

DOI: 10.1140/epjp/i2017-11820-2

Regular Article

Exploring the Cattaneo-Christov heat flux phenomenon on a Maxwell-type nanofluid coexisting with homogeneous/heterogeneous reactions 534

Amit Sarkar and Prabir Kumar Kundu

Published online: 21 December 2017

DOI: 10.1140/epjp/i2017-11797-8

Regular Article

Bright spatial solitons in quintic-septimal nonlinear media with two families of PT-symmetric potentials 533

Yi-Xiang Chen, Fang-Qian Xu and Yi-Liang Hu

Published online: 21 December 2017

DOI: 10.1140/epjp/i2017-11816-x

Regular Article

Flow and heat transfer over a row of multiple semi-circular cylinders: selection of optimum number of cylinders and effects of gap ratios 532

Neeraj Parthasarathy, Amit Dhiman and Sandip Sarkar

Published online: 20 December 2017

DOI: 10.1140/epjp/i2017-11791-2

Regular Article

Dissipative entanglement swapping in the presence of detuning and Kerr medium: Bell state measurement method 531

M. Ghasemi, M. K. Tavassoly and A. Nourmandipour

Published online: 20 December 2017

DOI: 10.1140/epjp/i2017-11815-y

Regular Article

Breather-type solitons in exciton-polariton microcavities 530

Guy Richard Kol

Published online: 20 December 2017

DOI: 10.1140/epjp/i2017-11802-4

Regular Article

Study of charged stellar structures in f(R, T) gravity 529

M. Sharif and Aisha Siddiqa

Published online: 20 December 2017

DOI: 10.1140/epjp/i2017-11810-4

Regular Article

Optical solitons, explicit solutions and modulation instability analysis with second-order spatio-temporal dispersion 528

Mustafa Inc, Aliyu Isa Aliyu, Abdullahi Yusuf and Dumitru Baleanu

Published online: 18 December 2017

DOI: 10.1140/epjp/i2017-11812-2

Regular Article

Analytical solutions for the motion of a charged particle in electric and magnetic fields via non-singular fractional derivatives 527

V. F. Morales-Delgado, J. F. Gómez-Aguilar and M. A. Taneco-Hernandez

Published online: 18 December 2017

DOI: 10.1140/epjp/i2017-11798-7

Regular Article

Anisotropic perturbations and stability of a static universe in gravity 526

M. Sharif and Ayesha Ikram

Published online: 18 December 2017

DOI: 10.1140/epjp/i2017-11807-y

Regular Article

Using the AIM for solving the non-relativistic wave equation for a new class of infinite one-dimensional well with non-flat bottom 525

Ibsal A. Assi, Abdullah J. Sous and Akpan N. Ikot

Published online: 18 December 2017

DOI: 10.1140/epjp/i2017-11823-y

Regular Article

Unruh effect detection through chirality in curved graphene 523

J. Madrigal-Melchor, Jairo Martínez-Montoya, Alberto Molgado and J. R. Suárez-López

Published online: 14 December 2017

DOI: 10.1140/epjp/i2017-11782-3

Regular Article

Hetero-diffusion of Au epitaxy on stepped Ag(110) surface: Study of the jump rate and diffusion coefficient 522

M. Benlattar, E. El koraychy, A. Kotri and M. Mazroui

Published online: 14 December 2017

DOI: 10.1140/epjp/i2017-11790-3

Regular Article

Dynamic modeling of porous heterogeneous micro/nanobeams 521

Farzad Ebrahimi, Ali Jafari and Mohammad Reza Barati

Published online: 14 December 2017

DOI: 10.1140/epjp/i2017-11754-7

Regular Article

Studies of the micromorphology of sputtered TiN thin films by autocorrelation techniques 520

Kamil Smagoń, Sebastian Stach, Ştefan Ţălu, Ali Arman, Amine Achour, Carlos Luna, Nader Ghobadi, Mohsen Mardani, Fatemeh Hafezi, Azin Ahmadpourian et al. (2 more)

Published online: 14 December 2017

DOI: 10.1140/epjp/i2017-11801-5

Regular Article

Spotlight on the use of new natural surfactants in colloidal gas aphron (CGA) fluids: A mechanistic study 519

Mohammad Ali Ahmadi, Morteza Galedarzadeh and Seyed Reza Shadizadeh

Published online: 14 December 2017

DOI: 10.1140/epjp/i2017-11792-1

Regular Article

Two-dimensional interaction of a shear flow with a free surface in a stratified fluid and its solitary-wave solutions via mathematical methods 518

Aly R. Seadawy

Published online: 12 December 2017

DOI: 10.1140/epjp/i2017-11755-6

Regular Article

Impact of forced convective radiative heat and mass transfer mechanisms on 3D Carreau nanofluid: A numerical study 517

M. Khan, M. Irfan and W. A. Khan

Published online: 12 December 2017

DOI: 10.1140/epjp/i2017-11803-3

Regular Article

On the fractional Jaulent-Miodek equation associated with energy-dependent Schrödinger potential: Lie symmetry reductions, explicit exact solutions and conservation laws 516

A. Majlesi, H. Roohani Ghehsareh and A. Zaghian

Published online: 12 December 2017

DOI: 10.1140/epjp/i2017-11793-0

Regular Article

Application of fractional derivative with exponential law to bi-fractional-order wave equation with frictional memory kernel 515

B. Cuahutenango-Barro, M. A. Taneco-Hernández and J. F. Gómez-Aguilar

Published online: 11 December 2017

DOI: 10.1140/epjp/i2017-11796-9

Regular Article

Reconstruction of inflation from scalar field non-minimally coupled with the Gauss-Bonnet term 514

Lorenzo Sebastiani, Shynaray Myrzakul and Ratbay Myrzakulov

Published online: 08 December 2017

DOI: 10.1140/epjp/i2017-11789-8

Regular Article

Free vibration analysis of a rotating nanoshaft based SWCNT 513

Abdelkadir Belhadj, Abdelkrim Boukhalfa and Sid A. Belalia

Published online: 08 December 2017

DOI: 10.1140/epjp/i2017-11783-2

Regular Article

Solitons, breather and bound waves for a generalized higher-order nonlinear Schrödinger equation in an optical fiber or a planar waveguide 512

Zhongzhou Lan and Bo Gao

Published online: 08 December 2017

DOI: 10.1140/epjp/i2017-11781-4

Regular Article

Application of artificial neural networks for the prediction of volume fraction using spectra of gamma rays backscattered by three-phase flows 511

R. Gholipour Peyvandi and S. Z. Islami Rad

Published online: 07 December 2017

DOI: 10.1140/epjp/i2017-11766-3

Regular Article

Improving band-to-band tunneling in a tunneling carbon nanotube field effect transistor by multi-level development of impurities in the drain region 510

Ali Naderi and Maryam Ghodrati

Published online: 07 December 2017

DOI: 10.1140/epjp/i2017-11784-1

Regular Article

Natural convection in a differentially heated enclosure having two adherent porous blocks saturated with a nanofluid 509

Marina S. Astanina, Mikhail A. Sheremet, Hakan F. Oztop and Nidal Abu-Hamdeh

Published online: 07 December 2017

DOI: 10.1140/epjp/i2017-11769-0

Regular Article

Numerical and analytical simulation of the production process of ZrO₂ hollow particles 508

Hadi Safaei and Mohsen Davazdah Emami

Published online: 06 December 2017

DOI: 10.1140/epjp/i2017-11768-1

Regular Article

Fluctuations in email size 507

Yoshitsugu Matsubara and Yasuo Musashi

Published online: 05 December 2017

DOI: 10.1140/epjp/i2017-11767-2

Regular Article

Solitary waves of surface plasmon polariton via phase shifts under Doppler broadening and Kerr nonlinearity 506

S. Ahmad, A. Ahmad, B. A. Bacha, A. A. Khan and M. S. Abdul Jabar

Published online: 05 December 2017

DOI: 10.1140/epjp/i2017-11760-9

Regular Article

Solution of the finite Milne problem in stochastic media with RVT Technique 505

Howida Slama, Nabila A. El-Bedwhey, Alia El-Depsy and Mustafa M. Selim

Published online: 05 December 2017

DOI: 10.1140/epjp/i2017-11763-6

Regular Article

Legendre polynomial modeling for vibrations of guided Lamb waves modes in [001]c, [011]c and [111]c polarized (1-x)Pb(Mg_1/3Nb_2/3)O₃-xPbTiO₃ (x = 0.29 and 0.33) piezoelectric plates: Physical phenomenon of multiple intertwining of A_n and S_n modes 504

Cherif Othmani, Farid Takali and Anouar Njeh

Published online: 04 December 2017

DOI: 10.1140/epjp/i2017-11788-9

Regular Article

Material length scale and nonlocal effects on the wave propagation of composite laminated cylindrical micro/nanoshells 503

Hamid Zeighampour, Yaghoub Tadi Beni and Iman Karimipour

Published online: 04 December 2017

DOI: 10.1140/epjp/i2017-11770-7

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