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Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

The Royal Society’s physical sciences research journal, publishing high-quality research and review articles from all disciplines in the physical sciences

<p><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Arial, &amp;amp;#x26;amp;#x26;quot;sans-serif&amp;amp;#x26;amp;#x26;quot;; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Thermal transport in a crystal is driven by a mixture of incoherent (diffusive) and coherent (wave) effects. By intrinsically introducing local phonon resonances within a crystal, the rate of entropy production and evolution towards equilibrium are severely inhibited‒demonstrating an inherent competition between thermodynamics and wave dynamics. See the article “Entropic signature of resonant thermal transport: Ordered form of heat conduction” by Albert Beardo, Prajit Rawte, Chia-Nien Tsai, and Mahmoud I. Hussein, published in</span><span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"> <i>Proc. R. Soc. A</i></span> (<span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="https://doi.org/10.1098/rspa.2024-0538" target="_blank" title="https://doi.org/10.1098/rspa.2024-0538" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="1" style="font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variant-emoji: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit;"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&amp;amp;#x26;amp;#x26;quot;Arial&amp;amp;#x26;amp;#x26;quot;,&amp;amp;#x26;amp;#x26;quot;sans-serif&amp;amp;#x26;amp;#x26;quot;;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:none windowtext 0cm;padding:0cm">https://doi.org/10.1098/rspa.2024.0538</span></a></span><span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">).</span></p>

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CiteScore: 5.5
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ISSN (Online):1471-2946

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The Elbert range of magnetostrophic convection. II. Comparing linear theory to nonlinear low-Rm simulations
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Efficient set-theoretic algorithms for computing high-order Forman-Ricci curvature on abstract simplicial complexes
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Dynamics of vorticity moments in shell models of turbulence: a comparison with the Navier-Stokes equation
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From Babel to Boole: the logical organization of information decompositions
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Proc. R. Soc. A.1 January 2021

Evolution of spray and aerosol from respiratory releases: theoretical estimates for insight on viral transmission

By modelling the evaporation and settling of droplets emitted during respiratory releases and using previous measurements of droplet size distributions and SARS-CoV-2 viral load, estimates of the evolution of the liquid mass and the number of viral ...Read more
Proc. R. Soc. A.1 June 2021

The reflection of a blast wave by a very intense explosion

We demonstrate that the geometric similarity of Taylor’s blast wave persists beyond reflection from an ideal surface. Upon impacting the surface, the spherical symmetry of the blast wave is lost but its cylindrical symmetry endures. As the flow acquires ...Read more
Proc. R. Soc. A.1 July 2021

Electric field control of magnetism

Electric field control of magnetism is an extremely exciting area of research, from both a fundamental science and an applications perspective and has the potential to revolutionize the world of computing. To realize this will require numerous further ...Read more
Proc. R. Soc. A.1 July 2021

Electrocharging face masks with corona discharge treatment

We detail an experimental method to electrocharge N95 facepiece respirators and face masks (FMs) made from a variety of fabrics (including non-woven polymer and knitted cloth) using corona discharge treatment (CDT). We present practical designs to ...Read more

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Proceedings A

Proceedings A publishes articles across the chemical, computational, Earth, engineering, mathematical, and physical sciences. The journal publishes research papers, as well as short reviews containing original and interesting new ideas. The articles published are high-quality, original, fundamental articles of interest to a wide range of scientists, and often have long citation half-lives. As well as established disciplines, we encourage emerging and interdisciplinary areas.

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