Bioconvection plays an inevitable role in introducing sustainable and environment-friendly fuel cell technologies.Bio-mathematical modelling of such designs needs continuous refinements to achieve strong agreements in...Bioconvection plays an inevitable role in introducing sustainable and environment-friendly fuel cell technologies.Bio-mathematical modelling of such designs needs continuous refinements to achieve strong agreements in experimental and computational results.Actually,microorganisms transport a miscellaneous palette of ingredients in manufacturing industrial goods particularly in fertilizer industries.Heat transfer characteristics of molecular structure are measured by a physical phenomenon which is allied with the transpiration of heat within matter.Motivated by bioinspired fuel cells involved in near-surface flow phenomena,in the present article,we examine the transverse swimming of motile gyrotactic microorganisms numerically in a rheological Jeffery fluid near a stretching wall.The leading physical model is converted in a nonlinear system of ODEs through proper similarity alterations.A numerical technique called shooting method with R-K Fehlberg is applied via mathematical software and graphical presentations are obtained.The influence of all relative physical constraints on velocity,temperature,concentration,and volume fraction of gyrotactic microorganisms is expressed geometrically.It is found that heat and mass flux at the surface as well as density of motile microorganism’s declines for Brownian motion and thermophoresis parameter.Comparison in tabular form is made with existing literature to validate the results for limiting cases with convective boundary conditions.展开更多
This paper introduces to fluid state physics （fluid mechanics） a new interpretation of physical phenomena taking place in a fluid in motion. It introduces the base of a new theory claiming that every flow has its ow...This paper introduces to fluid state physics （fluid mechanics） a new interpretation of physical phenomena taking place in a fluid in motion. It introduces the base of a new theory claiming that every flow has its own internal structure of motion, which is definite organization of motion, rather than a ＂molecular chaos＂, known from the fluid statics. The paper introduces the new notion of structures vector fields of power and momentum and shows every Newtonian fluid flows are dual in character. It shows that the flow of Newtonian fluid has a dual character. It demonstrates on models and further in mathematical interpretation of physical phenomena. It introduces, on the one hand, the cycloidal motion model into the fluid mechanics, ad on the other hand an addition to the known, the classical model of Poiseuille laminar motion. The theory of dualism （double nature of physical phenomena） allows the description of selected characteristics of the flow, either by using the theory ofcycloidal motion （semicycloidal）, or by using the supplemented theory of laminar motion. The dualism theory is useful to describe each type of flows both, laminar and turbulent. This paper is only an introduction to the theory. It has been assigned number 1. It has been granted a high priority, since it contains basic concepts that will be used in others, following papers of long cycle.展开更多
Taking B2C E-commerce enterprises as the center, it can be divided into a set of logistics activities upstream supply chain logistics producer to B2C e-commerce enterprises, and the B2C e-commerce enterprise logistics...Taking B2C E-commerce enterprises as the center, it can be divided into a set of logistics activities upstream supply chain logistics producer to B2C e-commerce enterprises, and the B2C e-commerce enterprise logistics to client consumer, and the paper focuses on the study of self-supporting logistics for the E-commerce enterprise. According to the development status of current B2C electronic commerce enterprise in our country and logistics, the paper study B2C electric business enterprise how to correctly choose the logistics mode and how to promote the business logistics operation level.展开更多
This paper presents a vision-based obstacle avoidance method for blind pedestrians in an outdoor sidewalk environ- ment. Unlike many existing travel-aid systems using stereo-vi- sion based methods, the proposed method...This paper presents a vision-based obstacle avoidance method for blind pedestrians in an outdoor sidewalk environ- ment. Unlike many existing travel-aid systems using stereo-vi- sion based methods, the proposed method is able to get obstacle position as well as user motion information by just one monocu- lar camera fixed at the belly of the user. To achieve this goal, a top-view transformation of the road image is used for obstacle detection and user motion estimation, based on which a grid map is generated for navigation. For detection part, the bottom points of erect obstacles are detected by extracting local-maxima and minima on the top-view image while user motion is estimat- ed by analysing the optical flow vector field in the user sur- rounding area. For the obstacle avoidance part, a step score is calculated on the grid map for evaluating the safety of next moving step. Experiments with several sidewalk video-clips show that the proposed obstacle avoidance method is able to provide useful guidance instructions under certain sidewalk environments.展开更多
A Lagrangian tracer model is set up for Hangzhou Bay based on Coupled Hydrodynamical Ecological model for Regional Shelf Sea (COHERENS). The study area is divided into eight subdomains to identify the dominant physica...A Lagrangian tracer model is set up for Hangzhou Bay based on Coupled Hydrodynamical Ecological model for Regional Shelf Sea (COHERENS). The study area is divided into eight subdomains to identify the dominant physical processes, and the studied periods are March (the dry season) and July (the wet season). The model performance has been first verified by sea-surface elevation and tidal current observations at several stations. Eight tracer experiments are designed and Lagrangian particle tracking is simulated to examine the impact of physical processes (tide, wind and river runoff) on the transport of passive tracer released within the surface layer. Numerical simulations and analysis indicate that: (1) wind does not change the tracer distribution after 30 days except for those released from the south area of the bay during the wet season; (2) the tide and the Qiantang River runoff are important for particle transport in the head area of the bay; (3) the Changjiang River runoff affects the tracer transport at the mouth of the bay, and its impact is smaller in the dry season than in the wet season.展开更多
Soil erosion and land degradation are global problems and pose major issues in many countries. Both soil erosion and mass movement are two forms of land degradation and humans play important roles in these geomorpholo...Soil erosion and land degradation are global problems and pose major issues in many countries. Both soil erosion and mass movement are two forms of land degradation and humans play important roles in these geomorphological processes. This paper reviews slope processes associated with mass movement and soil erosion and contributory factors, including physical and human agents. Acting together, these cause diverse geomorphological features. Slope processes are illustrated by reference to case studies from Brazil and UK. The causes and impacts of erosion are discussed, along with appropriate remedial bioengineering methods and the potential of the measures to prevent these types of environmental degradation. Although there are several agents of erosion, water is the most important one. Cultivation can promote soil erosion, due to ploughing and harvesting, which moves soil down slopes. Soil erosion and mass movement data would inform the viability of soil conservation practices. Integrated management of drainage basins offers a Dromising way forward for effective soil conservation and soil remedial bioengineering in Brazil and UK.展开更多
Several biological processes, such as convective nutrient transport and convective drug delivery in biological tissues involves the transvascular and interstitial movement of biofluids. This work addresses transvascul...Several biological processes, such as convective nutrient transport and convective drug delivery in biological tissues involves the transvascular and interstitial movement of biofluids. This work addresses transvascular and interstitial transport of nutrient inside a spherical tumor. Most of the biological tissues behave like deformable porous materiM and show mechanical behavior towards the fluid motion, due to the fact, that the forces like the drag, which is associated with fluid flow may compress the tissue material. On the macroscopic level, transport of solutes like nutrients, drug molecules, etc. within the tumor interstitial space is modeled. The hydrodynamic problem is treated with biphasic mixture theory under steady state and spherically symmetry situation. The transvascular transport of nutrient is modeled with the modified Sterling＇s equation. The present model describes the overall nutrient distribution and predicts various criteria for the necrosis formation inside the tumor. Present study justifies that the parameters, which controls the nutrient supply to the tumor interstitial space through the blood vessel network inside the tumor, competes with reversible nutrient consumption kinetics of the tumor cells. This study also finds the role of some of those parameters on the deformation of cellular phase of the tumor as a consequence of interstitial fluid flow.展开更多
Many marine plankton species are motile and perform daily vertical migrations,traveling across water columns over distances of tens of meters.It is intriguing that these tiny and slow swimmers can travel in a certain ...Many marine plankton species are motile and perform daily vertical migrations,traveling across water columns over distances of tens of meters.It is intriguing that these tiny and slow swimmers can travel in a certain direction within a turbulent environment.One way to do that is by exploiting gravitaxis,which is a form of taxis characterised by the directional movement of an organism in response to gravity.Many plankton species are able to generate a gravitational torque(e.g.,due to a nonuniform mass distribution)that reorients them upwards.However,the swimming direction is disturbed by the shearing motions and the velocity fluctuations that characterise oceanic turbulence:these can generate a viscous torque that may destabilize the swimmer.The directed locomotion resulting from the combination of gravitational and viscous torques in a flow is termed gyrotaxis,which is known to lead to a non-uniform spatial accumulation of swimmers in patches or layers.These phenomena depend strongly on the non-linear dynamics that originate from the fluid motions,and the study of gyrotactic swimmers in complex flows is attracting growing attention.Numerical simulations of the Navier-Stokes equations coupled with suitable models of gyrotactic swimmers have proven their capability to provide valuable insight into the dynamical and statistical properties of self-propelled organisms.In this paper,we review recent studies and key findings on gyrotactic swimmers in turbulent flows.First,we introduce the most recent results concerning the orientation and vertical migration of gyrotactic swimmers in isotropic turbulence.Second,we discuss the findings on the accumulation of the swimmers.Last,we review recent progresses concerning the behaviour of gyrotactic swimmers in free-surface turbulence.展开更多
文摘Bioconvection plays an inevitable role in introducing sustainable and environment-friendly fuel cell technologies.Bio-mathematical modelling of such designs needs continuous refinements to achieve strong agreements in experimental and computational results.Actually,microorganisms transport a miscellaneous palette of ingredients in manufacturing industrial goods particularly in fertilizer industries.Heat transfer characteristics of molecular structure are measured by a physical phenomenon which is allied with the transpiration of heat within matter.Motivated by bioinspired fuel cells involved in near-surface flow phenomena,in the present article,we examine the transverse swimming of motile gyrotactic microorganisms numerically in a rheological Jeffery fluid near a stretching wall.The leading physical model is converted in a nonlinear system of ODEs through proper similarity alterations.A numerical technique called shooting method with R-K Fehlberg is applied via mathematical software and graphical presentations are obtained.The influence of all relative physical constraints on velocity,temperature,concentration,and volume fraction of gyrotactic microorganisms is expressed geometrically.It is found that heat and mass flux at the surface as well as density of motile microorganism’s declines for Brownian motion and thermophoresis parameter.Comparison in tabular form is made with existing literature to validate the results for limiting cases with convective boundary conditions.
文摘This paper introduces to fluid state physics （fluid mechanics） a new interpretation of physical phenomena taking place in a fluid in motion. It introduces the base of a new theory claiming that every flow has its own internal structure of motion, which is definite organization of motion, rather than a ＂molecular chaos＂, known from the fluid statics. The paper introduces the new notion of structures vector fields of power and momentum and shows every Newtonian fluid flows are dual in character. It shows that the flow of Newtonian fluid has a dual character. It demonstrates on models and further in mathematical interpretation of physical phenomena. It introduces, on the one hand, the cycloidal motion model into the fluid mechanics, ad on the other hand an addition to the known, the classical model of Poiseuille laminar motion. The theory of dualism （double nature of physical phenomena） allows the description of selected characteristics of the flow, either by using the theory ofcycloidal motion （semicycloidal）, or by using the supplemented theory of laminar motion. The dualism theory is useful to describe each type of flows both, laminar and turbulent. This paper is only an introduction to the theory. It has been assigned number 1. It has been granted a high priority, since it contains basic concepts that will be used in others, following papers of long cycle.
文摘Taking B2C E-commerce enterprises as the center, it can be divided into a set of logistics activities upstream supply chain logistics producer to B2C e-commerce enterprises, and the B2C e-commerce enterprise logistics to client consumer, and the paper focuses on the study of self-supporting logistics for the E-commerce enterprise. According to the development status of current B2C electronic commerce enterprise in our country and logistics, the paper study B2C electric business enterprise how to correctly choose the logistics mode and how to promote the business logistics operation level.
基金supported by the Brain Korea 21 Project in2010the ITRC support program supervised by the NIPA(National IT Industry Promotion Agency)(NIPA-2010-(C1090-1021-0010))
文摘This paper presents a vision-based obstacle avoidance method for blind pedestrians in an outdoor sidewalk environ- ment. Unlike many existing travel-aid systems using stereo-vi- sion based methods, the proposed method is able to get obstacle position as well as user motion information by just one monocu- lar camera fixed at the belly of the user. To achieve this goal, a top-view transformation of the road image is used for obstacle detection and user motion estimation, based on which a grid map is generated for navigation. For detection part, the bottom points of erect obstacles are detected by extracting local-maxima and minima on the top-view image while user motion is estimat- ed by analysing the optical flow vector field in the user sur- rounding area. For the obstacle avoidance part, a step score is calculated on the grid map for evaluating the safety of next moving step. Experiments with several sidewalk video-clips show that the proposed obstacle avoidance method is able to provide useful guidance instructions under certain sidewalk environments.
基金Supported by the Natural Science Foundation of China (No.40576080)National High Technology Research and Development Program of China (863 Program, No. 2007AA12Z182)
文摘A Lagrangian tracer model is set up for Hangzhou Bay based on Coupled Hydrodynamical Ecological model for Regional Shelf Sea (COHERENS). The study area is divided into eight subdomains to identify the dominant physical processes, and the studied periods are March (the dry season) and July (the wet season). The model performance has been first verified by sea-surface elevation and tidal current observations at several stations. Eight tracer experiments are designed and Lagrangian particle tracking is simulated to examine the impact of physical processes (tide, wind and river runoff) on the transport of passive tracer released within the surface layer. Numerical simulations and analysis indicate that: (1) wind does not change the tracer distribution after 30 days except for those released from the south area of the bay during the wet season; (2) the tide and the Qiantang River runoff are important for particle transport in the head area of the bay; (3) the Changjiang River runoff affects the tracer transport at the mouth of the bay, and its impact is smaller in the dry season than in the wet season.
基金the financial support of the Brazilian Research Council(CNPq)
文摘Soil erosion and land degradation are global problems and pose major issues in many countries. Both soil erosion and mass movement are two forms of land degradation and humans play important roles in these geomorphological processes. This paper reviews slope processes associated with mass movement and soil erosion and contributory factors, including physical and human agents. Acting together, these cause diverse geomorphological features. Slope processes are illustrated by reference to case studies from Brazil and UK. The causes and impacts of erosion are discussed, along with appropriate remedial bioengineering methods and the potential of the measures to prevent these types of environmental degradation. Although there are several agents of erosion, water is the most important one. Cultivation can promote soil erosion, due to ploughing and harvesting, which moves soil down slopes. Soil erosion and mass movement data would inform the viability of soil conservation practices. Integrated management of drainage basins offers a Dromising way forward for effective soil conservation and soil remedial bioengineering in Brazil and UK.
文摘Several biological processes, such as convective nutrient transport and convective drug delivery in biological tissues involves the transvascular and interstitial movement of biofluids. This work addresses transvascular and interstitial transport of nutrient inside a spherical tumor. Most of the biological tissues behave like deformable porous materiM and show mechanical behavior towards the fluid motion, due to the fact, that the forces like the drag, which is associated with fluid flow may compress the tissue material. On the macroscopic level, transport of solutes like nutrients, drug molecules, etc. within the tumor interstitial space is modeled. The hydrodynamic problem is treated with biphasic mixture theory under steady state and spherically symmetry situation. The transvascular transport of nutrient is modeled with the modified Sterling＇s equation. The present model describes the overall nutrient distribution and predicts various criteria for the necrosis formation inside the tumor. Present study justifies that the parameters, which controls the nutrient supply to the tumor interstitial space through the blood vessel network inside the tumor, competes with reversible nutrient consumption kinetics of the tumor cells. This study also finds the role of some of those parameters on the deformation of cellular phase of the tumor as a consequence of interstitial fluid flow.
基金This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.11911530141 and 91752205).
文摘Many marine plankton species are motile and perform daily vertical migrations,traveling across water columns over distances of tens of meters.It is intriguing that these tiny and slow swimmers can travel in a certain direction within a turbulent environment.One way to do that is by exploiting gravitaxis,which is a form of taxis characterised by the directional movement of an organism in response to gravity.Many plankton species are able to generate a gravitational torque(e.g.,due to a nonuniform mass distribution)that reorients them upwards.However,the swimming direction is disturbed by the shearing motions and the velocity fluctuations that characterise oceanic turbulence:these can generate a viscous torque that may destabilize the swimmer.The directed locomotion resulting from the combination of gravitational and viscous torques in a flow is termed gyrotaxis,which is known to lead to a non-uniform spatial accumulation of swimmers in patches or layers.These phenomena depend strongly on the non-linear dynamics that originate from the fluid motions,and the study of gyrotactic swimmers in complex flows is attracting growing attention.Numerical simulations of the Navier-Stokes equations coupled with suitable models of gyrotactic swimmers have proven their capability to provide valuable insight into the dynamical and statistical properties of self-propelled organisms.In this paper,we review recent studies and key findings on gyrotactic swimmers in turbulent flows.First,we introduce the most recent results concerning the orientation and vertical migration of gyrotactic swimmers in isotropic turbulence.Second,we discuss the findings on the accumulation of the swimmers.Last,we review recent progresses concerning the behaviour of gyrotactic swimmers in free-surface turbulence.
