In this work the numerical simulations of a submarine in straight ahead motion with the appendages at several prescribed deflection angles are performed. Due to the complex geometry involved (the presence of moving appendages), these simulations are rather demanding form the point of view of both grid generation and accuracy of the numerical method. In order to analyze these aspects, the numerical solutions are computed by means of an unsteady Reynolds averaged Navier-Stokes equations solver, which is particularly effective because of the high order discretization schemes adopted.

The role of protein Z (PZ) in the etiology of human disorders is unclear. A number of PZ gene variants, sporadic or polymorphic and found exclusively in the serine protease domain, have been observed. Crystal structures of PZ in complex with the PZ-dependent inhibitor (PZI) have been recently obtained. The aim of this study was a structural investigation of the serine protease PZ domain, aiming at finding common traits across disease-linked mutations. We performed 10-20 ns molecular dynamics for each of the observed PZ mutants to investigate their structure in aqueous solution.

The modeling of various physical questions in plasma kinetics and heat conduction lead to nonlinear boundary value problems involving a nonlocal operator, such as the integral of the unknown solution, which depends on the entire function in the domain rather than at a single point. This talk concerns a particular nonlocal boundary value problem recently studied in [1] by J.R.Cannon and D.J.Galiffa, who proposed a numerical method based on an interval-halving scheme.

In this paper we review the dry port concept and its outfalls in terms of optimal design and management of freight distribution. Some optimization challenges arising from the presence of dry ports in intermodal freight transport systems are presented and discussed. Then we consider the tactical planning problem of defining the optimal routes and schedules for the fleet of vehicles providing transportation services between the terminals of a dry-port-based intermodal system.

In this paper we introduce the Mathematical Desk for Italian Industry, a project based on applied and industrial mathematics developed by a team of researchers from the Italian National Research Council in collaboration with two major Italian associations for applied mathematics, SIMAI and AIRO.

We consider discrete versions of the de la Vallée-Poussin algebraic operator. We give a simple sufficient condition in order that such discrete operators interpolate, and in particular we study the case of the Bernstein-Szego weights. Furthermore we obtain good error estimates in the cases of the sup-norm and L 1-norm, which are critical cases for the classical Lagrange interpolation.