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On some inverse eigenvalue problems with Toeplitz-related structure

Some inverse eigenvalue problems for matrices with Toeplitz-related structure are considered in this paper. In particular, the solutions of the inverse eigenvalue problems for Toeplitz-plus-Hankel matrices and for Toeplitz matrices having all double eigenvalues are characterized, respectively, in…

EULER EQUATIONS AND TRACE PROPERTIES OF MINIMIZERS OF A FUNCTIONAL FOR MOTION COMPENSATED INPAINTING

We compute the Euler equations of a functional useful for simultaneous video inpainting and motion estimation, which was obtained in [17] as the relaxation of a modified version of the functional proposed in [16]. The functional is defined on vectorial functions of bounded variations, therefore we…

Source modeling of ElectroCorticoGraphy (ECoG) data: Stability analysis and spatial filtering

Background: Electrocorticography (ECoG) measures the distribution of the electrical potentials on the cortex produced by the neural currents. A full interpretation of ECoG data requires solving the ill-posed inverse problem of reconstructing the spatio-temporal distribution of the neural currents.…

Evidence of thin-film precursors formation in hydrokinetic and atomistic simulations of nano-channel capillary filling

Unstructured lattice Boltzmann in three dimensions,

Optimization of Initial Drug Distribution in Spherical Capsules for Personalized Release

Objective: Customization of the rate of drug delivered based on individual patient requirements is of paramount importance in the design of drug delivery devices. Advances in manufacturing may enable multilayer drug delivery devices with different initial drug distributions in each layer. However,…

Lagrangian model of copepod dynamics: Clustering by escape jumps in turbulence

Planktonic copepods are small crustaceans that have the ability to swim by quick powerful jumps. Such an aptness is used to escape from high shear regions, which may be caused either by flow perturbations, produced by a large predator (i.e., fish larvae), or by the inherent highly turbulent…

MUPHY: A parallel MUlti PHYsics/scale code for high performance bio-fluidic simulations

We present a parallel version of MUPHY, a multi-physics/scale code based upon the combination of microscopic Molecular Dynamics (MD) with a hydro-kinetic Lattice Boltzmann (LB) method. The features of the parallel version of MUPHY are hereby demonstrated for the case of translocation of biopolymers…

On a relaxation approximation of the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations

We consider an hyperbolic singular perturbation of the incompressible Navier Stokes equations in two space dimensions. The approximating system under consideration, arises as a diffusive rescaled version of a standard relaxation approximation for the incompressible Euler equations. The aim of…

A pathological example in nonlinear spectral theory

We construct an open set ? ? ? R on which an eigenvalue problem for the p-Laplacian has no isolated first eigenvalue and the spectrum is not discrete. The same example shows that the usual Lusternik-Schnirelmann minimax construction does not exhaust the whole spectrum of this eigenvalue problem.