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Pumping a swing by standing and squatting: do children

We set a control model to study the biomechanical problem of swing pumping. After describing the sytem, we provide the solution to some optimal control problems.

Mapping reactive flow patterns in monolithic nanoporous catalysts

The development of high-efficiency porous catalyst membranes critically depends on our understanding of where the majority of the chemical conversions occur within the porous structure. This requires mapping of chemical reactions and mass transport inside the complex nanoscale architecture of…

Fast deconvolution with approximated PSF by RSTLS with antireflective boundary conditions

The problem of reconstructing signals and images from degraded ones is considered in this paper. The latter problem is formulated as a linear system whose coefficient matrix models the unknown point spread function and the right hand side represents the observed image. Moreover, the coefficient…

Heuristics for the strong generalized minimum label spanning tree problem

In this work we introduce and study the strong generalized minimum label spanning tree (GMLST), a novel optimization problem defined on edge-labeled graphs. Given a label set associated to each edge of the input graph, the aim is to look for the spanning tree using the minimum number of labels.…

Divide & Conquer Algorithms for Computing the Eigendecomposition of Symmetric Diagonal-plus-Semiseparable Matrices

Schwarzschild black hole embedded in a dust field: scattering of particles and drag force effects

A 'temporal analogue' of the standard Poynting-Robertson effect is analyzed as induced by a dust of particles (instead of a gas of photons) surrounding a Schwarzschild black hole. Test particles inside this cloud undergo acceleration effects due to the presence of a friction force, so that the fate…

Interplay between Shape and Roughness in Early-Stage Microcapillary Imbibition

Numerical Study of a Confined Vesicle in Shear Flow at Finite Temperature

The dynamics and rheology of a vesicle confined in a channel under shear flow are studied at finite temperature. The effect of finite temperature on vesicle motion and system viscosity is investigated. A two-dimensional numerical model, which includes thermal fluctuations and is based on a…

Numerical modeling of iron corrosion due to an acidic aqueous solution

Fluidisation and plastic activity in a model soft-glassy material flowing in micro-channels with rough walls

By means of mesoscopic numerical simulations of a model soft-glassy material, we investigate the role of boundary roughness on the flow behaviour of the material, probing the bulk/wall and global/local rheologies. We show that the roughness reduces the wall slip induced by wettability properties…