Understanding the fluid-structure interaction is crucial for an optimal design and manufacturing of soft mesoscale materials. Multi-core emulsions are a class of soft fluids assembled from cluster configurations of deformable oil-water double droplets (cores), often employed as building-blocks for the realisation of devices of interest in bio-technology, such as drug-delivery, tissue engineering and regenerative medicine.

The optimal Orlicz target space and the optimal rearrangement- invariant target space are exhibited for embeddings of fractional-order Orlicz- Sobolev spaces W^{s,A}(R^n). Related Hardy type inequalities are proposed as well. Versions for fractional Orlicz-Sobolev seminorms of the Bourgain-Brezis-Mironescu theorem on the limit as s->1^- and of the Maz'ya-Shaposhnikova theorem on the limit as s ->0^+ are established. This is a joint work with Andrea Cianchi, Lubos Pick and Lenka Slavikova.

The non-equilibrium structural and dynamical properties of semiflexible polymers confined to two dimensions under oscillatory shear flow are investigated by Brownian multi-particle collision dynamics. Two different scenarios will be considered: Filaments with both fixed ends [1] and wall-anchored chains [2]. The results of the numerical studies will be presented and discussed. References [1] A. Lamura, R. G. Winkler Polymers 2019, 11, 737. DOI:10.3390/polym11040737 [2] A. Lamura, R. G. Winkler, G. Gompper pre-print 2021

We establish versions for fractional Orlicz-Sobolev seminorms, built upon Young functions, of the Bourgain-Brezis-Mironescu theorem on the limit as s->1^-, and of the Maz'ya-Shaposhnikova theorem on the limit as s-> 0^+ , dealing with classical fractional Sobolev spaces. As regards the limit as s->1^-, Young functions with an asymptotic linear growth are also considered in connection with the space of functions of bounded variation. Concerning the limit as s-> 0^+, Young functions fulfilling the \Delta_2-condition are admissible.

For a four-stream approximation of the kinetic model of radiative transfer with isotropic scattering, a numerical scheme endowed with both truly 2D well-balanced and diffusive asymptotic-preserving properties is derived, in the same spirit as what was done in [L. Gosse and G. Toscani, C. R. Math. Acad. Sci. Paris, 334 (2002), pp. 337-342] in the 1D case. Building on former results of Birkhoff and Abu-Shumays [J. Math. Anal. Appl., 28 (1969), pp.

To achieve high performance and high energy efficiency on near-future exascale computing systems, three key technology gaps needs to be bridged. These gaps include: energy efficiency and thermal control; extreme computation efficiency via HW acceleration and new arithmetics; methods and tools for seamless integration of reconfigurable accelerators in heterogeneous HPC multi-node platforms.

We numerically study by lattice Boltzmann simulations the rheological properties of an active emulsion made of a suspension of an active polar gel embedded in an isotropic passive background. We find that the hexatic equilibrium configuration of polar droplets is highly sensitive to both active injection and external forcing and may either lead to asymmetric unidirectional states which break top-bottom symmetry or symmetric ones. In this latter case, for large enough activity, the system develops a shear thickening regime at low shear rates.

In a computer-aided system for skin cancer diagnosis, hair removal is one of the main challenges to face before applying a process of automatic skin lesion segmentation and classification. In this paper, we propose a straightforward method to detect and remove hair from dermoscopic images. Preliminarily, the regions to consider as candidate hair regions and the border/corner components located on the image frame are automatically detected. Then, the hair regions are determined using information regarding the saliency, shape and image colors.