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The emergence of supramolecular forces from lattice kinetic models of non ideal fluids: applications to the rheology of soft glassy materials

Wake flow past a plate with spoiler II: Gravity effects

The effects of transverse gravity on steady flow past a split plate are investigated, by adopting the wake model proposed in the preceding paper (I). The existence and uniqueness of the solution as well as the convergence of an iteration process involving the free streamlines are proved for large…

Morphologies and flow patterns in quenching of lamellar systems with shear

We study the behavior of a fluid quenched from the disordered into the lamellar phase under the action of a shear flow. The dynamics of the system is described by Navier-Stokes and convection-diffusion equations with the pressure tensor and the chemical potential derived by the Brazovskii free…

Fluctuations around mean walking behaviors in diluted pedestrian flows

Understanding and modeling the dynamics of pedestrian crowds can help with designing and increasing the safety of civil facilities. A key feature of a crowd is its intrinsic stochasticity, appearing even under very diluted conditions, due to the variability in individual behaviors. Individual…

Una tomba di guerriero da Altamura (Ba) e la pratica dei doni esotici in area apula

Inference of gene networks-application to Bifidobacterium

Motivation: The reliable and reproducible identification of gene interaction networks represents one of the grand challenges of both modern molecular biology and computational sciences. Approaches based on careful collection of literature data and network topological analysis, applied to…

Wave propagation in a fluid flowing through a curved thin-walled elastic tube

The pulsatile flow in a curved elastic pipe of circular cross section is investigated. The unsteady flow of a viscous fluid and the wall motion equations are written in a toroidal coordinate system, superimposed and linearized over a steady state solution. Being the main application relative to the…

Experimental and numerical investigation of propeller loads in off-design conditions

The understanding of the performance of a propeller in realistic operative conditions is nowadays a key issue for improving design techniques, guaranteeing safety and continuity of operation at sea, and reducing maintenance costs. In this paper, a summary of the recent research carried out at CNR-…

Dynamics and rheology of vesicle suspensions in wall-bounded shear flow

The dynamics and rheology of suspensions of fluid vesicles or red blood cells is investigated by a combination of molecular dynamics and mesoscale hydrodynamics simulations in two dimensions. The vesicle suspension is confined between two no-slip walls, which are driven externally to generate a…

Screw dislocations in periodic media: Variational coarse graining of the discrete elastic energy

We study the asymptotic behavior, as the lattice spacing ? tends to zero, of the discrete elastic energy induced by topological singularities in an inhomogeneous ? periodic medium within a two-dimensional model for screw dislocations in the square lattice. We focus on the |log?| regime which, as…