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On some Properties of KIVA Numerical Schemes

Evaluation of HIV / CD4+ T cell dynamic parameters in patients treated with genotypic resistance testing-guided HAART

Coarse-Graining of a Discrete Model for Edge Dislocations in the Regular Triangular Lattice

We consider a discrete model of planar elasticity where the particles, in the reference configuration, sit on a regular triangular lattice and interact through nearest-neighbor pairwise potentials, with bonds modeled as linearized elastic springs. Within this framework, we introduce plastic slip…

On a class of forward-backward parabolic equations: Existence of solutions

We study the initial-boundary value problem [Formula presented]where [Formula presented] is an interval and [Formula presented] is a nonnegative Radon measure on [Formula presented]. The map [Formula presented] is increasing in [Formula presented] and decreasing in [Formula presented] for some […

A linear viscoelasticity problem with a singular me mory kernel: an uniqueness and existence result

Impurity bands and quasi-Bloch waves for a one-dimensional model of modulated crystal

This paper investigates a simple one-dimensional model of incommensurate “harmonic crystal” in terms of the spectrum of the corresponding Schrödinger equation. Two angles of attack are studied: the first exploits techniques borrowed from the theory of quasi-periodic functions while the second…

An in-vivo validation of ESI methods with focal sources

Electrophysiological source imaging (ESI) aims at reconstructing the precise origin of brain activity from measurements of the electric field on the scalp. Across laboratories/research centers/hospitals, ESI is performed with different methods, partly due to the ill-posedness of the underlying…

Modelling mass diffusion for a multi-layer sphere immersed in a semi-infinite medium: application to drug delivery

We present a general mechanistic model of mass diffusion for a composite sphere placed in a large ambient medium. The multi-layer problem is described by a system of diffusion equations coupled via interlayer boundary conditions such as those imposing a finite mass resistance at the extemal surface…

Marine propellers performance and flow-field prediction by a free-wake panel method

A Boundary Element Method (BEM) hydrodynamics combined with a flow-alignment technique to evaluate blades shed vorticity is presented and applied to a marine propeller in open water. Potentialities and drawbacks of this approach in capturing propeller performance, slipstream velocities, blade…

Novel design of drug delivery in stented artery: a numerical comparative study

Implantation of drug eluting stents following percutaneous trans- luminal angioplasty has revealed a well established technique for treating occlusions caused by the atherosclerotic plaque. However, due to the risk of vascular re-occlusion, other alternative therapeutic strategies of drug delivery…