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A Simulation of Daily Solar Irradiance in Italy Using Exponentially Distributed White Noise

Source-Destination Flow on a Road Network

We construct a model of traffic flow with sources and destinations on a road s network. The model is based on a conservation law for the density of traffic and on semilinearequations for traffic-type functions, i. e. functions describing paths for cars.

Build up of yield stress fluids via chaotic emulsification

Stabilized dense emulsions display a rich phenomenology connecting microstructure and rheology. In this work we study how an emulsion with a finite yield stress can be built via large-scale stirring. By gradually increasing the volume fraction of the dispersed minority phase, under the constant…

Hydrokinetic approach to large-scale cardiovascular blood flow

We present a computational method for commodity hardware-based clinical cardiovascular diagnosis based on accurate simulation of cardiovascular blood flow. Our approach leverages the flexibility of the Lattice Boltzmann method to implementation on high-performance, commodity hardware, such as…

IMSP schemes for spatially explicit models of cyclic populations and metapopulation dynamics

We examine spatially explicit models described by reaction-diffusion partial differential equations for the study of predator-prey population dynamics. The numerical methods we propose are based on the coupling of a finite difference/element spatial discretization and a suitable partitioned Runge-…

Removal of Color Scratches from Old Motion Picture Films Exploiting Human Perception

In this paper a unified model for both detection and restoration of line scratches on color movies is presented. It exploits a generalization of the light diffraction effect for modeling the shape of scratches, while perception laws are used for their automatic detection and removal. The detection…

Traveling Band Solutions in a System Modeling Hunting Cooperation

A classical Lotka-Volterra model with the logistical growth of prey-and-hunting coopera- tion in the functional response of predators to prey was extended by introducing advection terms, which included the velocities of animals. The effect of velocity on the kinetics of the problem was analyzed. In…

On the numerical solution of a nonlocal boundary value problem

We study a nonlinear boundary value problem involving a nonlocal (integral) operator in the coefficients of the unknown function. Provided sufficient conditions for the existence and uniqueness of the solution, for its approximation, we propose a numerical method consisting of a classical…

Gene Therapy: The Role of Cytoskeleton in Gene Transfer Studies Based on Biology and Mathematics

Gene therapy is a promising approach for treating a wide range of human pathologies such as genetic disorders as well as diseases acquired over time. Viral and non-viral vectors are used to convey sequences of genes that can be expressed for therapeutic purposes. Plasmid DNA is receiving…

Thin film precursor formation during capilary penetration in microchannels