We analyze electrostatic deformations of rectangular, annular circular, solid circular, and elliptic micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) by modeling them as elastic membranes. The nonlinear Poisson equation governing their deformations is solved numerically by the meshless local Petrov–Galerkin (MLPG) method. A local symmetric augmented weak formulation of the problem is introduced, and esse...

The present paper focuses on the unified modeling suite for annular flow that the authors have and continue to develop. Annular flow is of fundamental importance to the thermal design and simulation of microevaporators and micro-condensers for compact two-phase cooling systems of high heat flux components for the thermal management of computer chips, power electronics, laser diodes and high ene...

BiOCl:Eu ultrathin nanosheets were synthesized through a facile solvothermal method with the assistance of polyvinyl pyrrolidone. The ultrathin nanosheets showed a size ranging from 50–100 nm and a height of 2.9 nm, which is about four [Cl–Bi–O–Bi–Cl] layers. In addition, the luminescence properties and mechanism were investigated in detail, and compared with that of the nanoplate. It was found...

Objective: To describe the prevalence of and findings associated with annular pancreas on CT, MRI, and endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP). Design: Retrospective analysis. Participants: 42 patients with annular pancreas who underwent CT, MRI, or ERCP made up the study group. The control group consisted of 30 patients evaluated for nonspecific upper abdominal pain who had a nor...

In this work, we studied the structure of synthesized triangular silver nanoplates in solution and the growth of the nanoplates on a silicon surface using 3-aminopropyltrimethoxysilane (APTMS) as a coupling agent. The triangular-shaped colloidal silver nanoplates were simply synthesized by a direct chemical reduction approach. We studied the three characteristic peaks of the unique optical abso...

Background Real-time capturing of the myocardial function through CMR tagging is of great clinical importance. In circular tagging, tagline information manifests itself in k-space in an annular sub-region. This k-space characteristic in combination with polar acquisition schemes can be exploited to speed up the imaging. In our previous works, we showed that by selectively acquiring only this po...

A compact size, multiband 2x2 array of circular microstrip antenna has been proposed. The antenna array consists of Genetic Algorithm (GA)optimized, annular slotted circular microstrip antenna elements using probe feed. The spacing of elements has also been optimized using GA in the two directions. The performance of the antenna array has been studied with different shape parameters. The optimi...

A solution is given for the frictionless indentation of an elastic half-space by a flat-ended cylindrical punch with a central circular recess, when the load is large enough to establish a circular region of contact in the recess. The problem is reduced to two simultaneous Fredholm equations using the method of complex potentials due to Green and Collins. Results are presented for the relations...