Plants are essential for the survival of many species including man. Unfortunately there are many viruses that cause diseases to both crops and wild plants. In humans and animals, virus propagation can happen by direct contact or through a vector. But in plants, virus propagation can only happen through a vector, usually insects and in particular beetles. After biting an infected plant, the vir...

Fuzzy modeling has been widely applied as a powerful methodology for the identification of nonlinear systems from process measurements. In particular, the design of black-box approaches based on fuzzy models has been recognized as an alternative to mathematical methods. This article deals with the application of modeling and identification techniques for obtaining two fuzzy models of a solar do...

The goal of Advanced Life Support Systems (ALSS) is to provide self-sufficiency in life support for productive research and exploration in space. Important in reaching this goal is the production of crop plants in one or more controlled environments for the purpose of providing life essential food, air, and water to a human crew. To do this reliably and efficiently, it is necessary to achieve c...

The paper provides an overview of Multilevel Flow Modeling (MFM) and its application for design of displays for supervisory control of industrial plant. The problem of designing the information content of supervisory displays is discussed and plant representations like MFM using levels of means-end and part-whole abstractions are proposed as a solution to this design problem. The basic concepts...

Global environmental change is causing shifts in the geographical locations of habitats suitable for particular plant species. While it is established that the future distributions of plant species will be strongly influenced by the ability of plants to migrate to sites of suitable habitat, our ability to predict potential and actual migration rates is rudimentary. This workshop organized by th...

The paper deals with simulation of both dynamics and control of power plant superheaters by means of Simulink Sfunctions. Superheaters are heat exchangers that transfer energy from flue gas to superheated steam. A composition of superheater, its input and output pipelines, and fittings is called a superheater assembly. Inertias of superheater assembly are often decisive for design of a steam te...

We present a multiscale method for the simulation of large viscoelastic deformations and show its applicability to biological tissue such as plant tissue. At the microscopic level we use a particle method to model the geometrical structure and basic properties of individual cells. The cell fluid, modeled as a viscoelastic fluid by means of Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) is enclosed in an...

The plants growth and development depend directly on several physical variables, such as light, temperature or humidity. Thus, solar radiation acts both as a source of energy for photosynthesis and the energy budget, and as a source of information in photomorphogenesis. Moreover, physical processes may indirectly influence the canopy development. For example the plant pathogen cycles depend on ...

Cellular expansive growth is one of the foundations of morphogenesis. In plant and fungal cells, expansive growth is ultimately determined by manipulating the mechanics of the cell wall. Therefore, theoretical and biophysical descriptions of cellular growth processes focus on mathematical models of cell wall biomechanical responses to tensile stresses, produced by the turgor pressure. To captur...

The understanding of the control of metabolic flux in plants requires integrated mathematical formulations of gene and protein expression, enzyme kinetics, and developmental biology. Plants have a large number of metabolically active compartments, and non-steady-state conditions are frequently encountered. Consequently steady-state metabolic flux balance and isotopic flux balance modeling appro...