Transgenic mice facilitate mechanistic studies of altered peritoneal transport, but the majority of transport studies have been carried out in rats. We hypothesized that mouse transport parameters, normalized to the peritoneal contact area, would be similar to those of the rat. To address this, we affixed small ( approximately 10-mm diameter) plastic chambers to the serosa of the abdominal wall...

The tempered spectrum of the similitude groups of non-degenerate symplectic, hermitian, or split orthogonal forms defined over p-adic groups of characteristic zero is studied. The components of representations induced from discrete series of proper parabolic subgroups are classified in terms of R-groups. Multiplicity one is proved. The tempered elliptic spectrum is identified, and the relation ...

This note provides a few comments on the conditions required for similitude between velocity and electric field in electroosmotic flows. The velocity fields of certain electroosmotic flows with relatively thin electric double layers (EDLs) are known to be irrotational in regions outside of the EDL. Under restricted conditions, the velocity field, V , can be expressed in terms of the electric fi...

Several problems in engineering realm pose modeling and simulation difficulty due to severe non – linear behavior and debilitating singular or stiff conditions that act as additional impediments. In many such instances advanced numerical schemes are employed to either relax or simplify the PDE that defines the physical process to obtain reasonable output from the simulation. Digressing from thi...

This paper discusses the possibilities of laboratory simulation of large-scale flow around dunes, both with and without saltation, and the study of the physics of the small-scale particle motion occurring on a sand surface composed of like-moveable particles. Physics of the atmospheric boundary layer are presented in the context of laboratory applications. The governing equations of fluid and/o...