We formulate and implement a generalized island-dynamics model of epitaxial growth based on the level-set technique to include the effect of an additional energy barrier for the attachment and detachment of atoms at step edges. For this purpose, we invoke a mixed, Robin-type, boundary condition for the flux of adsorbed atoms (adatoms) at each step edge. In addition, we provide an analytic expre...

Edges and surface boundaries are often the most relevant features in images and multidimensional data. It is well known that multiscale methods including wavelets and their more sophisticated multidimensional siblings offer a powerful tool for the analysis and detection of such sets. Among such methods, the continuous shearlet transform has been especially successful. This method combines aniso...

The boundaries of image regions necessarily consist of edges (in particular, step and roof edges), corners, and junctions. Currently, different algorithms are used to detect each boundary type separately, but the integration of the results into a single boundary representation is difficult. Therefore, a method for the simultaneous detection of all boundary types is needed. We propose to combine...

In this paper, we propose a method for creating a threedimensional polygonal model reflecting precise boundary of physical objects from a point cloud which has strong anisotropic distribution of points obtained by a mobile mapping system. Our method creates boundary information of physical objects based on the planar region segmentation by the line-based region growing approach from a point clo...

We have made two significant discoveries in our recent studies of quiescent H-mode (QH-mode) plasmas in DIII-D. First, we have found that we can control the edge pedestal density and pressure by altering the edge particle transport through changes in the edge toroidal rotation. This allows us to adjust the edge operating point to be close to, but below the ELM stability boundary, maintaining th...

Direct numerical simulations (DNS) of flow over an NACA-0012 airfoil are performed at a low and a moderate Reynolds numbers of Rec=50*10 and 1*10. The angles of attack are 5 and 15 degrees at the low and the moderate Reynolds number cases respectively. The three-dimensional unsteady compressible Navier-Stokes equations are solved using higher order compact schemes. The flow field in the low Rey...

Text plays an important role in daily life because of its rich information, thus automatic text detection in natural scenes has many attractive applications. However, detecting and recognising such text is always a challenging problem. In this study, the authors propose a method which extends the widely-used stroke width transform by two steps of edge analysis, namely candidate edge recombinati...

The edge function asymptotic boundary discretization method, which generates a partition of the boundary into a finite set of boundary elements, and its application to three-dimensional problems of linear isotropic elasticity are presented. The present solution representation, which is global, is constructed from asymptotic solutions of the Navier equations of elasticity. The unknown parameters...

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