the objective of the present study is to develop and investigate the swelling behavior of ph-sensitive superporous hydrogel (sph) and sph composite (sphc). a novel superporous hydrogel containing poly (methacrylic acid-co-acrylamide) was synthesized from methacrylic acid and acrylamide through the aqueous solution polymerization, using n,n-methylenebisacrylamide as a crosslinker and ammonium pe...

Abstract Sloshing describes liquids motion in the semi-filled tanks, and exerts dynamic loading on its walls. This effect is of great importance in a number of dynamic systems e.g. aerospace vehicles, road tankers, liquefied natural gas carriers, elevated water towers and petroleum cylindrical tanks. Pressures insert impacts which are important for structural strength evaluation and its co...

The Entropically Damped Artificial Compressibility (EDAC) method of Clausen [2013] is an interesting alternative to the traditional artifical compressibility technique. We apply the EDAC method in the context of Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics. In this work we present preliminary results for this method. The method is easy to implement in a standard SPH framework. Our simulations are compared w...

The serum-borne lysophospholipid mediators sphingosine 1-phosphate (Sph-1-P) and lysophosphatidic acid (LPA) have been shown to be released from activated platelets and to act on endothelial cells. In this study, we employed the repeated lipid extraction (under alkaline and acidic conditions), capable of detecting Sph-1-P, LPA, and possibly structurally similar lysophospholipids, whereby a mark...

In this paper, we present a multi-resolution smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) method for modeling fluid-structure interaction (FSI) problems. By introducing different smoothing lengths and time steps, the spatial-temporal discretization is applied with resolutions fluid structure. To ensure momentum conservation at coupling, position-based Verlet integration scheme introduced. Furthermore,...

This paper presents a discussion on the properties of collocation meshfree method, Updated Lagrangian Taylor-SPH (UL-TSPH), for dynamic problems in solid mechanics. The PDEs are written mixed form terms stress and velocity elastodynamics problems. Two sets particles used to discretize partial differential equations, resulting avoiding tensile instability inherent classical SPH formulations. Num...

By comparing a collisionless cosmological N-body simulation (DM) to a smoothed particle hydrodynamics simulation (SPH) with the same initial conditions, we investigate the correspondence between the dark matter subhalos produced by collisionless dynamics and the galaxies produced by dissipative gas dynamics in a dark matter background. When galaxies in the SPH simulation fall into larger groups...