Recent space plasma observations have provided us with three-dimensional velocity distributions having multiple peaks. We propose a method for analyzing such velocity distributions via a multivariate Maxwellian mixture model where each component of the model represents each of the multiple peaks. The parameters of the model are determined through the Expectation-Maximization (EM) algorithm. For...

Extrusion is one of the widest used and the most basic processes of plastic forming, and the metal flow in extrusion is affected by many factors, such as friction, die shape, billet temperature and so on. Among these factors, friction is the key boundary condition to determine the property of the extruded products. In this paper research and measurements of velocity fields and impact of frictio...

We show that, for a test ion moving in a collisionless single-species electron plasma, exact analytical solutions can be obtained for certain anisotropic velocity distributions of the electron plasma. By comparing the analytical formula with the numerical results calculated for the more realistic Maxwellian plasma, we demonstrate that plasmas with three different velocity distributions behave s...

the main purpose of this paper is to introduce a boundary layer analysis for the fluid flow andheat transfer characteristics of an incompressible nanofluid flowing over a permeable isothermalsurface moving continuously. the resulting system of non-linear ordinary differential equations issolved numerically using the fifth–order runge–kutta method with shooting techniques usingmatlab and maple s...

In the present paper we obtain the WIMP velocity distribution in our vicinity starting from spherically symmetric WIMP density profiles in a self consistent way by employing the Eddington approach. By adding a reasonable angular momentum dependent term in the expression of the energy, we obtain axially symmetric WIMP velocity distributions as well. We find that some density profiles lead to app...

In order to improve the representation of clouds in climate models, we require a better understanding of the relationship among cloud properties and the synoptic-scale state of the atmosphere. In order to investigate this issue as it pertains to a specific class of cirrus clouds, we have combined a 2 month data set of radar reflectivities observed at State College, Pennsylvania, using a W-band ...

BACKGROUND The velocity distributions in the left ventricular outflow tract and in the aortic annulus in normal subjects and certain cardiac patients are skewed, with the highest velocity along the anterior wall and septum. An abnormal anatomical structure of the interventricular septum changes the shape of the left ventricular outflow tract, and may consequently change the pattern of velocity ...