The assumption of incompressibility has often been applied to the analysis of arterial-wall elasticity; however, the supporting evidence has been incomplete. The present study was designed to explore this problem in greater depth by accurately measuring the changes in tissue volume associated with large, induced strains on 11 thoracic aorta segments excised from dogs. The radial, circumferentia...

Mechanical properties of cells such as compressibility are regarded to be different as cancer cells progress into metastatic state. Traditional methods for measuring mechanical properties of single cells such as AFM and micropipette aspiration, require labor-intensive procedures and can cause damage to cells due to direct contact, thus unsuitable for high-throughput measurement. Acoustophoretic...

We report temperature-dependent acoustic and densimetric data on changes in volume, expansibility, and adiabatic compressibility accompanying the binding of 1-adamantanecarboxylic acid (AD) to beta-cyclodextrin (beta-CD). We interpret our volumetric results in terms of hydration. Based on our compressibility and expansibility data, we estimate that, at 25 degrees C, the binding of AD to beta-CD...

In this work, we investigate the pressure and compressibility factors of bidisperse magnetic fluids with relatively weak dipolar interactions and different granulometric compositions. In order to study these properties, we employ the method of diagram expansion, taking into account two possible scenarios: (1) dipolar particles repel each other as hard spheres; (2) the polymer shell on the surfa...

Serum albumin is the most abundant protein in the circulatory system. The ability of albumins to undergo a reversible conformational transition, observed with changes in pH, is conserved in distantly related species, suggesting for it a major physiological role possibly related to the transport of small molecules including drugs. We have followed changes of bovine serum albumin (BSA) in volume ...

In this paper, we perform a direct numerical simulation study to investigative the effect of compressibility on the flow over a backward-facing step. A spectral multidomain method is used for simulating the compressible flow at Reynolds number of 3000 over an open backward-facing step. The role of compressibility in the sub-sonic regime is studied by simulating the flow at different free-stream...