The current study collected the first quantitative data on lateral line pore squamation patterns in sharks and assessed whether divergent squamation patterns are similar to experimental models that cause reduction in boundary layer turbulence. In addition, the hypothesis that divergent orientation angles are exclusively found in fast-swimming shark species was tested. The posterior lateral line...

Numerical experimentation is an attractive complement to physical measurement of rock properties. In such experiments, a physical process is simulated in a pore space and then the corresponding property is calculated. For example, a simulation of viscous fluid flow through pores provides permeability. Many authors have used pore-scale numerical methods, such as Lattice-Boltzmann and network mod...

Anodic porous alumina has broad applications for fabricating self-assembled nanostructures, for which atomistic understanding of ionic transport at pore surfaces is indispensable. Here, molecular-dynamics simulation of amorphous alumina with a cylindrical pore under electric field shows correlated anion (oxygen)-cation (aluminum) transport at the pore surface, as opposed to ordinary drift motio...

Recent Monte Carlo simulation studies of a Lennard-Jones fluid confined to a mesoscopic slit pore have reported evidence of "critical depletion" in the pore local number density near the liquid-vapor critical point. In this Brief Report we demonstrate that the observed depletion effect is in fact a simulation artifact arising from small systematic errors associated with the use of long range co...

Computer architects extensively use simulation to steer future processor research and development. Simulating large-scale multicore processors is extremely time-consuming sometimes impossible because of infrastructure limitations. This paper proposes scale-model simulation, a novel methodology predict system performance. Scale-model first constructs simulates scale model the target with reduced...

More and more studies are based on digital microstructures of cement pastes obtained either by numerical modelling or by experiments. A comprehensive understanding of the their pore structures, therefore, becomes significant. In this study, the pore structure of a virtual cement paste (HYMO-1d) generated by cement hydration model HYMOSTRUC 3D is characterized. The pore structure of HYMO-1d is c...

Direct pore scale simulations of two-fluid flow on digital rock images provide a promising tool to understand the role surface wetting phenomena and transport in geologic reservoirs. We present computational protocols that mimic conventional special core analysis laboratory (SCAL) experiments, which are implemented within open source LBPM software package. Protocols described simulate unsteady ...