This study links two models, one that simulates changes in snow microstructure and one that recovers microstructure properties from measurements of snow reflectance. An energy and mass transfer model, SNTHERM.89, was used to calculate snow grain growth. Grain-sizes from the model and measurements of grain bond areas provided estimates of the surface-to-volume ratio of the bulk snow, which were ...

* Corresponding author, [email protected] ABSTRACT The objective of this research is to develop an appropriate model for simulating the transient heat transfer processes in tissue welding subject to irradiation of ultrashort laser pulses. The ultrafast laser tissue welding process is modeled in three steps. First, there is an immediate local temperature response due to radiation absorption d...

A simple graphical method was described for determining the kinetic parameters of substrate inhibition of complete and partial types. The method consists of plotting experimental data as [Formula: see text] versus the reciprocals of the substrate concentrations, where V max represents the maximal velocity. The reaction rate constant of enzyme-substrate-inhibitor complex [Formula: see text] can ...

this paper analyzes a controllable discrete-time machine repair problem withl operating machines and two repairmen. the number of working servers can be adjusteddepending on the number of failed machines in the system one at a time at machine's failure orat service completion epochs. analytical closed-form solutions of the stationary probabilities ofthe number of failed machines in the sys...

Cytoglobin is a recently discovered hexa-co-ordinate haemoglobin that does not appear to function as a classical oxygen-binding protein. Its function is unknown and studies on the effects of changes in its expression have not decisively determined its role within the cell. In the present paper, we report that the protein is transformed from hexa-co-ordinate to penta-co-ordinate on binding a lip...

This study is devoted to discrete sizing optimization of truss structures employing an efficient discrete evolutionary meta-heuristic algorithm which uses the Newton gradient-based method as its updating scheme and it is named here as Newton Meta-heuristic Algorithm (NMA). In order to enable the NMA population-based meta-heuristic to effectively explore the discrete design space, a term contain...

We present a completely new principle of computation of radiosity values in a 3D scene. The method is based on a voxel approximation of the objects, and all occlusion calculations involve only integer arithmetics operation. The method is proved to converge. Some experimental results are presented.

In this paper, we present a performed solution of a near infrared radiation through a biological tissue . This solution is obtained, in the case of variable refractive index, by using a finite volume discrete ordinate method. In medical imaging, this could be an optical tomography forward model. We consider a very thin rectangular biological tissue-like domain which is submitted to an infrared ...