This paper is Part II in a pair of papers that examines the results of the Community Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ) model version 4.5 (v4.5) and discusses the potential explanations for the model performance characteristics seen. The focus of this paper is on fine particulate matter (PM2.5) and its chemical composition. Improvements made to the dry deposition velocity and cloud treatment in CMAQ...

A mathematical model is presented to examine the propagation of bending waves on a plant stem that are induced by vibratory excitation from an attached insect. This idealized model represents the insect body as a mass and the legs as a linear spring along with a general time-varying force that is assumed to act in parallel with the spring. The spring connects the mass to a stem modeled as a bea...

The medical training systems based on virtual simulation are highly desired since minimally invasive surgical techniques have become popular to patients. The training system helps surgeon trainees to acquire, practice and evaluate their surgical skills, and the key component of such a system is to simulate the dynamic procedure such as 3D biological tissue deformation in surgical operation. In ...

In a cooling gas of rigid particles interacting with a constant coefficient of restitution, groups of particles within the gas may experience an infinite number of collisions in a finite time. This singularity, named inelastic collapse, is a shortcoming of the mathematical model, and it hampers the efforts of simulating a freely evolving, cooling granular system. After a brief review of previou...

The dynamics of human running can be modeled as a simple spring-mass system (McMahon and Cheng, 1990; Blickhan 1989). This model is highly robust in its ability to describe the dynamics of bouncing gaits in animals with 2, 4, 6, or even 8 legs (Blickhan and Full, 1993; Cavagna, G.A. et al., 1977). Independent studies have shown that one-legged and two-legged hopping both exhibit linear relation...

(*) Manuscrit re,u Ie lor octobre 1960. (**) Douglas Aircraft Co., Inc., EI Segundo, California (U.S.A.). The first-named author is also Professor of Mathematics at Pepperdine College, Los Angeles. California. tial factors may be demonstrated. Later the students are shown how to apply the principles they have learned to more complex systems. The spring-mass system can be seen in Fig. 2. The upp...

We propose an integrated facial dynamics model addressing the animation of 3D humanoid faces in real time. The computational model mimics facial motion by reproducing the layered anatomical structure of a human head including the bony structure, overlapping facial muscles and the skin. The model is flexible enough to animate face meshes of various shape, connectivity, and scale. Different from ...

− This paper clarifies the dynamic behaviors of a high speed mass measurement system with conveyor belt (a checkweigher). The objective in this study is to construct the model of the measurement system. The checkweigher with electromagnetic force compensation can be approximated by the combined spring-mass-damper systems as the physical model, and the equations of motion are derived. The model ...