A transparent grid for estimating peak Vcf directly from the echocardiograph recording is described. Estimates so obtained were compared with peak Vcf measurements made by an echocardiographic digitising technique and with the angiographic ejection fraction in 13 patients with normal left ventricular function and 17 patients with impaired left ventricular function. No patient had angiographic s...

Velocity errors in particle tracking velocimetry (PTV) are studied. When using high-speed video cameras, the velocity error may increase at a high camera frame rate. This increase in velocity error is due to particle-position uncertainty, which is one of the two sources of velocity errors studied here. The other source of error is particle acceleration, which has the opposite trend of diminishi...

Rectified transport of active ellipsoidal particles is numerically investigated in a two-dimensional asymmetric potential. The out-of-equilibrium condition for the active particle is an intrinsic property, which can break thermodynamical equilibrium and induce the directed transport. It is found that the perfect sphere particle can facilitate the rectification, while the needlelike particle des...

Based on the Krylov-Bogolyubov method of averaging the closed system of equations for particle motion and temperature in inhomogeneous rapidly oscillating velocity and temperature of fluid phase is derived. It is shown that the particle movement in a rapidly oscillating fluid velocity field occurs not only under the force of gravity and resistance, but also under force of migration. The migrati...

the hydrograph at watershed outlet can be expressed as hydrological response of watershed to geomorphological behavior. in present study with the aid of the gis and the concept of instantaneous unit hydrograph, the watershed response was simulated. in present physical method, the iuh is derived from three parameters of time of concentration, storage coefficient and time-area curve of the basin....

in order to identify left ventricular diastolic function in patients with betathalassemia major and normal systolic function by noninvasive m-mode and doppler echocardiography, an analytic study was designed in a university hospital in sari. we have studied 44 patients (23 men and 21 women), mean age 15.48±2.16 (range 12 to 20) and 43 age and sex matched control subjects. peak flow velocity in ...

Preferential concentration of inertial particles in turbulence is studied numerically by evaluating the Lagrangian compressibility of the particle velocity field using the "full Lagrangian method." This is compared with the "mesoscopic Eulerian particle velocity field" both in a direct numerical simulation of turbulence and in a synthetic flow field. We demonstrate that the Lagrangian method, i...

We begin with interactions of particles that moving with constant velocity in free space. If the material walls are far from the particles, their effect in the first approximation can be neglected. Let us consider a leading particle of charge q moving with velocity v, and a trailing particle of unit charge moving behind the leading one on a parallel path at a distance s with an offset x, as sho...

The particle filtering, which is a probability technique, can be used for a robust tracking to noise and occlusion. It often uses characteristics based on the appearance information of a target object, such as color and edge, for calculating likelihood. As far as the appearance information is used, the particle filtering fails to track the target object when it intersects other objects which ha...