Rates of mass transfer in coral reefs are governed both by the physical flow environment and the morphology of the coral. Laboratory experiments were conducted to estimate mass transfer in unidirectional and oscillatory flows by measuring the rate of dissolution of gypsum cylinders (clods) placed within the branching structure of three morphologically distinct coral species. Unidirectional flow...

A computer model of a ring-shaped, one-dimensional cardiac fiber was used for examination of responses of propagation to premature stimuli applied under different degrees of both cell-to-cell coupling and membrane excitability. Results demonstrated the importance of cellular uncoupling in the genesis of unidirectional block and reentry. Propagation of excitation itself created a certain degree ...

in the traditional hole drilling method the in-plane stresses are studied in detail and the interlaminar stresses are not taken seriously. the interlaminar stresses on the free edge of composite materials are important and can cause matrix cracking and delamination. inserting holes in composite laminates causes free edges and it can induce interlaminar shear and normal stresses. in this researc...

The paper considers a mathematical model for two-layered blood flow through a tapered artery with the growth of a asymmetric mild stenosis and velocity slip at the interface. The model consists of a core region of red blood cell suspension in the middle layer and the peripheral plasma layer (PPL) in the outer region. It is assumed that both the core and the peripheral plasma layer are represent...

Asymmetric wave transmission is a Lorentz reciprocal phenomenon, which can appear in the structures with broken symmetry. It may enable high forward-to-backward transmittance contrast, while transmission for one of the two opposite incidence directions is blocked. In this paper, it is demonstrated that ultrawideband, high-contrast asymmetric wave transmission can be obtained at terahertz freque...

* Current address – Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI 53201 † Corresponding author – [email protected] Tel: +91-80-22932301 Fax: +91-80-23600648 ABSTRACT Surface texture influences friction and transfer layer formation during sliding. In the present investigation, three well-defined surface textures namely unidirectional, 8-ground, ...

This paper introduces a versatile control scheme for unidirectional ac–dc boost converters using fuzzy logic controller for the purpose of mitigating grid power quality. Since most power factor correction circuits available in the commercial market utilize unidirectional ac– dc boost converter topologies, this is an almost nocost solution for compensating harmonic current and reactive power in ...

The unidirectional acoustic boundary has a broad application prospect. Besides the acoustic metamaterial or the strongly nonlinear acoustic medium, which were applied in the realization of the unidirectional acoustic boundary, the present paper proposes another approach through the active control method, where the control source has the property of single directivity. In order to validate its e...

In this paper we present algorithms, which given a circular arrangement of n uniquely numbered processes, determine the maximum number in a distributive manner . We begin with a simple unidirectional algorithm, in which the number of messages passed is bounded by 2n log n + 0(n) . By making several improvements to the simple algorithm, we obtain a unidirectional algorithm in which the number of...

Bidirectional topologies are usually preferred over unidirectional ones. However, recent works have demonstrated that RUFT, a traffic-balancing routing algorithm on a Unidirectional Multistage Network (UMIN), can perform as well as a Bidirectional Multistage Network, but significantly reducing both implementation and operating costs. RUFT is a simplification of the k-ary n-tree topology, the mo...