In this work incompressible two-phase flows are considered. The aim is to model high density-ratio flows with arbitrary complex interface topologies, such as occur in air/water flows. Between the phases a sharp front exists, where density and viscosity change abruptly. The computational method used in this paper is the mass conserving level-set method. It is based on the level-set methodology, ...

PURPOSE To evaluate whether a non-linear blood ΔR2*-versus-concentration relationship improves quantitative cerebral blood flow (CBF) estimates obtained by dynamic susceptibility contrast (DSC) MRI in a comparison with Xe-133 SPECT CBF in healthy volunteers. MATERIAL AND METHODS Linear as well as non-linear relationships between ΔR2* and contrast agent concentration in blood were applied to t...

The free surface lattice Boltzmann method (FSLBM) is a combination of the hydrodynamic lattice Boltzmann method with a volume-of-fluid (VOF) interface capturing technique for the simulation of incompressible free surface flows. Capillary effects are modeled by extracting the curvature of the interface from the VOF indicator function and imposing a pressure jump at the free boundary. However, ob...

Pedro LOPES, Ph.DCandidate (Corresponding author) 3 Department of Civil Engineering & MARE Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre, 4 University of Coimbra, [email protected] 5 Jorge LEANDRO, Ph.D 6 Department of Civil Engineering & MARE Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre, 7 University of Coimbra, [email protected] 8 Rita F. CARVALHO, Ph.D 9 Department of Civil ...

An exploratory study of the synthesis of vanadium (oxy)fluorides (VOFs) using ionic liquids (ILs) and deep eutectic mixtures (DESs) as a solvent yielded 10 different materials. The previously reported chain type: (NH(4))(2)VF(5) (1), (NH(4))(2)VOF(4) (2), NH(4)VO(3) (3) and (H(2)NH(2)(CH(2))(2)NH(2))VF(5) (9) have been successfully produced for the first time using ILs as the reaction media. Th...

This letter aims to clarify the definitions of the posterior arcuate fasciculus (pAF) and the vertical occipital fasciculus (VOF). These two tracts are of interest in many different fields, including the neuroscience of language (Catani, Jones, & ffytche, 2005), post-mortem dissection (Vergani, Mahmood, Morris, Mitchell, & Forkel, 2014), reading (Thiebaut de Schotten, Cohen, Amemiya, Braga, & D...

Purpose Reproducible absolute quantification of cerebral blood volume (CBV) and cerebral blood flow (CBF) by dynamic susceptibility contrast MRI (DSC-MRI) is difficult to achieve, for example, due to partial-volume effects (PVEs). Rescaling of the arterial input function (AIF) using a corrected venous output function (VOF) in DSC-MRI has been shown to improve the correlation between CBF estimat...

 A VOF-CSF model is developed to model slug flow in capillary channels  Non-uniform mesh is employed to reduce the simulation expenses  A moving reference frame is set moving along or opposite to the gas slug to eliminate the spurious current  The calculated liquid film thickness, slug velocity, and circulation flow ahead the gas slug are all agree very well with literatures Approach and Im...