We propose a procedure to implement Dirichlet velocity boundary conditions for complex shapes that use data from single node only, in the context of lattice Boltzmann method. Two ideas are at base this approach. The first is generalize geometrical description combining bounce-back rule with interpolations. second enhance them by limiting interpolation extension proximity boundary. Despite its l...

This paper studies the effect of boundary value conditions on consensus networks. Consider a network where some nodes keep their estimates constant while other nodes average their estimates with that of their neighbors. We analyze such networks and show that in contrast to standard consensus networks, the network estimate converges to a general harmonic function on the graph. Furthermore, the f...

PURPOSE This study was conducted to identify factors involved in lymph node metastasis (LNM) and evaluate their role in predicting LNM in clinically lymph node negative (clinical stage I-III) intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (ICC). MATERIALS AND METHODS We selected 320 patients who were diagnosed with ICC with no apparent clinical LNM (T(1-3)N(0)M(0)). Age, gender, tumor boundary, histological...

The extended boundary node method (X-BNM) has been applied to a boundary-value problem of the Grad-Shafranov (G-S) equation and its performance has been numerically investigated by comparing with the dual reciprocity boundary element method (DRM). The result of computations shows that the accuracy of the X-BNM is higher than that of the DRM. Therefore, it is found that the X-BNM might be a powe...

Geographic routing in wireless sensor networks requires sources nodes to be aware of the location information of sinks to send their data. To provide the sink location service, quorum-based schemes have been proposed, which exploit crossing points between a quorum of a sink location announcement (SLA) message from a sink and a quorum of a sink location query (SLQ) message from a source node. Fo...

Community structure is vital to discover the important structures and potential property of complex networks. In recent years, the increasing quality of local community detection approaches has become a hot spot in the study of complex network due to the advantages of linear time complexity and applicable for large-scale networks. However, there are many shortcomings in these methods such as in...