Yingyi Liu 1,*, Ying Gou 2, Bin Teng 2 and Shigeo Yoshida 1 1 Renewable Energy Center, Research Institute for Applied Mechanics, Kyushu University, Kasuga 8168580, Japan; [email protected] 2 State Key Laboratory of Coastal and Offshore Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, China; [email protected] (Y.G.); [email protected] (B.T.) * Correspondence: liuyingyi@r...

Article history: Received 12 September 2016 Received in revised form 7 February 2017 Accepted 8 February 2017 Available online 14 February 2017

We investigate the dynamics of a flexible, elastic fibre, suspended in a fluid and subjected to a 3D shear flow. Simulations are performed using the “Immersed Boundary Method,” and are distinguished by their ability to capture the hydrodynamic interaction between the fluid and fibre, as well as the detailed structure of the individual fibres. Suspensions of flexible fibres are encountered in ma...

BACKGROUND The p16INK4a is a protein that expressed in Liquid-based cervical cytology specimens and has been proved link to cervical cancer. The p16INK4a could be detection by piezoelectric immunosensor and the immobilization of the p16INK4a antibody influence the sensitivity of the piezoelectric immunosensor. MATERIALS AND METHODS 5μL mouse polyclonal antibody against p16INK4a was bound onto...

Yeast immobilization is defined as the physical confinement of intact cells to a region of space with conservation of biological activity. The use of these methodologies for alcoholic fermentation (AF) offers many advantages over the use of the conventional free yeast cell method and different immobilization systems have been proposed so far for different applications, like winemaking. The most...

We derive and implement boundary integral methods for axisymmetric liquid bridge problems in the presence of an axial electric field. The liquid bridge is bounded by solid parallel electrodes placed perpendicular to the axis of symmetry and held at a constant potential difference. The fluid is assumed to be nonconducting and has permittivity different from that of the passive surrounding medium...

a lattice boltzmann method is applied to demonstrate the comparison results of simulating natural convection in an open end cavity using different hydrodynamic and thermal boundary conditions. the prandtl number in the present simulation is 0.71, rayleigh numbers are 104,105 and 106 and viscosities are selected 0.02 and 0.05. on-grid bounce-back method with first-order accuracy and non-slip met...