The new Moment-of-Fluid (MoF) technique effectively overcomes the limitations of the VoF approach by utilizing more data: in addition to the volumes, the cell-wise material centroids (the first moments) are used. In [3] we presented the two-material MoF algorithm, which locates the linear interface in a mixed cell by minimizing the defect of the first moment over all the cell partitions that pr...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Previous articles have demonstrated that carotid artery plaques may have enhancement after administration of contrast material. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of enhancement in carotid artery classification. MATERIALS AND METHODS Three hundred eighty consecutive patients (235 men, 145 women; median age 64, age range 32-87 years) were analyzed using...

Plasma interactions with mixed-material surfaces are being analyzed using advanced modeling of timedependent surface evolution/erosion. Simulations use the REDEP/WBC erosion/redeposition code package coupled to the HEIGHTS package ITMC-DYN mixed-material formation/response code, with plasma parameter input from codes and data. We report here on analysis for a DIII-D Mo/C containing tokamak dive...

We have synthesized calcium phosphate-based, strontium (Sr) containing, porous ceramic granules for use as bone graft substitutes. The granules with a particle size between 1 and 2 mm and a (macro)-pore size around 200–500μm were mixed with a fibrin sealant to form a moldable composite material. The starting material with Sr contents between 0 and 100% Sr were precipitated from Ca/Sr solutions ...

The contribution of bacteria to the corrosion mass loss and to pitting of mild steel was observed over 2.5 years using parallel streams of unpolluted natural (biotic) and nominally sterilized (abiotic) Pacific Ocean coastal seawater. As also observed by others, in artificial laboratory exposures, corrosion mass loss within the first few days of exposure was much greater in the biotic stream. Ho...

Electrical discharge machining (EDM) is a wellestablished non-conventional machining process, used for manufacturing geometrically complex or hard and electrically conductive material parts that are extremely difficult to cut by other conventional machining processes. But sometimes poor surface finish and low volumetric material removal rate limits its use in the industry. To diffuse this probl...

This paper discusses Mixed Signal LSI technology with embedded power transistors. Trends in Mixed Signal LSI technology are explained at first. Mixed signal LSI technology has proceeded with the help of fine fabrication technology and SOI technology. The BEOL transistor is a new development, which uses InGaZnO (IGZO) as its TFT channel material. The BEOL transistor is one future device which en...