Closed contours are often better perceived than those not fully enclosing an area, i.e., open contours. This facilitation of contour integration by closure, however, has been questioned arguing that in earlier studies closed contours were often "smoother" than open ones, because open contours usually had turning points. To solve this controversy, we compared detection performance for closed cir...

We present a new approach to study measures on ensembles of contours, polymers or other objects interacting by some sort of exclusion condition. For concreteness we develop it here for the case of Peierls contours. Unlike existing methods, which are based on clusterexpansion formalisms and/or complex analysis, our method is strictly probabilistic and hence can be applied even in the absence of ...

In this paper, numerical study of forced convection heat transfer in a square cavity with inlet and outlet slots and hot obstacle with and without porous medium was investigated. The walls of cavity in addition of inlet and outlet ports are thermally insulated and the obstacle is maintained at constant temperature. A lattice Boltzmann model for incompressible flow in porous media and Brinkman F...

In this paper, thermal mixing characteristics of two miscible fluids in a T-shaped microchannel are investigated theoretically, experimentally, and numerically. Thermal mixing processes in a T-shaped microchannel are divided into two zones, consisting of a T-junction and a mixing channel. An analytical two-dimensional model was first built to describe the heat transfer processes in the mixing c...

In this study, a two-dimensional steady state double-diffusive mixed convective flow in a square cavity with Soret effect is presented. The numerical investigation is considered with two different conditions, (a) top and bottom walls move with same velocity (Uo) towards right and (b) top wall moves towards right and bottom wall moves towards left with the same velocity (Uo). The left and right ...

Depending upon the contours, or profiles, of relationships between time and temperature applying (a) to the destruction of offensive organisms at constant temperature and (b) to the temperature change to which food is subjected, and depending upon the particular mathematical forms used to express these relationships, there are at-least two parameters associated with each relationship-a velocity...

This paper presents and discusses the numerical simulations of transient laminar natural convection cooling of high Prandtl number fluids in cubical cavities, in which the six walls of the cavity are subjected to a step change in temperature. The effect of the fluid Prandtl number on the heat transfer coefficient is studied for three different fluids (Golden Syrup, Glycerin and Glycerin-water s...

The complex Langevin (CL) method is a promising approach to overcome the sign problem that occurs in real-time formulations of quantum field theories. Using Schwinger-Keldysh formalism, we study SU($N_c$) gauge theories with CL. We observe current stabilization techniques are insufficient obtain correct results. Therefore, revise discretization CL equations on time contours, find reflection sym...