A fast multipole formulation for 2D linear viscoelastic problems is presented in this paper by incorporating the elastic–viscoelastic correspondence principle. Systems of multipole expansion equations are formed and solved analytically in Laplace transform domain. Three commonly used viscoelastic models are introduced to characterize the time-dependent behavior of the materials. Since the trans...

Using two-dimensional (2D) magnetohydrodynamics simulations, we show that Petschek-type magnetic reconnection can be induced using a simple resistivity gradient in the outflow direction, revealing key ingredient of steady fast collisional limit. We find diffusion region self-adjusts its half-length to fit given scale resistivity. The x-line and flow stagnation point always reside within transit...

Computed tomography angiography (CTA) is often used for pre-interventional diagnosis and planning, whereas nowadays, mostly 2D angiograms are acquired for intra-interventional catheter guidance. Spatial information from pre-interventional scans is not transferred to the intervention yet since existing 2D-3D registration methods either require a good initial manual alignment or have rather long ...

In this paper, we propose an expert-system based parallel multi-1-dimensional block matching algorithm (ESPM-1D-BMA) for motion estimation (ME). Instead of the conventional 2D block matching, we employ the parallel multi-1D blocks matching to improve the computing speed. To improve the ME accuracy, we design a knowledge base and inference engine to determine the true motion vector (MV) from the...