This paper presents a microfluidic mixer that uses acoustic stirring created by ultrasonic waves. The ultrasound is introduced into the channel by integrated piezoelectric transducers. The transducers are made of a zinc oxide thin film, which is deposited on the bottom surface of a quartz substrate. The poly(dimethylsiloxane) channel is aligned to the transducers on the top surface of the subst...

Transport of point-size Brownian particles under the influence of a constant and uniform force field through a planar three-dimensional channel with smoothly varying, axis-symmetric periodic side walls is investigated. Here we employ an asymptotic analysis in the ratio between the difference of the widest and the most narrow constriction divided through the period length of the channel geometry...

In this paper, a space-time least-squares finite-element method for the 2D nonlinear shallow-water equations (SWE) is developed. The method can easily handle complex geometry, bed slope (source term), and radiation boundary condition without any special treatment. Other advantages of the method include: high order approximations in space and time can easily be employed, no upwind scheme is need...

the study of wave and its propagation on the water surface is among significant phenomena in designing quay, marine and water structures. therefore, in order to design structures which are exposed to direct wave forces, it is necessary to study and simulate water surface height and the wave forces on the structures body in different boundary conditions. in this study, the propagation of static ...

Stereo vision displays a well-known anisotropy: disparity-defined slant is easier to detect for rotations about a horizontal axis than about a vertical axis, and low-frequency sinusoidal depth corrugations are easier to detect when the corrugations are horizontal than when they are vertical. Here, we determined disparity thresholds for vertically and horizontally oriented depth corrugations wit...

In this paper, the performance of the recently proposed adaptive signal models on modeling speech voiceless stop sounds is presented. Stop sounds are transient parts of speech that are highly non-stationary in time. State-of-the-art sinusoidal models fail to model them accurately and efficiently, thus introducing an artifact known as the pre-echo effect. The adaptive QHM and the extended adapti...

Multi-resolution sinusoidal modeling is a method of representing audio signals as a sum of discrete sinusoids having various durations, and time-varying frequencies, phases, and amplitudes. This paper discusses the motivation for the multiresolution sinusoidal model (MRSM) and various structures used to compute it. A new filter-bank analysis structure is presented that is simpler than previous ...