The advance of a glacier over a deforming sediment layer is analysed numerically. We treat this problem as a contact problem involving two slowly-deforming viscous bodies. The surface evolution of the two bodies, and of the contact interface between them, is followed through time. Using various different non-linear till rheologies, we show how the mode of advance depends on the relative effecti...

The effects on morphologically and electrophysiologically characterized myenteric neurons of activation of intestinal reflex pathways were examined in vitro. Opened segments of guinea pig small intestine were pinned serosa down in an organ bath that had two balloons set into its base. A 5-10-mm-wide strip of myenteric plexus between the balloons was exposed from the mucosal side, and neurons we...

In this paper the high-order accurate spectral difference method for the Navier-Stokes equations is applied to moving boundary problems. Boundary movements are achieved, firstly, through rigid displacement of the entire flow domain. In order to account for the dynamic rigid mesh motion, the Navier-Stokes equations are modified through an unsteady coordinate transformation. Airfoils in pitching ...

The methodology for building deforming regions into global plate reconstructions builds on the continuously closing plates framework described by Gurnis et al. (2012). Plates are defined within the open-source software GPlates (Boyden et al., 2011) by building polygons from a series of lines defining plate boundaries. The lines can move independently, so that the geometry of plate polygons cont...

For the aim at exploring differences on personality traits between excessive online game users and non-excessive users in Japan, an online survey was conducted using psychological scales measuring addictive tendencies for online gaming, depressive tendencies, aggression, and selfconcealment. The results revealed that that excessive online game users having addictive tendencies in Japan had lack...

Many metal forming problems have been solved using the slip line field method but all of them have either been two-dimensional (plane strain or plain stress) or axisymmetric problems. In this paper a procedure has been proposed by which the slip line field solution to three dimensional problems of metal forming becomes possible. For this purpose the extrusion of shaped sections has been taken a...