• Initialize DEM using high-resolution satellite-borne imagery. • Assimilate atmospheric and ocean models results to provide sea ice dynamics forcing, i.e. one-way coupling of the wind and ocean surface stresses that induce ice motion. • Conduct a sensitivity study to understand the effects of the temporal and spatial variability of the surface stress fields to icepack evolution. • Evaluate the...

The objective of the present study is to develop and investigate the swelling behavior of pH-sensitive Superporous Hydrogel (SPH) and SPH composite (SPHC). A novel superporous hydrogel containing poly (methacrylic acid-co-acrylamide) was synthesized from methacrylic acid and acrylamide through the aqueous solution polymerization, using N,N-methylenebisacrylamide as a crosslinker and ammonium pe...

Secretory type II phospholipase A2 (sPLA2) is inhibited by sphingomyelin (SPH); cholesterol either mixed with the model glycerophospholipid substrate or added to the assay medium as separated liposomes counteracts this inhibition efficiently. The inhibition of fatty acid release assayed by quantitative gas chromatography-MS is observed when SPH is added to erythrocyte membranes as the substrate...

We present an application of SPH to saturated soil problems. Herein, the standard SPH formulation was improved to model saturated soil. It is shown that the proposed formulation could yield several advantages such as: it takes into account the pore-water pressure in an accurate manner, it automatically satisfies the dynamics boundary conditions between submerged soil and water, and it reduced t...

In this paper, an SPH method based on the SPH–ALE formulation is used for modelling two-phase flows with large density ratios and realistic sound speeds. The SPH scheme is further improved to circumvent the tensile instability that may occur in the SPH simulations. The two-phase SPH solver is then used to model a benchmark problem of liquid impact on a rigid wall. The results are compared with ...

Smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) is a Lagrangian method based on a meshless discretization of partial differential equations. In this review, we present SPH discretization of the Navier-Stokes and advection-diffusionreaction equations, implementation of various boundary conditions, and time integration of the SPH equations, and we discuss applications of the SPH method for modeling pore-sc...

Abstract In order to study the anti-penetration performance of ceramic/aramid fiber/PE-UHMW composite armor, based on FEM-SPH coupling algorithm, SPH model is established for brittle ceramic materials simulate formation cone, crack propagation and fragmentation splash process. The failure mode aramid fiber PE-UHMW analyzed. influence different projectile velocities impact points armor are resul...

In this paper we discuss the treatment of discontinuities in Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) simulations. In particular we discuss the difference between integral and differential representations of the fluid equations in an SPH context and how this relates to the formulation of dissipative terms for the capture of shocks and other discontinuities. This has important implications for many...

In CFD-DEM (computational fluid dynamics-discrete element method) simulations particles are considered Lagrangian point particles. The details of the flow near particle surface therefore not fully resolved. When scale is larger than resolved scale, coupling between CFD model and DEM critical. An effective scheme should minimize risk artificial influences on results from choices numerical parame...

  Background: Health status is an individual’s relative level of wellness and illness. Self-Perceived Health (SPH) is a single item considered as a health indicator for national and international survey. The aim of this study was to evaluate the SPH measure and its determinants in a National sample of Iranian children and adolescents.   Materials and Methods:  This National study was performed...