BACKGROUND Appropriate fluid management is one of the most important elements of early goal-directed therapy after cardiothoracic surgery. Reliable determination of fluid responsivenss remains the fundamental issue in volume therapy. The purpose of the study was to assess the usefulness of dynamic IVC-derived parameters (collapsibility index, distensibility index) in comparison to passive leg r...

in this paper, time-domain dynamic analysis of dam - infinite reservoir is studied. a numerical method, discrete singular convolution (dsc), which seems to be efficient and simple, has been used to model the mixed boundary conditions. after a brief introduction, dsc is applied to model the equation of motion of fluid-structure with constant cross section subjected to el-centro (1940) earthquake...

Flows over time provide a natural and convenient description for the dynamics of a continuous stream of particles traveling from a source to a sink in a network, allowing to track the progress of each infinitesimal particle along time. A basic model for the propagation of flow is the so-called fluid queue model in which the time to traverse an edge is composed of a flow-dependent waiting time i...

The paper deals with a fluid dynamic model for supply chains. A mixed continuum-discrete model is proposed and possible choices of solutions at nodes guaranteeing the conservation of fluxes are discussed. Fixing a rule a Riemann solver is defined and existence of solutions to Cauchy problems is proved.

Thrips fly at a chord-based Reynolds number of approximately 10 using bristled rather than solid wings. We tested two dynamically scaled mechanical models of a thrips forewing. In the bristled design, cylindrical rods model the bristles of the forewing; the solid design was identical to the bristled one in shape, but the spaces between the 'bristles' were filled in by membrane. We studied four ...

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We obtain, by extensive direct numerical simulations, time-dependent and equal-time structure functions for the vorticity, in both quasi-Lagrangian and Eulerian frames, for the direct-cascade regime in two-dimensional fluid turbulence with air-drag-induced friction. We show that different ways of extracting time scales from these time-dependent structure functions lead to different dynamic-mult...

The selection of articles for this issue of the ICASE Research Quarterly departs from the previous policy of presenting technical articles covering a variety of active research areas at ICASE; instead, the articles are devoted to a single topic: convergence acceleration in CFD. The articles for this special issue, solicited by Dr. Jim Jones, Staa Scientist at ICASE, discuss convergence accelera...

Motivated by real road junctions, we consider a new fluid dynamic model for traffic flow on networks. In particular at T-junctions, beside some flows distribution and/or merging, there happen some interactions of cars coming from different roads and going to different destinations. After determining some rules to uniquely solve Riemann problems, we prove existence of solutions on complete netwo...

Oxygen causes an increase in the longitudinal relaxation rate of tissues through its T1-shortening effect owing to its paramagnetic properties. Due to such effects, MRI has been used to study oxygen-related signal intensity changes in various body parts including cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) space. Oxygen enhancement of CSF has been mainly studied using MRI sequences with relatively longer time re...