We study the lubrication of fluid-immersed soft interfaces and show that elastic deformation couples tangential and normal forces and thus generates lift. We consider materials that deform easily, due to either geometry e.g., a shell or constitutive properties e.g., a gel or a rubber , so that the effects of pressure and temperature on the fluid properties may be neglected. Four different syste...

his paper reports finite-element simulations of drop deformation in converging flows in an xisymmetric conical geometry. The moving interface is captured using a diffuse-interface model nd accurate interfacial resolution is ensured by adaptive refinement of the grid. We have explored he effects of viscoelasticity on drop deformation when either the drop or the matrix is a Giesekus uid. Contrary...

A three-dimensional simulation of hovering flapping wings was performed using an immersed boundary method. This was done to investigate the effects of chordwise wing deformation on three important unsteady aerodynamic mechanisms found in flapping flight, namely Leading Edge Vortex (LEV) shedding, wake capture and clap and fling. A wing was modeled as a flat plate, flapping close to a symmetry p...

Joint saliency map (JSM) [1] was developed to assign high joint saliency values to the corresponding saliency structures (called Joint Saliency Structures, JSSs) but zero or low joint saliency values to the outliers (or mismatches) that are introduced by missing correspondence or local large deformations between the reference and moving images to be registered. JSM guides the local structure ma...

The Taylor analogy breakup (TAB) model is used for the prediction of drop deformation and drop breakup in spray simulations conducted with CFD codes. This model assumes that a spherical droplet moving in a gas stream behaves like a forced, damped harmonic oscillator in which the forcing term is given by the aerodynamic drag, the damping is due to the liquid viscosity and the restoring force is ...

The task of detection and tracking of a moving object is addressed. An algorithm has been developed which performs this task for monitoring and surveillance purposes. Prediction is also implemented in the algorithm to resolve the events of occlusion or masking, and also to increase the normal tracking performance. Real-time implementation generates deformation in the target appearance, and then...

Analysis of reciprocating equipment piston rod leads to nonlinear elastic-plastic deformation analysis of rod with initial imperfection under axial dynamic load. In this paper a new and effective model and analytical formulations are presented to evaluate dynamic deformation and elastic-plastic stresses of reciprocating machine piston rod. This new method has capability to account for geometric...

AIMS To assess the contribution of the four major operational variables in the radial keratotomy operation (RK) to the correction of myopic eyes. To study the deformation of the cornea after the operation and provide some valuable references for clinical practice. METHODS The expression of the correction ratio has been deduced, which can be directly represent as the deformation ratio of the c...