It is now possible to model thermal relaxation of neutron stars after bouts of accretion during which the star is heated out of equilibrium by nuclear reactions in its crust. Major uncertainties in these models can be encapsulated in modest variations of a handful of control parameters that change the fiducial crustal thermal conductivity, specific heat, and heating rates. Observations of therm...

Contraction parameters (time-to-peak and half relaxation time), responses to short tetani and resistance to stretch were studied in the lower leg muscles of Parkinsonian patients and in age-matched controls. It was possible to distinguish between muscle groups of different fibre type composition in normal subjects on the basis of their contraction and relaxation velocities. These parameters, ho...

Algebraic reconstruction techniques (ART) are iterative procedures for reconstructing objects from their projections. It is proven that ART can be computationally efficient by carefully arranging the order in which the collected data are accessed during the reconstruction procedure and adaptively adjusting the relaxation parameters. In this paper, an adaptive algebraic reconstruction technique ...

In this contribution we extend the Taylor expansion method proposed previously by one of us and establish equivalent partial differential equations of the lattice Boltzmann scheme proposed by d’Humières [11] at an arbitrary order of accuracy. We derive formally the associated dynamical equations for classical thermal and linear fluid models in one to three space dimensions. We use this approach...

The entropically based nonlinear Adam-Gibbs equation is discussed in the context of phenomenologies for nonlinear enthalpy relaxation within the glass transition temperature range. In many materials for which adequate data are available, the nonlinear Adam-Gibbs parameters are physically reasonable and agree with those obtained from linear relaxation data and thermodynamic extrapolations. Obser...

Temperatureand density-dependent vibrational relaxation data for the v6 asymmetric stretch of W~CO!6 in supercritical fluoroform ~trifluoromethane, CHF3! are presented and compared to a recent theory of solute vibrational relaxation. The theory, which uses thermodynamic and hydrodynamic conditions of the solvent as input parameters, shows very good agreement in reproducing the temperatureand de...

It ha been proved that the lattice Boltzmann Methods (LBMs) are very efficient for computational fluid dynamics purposes, and for capturing the dynamics of weak acoustic fluctuations. Especially, the multi-relaxation-time lattice Boltzmann method (MRT-LBM) appears as a very robust scheme with high precision. It is well-known that there exist several free relaxation parameters in the MRT-LBM. Al...

Abstract. Non-hydrogenative para-hydrogen-induced polarization (PHIP) is a fast, efficient and relatively inexpensive approach to enhance nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) signals of small molecules in solution. The efficiency this technique depends on the interplay NMR relaxation kinetic processes, which, at high concentrations, can be characterized by selective inversion experiments. However, ...