TOPIC: Critical Care TYPE: Medical Student/Resident Case Reports INTRODUCTION: We report a 31-year-old male with single gunshot wound (GSW) to the left back who developed an aortic thrombosis within twenty-four hours after presentation. Vascular pathology following penetrating trauma, specifically chest, without direct injury is profoundly rare and could cause devastating sequelae. CASE PRESENT...

Optimal control theory of distributed parameter systems is a rapidly developing subject [3,10,9,11]. So far the impact of this growth to continuum mechanics has been essentially in the branch of solid mechanics. In this paper, we develop some of these ideas for a problem in fluid mechanics which has profound practical applications such as aero/hydro maneuvering of vehicles. We consider the task...