The III-bismides are considered to be a very attractive set of III-V alloys due to their potential applications in photonic and spintronic devices. The incorporation of bismuth into GaAs, with its band anti-crossing effect in the valence band of GaAs, leads to a decrease in the temperature dependence of the bandgap. Such a material may be very useful in designing temperature-insensitive semicon...

A modification of the Roe scheme aimed at low Mach number flows is discussed. It improves the dissipation of kinetic energy at the highest resolved wave numbers in a low Mach number test case of decaying isotropic turbulence. This is done by scaling the jumps in all discrete velocity components within the numerical flux function. An asymptotic analysis is used to show the correct pressure scali...

Game animals, such as the roe deer (Capreolus capreolus), have long been used as bioindicators of environmental contamination. Most ecotoxicological research on ungulates has focused on trace element content in soft tissues and antlers. Also, only fragmentary information exists about whether and how trace element concentrations vary with the age of wild-living animals and whether these age-rela...

Chronic inflammation in adipose tissue may contribute to depot-specific adipose tissue expansion, leading to obesity and insulin resistance. Dietary supplementation with quercetin or botanical extracts containing quercetin attenuates high fat diet (HFD)-induced obesity and insulin resistance and decreases inflammation. Here, we determined the effects of quercetin and red onion extract (ROE) con...

We report the following results from a decade of infrared radiometry of Io: (1) The average global heat flow is more than -2.5 W rn”z, (2) large warm (s200 K) volcanic regions dominate the global heat flow, (3) small high-temperature (> 300 K) “hotspots” contribute little to the average heat flow, (4) thermal anomalies on the leading hemisphere contribute about half of the heat flow, (5) a subs...

This work uses a higher-order discontinuous-Galerkin finite-element method to solve the compressible Navier-Stokes equations [1,2]. The unsteady Navier-Stokes equations are discretized using a non-linearly stable space-time entropyvariable formulation. The inviscid flux is computed using the approximate Riemann solver of Ismail and Roe [3]. The viscous fluxes are computed using an interior pena...

We study the relationship between finite volume and mixed finite element methods for the the hyperbolic conservation laws, and the closely related convection-diffusion equations.A general framework is proposed for the derivation and a functional framework is developed which could allow the analysis of relating finite volume (FV) schemes. We show via two nonstandard formulations, that numerous F...

In this paper we study the numerical approximation of bedload sediment transport due to shallow layer flows. The hydrodynamical component is modeled by a 2D shallow water system and the morphodynamical component by a solid transport discharge formula that depends on the hydrodynamical variables. The coupled system can be written as a nonconservative hyperbolic system. To discretize it, first we...