The shape fluctuations and the stability of polymerized vesicles are investigated within the framework of shell theory. The intrinsic curvature of the vesicle leads to an enhanced coupling betwecn bending and stretching modes which acts to suppress the shape fluctuations on large scales. This effect is explicitly calculated for a cylindrical shape of the vesicle. For a cylinder

The cavitation flow of linear-polymer solutions around a cylinder is studied by performing large-scale molecular dynamics simulation. addition polymer chains remarkably suppresses the cavitation. polymers are stretched into linear shape near and entrained in vortex behind cylinder. As stretch, elongational viscosity increases, which formation. Furthermore, exhibit an entropic elasticity owing t...

Vortex-stretching and, consequently, the evolution of the vorticity is localized on an arbitrarily small space-time cylinder. This yields a complete localization of the geometric condition(s) for the regularity involving coherence of the vorticity direction. In particular, it implies the regularity of any geometrically constrained Leray solution independently of the type of the spatial domain o...

Bluff body calculation was accelerated by using a special-purpose computer, MDGRAPE-2, that was exclusively designed for molecular dynamics simulations. The three main issues were solved regarding the implementation of the MDGRAPE-2 on vortex methods. These issues were the efficient calculation of the Biot-Savart and stretching equation, the optimization of the table domain, and the round-off e...

The effect of a transverse magnetic field on the boundary layer flow and heat transfer of anisothermal stretching cylinder is analyzed. The governing partial differential equations for themagnetohydrodynamic, temperature, and concentration boundary layers are transformed into a setof ordinary differential equations using similarity transformations. The obtained ordinarydifferential equations ar...

Laminar boundary layer flow of an incompressible viscous fluid along a stretching horizontal cylinder embedded in a porous medium is discussed. The governing system of partial differential equations is reduced to a system of ordinary differential equations. Mathematics has been used to solve such system after obtaining the missed initial conditions. The obtained results are compared with previo...

Ah&r&--In this paper, we study the problems of radial diffusion of a fluid through a hollow non-linearly elastic orthotropic cylinder. It is found that shearing and stretching have qualitatively different effects on the diifusion process. The effect of orthotropy on the difision process is also studied. These results are compared with those for the isotropic case [cf. Znr. 1. Engng Sci. 25, 144...