Wind friction threshold speeds (V,t) for particle movement were determined in a low pressure boundary layer wind tunnel at an atmospheric pressure of 5.3 mb. The results imply that for comparable pressures on Mars, the minimum V,t is about 2.5 m/sec, which would require free-stream winds of 50 to 135 m/sec, depending on the character of the surface and the atmospheric conditions. The correspond...

At least 32 joint related degrees of freedom need to be estimated to reliably track the human body in 3D. The particle filter is robust to distracting clutter by maintaining multiple hypotheses for each of these joint angles. Real-time tracking is difficult however with the computational overhead of such a large search space. This paper optimizes this search space utilizing feedback from a Cont...

Before addition of cAMP, Dictyostelum amoebae rapidly translocating in buffer are elongate, exhibit expansion zones primarily at the anterior end and filamentous actin (F-actin) localization primarily in the anterior pseudopodia. Intracellular particle movement is primarily in the anterior direction, and the average rate of particle movement is roughly five times the rate of cellular translocat...

The Discrete Element Method (DEM) is a calculation method by which particle flow at single occurs. It widely used in many fields such as coastal engineering, mining and civil engineering. Specifically, when small particles are taken away water, pores will increase collapse due to the soil's own weight, cause other parts of soil deform. Due continuous development piping, from entrance, so entran...

In this paper, the trajectories of free conducting particles of various sizes inside a three phase common enclosure Gas Insulated Busduct(GIB) are simulated by solving the nonlinear second order differential equation of particle motion iteratively by using RK 4 Order Method. Compressed Gas Insulated Substations(GIS) consists of a conductor supported by spacers inside of Sulphur hexafluoride gas...

The effects of movement of the side walls of a confined granular packing are studied by discrete element, molecular dynamics simulations. The dynamical evolution of the stress is studied as a function of wall movement both in the direction of gravity as well as opposite to it. For all wall velocities explored, the stress in the final state of the system after wall movement is fundamentally diff...

UNLABELLED People spend approximately one-third of their lives sleeping, where they can be exposed to a myriad of particle-bound biological agents and chemical pollutants that originate within mattresses and bedding, including allergens, fungal spores, bacteria, and particle-phase semi-volatile organic compounds. Full-scale particle resuspension experiments were conducted in an environmental ch...

According to the Maupertuis principle, the movement of a classical particle in an external potential V (x) can be understood as the movement in a curved space with the metric gμν(x) = 2M [V (x) − E]δμν . We show that the principle can be extended to the quantum regime, i.e., we show that the wave function of the particle follows a Schrödinger equation in curved space where the kinetic operator ...