This letter aims to clarify the definitions of the posterior arcuate fasciculus (pAF) and the vertical occipital fasciculus (VOF). These two tracts are of interest in many different fields, including the neuroscience of language (Catani, Jones, & ffytche, 2005), post-mortem dissection (Vergani, Mahmood, Morris, Mitchell, & Forkel, 2014), reading (Thiebaut de Schotten, Cohen, Amemiya, Braga, & D...

Purpose Reproducible absolute quantification of cerebral blood volume (CBV) and cerebral blood flow (CBF) by dynamic susceptibility contrast MRI (DSC-MRI) is difficult to achieve, for example, due to partial-volume effects (PVEs). Rescaling of the arterial input function (AIF) using a corrected venous output function (VOF) in DSC-MRI has been shown to improve the correlation between CBF estimat...

Volume of fluid (VOF) methods are extensively used to track interfaces in numerical simulations, and many VOF algorithms require that the interface be reconstructed geometrically. For this purpose, Piecewise Linear Interface Construction (PLIC) technique is most frequently used, which for reasons geometric complexity can slow difficult implement. Here, we propose an alternative neural network b...

A mathematical model to describe the globular transfer in gas metal arc welding is developed. This work is both theoretical and experimental. Using the volume-of-fluid (VOF) method, the fluid-flow and heat-transfer phenomena during the impingement of a droplet on a solid substrate, arc striking, the impingement of multiple droplets on the molten pool and finally the solidification after the arc...

The new Moment-of-Fluid (MoF) technique effectively overcomes the limitations of the VoF approach by utilizing more data: in addition to the volumes, the cell-wise material centroids (the first moments) are used. In [3] we presented the two-material MoF algorithm, which locates the linear interface in a mixed cell by minimizing the defect of the first moment over all the cell partitions that pr...

An advanced Volume-of-Fluid or VOF procedure for locally conservative reconstruction of multi-material interfaces based on volume fraction information in cells of an unstructured mesh is presented in this paper. The procedure employs improved neighbor definitions and topological consistency checks of the interface for computing a more accurate interface approximation. Comparison with previously...

In this study we implemented the network simulation techniques using macromodels (lumped models) for capillary driven flows in microfluidic networks. The flow characteristics in a flow junction, such as meniscus stretching and bifurcation, were studied and their effects on filling time as well as pressure drop were explored for various network configurations. The results from the network simula...

A penalization approach is presented to simulate two-phase flow in the presence of immersed solid boundaries so as to consider highly complex objects such as porous media microstructures. Based on the standard Volume-Of-Fluid formulation, the method takes into account the wettability effects which may occur on the surface of immersed solid boundaries. A spatial shift between the no-slip and the...

In this study, some important variables in the bioleaching, such as ferric and zinc ions concentration in the liquid phase and velocity field around a single particle were simulated. Volume of fluid (VOF) method was used to predict the mentioned fields in a 3D geometry. Results show that VOF is a successful approach for prediction of velocity and concentration fields. The computational model ha...

This article presents a complementary experimental and computational investigation of the effect of viscosity and flowrate on the dynamics of drop formation in the dripping mode. In contrast to previous studies, numerical simulations are performedwith two popular commercial computational fluid dynamics (CFD) packages, CFX and FLOW-3D, both of which employ the volume of fluid (VOF) method. Compa...