Wall shear stress and near-wall convective transport: Comparisons with vascular remodelling in a peripheral graft anastomosis

Fluid dynamic properties of blood flow are implicated in cardiovascular diseases. The interaction between the blood flow and the wall occurs through the direct transmission of forces, and through the dominating influence of the flow on convective transport processes. Controlled, in vitro testing in simple geometric configurations has provided much data on the cellular-level responses of the vascular walls to flow, but a complete, mechanistic explanation of the pathogenic process is lacking. In the interim, mapping the association between local haemodynamics and the vascular response is important to improve understanding of the disease process and may be of use for prognosis. Moreover, establishing the haemodynamic environment in the regions of disease provides data on flow conditions to guide investigations of cellular-level responses.     

Hamilton-Poisson formulation for the rotational motion of a rigid body in the presence of an axisymmetric force field and a gyroscopic torque

We give sufficient conditions for the rigid body in the presence of an axisymmetric force field and a gyroscopic torque to admit a Hamilton-Poisson formulation. Even if by adding a gyroscopic torque we initially lose one of the conserved Casimirs, we recover another conservation law as a Casimir function for a modified Poisson structure. We apply this frame to several well-known results in the literature.     

Motion visualization and estimation for flapping wing systems

Studies of fluid-structure interactions associated with flexible structures such as flapping wings require the capture and quantification of large motions of bodies that may be opaque. As a case study, motion capture of a free flying Manduca sexta, also known as hawkmoth, is con-sidered by using three synchronized high-speed cameras. A solid finite element (FE) representation is used as a reference body and successive snapshots in time of the displacement fields are reconstructed via an optimization procedure. One of the original aspects of this work is the formulation of an objective function and the use of shadow matching and strain-energy regularization. With this objective function, the authors penalize the projection differences between silhou-ettes of the captured images and the FE representation of the deformed body. The process and procedures undertaken to go from high-speed videography to motion estimation are dis-cussed, and snapshots of representative results are presented. Finally, the captured free-flight motion is also characterized and quantified.     

Monte Carlo simulations of star-branched polyelectrolyte micelles

The concentration profiles of monomers and counterions in star-branched polyelectrolyte micelles are calculated through Monte Carlo simulations, using the freely jointed chain model. We have investigated the onset of different regimes corresponding to the spherical and Manning condensation of counterions as a function of the strength of the Coulomb coupling. The Monte Carlo results are in fair agreement with the predictions of Self-Consistent-Field analytical models. We have simulated a real system of diblock copolymer micelles of (sodium-polystyrene-sulfonate)(NaPSS)-(polyethylene-propylene)(PEP) with f = 54 hydrophilic branches of N = 251 monomers at room temperature in salt-free solution. The calculated form factor compares nicely with our neutron scattering data. Received 18 July 2002 and Received in final form 11 October 2002 RID="a" ID="a"e-mail: roger@drecam.saclay.cea.fr     

Towards finite-dimensional gelation

We consider the gelation of particles which are permanently connected by random crosslinks, drawn from an ensemble of finite-dimensional continuum percolation. To average over the randomness, we apply the replica trick, and interpret the replicated and crosslink-averaged model as an effective molecular fluid. A Mayer-cluster expansion for moments of the local static density fluctuations is set up. The simplest non-trivial contribution to this series leads back to mean-field theory. The central quantity of mean-field theory is the distribution of localization lengths, which we compute for all connectivities. The highly crosslinked gel is characterized by a one-to-one correspondence of connectivity and localization length. Taking into account higher contributions in the Mayer-cluster expansion, systematic corrections to mean-field can be included. The sol-gel transition shifts to a higher number of crosslinks per particle, as more compact structures are favored. The critical behavior of the model remains unchanged as long as finite truncations of the cluster expansion are considered. To complete the picture, we also discuss various geometrical properties of the crosslink network, e.g. connectivity correlations, and relate the studied crosslink ensemble to a wider class of ensembles, including the Deam-Edwards distribution. Received on 24 April 2002 Published online 14 October 2002 RID="a" ID="a"deceased RID="b" ID="b"e-mail: weigt@theorie.physik.uni-goettingen.de     

A Short Solution to the Busemann-Petty Problem

A unified analytic solution to the Busemann-Petty problem was recently found by Gardner, Koldobsky and Schlumprecht. We give an elementary proof of their formulas for the inverse Radon transform of the radial function of an origin-symmetric star body .     

An Estimate for the Problem of Illumination of the Boundary of a Convex Body in E3

Let A be a convex body in Euclidean space E3. We denote by H(A) the smallest number of homothetic 'reduced copies of A by which it is possible to cover the whole of A. The conjecture of Hadwiger is H(A) 8. We prove that H(A) 16.     

闭壳层原子相关效应的多体理论计算：Ne原子基态相关能

对coupled-pair many-electron theory(CPMET)展开中的非线性四体效应采取了近似处理,用角动量图技术和两体函数方法得到了适用于一般闭壳层原子的径向微分方程。然后以X_a模型作为零级近似,通过迭代求解成功地计算了Ne原子基态的任意阶相相关能,从而说明至少对于闭壳层原子体系而言,用X_a模型作零级近似同样可以进行成功的多体理论计算。     

归一化偏差本体反射特征的研究

使图像获得不受光照和几何条件影响的颜色特性描述是实现颜色恒常性的关系，利用双色反射模型和有限维线性模型，提取归一化偏差体反射特征。被实验证明是实现颜色恒常性的一个重要途径，本文详细阐述了归一化偏差本体反射特征的特性，其计算方法，应用的前提条件，以及应用限制，并在实际图像处理中，考虑到了这些影响的因素。     

让世界跳跃的人--马克思*普朗克

回顾了普朗克在物理学上的贡献和对爱因斯坦的帮助，挖掘了他的物理思想，得到对他公正的认识．