A phase field model for vesicle–substrate adhesion

In this paper, a phase field model is developed for vesicle adhesion involving complex substrate and vesicle geometries. The model takes into account an adhesion potential that depends on the distance of vesicle to the substrate. A variational problem is solved in a 3D computational domain by minimizing the contribution of bending elastic energy and the adhesion energy under the constraints of total surface area and volume, described via a phase function. An adaptive finite element method is used to efficiently compute the numerical solutions of the model. The computational results are validated through comparison of several axisymmetric shapes with the sharp-interface ODE solution. Moreover, we compute shapes for non-axisymmetric situations to support the observation that concave substrates favor adhesion.     

Extraction of subsystems “Majorized” by the rademacher system

In this paper it is proved that from any uniformly bounded orthonormal system {f _n} _n=1 ^∞ of random variables defined on the probability space (Ω, ε, P), one can extract a subsystem {fni} _i ^{Emphasis>=1/∞} majorized in distribution by the Rademacher system on [0, 1]. This means that {

Systems of matrix linear differential equations of first order

Sufficient conditions for the solvability in quadratures of systems of matrix linear ordinary differential equations of first order with one-sided multiplication by variable matrix coefficients are given in this paper. These conditions are stated in terms of the theory of Lie algebras. We consider matrix equations of higher orders that are equivalent to such systems. An illustrative example is considered. Translated fromMatematicheskie Zametki, Vol. 66, No. 1, pp. 63–75, July, 1999.     

Robust Schur complement method for strongly anisotropic elliptic equations

We present robust and asymptotically optimal iterative methods for solving 2D anisotropic elliptic equations with strongly jumping coefficients, where the direction of anisotropy may change sharply between adjacent subdomains. The idea of a stable preconditioning for the Schur complement matrix is based on the use of an exotic non‐conformal coarse mesh space and on a special clustering of the edge space components according to the anisotropy behavior. Our method extends the well known BPS interface preconditioner [2] to the case of anisotropic equations. The technique proposed also provides robust solvers for isotropic equations in the presence of degenerate geometries, in particular, in domains composed of thin substructures. Numerical experiments confirm efficiency and robustness of the algorithms for the complicated problems with strongly varying diffusion and anisotropy coefficients as well as for the isotropic diffusion equations in the ‘brick and mortar’ structures involving subdomains with high aspect ratios. Copyright © 1999 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Temperature Dependence of the Efficiency of Collisional Transfer of Vibrational Energy in Mixtures of Vibrationally Excited Triplet Molecules with Foreign Gases

By the pressure dependences of the decay rates of delayed fluorescence activated by vibrational excitation of triplet molecules of benzophenone and anthraquinone, the efficiencies of collisional transfer of vibrational energy (V–V-transfer) in the vibrational quasi-continuum of the triplet state have been estimated. It is shown that the efficiencies of the process in mixtures with foreign gases increase with increasing dipole moment and polarizability of colliding molecules. In the temperature range 433–513 K, we obtained an inverse temperature dependence of the V–V-transfer efficiency, which is satisfactorily described by empirical relations taking into account long-range attractive forces. The results obtained point to the determining role of long-range attractive forces in quasi-resonance V–V-transfer of vibrational energy by molecules excited in vibrational quasi-continuum.     

牛血清白蛋白与荧光增白剂相互作用的荧光光谱法研究

应用荧光光谱法研究了牛血清蛋白与荧光增白剂CBS-X、BBU、VBL的相互作用.通过Stern-Volmer方程、Lineweaver-BurK方程和双对数曲线进行计算,研究了FWA对BSA内源荧光的猝灭机制.FWA对BSA内源荧光的猝灭主要为静态猝灭和荧光共振能量转移猝灭.测定了荧光增白剂CBS-X、BBU、VBL对BSA的猝灭常量和扩散常量(283 K),确定了荧光增白剂与BSA结合位点数均为1.根据Frster非辐射能量转移理论,计算了BSA与荧光增白剂分子间的结合距离和能量转移效率.通过测定283 K和298 K时供体与受体分子间结合常量,计算了BSA与荧光增白剂作用的热力学参量.BSA与FWA作用的ΔH<0,ΔS>0,并以此确定了BSA 与荧光增白剂分子主要通过静电力进行作用.     

On the exact solutions to the long–short-wave interaction system

The complete discrimination system for polynomial method is applied to the long-short-wave interaction system to obtain the classifications of single traveling wave solutions. Compared with the solutions given by the （G~/G）-expansion method, we gain some new solutions.     

粗化过程中颗粒界面形状演化的三维多相场法研究

利用多相场模型对液-固两相体系中固相颗粒的粗化过程进行了三维模拟,对粗化过程中的界面形状分布进行了统计分析,研究了不同固相体积分数下颗粒连接状态对界面形状演化及粗化速率的影响.模拟结果表明:当颗粒间存在大量连接时,粗化速率随固相分数的变化速率比颗粒无连接时变缓,且随着粗化进行,高曲率的双曲形界面所占比例不断降低,低曲率的椭球形界面所占比例逐渐增多;无论固相颗粒间是否发生连接,界面形状演化经历一定阶段后,三维界面形状分布均呈现自相似性,但随着固相体积分数的增加,界面形状分布呈现自相似性所需的时间延长.