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Droplet impact on wetted structured surfaces
In this study, we numerically investigate the droplet impact onto a thin liquid film deposited on a structured surface with square pillars and...
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Modelling of droplet impacts on dry and wet surfaces using depth-averaged form
An efficient time-adaptive multigrid algorithm is used to solve a range of normal and oblique droplet impacts on dry surfaces and liquid films using...
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Prefrattini subgroups and crowns
This survey paper wants to highlight the mathematical impact of the celebrated paper by Gaschütz in which the concepts of prefrattini subgroups and...
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Boundary Integral Equations Analysis of Bone Resorption Effect on Stress State Near Dental Implants
The results of numerical modeling by the boundary integral equations method of bone tissue resorption influence on stress state near screw dental...
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Numerical simulation of flake orientation during droplet impact on substrates in spray painting processes
A numerical study of flake orientation by droplet impact on dry and wetted solid surfaces for spray painting processes has been carried out. A...
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Traveling Waves and Pattern Formation for Spatially Discrete Bistable Reaction-Diffusion Equations
We survey some recent results on traveling waves and pattern formation in spatially discrete bistable reaction-diffusion equations. We start by...
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Numerical Simulations of Waves Breaking over a Rectangular Submerged Reef Consisting of a Double Step: Analogies with massive Natural Wave Breaking over Abrupt Bathymetries
The aim of this article is not to study any practical design for a breakwater device nor to show the evidence of a particular event when waves break...
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The Sages of Ancient Greece
Sometime around the seventh century BCE, Greek civilization emerged in modern-day southern Italy, Greece, and Asia Minor (the western part of Turkey...
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Continuation and Bifurcation in Nonlinear PDEs – Algorithms, Applications, and Experiments
Numerical continuation and bifurcation methods can be used to explore the set of steady and time–periodic solutions of parameter dependent nonlinear...
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An Enlightened Expert on the Movement and Globalization of Civil Engineering: Augustin Betancourt (1756–1824)
In this chapter, we shall examine the transnational path undertaken by the Spanish engineer Augustin Betancourt, an emblematic figure of the European...
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“Beat the Gun”: The Phenomenon of Liquidity
We describe the formation of liquidity condensations, in a random matrix that represents a complex financial market (high network interconnectivity)...
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Existence of two-parameter crossings, with applications
A Morse 2-function is a generic smooth map f from a manifold M of arbitrary finite dimension to a surface B . Its critical set maps to an immersed...
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Effect of viscosity on motion of splashing crown in high speed drop impact
A splashing crown is commonly observed when a high-speed drop impacts a liquid film. The influence of the liquid viscosity on the crown’s evolution...
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Electromagnetic Displacements Rotating Inside an Annular Region
Suitable electrodynamical displacements are obtained by solving the vector wave equation for the electric and the magnetic fields. The aim is to...
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The Structural Effects of Micro-Geometry on Masonry Vaults
Masonry vaults are able to withstand their dead load and external forces thanks to their curved surface, therefore geometry plays a major role in...
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A Modular Interlocking Element for Material-Efficient Stereotomy Construction
In the last decade, research interest in digital stereotomy has been renewed, with efficiency as a popular objective. However, along with a...
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Nicomachus of Gerasa
Nikomachos (Νικὀμαχος) was a late Pythagorean from Gerasa (now Jerash in Jordan), who lived ca. from 60–120 AD and probably lived in Alexandria. Fig....
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Hyperlinking in the Spheres: The Physiosphere, Biosphere, Technosphere, Sociosphere and Econosphere
In Part III of Topology of Mind, we have focused on hyperlinking in: (1) pre-digital oral and written media (Chap. 12...
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Recent Approaches to Metal Artifact Reduction in X-Ray CT Imaging
Metal artifacts severely degrade image quality by generating streak artifacts in X-ray computed tomography (CT) images. Metal artifact reduction...