Modeling Red Blood Cell Viscosity Contrast Using Inner Soft Particle Suspension

The inner viscosity of a biological red blood cell is about five times larger than the viscosity of the blood plasma. In this work, we use dissipative particles to enable the proper viscosity contrast in a mesh-based red blood cell model. Each soft particle represents a coarse-grained virtual cluster of hemoglobin proteins contained in the cytosol of the red blood cell. The particle interactions are governed by conservative and dissipative forces. The conservative forces have purely repulsive character, whereas the dissipative forces depend on the relative velocity between the particles. We design two computational experiments that mimic the classical viscometers. With these experiments we study the effects of particle suspension parameters on the inner cell viscosity and provide parameter sets that result in the correct viscosity contrast. The results are validated with both static and dynamic biological experiment, showing an improvement in the accuracy of the original model without major increase in computational complexity.

Application of the dynamic Lorentz model to modeling the motion of a rigid body

A qualitative research of the field of phase trajectories of the system of dynamic equations of an absolutely rigid body was carried out, moving around the selected pole under the influence of gyroscopic, dissipative forces and Coriolis inertia forces. The equations of body motion are reduced to a dynamical system generating a Lorentz attractor. Under parametric constraints imposed on the equations of a dynamical system, the structure of its phase trajectories is described depending on the values of the system parameters.

Предельно короткие оптические импульсы в фотонном кристалле из углеродных нанотрубок под действием внешнего поля накачки

In this work, we considered the evolution of extremely short optical pulses in a photonic crystal of semiconductor carbon nanotubes placed in an external pumping field. The possibility of stable propagation of electromagnetic pulses under conditions of a pumping and damping field, due to the balance of dissipative forces and an external field, is shown. The stability of the shape of an extremely short optical pulse at long times is demonstrated with a change in various parameters of the medium, such as the period of inhomogeneity of carbon nanotubes in a photonic crystal and the modulation depth of the refractive index.

The Dissipative Properties Assessment of the Oscillatory System of a Serial Sample of the Coriolis Flowmeter

The quantitative estimates of the flow rate (or density) of the flowing fluid obtained by the measurements using the industrial Coriolis flowmeters are made by using the laboratory experiments previously performed with the exemplary sensor. In this case we face two limitations, such as the unavailability of the facilities because of intense laboratory schedules and little time to upgrade the sensor oscillatory system. So we suggest using the virtual prototyping approaches as an alternative to the descriptive approaches. One of the fundamental problems of creating a virtual prototype of the Coriolis flowmeter is to separate the main parameter measured by the flowmeter (the phase shift) into the parts connected to the gyroscopic and dissipative forces. To solve this problem, we need to identify the dissipative forces model of the flowmeter oscillatory system. The article discusses the experimental results determining the dissipative properties of the mechanical oscillatory system of one of the commercially available Coriolis flowmeter samples. The algorithm identifying the model of the dissipative properties of the flowmeter oscillatory system is based on studying the nonlinearity degree of the envelope of the vibrogram of free damped oscillations. The experiments were carried out at the pouring stand of the Center for Experimental Mechanics of the South Ural State University, which allows controlling the speed and phase composition of the fluid flowing through the flowmeter. The article describes the processing algorithms for vibrograms of the damped oscillations, which make it possible to isolate the contribution into the dissipated energy from the dry (Coulomb model), the linear viscous (Rayleigh model) and quadratic viscous friction. The pronounced dependence of the vibrational system dissipation of the Coriolis flowmeter on the features of the fluid flow (velocity, mode: continuous, slug) was experimentally proven, the solutions of identifying the model of the dissipative forces are presented. The identification algorithm for the model of the dissipative properties of the flowmeter oscillatory system is based on studying the nonlinearity degree of the envelope of the vibrogram of the free damped oscillations. The use of the pouring stand made it possible to control the speed and phase composition of the fluid flowing through the flowmeter. The article describes the processing algorithms for the vibrograms of the damped oscillations by isolating the contribution into the dissipated energy from the dry (Coulomb model), linear viscous (Rayleigh model) and quadratic viscous friction. The pronounced dependence of the dissipation of the vibrational system of the Coriolis flowmeter on the features of the fluid flow (velocity, mode: continuous, slug) was experimentally proved, and the results of identifying the model of the dissipative forces are presented. The experiments included water acts as a fluid medium and air acts as a dispersed phase.

Crucial role of neutron diffusion in the crust of accreting neutron stars

ABSTRACT Observed temperatures of transiently accreting neutron stars in the quiescent state are generally believed to be supported by deep crustal heating, associated with non-equilibrium exothermic reactions in the crust. Traditionally, these reactions are studied by considering nuclear evolution governed by compression of the accreted matter. Here, we show that this approach has a basic weakness; that is, in some regions of the inner crust the conservative forces, applied for matter components (nuclei and neutrons), are not in mechanical equilibrium. In principle, the force balance can be restored by dissipative forces; however, the required diffusion fluxes are of the same order as total baryon flux at Eddington accretion. We argue that redistribution of neutrons in the inner crust should be involved in realistic model of accreted crust.