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Arkadiusz Grzeczka, Urszula Paslawska, Szymon Graczyk, Paulina Antosik, Marcin Zawadzki and Robert Paslawski
Pulmonary venous hypertension (PVH) is caused by deteriorating left ventricular function. The most common cause of PVH in dogs is myxomatous mitral valve degeneration (MMVD). It causes left ventricular volume overload and an increase in left atrial and p...
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Isehaq Al-Huseini, Maryam Al-Ismaili, Ammar Boudaka and Srinivasa Rao Sirasanagandla
Vascular calcification is calcium deposition occurring in the wall of blood vessels, leading to mechanical stress and rupture due to a loss of elasticity and the hardening of the vessel wall. The role of the Transient Receptor Channel Vanilloid 4 (TRPV4)...
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Lei Sun, Xihuan Sun, Yongye Li and Cheng Wang
The boundary layer is the main source of frictional resistance in gap flow, and the study of the flow structure characteristics of the gap flow boundary layer is of great significance for the study of gap flow theory. In this study, the PIV technique was...
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Charles R. Ortloff
High-speed fluid flows over roughened surfaces occur in many engineering applications; one important application involves high velocity water flows in pipelines with roughened interior walls where the wall roughness affects head loss estimates necessary ...
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Weiqiang Xu, Huaining Ruan and Pengming Jiang
In order to study the effect of wall thickness on the penetration process of steel cylinders, we carried out physical tests and numerical simulations of the penetration process of steel cylinders with different wall thicknesses in sandy soil foundations,...
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Zhenyu Li, Gang Wang, Shaoming Yao, Feihong Yun, Peng Jia, Chao Li and Liquan Wang
To predict the sealing performance of the subsea pipeline compression connector, a semi-analytical method is proposed and verified. The leakage condition is obtained as a function of the minimum radial deflection. The semi-analytical method consists of t...
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Chuan Xie, Weixing Yao, Danfa Zhou and Caijun Xue
The main concern of the paper is the concurrent treatment of size and layout variables in the static?dynamic coupled layout optimization of stiffened plates. As compared to size optimization alone, layout optimization is a more challenging task, and the ...
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Chong Yan, Yibing Xu, Ruizhe Cao and Ying Piao
The very large eddy simulation (VLES) method was investigated for supersonic reacting flows in the present work. The advantages and characteristics of the VLES model and the widely used improved delayed detached eddy simulation (IDDES) method were reveal...
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Ali Habeeb Askar, Endre Kovács and Betti Bolló
This study aimed to estimate the heating load (HL) and the cooling load (CL) of a residential building using neural networks and to simulate the thermal behavior of a four-layered wall with different orientations. The neural network models were developed...
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Lena Wöhl, Thorsten Ruf, Christoph Emmerling, Jan Thiele and Stefan Schrader
Abundant and functionally diverse earthworm communities in perennials deliver ecosystem services like increasing nutrient availability by incorporating organic matter. This study aimed to analyse the decomposition of annual and perennial energy crop resi...
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