Scaling algorithms for distributed max flow

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FastAero – A Precorrected FFT – Fast Multipole Tree Steady and Unsteady Potential Flow Solver

In this paper a precorrected FFT-Fast Multipole Tree (pFFT-FMT) method for solving the potential flow around arbitrary three dimensional bodies is presented. The method takes advantage of the efficiency of the pFFT and FMT algorithms to facilitate more demanding computations such as automatic wake generation and hands-off steady and unsteady aerodynamic simulations. The velocity potential on the body surfaces and in the domain is determined using a pFFT Boundary Element Method (BEM) approach based on the Green’s Theorem Boundary Integral Equation. The vorticity trailing all lifting surfaces in the domain is represented using a Fast Multipole Tree, time advected, vortex participle method. Some simple steady state flow solutions are performed to demonstrate the basic capabilities of the solver. Although this paper focuses primarily on steady state solutions, it should be noted that this approach is designed to be a robust and efficient unsteady potential flow simulation tool, useful for rapid computational prototyping.

Numerical Simulation of Electroosmotic Flow with Step Change in Zeta Potential

Electroosmotic flow is a convenient mechanism for transporting polar fluid in a microfluidic device. The flow is generated through the application of an external electric field that acts on the free charges that exists in a thin Debye layer at the channel walls. The charge on the wall is due to the chemistry of the solid-fluid interface, and it can vary along the channel, e.g. due to modification of the wall. This investigation focuses on the simulation of the electroosmotic flow (EOF) profile in a cylindrical microchannel with step change in zeta potential. The modified Navier-Stoke equation governing the velocity field and a non-linear two-dimensional Poisson-Boltzmann equation governing the electrical double-layer (EDL) field distribution are solved numerically using finite control-volume method. Continuities of flow rate and electric current are enforced resulting in a non-uniform electrical field and pressure gradient distribution along the channel. The resulting parabolic velocity distribution at the junction of the step change in zeta potential, which is more typical of a pressure-driven velocity flow profile, is obtained.

The Inertio-Elastic Planar Entry Flow of Low-Viscosity Elastic Fluids in Micro-fabricated Geometries

The non-Newtonian flow of dilute aqueous polyethylene oxide (PEO) solutions through microfabricated planar abrupt contraction-expansions is investigated. The contraction geometries are fabricated from a high-resolution chrome mask and cross-linked PDMS gels using the tools of soft-lithography. The small length scales and high deformation rates in the contraction throat lead to significant extensional flow effects even with dilute polymer solutions having time constants on the order of milliseconds. The dimensionless extra pressure drop across the contraction increases by more than 200% and is accompanied by significant upstream vortex growth. Streak photography and videomicroscopy using epifluorescent particles shows that the flow ultimately becomes unstable and three-dimensional. The moderate Reynolds numbers (0.03 ≤ Re ≤ 44) associated with these high Deborah number (0 ≤ De ≤ 600) microfluidic flows results in the exploration of new regions of the Re-De parameter space in which the effects of both elasticity and inertia can be observed. Understanding such interactions will be increasingly important in microfluidic applications involving complex fluids and can best be interpreted in terms of the elasticity number, El = De/Re, which is independent of the flow kinematics and depends only on the fluid rheology and the characteristic size of the device.

Evaluación y mejoramiento productivo de PLASPUCOL

Este proyecto de grado pretende evaluar el comportamiento productivo de la empresa Plaspucol ubicada en la ciudad de Bogotá, identificando las deficiencias en su proceso y generando mecanismo de mejoramiento a través de un previo análisis. Para ello es necesario partir de un marco teórico del plástico como lo es su historia, su evolución, clasificación y su posicionamiento e influencia económica a nivel mundial y vista a su vez desde el ámbito nacional. Para analizar dichas situaciones se usaron herramientas aprendidas en lo largo de nuestra formación profesional como los diagramas de recorrido, diagramas de flujo, diagrama hombre-máquina, diagrama de balanceo, muestreo y un moderno simulador llamado Promodel con el cual se diagnostica a la empresa identificando puntos débiles y cuellos de botella en la producción en la situación actual y se crea una situación futura con propuestas de mejora empleando éste simulador.

Web Graph

Slides and an essay on the Web Graph, search engines and how Google calculates Page Rank

Viscous Flow and Fluid Dynamics

Exam questions and solutions for a third year maths course. Diagrams for the questions are all together in the support.zip file, as .eps files

Graph Theory and Social Networks Tutorial

For COMP60

On the Foundations of Quantitative Information Flow

The paper introduces vulnerability and quantitative privacy. Optional reading

Open Equipment data flow

Short set of slides explaining the workflow from a university website to equipment.data.ac.uk

Genome-wide evidence for speciation with gene flow in Heliconius butterflies

Most speciation events probably occur gradually, without complete and immediate reproductive isolation, but the full extent of gene flow between diverging species has rarely been characterized on a genome-wide scale. Documenting the extent and timing of admixture between diverging species can clarify the role of geographic isolation in speciation. Here we use new methodology to quantify admixture at different stages of divergence in Heliconius butterflies, based on whole-genome sequences of 31 individuals. Comparisons between sympatric and allopatric populations of H. melpomene, H. cydno, and H. timareta revealed a genome-wide trend of increased shared variation in sympatry, indicative of pervasive interspecific gene flow. Up to 40% of 100-kb genomic windows clustered by geography rather than by species, demonstrating that a very substantial fraction of the genome has been shared between sympatric species. Analyses of genetic variation shared over different time intervals suggested that admixture between these species has continued since early in speciation. Alleles shared between species during recent time intervals displayed higher levels of linkage disequilibrium than those shared over longer time intervals, suggesting that this admixture took place at multiple points during divergence and is probably ongoing. The signal of admixture was significantly reduced around loci controlling divergent wing patterns, as well as throughout the Z chromosome, consistent with strong selection for Müllerian mimicry and with known Z-linked hybrid incompatibility. Overall these results show that species divergence can occur in the face of persistent and genome-wide admixture over long periods of time.

Predicción del flow disposicional según clima motivacional y el trato generado por el profesor en clase de Educación Física.

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Speak to me graph.

Se compone de diez actividades destinadas a ayudar a los profesores a desarrollar las capacidades de análisis e interpretación de datos de los alumnos de ciencias. Cada actividad incluye una hoja de preguntas y una hoja de datos, ésta última, disponible en archivos de Excel, para que los estudiantes utilicen las nuevas tecnologías para crear gráficos. Los ejercicios están pensados para el nivel superior de la etapa 2 (key stage 2) del currículo nacional inglés y para la etapa 3, es decir, para primaria y secundaria, y se centran en el contenido de 'Sc2 Life and Living Proceses'.

Análisis de las relaciones entre orientaciones de meta, clima motivacional, valoración de la Educación Física y flow disposicional en estudiantes de Educación Física en secundaria.

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