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Dynamics in a noncommutative phase space
Dynamics has been generalized to a noncommutative phase space. The
noncommuting phase space is taken to be invariant under the quantum group
. The -deformed differential calculus on the phase space is
formulated and using this, both the Hamiltonian and Lagrangian forms of
dynamics have been constructed. In contrast to earlier forms of -dynamics,
our formalism has the advantage of preserving the conventional symmetries such
as rotational or Lorentz invariance.Comment: LaTeX-twice, 16 page
Repairing triangle meshes built from scanned point cloud
The Reverse Engineering process consists of a succession of operations that aim at creating a digital representation of a physical model. The reconstructed geometric model is often a triangle mesh built from a point cloud acquired with a scanner. Depending on both the object complexity and the scanning process, some areas of the object outer surface may never be accessible, thus inducing some deficiencies in the point cloud and, as a consequence, some holes in the resulting mesh. This is simply not acceptable in an integrated design process where the geometric models are often shared between the various applications (e.g. design, simulation, manufacturing). In this paper, we propose a complete toolbox to fill in these undesirable holes. The hole contour is first cleaned to remove badly-shaped triangles that are due to the scanner noise. A topological grid is then inserted and deformed to satisfy blending conditions with the surrounding mesh. In our approach, the shape of the inserted mesh results from the minimization of a quadratic function based on a linear mechanical model that is used to approximate the curvature variation between the inner and surrounding meshes. Additional geometric constraints can also be specified to further shape the inserted mesh. The proposed approach is illustrated with some examples coming from our prototype software
Atomistic simulations of rare events using gentlest ascent dynamics
The dynamics of complex systems often involve thermally activated barrier
crossing events that allow these systems to move from one basin of attraction
on the high dimensional energy surface to another. Such events are ubiquitous,
but challenging to simulate using conventional simulation tools, such as
molecular dynamics. Recently, Weinan E et al. [Nonlinearity, 24(6),1831(2011)]
proposed a set of dynamic equations, the gentlest ascent dynamics (GAD), to
describe the escape of a system from a basin of attraction and proved that
solutions of GAD converge to index-1 saddle points of the underlying energy. In
this paper, we extend GAD to enable finite temperature simulations in which the
system hops between different saddle points on the energy surface. An effective
strategy to use GAD to sample an ensemble of low barrier saddle points located
in the vicinity of a locally stable configuration on the high dimensional
energy surface is proposed. The utility of the method is demonstrated by
studying the low barrier saddle points associated with point defect activity on
a surface. This is done for two representative systems, namely, (a) a surface
vacancy and ad-atom pair and (b) a heptamer island on the (111) surface of
copper.Comment: total 30 page
Modelling the Interfacial Flow of Two Immiscible Liquids in Mixing Processes
This paper presents an interface tracking method for modelling the flow of immiscible metallic liquids in mixing processes. The methodology can provide an insight into mixing processes for studying the fundamental morphology development mechanisms for immiscible interfaces. The volume-of-fluid (VOF) method is adopted in the present study, following a review of various modelling approaches for immiscible fluid systems. The VOF method employed here utilises the piecewise linear for interface construction scheme as well as the continuum surface force algorithm for surface force modelling. A model coupling numerical and experimental data is established. The main flow features in the mixing process are investigated. It is observed that the mixing of immiscible metallic liquids is strongly influenced by the viscosity of the system, shear forces and turbulence. The numerical results show good qualitative agreement with experimental results, and are useful for optimisating the design of mixing casting processes
Toward high-content/high-throughput imaging and analysis of embryonic morphogenesis
In vivo study of embryonic morphogenesis tremendously benefits from recent advances in live microscopy and computational analyses. Quantitative and automated investigation of morphogenetic processes opens the field to high-content and high-throughput strategies. Following experimental workflow currently developed in cell biology, we identify the key challenges for applying such strategies in developmental biology. We review the recent progress in embryo preparation and manipulation, live imaging, data registration, image segmentation, feature computation, and data mining dedicated to the study of embryonic morphogenesis. We discuss a selection of pioneering studies that tackled the current methodological bottlenecks and illustrated the investigation of morphogenetic processes in vivo using quantitative and automated imaging and analysis of hundreds or thousands of cells simultaneously, paving the way for high-content/high-throughput strategies and systems analysis of embryonic morphogenesis
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