Variational methods for modeling and simulation of tool-tissue interaction

Ph.DDOCTOR OF PHILOSOPH

Price discovery in Chinese PVC futures and spot markets: Impacts of COVID-19 and benchmark analysis

Despite being a minor futures category, Polyvinyl chloride (PVC) futures have emerging as a vital element in energy and chemical futures domain. Employing three benchmark models component share (CS), information share (IS), and information leadership share (ILS), this study explores the price discovery function of Chinese PVC futures and spot markets. It assesses whether PVC futures have matured into an effective hedging tool and reference point for spot markets, and also examines the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on this price discovery relationship. Empirical analysis reveals that the futures market has become the primary site for price discovery in the Chinese PVC market. All the models consistently demonstrate a mature price discovery function in PVC futures, providing risk mitigation tools for industry players. However, post-pandemic dynamics indicate that price discovery in PVC markets primarily occurs within the spot market. This suggests that compared to the futures market, the PVC spot market is able to respond more quickly to the strong signals of industrial recovery after the end of the pandemic. The feedback and pricing efficiency of the PVC futures market in response to new market information are also influenced. Furthermore, our study offers better anticipation of future market prices

Novel Photocatalytic Membrane Reactor with TiO2 Nanotubes for Azo Dye Wastewater Treatment

Novel photocatalytic membrane reactor (PMR) with TiO2 nanotubes (TNTs) has been designed and applied in azo dye wastewater treatment. Prepared by hydrothermal method, the TNTs with length of 30–80 nm and diameter of 10 nm had good photocatalytic activity. The result showed that the optimal pH value was 4.5 and catalyst loading of this reaction system was 0.5g/L. The decolorization rate of X-3B with application of TNTs was up to 94.6% after 75min of irradiation. In the combined process, the PES ultrafiltration membrane was adopted to separate and recover the nano catalysts for reuse. The retention rate of TNTs in PMR system reached 100%. All these showed that TNTs photocatalysis integrated with ultrafiltration was capable of removing X-3B dye effectively and simultaneous separating TNTs photocatalysts successfully

Novel Photocatalytic Membrane Reactor with TiO2 Nanotubes for Azo Dye Wastewater Treatment

Novel photocatalytic membrane reactor (PMR) with TiO2 nanotubes (TNTs) has been designed and applied in azo dye wastewater treatment. Prepared by hydrothermal method, the TNTs with length of 30–80 nm and diameter of 10 nm had good photocatalytic activity. The result showed that the optimal pH value was 4.5 and catalyst loading of this reaction system was 0.5g/L. The decolorization rate of X-3B with application of TNTs was up to 94.6% after 75min of irradiation. In the combined process, the PES ultrafiltration membrane was adopted to separate and recover the nano catalysts for reuse. The retention rate of TNTs in PMR system reached 100%. All these showed that TNTs photocatalysis integrated with ultrafiltration was capable of removing X-3B dye effectively and simultaneous separating TNTs photocatalysts successfully

Modeling of human artery tissue with probabilistic approach

Computers in Biology and Medicine59152-15

Reality based modeling and simulation of gallbladder shape deformation using variational methods

10.1007/s11548-013-0821-yInternational Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery85857-86