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We develop an analytical model to predict equilibrium shapes of two-component heterogeneous vesicles or capsules. Using a free energy functional including the bending energies of the two components and line tension contributions, the model describes shape ...
We investigate the diameter of a natural abstraction of the 1-skeleton of polyhedra. Although this abstraction is simpler than other abstractions that were previously studied in the literature, the best upper bounds on the diameter of polyhedra continue to ...
Spheropolyhedra are bodies obtained as Minkowski sums of polyhedra with spheres. They are simple, yet flexible models of non-spherical particles for granular media simulated with the Distinct Element Method (DEM). We here give an analytical method for the ...
The methodology of direct finite element (FE) simulation was used to predict the semi-solid constitutive behavior of an industrially important aluminum-magnesium alloy, AA5182. Model microstructures were generated that detail key features of the as-cast se ...
Every convex polyhedron in the Euclidean space Rd admits both H- and V-representation. For both formats, a representation is canonical if it is minimal and unique up to some elementary operations. In this paper, we extend the usual definition of canonic ...
Convex polyhedra are important objects in various areas of mathematics and other disciplines. A fundamental result, known as Minkowski-Weyl theorem, states that every polyhedron admits two types of representations, either as the solution set to a finite sy ...
Since centralized control of urban networks with detailed modeling approaches is computationally complex, developing efficient hierarchical control strategies based on aggregate modeling is of great importance. The dynamics of a heterogeneous large-scale u ...
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We investigate the diameter of a natural abstraction of the 1-skeleton of polyhedra. Even if this abstraction is more general than other abstractions previously studied in the literature, known upper bounds on the diameter of polyhedra continue to hold her ...
This thesis deals with the numerical modeling and simulation of granular media with large populations of non-spherical particles. Granular media are highly pervasive in nature and play an important role in technology. They are present in fields as diverse ...
We derive a new upper bound on the diameter of a polyhedron , where . The bound is polynomial in and the largest absolute value of a sub-determinant of , denoted by . More precisely, we show that the diameter of is bounded by . If is bounded, then we show ...