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Optimal energy dissipation in growing microorganisms and rectification columns

This paper proposes a new point of view in analyzing the optimal Gibbs energy dissipation in growing microorganisms. Small Gibbs energy dissipation in growth would be of biological advantage because less resource is consumed and the biomass yield on these ...

De Gruyter2014

Imaginary-time nonuniform mesh method for solving the multidimensional Schroedinger equation: Fermionization and melting of quantum Lennard-Jones crystals

Jiri Vanicek, Alberto Hernando de Castro

An imaginary-time nonuniform mesh method for diagonalizing multidimensional quantum Hamiltonians is proposed and used to find the first 50 eigenstates and energies of up to D=5 strongly interacting spinless quantum Lennard-Jones particles trapped in a one- ...

2013

Investigation of network flexibility and identification of reaction essentiality of human host cells infected by S. flexneri

Vassily Hatzimanikatis, Ljubisa Miskovic, Keng Cher Soh, Anirikh Chakrabarti

We have developed a consistently reduced core model for HeLa based on the genome scale human reconstruction. This reduced model includes the central carbon pathways, the electron transport chains, all the necessary transport and exchange reactions and the ...

2013

Combined Density Functional Theory and Monte Carlo Analysis of Monomolecular Cracking of Light Alkanes Over H-ZSM-5

Berend Smit

Density functional calculations applying periodic boundary conditions have been performed to investigate adsorption and cracking of light alkanes (C 3-C 6) on zeolite H-ZSM-5. Intrinsic energy barriers were obtained from single-point calculations by applyi ...

American Chemical Society2012

Horava gravity versus thermodynamics: The black hole case

Sergey Sibiryakov, Diego Blas Temino

Under broad assumptions, breaking of Lorentz invariance in gravitational theories leads to tension with unitarity because it allows for processes that apparently violate the second law of thermodynamics. The crucial ingredient of this argument is the exist ...

2011

Ambient space formulations and statistical mechanics of holonomically constrained Langevin systems

John Maddocks

The most classic approach to the dynamics of an n-dimensional mechanical system constrained by d independent holonomic constraints is to pick explicitly a new set of (n - d) curvilinear coordinatesparametrizingthe manifold of configurations satisfying the ...

Springer-Verlag2011

Thermodynamic assessment of the Cu-Ge binary system

Jian Wang, Christian Leinenbach, Alain Jacot, Shan Jin

The Cu-Ge binary system was assessed thermodynamically using the CALPHAD method through Thermocalc (R) software package based on the evaluation of all available experimental data from the published literature. The solution phases, including liquid, fcc, hc ...

Elsevier2010

Biothermodynamics of live cells: a tool for biotechnology and biochemical engineering

Urs von Stockar

The aim of this contribution is to review the application of thermodynamics to live cultures of microbial and other cells and to explore to what extent this may be put to practical use. A major focus is on energy dissipation effects in industrially relevan ...

De Gruyter2010

Thermodynamic Calculations for Biochemical Transport and Reaction Processes in Metabolic Networks

Vassily Hatzimanikatis

Thermodynamic analysis of metabolic networks has recently generated increasing interest for its ability to add constraints on metabolic network operation, and to combine metabolic fluxes and metabolite measurements in a mechanistic manner. Concepts for the ...

Elsevier2010

Quasisteady and steady states in global gyrokinetic particle-in-cell simulations

Laurent Villard, Alberto Bottino, Sébastien Jolliet, Ben McMillan, Paolo Angelino, Thibaut Vernay

Collisionless delta-f gyrokinetic particle-in-cell simulations suffer from the entropy paradox, in which the entropy grows linearly in time while low-order moments are saturated. As a consequence, these simulations do not reach a steady state and are unsui ...

American Institute of Physics2009

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