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Backgrounds: Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an inveterate phlogistic situation characterized by focal and vaguely diffusive de-myelination and neurodegeneration, in the sphere of central nervous system (CNS). The brain's chronic inflammatory reaction includes ...

IMR PRESS2022

Adhesive wear regimes on rough surfaces and interaction of micro-contacts

Jean-François Molinari, Son-Jonathan Pham-Ba

We develop an analytical model of adhesive wear between two unlubricated rough surfaces, forming micro-contacts under normal load. The model is based on an energy balance and a crack initiation criteria. We apply the model to the problem of self-affine rou ...

2021

Fractal surfaces in adhesive wear processes.

Jean-François Molinari, Enrico Milanese, Ramin Aghababaei, Tobias Brink

Wear of materials plays a key role in the durability of manifactured objects and it has thus an economical importance in our society. In spite of the efforts, a unified picture of the underlying physics of the phenomenon is still far from being reached, be ...

2018

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We introduce a corrective function to compensate errors in contact area computations coming from mesh discretization. The correction is based on geometrical arguments, and apart from the contact area itself requires only one additional quantity to be compu ...

2017

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To model a creeping flow through closed cracks in cracked materials we study a normal mechanical contact between two elastic half-spaces with rough surfaces is studied. The roughness is modeled using a filtering technique in Fourier space: the root mean sq ...

2017

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Composite materials are often made by infiltration, that is, by injecting a liquid matrix between packed solid fibers or particles. We give here direct proof that molten copper, slowly infiltrated into a broad spectrum of preforms, displays in initial phas ...

2014

Fractal temporal organization of motricity is altered in major depression

Kamiar Aminian, Anisoara Ionescu

Objective: Motor changes in major depression (MD) may represent potential markers of treatment response. Physiological rhythms (heart rate/gait cycle/hand movements) have been recently shown to be neither random nor regular but to display a fractal tempora ...

Elsevier2012

Modeling turbulent flow over fractal trees with renormalized numerical simulation

Marc Parlange, Charles Vivant Ignacio Meneveau

High-Reynolds number flow over tree-like fractals is considered, with emphasis on the drag forces produced. Fractal objects display large scale-disparity and complexity while being amenable to a simple and standardized description. Hence, they offer an ele ...

2007

Characterization techniques for antennas with highly convoluted topologies

Maria Eugenia Cabot Barja

The present work has been focused on the development of analytical and numerical techniques for the analysis of highly convoluted antennas and microwave devices including fractal shaped antennas. The accurate prediction of the frequency response of a high- ...

EPFL2005

Tidal networks 1. Automatic network extraction and preliminary scaling features from digital terrain maps

Andrea Rinaldo

We propose a method of automatic extraction of the tidal channel network from topographic data of marsh and tidal flat lands that uses a combination of a threshold elevation and threshold curvature. Not only the location but also the area of the channel be ...

1999