Agglomeration of particulate matter in chimneys using acoustic flow.

The emission of micrometer-sized particulate matter on an industrial scale is causing increasing environmental concern about air pollution. Numerous industries and research communities need help to reduce micrometer-sized pollutants in the atmosphere. The current research investigates the acoustic agglomeration of particulate matter through a combination of experimental and numerical methods.

Numerical Simulation of Thermal Conductivity and Thermal Stress in Lightweight Refractory Concrete with Cenospheres.

The main objective of this paper was to investigate the heat transfer of modified lightweight refractory concrete at the microscopic scale. In this work, such material was treated as a porous composite based on the compound of calcium aluminate cement and aluminosilicate cenospheres. The presence of air inclusions within the cenospheres was an essential factor in the reduction in thermal performance.

Modelling of silk-reinforced PDMS properties for soft tissue engineering applications.

Background: Polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) is widely used in biomedical research and technology, but its mechanical properties should be tuned according to the desired product specifications. Mixing ratio of base polymer to curing agent or additives enables its mechanical properties to be manipulated and fit to mechanical properties of biological tissues.

Objective: In this paper, we analysed the effect of mechanical load on silk-reinforced PDMS depending on silk concentration.

Numerical simulation of transapical off-pump mitral valve repair with neochordae implantation.

Background: Transapical off-pump mitral valve (MV) repair is a novel minimally-invasive surgical technique, allowing to correct mitral regurgitation (MR) caused by chordae tendineae rupture. While numerical simulation of the MV structure has proven to be useful to evaluate the effects of the MV surgical repair techniques, no numerical simulation studies on the outcomes of transapical MV repair have been done up to now.

Objective: The purpose of this study is to evaluate the transapical MV repair using finite element modeling and to determine the effect of the neochordal length on the function of the prolapsing MV.