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Quasi-Steady Monopole And Tripole Attractors In Relaxing Vortices, Louis F. Rossi, Joseph F. Lingevitch, Andrew J. Bernoff
Quasi-Steady Monopole And Tripole Attractors In Relaxing Vortices, Louis F. Rossi, Joseph F. Lingevitch, Andrew J. Bernoff
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Using fully nonlinear simulations of the two-dimensional Navier–Stokes equations at large Reynolds number (Re), we bracket a threshold amplitude above which a perturbed Gaussian monopole will relax to a quasi-steady, rotating tripole, and below which will relax to an axisymmetric monopole. The resulting quasi-steady structures are robust to small perturbations. We propose a means of measuring the decay rate of disturbances to asymptotic vortical structures wherein streamlines and lines of constant vorticity correspond in some rotating or translating frame. These experiments support the hypothesis that small or moderate deviations from asymptotic structures decay through inviscid and viscous mixing.
Post-Surgical Passive Response Of Local Environment To Primary Tumor Removal, J. A. Adam, C. Bellomo
Post-Surgical Passive Response Of Local Environment To Primary Tumor Removal, J. A. Adam, C. Bellomo
Mathematics & Statistics Faculty Publications
Prompted by recent clinical observations on the phenomenon of metastasis inhibition by an angiogenesis inhibitor, a mathematical model is developed to describe the post-surgical response of the local environment to the “surgical” removal of a spherical tumor in an infinite homogeneous domain. The primary tumor is postulated to be a source of growth inhibitor prior to its removal at t = 0; the resulting relaxation wave arriving from the disturbed (previously steady) state is studied, closed form analytic solutions are derived, and the asymptotic speed of the pulse is estimated to be about 2 × 10−4 cm/sec for the …