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For simulation the whole object can be presented as a complex of Dirichlet cells in three-dimensional cylindrical coordinates (R - tp - Z - geometry) [2] (Fig.2). 

Each of abovementioned processes of heat transfer is described by a set of equations of a heat balance, written for each Dirichlet cell. 

Were we can give these equations for the heat transfer process along radius R. The other processes of heat transfer can be simulated analogously by changing formula for heat transfer area and distances between centers of cells. For Dirichlet cells, bordering a gas medium, an equation of heat balance can be written in the form ... 

In the case when in a Dirichlet cell a boundary between zones with different properties runs over grid surfaces, parallel to an axis of a surface R-tp or R-Z, both left and right sides of the equation (1) are divided into a corresponding number of components. 

Torgunakov V.G. et al. Two-level system for thermographic monitoring of industrial thermal units. Proc. of VTI Intern. S-T conference. Cherepovets, Russia, pp. 45-46, 1997. 2. Solovyov A.V., Solovyova Ye.V. et al. The method of Dirichlet cells for solution of gas-dynamic equations in cylindrical coordinates, M., 1986, 32 p. 

Figure 4. Same as Figure 3 for transverse (nonremovable) part of the ab initio 6rst-derivative coupling vector 6, obtained using the all-Dirichlet boundary conditions. 

Typically velocity components along the inlet are given as essential (also called Dirichlet)-type boundary conditions. For example, for a flow entering the domain shown in Figure 3.3 they can be given as... 

Typically the exit velocity in a flow domain is unknown and hence the prescription of Dirichlet-type boundary conditions at the outlet is not possible. However, at the outlet of sufficiently long domains fully developed flow conditions may be imposed. In the example considered here these can be written as... 

We formulate boundary conditions in the two-dimensional theory of plates and shells. Denote by u = U,w), U = ui,U2), horizontal and vertical displacements at the boundary T of the mid-surface fl c R. Then the horizontal displacements U may satisfy the Dirichlet-type conditions... 

Because the Navier-Stokes equations are first-order in pressure and second-order in velocity, their solution requires one pressure bound-aiy condition and two velocity boundaiy conditions (for each velocity component) to completely specify the solution. The no sBp condition, whicn requires that the fluid velocity equal the velocity or any bounding solid surface, occurs in most problems. Specification of velocity is a type of boundary condition sometimes called a Dirichlet condition. Often boundary conditions involve stresses, and thus velocity gradients, rather than the velocities themselves. Specification of velocity derivatives is a Neumann boundary condition. For example, at the boundary between a viscous liquid and a gas, it is often assumed that the liquid shear stresses are zero. In numerical solution of the Navier-... 

Stokes equations, Dirichlet and Neumann, or essential and natural, boundaiy conditions may be satisfied by different means. 

Mixmre models have come up frequently in Bayesian statistical analysis in molecular and structural biology [16,28] as described below, so a description is useful here. Mixture models can be used when simple forms such as the exponential or Dirichlet function alone do not describe the data well. This is usually the case for a multimodal data distribution (as might be evident from a histogram of the data), when clearly a single Gaussian function will not suffice. A mixture is a sum of simple forms for the likelihood ... 

Because we are dealing with count data and proportions for the values qi, the appropriate conjugate prior distribution for the q s is the Dirichlet distribution,... 

The parameters of the Dirichlet prior for the q s should be proportional to the counts for each component in this preliminary data analysis. So we now have a collection of prior parameters 6oi = ( J.oi, Kq , Go , Vo ) and a preliminary assignment of each data point to a component, cj, and therefore the preliminary number of data points for each component, A . ... 

III. APPLICATIONS IN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY A. Dirichlet Mixture Priors for Sequence Profiles... 

A prior distribution for sequence profiles can be derived from mixtures of Dirichlet distributions [16,51-54]. The idea is simple Each position in a multiple alignment represents one of a limited number of possible distributions that reflect the important physical forces that determine protein structure and function. In certain core positions, we expect to get a distribution restricted to Val, He, Met, and Leu. Other core positions may include these amino acids plus the large hydrophobic aromatic amino acids Phe and Trp. There will also be positions that are completely conserved, including catalytic residues (often Lys, GIu, Asp, Arg, Ser, and other polar amino acids) and Gly and Pro residues that are important in achieving certain backbone conformations in coil regions. Cys residues that form disulfide bonds or coordinate metal ions are also usually well conserved. 

A prior distribution of the probabilities of the 20 amino acids at a particular position in a multiple alignment can be represented by a Dirichlet distribution, described in Section lI.E. That is, it is an expression of the values of the probabilities of each residue type r, where r ranges from 1 to 20, and E( i0,. = 1 ... 

CX.0 = Z(=iCx.r represents the total number of counts that the prior distribution represents, and the a, the counts for each type of amino acid (not necessarily integers). Because different distributions will occur in multiple sequence alignments, the prior distribution for any position should be represented as a mixture of N Dirichlet distributions ... 

Sjdlander et al. [16] describe the process assumed in their model of sequence alignments, which is how the counts for a particular position in a multiple sequence alignment would arise from the mixture Dirichlet prior ... 

A component j is chosen from among the N Dirichlet components in Eq. (36) according to their respective probabilities, qj. 

Santa Cruz), http //www.cse.ucsc.edu/research/comphio/dirichlets/index.html, from the BLOCKS text). The second line lists the total prior counts, Uq- The last line provides a rough description of... 

Table 2 Raw Data and Posterior Modes from Dirichlet Mixtures for a Six Amino Acid Segment of Nuclear Hormone Receptors ...

The constant of proportionality is based on nonnalizing the probability and establishing the size of the prior, that is, the number of data points that the prior represents. The advantage of the Dirichlet formalism is that it gives values for not only the modes of the probabilities but also the variances, covariances, etc. See Eq. (13). 

For the Qijtnab we use Dirichlet priors combined with a multinominal likelihood to determine a Dirichlet posterior distribution. The data in this case are the set of counts riijuiab -We detennined these counts from PDB data (lists of values for ( ), V /, %i, X2> X3> XA) by counting side chains in overlapping 20° X 20° square blocks centered on (( )a, fb) spaced 10° apart. The likelihood is therefore of the fonn... 

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