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Cases of ground surface relief of the Earth were not considered in investigations. Or the cases were not brought to systematical numeral modeling. Currently available methods of relief form corrections have approximate pattern. In this study, for the calculation of fields in layered relief medium, we use the method of integral equations, well-established when performing modeling in resistivity method [7],[8],[9]. 

AVT is a fully nondestmctive test, especially suitable to historic stractures because it is performed by just measuring the response in operational conditions, fit turn, the knowledge of global parameters of the building, such as the modal parameters, provides essential information to validate the numerical models currently used to quantitatively estimate the structural safety of Cultural Heritage stractures or to design repair interventions. 

Numerical Modeling of eddy current steam generator inspection Comparison with experimental data, P.O. Gros, Review of Progress in Quantitative Nondestructive Evaluation, Vol 16 A, D.O. Thompson D. Chimenti, Eds (Plenium, New York 1997) pp 257-261. 

To extend the applicability of the SECM feedback mode for studying ET processes at ITIES, we have formulated a numerical model that fully treats diffusional mass transfer in the two phases [49]. The model relates to the specific case of an irreversible ET process at the ITIES, i.e., the situation where the potentials of the redox couples in the two phases are widely separated. A further model for the case of quasireversible ET kinetics at the ITIES is currently under development. For the case where the oxidized form of a redox species, Oxi, is electrolytically generated at the tip in phase 1 from the reduced species, Red], the reactions at the tip and the ITIES are ... 

The numerical model developed to treat this problem [49], involves the parameters K, y, and the normalized tip-interface distance, L = d/a. To develop an understanding of the factors governing the SECM feedback response, which is of importance in the interpretation of experimental data, we briefly describe the effect of these parameters on the tip current. A key aim is to define precisely the conditions under which the simpler constant-composition model Eqs. (l)-(5) can be used. 

Numerical models are used to predict the performance and assist in the design of final cover systems. The availability of models used to conduct water balance analyses of ET cover systems is currently limited, and the results can be inconsistent. For example, models such as Hydrologic Evaluation of Landfill Performance (HELP) and Unsaturated Soil Water and Heat Flow (UNSAT-H) do not address all of the factors related to ET cover system performance. These models, for instance, do not consider percolation through preferential pathways may underestimate or overestimate percolation and have different levels of detail regarding weather, soil, and vegetation. In addition, HELP does not account for physical processes, such as matric potential, that generally govern unsaturated flow in ET covers.39 42 47... 

In this chapter, basic theoretical calculations and numerical modeling of droplet generation and deformation processes of both normal liquids and melts will be discussed in detail. The review of modeling efforts will outline the current status and recent developments... 

Much effort has been expended in the last 5 years upon development of numerical models with increasingly less restrictive assumptions and more physical complexities. Current development in PEFC modeling is in the direction of applying computational fluid dynamics (CFD) to solve the complete set of transport equations governing mass, momentum, species, energy, and charge conservation. 

From the physics point of view, the system that we deal with here—a semiflexible polyelectrolyte that is packaged by protein complexes regularly spaced along its contour—is of a complexity that still allows the application of analytical and numerical models. For quantitative prediction of chromatin properties from such models, certain physical parameters must be known such as the dimensions of the nucleosomes and DNA, their surface charge, interactions, and mechanical flexibility. Current structural research on chromatin, oligonucleosomes, and DNA has brought us into a position where many such elementary physical parameters are known. Thus, our understanding of the components of the chromatin fiber is now at a level where predictions of physical properties of the fiber are possible and can be experimentally tested. 

In this section the methods described in Sections III and IV are applied to derive a dynamic numerical model of the SCR of NO-N02 with NH3 over a commercial V205/W03/Ti02 extruded monolith catalyst. The extension of the same dynamic model to a zeolite-based catalyst is currently in progress (Chatterjee et al., 2007). 

The numerical model is implemented for the three current collector configurations previously mentioned. Since the model uses semi-empirical parameters, this is first calibrated and then validated, through a comparison with experimental data. For collecting the current, a silver wire is wrapped around the cathode, while a nickel spring is placed in contact with the anode (case 3 previously defined). The tests are performed using pure hydrogen at a constant flow rate. Voltage is varied by the use of a load bank, and the relative current is measured. The temperature of 800°C is... 

An efficient way of studying the vertical structure of ocean ecosystems is to numerically model them based on measurements of their characteristics (Kuck et al., 2000). To derive the model, it is necessary to know the structure of the trophic relationships in ecosystems, specific features of hydrological conditions, and information about other characteristics of the environment. Experience in such modeling has pointed up a possibility for efficient prediction of the dynamics of World Ocean communities. Examples of such models include a 3-D model of the ecosystem of the Peruvian current (Krapivin, 1996), of the Okhotsk Sea (Aota et al., 1993), and others. In all these models the main task was parameterizing a unit for the vertical structure of the ecosystem. 

Linear and nonlinear programming solvers have been interfaced to spreadsheet software for desktop computers. The spreadsheet has become a popular user interface for entering and manipulating numeric data. Spreadsheet software increasingly incorporates analytic tools that are accessible from the spreadsheet interface and permit access to external databases. For example, Microsoft Excel incorporates an optimization-based routine called Solver that operates on the values and formulas of a spreadsheet model. Current versions (4.0 and later) include LP and NLP solvers and mixed integer programming (MIP) capability for both linear and nonlinear problems. The user specifies a set of cell addresses to be independently adjusted (the decision variables), a set of formula cells whose values are to be constrained (the constraints), and a formula cell designated as the optimization objective. 

Numerous models have been proposed for the processes occurring near the sediment-water interface in deep sea sediments that lead to a balance between dissolution and retention of calcium carbonate in these sediments. Investigation of these processes is currently one of the most active areas of research in the study of calcium carbonate behavior in the oceans. A major difficulty in studying and modeling these processes is that many of the most important changes take place over distances of only a few millimeters in a highly dynamic environment. 

In the middle 1970s, the first results of diagnostic and prognostic numerical modeling of the BSGC were published [8,9]. Because of the coarse spatial resolution of the model grids and the insufficient reliability of the initial and boundary conditions, only their most general features corresponded to the concepts of the current pattern in the Black Sea that existed at that time. 

In contrast to diagnostic modeling, which is aimed at the construction of reliable current fields from the specified density fields, the principal goal of the so-called prognostic modeling lies in the understanding of the mechanisms of formation of the circulation in seas and oceans and their possible reproduction in numerical models. Only if thickness problem is resolved, one can speak about the hydrodynamic current forecasting. 

The understanding of more detail and fine features of BSGC requires much more data of direct current observations and higher quality and spatiotempo-ral resolution of the initial and boundary conditions for numerical models. 

Demyshev SG, Korotaev GK (1992) Numerical energy-balanced model of baroclinic currents in no-flat-bottom ocean on C-grid. In Numerical models and results of calibration calculation of the Atlantic Ocean currents. INM RAS, Moscow, p 163... 

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