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In the course of the last twenty years, using techniques borrowed from standard silicon technology, silicon sensors became fundamental for the measurement of most physical and chemical parameters. Figure 1 shows the physical domains and the parameters for which silicon sensors have been introduced. 

D CFD calculations were performed with a commercial CFD package (Fluent Inc., 2001) taking advantage of the symmetry of the problem. The physical domain modeled is the one shown in Fig. 26, which includes part of the inlet, the outlet channel and the wall. The computational domain also includes sufficiently large sections upstream and downstream of the channel to obtain well-developed flow. This approach for modeling DPFs has been used and validated in the past (Konstandopoulos et al., 2001, 2003) where the reader can find more detailed descriptions of the procedure followed for the domain and mesh creation. 

Fig. 11.2 Example of a copper corrosion system showing multiple physical domains. There are four types of volumetric domains shown, labeled G, A, C, and B. The four interfaces between pairs of volumetric domains are surface domains, labeled A-G, A-C, C-G, C-B.

Because Eq. (1.4) maps the physical domain directly to the internal domain it has to be replaced by a mapping from the excitation to the internal representation. Zwicker gave such a mapping (eq. 52,17 in [Zwicker and Feldtkeller, 1967]) ... 

In the simple case of Fig. 10.4, it can be easily demonstrated that the area under the curve S" = f(co) is proportional to AS. Both quantities characterize the activity of the relaxation in the physical domain under consideration for instance, AS can correspond to the gap between two distinct conformations of the chain. 

Next the designer translates each FR into a corresponding set of DPs in the physical domain. These DPs are your critical material/service targets and specifications. For instance, if the FR is to make a part blue in color, then the DP for that FR might be to target 0/0/255 (blue) on the RGB color scale, with a tolerance of plus or minus five points on the RGB scale. 

The main features of the stream-tube method in 2D and 3D flows, discussed more extensively elsewhere [40,53,55], are now summarized for two-dimensional situations. Flows with open streamlines are considered. The main flow region D of the physical domain D (D 2 D ) is mapped into a domain D such that the transformed streamlines are straight and parallel to an assumed main direction Oz of the flow. An example corresponding to 2D flows is illustrated in Fig 11. 

In spatial decomposition, or geometric methods,249 tjjg physical simulation domain is subdivided into small three-dimensional boxes, one for each processor. Each processor computes forces on and updates the positions and velocities of all atoms within its box at each time step, with atoms reassigned to new processors as they move through the physical domain. Because a processor can compute forces on its atoms knowing only the positions of atoms in nearby boxes, the communication required in the spatial decomposition is local, in contrast to the global communications required in the atom and force decomposition methods. 

The requirements, in addition to powerful software for precise simulation results that also need to be accurately predictive, are accurate and reliable models. The necessary investigations start with modeling of MEMS-relevant physical effects and material properties and the properties of technological processes. Due to the fact that MEMS devices consist of parts belonging to different physical domains, solvers able to handle these domains simultaneously are needed. 

Because the simulations use code-based, reduced-order models instead of FEM-based or BEM-based partial differential equation models, the simulation time is reduced by orders of magnitude. The compelling benefit of this new paradigm is twofold (1) designers can capture complete device and subsystem behavior across the different physics domains required for sensor, optical, and RF MEMS, and (2) accurate, comprehensive simulations take only minutes instead of days, enabling rapid exploration of wide-ranging design spaces. 

In the buffer zone, i.e., between the physical domain and the open boundary, the damping terms are added to the right-hand side (RHS) of Navier Stokes equations ... 

Consider now a set d of nonzero volume, such that d is a subset of the physical region g in the ordinary 3-space R, where the physical domain g is assumed to be bounded and is assumed to contain the entire physical system, for example, the entire molecule ... 

The functional role of actin in smooth muscle in active shortening and force development is widely accepted. However, it is also well known that actin filaments play multiple roles in non-muscle cells, where they are responsible for the maintenance of cell shape and organization as well as motility (Stossel 1993). There is evidence from a number of laboratories that actin filamants of different isoforms may be functionally specialized in smooth muscle ceEs and localized to different physical domains within the cell (Lehman et al 1987, North et al 1994b, Small 1995). 

This principle could be taken to mean that every good causal story we can tell has to be couched in physical terms or that all causation is always in virtue of physically definable or reducible properties. Taken this way, however, this principle would just beg the question against nonreductive materialism. Under physical causal closure, it is not that we can never invoke physically irreducible higher-level properties as causes for a physical event. We may very well cite some irreducible mental property as the cause of some physical event. The point is that this mental property, if it is to be causal, must somehow be anchored in the physical world. It must be tied to the physical by some sort of supervenience or realization relation. This close tie to the physical will always make it possible, in principle, for us to tell a causal story in terms of physical properties, even though the best causal story might not always refer only to physical properties. Thus, we will never be forced to go outside the physical domain and refer to physically irreducible properties in order to find a sufficient cause for a physical event. So the principle of physical causal closure requires that if we pick any physical event, it will always be possible, in principle, for us to find a purely physical causal chain for that event. So if we take any physical event P, we should be able to find some property or group of properties P, such that P is physical and P is a sufficient cause for P. ... 

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