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Kinds of Transform Technique Selected AbstractsAnalysis of the Arterial Blood Pressure Waveform Using Fast Fourier Transform Technique During Left Ventricular Nonpulsatile Assistance: In Vitro StudyARTIFICIAL ORGANS, Issue 7 2000Shinji Kawahito Abstract: The arterial blood pressure waveform is variable during left ventricular assistance. The aim of this study is to examine the correlation between the left ventricular assist device (LVAD) condition and the arterial blood pressure waveform in a fixed cardiac output condition using a mock circuit. This mock circulation loop was composed of an aortic compliance chamber, a left atrial compliance chamber, a pneumatic pulsatile pump as a native heart, and a rotary blood pump representing the LVAD with left atrial drainage. The Fast Fourier Transform technique was utilized to analyze the arterial blood pressure waveform and calculate the pulsatility index (PI) and the pulse power index (PPI). The PI and PPI decreased with the increase of the LVAD rotational speed, exponentially. There was a significant negative correlation between the PI, PPI, and the LVAD rotational speed, flow rate, and assist ratio. The best correlation was observed between the PPI and the assist ratio (r = 0.986). From this viewpoint, an ideal LVAD condition may be estimated from the pulsatility change of the arterial blood pressure waveform. [source] Efficient sampling for spatial uncertainty quantification in multibody system dynamics applicationsINTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR NUMERICAL METHODS IN ENGINEERING, Issue 5 2009Kyle P. Schmitt Abstract We present two methods for efficiently sampling the response (trajectory space) of multibody systems operating under spatial uncertainty, when the latter is assumed to be representable with Gaussian processes. In this case, the dynamics (time evolution) of the multibody systems depends on spatially indexed uncertain parameters that span infinite-dimensional spaces. This places a heavy computational burden on existing methodologies, an issue addressed herein with two new conditional sampling approaches. When a single instance of the uncertainty is needed in the entire domain, we use a fast Fourier transform technique. When the initial conditions are fixed and the path distribution of the dynamical system is relatively narrow, we use an incremental sampling approach that is fast and has a small memory footprint. Both methods produce the same distributions as the widely used Cholesky-based approaches. We illustrate this convergence at a smaller computational effort and memory cost for a simple non-linear vehicle model. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source] Study of non-Fickian diffusion problems with the potential field in the cylindrical co-ordinate systemINTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR NUMERICAL METHODS IN ENGINEERING, Issue 5 2003Han-Taw Chen Abstract The present study applies a hybrid numerical scheme of the Laplace transform technique and the control volume method in conjunction with the hyperbolic shape functions to investigate the effect of a potential field on the one-dimensional non-Fickian diffusion problems in the cylindrical co-ordinate system. The Laplace transform method is used to remove the time-dependent terms in the governing differential equation and the boundary conditions, and then the resulting equations are discretized by the control volume scheme. The primary difficulty in dealing with the present problem is the suppression of numerical oscillations in the vicinity of sharp discontinuities. Results show that the present numerical results do not exhibit numerical oscillations and the potential field plays an important role in the present problem. The strength of the jump discontinuity can be reduced by increasing the value of the potential gradient. The propagation speed of mass wave is independent of the potential gradient and the boundary condition. Copyright © 2003 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source] How to multiply a matrix of normal equations by an arbitrary vector using FFTACTA CRYSTALLOGRAPHICA SECTION A, Issue 6 2008Boris V. Strokopytov This paper describes a novel algorithm for multiplying a matrix of normal equations by an arbitrary real vector using the fast Fourier transform technique. The algorithm allows full-matrix least-squares refinement of macromolecular structures without explicit calculation of the normal matrix. The resulting equations have been implemented in a new computer program, FMLSQ. A preliminary version of the program has been tested on several protein structures. The consequences for crystallographic refinement of macromolecules are discussed in detail. [source] Use of TLS parameters to model anisotropic displacements in macromolecular refinementACTA CRYSTALLOGRAPHICA SECTION D, Issue 1 2001M. D. Winn An essential step in macromolecular refinement is the selection of model parameters which give as good a description of the experimental data as possible while retaining a realistic data-to-parameter ratio. This is particularly true of the choice of atomic displacement parameters, where the move from individual isotropic to individual anisotropic refinement involves a sixfold increase in the number of required displacement parameters. The number of refinement parameters can be reduced by using collective variables rather than independent atomic variables and one of the simplest examples of this is the TLS parameterization for describing the translation, libration and screw-rotation displacements of a pseudo-rigid body. This article describes the implementation of the TLS parameterization in the macromolecular refinement program REFMAC. Derivatives of the residual with respect to the TLS parameters are expanded in terms of the derivatives with respect to individual anisotropic U values, which in turn are calculated using a fast Fourier transform technique. TLS refinement is therefore fast and can be used routinely. Examples of TLS refinement are given for glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPDH) and a transcription activator GerE, for both of which there is data to only 2.0,Å, so that individual anisotropic refinement is not feasible. GAPDH has been refined with between one and four TLS groups in the asymmetric unit and GerE with six TLS groups. In both cases, inclusion of TLS parameters gives improved refinement statistics and in particular an improvement in R and free R values of several percent. Furthermore, GAPDH and GerE have two and six molecules in the asymmetric unit, respectively, and in each case the displacement parameters differ significantly between molecules. These differences are well accounted for by the TLS parameterization, leaving residual local displacements which are very similar between molecules and to which NCS restraints can be applied. [source] |