We have ever reported our attempt to control the direction of microcapsules in flow by acoustic radiation force. However, the diameter of capsules was too large to be applied in vivo. Furthermore, the acoustic radiation force affected only the focal area because focused ultrasound was used. Thus, we have improved our experiment by using microcapsules as small as blood cells and introducing a plane wave of ultrasound. We prepared an artificial blood vessel including a Y-form bifurcation established in two observation areas. Then, we newly defined the induction index to evaluate the difference in capsule density in two downstream paths. As a result, the optimum angle of ultrasound emission to induct to the desired path was derived. The induction index increased in proportion to the central frequency of ultrasound, which is affected by the aggregation of capsules to receive more acoustic radiation force.

No abstract

A new method for the processing of textured YBa 2 Cu 3 O y (Y123) thick film stripes on metallic tapes is discussed. The process involves the texturing of Y123 grains by a localized directional solidification method by creating constitutional gradients along the width of the precursor Y 2 BaCuO 5 (Y211) stripe during an infiltration and growth process. The differences in the solidification temperatures of different rare earth 123 compounds were utilized to generate the constitutional gradients. The sample configuration involves printed lines of light (Nd) and heavy (Yb) rare earth compounds on either side of an airbrushed Y211 stripe underneath a liquid phase (barium cuprates) layer. The higher peritectic temperature (T p ) Nd regions serve as nucleating sites for Y123 grains nucleated in the adjacent Y211 stripes and the constitutional gradients produced due to the diffusion of respective rare earth ions between the Nd and Yb regions, typically of 200 K cm −1 in the region, induce a driving force for the directional growth of the nucleated grains. The solidification is analogous to that in a typical Bridgman furnace in applied high temperature gradients. The process, being independent of growth rate parameter and texture of the underlying substrate, is suitable for the fabrication of long length thick film conductors by a wind and react process in simple box type furnaces.

No abstract

No abstract

We have previously reported our attempts to control microbubbles (microcapsules) behavior in flow by primary Bjerknes force to increase the local concentration of the bubbles at a diseased part. However, there was a limitation in efficiency to propel bubbles of μm-order size. Thus we consider that forming aggregates of bubbles is effective to be propelled before entering into an ultrasound field by making use of secondary Bjerknes force under continuous ultrasound exposure. In this study, we observed the phenomena of aggregates formation by confirming variation of diameter and density of aggregates under various conditions of ultrasound exposure. Then we elucidated frequency dependence of the size of aggregates of micro-bubbles.

to 100% load. Results: Computational results showed speed improvements of up to 12x per computer. LU matrix decomposition improved by 3.8x, 7.9x, and 11.1x for dual quad-core, dual quad-core plus hyper-threading, and dual 6-core (hyper-threading), respectively. Fourier-transforms improved by 3.7x, 5.7x, and 7.8x for the same configuration. Solutions to ordinary differential equations improved by 5.2x, 9x, and 12.6x. Solving symmetric sparse linear systems improved by 3x, 7.3x, 10.9x. Conclusion: The aforementioned evaluations perform regular and irregular memory access, data structure and file access tests and demonstrated an average speed increase of 100% times half the total number of threads.

We have already reported our attempt to constrain direction of microcapsules in flow owing to an acoustic radiation force. However, the diameter of capsules was too large not to be applied in vivo. Furthermore, acoustic radiation force affected only in focal area because focused ultrasound was used. Thus we have improved our experiment by using microcapsules as small as blood cells and introducing a plane wave of ultrasound. We prepared an artificial blood vessel including a Y-form bifurcation established two observation areas. Then we newly defined the induction index to evaluate the difference of capsule density in two paths of downstream. As the result, optimum angle of ultrasound emission to induce to desired path was derived. And the induction index increased in proportion to the central frequency of ultrasound, which is affected by forming aggregation of capsules to receive more radiation force.