Aeen M. Asghar¹, Andrew G. McIntosh¹, Zachary L. Smith², Neil J. Kocher³, Ziho Lee¹, Nimrod N. Barashi², Tianyu Li¹, Jay D. Raman³, Scott E. Eggener², Robert G. Uzzo¹, Alexander Kutikov¹

Canadian Journal of Urology, Vol.28, No.2, pp. 10620-10624, 2021

Abstract Introduction: To assess whether patients with a large renal mass, treated by radical nephrectomy (RN), could have benefited from preoperative renal mass biopsy (RMB). The decision to perform partial nephrectomy (PN) for an organ-confined > 4 cm renal mass can be complex. Although often feasible, the oncologic safety of PN in this cohort is debated. Yet, a significant portion of large renal masses that undergo RN prove benign or indolent, indicating a potential role for RMB to guide nephron preservation.
Materials and methods: We queried prospectively maintained databases from three institutions to identify patients who underwent RN… More >

E. Reilly Scott¹, Abhay Singh², Andrea Quinn¹, Kaitlyn Boyd³, Costas D. Lallas²

Canadian Journal of Urology, Vol.28, No.5, pp. 10874-10877, 2021

Abstract 3D printing has been growing in many surgical fields including Urology. The primary use has been to print kidneys with tumors to better understand anatomy and to assist with surgical planning and education. Previous studies that utilized 3D printing of kidneys for partial nephrectomies have been limited by the cost and complexity of model creation, rendering them highly impractical to be used on a routine basis. Using a simpler and more cost-effective design and materials allow the 3D kidney models to be used in a wider range and number of patients. We describe our streamlined More >

S.R. MANE^1,2, E. K. PATHAN³, G. PATIL⁴, S. G. TUPE⁵, V. GHORMADE⁴, B. P. CHAUDHARI^1,2, M.V. DESHPANDE^5,*

Journal of Polymer Materials, Vol.38, No.3-4, pp. 219-230, 2021, DOI:10.32381/JPM.2021.38.3-4.4

Abstract A dimorphic fungus Benjaminiella poitrasii contains high chitin/chitosan (35% of the cell wall) in the mycelial (M) form than its yeast (Y) form (20% of the cell wall). However, the relative proportion of chitosan is more in yeast form cells (chitosan: chitin ratio, 6:1) than mycelial cells (chitosan: chitin ratio, 3:1). Using the Taguchi design of experimental (DOE) approach, interactions among eight different parameters showed that carbon source (starch, 10 g/L), incubation time (48 h), inoculum (M and Y mixed 10%), yeast extract (6 g/L) and peptone (10 g/L), were optimum for maximum biomass production.… More >

D. Santhi Kumari^a,*, Venkata Subrahmanyam Sajja^a, P. M. Kishore^b,†

Frontiers in Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol.16, pp. 1-10, 2021, DOI:10.5098/hmt.16.24

Abstract This study attempts to explore a qualitative analysis of the effects of Soret on an unsteady magnetohydrodynamics free convection flow of a chemically reacting incompressible fluid past an infinite vertical plate embedded in a porous medium taking the source of heat and thermal radiation into account as well as viscous dissipation. The central equations are scrupulously converted into sets of coupled nonlinear partial differential equations for providing logical solutions. The method of Galerkin finite element is used considering appropriate boundary conditions for diverse physical metrics and then numerically analyzed employing MATLAB. A significant change in More >

Jian Li^1,2, Yongbin Zhang^1,*

Frontiers in Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol.16, pp. 1-5, 2021, DOI:10.5098/hmt.16.21

Abstract The paper introduces the flow equations for the fluid flows in a cylindrical tube respectively on the macroscale, multiscale and nanoscale, especially recently developed ones. It manifests that when these equations should be used in calculating the transferred mass and what should be taken into consideration when the tube inner radius is reduced to very small values. It gives an important indication on how to treat the mass transfer calculation for the tube flow on different size scales. More >

G. R. Ganesh, W. Sridhar^*

Frontiers in Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol.16, pp. 1-11, 2021, DOI:10.5098/hmt.16.5

Abstract In this paper, heat and mass transfer of MHD Casson fluid under radiation over an exponentially permeable stretching sheet with chemical reaction and Hall Effect investigated numerically. Suitable similarity transformations are used to convert the governing partial differential equations to nonlinear ordinary differential equations. Using a numerical technique named Keller box method the equations are then solved. Study of various effects such as chemical reaction, hall effect, suction /injection on magneto hydrodynamic Casson fluid along with radiation the heat source parameter, chemical reaction parameter, Schmidt number are tabulated for various parameters. Also local parameters are… More >

Zhiyun Wang^*, Ziqing Wang, Mo Yang

Frontiers in Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol.17, pp. 1-7, 2021, DOI:10.5098/hmt.17.10

Abstract This paper presents a two-dimensional fluid-structure interaction numerical simulation of fluid flow over two horizontal heat exchange cylinders affected by a flapping reed in a domain. The reed is a thin flexible sheet made of elastic material with one end fixed on the trailing edge of the upstream cylinder. The effects of the reed length and the cylinder spacing on the periodic oscillations of the reed, the flow field and the heat transfer of the downstream cylinder. The results show that the oscillation of the reed in this paper is a single-period oscillate model. Compared… More >

A. Sahaya Jenifer^a , P. Saikrishnan^a,*, J. Rajakumar^b

Frontiers in Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol.17, pp. 1-8, 2021, DOI:10.5098/hmt.17.4

Abstract This paper examines the steady magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) flow of water over a yawed cylinder with variable fluid properties and non-uniform mass transfer. The impact of viscous dissipation is taken into consideration. The velocity and temperature fields are governed by coupled nonlinear partial differential equations together with boundary constraints. These governing equations are converted to dimensionless form with suitable non-similar transformations and then solved using an implicit finite difference method and the quasi-linearization technique. The results indicate that the yaw angle enhancement declines the skin friction coefficient in the axial direction and the heat transfer coefficient. More >

Carlos A. Felippa^*

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.129, No.3, pp. 1209-1241, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2021.016803 - 25 November 2021

Abstract This paper considers Lagrangian finite elements for structural dynamics constructed with cubic displacement shape functions. The method of templates is used to investigate the construction of accurate mass-stiffness pairs. This method introduces free parameters that can be adjusted to customize elements according to accuracy and rank-sufficiency criteria. One- and two-dimensional Lagrangian cubic elements with only translational degrees of freedom (DOF) carry two additional nodes on each side, herein called side nodes or SN. Although usually placed at the third-points, the SN location may be adjusted within geometric limits. The adjustment effect is studied in detail… More >

Olkan Çuvalcı¹, Faruk Ünker^2,*, Turgut Batuhan Baturalp³, Utku Gülbulak³, Atila Ertaş³

Sound & Vibration, Vol.55, No.4, pp. 281-294, 2021, DOI:10.32604/sv.2021.015705 - 18 October 2021

Abstract In this paper, an experimental model of a horizontal cantilever beam with a rotating/oscillating attached to the shaker for harmonic excitation at the one end and a gyrostabilizer at the other end is built to verify the equations of the Lagrangian model. The primary focus of the study was to investigate the parameters of excitation amplitude, natural frequency, rotating mass (disk mass), and disk speed of gyro that would minimize the amplitude of the beam to identify these effects. Numerical and experimental results indicate that the angular momentum of the gyrostabilizer is the most effective More >