The cornea is the transparent part of the eye’s outer sheath and the primary refractive element in the optical system of the eye. Indeed, its curved interface with the air provides three-fourths of the eye’s focusing power (the remainder being provided by the lens). Maintenance of its curvature and clarity […]
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Joseph O’Brien The way in which the terrible virus that is Covid-19 has rampaged through the entire world over the course of 2020 has altered the behaviour of humanity in a way no one could have foreseen. With the aim of understanding the properties of this disease alongside the way […]
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iHEART, that is “an integrated heart model for the simulation of the cardiac function”, is an attempt to create a complete mathematical model of the human heart, which includes the electrical, mechanical and fluid-dynamic processes from the cell scale to the organ scale. The project has been funded with an […]
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The boundary element method (BEM) or method of moments (MoM) is a common approach for the solution of partial differential equations (PDEs) in engineering applications such as acoustic and electromagnetic scattering problems in homogeneous media. It is accepted in industry and there are many free and proprietary implementations. Bembel’s logo […]
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Researchers from Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University (SPbPU) in collaboration with colleagues from Southern Federal University and Indian Institute of Technology-Madras (IIT Madras) suggested using machine learning methods to predict the properties of artificial sapphire crystals. It is a unique material widely used in microelectronics, optics, and electronics. The […]
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Hi, this is Saint Petersburg and SPbPU again! My name is Artem Eliseev and in this post I would like to tell you about a new emerging direction of collaboration between SPbPU and Airbus SAS. Our university has a long-term and fruitful relationship with this company – my colleagues have […]
Read moreBilateral German-Slovakian Project MATTHIAS – Modelling and Approximation Tools and Techniques for Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equations in finance and Innovative Approach to their Solution financed by DAAD and the Slovakian Ministry of Education (01/2020 – 12/2021) Scientific goals The project deals with qualitative and numerical analysis of nonlinear partial differential equations […]
Read moreThe project GivEn: Shape Optimization for Gas Turbines in Volatile Energy Networks, financed by the BMBF (09/2017-12/2020) has recently published an overview paper with contributions from 22 authors! This exemplifies the need of interdisciplinary cooperations when appropriately solving real world industrial challenges. This paper describes the project GivEn that develops […]
Read moreThe research group of prof Heikki Haario has been organizing annually a workshop and seminar on Inverse Problems at Luosto, Lapland, in the middle of the white, scenic nature of shining snow and ski-tracks in the wide open space of arctic beauty. This year the event was on February 24-28. […]
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Tax evasion is one of the major obstacles to increasing the competitiveness of an economy. It directly and negatively affects the conditions for business activities in the market for the companies that legally declare and pay taxes, making their production costs, and, consequently, the price of their products and services […]
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