A steady state multi-segmented heat transfer model of the human upper limbs was developed. The main purpose was to evaluate the impact of blood flow through superficial veins and subcutaneous vascular structures in the ...

The objective of this work is to develop an improved model of the human thermal system. The features included are important to solve real problems: 3D heat conduction, the use of elliptical cylinders to adequately approximate ...

In this study, the transmission-line modeling (TLM) applied to bio-thermal problems was improved by incorporating several novel computational techniques, which include application of graded meshes which resulted in 9 times ...

The thermal environment of farrowing facilities is generally controlled at the thermo-neutral zone for sows (15 degrees C to 19 degrees C). This imposes thermal challenges for newborn piglets, which are thermally comfortable ...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to focus on applications related to the hyperthermia treatment of cancer, with heating imposed either by a laser in the near-infrared range or by radiofrequency waves. The particle ...

Particle filters are general methods for the solution of state estimation problems, which can be applied to nonlinear models with non-Gaussian uncertainties. In this paper, an algorithm of the particle filter is used for ...

A methodology to determine the unknown shape of an embedded tumor is proposed. A functional that represents the mismatch between a measured experimental temperature profile, which may be obtained by infrared thermography ...

In this paper, laser-induced hyperthermia therapy of cancer is treated as a state estimation problem and solved with a particle filter method, namely the Auxiliary Sampling Importance Resampling algorithm. In state estimation ...