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The problems of radiative-conductive heat transfer in the scattering layer are considered. They consist in finding the temperature profile and improving the heat transfer from boundaries. For their solution the Monte Carlo method is used. The different approaches of parallelization of proposed algorithm are analyzed.

The paper presents a new dense material modeling method based on spherepolyhedra packing algorithm, describes mathematical model of spherepolyhedra and discuss the results of computation experiments on different spherepolyhedra packs. The results of experiments show convergence of proposed method. Experiments include investigations of spherepolyhedra packs with different shapes, polydisperse and oriented structures. Presented method would be applied to virtual design of dense materials composed of non-spherical particles.

This article is dedicated to numerical algorithms for solving problems of ignition and unsteady combustion of gunpowder on a uniform computational grid, and a grid with concentration near the surface of the combustion at a constant and adapts the depth under the heated layer of computational domain. The analysis of efficiency of a numerical grid.

GIS INTEGRO is the geo-information software system forming the basis for the integrated interpretation of geophysical data in researching a deep structure of Earth. GIS INTEGRO combines a variety of computational and analytical applications for the solution of geological and geophysical problems. It includes various interfaces that allow you to change the form of representation of data (raster, vector, regular and irregular network of observations), the conversion unit of map projections, application blocks, including block integrated data analysis and decision prognostic and diagnostic tasks.

The methodological approach is based on integration and integrated analysis of geophysical data on regional profiles, geophysical potential fields and additional geological information on the study area. Analytical support includes packages transformations, filtering, statistical processing, calculation, finding of lineaments, solving direct and inverse tasks, integration of geographic information.

Technology and software and analytical support was tested in solving problems tectonic zoning in scale 1:200000, 1:1000000 in Yakutia, Kazakhstan, Rostov region, studying the deep structure of regional profiles 1:S, 1-SC, 2-SAT, 3-SAT and 2-DV, oil and gas forecast in the regions of Eastern Siberia, Brazil.

The article describes two possible approaches of parallel calculations for data processing 2D or 3D nets in the field of geophysical research. As an example presented realization in the environment of GRID of the application software ZondGeoStat (statistical sensing), which create 3D net model on the basis of data 2d net. The experience has demonstrated the high efficiency of the use of environment of GRID during realization of calculations in field of geophysical researches.

This article is dedicated to the construction of the approximate mathematical model of the nonlinear elasticity theory for plane strain state. The third order effects method applied to symbolic computing. There three boundary value problems for the first, the second and the third order effects has been obtained within this method, which gets ability to use well-elaborated methods of the linear elasticity theory for the solution of specific problems. This method can be applied for analytical solving of plane problems of nonlinear elasticity theory of stress concentration around holes in mathematical package Maple. Considered example of the triangular hole. The influence of external loads on the stress concentration factor.

A vector-matrix approach to the theoretical design of metabolic pathways converting chemical compounds, viz., preset substrates, into desirable products is described. It is a mathematical basis for computer–aided generation of alternative biochemical reaction sets executing the given substrate–product conversion. The pathways are retrieved from the used database of biochemical reactions and utilize the reaction stoichiometry and restrictions based on the irreversibility of a part of them. Particular attention is paid to the analysis of restriction interrelations. It is shown that the number of restrictions can be notably reduced due to the existence of families of parallel restricting planes in the space of reaction flows. Coinciding planes of contradirectional restrictions result in the existence of fixed reaction flow values. The problem of exclusion of so called futile cycles is also considered. Utilization of these factors allows essential lowering of the problem complexity and necessary computational resources. An example of alternative biochemical pathway computation for conversion of glucose and glycerol into succinic acid is given. It is found that for a preset “substrate–product” pair many pathways have the same high-energy bond balance.

The possibilities of cellular automata simulation applied to herbs and dwarf shrubs are described. Basicprinciples of discrete description of the ontogenesis of plants on which the mathematical modeling based are presents. The review discusses the main research results obtained with the use of models that revealing the patterns of functioning of populations and communities. The CAMPUS model and the results of computer experiment to study the growth of two clones of lingonberry with different geometry of the shoots are described. The paper is dedicated to the works of the founder of the direction of prof. A. S. Komarov. A list of his major publications on this subject is given.

The paper considers mathematical modeling of layered Benard–Marangoni convection of a viscous incompressible fluid. The fluid moves in an infinitely extended layer. The Oberbeck–Boussinesq system describing layered Benard–Marangoni convection is overdetermined, since the vertical velocity is zero identically. We have a system of five equations to calculate two components of the velocity vector, temperature and pressure (three equations of impulse conservation, the incompressibility equation and the heat equation). A class of exact solutions is proposed for the solvability of the Oberbeck–Boussinesq system. The structure of the proposed solution is such that the incompressibility equation is satisfied identically. Thus, it is possible to eliminate the «extra» equation. The emphasis is on the study of heat exchange on the free layer boundary, which is considered rigid. In the description of thermocapillary convective motion, heat exchange is set according to the Newton’s law of cooling. The application of this heat distribution law leads to the third-kind initial-boundary value problem. It is shown that within the presented class of exact solutions to the Oberbeck–Boussinesq equations the overdetermined initial-boundary value problem is reduced to the Sturm–Liouville problem. Consequently, the hydrodynamic fields are expressed using trigonometric functions (the Fourier basis). A transcendental equation is obtained to determine the eigenvalues of the problem. This equation is solved numerically. The numerical analysis of the solutions of the system of evolutionary and gradient equations describing fluid flow is executed. Hydrodynamic fields are analyzed by a computational experiment. The existence of counterflows in the fluid layer is shown in the study of the boundary value problem. The existence of counterflows is equivalent to the presence of stagnation points in the fluid, and this testifies to the existence of a local extremum of the kinetic energy of the fluid. It has been established that each velocity component cannot have more than one zero value. Thus, the fluid flow is separated into two zones. The tangential stresses have different signs in these zones. Moreover, there is a fluid layer thickness at which the tangential stresses at the liquid layer equal to zero on the lower boundary. This physical effect is possible only for Newtonian fluids. The temperature and pressure fields have the same properties as velocities. All the nonstationary solutions approach the steady state in this case.

Modern approach to modernization of the experimental techniques involves design of mathematical models of the wind-tunnel, which are also referred to as Electronic of Digital Wind-Tunnels. They are meant to supplement experimental data with computational analysis. Using Electronic Wind-Tunnels is supposed to provide accurate information on aerodynamic performance of an aircraft basing on a set of experimental data, to obtain agreement between data from different test facilities and perform comparison between computational results for flight conditions and data with the presence of support system and test section.

Completing this task requires some preliminary research, which involves extensive wind-tunnel testing as well as RANS-based computational research with the use of supercomputer technologies. At different stages of computational investigation one may have to model not only the aircraft itself but also the wind-tunnel test section and the model support system. Modelling such complex geometries will inevitably result in quite complex vertical and separated flows one will have to simulate. Another problem is that boundary layer transition is often present in wind-tunnel testing due to quite small model scales and therefore low Reynolds numbers.

In the current article the first stage of the Electronic Wind-Tunnel design program is covered. This stage involves computational investigation of aerodynamic characteristics of the generic flying-wing UAV model previously tested in TsAGI T-102 wind-tunnel. Since this stage is preliminary the model was simulated without taking test-section and support system geometry into account. The boundary layer was considered to be fully turbulent.

For the current research FlowVision computational code was used because of its automatic grid generation feature and stability of the solver when simulating complex flows. A two-equation k–ε turbulence model was used with special wall functions designed to properly capture flow separation. Computed lift force and drag force coefficients for different angles-of-attack were compared to the experimental data.

Functional modeling of blood clotting and fibrin-polymer mesh formation is of a significant value for medical and biophysics applications. Despite the fact of some discrepancies present in simplified functional models their results are of the great interest for the experimental science as a handy tool of the analysis for research planning, data processing and verification. Under conditions of the good correspondence to the experiment functional models can be used as an element of the medical treatment methods and biophysical technologies. The aim of the paper in hand is a modeling of a point system of the fibrin-polymer formation as a multistage polymerization process with a sol-gel transition at the final stage. Complex-value Rosenbroke method of second order (CROS) used for computational experiments. The results of computational experiments are presented and discussed. It was shown that in the physiological range of the model coefficients there is a lag period of approximately 20 seconds between initiation of the reaction and fibrin gel appearance which fits well experimental observations of fibrin polymerization dynamics. The possibility of a number of the consequent $(n = 1–3)$ sol-gel transitions demonstrated as well. Such a specific behavior is a consequence of multistage nature of fibrin polymerization process. At the final stage the solution of fibrin oligomers of length 10 can reach a semidilute state, leading to an extremely fast gel formation controlled by oligomers’ rotational diffusion. Otherwise, if the semidilute state is not reached the gel formation is controlled by significantly slower process of translational diffusion. Such a duality in the sol-gel transition led authors to necessity of introduction of a switch-function in an equation for fibrin-polymer formation kinetics. Consequent polymerization events can correspond to experimental systems where fibrin mesh formed gets withdrawn from the volume by some physical process like precipitation. The sensitivity analysis of presented system shows that dependence on the first stage polymerization reaction constant is non-trivial.