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    Dissipation in a finite-size bath
    (American Physical Society, 2011-07-18) Carcaterra, A.; Akay, A.
    We investigate the interaction of a particle with a finite-size bath represented by a set of independent linear oscillators with frequencies that fall within a finite bandwidth. We discover that when the oscillators have particular frequency distributions, the finite-size bath behaves much as an infinite-size bath exhibiting dissipation properties and thus allowing irreversible energy absorption from a particle immersed in it. We also present a reinterpretation of the Langevin equation using a perturbation approach in which the small parameter represents the inverse of the number of oscillators in the bath, elucidating the relationship between finite-size and infinite-size bath responses.
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    A spring force formulation for elastically deformable models
    (Pergamon Press, 1997) Güdükbay, Uğur; Özgüç, B.; Tokad, Y.
    Continuous deformable models are generally represented using a grid of control points. The elastic properties are then modeled using the interactions between these points. The formulations based on elasticity theory express these interactions using stiffness matrices. These matrices store the elastic properties of the models and they should be evolved in time according to changing elastic properties of the models. However, forming the stiffness matrices at any step of an animation is very difficult and sometimes the differential equations that should be solved to produce animation become ill-conditioned. Instead of modeling the elasticities using stiffness matrices, the interactions between model points could be expressed in terms of external spring forces. In this paper, a spring force formulation for animating elastically deformable models is presented. In this formulation, elastic properties of the materials are represented as external spring forces as opposed to forming complicated stiffness matrices. © 1997 Elsevier Science Ltd.