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The Information Content of a Scalar Plume – A Plume Tracing Perspective
The ability of many animals and insects to track a plume to its source is a particularly impressive feat when the fluid dynamics is considered. Inspired by this observation this research seeks to identify the ...
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Theoretical model for removal of volatile organic compound (VOC) air pollutant in trickling biofilter
This paper presents an analytical model for predicting VOC waste gas degradation in a trickling biofilter. To facilitate the analysis, the packed bed is simplified into a series of straight capillary tubes cov...
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Analysis of the heat transfer in unsymmetrically heated triangular microchannels in slip flow regime
A theoretical analysis of heat transfer characteristics is presented for the fully developed laminar flow of the incompressible gas in the triangular microchannels heated unsymmetrically with constant axial he...
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An efficient anti-aliasing spectral continuous window shifting technique for PIV
A new sub-pixel correlation peak locating algorithm for PIV analysis is introduced. The method is theoretically consistent with the method of continuously shifting interrogation sub-windows by fractional displ...
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An application of the adjoint method to a statistical-dynamical tropical-cyclone prediction model (SD-90) II: Real tropical cyclone cases
In the first paper in this series, a variational data assimilation of ideal tropical cyclone (TC) tracks was performed for the statistical-dynamical prediction model SD-90 by the adjoint method, and a predicti...
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Disposal of Waste Plastics With Traditional Coking Process
A new technology for treating waste plastics (WP) by traditional coking process was introduced. With a thermo-balance and a 10 g atmospheric fixed bed reactor, the thermo-gravimetric behavior and product were ...
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Liquid droplet movement on horizontal surface with gradient surface energy
A surface with gradient surface energy was fabricated on a silicon wafer by using the chemical vapor deposition (CVD) technology with the dodecyltrichlorosilane (C12H25Cl3Si) vapor which was adsorbed chemically o...
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Fiber sensor of online biomass testing
A new testing method for biomass concentration and sensor design is developed to realize online testing of biomass concentration in the microbial bacterium liquid. The sensor structure theory, optical path, th...
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Effect of wettability of anode microporous layer on performance and operation duration of passive air-breathing direct methanol fuel cells
The influence of the wettability of the anode microporous layer (MPL) on both cell performance and operation duration of air-breathing direct methanol fuel cells (DMFCs) was investigated. The experimental resu...
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Adsorption behavior of hexavalent chromium on synthesized ethylenediamine modified starch
The starch-based material, ethylenediamine modified cross-linked starch (CAS) was synthesized and employed to remove hexavalent chromium from aqueous solution. Maximum adsorption of total chromium was observed...
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Study on Condition Monitoring in Petrochemical Equipment Using Oil Analysis Technology
In this study, condition monitoring and fault diagnosis have been used to monitor the boiler’s ultra high pressure feedwater pumps of a petrochemical corporation by the modern oil analysis technique. During th...
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Mechanical properties of electroformed copper layers with gradient microstructure
The electroformed copper layer with gradient microstructure was prepared using the ultrasonic technique. The microstructure of the electroformed copper layer was observed by using an optical microscope (OM) an...
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Open AccessAn insitu borescopic quantitative imaging profiler for the measurement of high concentration sediment velocity
The design, calibration, and testing of a borescopic quantitative imaging profiler (BQuIP) system, suitable for the insitu measurement of two components of the instantaneous velocity in high sediment concentra...
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Numerical Simulation on Coalescence Between a Pair of Drops on Homogeneous Horizontal Surface with Volume-of-Fluid Method
Two-dimensional transient simulations employing the volume-of-fluid (VOF) method are used to investigate the behavior of coalescence between a pair of equal size water droplets on a homogeneous plate surface. ...
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Experimental Studies of Liquid Droplet Coalescence on the Gradient Surface
Visual experiments were conducted to study the behaviors of liquid droplet coalescence on the surface with gradient surface energy. The microscopic contour of the gradient energy surface, which was fabricated ...
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An MFC capable of regenerating the cathodic electron acceptor under sunlight
A renewable MFC (microbial fuel cell) cathode was used in this study because the iodide ion could react with oxygen to generate triiodide under natural sunlight. The feasibility of the regeneration of triiodid...
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Open AccessMolecular dynamics simulation of injection of polyethylene fluid in a variable cross-section nano-channel
Numerical simulation of injection of polyethylene fluid in a variable cross-section nano-channel was carried out using the molecular dynamics method. The effects of the nano-channel cross-section and the exter...
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Endothelin-1 Promotes Osteosarcoma Cell Invasion and Survival against Cisplatin-induced Apoptosis
Endothelin-1 (ET-1) participates in a wide range of cancer-relevant processes including cell proliferation, inhibition of apoptosis, matrix remodeling, bone deposition, and metastases. Although ET-1 reportedly...
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The microRNA-processing enzymes: Drosha and Dicer can predict prognosis of nasopharyngeal carcinoma
Dysregulation of microRNA (miRNA) metabolism has been observed in a variety of human cancers, but the expression patterns of the enzymes responsible for generating miRNAs remain largely unexplored. In this stu...
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Analysis of the contribution of nasopharyngeal epithelial cancer cells to the induction of a local inflammatory response
We investigated the local contribution of nasopharyngeal epithelial cancer cells to the inflammatory process.
