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A Constitutive Equation Theory of Viscoelastic Fluids
A new point of view for constitutive equation theory is proposed.The group of Rivlin-Ericksen tensors Am is used to describe the deformation history of the material with relaxation effects. Application of the the...
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Drag Reduction by Addition of Konjaku Flour for Turbulent Flow in a Circular Tube
An experimental investigation on drag reduction in turbulent tube flow is presented. The equeous konjaku flour solution is used as an additive of polymer. The rheological behaviour of konjaku solution is inves...
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Unsteady Fibre Spinning of Viscoelastic Fluid
Unsteady fibre spinning of upper—convected Maxwell fluid is described by a system of four quasilinear hyperbolic equations. Numerical results have been obtained by LW difference scheme. The unsteady behaviour ...
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Scheduling and Re-scheduling of AGVs for Flexible and Agile Manufacturing
This chapter deals with a. modeling and scheduling flexible and agile manufacturing system (FAMS) using AGVs, and b. re-scheduling the system in the case of trouble, by using Timed Petri Net (TPN). The purpose...
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Computational intellectual analytical theory of computational analytical approach to rotating flow of non-Newtonian fluid
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Constitutive equation of co-rotational derivative type for anisotropic-viscoelastic fluid
A constitutive equation theory of Oldroyd fluid B type, i.e. the co-rotational derivative type, is developed for the anisotropic-viscoelastic fluid of liquid crystalline (LC) polymer. Analyzing the influence o...
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Constitutive equation of co-rotational derivative type for anisotropic-viscoelastic fluid
A constitutive equation theory of Oldroyd fluid B type, i.e. the co-rotational derivative type, is developed for the anisotropic-viscoelastic fluid of liquid crystalline (LC) polymer. Analyzing the influence o...
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Purification and Characterization of Two Novel Antimicrobial Peptides Subpeptin JM4-A and Subpeptin JM4-B Produced by Bacillus subtilis JM4
An antimicrobial peptides-producing strain was isolated from soil and identified as Bacillus subtilis JM4 according to biochemical tests and 16S rDNA sequence analysis. The corresponding antimicrobial peptides we...
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Complex aggregates of silica microspheres by the use of a polymer template
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Molecular dynamics simulation of thermal stability of nanocrystalline vanadium
The microstructure and thermal stability of nanocrystalline vanadium with an average grain size ranging from 2.86 to 7.50 nm are calculated by means of the analytic embedded-atom method and molecular dynamics....
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Obtained transgenic wheat expressing pac1 mediated by Agrobacterium is resistant against Barley yellow dwarf virus-GPV
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The aim of this paper is to construct a specific and high-performance gene therapy system for glioma. We constructed a combined promoter 6HRE-GFAP (Hypoxia Responsive Element, Glial Fibrillary Acidic Protein) ...
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An unsymmetric constitutive equation for anisotropic viscoelastic fluid
A continuum constitutive theory of corotational derivative type is developed for the anisotropic viscoelastic fluid–liquid crystalline (LC) polymers. A concept of anisotropic viscoelastic simple fluid is intro...
