The swelling behavior of clay minerals is widely known for its importance in soil and environmental sciences and its detrimental effects in engineering fields. Although more than 70 percent of all clays are of mixed-layer types, the vast majority of...
Turbulent mixing layers are canonical flow in nature and engineering, and deserve comprehensive studies under various conditions using different methods. In this paper, turbulent mixing layers are investigated using large eddy simulation and dynamic...
With the development of hypersonic air-breathing propulsion systems, such as the supersonic combustion ramjet (Scramjet) and rocket-based combined cycle (RBCC) engines, the mixing process of supersonic airstream with fuel in the engine combustor has...
The flow field development through a simplified shock absorber orifice geometry is investigated using a single phase Large Eddy Simulation. Hydraulic oil is used as the working fluid with a constant inlet velocity and an open top boundary to allow th...
Ocean convection is a key mechanism that regulates heat uptake, water-mass transformation, CO2 exchange, and nutrient transport with crucial implications for ocean dynamics and climate change. Both cooling to the atmosphere and salinification, from e...
In order to quantitatively evaluate the degree of protection in protective layer mining and provide guidance for the design of a secondary outburst elimination scheme, a variable weight-projection gray target dynamic evaluation model for the effectiv...
Dry wear characteristics and wear mechanisms governing mild-severe wear transition of Ti-6Al-4V alloy were studied during sliding against medium carbon chromium steel (50Cr) in an experimental temperature range of 20–250 °C. At each experim...
This work explores NH3/air non-premixed combustion in a mixing layer, with the objective of quantifying the influence of key parameters on ignition and flame dynamics. A series of two-dimensional simulations were conducted with forced ignition. The e...
Observations of mixing layer height (MLH), its dynamics and the extent of homogeneity of the mixing layer are important in the study of air pollution as well as meteorological and air quality model validation. They can contribute to improvements in t...
Capillary pressure experiments are performed in microgravity conditions on board the International Space Station to quantify the dynamic interfacial behavior of mixed adsorption layers of TTAB and C13DMPO at the water/hexane interface. While the non-...
The possibility of tightly controlling the cellular microenvironment within microfluidic devices represents an important step toward precision analysis of cellular phenotypes in vitro. Microfluidic platforms that allow both long-term mammalian cell c...
The atmospheric and oceanic causes of mixed layer heat variations in the South China Sea (SCS) are examined using data from six long-lived Array for Real-time Geostrophic Oceanography (Argo) floats. The mixed layer heat budget along each float trajec...
Wave-induced mixing can enhance vertical mixing in the upper ocean, facilitating the exchange of heat and momentum between the surface and deeper layers, thereby influencing ocean circulation and climate patterns. Building on previous research, this...
High-resolution in situ field measurements capturing seasonal 3D mixing dynamics at river confluences are scarce, yet this understanding is essential for effective water-quality management and pollutant-transport prediction in river–lake system...
The height of the mixing layer is a significant parameter for describing the dynamics of the planetary boundary layer (PBL), especially for air quality control and for the parametrizations in numerical modeling. The problem is that the heights of the...
The formation of mixed adsorption layers of amyloid fibrils of a plant protein, oat globulin (OG), and a strong polyelectrolyte, sodium polystyrene sulfonate (PSS), at the liquid–gas interface was studied by measurements of the kinetic dependen...
Little is known about how the degree of mixing various forest-forming species affects forest floor hydrology. We evaluated the water storage capacity of the resulting litter layer by mixing the litterfall of Scots pine and sessile oak and studying th...
The paper presents the issue of resistance to permanent deformations of bridge pavements placed upon concrete bridge decks. In Europe, bridge asphalt pavement usually consists of a wearing course and a protective layer, which are placed over the insu...
Observations made using infra-red cameras as part of the South-west FOGs 3D experiment (SOFOG3D) have been used to analyse the dynamics and evolution of radiation fog in the presence of turbulent-mixing at fog top. The imagery revealed that mixing be...
Deformation in the upper mantle is localized in shear zones. In order to localize strain, weakening has to occur, which can be achieved by a reduction in grain size. In order for grains to remain small and preserve shear zones, phases have to mix. Ph...
The 29–30 June 2012 “super” derecho was, up until the 10 August 2020 “Iowa Derecho”, the most prolific derecho of modern times. While many of the synoptic-scale precursors to derecho events are understood, the multi-scale dynamics which likely distin...
The change in the surface morphology of the (001) and (110) faces of K2CoxNi(1−x)(SO4)2·6H2O (KCNSH) mixed crystal, depending on the supercooling solution, has been studied under various conditions by laser interferometry. The experiment...
Using a nonhydrostatic numerical model, this work demonstrates that onshore winds are a principal agent of overturning and vigorous vertical mixing in nearshore water of lakes and inner continental shelves. On short (superinertial) timescales of a fe...
An increase in temperature typically leads to a decrease in the interfacial tension of a water/oil interface. The addition of surfactants to the system can complicate the situation significantly, i.e., the interfacial tension can increase or decrease...
Fine roots play a crucial role in plant survival potential and biogeochemical cycles of forest ecosystems. Subalpine areas of the Eastern Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau have experienced different forest re-establishment methods after clear-cutting primary f...
In this study, non-powered hydraulic mixing with three layers of baffles and holes was evaluated as an alternative to vertical shaft impellers in a rapid mixing process through both computational fluid dynamics (CFD) modeling and field applications....
We propose a hybrid CNN-LSTM architecture for energy-efficient spatiotemporal modeling in sports venue analytics, addressing the dual challenges of computational efficiency and prediction accuracy in dynamic environments. The proposed method integrat...
Anabatic flows are common phenomena in the presence of sloping terrains, which significantly affect the dynamics and the exchange of mass and momentum in the low-atmosphere. Despite this, very few studies in the literature have tackled this topic. Th...
Microalgae are a great source of food and supplements as well as a potential source for the production of biofuels. However, the operational cost must be reduced to allow viable productions of bulk chemicals such as biofuels from microalgae. One appr...
Ferrochrome (FeCr) slag is a by-product of high-carbon ferrochromium, which is used in the manufacturing of stainless steel. In this study, FeCr was evaluated as a replacement for natural aggregates in hot-mix asphalt (HMA) bituminous base and wearin...
Recently, dynamic membrane bioreactor (DMBR) has gradually gained the interest of researchers for the development of membrane technology. In this paper, we set up parallel experiments to investigate the effect of powder activated carbon (PAC) on orga...
Mixed polymer brush-grafted nanochannels—where two distinct species of polymers are alternately grafted on the inner surface of nanochannels—are an interesting class of nanostructured hybrid materials. By using a coarse-grained molecular dynamics sim...
The characteristics of turbulence in the planetary boundary layer (PBL) and the aerosol optical and radiative properties during haze and haze–fog mixed episodes on 22–27 January 2021, in Shenyang, a provincial city in Northeast China, wer...
An overview of scale-resolving simulation (SRS) methods used in ANSYS Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) software is provided. The main challenges, especially when computing boundary layers in large eddy simulation (LES) mode, will be discussed. The...
In order to solve the problem of the uneven distribution of the flow and ammonia concentration field in the selective catalytic reduction (SCR) denitrification system of a 660 MW coal-fired power plant, a three-dimensional computational fluid dynamic...
A new quasi-one-dimensional ejector model for the prediction of ejector performance is carried out, which is based on the theory of ideal gas expansion and free layer development. The model is proposed for calculation of the variable area bypass inje...
A shock wave/boundary layer interaction (SWBLI) is a common phenomenon in supersonic inlet flow, which can significantly degrade the aerodynamic performance of the inlet by inducing boundary layer separation. To address this issue, in this paper, we...
After the command and control information of the command and control cabin is displayed in the form of mixed reality, the large amount of real-time information and static information contained in it will form a dynamic situation that changes all the...
Ultrafast pump-probe spectroscopies have proved to be an important tool for the investigation of charge carriers dynamics in perovskite materials providing crucial information on the dynamics of the excited carriers, and fundamental in the developmen...
Soil organic carbon (SOC) is the largest reservoir of terrestrial organic carbon and plays a pivotal role in regulating global climate dynamics. And there are some differences in SOC stocks under different forest stand types. But it is unclear whethe...
In many modern technologies, surface-active compounds, such as surfactants, polymers, proteins, particles and their mixtures, are essential components. They change the dynamic and equilibrium properties of the inherent interfaces, which is mostly vis...
This article investigates the behavior of two parallel layers of different miscible dielectric liquids enclosed and sandwiched between two electrodes. By applying an electric potential to one electrode while grounding the other, electro-convection oc...
The internal flow in oleo-pneumatic shock absorbers is a complex multiphysics problem combining the interaction between highly unsteady turbulent flow and multiphase mixing, among other effects. The aim is to present a validated simulation methodolog...
The dynamic and flexural behavior of pultruded glass fiber reinforced polymer GFRP rebars were investigated after exposure to elevated temperatures ranging from room temperature to 290 °C. The rebars were cut and grouped into two sets. The first...
To address the insufficient multi-layer optimization of fastener and cushion stiffness in ballastless tracks for mixed passenger and freight railways, a vehicle–track coupled dynamic model is developed, and the effects of individual and combine...
In this study, numerical simulations using the Environmental Fluid Dynamics Code model were conducted to elucidate the effects of flow structures in the recirculation zone on solute storage based on the junction angle. Numerical simulations were perf...
The process of post-fire recovery in mixed Siberian spruce–Scots pine forests (Picea obovata Ledeb.-Pinus sylvestris L.), typical for the European North-West, was studied in the Kola peninsula (Russia). We used the spatial–temporal approa...
This work attempts to connect internal flow to the exit flow and supersonic jet mixing in rectangular nozzles with low to high aspect ratios (AR). A series of low and high aspect ratio rectangular nozzles (design Mach number = 1.5) with sharp throats...
Aerobiology is a growing research area that covers the study of aerosols with a biological origin from the air that surrounds us to space through the different atmospheric layers. Bioaerosols have captured a growing importance in atmospheric process-...
The Eastern Indian Ocean (EIO) is one of the eastern boundary areas, which control currents circulation and atmospheric dynamics. This research mainly aimed to identify and analyze the water mass transformation in the EIO. The investigated physical p...
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