The mixing transport courses of three-phase particle flows exist in some industrial applications, such as metallurgy material extraction, lithium electric slurry dispersion, and material mixing in the high-end chemical industry. Its mixing transport...
In the present work a new regime of periodical energy exchange between pump, signal and idler waves, under the influence of the process of four-wave mixing (FWM), with additional consideration of the effects of self-phase modulation (SPM) and cross-p...
An improved method combining multiple reflections with the phase-modulation technique (MR-PM) is proposed to construct a self-mixing interferometer with high accuracy. The phase modulation is performed by using an electro-optic modulator that is plac...
The application prospect of a flow focusing/blurring nozzle is broad but research on gas-liquid flow inside the nozzle is not comprehensive. The gas-liquid mixing inside the nozzle is difficult to study by visualization experiment, so this paper prop...
Droplets generated in microfluidic channels are effective self-contained micromixers and micro-reactors for use in a multiplicity of chemical synthesis and bioanalytical applications. Droplet microfluidic systems have the ability to generate multitud...
A new signal processing method named orthogonal signal phase multiplication (OSPM) is proposed, which is used to improve the precision of vibration measurement in a phase-modulating self-mixing interferometer (SMI). The modulated signal is acquired b...
To address the challenge of efficiently blending low-mutual-solubility gas–liquid two-phase systems, a composite structure comprising a Venturi and a static mixer was designed, and its flow field characteristics were analyzed using computationa...
Nonlinear guided elastic waves have attracted extensive attention owing to their high sensitivity to microstructural changes. However, based on the widely used second harmonics, third harmonics and static components, it is still difficult to locate t...
Gas washing and oil mixing have been widely studied in the Tazhong area of the Tarim Basin, but their effects on Cambrian subsaltic dolomite reservoirs have not yet been adequately explored. In this study, the influence of gas washing and oil mixing...
Concurrent up- and down-frequency conversion is central to radio-over-fiber (RoF) and millimeter-wave (MMW) system design. However, existing all-optical mixers based on semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOAs) typically exploit a single nonlinear mech...
The solid-phase volume fraction is a core process parameter that determines the mixing quality of high-viscosity polyurethane adhesives. It exhibits complex nonlinear couplings with mixing homogeneity, rheological properties, and energy consumption....
Mixed-mode high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) is increasingly used for the analysis of ionic and highly hydrophilic drugs, which are difficult to separate by conventional single-mode HPLC. In the former case, chromatographic separation is...
Icing is a popular research area in wind energy, and the icing problem of the supercooled droplet–ice crystal mixed-phase condition is one of the new challenges. A numerical method for analyzing the icing characteristics of wind turbine airfoil...
Owing to the excellent properties of high selectivity, high thermal stability, and low cost, in the past twenty years, mixed protonic-electronic conducting hydrogen separation membranes have received extensive attention. In particular, dual-phase mix...
A semi-analytical mixed-control model based on the Non-Partitioned Local Equilibrium (NPLE) assumption was developed to simulate the austenite phase transformation kinetics during heating and isothermal processes. The model was validated by comparing...
The representation of mixed-phase cloud optical properties in models is a critical problem in cloud modeling studies. Ice and liquid water co-existing in a cloud layer result in significantly different cloud optical properties from those of liquid wa...
A mixed-integer linear programming (MILP) model that includes reductions in neutral current, feeder energy-loss cost, customer interruption cost, and labor cost is developed to derive the optimal phase-swapping strategy to enhance the phase balancing...
Cobalt hydroxide is a widely studied electrode material for supercapacitor and alkaline zinc ion batteries. The large interlayer spacing of Co(OH)2 is also attractive to store Zn ions. However, Co(OH)2 is quite unstable in the acidic ZnSO4 electrolyt...
With this study, we address the optimal phase balancing problem in three-phase networks with asymmetric loads in reference to a mixed-integer quadratic convex (MIQC) model. The objective function considers the minimization of the sum of the square cu...
Mixed-phase clouds, in which liquid droplets and ice crystals coexist at temperatures between
Wind turbines operating in high-altitude and cold regions are susceptible to icing phenomenon, which is a serious threat to the power generation efficiency and operational safety. On the basis of the current research on supercooled droplet icing, mix...
Recently, as an emerging material, ultrawide bandgap Ga2O3 has been investigated extensively in solar-blind deep-ultraviolet (DUV) photodetectors (PDs). High sensitivity and signal-to-noise ratio of PDs are essential for the detection of solar-blind...
The construction of anatase/rutile heterojunctions in TiO2 is an effective way of improving the CO2 photoreduction activity. Yet, the origin of the superior photocatalytic performance is still unclear. To solve this issue, the band edges between anat...
This paper analyzes the temperature, cloud type, and life stage dependencies of phase partitioning in mixed-phase clouds spanning tropics, midlatitudes, and the Arctic, using data from ground-based remote sensing measurements in Alaska and aircraft m...
Peptides are a class of biomolecules with a great potential from the therapeutic point of view, because of their unique biological properties. Industrially, the production stategies adopted produce both the target peptide and a series of impurities t...
A crosslinked hydroxypropyl guar (HPG) aqueous gel was investigated as the continuous, structure-forming phase of a CO2-rich mixed-phase fracturing fluid for unconventional gas reservoirs. The CO2 fraction was first screened by fluid-loss tests, afte...
The adoption of all-electric vehicles (EVs) has grown rapidly in the transportation industry, particularly for urban parcel deliveries. However, the limited driving range of EVs and the high investment cost of establishing charging infrastructures ar...
To explore the pressure fluctuation characteristics in a mixed-flow pump handling a gas-liquid two-phase flow, an unsteady simulation was carried out with ANSYS CFX for the whole flow passage when the inlet gas void fraction (IGVF) was 0%, 5%, and 10...
Mixed-phase nanoTiO2 materials attract a lot of attention as advanced photocatalysts for water decontamination due to their intrinsic structure that allows better photo-excited e−cb-h+vb charge separation, hence improved photocatalytic efficien...
The anatase and rutile phases of titanium dioxide (TiO2) have been widely studied for their photocatalytic and electronic properties, while the brookite phase is rarely explored. The investigations of intrinsic magnetotransport in mixed-phase systems...
This paper used a combination of numerical simulations and experiments to study the hydraulic performance and the wear law of a centrifugal pump when conveying mixed particle sizes. The numerical simulation was based on the Discrete Phase Model (DPM)...
Iron phosphate materials have attracted a lot of attention due to their potential as cathode materials for lithium-ion rechargeable batteries. It has been shown that lithium insertion or extraction depends on the Fe mixed valence and reduction or oxi...
Iron oxides are widely used as catalysts for photo-Fenton-like processes for dye oxidation. In this study, we report on the synthesis of an α/γ-Fe2O3 mixed-phase catalyst with magnetic properties for efficient separation. The catalyst was...
Mixed-halide perovskite quantum dots (PeQDs) are the most competitive candidates in designing solar cells and light-emitting devices (LEDs) due to their tunable bandgap and high-efficiency quantum yield. However, phase separation in mixed-halide pero...
The persistence of antibiotics like ciprofloxacin (CIP) in aquatic environments necessitates the development of efficient, low-cost wastewater treatment technologies. This study investigates a low-temperature fabrication strategy for mixed-phase copp...
We formulate a covariant mechanical equilibrium condition for the quark–hadron mixed phase boundary in the presence of a magnetic-field-induced pressure anisotropy. Using the relativistic thin-shell formalism to describe the quark–hadron...
In this study, the novel mixed-phase TiO2 nanocrystals (s-TiO2) with nearly equivalent anatase/rutile ratio were fabricated in the reagent of sec-butanol at the relatively low temperature of 80 °C by using a facile one-step condensing reflux method....
Recently, a mixed redundancy was introduced among the redundant design strategies to achieve a more reliable system within the equivalent resources. This study deals with a lifetime distribution for a mixed redundant system with an imperfect fault de...
For the purpose of improving the transport capability of the mixed transport pump, a new self-made three-stage deep-sea multiphase pump was taken as the research object. Based on the Euler-Euler heterogeneous flow model, liquid (water) and gas (air)...
This paper proposes the effects of chamber pressures on the passivation layer of hydrogenated nano-crystalline silicon (nc-Si:H) mixed-phase thin film using microwave annealing (MWA) to achieve a high-quality thin film. The use of 40.68 MHz very-high...
Aerosol concentration, size and composition are fundamental in hydrometeor formation processes. Meteorological models often use prescribed aerosol concentrations and a single substance. In this study, we analyze the role of aerosol concentration, act...
All-optical memristors possess light-sensing and storage capabilities while simultaneously simulating human synaptic functions, demonstrating immense potential in the field of brain-inspired computing for realizing bionic synapses and brain-like inte...
The ejector performance varies with the mixing chamber length which is largely dependent on the fluid liquid volume fraction at the inlet. In this study, numerical simulations are conducted to optimize two mixing chamber lengths of a two-phase ejecto...
Freeze–thaw damage significantly reduces the performance and durability of airport pavements in cold regions. Traditional assessment methods, such as the F300 freeze–thaw test, are time-consuming and hinder rapid optimisation of mix desig...
This article presents two novel mixed-integer nonlinear programming (MINLP) formulations in the complex variable domain to address the optimal phase-balancing problem in asymmetric three-phase distribution networks. The first employs a matrix-based l...
Phase-sensitive optical time domain reflectometry (Ф-OTDR) attracts much attention due to its capability of telling the type and position of an intrusion simultaneously. In recent decades, coherent Ф-OTDR has been demonstrated to realize long-distanc...
Pure and Ag/AgCl-modified titania powders with anatase/rutile/brookite three-phase mixed structure were prepared by one-step hydrothermal method. The effects of Ag/Ti atomic percentages on the structure and photocatalytic performance of TiO2 were inv...
Empirical Mode Decomposition (EMD), due to its adaptive decomposition property for the non-linear and non-stationary signals, has been widely used in vibration analyses for rotating machinery. However, EMD suffers from mode mixing, which is difficult...
In this work, a novel polymeric membrane was innovated in terms of composition and preparation techniques. A blend of poly(vinylidene fluoride-co-hexafluoropropylene) (PcH) and poly(ethersulfone) (PES) (18 wt.% total polymer concentration) was prepar...
Transparent polycrystalline TiO2 thin films have been deposited on unheated glass substrates using RF reactive magnetron sputtering. Depositions were carried out at different glancing angles and with different total gas mixture pressures. The variati...
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