A numerical study of airflow through human upper airways

... distortion of anterior nasal airway was found to have much larger impact on nasal airflow patterns than middle and posterior nasal airway (Garcia et al., 2010) Deviated nose, referring to appearance of ... sectional area around sinus ostia at peak inspiration and peak expiration 120  Figure 6.1 (a) Sagittal image of human upper airway The fluid domain consists of the nasal cavit...

Ngày tải lên: 09/09/2015, 10:15

... investigate mass transfer in a reactor partially filled with porous media There is also no systematic or parametrical study on a microchannel reactor with a porous wall that examines the influence of ... interface conditions, usually continuities of temperature and heat flux are required (Neale and Nader, 1974; Vafai and Thiyagaraja, 1987; OchoaTapia and Whitaker, 1997...

Ngày tải lên: 10/09/2015, 15:53

... A NUMERICAL STUDY OF A PERMEABLE CAPSULE UNDER STOKES FLOWS BY THE IMMERSED INTERFACE METHOD PAHALA GEDARA JAYATHILAKE (B Sc., University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka) A THESIS SUBMITTED FOR THE ... physical parameters, extend the IIM approach to study the adhesion and detachment of a permeable capsule adhered onto a rigid planar substrate in the...

Ngày tải lên: 11/09/2015, 09:15

... thus, any rarefaction waves arising behind the wave front will overtake and weaken the detonation wave As a matter of fact, a strong detonation, also called overdriven detonation, is not stable and ... For a steady, planar, one-dimensional detonation wave, with both the reactants and products modeled as the same perfect gas and the detonation wave modeled as a di...

Ngày tải lên: 11/09/2015, 16:07

... theoretical information on mass transport A systematic study is needed to investigate the effects of various important parameters on the fluid flow and mass transport in microchannel bioreactors ... increasing fluid- phase endocytosis; and they are capable of producing intracellular actin and myosin filaments that are oriented in the flow direction Eskin et...

Ngày tải lên: 12/09/2015, 21:13

... Ochoa-Tapia and Whitaker’s stress jump conditions for the flow, heat and mass transfer in porous/ fluid coupled domains, and to investigate their effects on local and global heat and mass transfer; ... incorporated with heat or mass transfer There are also limited numerical experiments and systematic results for heat and mass transfer in porou...

Ngày tải lên: 12/09/2015, 21:13

... field of coastal engineering, wave interaction with porous media is an important phenomenon and its applications include wave interaction with porous seabeds and wave interaction with porous structures ... A NUMERICAL STUDY OF WAVE INTERACTION WITH POROUS MEDIA S A SUVINI ANUJA KARUNARATHNA (B.Sc.Eng (Hons.), University of Peradeniya, Sri Lank...

Ngày tải lên: 12/09/2015, 21:16

... was to investigate the swirling flow and oxygen transport in a stirred micro- bioreactor A numerical model was developed to investigate the flow field and mass transport in a micro- bioreactor in ... Swirling Flow and Mass Transfer in a Micro- Bioreactor with Partially Rotating End-Wall 79 5.1 Numerical Model 80 5.2 Vortex Breakdown in a...

Ngày tải lên: 14/09/2015, 18:55

... and spatial elastica Planar elastica comprise three mostly encountered cases: pin-pin elastica, clamp-pin elastica, and clamp-clamp elastica When both ends of elastica are clamped, and the system ... Diagram of D − λ1 / Pcr (spatial clamp-clamp elastica) ………… … 82 Figure 4.38 Diagram of D − λ3 / Pcr (spatial clamp-clamp elastica) …………….…82 Figure 4.39 Diagram of D − Strain...

Ngày tải lên: 26/09/2015, 09:39

... simulate wave propagation in a poroelastic medium First, the theory of propagation of elastic waves in fluid-saturated poroelastic media and the localized differential quadrature (LDQ) method are ... and the localized differential quadrature method 2.1 General The theory of propagation of elastic waves in fluid-saturated poroelastic...

Ngày tải lên: 26/09/2015, 09:39

Ngày tải lên: 07/11/2012, 14:17

... LINGUISTIC FEATURES OF THE INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION ON HUMAN RIGHTS IN COMPARISON WITH THOSE OF THE INTERNATIONAL DECLARATION 4.1 Definition of an International Convention 4 .2 20 Purposes and typical ... Preamble of the Convention and their realization 4.3.1 21 23 The Body 23 4.3 .2. 1 The Body of the Convention and its realization 23 4.3 .2. 2 Remarks 2...

Ngày tải lên: 07/11/2012, 14:17

... differences between international Declarations and Conventions 32 in terms of discourse structures and major linguistic features International Declarations and International Conventions are legal documents, ... Convention 4 .3 A STUDY OF THE DISCOURSE STRUCTURE AND MAJOR LINGUISTIC FEATURES OF INTERNATIONAL CONVENTIONS ON HUMAN RIGH...

Ngày tải lên: 07/11/2012, 14:17

... spirit of article 29; (b) Encourage international co-operation in the production, exchange and dissemination of such information and material from a diversity of cultural, national and international ... education accessible to all on the basis of capacity by every appropriate means; (d) Make educational and vocational information and guidance available and accessib...

Ngày tải lên: 07/11/2012, 14:17

... report the spectrum of the graph’s Laplacian matrix rather than the adjacency matrix It is increasingly popular these days to analyze the spectral properties of the graph’s Laplacian matrix However, ... process of dividing the entire range of a variable into smaller intervals and counting the number of observations within each bin or interval In fixed binning, all...

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