A numerical study of porous fluid coupled flow systems with mass transfer

... 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

... 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

... 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

... 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

... study and participated in its design and implementation, final data analysis and draft and final manuscript preparation LC participated in the design of the study, data collection and analysis, ... maize plant sampled at m intervals up to 100 m at Bansvlei and Waterbron and 10 m intervals thereafter at Waterbron (Figure 1) A total of 800 cobs were sampled at Bainsvlei and 1,280...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 05:20

... 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

... 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

... 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

... and the selection of the sequences in the alignment determine the nature of the answers returned by the application of the computational tools The statistical nature of these tools makes their ... comparing the results of all these methods is beyond the scope of this review The main features of the approach are illustrated here for the combination...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 22:20

... hospital dependency and dependency on oxygen This metaphorically and literally suffocating disease status may explain the high percentage of depression in patients with COPD and BA in the study, ... disease [19] Patients with COPD cannot cope adequately with everyday needs This inadequacy may lead to heightened anxiety and depression, which in turn may wo...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 23:20

... phenomenon of superparamagnetism whereby magnetic grains behave like paramagnetic atoms at high temperature due to thermal agitation [4] The changes of magnetization configuration in magnetic grains ... information We can change the information stored within magnetic grains by applying a magnetic field to change the state of M A strong uniaxial magnetic field can align M o...

Ngày tải lên: 26/09/2015, 09:56

... spheroidal capsules with various membrane laws under shear flow The transient deformation of capsules with initially biconcave disk shape was also simulated The unsteady tank treading motion was followed ... the membrane, the capsule undergoes periodic shape deformation and inclination oscillation; the inclination oscillation amplitude increases as the shear ra...

Ngày tải lên: 11/09/2015, 16:08