A numerical study of a permeable capsule under stokes flows by the immersed interface method

... 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

... there  was  a conical island setup  in  a wave basin having the dimension of 30 m wide and  25 m long.  The conical island has the shape of a truncated  cone  with  diameters  of 7.2  m  at  ... practical  problems  related  to  long waves,  such  as  inundation  of tsunami on coastal areas.  Simulated  results  in  this  study also  confirm that the area behind an island can be  at...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 15:20

... 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

... 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

... 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

... degree of saturation Ssat Saturated degree of saturation Sres Residual saturation T Temperature TA Transmissivity of aquifer t Thickness of shaft lining V Maximum shear at final excavated depth in ... environments of deposits of Old Alluvium in Singapore appeared to correlate well with the Alluvial Complex in Singkep and Bangka of Indonesia The maximum recorded depth...

Ngày tải lên: 27/11/2015, 11:19

... predict the characteristics of the cryogen, argon along the helical coil capillary tube on a miniature J-T cryocooler; ii To validate the simulation results against the experimental data obtained ... Variation of Argon Specific Heat against Temperature 63 Figure 4.3 Variation of Argon Entropy against Temperature 64 Figure 4.4 Variation of Argon Enthalpy against Tempera...

Ngày tải lên: 27/11/2015, 11:20

... thereafter Thus, according to our data, the undesired effects of siRNA seem to appear in a transient way Another key parameter to take into account could be the length of the transfection period Although ... locations of the array allowed quantification of the local background and evaluation of the array homogeneity, which is taken into account in...

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