Development of a Particulate Solids Thermal Mass Flowmeter

Mass Flowmeter Using a Multi-sensor Chip

We report here a novel two-mode mass flowmeter that can be operated in either thermal or differential pressure mode. By combining these two complementary operating principles, the performance can be improved significantly. This flowmeter is based on a multi-sensor chip that includes a 1-D array of shear stress, pressure and temperature sensors. The multi-sensor chip can also be employed in many...

Hypocoordinated solids in particulate media.

We propose a "phase diagram" for particulate systems with purely repulsive contact forces, such as granular media and colloids. We characterize two classes of behavior as a function of the input kinetic energy per degree of freedom T_{0} and packing fraction deviation from jamming onset Δϕ=ϕ-ϕ_{J} using simulations of frictionless disks. Isocoordinated solids (ICS) exist above jamming; they pos...

IRANIAN VERNACULAR ARCHITECTURE: NOTABLE EXAMPLE OF A THERMAL MASS

In some climates, massive buildings made of stone, masonry, concrete, earth and … can be utilized as one of the simplest and most effective ways of reducing building heating and cooling loads. Very often such savings could be achieved in the design stage of the building and with a relatively low-cost. Such declines in building envelope heat losses combined with optimized material configurati...

Zohdi microstructure particulate − Genetic design of solids possessing a random

Energy transfer among dyes on particulate solids.

Absorption and fluorescence properties of methylene blue (MB), a well-known singlet molecular oxygen photosensitizer, and its mixtures with pheophorbide-a (Pheo) sorbed on microgranular cellulose are studied, with emphasis on radiative and nonradiative energy transfer from Pheo to MB. Although pure MB builds up dimeric species on cellulose even at 2 x 10(-8) mol g(-1), addition of 2.05 x 10(-7)...