Practical Sonochemistry by T. J. Mason and D. Peters

Sonochemistry and sonoluminescence in microfluidics.

One way to focus the diffuse energy of a sound field in a liquid is by acoustically driving bubbles into nonlinear oscillation. A rapid and nearly adiabatic bubble collapse heats up the bubble interior and produces intense concentration of energy that is able to emit light (sonoluminescence) and to trigger chemical reactions (sonochemistry). Such phenomena have been extensively studied in bulk ...

Mechanochemistry and sonochemistry: concluding remarks.

This paper offers a perspective on mechanochemistry and offers summarizing commentary on the Faraday Discussion 170, "Mechanochemistry: From Functional Solids to Single Molecules". The connection between the mechanical and the chemical worlds dates back to our earliest written records and beyond, but its renaissance over the past decade or so has had an impact on a huge swathe of modern science...

Sonoluminescence and Sonochemistry

Development and Practical Application of a Bridge Management System (J-BMS) in Japan

This paper presents a new bridge management system (J-BMS). It is integrated with a concrete bridge rating expert system that can be used to evaluate the serviceability of existing concrete bridges. The proposed J-BMS not only evaluates the performance of bridges, but also offers a rehabilitation strategy based on a combination of maintenance cost minimization and quality maximization. In this ...

STABILITY OF D-WAVE SUPERCONDUCTIVITY IN THE t−J MODEL

We use a recently developed technique, which allows to perform few Lanczos steps on a given wavefunction even for large system sizes, to investigate the t−J model in the physical parameter region and to check the stability of the BCS d-wave variational wavefunction [1]. Our statistical Lanczos algorithm, which extends and improves the one Lanczos step proposed in Ref. [2], has been extensively ...