Monodisperse nanosuspension droplets, placed on a flat surface, evaporated following the stick-slip motion of the three-phase contact line. Unexpectedly, a disordered region formed at the exterior edge of a closely packed nanocolloidal crystalline structure during the "stick" period. In order to assess the role of particle velocity on particle structuring, we did experiments in a reduced pressu...

In the past recent years parallel robots have drawn a lot of interest in the robotics community and in many applicative domains: medical, machine-tools, pick-and-place,etc, where the advantages (e.g. accuracy, rigidity, high velocity) of closed-loop chains may be useful. The purpose of this paper is to identify important open theoretical problems in this field.

conclusions results indicated that annular fluidized bed reactor’s adsorbers are useful techniques for vocs adsorption. comparison of two particle ranges indicates that in all concentrations and all flow rates of the experiments, smaller particle size adsorption are better. in superficial velocity above the minimum fluidization velocity, pressure drop of fluidized beds are less than the pressur...

We propose the deterministic dynamics of a free particle in a physical vacuum, which is considered as a discrete (quantum) medium. The motion of the particle is studied taking into account its interactions with the medium. It is assumed that this interaction results in the appearance of special virtual excitations, called ”inertons,” in the vacuum medium in the surroundings of the canonical par...

We propose the deterministic dynamics of a free particle in a physical vacuum, which is considered as a discrete (quantum) medium. The motion of the particle is studied taking into account its interactions with the medium. It is assumed that this interaction results in the appearance of special virtual excitations, called ”inertons,” in the vacuum medium in the surroundings of the canonical par...

This paper presents an experimental study of gas-liquid slug flow on solid particle transport inside a horizontal pipe with two types of experiments conducted. The influence of slug length on solid particle transportation is characterized using high speed photography. Using combined Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) with Refractive Index Matching (RIM) and fluorescent tracers (two-phase oil-air ...

An experimental study concerning particle behaviors in a horizontal dilute swirling flow pneumatic conveying was performed. Measurements of particle velocities and concentration profiles have been carried out using the photographic image technique. From the experimental results, it is found that mean particle velocity of swirling flow pneumatic conveying is lower than that of conventional pneum...

Studies have shown that the limit on the updating formula of velocity in particle swarm optimization (PSO) can produce good performance. Inspired by the logic, we introduce the concept of velocity into bare bones particle swarm optimization (BBPSO), which doesn’t consider the velocity term, hence no constraint on velocity. The velocity term is an additional restriction, and thus it doesn’t dama...

RH water model experiments were carried out in order to evaluate penetrating phenomena of fine particles into liquid. Effects particle velocity, mass flow rate and liquid velocity on deposition surface, amount penetrated investigated. The following results obtained:

Velocity threshold plays an important role in the particle swarm optimization. In this paper, a novel stochastic velocity threshold automation strategy is proposed by incorporated with Lévy probability distribution. As is known, Lévy probability distribution has an infinite second moment and is likely to generate an offspring that is far away from its parent. Therefore, this method employs a la...