Abstract. Unified geometric approach to describing kinematics of elastic and plastic deformations of continuous media is suggested. On the base of this approach we study mechanical deformations, viscous flow, and heat transport in glassy plastic media. As a result we derive appropriate differential equations for these phenomena in a form applicable to liquids, elastic solids, and to plastic sol...

Computer-Aided Designs and Solid Models are a media of immense importance across a wide spectrum of engineering design and manufacturing disciplines. Computer-Aided Design (CAD) data and the engineers who use it, have unique data access constraints and requirements. Previous work from multimedia databases has developed a repertoire of technologies for similarly-based and semantic indexing conve...

Culture is considered the definitive technique for Johne's disease diagnosis, and it is essential for later applications of certain molecular typing techniques. In this study, we have tested four solid media (Herrold's egg yolk medium [HEYM] with sodium pyruvate and mycobactin [HEYMm-SP], HEYM with mycobactin and without sodium pyruvate [HEYMm], Middlebrook 7H11 with mycobactin [Mm], and Löwens...

In soot filtration simulation, there exists a discrepancy of scales. The filter media can be represented with a resolution of a micron, while the soot particles can be as small as 20 nanometers. A representative portion of the media is needed, but also the correct deposition behavior of the soot particles in order to achieve realistic clogging behavior. A hierarchy of simulations may help with ...

[1] A detailed understanding of the coupling between fluid and solid mechanics is important for understanding many processes in Earth sciences. Numerical models are a popular means for exploring these processes, but most models do not adequately handle all aspects of this coupling. This paper presents the application of a micromechanically based fluid-solid coupling scheme, lattice-Boltzmann di...

In this paper, Lamb's technique, (1) which was used to study acoustic radiation due to an external force acting in an infinite isotropic solid or over the surface of an isotropic solid, has been extended to the case of general anisotropic media. The far-field radiation is numerically calculated for a vibrating point source in an infinite anisotropic solid or on the free surface of a semi-infini...

in this study, urease production was investigated among thirteen strains of aspergillus niger seven strains isolated from soils of semnan province in iran and six strains obtained from persian type culture collection (ptcc). the enzyme production was screened in two submerged media quantitatively. the registered ptcc 5011 and the native s31 strains showed more urease production than the other e...

The effect of glucose and other soluble sugars (xylose, fructose, maltose, cellobiose and lactose) in the production of amylases by Aspergillus tamarii was studied in solid state fermentation (SSF). Wheat bran solid state cultures were resistant to catabolite repression even at high concentration of glucose (10%). Results show the potential of solid state systems to overcome the adverse effects...

Description in terms of physicochemistry and heat and mass transfer of the combustion front propagation in a reactive porous medium remains a challenge to science. The literature about this subject distinguishes two types of problems. The first considers only combustion of the gas phase inside an inert solid porous medium. In the second type, the solid phase reacts with the gas phase; Chemical ...

In this study, a solid acid was prepared by the sulfonation of surface modified α-zirconium phosphate (ZrP) single-layer nanosheets (SO3H@ZrP), and the prepared solid acid was investigated for the esterification of oleic acid with methanol to produce biodiesel. For comparison, liquid H2SO4 and commercial Amberlyst® 15 catalyst were also evaluated for the same reaction under the same conditions....