The results form the application of the method of homogenization for the transport of solute in a porous medium with microscale pores and the rock matrix are applied to examine the dispersion characteristics of a solute in a porous rock matrix with parallel fractures including the retardation in the rock matrix and the decay effects. By using the solutions to a boundary value problem the effect...

substrates' concentration profile was studied in a porous matrix containing immobilized amyloglucosidase for glucose production. this analysis was performed by using an analytical method called least square method, and the results were compared with numerical solution. effects of effective diffusivity, michael's constant, maximum reaction rate and initial substrate concentration were studied on...

in this work, the effect of immobilization of bread yeast (saccharomyces cerevisiae) by sol-gel technique combined with functionalized nanoporous silica was investigated in different weight ratios of silica containing materials (tmos: lus-1). the activities of immobilized yeast in days after immobilization were examined. the results showed immobilization maintain the yeast life for a longer tim...

In order to promote the selective water permeation through porous filler, hydrophilic MOF-801 crystals with superior water adsorption ability were incorporated into chitosan (CS) matrix to fabricate MOF-801/CS mixed matrix membranes (MMMs) for pervaporation dehydration of ethanol. Both the experimental and molecular simulation results confirm the selective adsorption of water molecules in MOF-8...

We present a computational model to obtain the scattering properties of a distribution of non-spherical particles at visible wavelengths and its application to cometary dust and to laboratory scattering measurements of cometary dust analogue. We have calculated the size-shape-averaged scattering matrix elements for both regular and irregular compact shapes and the size-averaged scattering matri...

A novel biomass composite inspired from wood porous structure was manufactured by impregnating vinyl monomer into wood cellular structure under vacuum conditions, and initiating the monomer for in situ polymerization through a thermal treatment. The vacuum condition was studied, and the mechanical properties of the composite were also tested. SEM observation shows that polymer generated in the ...

This paper presents several test cases intended to be benchmarks for numerical schemes for single-phase fluid flow in fractured porous media. A number of solution strategies are compared, including a vertex and a cell-centered finite volume method, a non-conforming embedded discrete fracture model, a primal and a dual extended finite element formulation, and a mortar discrete fracture model. Th...

A 2D numerical simulation of the drainage process in a stratified vertical porous channel is performed for different gas flow rates. The porous matrix consists of two cylindrical homogeneous layers of packed sand with different permeability, initially saturated with a wetting phase. The porosity and the permeability of each layer are assumed to be constant. Since the injected gas is provided th...

Gold alloys with Cu contents of 10 mass%, 20%, and 30% were used for morphological observation of porous surface structures after heating at 800 degrees C in air followed by pickling with acid solution. With increasing Cu content in the gold alloy, the internal oxidation zone became well-developed in the alloy matrix. The mechanism by which a porous structure was formed on the surface of a gold...