iii Preface There is fluid flow everywhere around us: air is flowing past airplanes, cars and buildings; water is flowing past ships, through rivers and harbours; oil is flowing through pipelines and in underground reservoirs; blood is flowing through our arteries. And the most important flow around us has not even been mentioned: the air flow in the atmosphere that determines our weather. It w...

The scaling properties of the continuous flowing layer in a quasi-2D circular tumbler half filled with a granular material are studied experimentally in the presence of three different interstitial fluids (air, water, and glycerine). In the dry case, the dimensionless flowing layer thickness δ(0)/d scales with the dimensionless flow rate Q(dry)(*) = Q/(dsqrt[gd]), where Q is the flow rate, d is...

[1] Neodymium isotopic compositions (eNd) and rare earth element (REE) concentrations were measured for filtered surface to deep waters (112 samples) in the Southern Tropical Pacific. The relatively detailed picture of these tracer distributions allowed us to refine the areas where oceanic eNd variations occur. eNd values increase for most of the water masses flowing from Samoa to the Solomon S...

The water quality parameters of the river Damodar flowing across the coal mines and industrial area was carried out in order to evaluate its suitability of irrigation application. Damodar River basin is the repository of 46% coal reserves in India and is one of the richest mineralized zones of the country with a high growth of mining and industrial development, demographic and urban growth exte...

Main findings Living with a urinary catheter was found to be like living with the forces of flowing water. The following themes emerged. Vulnerability: the force of flowing water was a metaphor to describe the similarity of the movement of urine into the catheter bag to water that is let into and out of a dam. Participants expressed how much their everyday lives depended on the proper functioni...

There is a net discharge of water and nutrients through Long Key Channel from Florida Bay to the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary (FKNMS). There has been speculation that this water and its constituents may be contributing to the loss of coral cover on the Florida Keys Reef tract over the past few decades, as well as speculation that changes in freshwater flow in the upstream Everglades e...

The most common food processing operations, thermal and mechanical treatments, both affect phase state and texture of foods. The phase separation threshold for food biopolymer mixtures is usually below their concentrations characteristically found in food. Phase-separation underpins texturisation processes during food processing and digestion. The distribution of water between the phases, the a...

The depuration effectiveness of Poliovirus 1 and HAV contaminated mussels, when subjected to flowing ozonized water, was evaluated. Mussels were experimentally contaminated and then depurated up to 72 hours using a pilot depuration system with ozone treated and untreated water. The results showed that viral infectivity titter decreased more rapidly in mussels subjected to ozonized water (from 1...