Large-scale simulation of the soil-derived dust emission in semi-arid regions needs to account for the in ̄uence of the soil moisture on the wind erosion threshold. Soil water retention consists of molecular adsorption on the soil grain surface and capillary forces between the grain. Interparticle capillary forces (characterized by the moisture tension) are the main factor responsible for the in...

A special version of Conditional Moment Closure – PCMC – is suggested for modeling reacting flows in porous media. The model involves conditioning on a special tracer scalar, which is introduced to characterize scalar transport in the gaseous phase. (i.e. for the flow in the interparticle space or in the pores). The model accounts for interparticle variations of species concentrations and emula...

Low frequency impedance spectroscopy was applied on a Langmuir monolayer of alkylthiol passivated 35 Å diameter silver quantum dots, as a function of interparticle separation distance. As interparticle spacing decreases below 30% of particle diameter, a reduction in interparticle charge tunneling time is observed. On further compression, the complex impedance of the films undergoes a transition...

*Correspondence: Makoto Yasutomi, Department of Physics and Earth Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of the Ryukyus, Senbara 1, Nishihara-Cho, Okinawa 903-0213, Japan e-mail: [email protected] We determined many functional representations of interparticle interactions between water molecules, all of which reproduce the experimentally measured density-temperature relation at 1 bar...

This is a small pattern language for running online trainings. The language starts with an entry pattern ONLINE TRAINING. All other patterns are supporting this pattern and help to make online trainings more alive. Some of the patterns are not exclusive for online uses, for instance PREPARED EXAMPLE or TEST RUN. These patterns could be part of a pattern language for trainings as well. They are ...

Ultrasonic irradiation of slurries produces high velocity impacts between solid metal particles that are sufficient to cause interparticle melting. Sonication of 5 mum Zn powder as a slurry in alkanes, for example, produces dense agglomerates 50 mum in diameter consisting of approximately 1000 fused particles. Particle size was found to be the most influential parameter in inducing local meltin...

The granular Bond number, defined as the ratio between interparticle attractive forces and particle's weight, can be computed to predict flow behavior of powders. Previous studies used this dimensionless number flowability various pharmaceutical or ceramic powders, exhibiting polydispersed particle size distributions. In paper, we employ a multi-component population-dependent in order apply mod...

Matrix-type composite particle for controlled drug release can readily be prepared through a totally dry process by simple anaerobic mechanical vibration of mechanoradical-containing ethylcellulose (EC) with theophylline powder due to occurrence of collision-induced radical-radical coupling reaction to form interparticle matrices, as well as the formation of interparticle network when solid-sta...