The use of sediment settling velocity based on mineral grain size distribution in erosion models ignores the effects of aggregation on settling velocity. The alternative approach, wet-sieved aggregate size distribution, on the other hand, cannot represent all destructive processes that eroded soils may experience under impacting raindrops. Therefore, without considering raindrop impact, both me...

The article is devoted to the study of model cost indicators wastewater treatment facilities as one factors for ensuring sustainable development. It noted that greatest contribution in terms formation provided by stage biological treatment. As part study, a techno-economic simulation was conducted compare two technological schemes: conventional activated sludge scheme aeration reactor and secon...

In this paper, the transient settling dynamics of a spherical particle sedimenting in a linearly stratified fluid is investigated by performing fully resolved direct numerical simulations. The settling behaviour is quantified for different values of Reynolds, Froude and Prandtl numbers. It is demonstrated that the transient settling dynamics is correlated to the induced Lagrangian drift of flow...

An experimental study is performed to measure the terminal settling velocities of spherical particles in surfactant based shear thinning viscoelastic (VES) fluids. The measurements are made for particles settling in unbounded fluids and fluids between parallel walls. VES fluids over a wide range of rheological properties are prepared and rheologically characterized. The rheological characteriza...

A mathematical method for calculation of the minimum cross-sectional area of a thickener is presented by obtaining minimum laboratory batch settling test data, a function, which is called settling function, is derived. This function is found to be in the form of a polynomial of third order. The settling function and mass flux relation are used for the design of thickener. The method predict...

a r t i c l e i n f o Keywords: Marine snow Aggregates Biogeochemistry Density gradients Density interfaces Fluid dynamics Marine snow aggregates are often a dominant component of carbon flux and are sites of high bacterial activity; thus, small-scale changes in the settling behavior of marine snow can affect the vertical locations of carbon export and remineralization in the surface ocean. In ...

1. Supported by FCT grant PRAXIS XXI/BD/13875/97 Abstract This paper presents an original approach to the problem of function hiding based on Error Correcting Codes and evaluates the security of this approach. The novelty of the technique consists in using Error Correcting Codes to hide functions instead of encrypting data vectors. This protocol mainly deals with the issue of secure evaluation ...

The effect of the nucleon recoil for antikaon-deuteron scattering is investigated in the framework of effective field theory. In particular, we concentrate on the calculation of the nucleon recoil effect for the double-scattering process. It is shown that the leading correction to the static term that emerges at order ξ with ξ = MK/mN vanishes due to a complete cancellation of individually larg...

Pelagic and demersal juvenile Baltic cod Gadus morhua L. were collected on the slope and the top of Rønne bank in the Baltic Sea during 2 cruises in November and December 1998. The growth, age at settling and vertical migration pattern were studied by otolith microstructure analysis. The relationship between fish and otolith size were found to change at settling, with an increase of fish size i...