The discoveries of CO₂-impermeable membranes in gastric glands; the CO₂-permeability membrane protein aquaporin 1 (AQP1), first “gas channel”; and “CO₂-blocking” proteins incorporated into artificial show that Overton's rule—namely, permeability solute X depends uniquely on lipid solubility X—is not universal. Various AQPs conduct CO₂ differing proportions, part through their hydrophilic monome...

The steady, two dimensional flow of an incompressible micropolar fluid near the stagnation point on a vertical plate with prescribed surface heat flux is studied. The free stream velocity and the surface heat flux are assumed to be proportional to the distance from the stagnation point. Similarity transformation is employed to transform the governing partial differential equations to a set of o...

The total heat gained by the North Atlantic Ocean over the past 50 years is equivalent to a basinwide increase in the flux of heat across the ocean surface of 0.4 +/- 0.05 watts per square meter. We show, however, that this basin has not warmed uniformly: Although the tropics and subtropics have warmed, the subpolar ocean has cooled. These regional differences require local surface heat flux ch...

We review recent advances in modeling global-scale convection and dynamo processes with the Anelastic Spherical Harmonic (ASH) code. In particular, we have recently achieved the first global-scale solar convection simulations that exhibit turbulent pumping of magnetic flux into a simulated tachocline and the subsequent organization and amplification of toroidal field structures by rotational sh...

Phytoplankton cells have evolved sophisticated strategies for actively responding to environmental signals, most notably to mechanical stresses of hydrodynamic origin. A largely unanswered question, however, is the significance of these cellular responses for the largely heterogeneous spatial distribution of cells found in the oceans. Motivated by the physiological regulation of buoyancy preval...

the effect of partial slip and temperature dependent fluid properties on the mhd mixed convection flow from a heated, non-linearly stretching surface in the presence of radiation and non-uniform internal heat generation/absorption is investigated. the velocity of the stretching surface was assumed to vary according to power-law form. thermal transport is analyzed for two types of non-isothermal...

A self-powered polymeric micropump based on boronate chemistry is described. The pump is triggered by the presence of glucose in ambient conditions and induces convective fluid flows, with pumping velocity proportional to the glucose concentration. The pumping is due to buoyancy convection that originates from reaction-associated heat flux, as verified from experiments and finite difference mod...