Deposition of sediment inside the conduit structures reduces the flow cross section area and increases the flow roughness which causes reduction of flow discharge passing through the conduit. Among the methods which can prevent sediment deposition is non sedimentation condition in the structure, Since the critical section of the inverted siphon in sedimentation is the outlet. In the begining of...

The velocity fluctuations of particles in a low-Reynolds-number fluidized bed have important similarities and differences with the velocity fluctuations in a low-Reynoldsnumber sedimenting suspension. We show that, like sedimentation, the velocity fluctuations in a fluidized bed are described well by the balance between density fluctuations due to Poisson statistics and Stokes drag. However, un...

The relationship between sedimentation coefficient and molecular weight for DNA sedimenting in preformed alkaline and neutral sucrose gradients was determined using absolute molecular weight standards (restriction fragments of plasmid pBR322 and phage lambda DNA). The range of calibration for alkaline gradients was extended to small DNA fragments (652 base-pairs) for the first time. The exponen...

Velocity fluctuations in sedimentation are studied to investigate the origin of a hypothesized universal scale [P. N. Segre, E. Herbolzheimer, and P. M. Chaikin, Phys. Rev. Lett. 79, 2574 (1997)]. Our experiments show that fluctuations decay continuously in time for sufficiently thick cells, never reaching steady state. Simulations and scaling arguments suggest that the decay arises from increa...

The zeta sedimentation ratio (ZSR) capillary tube, is subjected to four is a measurement similar to the detercycles of dispersion and compaction. mination of the erythrocyte sedimenAt the conclusion of this process, the tation rate (ESR) but possesses sevaral hematocrit of the blood in the red advantages. It is unaffected by anemia cell-containing portion of the capillary and responds in a line...

(b) Sedimentation equilibrium: an experiment performed at a lower speed so that the sedimentation and backdiffirsion forces are of comparable magnitudes and therefore give rise to an equilibrium distribution of solute concentration. Because there is no net transport at equilibrium, shape effects do not come into play and the distribution becomes an absolute function of molecular mass for a sing...

Synchronous plasmodia of Physarum polycephalum in DNA synthesis were pulse-labelled with [oH]- thymidine for time periods of 15 seconds up to 9 minutes, or given a 30 seconds pulse followed by chase periods of 9 minutes up to 6 hours. Sedimentation analysis in alkaline sucrose gradients revealed at least five species of single stranded DNA14 molecules in the pulse experiments. Co-sedimentation ...