The wetting properties of solid substrates with customary (i.e., macroscopic) random roughness are considered as a function of the microscopic contact angle of the wetting liquid and its partial pressure in the surrounding gas phase. Analytic expressions are derived which allow for any given lateral correlation function and height distribution of the roughness to calculate the wetting phase dia...

Soil surface roughness, as investigated in this study, is decomposed in a dual scale process. Therefore, we investigated photogrammetrically acquired roughness information over different agricultural fields in the size of 6–22 m and decomposed them into a dual scale process by using geostatistical techniques. For the characterization of soil surface roughness, we calculated two different roughn...

Gravity currents – fluid flows generated by horizontal density gradients – are ubiquitous in the environment. An area of increasing interest in this general field is the interaction of gravity currents with boundary roughness, where that roughness may be of the scale of the current itself. This paper describes an experimental study investigating the impact of varying boundary roughness densitie...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the influence of the surface roughness of denture base resin and metal on wettability with water and saliva. Solid specimens were produced using heat-curing denture base resin and Co-Cr alloy. After polymerizing or casting these materials, specimens with four different types of surface roughness were produced by a progressive polishing process using ...

We study the scaling of three-dimensional crack roughness using large-scale beam lattice systems. Our results for prenotched samples indicate that the crack surface is statistically isotropic, with the implication that experimental findings of anisotropy of fracture surface roughness in directions parallel and perpendicular to crack propagation is not due to the scalar or vectorial elasticity o...

This article presents a procedure for using machine vision data to predict surface roughness parameter of the end milled components. Stylus based surface roughness measurements were used and compared to vision based prediction of surface roughness. Wavelet decomposition was used to extract features from vision based data. In this article wavelet Energy features of approximations and details wer...

We systematically investigate the effects of surface roughness on the characteristics of ultraviolet zinc oxide plasmonic nanolasers fabricated on aluminium films with two different degrees of surface roughness. We demonstrate that the effective dielectric functions of aluminium interfaces with distinct roughness can be analysed from reflectivity measurements. By considering the scattering loss...

Data of flume experiments with bed forms are used to analyze and compare different roughness predictors. In this study, the hydraulic roughness consists of grain roughness and form roughness. We predict the grain roughness by means of the size of the sediment. The form roughness is predicted by three approaches: Van Rijn (1984), Vanoni & Hwang (1967) and Engelund (1966). The total roughness val...

there are different methods for controling the flood damages which one of them is flood zoning. in this method, flood zones are determined by simulating river hydraulic behavior and its flood plain for different return periods.in other hand, soil and specially plant coverage are the most effective factor to determine manning roughness coefficient. so it is expected, seasonal plant coverage chan...