Flashing flows of initially sub-cooled water in a converging–diverging nozzle is investigated numerically the framework two-fluid model (TFM). The thermal non-equilibrium effect phase change considered by an interfacial heat transfer model, while pressure jump across interface ignored. bubble size distribution induced nucleation, growth/shrinkage, coalescence, and breakup described based on are...

This paper presents and compares results for three types of connectionist networks on perceptual learning tasks: [A] Multi-layered converging networks of neuron-like units, with each unit connected to a small randomly chosen subset of units in the adjacent layers, that learn by re-weighting of their links; [B] Networks of neuron-like units structured into successively larger modules under brain...

Tunable extraordinary transmission via changing temperature of a porous metallic layer on top of a thin layer of dielectric strontium titanate (STO) was studied. The metallic layer has a through-hole array and each hole has a circular converging-diverging channel (CDC) shape, which induces the excitation of surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) and then results in a controllable extraordinary optic...

The main objective of the present study is to utilize a novel linearization strategy to linearize the convection terms of the quasi-one-dimensional Euler governing equations on collocated grids and to examine its shock-capturing capabilities. To avoid a pressure checkerboard problem on the collocated grids, it is necessary to utilize two velocity definitions at each cell face. Similarly, we def...