In this paper, we use the parallel open source code parallelSPHysics based on the weakly compressible Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (WCSPH) approach to study a spillway flow over stepped stairs. SPH is a robust mesh-free particle modelling technique and has great potential in treating the free surfaces in spillway hydraulics. A laboratory experiment is carried out for the different flow disch...

Manuscript submitted to Plant Physiology (Update) 1 2 Running Head: Leaf hydraulics and stomatal conductance 3 4 Corresponding author: 5 Fulton E. Rockwell 6 Harvard University 7 Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology 8 Cambridge, MA 02138. 9 Phone: (617) 496-0603 10 Email: [email protected] 11 12 Research Area: 13 Focus Issue on water: Update on stomata, Ecophysiology and Su...

A breeding blanket design for the tritium production ICF reactor SIRIUS-T is presented. The blanket consists of alternating layers of beryllium multiplier and lithium breeder/coolant with vanadium alloy structure. A tritium breeding ratio of 1.9 can be achieved for the optimum layered configuration with lithium enriched to 90% 6Li. An optimum coolant routing scheme is utilized to achieve adequa...

Yu Zhang 1, Vijay P. Singh 1,2,* and Aaron R. Byrd 3 1 Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77840, USA; [email protected] 2 Zachry Department of Civil Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-2117, USA 3 Hydrologic Systems Branch, Coastal and Hydraulics Laboratory, Engineer Research Development Center, U.S. Arm...

This article aims at establishing a very general law of plant organization. By introducing the notion of hydraulic lengths which are considered as the coordinates of a symbolic space with n-dimensions, a reasoning of statistical physics, derived from Maxwell’s method, and combining with the fractal geometry leads to a law of hydraulics lengths distribution which could appear very general becaus...

College of Urban and Rural Construction Sichuan Agricultural University Dujiangyan 611830, China State Key Laboratory of Hydraulics and Mountain River Engineering Sichuan University Chengdu 610065, China College of Architecture and Environment Sichuan University Chengdu 610065, China College of Electronic Engineering Guilin University of Electronic Technology Guilin 541004, China Shenzhen Branc...