A two-dimensional viscous dusty flow induced by normal oscillation of a wavy wall formoderately large Reynolds number is studied on the basis of boundary layer theory in the case where the thickness of the boundary layer is larger than the amplitude of the wavy wall. Solutions are obtained in terms of a series expansion with respect to small amplitude by a regular perturbation method. Graphs of...

Emerging microfluidic systems have spurred an interest in the study of electrokinetic flow phenomena in complex geometries and a variety of flow conditions. This paper presents an analysis of the effects of fluid inertia and pressure on the velocity and vorticity field of electroosmotic flows. In typical on-chip electrokinetics applications, the flow field can be separated into an inner flow re...

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BACKGROUND An experimental work was reported to estimate the increase in distillate yield for a compound parabolic concentrator-concentric tubular solar still (CPC-CTSS). The CPC dramatically increases the heating of the saline water. A novel idea was proposed to study the characteristic features of CPC for desalination to produce a large quantity of distillate yield. A rectangular basin of dim...

In the inner plexiform layer (IPL) of the mouse retina, ~70 neuronal subtypes organize their neurites into an intricate laminar structure that underlies visual processing. To find recognition proteins involved in lamination, we utilized microarray data from 13 subtypes to identify differentially-expressed extracellular proteins and performed a high-throughput biochemical screen. We identified ~...

This paper presents a composite controller for tip position tracking of flexible link manipulators. The main control challenge for flexible link manipulators is the non-minimum phase characteristics of the system. In this regard, an inner/outer control structure is proposed. As opposed to previous research in this area, the desired reference trajectory is robustly modified in an online scheme t...

Design and operation of a "six-flow fixed-bed microreactor" setup for Fischer-Tropsch synthesis (FTS) is described. The unit consists of feed and mixing, flow division, reaction, separation, and analysis sections. The reactor system is made of five heating blocks with individual temperature controllers, assuring an identical isothermal zone of at least 10 cm along six fixed-bed microreactor ins...

The streamwise velocity statistics in fully-developed rough-wall channel flow have been investigated over gritand mesh-type surface topologies. The flow was demonstrated to be fully-developed and two-dimensional up to the fourth moment of velocity. Though the flow over both surface types appear to exhibit a limited logarithmic region, the regions of inner and outer scaling over the mesh surface...

polation of the H + back-flow rate to the half-time for 0, reduction obtained from the independently measured state 3 0, uptake rate. However, the oxygen-pulse method, even when improved by elimination of very fast H + back-flow on the H +/H,PO,symporter (Reynafarje et al., 1976), always underestimates the mechanistic H + /O ratio for 3 reasons. ( I ) The half-time for 0, reduction under oxygen...