Evaporation coefficient (KE) is defined as the ratio of actual evaporation over potential evaporation under the same atmospheric conditions. The use of KE provides an alternative means for evaluating soil moisture status and quantifying soil evaporation by reducing in situ measurements. However, little effort has been made to evaluate the estimation of KE over soil surfaces. In this study, a re...

Satellite microwave measurements are analyzed, revealing robust covariability in sea surface temperature (SST) and wind speed over the Kuroshio Extension (KE) east of Japan. Ocean hydrodynamic instabilities cause the KE to meander and result in large SST variations. Increased (reduced) wind speeds are found to be associated with warm (cold) SST anomalies. This positive SST–wind correlation in K...

Numerical simulations are performed of the turbulent flow and thermal field in a structured porous media. The geometry of interest is an open lattice structure that is made up of mutually orthogonal, millimeter-scale, thermally conductive cylindrical elements. A large-eddy simulation (LES) is performed and the results are used as reference data to evaluate the performance of three commonly used...

In this research, the quantum mechanics calculations were carried out to elucidate the adsorption behavior of metronidazole drug on the surface of pristine as well as doped C60 fullerene with Si, B and Al using density functional theory (DFT) at B3LYP/6-31G(d,p) level. After optimization of the structures, various parameters such as HOMO and LUMO energies, gap energy, adsorption ener...

Silicon (Si) based light emitting devices have drawn much attention for the integration of electronic and photonics. Si nanostructures (amorphous clusters or crystals) have been recognized as good candidates for effective light emitting devices (Bulutay, 2007; Seino et al., 2009; Takagahara & Takeda, 2007; Wolkin et al., 1999). However, photons emitted by Si nanostructures can be reabsorbed by ...

The distribution of framework Al in ZSM-5 was simulated for various Si/Al ratios and the results used to determine the fraction of Al atoms in next nearest neighbors (NNN) T sites. All the 4-, 5-, and 6-membered rings were identified in the unit cell and the fraction of these rings with 0, 1, 2, and 3 Al was calculated. Lastly, the radial distribution function of Al–Al pairs, the number of Al’s...