the combined effect of non-newtonian rheology and irreversible boundary reaction on dispersion in a herschel-bulkley fluid through a conduit (pipe/channel) is studied by using generalized dispersion model. the study explains the development of dispersive transport following the injection of a tracer in terms of three effective transport coefficients namely exchange, convective and dispersion co...

A small-angle neutron-x-ray-light-scattering model for multilamellar vesicles is developed on the basis of a simple geometry. N spherical shells with radii of an arithmetic series are allowed for displacements DeltaR which are limited by DeltaR<R/N due to sterical reasons, with R being the radius of the vesicle. The model shows many properties over a large Q range which include a Guinier region...

Analysis was made of the multiple RXTE/PCA data on the promised black hole candidate with superluminal jet, GRO J1655−40, acquired during its 1996– 1997 outburst. The X-ray spectra can be adequately described by the sum of an optically thick disk spectrum and a power-law. When the estimated 1–100 keV power-law luminosity exceeds 1 × 10 erg s (assuming a distance of 3.2 kpc), the inner disk radi...

The lack of variability of the broad iron line seen in the Seyfert 1 galaxy MCG–6-30-15 is studied using the EPIC pn data obtained from a 2001 observation of 325 ks, during which the count rate from the source varied by a factor of 5. The spectrum of 80 ks of data from when the source was bright, using the the lowest 10 ks as background, is well fitted over the 3–10 keV band with a simple power...

This study concentrates on the free pure radial vibrations of hollow spheres made of hypothetically functionally simple power rule graded materials having identical inhomogeneity indexes for both Young’s modulus and the density in an analytical manner. After offering the exact elements of the free vibration coefficient matrices for free-free, free-fixed, and fixed-fixed restraints, a parametric...

The current status of both the observational evidence and the theory of the stellar initial mass function (IMF) is reviewed, with particular attention to the two basic, apparently universal features shown by all observations of nearby stellar systems: (1) a characteristic stellar mass of the order of one solar mass, and (2) a power-law decline of the IMF at large masses similar to the original ...

In this study, we propose to approximate the a− n relation as well as the da/dn−∆K relation, in fatigue crack propagation, by using the Moving Least Squares (MLS) method. This simple approach can avoid the internal inconsistencies caused by the celebrated Paris’ power law approximation of the da/dn−∆K relation, as well as the error caused by a simple numerical differentiation of the noisy data ...

Weber's law, first characterized in the 19th century, states that errors estimating the magnitude of perceptual stimuli scale linearly with stimulus intensity. This linear relationship is found in most sensory modalities, generalizes to temporal interval estimation, and even applies to some abstract variables. Despite its generality and long experimental history, the neural basis of Weber's law...