An accurate and robust numerical method has been developed to simulate turbulent two-phase flows. The phase interface is tracked by the level-set method to capture frequent topological changes due to breaking or merging. Because of the broad-band characteristics of length scales in two-phase flow, a Lagrangian drop breakup model has been developed, which is coupled to the level-set method. In t...

The $^{8}\mathrm{Li}+^{58}\mathrm{Ni}$ collision is investigated at 23.9, 26.1, 28.7, and 30 MeV bombarding energies. Quasielastic angular distributions the singles $^{7}\mathrm{Li}$ energy are presented. Coupled-reaction channels (CRC) calculations, which include coupling of elastic channel to $^{59}\mathrm{Ni}=^{58}\mathrm{Ni}\phantom{\rule{0.16em}{0ex}}+\phantom{\rule{0.16em}{0ex}}n$ states ...

Droplet impact on a smooth solid surface at atmospheric pressure was experimentally studied and physically interpreted. A particular emphasis of the study is effects liquid viscosity transition between droplet deposition (or spreading without breakup) disintegration (including splash receding breakup). Specifically, critical Weber number separating from decreases then increases with increasing ...

GSA Today: v. 16, no. 2, doi: 10.1130/1052-5173(2006)016<4:TIAACM>2.0.CO;2 INTRODUCTION Forty years ago, the eastern margin of North America inspired Tuzo Wilson (1966) to ask, “Did the Atlantic close and then re-open?” The Wilson cycle of closing and opening of ocean basins incorporates the cyclic assembly and breakup of supercontinents. Alternate processes of extension and compression of cont...

General expressions for the breakup cross sections in the laboratory frame for 1 + 2 reactions are given in terms of the hyperspherical adiabatic basis. The three-body wave function is expanded in this basis and the corresponding hyperradial functions are obtained by solving a set of second order differential equations. The S matrix is computed by using two recently derived integral relations. ...

The formation of drops at the surface of turbulent liquids, e.g., turbulent primary breakup, was studied experimentally. Pulsed shadowgraphy and holography were used to observe the properties of the liquid surface and the drops formed by turbulent primary breakup. Measured properties included liquid surface velocities, conditions at the onset of ligament and drop formation, ligament and drop si...

Breakup of droplets at bi-layer bifurcating junction in polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) microchannel has been investigated by experiments and numerical simulation. The pressure drop in bi-layer bifurcating channel was investigated and compared with single-layer bifurcating channel. Daughter droplet size variation generated in bi-layer bifurcating microchannel was analyzed. The correlation was propo...

For fundamental analysis of the transport of mass or heat in a dispersed system, accurate knowledge of behavior of jet is prerequisite. For generation of high interfacial area breaking of liquid jet in to small droplet is necessary. Liquid jet breakup is a complex phenomenon and dependent on many factors like velocity of jet, pressure difference, geometry of nozzle, temperature of both fluid, p...

C ompared with the complex choreography required to sort chromosomes during mitosis, cytokinesis might seem fairly simple. But ensuring that the contractile ring of actin and myosin pinches off daughter cells also takes some fancy footwork. Two independent groups (1, 2) offer fresh details about how cells cue cytokinesis at the right time and place. Cytokinesis can’t begin until the chromosomes...