A fundamental 2-D model was developed to predict the heat and mass transfer that occur during the frying and cooling process of tortilla chips. Semi-empirical correlations were included to account for structural changes, such as shrinkage and expansion due to puffing. All water present in the tortilla chip was considered bound and led to shrinkage when removed. The parameters that were studied ...

Precise segmentation of three-dimensional (3D) magnetic resonance angiography (MRA) image can be a very useful computer aided diagnosis (CAD) tool in clinical routines. Our objective is to develop a specific segmentation scheme for accurately extracting vasculature from MRA images. Our proposed algorithm, called the capillary active contour (CAC), models capillary action where liquid can climb ...

Adhesion forces between nanoparticles strongly depend on the amount of adsorbed condensed water from ambient atmosphere. Liquid water forms bridges in the cavities separating the particles, giving rise to the so-called capillary forces which in most cases dominate the van der Waals and long-range electrostatic interactions. Capillary forces promote the undesirable agglomeration of particles to ...

This framework is concerned with the numerical modeling of the dynamics of isolated biomembranes and capillary interfaces in a surrounding Newtonian fluid. A level set approach helps to follow the interface motion. Our method features the use of high order fully implicit time integration schemes that enable to overcome stability issues related to the explicit discretization of the highly non-li...

We present modeling and analysis for the static behavior and collapse instabilities of doublyclamped and cantilever microbeams subjected to capillary forces. These forces can be as a result of a volume of liquid trapped underneath the microbeam during the rinsing and drying process in fabrication. The model considers the microbeam as a continuous medium, the capillary force as a nonlinear funct...

A capillary electrophoresis method was used for assay of some degradation products of carvedilol. The optimized parameters were as; running buffer 80 mM acetate dissolved in methanol/ethanol mixture (65:35 v/v), applied voltage of 19 kV, temperature is 20 ºC and the wavelength range of 200-350 nm. The results indicate that the proposed CE method could effectively separate carvedilol from its de...

Instability of capillary wave and breakup of a square cylindrical liquid column during its relaxation have been investigated numerically by simulating three-dimensional Navier-Stokes equations. For this investigation a computer code based on volume-of-fluid (VOF) method has been developed and validated with published experimental results. The result shows that the agreement of numerical simulat...

We present a stable numerical scheme for modelling multiphase flow in porous media, where the characteristic size of the flow domain is of the order of microns to millimetres. The numerical method is developed for efficient modelling of multiphase flow in porous media with complex interface motion and irregular solid boundaries. The Navier–Stokes equations are discretised using a finite volume ...

Here, we investigate experimentally and theoretically the motion of spherical glass particles of radii 240-310 microm attached to a tetradecane-water interface. Pairs of particles, which are moving toward each other under the action of lateral capillary force, are observed by optical microscopy. The purpose is to check whether the particle electric charges influence the particle motion, and whe...

OBJECTIVE Leukocyte retention in lung capillaries is observed in normal physiology and following a bacterial infection. It has been hypothesized that cells either become mechanically trapped or adhere to capillary endothelial cells via adhesion molecules. We propose that retention involves both mechanical and adhesive forces and that the biochemical adhesive force is modulated by mechanical for...