in this paper, the problem of turbulent forced convection flow of water- alumina nanofluid in a uniformly heated pipe has been thoroughly investigated. in numerical study, single and two-phase models have been used. in single-phase modeling of nanofluid, thermal and flow properties of nanofluid have been considered to be dependent on temperature and volume fraction. effects of volume fraction a...

The aim of this paper is to determine the critical buckling load for simply supported thin shallow spherical shells made of functionally graded material (FGM) subjected to uniform external pressure. A metal-ceramic functionally graded (FG) shell with a power law distribution for volume fraction is considered, where its properties vary gradually through the shell thickness direction from pure me...

This study has primarily aimed at the examination of the effect of flow rate, solid volume fraction and their interactions on the Nusselt number of Al2O3/water nanofluids. To investigate the main and interaction effects on the response, Response Surface Methodology (RSM) has been used based on the miscellaneous design. By using the analysis of variance (ANOVA) the signi...

Purified vaccinia virus was irradiated by 7-rays under direct-effect conditions. The ability of the irradiated samples to form plaques (infectivity) and to induce viral DNA synthesis was determined. The radiosensitive volume of the viral unit causing infection (I.9 × IO-X7 cm2) is very small compared with the volume of the whole viral DNA ( ~ IO %). The inactivation of the DNA replication funct...

The problem of steady Magnetohydrodynamic boundary layer flow of an electrically conducting nanofluid due to an exponentially permeable stretching sheet with heat source/sink in presence of thermal radiation is numerically investigated. The effect of transverse Brownian motion and thermophoresis on heat transfer and nano particle volume fraction considered. The governing partial differential eq...

The problem of global robust exponential stabilization of nonholonomic chained systems is addressed and solved by means of a hybrid state feedback control law. It is shown that the control law yields global exponential stability and global robustness against a class of small measurement errors, actuator noises and exogenous disturbances.

the aim of the present paper is to study the cu-water nanofluid flow and heat transfer characteristics of a stretching permeable cylinder. thermal radiation effect is considered in energy equation. the governing partial differential equations with the corresponding boundary conditions are reduced to a set of ordinary differential equations with the appropriate boundary conditions using similari...

The power function is treated as the law relating response time to practice trials. However, the evidence for a power law is flawed, because it is based on averaged data. We report a survey that assessed the form of the practice function for individual learners and learning conditions in paradigms that have shaped theories of skill acquisition. We fit power and exponential functions to 40 sets ...

We study the probability distribution of stock returns at mesoscopic time lags (return horizons) ranging from about an hour to about a month. While at shorter microscopic time lags the distribution has power-law tails, for mesoscopic times the bulk of the distribution (more than 99% of the probability) follows an exponential law. The slope of the exponential function is determined by the varian...

Background: To evaluate the role of 3D, 4D and color Doppler ultrasound (US) in the assessment of early human development. Materials and Methods: 380 women with uncomplicated early pregnancy between 5 and 14 weeks were evaluated by 3D, 4D and color Doppler US. Results: Regression analysis revealed exponential rise of the gestational sac volume with gestational age throughout the first trimester...