Gillnets are a widely used fishing gear in Kenya’s artisanal fisheries, yet their mesh sizes inadequately monitored or regulated. This study evaluated the impacts of gillnets seven stretched-mesh sizes, through comparative analysis species-related metrics and catch per unit effort (CPUE), to inform small-scale fisheries regulations. Data were collected from June 2014 May 2015. Three mesh-size g...

A mixture model simulation is presented by modeling the axial scrubber in a Closed Circuit Rebreather (CCR). The mixture model is a good substitute for the full Eulerian multiphase model because the interphase laws are unknown in this case. Analysis of mesh size, mesh type and inflation are made to independently characterize their accuracy by means of convergence before further comparisons with...

This paper describes a parallel fast generation method of large-scale meshes for a hierarchical domain decomposition method implemented in the open source parallel finite element software ADVENTURE. The present authors have newly developed a parallel algorithm such that communication table is updated and inherited in parallel during mesh refinement after the initial communication table is gener...

The ARC/INFO 6.1 Grid system was applied in the 170 km large Henley Dam and the 19.4 km large Cedara basins, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa, to determine hydrological and geomorphological parameters required to simulate water quantity and water. A sensitivity analysis was carried out to evaluate the effects of the grid mesh size on basin slope by producing a number of grids with grid mesh sizes ra...

Fine particle suspensions of various materials in water were agglomerated with heptane in a modified blender to determine the agglomeration characteristics of the solids. The materials included Upper Freeport coal, oxidized Upper Freeport coal, two batches of Illinois No. 6 coal, graphite, and iron pyrite. The response of these materials to oil agglomeration varied over a wide range and seemed ...

Metal foams have gained attention due to their heat transfer augmenting capabilities. In the literature, correlations describing relations among morphological characteristics successfully been established and well discussed. However, collective expressions that categorize stacked wire mesh based on morphology thermo-hydraulic required for numerical modeling are less explored in literature. pres...

This study demonstrated particle size effect on the measurement of saikosaponin A in Bupleurum chinense DC. by near infrared reflectance (NIR) spectroscopy. Four types of granularity were prepared including powder samples passed through 40-mesh, 65-mesh, 80-mesh, and 100-mesh sieve. Effects of granularity on NIR spectra were investigated, which showed to be wavelength dependent. NIR intensity w...