The lag model proposed by Olsen and Coakley (2001) is applied to simulate the steady and unsteady transonic flows in a diffuser. The unsteady flows are induced by imposing fluctuating back-pressures. A fully implicit time–accurate multigrid algorithm is used for solving the Navier-Stokes equations and the coupled k-ω turbulence model equations. Two test cases are investigated, one with a weak s...

The effect of particle size on shear strength of granular materials are investigated using direct shear tests. Small direct shear test (60 mm by 60 mm by 24 mm deep) were conducted for particles passing the sieves with opening size of 2.36 mm. Meanwhile, particles passing the standard 20 mm sieves were tested using large direct shear test (300 mm by 300 mm by 200 mm deep). The large direct shea...

Although extensive research has been done on the distributed system parameter identification problem (see [l] for a recent survey), relatively little attention has been paid, in the stochastic framework, to the problem of estimating unknown parameters that are infinite dimensional. This is not surprising, as Rozanov pointed out in his classic paper [2] that directly estimating infinite-dimensio...

We propose a sheaf-theoretic framework for the representation of a quantum observable structure in terms of Boolean information sieves. The algebraic representation of a quantum observable structure in the relational local terms of sheaf theory effectuates a semantic transition from the axiomatic set-theoretic context of orthocomplemented partially ordered sets, a la Birkhoff and Von Neumann, t...

Conventional methods for separating biomolecules are based on steric interactions between the biomolecules and randomly oriented gel fibers. The recently developed artificial molecular sieves also rely on steric interactions for separation. In this work, we present an experimental investigation of a method that can be used in these sieves to increase separation selectivity and resolution. This ...

We report numerical and experimental studies on a droplet moving through an array of mirofluidic ratchets. Droplets are formed at a T junction and subsequently forced through microfluidic ratchets in the form of diffuser/nozzle structures. At the same flow rates of the continuous and the dispersed phases, the velocity of the droplet is determined by the viscosity of the continuous phase and the...

This paper describes curtain airbag gas delivery system development work using CFD analysis. The objective of developing gas delivery system was to achieve uniform inflation and reasonable time to position for oblique pole test with 5 %ile female. CFD analysis has been conducted to design gas delivery system of 3 row curtain airbag. The gas delivery system consists of T-diffuser and flexible ga...

Here, we present a concept based on the realization that a complex medium can be used as a simple interferometer. Changes in the wavefront of an incident coherent beam can be retrieved by analyzing changes in speckle patterns when the beam passes through a light diffuser. We demonstrate that the spatial intensity correlations of the speckle patterns are independent of the light diffusers, and a...