For the confining phase of SU(2) Yang-Mills thermodynamics we show that the asymptotic series representing the pressure is Borel summable for negative (unphysical) values of a suitably defined coupling constant. The inverse Borel transform is meromorphic except for a branch cut along the positive-real axis. The physical pressure is precisely nil at vanishing and acquires a small imaginary admix...

A kinetic modeling-based study was carried out to evaluate the start-up performance of a 10-L up-flow anaerobic sludge blanket (UASB) reactor treating municipal wastewater under different organic and hydraulic loading conditions. The reactor was operated for 105 days (around 4 months) below 20 °C and with three different hydraulic retention times of 24, 12 and 5 h. Imposed volumetric organic lo...

The ground states and low temperature states of the Falicov-Kimball model are studied in the plane of chemical potentials of the two sort of particles involved, for large values of the coupling constant, near the half lled band. For this study, a cluster expansion is introduced which can be used to investigate the eeective interaction energy between the static particles.

A detailed chemical kinetic model for oxidation of CS2 has been developed, on the basis of ab initio calculations for key reactions, including CS2 + O2 and CS + O2, and data from literature. The mechanism has been evaluated against experimental results from static reactors, flow reactors, and shock tubes. The CS2 + O2 reaction forms OCS + SO, with the lowest energy path involving crossing from ...

In this paper, the influence of heat treatment on PH17-7 stainless steel spring was evaluated. Precipitation hardening phenomenon of  PH 17-7 steel was evaluated in three stages. First, the spring constant changes with time and temperature was evaluated. Second, the spring constant changes with respect to its original length at constant temperature and time with blocking (spring length aft...