In three experiments the perceived roughness of visual and of auditory materials was investigated. In Experiment 1, the roughness of frequency-modulated tones was determined using a paired-comparison paradigm. It was found that using this paradigm similar results in comparison to literature were found. In Experiment 2, the perceived visual roughness of textures drawn from the CUReT database was...

Dye effluents with low BOD/COD ratio and varied chemical structures are usually very recalcitrant to microbial degradation. Therefore, different process was used for the treatment of dye effluent. Heterogeneous photocatalyst process has been widely used as leading green technology for dye removal. The process utilizes a semiconductor photocatalyst (such as TiO2 or ZnO) and UV light to oxidize t...

Solar collector (Air heater) has low thermal efficiency due to the low thermal conductivity between Air and absorber plate. So there is a need to enhance the thermal conductivity between air and absorber plate. This leads higher temperature to absorber plate and hence maximum thermal losses occurs to environment .It can be made possible by creating artificial roughness on absorber plate .There ...

Fluid flow in microchannels or microtubes may differ in terms of wall frictional effects, and hence flow rates, when compared to macrochannels. Focusing on steady laminar fully developed flow of a liquid in different micro-conduits, relative surface roughness is captured in terms of a porous medium layer (PML) model. The new approach allows the evaluation of microfluidics variables as a functio...

We propose a long-term parameterization scheme for two critical parameters, zero-plane displacement height (d) and aerodynamic roughness length (z0m), that we further use in the Surface Energy Balance System (SEBS). A sensitivity analysis of SEBS indicated that these two parameters largely impact the estimated sensible heat and latent heat fluxes. First, we calibrated regression relationships b...

An approximate analytical model was developed to estimate scalar ̄ux footprint in thermally strati®ed atmospheric surface layer ̄ows. The proposed model was based on a combination of Lagrangian stochastic dispersion model results and dimensional analysis. The main advantage of this model is its ability to analytically relate atmospheric stability, measurement height, and surface roughness length...

Hydrophobic surfaces with microscale roughness can be rendered ultrahydrophobic by the addition of sub-micron scale roughness. A simple yet highly effective concept of fabricating hierarchical structured surfaces using a single-step deep reactive ion etch process is proposed. Using this method the complexities generally associated with fabrication of two-tier roughness structures are eliminated...

The purpose of this article is to compare time based maintenance (TBM) with condition based maintenance (CBM) relative to cutting tools in the process for removing material. We describe the fault detection (FD), method based on the use of the analytical model of the roughness of the work pieces to be machined. This model is established under given cutting conditions and calculated according to ...

   be obtained as [5] Thus, the vol a surface roughness is δ=3S . ume fraction can he effective roughness height (δ) in terms of the average T to represent the physical surface roughness of the homogeneous pyramid roughness profile he equivalent three surface roughness. T -dimensional as the parameter to characterize the surface profilometer, , which can be measured easily using 3D a average...

A set of modified roughness parameters (N%‐Rpv's) is introduced based upon the separate distribution of peaks and valleys. These new measures of surface roughness are utilized to quantitatively evaluate the as‐rolled and deformation‐induced surface roughness of Al sheets. N%‐Rpv is defined as the difference between the average heights of the upper N% of peaks and the lower N% of valleys. As N d...