We use AC impedance methods to investigate the effect of mechanical deformation on ion transport in commercial separator membranes and lithium-ion cells as a whole. A Bruggeman type power law relationship is found to provide an accurate correlation between porosity and tortuosity of deformed separators, which allows the impedance of a separator membrane to be predicted as a function of deformat...

Recently a large number of graph separator problems have been proven to be NPHard. Amazingly we have found that α-Subgraph-Balanced-Vertex-Separator, an important variant, has been overlooked. In this work “Yet Another Graph Partitioning Problem is NP-Hard” we present the surprising result that α-SubgraphBalanced-Vertex-Separator is NP-Hard. This is despite the fact that the constraints of our ...

a proper understanding of reservoir fluid phase behavior is the first crucial step in the development and production of an oil/gas field. this paper addresses the challenges and errors associated with the fluid sampling that may arise before, during and after the sampling operation. for this aim, dst and pvt data of exploration and production wells of a supergiant offshore gas condensate reserv...

In the Tabas coal preparation plant (SE Iran), -50 + 6 mm raw coal was treated in a 700 mm two-stage two-density Tri-Flo dynamic dense medium separator. In order to study the circuit performance and to evaluate the separator efficiency, 32 mm cubic density tracers were used in the range of 1.28-2.1 g/cm3 and under different operational conditions. The performance of Tri-Flo was evaluated in a r...

Over the last ten years, robustness of schemes has raised an increasing interest among the CFD community. The objective of this article is to solve the quasi-one-dimensional compressible flow inside a “Shubin nozzle” and to investigate Bean-Warming and flux vector splitting methods for numerical solution of compressible flows. Two different conditions have been considered: first, there is a sup...

A scheme for carrying out numerical simulation of a multistage mass separator is described. The results of a calculated solution are summarized for the design of a high resolution separator for purifying beams at the isobaric level.

This study evaluated the separation efficiency and developed a pressure drop model for a multicyclone separator used for natural gas purification. The collection and grade efficiencies of a multicyclone separator with 15 single cyclone separators were evaluated at inlet velocities of 6–24 m/s and particle concentrations of 30–2000 mg/m at atmospheric pressure and room temperature. The experimen...

The control of pain during orthodontic treatment is of vital interest to both clinicians and patients. Surprisingly, there has been limited research into the control of orthodontic pain, and there is no standard of care for controlling this discomfort. The purpose of this study was to compare the effectiveness of preemptive ibuprofen therapy, postoperative ibuprofen therapy, and a combination o...

For a connected graph, a vertex separator is a set of vertices whose removal creates at least two components. A vertex separator S is minimal if it contains no other separator as a strict subset and a minimum vertex separator is a minimal vertex separator of least cardinality. A clique is a set of mutually adjacent vertices. A 2-tree is a connected graph in which every maximal clique is of size...

Numerical studies have been carried out using a validated two-dimensional standard k-omega turbulence model for the design optimization of a thrust vector control system using shock induced self-impinging supersonic secondary double jet. Parametric analytical studies have been carried out at different secondary injection locations to identifying the highest unsymmetrical distribution of the mai...