The role of cardiac tissue anisotropy in the breakup of vortex filaments is studied using two detailed cardiac models. In the Beeler-Reuter model, modified to produce stable spiral waves in two dimensions, we find that anisotropy can destabilize a vortex filament in a parallelepipedal slab of tissue. The mechanisms of the instability are similar to the ones reported in previous work on a simpli...

Deepak Ahuja, Leonidas Bachas, D.Bhattacharyya Department of Chemical & Materials Engineering, and Department of Chemistry, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506-0046 *Corresponding author: Dr. D.Bhattacharyya, Alumni Professor, Phone: (859)257-2794, e-mail: [email protected] . Abstract. Various remediation technologies are being developed for the destruction of groundwater pollutants like ...

In this work, the degradation of 2-chloro-4,6-diamino-1,3,5-triazine in aqueous solutions by photo-Fenton process has been investigated. The preliminary results have shown that the degradation of 2-chloro-4,6-diamino-1,3,5-triazine by photo-Fenton process is more rapid and more effective than Fenton and UV/H2O2 processes. The effects of certain experimental parameters on kinetics and efficiency...

Fenton oxidation technology is the general strategy for the treatment of organic compounds-contained wastewater. However, a considerable amount of ferric sludge was produced during the Fenton process as secondary wastes, which were needed to be further removed from the effluent and treated. In this study, heterogeneous catalysts based on ferrite oxide (Cu-Fe-Ce-O) were synthesized and character...

Fenton and Fenton-like processes, both in homogeneous and heterogeneous phases, have been applied to an aqueous solution containing the dye AR 14 in order to study the mineralization and toxicity of the solutions generated after color elimination. The mineralization of AR 14 occurred slower than the decolorization. The Microtox analysis of the treated solutions showed low toxicity intrinsic to ...

Improper disposal of 1,4-dioxane and the chlorinated organic solvents trichloroethylene (TCE) and tetrachloroethylene (also known as perchloroethylene [PCE]) has resulted in widespread contamination of soil and groundwater. In the present study, a previously designed microbially driven Fenton reaction system was reconfigured to generate hydroxyl (HO˙) radicals for simultaneous transformation of...

There is something intriguing and at the same time fascinating that a simple reaction (of Fe ions with H2O2), which was observed by H.J.H. Fenton over 110 years ago, proves to be very difficult to describe and understand. As yet the nature of the oxidizing species obtained in Fenton reaction is still a subject of deliberation, which may be explained by the fact that it is very common in both ch...

Olive mill wastewater (OMW) was exposed to Fenton treatment and subjected to post Fenton coagulation/flocculation using lime. Several tests were performed for different R = H2O2/COD ratios, from 0.25 to 3.0, promoting the gradual addition of H2O2 and Fe2+, with the original condition of a pH = 3.5 and maintaining a constant relationship H2O2/Fe2+ = 15. A maximum reduction of COD of 96.8% was ob...