Rotational dynamics of gold nanoparticle chains in water solution

In this study, the optical properties of two nano-sized polymer colloids in optical coherence tomography (OCT) were compared in vitro with respect to their potential use as contrast agents. We used two types of particles: compact hydrophobic spherical polystyrene (PS) particles and soft water-swollen nanogel (NG) particles both with grafted hydrophilic shell, both prepared at two different sizes (PS at 300 and 150?nm, NG at 300 and 200?nm). The OCT backscattering signals of the particles in a vessel-mimicking highly scattering agar/TiO₂ phantom were compared on either number of particles or weight percent. Larger particles and higher concentrations produced higher OCT contrast. At each concentration tested, a markedly higher contrast was achieved by PS particles than NG particles. PS particles generated a markedly higher OCT contrast than the phantom at concentrations of at least 1?×?10¹⁰ or 0.1?% for PS 300?nm and at least 3?×?10¹¹ particles/mL or 0.4?% for PS 150?nm. The contrast generated by NG 300?nm was above the phantom contrast at concentrations of at least 3?×?10¹¹ particles/mL or 1?%, whereas NG 200?nm only at 4?%. At any given weight percent, the differences in OCT contrast between differently sized particles were much less evident than in the comparison based on particle number. PS 300?nm generated also a good contrast ex vivo on chicken muscle tissue. These results strongly suggest that PS spheres have strong potential as intravascular OCT contrast agent, while NG particles need further contrast enhancer for being used as OCT contrast agent.     

Feasibility of optical computerized tomography for measuring the species concentration distribution of flow fields

In this paper, the feasibility of using optical computerized tomography (OCT) methods for measuring the distribution of species concentration for flow fields is analyzed and discussed. First, feasible methods are chosen for two or three objects composed flow fields from the perspective of the measurable principle. Second, both common gas and plasma are chosen as two typical examples for specific analysis and discussion. The results show that the feasibility and applicable range of OCT methods are related to the temperature, pressure, and species composition of the measured flow fields. Finally, the study indicates that OCT methods are more suitable for measuring the distribution of species composition for common gas rather than plasma. In a word, this study could be helpful for extending the applicable range of OCT methods, which are based on the measurement of the refractive index.     

Quantification of glucose levels in flowing blood using M-mode swept source optical coherence tomography

The increase of glucose levels in blood changes the viscosity of flowing fluids and shape of the erythrocytes. Both of these can affect the details of light scattering as can be quantified via decorrelation times measured by optical coherence tomography (OCT). The relative contributions of these competing effects have been studied by examining the motion dynamics of deformable asymmetrical (red blood cells, RBCs with ∼7 μm diameter and ∼2 μm thickness) and non deformable symmetrical (polystyrene microspheres, PSM with 1.4 μm diameter) flowing scattering particles. The fluid flow under the action of gravity was modulated by changing the glucose concentrations. Quantitative analysis of the OCT’s M-mode autocorrelation functions enabled the derivations of the translational diffusion coefficients. These systematic studies are aimed at eventual tissue imaging scenarios with speckle-variance OCT to obtain local glucose concentrations maps.     

Simultaneous measurement of flow velocity and Doppler angle by the use of Doppler optical coherence tomography

Monitoring blood flow velocity could have great value for biomedical research and clinical diagnostics. One of current restrictions to determine flow velocity by the use of Doppler optical coherence tomography (Doppler OCT) is that the Doppler angle should be predefined. However, from a practical point of view, it is not easy to predetermine Doppler angle for a flow beneath the tissue surface. In this work, a novel method for measuring both flow velocity and Doppler angle simultaneously by the use of Doppler OCT is proposed and demonstrated. Based on Doppler spectrum analysis, this technique measures both longitudinal and transverse components of flow velocity by detecting its Doppler shift and Doppler bandwidth to determine velocity and Doppler angle simultaneously. Such a technique extends flow velocity measurement into a broadening practical use of Doppler OCT where Doppler angle would not need to be predefined, for example, blood flow beneath the tissue surface. Therefore, with this technique, Doppler OCT could be applied to more practical diagnoses of microcirculation.     

基于DEM-CFD耦合的泵内颗粒流动特性研究

随着我国加快深海、深地资源的开发力度,对此类应用环境下的液体提升泵的可靠性提出了更高的要求。而泵内固体颗粒引起的磨损破坏是其中一个严重问题。本文基于DEM-CFD耦合方法,针对自开发的两级混流泵研究了颗粒在泵内部与流体相互作用下的流动特性和对泵的磨损规律,并基于该泵分析了不同颗粒形状、颗粒浓度下的运动特性和泵磨损分布,发现颗粒主要沿着叶轮工作面以及导叶凹面运动,且随着浓度增加,磨损速率会逐渐达到一个饱和值。本文分析探讨了颗粒在泵内的流动特性、颗粒与叶轮导叶发生碰撞的形式及磨损严重区域,对设计抗磨损多级混流泵提供了理论支撑。     

有限角光学计算机层析重建中的投影采样研究

针对光学计算机层析术(Optical Computerized Tomography,OCT)中有限角条件下的严重非完全数据重建问题,提出了正交投影采样,结合基于改进的代数重建术(ART)的先验知识算法,以在尽可能少的投影方向数下较好地重建含遮挡物的三维流场。通过计算机模拟,详细讨论了在有限角条件下含遮挡物的三维流场的非完全数据重建精度及误差分析。结果表明,在有限角及含遮挡物条件下,采用正交投影采样可以极大地减少严重非完全数据重建中的误差,提高重建精度,从而为将光学计算机层析术应用于非完全数据的实测中提供了参考。     

Measurements on Particle Size Distribution and Concentration by Transmission Fluctuation Spectrometry with Temporal Correlation

Transmission fluctuation spectrometry with temporal correlation (TFS‐TC) is a new method for particle analysis. When a narrow light beam irradiates on a particle dispersion flow, the variation of the number of particles in the small measuring zone will cause the transmitted light to fluctuate, which includes the complete information on both particle size distribution (PSD) and particle concentration. The method may be used for real‐time, inline/online applications due to its simplicity of measuring principle and experimental setup. Until recently, the theory has been limited to low particle concentrations. In this work, an experimental study of the TFS‐TC measurement is presented for a very wide range of the particle concentrations. By introducing an empirical correction including the high concentration effects and considering the effect from rheological conditions in the inversion algorithm, the particle size distribution and particle concentration are reconstructed, resulting in the coverage of a broad range of particle size and concentration.     

Path-length-resolved diffusive particle dynamics in spectral-domain optical coherence tomography

We describe a new method to measure the decorrelation rate of the optical coherence tomography (OCT) magnitude simultaneously in space and time. We measure the decorrelation rate of the OCT magnitude in a Fourier-domain OCT system for a large range of translational diffusion coefficients by varying the sphere diameter. The described method uses the sensitivity advantage of Fourier-domain OCT over time-domain OCT to increase the particle diffusion imaging speed by a factor of 200. By coherent gating, we reduce the contribution of multiple scattering to the detected signal, allowing a quantitative study of diffusive particle dynamics in high concentration samples. We demonstrate that this technique is well suited to image diffusive particle dynamics in samples with a complex geometry as we measure the morphology and diffusive particle dynamics simultaneously with both high spatial and high temporal resolution.     

Ultrasonic measurements of particle retention by a porous medium

Ultrasound transmission and reflection are utilized to characterize the particle retention in depth of fluid-saturated porous samples under a flow of silt solution. The effect of the concentration of particles in the fluid is investigated via measurements of “comparison coefficients” which are the ratio of the Fourier transforms of the reflected (transmitted) signals before and after the particle flow. Numerical computations of the latter coefficients using Biot-Stoll’s theory are compared to the experimental data. The frequential evolution of physical parameters such as bulk and shear moduli are sought. To this end, a gradient descent algorithm is utilized to minimize the differences between the experimental and calculated comparison coefficients. Several concentrations of suspended particles are investigated to check the validity of this inversion method and a good agreement between theory and experiments is observed.     

Convective heat transfer flow of nanofluid in a porous medium over wavy surface

In this letter, water base nanofluid flow over wavy surface in a porous medium of spherical packing beds is investigated. The copper oxides particles are taken into account. These properties are rehabilitated when fluid interacts with porous walls. For porous medium, Dupuit–Forchheimer model; an extension of Darcy's law model is utilized. The natures of velocity and temperature profiles of nanofluid are discussed graphically whereas the values of convection heat transfer coefficient in the presence of different nanoparticles concentrations in porous medium is presented in tabular form. The obtained results illustrate that convection heat transfer is improved by nanoparticles concentration but reduces when fluid attract to pores structured medium. On the other hand, when particles are added in fluid, convection heat transfer rate is improved but flow velocity is declined.     

Modeling the electrical transfer in a mixture of disperse dielectric and finely disperse solid- or liquid-phase conductor

The dependence of the electrical conductivity of a mixture of finely disperse graphite with quartz sand and moist quartz sand on the composition is investigated. It is shown that, in the region of critical and near-critical concentrations of the conducting component, the dependence is satisfactorily described by two power-law equations of flow theory with two different threshold values of the conducting-phase concentration. In this concentration range, the conductivity of the sandgraphite system is satisfactorily modeled by a lattice bond problem. The electrical transfer in the sand-KCl solution system may be modeled by a lattice point problem in the representation of the moist system as a mixture of dielectric particles coated with an electrolyte film (conducting particles) and dry dielectric particles (nonconducting particles).Deceased.Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Fizika, No. 11, pp. 29–35, November, 1984.     

Diffusion of colloidal particles in swimming suspensions

Previously, we have proposed to analyse the hydrodynamic interactions in a suspension of swimmers with respect to an effective hydrodynamic diffusion coefficient, which only considers the fluctuating motion caused by the stirring of the fluid. In this work, we study the diffusion of colloidal particles immersed in a bath of swimmers. To accurately resolve the many-body hydrodynamic interactions responsible for this diffusion, we use a direct numerical simulation scheme based on the smooth profile method. We consider a squirmer model for the self-propelled swimmers, as it accurately reproduces the flow field generated by real microorganisms, such as bacteria or spermatozoa. We show that the diffusion coefficients of the colloids are comparable with the effective diffusion coefficients of the swimmers, provided that the concentration of swimmers is high enough. At low concentrations, the difference in the way colloids and swimmers react to the flow leads to a reduction in the diffusion coefficient of the colloids. This is clearly seen in the appearance of a negative-correlation region for the velocity-correlation function of the colloids, which does not exist for the swimmers.     

DEM simulation of small particles clogging in the packing of large beads

The percolation of small particles through a periodic random loose packing of large beads is studied numerically with the Distinct Element Method. The representativity of periodic mono-sized sphere packing of varying system size was first studied by comparing their pore size distributions and tortuosities with those of a larger system, considered as an infinite medium. The results show that a periodic packing of size as low as 4-grain diameters gives a reasonable representation of the porous medium and allows reducing considerably the number of particles that has to be used in the simulations. The flow and clogging of small particles of varying concentrations and friction coefficients flowing through the former packing are then studied numerically. Results show that a steady state is rapidly reached where the mean velocity and mean vertical velocity of small particles are both constant. These mean velocities decrease with an increase in friction coefficient and in small particle concentration. The influence of the friction coefficient μ is much less marked for values of μ larger than or equal to 0.5. The distribution of small particles throughout the crossed packing becomes rapidly heterogeneous. Small particles concentrate in some pores where their velocity vanishes and where the density can reach values larger than the density of the random loose packing. The proportion of particles blocked in these pores varies linearly with concentration. Finally, the narrow throats of the porous medium responsible for blocking are identified and characterized for different values of the friction coefficient.     

Shear-affected depletion interaction

We investigate the influence of flow fields on the strength of the depletion interaction caused by disc-shaped depletants. At low mass concentration of discs, it is possible to continuously decrease the depth of the depletion potential by increasing the applied shear rate until the depletion force is not perceivable experimentally. Above a threshold in the platelet mass concentration, the depletion potential can no longer be affected by flow in the accessible range of shear rates. While the observed decrease of depletion strength at low depletant concentration may be ascribed to flow alignment of the discs, it is not clear why the influence of flow is vanishing at high concentrations. In order to observe these effects, a modification of the established total internal reflexion microscopy (TIRM) technique is be implemented. We show the suitability of these modifications to measure particle-wall interaction potentials under non-equilibrium conditions for systems where particles are exposed to a shear.     

Dispersion-based optical coherence tomography OCT measurement of mixture concentrations

We present a low-coherence technique for the measurement of concentrations in aqueous solutions. It is based on a second-order dispersion measurement using the phase of the Fourier transform of the interferogram term obtained with an unbalanced Michelson interferometer. We demonstrate this approach by concentration measurements of aqueous mixtures of NaCl and glucose solutions. Results show errors between a few percent for high concentrations, up to 31% for low concentrations. The application of such a technique in OCT might require ultrahigh depth resolution and/or other scattered photon rejection techniques.     

Full range complex ultrahigh sensitive optical microangiography

This Letter presents a useful method that combines the full range complex Fourier domain optical coherence tomography (OCT) with the ultrahigh sensitive optical microangiography (OMAG) to achieve full range complex imaging of blood flow within microcirculatory tissue beds in vivo. We propose to use the fast scanning axis to realize the full range complex imaging, while using the slow axis to achieve OMAG imaging of blood flow. We demonstrate the proposed method by using a high speed 1310?nm OCT/OMAG system running at 92?kHz line scan rate to image the flow phantoms in vitro, and the blood flows in tissue beds in vivo.     

大直径W1/O/W2乳粒的稳定性

在准静态条件和旋转流体场中采用乳液微封装技术制备约2 mm的大直径W1/O/W2乳粒,研究了有机相浓度和水溶性聚合物浓度对W1/O/W2乳粒稳定性的影响。从乳粒受力和变形的角度,探索了旋转流体场对W1/O/W2乳粒动力学稳定性的增强作用机制。研究表明:无论是在准静态条件下还是旋转流场中,乳粒稳定性都随聚苯乙烯浓度单一上升,随聚乙烯醇浓度呈现先上升后下降的趋势;相对于准静态条件,旋转流体场在一定条件下对大直径W1/O/W2乳粒的动力学稳定具有明显增强作用。     

Phase diagram of speed gradient model with an on-ramp

In this paper, phase transitions are investigated in speed gradient model with an on-ramp. Phase diagrams of traffic flow composed of manually driven vehicles and adaptive cruise control (ACC) vehicles are studied, respectively. The traffic flow composed of ACC vehicles is modeled by enhancing propagation speed of small disturbance. The phase diagram of traffic flow composed of manually driven vehicles is similar to that in previous works, in which such states as pinned localized cluster (PLC), moving localized cluster (MLC), triggered stop-and-go traffic (TSG), oscillatory congested traffic (OCT), and homogeneous congested traffic (HCT) are reproduced. In the phase diagram of traffic flow composed of ACC vehicles, traffic stability is enhanced and such states as PLC, MLC, and TSG disappear. Furthermore, some interesting phenomena, such as stationary OCT upstream of on-ramp and appearance of second OCT in HCT, are identified.     

Analytical solutions for particle transport through an inclined channel with gravitational effect

The combined mechanisms of Brownian diffusion and gravity settling are considered to investigate the transport and deposition of particles in an inclined rectangular channel in the laminar flow regime. The exact analytical solution for particle concentration is obtained with some reasonable transformations and the conventional method of separation of variables. The effects of Peclet number, depositional parameter, incline angle, and uphill and downhill airflows on the mean concentration of particles are discussed in detail. The results indicate that the exact solution obtained in the present study can describe the transport and deposition behavior of particles due to the combined mechanisms throughout a channel at any inclination angle.     

Peculiarities of propagation of the dispersed phase in a gas-droplet flow downstream of a pipe sudden expansion

The results of numerical simulation of the propagation of the dispersed phase in a gas-droplet flow downstream of a pipe sudden expansion for small initial mass concentrations of particles (M _L1 = 0–0.1) are presented. Fine-dispersed droplets with the Stokes numbers Stk < 1 are entrained by a separated flow and are present in the whole cross section of the pipe. The near-wall region of the pipe is free of fine particles due to intense evaporation. Heavy particles (Stk > 1) do not get in the recirculation flow region and are present only in the mixing layer and in the flow core. It is shown that the addition of fine-dispersed droplets suppresses the energy of the gaseous phase turbulence in the separated flow. The results are compared with the experimental data for two-phase separated flows and are found to be in the conformity with these data.