Deposition of Oral Bacteria and Polystyrene Particles to Quartz and Dental Enamel in a Parallel Plate and Stagnation Point Flow Chamber

The aim of this paper is to determine to what extent (i) deposition of oral bacteria and polystyrene particles, (ii) onto quartz and dental enamel with and without a salivary conditioning film, (iii) in a parallel plate (PP) and stagnation point (SP) flow chamber and at common Peclet numbers are comparable. All three bacterial strains showed different adhesion behaviors, and even Streptococcus mitis BMS, possessing a similar cell surface hydrophobicity as polystyrene particles, did not mimic polystyrene particles in its adhesion behavior, possibly as a result of the more negative ζ potentials of the polystyrene particles. The stationary endpoint adhesion of all strains, including polystyrene particles, was lower in the presence of a salivary conditioning film, while also desorption probabilities under flow were higher in the presence of a conditioning film than in its absence. Deposition onto quartz and enamel surfaces was different, but without a consistent trend valid for all strains and polystyrene particles. It is concluded that differences in experimental results exist, and the process of bacterial deposition to enamel surfaces cannot be modeled by using polystyrene particles and quartz collector surfaces.     

SiO2/聚乙二醇非牛顿流体流变性能研究

利用应力控制流变仪考察了SiO₂/聚乙二醇分散体系稳态和动态的流变性能. 实验结果表明, 该体系具有剪切变稀和可逆的剪切增稠现象. 稳态应力实验中, 当应力较小时, 体系具有剪切变稀现象, 而在剪切应力(σ)大于临界剪切应力(σ_c^s, σ_c^s=9.99 Pa)后, 体系粘度急剧增大. 在动态实验中, 剪切应力小于临界剪切应力(σ_c^o, σ_c^o=15.85 Pa)时, 储能模量G′减小, 耗能模量G″与复合粘度η*基本不变, 但σ＞15.85 Pa后, G′、G″及η*同步增大, 且在所研究的应力范围内, G″均大于G′. 同时还考察了测试频率、分散相含量以及分散介质平均分子量的差别对流变性的影响. σ_c^o随测试频率的增大而变大; SiO₂质量分数越大, σ_c^o基本不变, 但增稠现象变得更明显; 与平均分子量小的PEG200体系相比, 平均分子量大的PEG400体系, σ_c^o并未发生改变, 但在增稠之前体系的粘度较低, 增稠之后体系粘度增大的幅度较大.     

MHD Stagnation Point on Nanofluid Flow and Heat Transfer of Carbon Nanotube over a Shrinking Surface with Heat Sink Effect

This study is to investigate the magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) stagnation point flow and heat transfer characteristic nanofluid of carbon nanotube (CNTs) over the shrinking surface with heat sink effects. Similarity equations deduced from momentum and energy equation of partial differential equations are solved numerically. This study looks at the different parameters of the flow and heat transfer using first phase model which is Tiwari-Das. The parameter discussed were volume fraction nanoparticle, magnetic parameter, heat sink/source parameters, and a different type of nanofluid and based fluids. Present results revealed that the rate of nanofluid (SWCNT/kerosene) in terms of flow and heat transfer is better than (MWCNT/kerosene) and (CNT/water) and regular fluid (water). Graphically, the variation results of dual solution exist for shrinking parameter in range λc<λ≤−1 for different values of volume fraction nanoparticle, magnetic, heat sink parameters, and a different type of nanofluid. However, a unique solution exists at −1<λ<1, and no solutions exist at λ<λc which is a critical value. In addition, the local Nusselt number decreases with increasing volume fraction nanoparticle when there exists a heat sink effect. The values of the skin friction coefficient and local Nusselt number increase for both solutions with the increase in magnetic parameter. In this study, the investigation on the flow and heat transfer of MHD stagnation point nanofluid through a shrinking surface with heat sink effect shows how important the application to industrial applications.     

Magneto-hydrodynamical numerical simulation of heat transfer in MHD stagnation point flow of Cross fluid model towards a stretched surface

Here formulation and computations are presented to introduce the novel concept of activation energy in chemically reacting stagnation point flow towards a stretching sheet. Constitutive expression for Cross liquid is taken into account. Magnetic field is utilised in the transverse direction. Application of suitable variables generates the non-linear differential systems. Numerical solution by Runge–Kutta–Fehlberg approach is presented. Characteristics for the significant variables like Weissenberg number, Hartmann number, Schmidt number, activation energy chemical reaction parameter, velocity ratio parameter and Prandtl number on the physical quantities are addressed through graphs and tables. Our computations reveal that species concentration rises via larger activation energy parameter whereas it decays when Schmidt number is incremented. The Weissenberg number has opposite characteristics for local Nusselt and Sherwood numbers when compared with surface drag force.     

Simulation of Flow Field for Pulsatile Blood Flow in a Femoral Artery Based on Cosserat Continua

This investigation describes unsteady, pulsatile, laminar, and locally fully developed blood flow velocity and rotation fields during cardiac cycle in the femoral artery using Cosserat continuum mechanics approach. After solving the continuity, linear momentum, and angular momentum equations for flow of blood through artery, the time and position dependent velocity and rotation fields have been calculated. It is shown that the maximum values of velocity occur at the inlet core, while the maximum values of rotation occur on the arterial boundary. It is also demonstrated that the flow of blood in artery is laminar and a good agreement with existing data is established. A time dependent Gaussian equation for non-Newtonian blood viscosity coefficient γ_v has also been found.     

Electrophoresis of a spherical particle along the axis of a cylindrical pore filled with a Carreau fluid

The electrophoresis of a spherical particle along the axis of a cylindrical pore filled with a Carreau fluid is investigated theoretically. In addition to the boundary effect due to the presence of the pore, the influences of the thickness of double layer surrounding a particle and the properties of the fluid on the electrophoretic behavior of the particle are also examined. We show that, in general, the presence of the pore has the effect of retarding the movement of a particle. On the other hand, the shear-thinning nature of the liquid phase is advantageous to its movement. For both Newtonian and Carreau fluids, the mobility of a particle increases monotonically with the decrease in the thickness of double layer, but the mobility is more sensitive to the variation of the thickness of double layer in the latter. The mobility of a particle in a Carreau fluid is larger than that in the corresponding Newtonian fluid, and the difference between the two increases with the decrease in double-layer thickness; in addition, depending upon the values of the parameters assumed, the percentage difference can be in the order of 50%.     

A Semi-Analytical Semi-Experimental Solution for Flow Simulations in COSSERAT Continuum Mechanical Approach to Pulsatile Blood Flow in a Tapered Femoral Artery of a Dog

Flow simulations (investigation of velocity and microrotation fields) were carried out by solving the mass, linear momentum, and angular momentum equations in Cosserat continuum mechanics with a semi-analytical semi-experimental method; for unsteady, pulsatile, laminar, and locally fully developed blood flow and validation, using experimental pressure distribution in a mildly tapered femoral artery of a living dog. Finally, we present a time-dependent profile and an approximated Gaussian equation for k _v (a material quantity that shows influence of microrotation field on the stress tensor) in this article.     

从存量到流量的经济学分析：流量经济理论框架的构建

尽管“流量经济”的概念十多年前就已经有人提出,但从现代智能互联网的角度看,那时的流量并不能构成一种新的经济范式。只有当经济运行模式从以实体经济为主体的工业文明时代进入到以实体经济和虚拟经济共同构成的信息文明时代,流量的运行才能构成一种新的经济形态。工业化时代的基本特征是追求投资,增加存量;信息化时代的基本特征是追求要素的流动,并逐步减少存量。这样一种新的经济范式是完全有别于以往任何一种经济形态的,因此必然会对传统经济理论和经济政策形成巨大冲击。从智能互联网对传统经济理论形成冲击的角度出发,可以揭示经济形态从工业化时代的存量经济向信息化时代的流量经济转变的方向与路径,从而构建一个新的流量经济理论框架。     

Flow pattern maps for particle-fluid mixture transport in a horizontal pipe - application of a three-layer model

A modified three-layer model was applied to model particle-fluid mixture flow in a horizontal pipe, the viscoelastic properties of carrier polymer solution were taken into consideration, and the Deborah number was used to calculate solid-fluid friction factor. An energy equation was applied to determine temperature distribution of carrier fluid along a horizontal pipe to accurately represent the rheological properties of carrier fluid. During the transport process, particles quickly settle out of carrier fluid and accumulate on pipe bottom forming a particle bed, so a particle bed load flow is observed. The transport mechanisms of particles in moving particle bed are govern by fluidization, which causes the height of this layer to be small and equal to 2～5 times of particle diameter. In addition, the pressure drop is composed of solid-fluid and solid-solid friction loss, which dominate the hydrodynamic performance at different stages.     

Flow field in a shrinking-bed reactor for pretreatment of cellulosic biomass

A shrinking-bed reactor was designed by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory to maintain a constant bulk packing density of cellulosic biomass. The high solid-to-liquid ratio in the pretreatment process allows a high sugar yield and avoids the need to flush large volumes of solution through the reactor. The shrinking-bed reactor is a promising pretreatment reactor with the potential for scale-up for commercial applications. To scale up the shrinking-bed reactor, it is necessary to understand the flow pattern in the reactor. In this study, flow field is simulated with computational fluid dynamics using a porous medium model. Different discrete “snapshots” and multiple steady states are utilized. The bulk flow pattern, velocity distribution, and pressure drop are determined from the simulation and can be used to guide reactor design and scale-up.     

Effect of Cooling Fluid Flow Rate on the Estimation of Conversion by Calorimetry in a Lab-Scale Reactor

Significant information about polymerization reactions carried out in lab-scale reactors is lost because sampling is not always possible due to the high viscosity, heterogeneity of the reaction medium or pressurization of the reactor. Thus, monitoring these reactions through calorimetry technique could be very valuable. Nevertheless, standard lab-scale reactors can present a relatively high residence time of the cooling fluid in the jacket and significant heat loss of the jacket to the surroundings. In the present work, the effect of the cooling fluid flow rate on the estimation of conversion through isothermal and isoperibolic calorimetry during a batch emulsion polymerization was investigated. Results show that the estimation of conversion through isothermal and isoperibolic calorimetry was not significantly affected by the cooling fluid flow rate using heat flow calorimetry. Nevertheless, when employing the energy balance of the jacket and the estimation of the global heat exchange coefficient between the jacket and the surroundings to estimate conversion (heat balance calorimetry) better results were obtained for lower cooling fluid flow rates.     

Numerical study of the vortex-induced electroosmotic mixing of non-Newtonian biofluids in a nonuniformly charged wavy microchannel: Effect of finite ion size

We propose a micromixer for obtaining better efficiency of vortex induced electroosmotic mixing of non-Newtonian bio-fluids at a relatively higher flow rate, which finds relevance in many biomedical and biological applications. To represent the rheology of non-Newtonian fluid, we consider the Carreau model in this study, while the applied electric field drives the constituent components in the micromixer. We show that the spatial variation of the applied field, triggered by the topological change of the bounding surfaces, upon interacting with the non-uniform surface potential gives rise to efficient mixing as realized by the formation of vortices in the proposed micromixer. Also, we show that the phase-lag between surface potential leads to the formation of asymmetric vortices. This behavior offers better mixing performance following the appearance of undulation on the flow pattern. Finally, we establish that the assumption of a point charge in the paradigm of electroosmotic mixing, which is not realistic as well, under-predicts the mixing efficiency at higher amplitude of the non-uniform zeta potential. The inferences of the present analysis may guide as a design tool for micromixer where rheological properties of the fluid and flow actuation parameters can be simultaneously tuned to obtain phenomenal enhancement in mixing efficiency.     

The role of nutrient presence on the adhesion kinetics of Burkholderia cepacia G4g and ENV435g

The adhesion kinetics of Burkholderia cepacia G4g and ENV435g have been investigated in a radial stagnation point flow (RSPF) system under well-controlled hydrodynamics and solution chemistry. The sensitivity of adhesion behavior to nutrient condition was also examined. Supplementary cell characterization techniques were conducted to evaluate the viability, hydrophobicity, electrophoretic mobility, size, and charge density of cells grown in both nutrient rich Luria broth (LB) and nutrient poor basal salts medium (BSM). Comparable adhesion kinetics were observed for the wild-type (G4g) and mutant (ENV435g) grown in the same medium; however, the attachment efficiency increased with the level of nutrient presence for both cell types by approximately 60%. Nutrient condition altered deposition due to its impact on the surface charge characteristics and size of the cells. Adhesion behavior was consistent with expectations based on classical Derjaguin–Landau–Verwey–Overbeek (DLVO) theory for colloidal interactions, as the adhesion efficiency increased with ionic strength. However, the results also suggest the involvement of non-DLVO type interactions that influence cell adhesion. Systematic experimentation with B. cepacia in the RSPF system demonstrated that the ENV435g mutant is not “adhesion deficient”; rather, adhesion for both the G4g and ENV435g was a function of the nutrient condition and resulting cell surface chemistry.     

平行平板间电流变液非零压力梯度Couette流动的稳定性分析

采用Rajagopal和Wineman所提出本构方程,对电流变液在二维平行平板间非零压力梯度Couette流动的线性稳定性问题进行研究.通过分析和数值计算发现,任何壁面运动都将使流动稳定性增强.在外加电场存在的情况下,电流变液效应也将使流动稳定性增强.     

颗粒流体两相流模型研究进展

本文介绍了颗粒流体两相流动的特征及其模拟方法, 重点论述了拟流体模型的研究现状及发展, 并对两相流动模拟中的各种方法进行了展望。     

On the Structure of the Spectra for a Class of Combustion Waves

The stability of a premixed laminar flame supported by a general combustion reaction system is considered using the Evans function method. The spectrum of the linearised second-order differential operator is investigated in detail. The special structure of the differential equations due to an Arrhenius temperature dependence is exploited. It is shown that, for certain combustion systems, the limit of the Jacobian of the reaction terms as the travelling wave coordinate approaches the front and rear of the flame is a lower triangular matrix. For this type of system a simple geometrical method is shown for the study of the essential spectrum of the linearised operator, and for determining the domain of the Evans function. The results are applied to some representative combustion reactions.     

Investigation of a Lithium–Halogen Exchange Flow Process for the Preparation of Boronates by Using a Cryo‐Flow Reactor

Conducting low‐temperature organometallic reactions under continuous flow conditions offers the potential to more accurately control exotherms and thus provide more reproducible and scalable processes. Herein, progress towards this goal with regards to the lithium–halogen exchange/borylation reaction is reported. In addition to improving the scope of substrates available on a research scale, methods to improve reaction profiles and expedite purification of the products are also described. On moving to a continuous system, thermocouple measurements have been used to track exotherms and provide a level of safety for continuous processing of organometallic reagents. The use of an in‐line continuous liquid–liquid separation device to circumvent labour intensive downstream off‐line processing is also reported.     

Characterization of the Engineering Flow in a Miniaturised Bioreactor by Computational Fluid Dynamics

Three approaches based on computational fluid dynamics(CFD) techniques have been assessed for their ability to describe the engineering flow environment in a miniaturized mechanically agitated bioreactor. The three approaches tested were the source-sink(SS), the multiple reference frames (MRF) and the sliding grids(SG). In all the cases, the predictions of the velocity components agree with reported experimental data. However, the analysis of the results of the turbulent intensities predicted by the three approaches indicates the MRF and the SG techniques under predicted turbulent intensities are comparable to both experimental measurements and the SS method. The predicted power number and pumping number based on the SS ap-proach are closer to typical reported experimental values compared to those obtained from the MRF and SG methods.     

Chemiluminometric Determination of the Pesticide Pirimicarb by a Flow Injection Analysis Assembly

Abstract

A flow injection (FI) method is described for the determination of pirimicarb. It was found that an enhanced chemiluminescence (CL) signal is obtained when employing the luminol–H₂O₂–horseradish peroxidase (HRP) system. Under the optimum experimental conditions, the enhanced CL intensity was linear with the concentration 4.25–30.75 ng mL^?1 (r = 0.997, n = 8) with a relative standard deviation of 0.99%, containing 12.75 ng mL^?1 (n = 8). The limit of detection of the investigated compound was 0.12 ng mL^?1. The method shows a moderate selectivity against other pesticides (Amitrole, Atrazine, 2,4,5-T, Dichlorprop, and Metamidophos).The proposed method was sensitive, simple, rapid, and successfully applied to the determination of pirimicarb when it is applied in freshwater; the mean recoveries were 98.3–118.5%.     

Development of a Special Two-Dimensional Fingerprint for the Quality Evaluation of Euonymus Alatu by HPLC with Diode Array Detector Coupled with Chemiluminescence Detection

A special two-dimensional fingerprint developed by a hyphenated method, HPLC–DAD coupled with flow injection analysis and chemiluminescence detection (HPLC–DAD–FIA–CL), was applied to evaluate the quality of Euonymus alatu. Chromatographic fingerprint and active characteristics of Euonymus alatu from different habitats were investigated by HPLC–DAD–FIA–CL method. The similarity of two-dimensional fingerprint obtained by a vectorial angle method was used to evaluate the quality of Euonymus alatu. The results suggested that the two-dimensional fingerprint could reveal more objective conclusions for the quality of Euonymus alatu, and might be helpful to improve the quality control ability of herbal medicines.