The Revival Wave Induced Spontaneously in a BZ-Type Mixture

We have examined the unusual behavior of wave propagation in the BrO₃ ^- - 1,4- cyclohexanedione - ferroin reaction system. Two patterns of traveling wave have been induced spontaneously with long time lag in the reaction process. A new wave has been induced as a concentric pattern after an initially induced wave has disappeared. The initially induced wave shows an irregular spiral pattern with a high wave frequency. The two waves show very different behavior in the pattern and in other wave characteristics as well. We compared the behavior of the two waves and suggested an appropriate reaction process for unusual behavior of wave propagation in the system by considering the reaction intermediates of the organic compounds. This revised version was published online in June 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

Surface modification of polypropylene membranes by γ-ray induced graft copolymerization and their solute permeation characteristics

Porous hydrophobic polypropylene (PP) membranes were subjected to the surface modification by the γ-ray induced graft copolymerization with hydrophilic 2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate (HEMA). The structural changes and surface morphologies of the modified PP membranes were characterized by a Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR), elemental analysis (EA) and field emission scanning electron microscopy (FE-SEM). Peroxides produced from γ-ray irradiation were determined by a 1,1-diphenyl-2-picryl hydrazyl (DPPH) method and the surface hydrophilicities of membranes were measured by a static contact angle measurement. The contact angle of the modified membranes reduced with the degree of grafting (DG) of HEMA onto the membrane surface, and it decreased up to about half of that before modification. The permeation behaviors of all membranes were investigated by a bovine serum albumin (BSA) filtration experiment. As a result, the DG of the modified membrane increased with the reaction time. However, in the case of irradiation dosage it showed the maximum value at 20 kGy. Also, the modified membrane showed a higher solution flux, lower BSA adsorption, and the better flux recovery after cleaning than that of the unmodified membrane. Particularly, 40.6% grafted membrane showed a two-fold increase in a BSA solution flux, 62% reduction in total fouling and three-fold increase in flux recovery after chemical cleaning.     

Effect of spatial discretization schemes on numerical solutions of viscoelastic fluid flows

This study examines the effect of discretization schemes for the convection term in the constitutive equation on numerical solutions of viscoelastic fluid flows. For this purpose, a temporally evolving mixing layer, a two-dimensional vortex pair interacting with a wall, and a fully developed turbulent channel flow are selected as test cases, and eight different discretization schemes are considered. Among them, the first-order upwind difference scheme (UD) and artificial diffusion scheme (AD), which are commonly used in the literature, show most stable and smooth solutions even for highly extensional flows. However, the stress fields are smeared too much by these schemes and the corresponding flow fields are quite different from those obtained by higher-order upwind difference schemes. Among higher-order upwind difference schemes investigated in this study, a third-order compact upwind difference scheme (CUD3) with locally added AD shows stable and most accurate solutions for highly extensional flows even at relatively high Weissenberg numbers.     

Synthesis of Novel Biodegradable Cationic Dendrimers

Summary: Dendrons and dendrimers with cationic amino groups at their periphery were successfully synthesized up to the third and second generation, respectively. The results obtained by ¹H NMR spectroscopy and gel permeation chromatography analysis supported the formation of the targeted dendrons and dendrimers. The dendrons were grown via ester linkages, which endowed them with biodegradability in D₂O at 37 °C. The degradation rate depends upon the steric hindrance and reactivity caused by the bulkiness and compact structure of the dendrons. All of the synthesized dendrons were degraded within a month, while 60% of the ester groups in the sterically crowded dendrimers were degraded over the same time period. The cytotoxicity of the dendrons was evaluated by the MTT assay on a 293T cell line which indicated that the obtained dendrons were completely non‐toxic. These non‐toxic, biodegradable cationic dendrons and dendrimers are believed to have potential applications in the biomedical field.

Synthetic procedure of dendrons and dendrimers.     

Hydrogenation of nitroaromatics to anilines catalyzed by air‐stable arene ruthenium (II)–NNN pincer complexes

A series of air‐stable, phosphine‐free arene ruthenium (II)–NNN pincer complexes (RuL, RuL¹, RuL² and RuL³) have been synthesized and characterized by spectroscopic and single‐crystal X‐ray analysis. Further, arene ruthenium (II)–NNN pincer complexes have been used as catalyst for hydrogenation of nitroaromatics into aniline in the presence of NaBH₄ at room temperature. The catalytic process suggested highly chemo‐selective nitroreduction with wide functional group tolerance.     

Preliminary result of an advanced tangential X-ray pinhole camera system with a duplex MWPC on KSTAR plasma

An advanced tangential X-ray pinhole camera (TXPC) has been developed for KSTAR by utilizing a 2-D duplex multi-wire proportional counter (MWPC) detector. The KSTAR MWPC employs a 2-D parallel type readout system for high temporal resolution and adopts a duplex type for the capability of electron temperature measurement via the multi-color method. This paper presents the performance test result of the developed MWPC system utilizing a Fe-55 X-ray source. As a preliminary experimental result from the 2012 KSTAR campaign, the clear presentation of sawtooth activities and its frequency change, and 2-D plasma images during the vertical disruption event are given.     

Liquid film thickness inside the high pressure swirl injectors: Real scale measurement and evaluation of analytical equations

Liquid film thickness inside two swirl injectors for direct injection (DI) gasoline engines was measured at different injection pressure conditions ranging from 2.0 to 7.0 MPa and then previous analytical and empirical equations were examined from the experimental results. Based on the evaluation, a new equation for the liquid film thickness inside the swirl injectors was introduced. A direct photography using two real scale transparent nozzles and a pulsed light source was employed to measure the liquid film thickness inside the swirl injectors. The error in the liquid film thickness measurement, generated from different refractive indices among transparent nozzle, fuel and air, was estimated and corrected based on the geometric optics. Two injectors which have different nozzle diameter and nozzle length were applied to introduce a more general empirical equation for the liquid film thickness inside the pressure swirl injectors. The results showed that the liquid film thickness remains constant at the injection pressures for direct injection gasoline engines while the ratio of nozzle length to nozzle diameter (L/D) shows significant effect on the liquid film thickness. The previously introduced analytical and empirical equations for relatively low injection pressure swirl injectors overestimated the effect of injection pressure at the operating range of high pressure swirl injectors and, in addition, the effect of L/D ratio and swirler geometry was rarely considered. A new empirical equation was suggested based on the experimental results by taking into account the effects of fuel properties, nozzle diameter, nozzle length and swirler geometry.     

Parallel large eddy simulation of turbulent flow around MIRA model using linear equal‐order finite element method

A parallel large eddy simulation code that adopts domain decomposition method has been developed for large‐scale computation of turbulent flows around an arbitrarily shaped body. For the temporal integration of the unsteady incompressible Navier–Stokes equation, fractional 4‐step splitting algorithm is adopted, and for the modelling of small eddies in turbulent flows, the Smagorinsky model is used. For the parallelization of the code, METIS and Message Passing Interface Libraries are used, respectively, to partition the computational domain and to communicate data between processors. To validate the parallel architecture and to estimate its performance, a three‐dimensional laminar driven cavity flow inside a cubical enclosure has been solved. To validate the turbulence calculation, the turbulent channel flows at Re_τ = 180 and 1050 are simulated and compared with previous results. Then, a backward facing step flow is solved and compared with a DNS result for overall code validation. Finally, the turbulent flow around MIRA model at Re = 2.6 × 10⁶ is simulated by using approximately 6.7 million nodes. Scalability curve obtained from this simulation shows that scalable results are obtained. The calculated drag coefficient agrees better with the experimental result than those previously obtained by using two‐equation turbulence models. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.