Characteristics investigation on heat transfer growth of sonochemically synthesized ZnO-DW based nanofluids inside square heat exchanger

Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry - In recent decades, the growth of heat transfer using nanomaterials in the conventional base fluid has caught the attention of researchers...     

The effect of rapid rotation on a vertical bridgman furnace at large Rayleigh number

In quasi-steady operation, convection currents in a Bridgmandevice, used for producing a semi-conductor crystal, createinhomogeneities that may make the crystal unusable. It has oftenbeen suggested that additional forces due to rotation or magnetismmight be efficacious in reducing the segregation of the elementsof the alloy. It has been found that, over a wide range of rotationrates, there is no improvement in performance due to rotationabout the vertical axis. However, numerical results that havebeen obtained previously (Lee & Pearlstein, J. Crys. Growth240, 2002) indicate that, when effects of centrifugal buoyancyare introduced, a substantial reduction in segregation is achieved.In the work reported here, by contrast, in which we extend previouslarge-Rayleigh-number asymptotic analysis to include centrifugalbuoyancy, we find no improvement in radial segregation, butrather increasing segregation with increasing rotation rate.     

Invariant submanifolds and properCR foliations on a para-coKählerian manifold with concircular structure vector field

After recalling the basic properties of para-coKählerian manifolds \(\tilde M\) with concircular structure vector field ξ, the infinitesimal auto morphismsX of the structure 1-form \(\tilde \eta \) are considered. One of the results is that the Lie derivative of all powers of the structure 2-form \(\tilde \Omega ,\) i.e. \(\mathcal{L}x\tilde \Omega ^p ;p = 1,...,m,\) is exterior recurrent. Further two types of horizontal distributionsD _n which are normal to ξ. IfD _t (resp.D _n ) is involutive, the corresponding leafM _t (resp.M _n ) is a minimal submanifold of \(\tilde M\) . FurtherM _n is a symplectic submanifold and ξ is an umbilical normal section ofM _n . Finally proper immersion \(M \to \tilde M\) are discussed, whereM is aCR-sub-manifold whose horizontal distribution isD _t . It is shown that the vertical distribution is involutive, and the restriction of ξ toM is an symptotic direction. Some interesting special cases are treated.     

Dielectric relaxation of electrolyte solutions in acetonitrile

Complex permittivity spectra in the frequency range 0.95v (GHz)89 for acetonitrile and its solutions of LiBr, NaI, NaClO₄, and Bu₄NBr at 25°C show one Debye equation for the neat solvent whereas the superposition of a Debye process for the solute and a Cole-Cole distribution for the solvent is necessary to account for the dielectric relaxation behavior of the solutions. The reorientation of bulk acetonitrile is diffusive and only weakly coupled to viscosity. The number of solvent molecules irrotationally bound to the electrolyte is in good agreement with conventional solvation numbers for all electrolytes, when kinetic depolarization is assumed to be negligible. The solute relaxation process is dominated by the formation kinetics and reorientation of contact ion pairs. There is evidence for solvent-shared ion pairs in dilute NaClO₄ solutions.     

Ion Association and Hydration in Aqueous Solutions of Nickel(II) and Cobalt(II) Sulfate

Aqueous solutions of nickel(II) and cobalt(II) sulfate have been investigated at 25 ^∘C by dielectric relaxation spectroscopy (DRS) over a wide range of frequencies (0.2 ≤ ν (GHz) ≤ 89) and salt concentrations (0.025 ≤ c(mol-L⁻¹) ≤ 1.4). The spectra indicate, as for MgSO₄(aq) studied previously, the simultaneous presence of double solvent-separated, solvent-shared and contact ion pairs in both NiSO₄(aq) and CoSO₄(aq). The stepwise formation constants for each ion-pair type and the overall association constant, obtained from the data are in good agreement with ultrasonic relaxation and other estimates. The DR spectra at higher concentrations (c ≥ 0.5 mol-L⁻¹) suggest the existence of a nonlinear triple ion M₂SO₄²⁺(aq). Consistent with the very strong hydration of the salts, which have ‘effective’ hydration numbers approaching 27 at infinite dilution, there are no significant differences in any of the relaxation or thermodynamic parameters for NiSO₄(aq) and CoSO₄(aq), except that the triple ion appears to be somewhat more stable for the latter.     

Molecular chaperones--cellular machines for protein folding

Proteins are linear polymers synthesized by ribosomes from activated amino acids. The product of this biosynthetic process is a polypeptide chain, which has to adopt the unique three-dimensional structure required for its function in the cell. In 1972, Christian Anfinsen was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry for showing that this folding process is autonomous in that it does not require any additional factors or input of energy. Based on in vitro experiments with purified proteins, it was suggested that the correct three-dimensional structure can form spontaneously in vivo once the newly synthesized protein leaves the ribosome. Furthermore, proteins were assumed to maintain their native conformation until they were degraded by specific enzymes. In the last decade this view of cellular protein folding has changed considerably. It has become clear that a complicated and sophisticated machinery of proteins exists which assists protein folding and allows the functional state of proteins to be maintained under conditions in which they would normally unfold and aggregate. These proteins are collectively called molecular chaperones, because, like their human counterparts, they prevent unwanted interactions between their immature clients. In this review, we discuss the principal features of this peculiar class of proteins, their structure-function relationships, and the underlying molecular mechanisms.     

Chiroptical detection. Novel possibilities of its application to enantiomers

Summary Polarimetric and/or circular dichroic detection of enantiomers after liquid chromatography on optically active sorberts has been used for the following purposes: determination of enantiomeric purity in spite of peak overlap, investigation of enantiomerization during chromatography, monitoring of racemizations and recording of circular dichrograms without preparative enrichment of enantiomers. Novel examples for all applications are give. The general prospects for chiroptical detection are discussed.     

über eine Klasse Riemannscher Mannigfaltigkeiten mit raumartigen pkf-ZusammenhÄngen

One considers m-dimensional Riemannian manifoldsM with tangent spaces T_p(M), p M that are a direct sum of a spacelike m-2 planeR _p and a 2-planeH _p. It is supposed that onM there exists a connection whose space-like components are parallel conformal flat (pkf). These components are generated by a vector field X. Assuming that X belongs to a pair X,Y of reciprocal quasi-cocircular vector fields and that the Pfaffian of this pair is the 1-form associated with the connection, the following results are derived: 1. X and Y are of equal constant length (This is true for all Riemannian manifolds). 2. The immersion of the integral manifold ofH _p intoM is cylindrical and the normal connection is flat. 3. The immersion of any space-like submanifold intoM is cylindrical with respect to the sections inH _p and umbilical with respect to all spacelike sections. 4. If m 4, the integral manifoldP _p is flat.

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Herrn Prof. Dr. WERNER BURAU zum 70.Geburtstag Klaus Buchner und Radu Rosca