On the Rayleigh-Plateau instability

In this paper,we study the surface instability of a cylindrical pore in the absence of stress. This instability is called the Rayleigh-Plateau instabilty. We consider the model developed by Spencer et ...     

Synthesis,Antibacterial, and Antioxidant Evaluation of Novel Series of Condensed Thiazoloquinazoline with Pyrido,Pyrano, and Benzol Moieties as Five- and Six-Membered Heterocycle Derivatives

A novel synthesis of thiazolo[2,3-b]quinazolines 4(a–e), pyrido[2′,3′:4,5]thiazolo[2,3-b]quinazolines {5(a–e), 6(a–e), and 7(a–e)}, pyrano[2′,3′:4,5]thiazolo[2,3-b]quinazolines 8(a–e), and benzo[4,5]thiazolo[2,3-b]quinazoloine9(a–e) derivatives starting from 2-(Bis-methylsulfanyl-methylene)-5,5-dimethyl-cyclohexane-1,3-dione 2 as efficient α,α dioxoketen dithioacetal is reported and the synthetic approaches of these types of compounds will provide an innovative molecular framework to the designing of new active heterocyclic compounds. In our study, we also present optimization of the synthetic method along with a biological evaluation of these newly synthesized compounds as antioxidants and antibacterial agents against the bacterial strains, like S. aureus, E. coli, and P. aeruginosa. Among all the evaluated compounds, it was found that some showed significant antioxidant activity at 10 μg/mL while the others exhibited better antibacterial activity at 100 μg/mL. The results of this study showed that compound 6(c) possessed remarkable antibacterial activity, whereas compound 9(c) exhibited the highest efficacy as an antioxidant. The structures of the new synthetic compounds were elucidated by elemental analysis, IR, ¹H-NMR, and ¹³C-NMR.     

Novel microscopic mechanism of intermixing during growth on soft metallic substrates

Generic computer simulations using empiric interatomic potentials suggest a new, collective mechanism that could be responsible for mixing at heteroepitaxial interfaces. Even if single adsorbate atoms diffuse by hopping on the substrate surface and do not mix at the terraces, two-dimensional islands formed by nucleation may become unstable above a certain critical size and explode upwards forming clusters of several atomic layers. This process is accompanied by strong distortions of the underlying atomic layers, and on soft materials it can result in surface etching and incorporation of substrate atoms into the islands.     

Dynamics of sprinkler jets

The problem of the motion of droplet-air sprinkler jets is examined. On the basis of the equations of a turbulent two-phase boundary layer the trajectories and range of these jets are calculated. A comparison of the calculation results with experiment indicates satisfactory agreement. It is shown that the expression for the range of a body projected at an angle to the horizontal gives exaggerated values for the range, while calculating the range for a single droplet with allowance for the air resistance gives values that are much too low. It has been established that in calculating the motion of sprinkler jets it is necessary to take into account the air resistance to the water droplets reduced as a result of the acceleration of the air in the immediate vicinity of the preceding droplets.Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Mekhanika Zhidkosti i Gaza, No. 5, pp. 60–67, September–October, 1985.     

Flexural perturbations of free jets of maxwell and Doi-Edwards liquids

Flexural perturbations of high-velocity free jets of drop liquids moving in air are reinforced by the fact that the air pressure on the concave sections of the jet surface is greater than on the convex sections. The linear and nonlinear stages of development of flexural perturbations were studied in [1–5] for viscous Newtonian fluids. The effect of elastic stresses in the fluid on the growth of flexural perturbations of jets was first examined in [6], where it was assumed in an analysis of the growth of small disturbances that surface tension was constant along the jet, i.e., the investigators actually studied a tensed string. The studies [7, 8] examined the linear stage of growth of flexural perturbations of jets of Maxwell liquids. Our goal here is to analyze the dynamics of long-wave flexural perturbations of jets of viscoelastic fluids in both the linear and nonlinear stages of development. The rheological behavior of the fluid is described by two models — the phenomenological (Maxwell) model and the physical-molecular (Doi-Edwards) model. It is shown that the disturbances are oscillatory in character in the nonlinear stage of development. Meanwhile, the results of calculations performed with the Maxwell (M) and Doi-Edwards (DE) rheological models in the given problem agree with each other quantitatively as well as qualitatively.Translated from Zhurnal Prikladnoi Mekhaniki i Tekhnicheskoi Fiziki, No. 6, pp. 43–53, November–December, 1986.     

Theoretical and experimental analysis of longitudinal wave propagation in cylindrical viscoelastic rods

Wave propagation in viscoelastic rods is encountered in many applications including studies of impact and fracture under high strain rates and characterization of the dynamic behavior of viscoelastic materials. For viscoelastic materials, both material and geometric dispersion are possible when the diameter of the rod is of the same order as the wavelength. In this work, we simplify the Pochhammer frequency equation for low and intermediate loss viscoelastic materials and formulate corrections for geometric dispersion for both the phase velocity and attenuation. The formulation is then experimentally verified with measurements of the phase velocity and attenuation in commercial polymethylmethacrylate rods that are 12 and in diameter. Without correcting for geometric dispersion, the usable frequency range for determining the phase velocity and attenuation for the rod is about , and about for the rod. Using the correction procedure developed here, it was possible to accurately determine the phase velocity and attenuation up to frequencies exceeding for the rod and for the rod. These corrections are applicable to many polymers and other viscoelastic materials. From thereon, the viscoelastic properties of the material can be determined over a wide range of frequencies.     

Examination of Template Structural Effects on CEC Chiral Separation Performance of Molecule Imprinted Polymers Made by a Generalized Preparation Protocol

Some acidic chiral templates were used to prepare open tubular (OT) molecule imprinted polymer (MIP) capillary columns to explore the effects of molecular structures of templates on chiral recognition capabilities and to verify the feasibility of the general MIP preparation protocol introduced in the previous study. The templates are phenyl carboxylic acids and their derivatives. Optimization was carried out for chiral separation of template enantiomers for each MIP column through varying pH and composition of eluent. It was found that the preparation protocol can be successfully applied for the appropriate templates with functional groups fulfilling the three-points interaction rule. The chiral separation performances were quite satisfactory for MIPs of such templates although they are yet inferior to the separation performances of the MIP columns fabricated with the templates of profen drugs (2-arylpropionic acids with a large substituent on the phenyl ring). Subtle variations of the template molecular structures have been found to be critical to enhance chiral recognition ability of the resultant MIP column.