The diffusion of reaction products from a radioactive monolayer

The one-dimensional diffusion equation has been solved for transfer at an exponentially decaying rate from an area source into a semi-infinite diffusion medium. Numerical values of the concentration distribution are given for a wide range of the values of the parameters. The solutions have been used to calculate the radioactive counting rate of a diffusing radioactive substance which is being released from the surface, assuming exponential absorption of radiation by the medium. The results have been used specifically to calculate the true rate of exchange of radio-iodine between a monomolecular layer of α-iodostearic acid and iodide ion in a water substrate from the measured rate of decay of radioactivity measured at the surface, but have other possible applications.

1999 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander V. Kasharin ◽  
Jens O. M. Karlsson

Abstract The process of diffusion-limited cell dehydration is modeled for a planar system by writing the one-dimensional diffusion-equation for a cell with moving, semipermeable boundaries. For the simplifying case of isothermal dehydration with constant diffusivity, an approximate analytical solution is obtained by linearizing the governing partial differential equations. The general problem must be solved numerically. The Forward Time Center Space (FTCS) and Crank-Nicholson differencing schemes are implemented, and evaluated by comparison with the analytical solution. Putative stability criteria for the two algorithms are proposed based on numerical experiments, and the Crank-Nicholson method is shown to be accurate for a mesh with as few as six nodes.


2014 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-80 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander A. Charakhch'yan ◽  
Konstantin V. Khishchenko

AbstractThe one-dimensional problem on bilatiral irradiation by proton beams of the plane layer of condensed DT mixture with length 2H and density ρ0 ≤ 100ρs, where ρs is the fuel solid-state density at atmospheric pressure and temperature of 4 K, is considered. The proton kinetic energy is 1 MeV, the beam intensity is 1019 W/cm2 and duration is 50 ps. A mathematical model is based on the one-fluid two-temperature hydrodynamics with a wide-range equation of state of the fuel, electron and ion heat conduction, DT fusion reaction kinetics, self-radiation of plasma and plasma heating by α-particles. If the ignition occurs, a plane detonation wave, which is adjacent to the front of the rarefaction wave, appears. Upon reflection of this detonation wave from the symmetry plane, the flow with the linear velocity profile along the spatial variable x and with a weak dependence of the thermodynamic functions of x occurs. An appropriate solution of the equations of hydrodynamics is found analytically up to an arbitrary constant, which can be chosen so that the analytical solution describes with good accuracy the numerical one. The gain with respect to the energy of neutrons G ≈ 200 at Hρ0 ≈ 1 g/cm2, and G > 2000 at Hρ0 ≈ 5 g/cm2. To evaluate the ignition energy Eig of cylindrical targets, the quasi-1D model, limiting trajectories of α-particles by a cylinder of a given radius, is suggested. The model reproduces the known theoretical dependence Eig ~ ρ0−2 and gives Eig = 160 kJ for ρ0 = 100ρs ≈ 22 g/cm3.


2018 ◽  
Vol 284 ◽  
pp. 1230-1234
Author(s):  
Mikhail V. Maisuradze ◽  
Alexandra A. Kuklina

The simplified algorithm of the numerical solution of the differential diffusion equation is presented. The solution is based on the one-dimensional diffusion model with the third kind boundary conditions and the finite difference method. The proposed approach allows for the quick and precise assessment of the carburizing process parameters – temperature and time.


1972 ◽  
Vol 1 (13) ◽  
pp. 13
Author(s):  
Hisashi Mitsuyasu

The data for the spectra of wind-generated waves measured in a laboratory tank and in a bay are analyzed using the similarity theory of Kitaigorodski, and the one-dimensional spectra of fetch-limited wind waves are determined from the data. The combined field and laboratory data cover such a wide range of dimensionless fetch F (= gF/u2 ) as F : 102 ~ 10 . The fetch relations for the growthes of spectral peak frequency u)m and of total energy E of the spectrum are derived from the proposed spectra, which are consistent with those derived directly from the measured spectra.


2014 ◽  
Vol 14 (23) ◽  
pp. 13013-13022 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. M. Murphy

Abstract. A parcel and a one-dimensional model are used to investigate the temperature dependence of ice crystal number density. The number of ice crystals initially formed in a cold cirrus cloud is very sensitive to the nucleation mechanism and the detailed history of cooling rates during nucleation. A possible small spread in the homogeneous freezing threshold due to varying particle composition is identified as a sensitive nucleation parameter. In a parcel model, the slow growth rate of ice crystals at low temperatures inherently leads to a strong increase in ice number density at low temperatures. This temperature dependence is not observed. The model temperature dependence occurs for a wide range of assumptions and for either homogeneous or, less strongly, heterogeneous freezing. However, the parcel model also shows that random temperature fluctuations result in an extremely wide range of ice number densities. A one-dimensional model is used to show that the rare temperature trajectories resulting in the lowest number densities are disproportionately important. Low number density ice crystals sediment and influence a large volume of air. When such fall streaks are included, the ice number becomes less sensitive to the details of nucleation than it is in a parcel model. The one-dimensional simulations have a more realistic temperature dependence than the parcel mode. The one-dimensional model also produces layers with vertical dimensions of meters even if the temperature forcing has a much broader vertical wavelength. Unlike warm clouds, cirrus clouds are frequently surrounded by supersaturated air. Sedimentation through supersaturated air increases the importance of any process that produces small numbers of ice crystals. This paper emphasizes the relatively rare temperature trajectories that produce the fewest crystals. Other processes are heterogeneous nucleation, sedimentation from the very bottom of clouds, annealing of disordered to hexagonal ice, and entrainment.


A theory is presented for the behaviour under self-weight of inextensible but perfectly flexible membranes supported in a vertical plane. Slack in the membrane manifests itself in the formation of (curved) wrinkle lines whose determination is the prime objective. The equilibrium and strain conditions are derived and solutions are given for several simple cases. It is shown that the wrinkle lines satisfy the one-dimensional diffusion equation and hence there are analogies, for example, with heat flow through a slab.


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