scholarly journals Theoretical Analysis and Semianalytical Solutions for a Turbulent Buoyant Hydrogen-Air Jet

2012 ◽  
Vol 2012 ◽  
pp. 1-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. F. El-Amin ◽  
Shuyu Sun ◽  
Amgad Salama

Semianalytical solutions are developed for turbulent hydrogen-air plume. We derived analytical expressions for plume centerline variables (radius, velocity, and density deficit) in terms of a single universal function, called plume function. By combining the obtained analytical expressions of centerline variables with empirical Gaussian expressions of the mean variables, we obtain semianalytical expressions for mean quantities of hydrogen-air plume (velocity, density deficit, and mass fraction).

1989 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
pp. 175-179
Author(s):  
D.M. McClung ◽  
J.O. Larsen

Structures placed in deep snow covers are subject to forces caused by interruption of the down-slope snow-pack deformation components. The resulting creep pressures are often the primary design consideration. In this paper, accurate field data (pressures) and theoretical analysis of the problem using a linear creep law to define snow deformation are presented. Results include analytical expressions for the pressures, and it is demonstrated that the resulting linear theory underestimates the mean pressures by about 20%. Higher accuracy will require that a nonlinear deformation law be formulated.


1989 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
pp. 175-179
Author(s):  
D.M. McClung ◽  
J.O. Larsen

Structures placed in deep snow covers are subject to forces caused by interruption of the down-slope snow-pack deformation components. The resulting creep pressures are often the primary design consideration. In this paper, accurate field data (pressures) and theoretical analysis of the problem using a linear creep law to define snow deformation are presented. Results include analytical expressions for the pressures, and it is demonstrated that the resulting linear theory underestimates the mean pressures by about 20%. Higher accuracy will require that a nonlinear deformation law be formulated.


2007 ◽  
Vol 21 (30) ◽  
pp. 5075-5089 ◽  
Author(s):  
HALA M. KHALIL ◽  
MOHAMMED M. SHABAT ◽  
SOFYAN A. TAYA ◽  
MAZEN M. ABADLA

In this work, we present an extensive theoretical analysis of nonlinear optical waveguide sensor. The waveguide under consideration consists of a thin dielectrica film surrounded by a self-focused nonlinear cladding and a linear substrate. The nonlinearity of the cladding is considered to be of Kerr-type. Both cases, when the effective refractive index is greater and when it is smaller than the index of the guiding layer, are discussed. The sensitivity of the effective refractive index to any change in the cladding index in evanescent optical waveguide sensor is derived for TM modes. Closed form analytical expressions and normalized charts are given to provide the conditions required for the sensor to exhibit its maximum sensitivity. The results are compared with those of the well-known linear evanescent waveguide sensors.


Author(s):  
M. A. R. Sharif ◽  
M. A. Gadalla

Abstract Isothermal turbulent mixing of an axisymmetric primary air jet with a low velocity annular secondary air stream inside a constant diameter cylindrical enclosure is predicted. The flow domain from the inlet to the fully developed downstream locations is considered. The predicted flow field properties include the mean velocity and pressure and the Reynolds stresses. Different velocity and diameter ratios between the primary and the secondary jets have been investigated to characterize the flow in terms of these parameters. A bounded stream-wise differencing scheme is used to minimize numerical diffusion and oscillation errors. Predictions are compared with available experimental data to back up numerical findings.


2011 ◽  
Vol 25 (12n13) ◽  
pp. 1041-1051 ◽  
Author(s):  
HO KHAC HIEU ◽  
VU VAN HUNG

Using the statistical moment method (SMM), the temperature and pressure dependences of thermodynamic quantities of zinc-blende-type semiconductors have been investigated. The analytical expressions of the nearest-neighbor distances, the change of volumes and the mean-square atomic displacements (MSDs) have been derived. Numerical calculations have been performed for a series of zinc-blende-type semiconductors: GaAs , GaP , GaSb , InAs , InP and InSb . The agreement between our calculations and both earlier other theoretical results and experimental data is a support for our new theory in investigating the temperature and pressure dependences of thermodynamic quantities of semiconductors.


1993 ◽  
Vol 246 ◽  
pp. 225-247 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. R. Panchapakesan ◽  
J. L. Lumley

A turbulent round jet of helium was studied experimentally using a composite probe consisting of an interference probe of the Way–Libby type and an × -probe. Simultaneous measurements of two velocity components and helium mass fraction concentration were made in the x/d range 50–120. These measurements are compared with measurements in an air jet of the same momentum flux reported in Part 1. The jet discharge Froude number was 14000 and the measurement range was in the intermediate region between the non-buoyant jet region and the plume region. The measurements are consistent with earlier studies on helium jets. The mass flux of helium across the jet is within ±10% of the nozzle input. The mean velocity field along the axis of the jet is consistent with the scaling expressed by the effective diameter but the mean concentration decay constant exhibits a density-ratio dependence. The radial profiles of mean velocity and mean concentration agree with earlier measurements, with the half-widths indicating a turbulent Schmidt number of 0.7. Significantly higher intensities of axial velocity fluctuations are observed in comparison with the air jet, while the intensities of radial and azimuthal velocity fluctuations are virtually identical with the air jet when scaled with the half-widths. Approximate budgets for the turbulent kinetic energy, scalar variance and scalar fluxes are presented. The ratio of mechanical to scalar timescales is found to be close to 1.5 across most of the jet. Current models for triple moments involving scalar fluctuations are compared with measurements. As was observed with the velocity triple moments in Part 1, the performance of the Full model that includes all terms except advection was found to be very good in the fully turbulent region of the jet.


1990 ◽  
Vol 112 (1) ◽  
pp. 114-120 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Ounis ◽  
G. Ahmadi

The equation of motion of a small spherical rigid particle in a turbulent flow field, including the Stokes drag, the Basset force, and the virtual mass effects, is considered. For an isotropic field, the lift force and the velocity gradient effects are neglected. Using the spectral method, responses of the resulting constant coefficient stochastic integrao-differential equation are studied. Analytical expressions relating the Lagrangian energy spectra of particle velocity to that of the fluid are developed and the results are used to evaluate various response statistics. Variations of the mean-square particle velocity and particle diffusivity with size, density ratio and response time are studied. The theoretical predictions are compared with the digital simulation results and the available data and good agreement is observed.


1998 ◽  
Vol 111 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Nikonov ◽  
N. Engheta ◽  
E.N. Pugh

The kinetics of the dark-adapted salamander rod photocurrent response to flashes producing from 10 to 105 photoisomerizations (Φ) were investigated in normal Ringer's solution, and in a choline solution that clamps calcium near its resting level. For saturating intensities ranging from ∼102 to 104 Φ, the recovery phases of the responses in choline were nearly invariant in form. Responses in Ringer's were similarly invariant for saturating intensities from ∼103 to 104 Φ. In both solutions, recoveries to flashes in these intensity ranges translated on the time axis a constant amount (τc) per e-fold increment in flash intensity, and exhibited exponentially decaying “tail phases” with time constant τc. The difference in recovery half-times for responses in choline and Ringer's to the same saturating flash was 5–7 s. Above ∼104 Φ, recoveries in both solutions were systematically slower, and translation invariance broke down. Theoretical analysis of the translation-invariant responses established that τc must represent the time constant of inactivation of the disc-associated cascade intermediate (R*, G*, or PDE*) having the longest lifetime, and that the cGMP hydrolysis and cGMP-channel activation reactions are such as to conserve this time constant. Theoretical analysis also demonstrated that the 5–7-s shift in recovery half-times between responses in Ringer's and in choline is largely (4–6 s) accounted for by the calcium-dependent activation of guanylyl cyclase, with the residual (1–2 s) likely caused by an effect of calcium on an intermediate with a nondominant time constant. Analytical expressions for the dim-flash response in calcium clamp and Ringer's are derived, and it is shown that the difference in the responses under the two conditions can be accounted for quantitatively by cyclase activation. Application of these expressions yields an estimate of the calcium buffering capacity of the rod at rest of ∼20, much lower than previous estimates.


2009 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ryna B. Marinenko ◽  
Shirley Turner ◽  
David S. Simons ◽  
Savelas A. Rabb ◽  
Rolf L. Zeisler ◽  
...  

AbstractBulk silicon-germanium (SiGe) alloys and two SiGe thick films (4 and 5 μm) on Si wafers were tested with the electron probe microanalyzer (EPMA) using wavelength dispersive spectrometers (WDS) for heterogeneity and composition for use as reference materials needed by the microelectronics industry. One alloy with a nominal composition of Si0.86Ge0.14 and the two thick films with nominal compositions of Si0.90Ge0.10 and Si0.75Ge0.25 on Si, evaluated for micro- and macroheterogeneity, will make good microanalysis reference materials with an overall expanded heterogeneity uncertainty of 1.1% relative or less for Ge. The bulk Ge composition in the Si0.86Ge0.14 alloy was determined to be 30.228% mass fraction Ge with an expanded uncertainty of the mean of 0.195% mass fraction. The thick films were quantified with WDS-EPMA using both the Si0.86Ge0.14 alloy and element wafers as reference materials. The Ge concentration was determined to be 22.80% mass fraction with an expanded uncertainty of the mean of 0.12% mass fraction for the Si0.90Ge0.10 wafer and 43.66% mass fraction for the Si0.75Ge0.25 wafer with an expanded uncertainty of the mean of 0.25% mass fraction. The two thick SiGe films will be issued as National Institute of Standards and Technology Reference Materials (RM 8905).


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