Single SCA-plume dynamics

The effect of water column stability on underwater oil blowouts plume dynamics and peeling height

Considering the increase in number of offshore oil production projects and for better understanding of plume dynamics in accidental underwater oil blowouts, a series of laboratory experiments in a square cross section open top basin were carried out to investigate the effect of changes in seawater stratification and water column stability on plume dynamics and peeling height.  Accordingly the o...

SCA 1, SCA 2 & SCA 3/MJD mutations in ataxia syndromes in southern India.

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVE Spinocerebellar ataxias (SCAs) are often caused by expansions of CTG/ CAG trinucleotide repeat in the genome. Expansions at the SCA1, 2 and 3 loci are the most frequent, but differences in their relative proportion in regions occur across the world. We carried out this study to assess the occurrence of SCA1, 2 and 3, at a tertiary neuro-psychiatric center in Bangalore, Ka...

Dynamics of Spacecraft Plume/Magnetosphere Interactions in Geostationary Earth Orbit

Detailed direct simulation Monte Carlo/Particle in Cell simulations involving the interaction of a hydrazine chemical rocket plume with the rarefied ambient magnetosphere are presented for steady thruster firings in geostationary Earth orbit (GEO). The hydrazine chemical rocket plume is modeled as a neutral gas mixture with thruster exit conditions corresponding to a mass flow rate of 5.0 × 10−...

Introducing Sca

Agent-Based Chemical Plume Tracing Using Fluid Dynamics

This paper presents a rigorous evaluation of a novel, distributed chemical plume tracing algorithm. The algorithm is a combination of the best aspects of the two most popular predecessors for this task. Furthermore, it is based on solid, formal principles from the field of fluid mechanics. The algorithm is applied by a network of mobile sensing agents (e.g., robots or micro-air vehicles) that s...