Solid Flow Fields and Growth of Soft Solid Mass

Solid-solid transition in Landau-Levich flow with soft-jammed systems.

We study the Landau-Levich problem, i.e., withdrawal of a plate from a bath of fluid, in the case of a soft-jammed system, which involves a transition from a solid bath to a solid layer stuck on the plate. We show that this solid-solid transition is prepared inside the bath before the emersion from the fluid, through the existence of a uniform (boundary) layer in the liquid regime along the pla...

Mass flux and solid growth in solid 4He: 60 mK - 700 mK

Dynamic Response Analysis of the Planar and Tubular Solid Oxide Fuel Cells to the Inlet Air Mass Flow Rate Variation

The purpose of present study is to investigate the dynamic response of two conventional types of solid oxide fuel cells to the inlet air mass flow rate variation. A dynamic compartmental model based on CFD principles is developed for two typical planar and tubular SOFC designs. The model accounts for transport processes (heat and mass transfer), diffusion processes, electrochemical processes, a...

Solid-solid transformations in a confined soft sphere fluid.

Grand canonical Monte Carlo simulations are used to investigate the structure of frozen phases in a confined soft sphere (Lennard-Jones) fluid for a bulk state point lying close to the liquid-solid freezing line. The study reveals that the pore fluid not only freezes in the pore, but solid-solid transformations occur in the two, and three-layered structures that form as the pore height is varie...

Solid friction between soft filaments.

Any macroscopic deformation of a filamentous bundle is necessarily accompanied by local sliding and/or stretching of the constituent filaments. Yet the nature of the sliding friction between two aligned filaments interacting through multiple contacts remains largely unexplored. Here, by directly measuring the sliding forces between two bundled F-actin filaments, we show that these frictional fo...