-The ratio of the fluxes of heat and salt across a diffusive interface is investigated on the premise that there are two contributions to the flux of each component. These contributions arise from the two transport mechanisms which can operate at a diffusive interface, viz. double-diffusive convection and turbulent entrainment. Estimates of the fluxes are provided for each process, and their co...

The Meissner effect in diffusive normal metal / insulator / d-wave superconductor junctions is studied theoretically in the framework of the Usadel equation under the generalized boundary condition. The effect of midgap Andreev resonant states (MARS) formed at the interface of d-wave superconductor is taken into account. It is shown that the formation of MARS suppresses the susceptibility of th...

We have developed a computational framework for accurate and efficient simulation of stochastic spatially inhomogeneous biochemical systems. The new computational method employs a fractional step hybrid strategy. A novel formulation of the finite state projection (FSP) method, called the diffusive FSP method, is introduced for the efficient and accurate simulation of diffusive transport. Reacti...

OBJECTIVES In order to measure occupational exposure concentrations of ethyl tertiary-butyl ether (ETBE), we developed a diffusive sampling method for monitoring ETBE and performed an ETBE exposure assessment. METHODS The applicability of diffusive samplers was examined by exposing the samplers to ETBE vapor in test chambers. The personal exposure levels of workers and airborne concentrations...

The phrase virtual source refers to two different techniques in this dissertation. In the first half of the dissertation, it refers to interferometry and in the second half it uses the concept of the synthetic aperture technique. In interferometry, a receiver is converted to a “virtual source”. In the synthetic aperture technique, a large “virtual source” is constructed by adding small sources....

Proteins within the living cell potentially possess different spatial localizations and a wide range of diffusivities . At one extreme, proteins may be essentially nondiffusive-that is, highly localized structural components of the cytoplasm and/ or nucleus, with very long or infinite residence-times. An extensive, proteinaceous cytomatrix network consisting ofthe polymerized proteins of microt...