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This paper presents a method of simple and multiple water fuel emulsions preparation in a liquid-liquid contactor with Couette-Taylor flow (CTF contactor). This method concerns the integration of the CTF contactor with diesel engines for the injection of just-prepared emulsions. Stable simple O/W and multiple O/W/O emulsions, both with quite narrow drop size distribution, have been prepared. Th...

The interception and redirection of rainfall by vegetation has implications for many fields such as remote sensing of soil moisture, satellite observation of rainfall, and the modeling of runoff, climate, and soil erosion. Although the modeling of rainfall partitioning by forests has received attention in the past, partitioning caused by crops has been overlooked. The present work proposes a tw...

In previous work, the authors examined statistical physics of rain from the point of view of the modern theory of random processes. In particular, the importance of statistical stationarity (homogeneity) was emphasized in order to attribute a clear physical meaning to the notions of drop size distribution and relations between the radar re ectivity factor, Z, and rainfall rate, R, used in rada...

In this paper, the Raindrop Size Distribution (DSD) modeling and analysis are presented. Drop sizes are classified into different rain types, namely: drizzle, widespread, shower and thunderstorm. The gamma and Lognormal distribution models are employed using the method of moments estimator, considering the third, fourth and sixth order moments. The results are compared with the existing raindro...