The optical mechanism for imprinting one-dimensional grating structures into thin films of a light-sensitive monodomain liquid crystal elastomer is investigated by analyzing the time dependence of optical diffraction properties. The recording kinetics shows an irregular oscillatory behavior, which is most expressed at small grating spacings and at temperatures close to the nematic-isotropic pha...

Engine knock is an undesired phenomenon in spark ignited internal combustion engines; such as a gasoline engine running the Otto cycle. Knocking originates from abnormal combustions at timings other than those decided by controlled ignition. Individual abnormal combustions of this type is also referred to as auto-ignition. Knocking is not only a limitation on engine efficiency and thus of envir...

Vibrio harveyi is considered as a causative agent of the systemic disease, vibriosis, which occurs in many biological fields. The effects of temperatures (12.9-27.1 °C) and water activity (NaCl% 0.6%-3.4%) on V. harveyi were investigated. The behavior and growth characteristics of V. harveyi was studied and modeled. Growth curves were fitted by using Gompertz and Baranyi models, and the Baranyi...

We report on a comparison between the random disorder effects of an hydrophobic (R812) or an hydrophilic (A380) aerosil on the order and dynamics of the 3βDOXYL-5α-cholestane spin probe in the liquid crystal 4-n-pentyl-4’-cyanobiphenyl (5CB) using the ESR technique. Increasing the aerosil concentration up to 3 wt % the probe order parameter is depressed with a larger effect for the hydrophilic ...

The wavefronts associated with a one-dimensional combustion model with Arrhenius kinetics and no heat loss are analyzed within the high Lewis number perturbative limit. This situation, in which fuel diffusivity is small in comparison to that of heat, is appropriate for highly dense fluids. A formula for the wavespeed is established by a non-standard application of Melnikov’s method and slow man...

In many systems in condensed matter physics and quantum field theory, first order phase transitions are initiated by the nucleation of bubbles of the stable phase. In homogeneous nucleation theory the nucleation rate Γ can be written in the form of the Arrhenius law: Γ = Ae −Hc. Here H c is the energy of the critical bubble, and the prefactor A can be expressed in terms of the determinant of th...

The global existence of entropy solutions is established for the compressible Euler equations for one-dimensional or plane-wave flow of an ideal gas, which undergoes a one-step exothermic chemical reaction under Arrhenius-type kinetics. We assume that the reaction rate is bounded away from zero and the total variation of the initial data is bounded by a parameter that grows arbitrarily large as...

We investigate the effects of temperature on complexity features of chaotic electrochemical oscillations using the anodic electrodissolution of nickel in sulfuric acid. The precision of the "period" of chaotic oscillation is characterized by phase diffusion coefficient (D). It is shown that reduced phase diffusion coefficient (D/frequency) exhibits Arrhenius-type dependency on temperature with ...

In order to realize a better description of plastic flow behavior in the warm deformation process GH4149, GH4169 superalloy was compressed by Gleeble-3800 at temperature 700–900 °C and strain rate 0.01–10 s?1. The constitutive model established using artificial neural network (ANN) Arrhenius equation, accuracy compared. results show that average absolute relative error (AARE) ANN is 4.34%. AARE...

A mathematical model for thermal explosion in a combustible dusty gas containing fuel droplets with general Arrhenius reaction-rate laws, convective and radiative heat losses, and interphase heat exchange between gas and inert solid particles is investigated. The objective of the study is to examine the effects of interphase heat exchange between the gas and solid particles on i ignition of rea...