Fluid-inclusion measurements and textural relationships demonstrate that coarse-grained quartz and calcite from the upper part of The Geysers thermal system formed during the transition from liquid-dominated conditions to the modern vapor-dominated regime. The most diagnostic characteristics of these transition assemblages are: 1) evidence of quartz dissolution; 2) contemporaneous trapping of h...

The distribution of oxygen isotopes between calcite and fluid inclusions has demonstrated utility for reconstructing near-surface precipitation temperatures. For that formed at depth, however, the resilience this paleothermometer to diagenetic isotope alteration is poorly constrained. Clumped also document temperatures are similarly vulnerable alteration. Post-entrapment exchange fluid-inclusio...

We discuss equilibria, dynamics and regularity for Smoluchowski equations coupled to Navier-Stokes equations. Introduction We consider mixtures of fluids and microscopic inclusions. The microscopic inclusions are characterized by state variables m ∈ M , where M is a compact smooth Riemannian manifold without boundary. The simplest example is that of microscopic rods with directors m ∈ S. The mi...

Fundamentally-based computational models are developed to quantify the removal of inclusions by bubbles during the continuous casting of steel. First, the attachment probability of inclusions on a bubble surface is investigated based on fundamental fluid flow simulations, incorporating the turbulent inclusion trajectory and sliding time of each individual inclusion along the bubble surface as a...