The reduction of nitrogen oxides (NOx) emissions from an existing burner is a a challenging task requiring the understanding of interactions between burner geometry and flame aerodynamics. Currently, three approaches for NOx control exist: fuel or flue gas treatment and combustion modifications. Low NOx burner design is economically attractive for natural gas and light fuel oil combustion since...

Federal safety regulations require the use of validated consequence models to determine the vapor cloud dispersion exclusion zones for accidental liquefied natural gas (LNG) releases. One tool that is being developed in industry for exclusion zone determination and LNG vapor dispersion modeling is computational fluid dynamics (CFD). This paper uses the ANSYS CFX CFD code to model LNG vapor disp...

DFT-GGA method of Perdew-Burke-Ernzerhof (PBE) is used with aug-cc-PVTZ, 6-311++G**, and Def2-TZVP large basis sets to study the hydrogen bond interactions between oxygen lone pair as a donor electron with hydrogen atom connected to the aniline’s nitrogen as an electron acceptor (H2O···HNH-Ph), and nitrogen lone pair with hydrogen of water molecule (Ph-H2N···HOH...

Interpenetrating streams of solids and gas in a Keplerian disk produce a local, linear instability. The two components mutually interact via aerodynamic drag, which generates radial drift and triggers unstable modes. The secular instability does not require self-gravity, yet it generates growing particle density perturbations that could seed planetesimal formation. Growth rates are slower than ...

We analyze the physical conditions in the interstellar gas of 11 actively star-forming galaxies at z∼2, based on integral-field spectroscopy from the ESO-VLT and HST/NICMOS imaging. We concentrate on the high Hα surface brightnesses, large line widths, line ratios and the clumpy nature of these galaxies. We show that photoionization calculations and emission line diagnostics imply gas pressures...

Damage of the urban gas network due to an earthquake can cause much loss including fire-induced loss to infrastructure and loss due to interruption of gas service and repairing or replacing of network elements. In this paper, a new fire ignition model is proposed and applied to a conventional semi-probabilistic model for estimating various losses due to damage of an urban gas network in an eart...

We investigate with three-dimensional numerical simulations of supernova driven turbulence in the interstellar medium (ISM) the relationship between the velocity dispersion of the gas and the supernova rate and feedback efficiency. Our simulations aim to explore the constancy of the velocity dispersion profiles in the outer parts of galactic disk at ∼ 6 − 8 km s, and the transition to the starb...

Carbon dioxide causes green house effect and has been considered as a pollutant source forsafe environment. Since combustion of fossil fuel may create tremendous amount of carbon dioxide,detecting any pollutant sources would be important to eliminate the origin of pollution sources.Evaluation of smoke dispersion generated by the power plant utilizing fossil fuel is the objective of thispaper. T...

In October 2001, ,0.2 mol of SF6 was injected into the upper Hudson River, a modified natural channel with multiple dams, at Ft. Edward, N.Y. The tracer was monitored for 7 days as it moved ,50 km downriver. The longitudinal evolution of the tracer distribution was used to estimate one-dimensional advection s9.0±0.2 km d−1d and dispersion s17.3±4.0 m2 s−1d along the river axis. Comparison of th...

The nanocomposites of polythiophene and carboxylated multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) were synthesized by in-situ chemical oxidative polymerization method using anhydrous ferric chloride (FeCl3) as an oxidant. The MWCNTs functionalized and ultrasonicated to obtain uniform dispersion within the polythiophene matrix. Field emission scanning electron microscopy was used to characterize the mo...