the combined effect of non-newtonian rheology and irreversible boundary reaction on dispersion in a herschel-bulkley fluid through a conduit (pipe/channel) is studied by using generalized dispersion model. the study explains the development of dispersive transport following the injection of a tracer in terms of three effective transport coefficients namely exchange, convective and dispersion co...

The Eyring–Kramers law describes the mean transition time of an overdamped Brownian particle between local minima in a potential landscape. In the weak-noise limit, the transition time is to leading order exponential in the potential difference to overcome. This exponential is corrected by a prefactor which depends on the principal curvatures of the potential at the starting minimum and at the ...

In this study the thermal conductivity and the volumetric heat capacity of non-Newtonian fluids are investigated. These fluids find many applications in chemical, medical and food industries. They mostly have viscoelastic behavior and generally differ from Newtonian fluids. Two non-Newtonian fluids, solutions of xanthan and carboxy methyl cellulose in water with various concentrations have bee...

Molecular dynamics simulations using a pair-wise additive potential are implemented to investigate self-diffusion (Mg, Si, and O) and shear viscosity of liquid MgSiO3 in the density-temperaturepressure range 2350–5300 kg/m3, 2500–5000 K, and 0–140 GPa, respectively. Self-diffusivity and shear viscosity are described by modified Arrhenian expressions, which feature a pressure-dependent activatio...

Figures Figure S1. X-ray structure packing diagram (top) and asymmetric unit (bottom) of K[DIDTC] Figure S2. X-ray structure packing diagram (top) and asymmetric unit (bottom) of K[ImDTC] Figure S3. X-ray structure packing diagram (top) and asymmetric unit (bottom) of K[PyrDTC] Figure S4. Optimized geometries of the DTC anions at a PCM/B3LYP/6-31+G(d,p) theory level. Figure S5. TD-DFT calculate...

Molten mixtures of network-forming covalently bonded ZnCl2 and network-modifying ionically bonded NaCl and KCl salts are investigated as high-temperature heat transfer fluids for concentrating solar power plants. Specifically, using molecular dynamics simulations, the interplay between the extent of the network structure, composition, and the transport properties (viscosity, thermal conductivit...

We consider a diffusion on a potential landscape which is given by a smooth Hamiltonian H : Rn → R in the regime of low temperature ε. We proof the Eyring-Kramers formula for the optimal constant in the Poincaré (PI) and logarithmic Sobolev inequality (LSI) for the associated generator L = ε∆ − ∇H · ∇ of the diffusion. The proof is based on a refinement of the two-scale approach introduced by G...