Three-dimensional (3D) microprinting is a computerized fabrication technique that can produce porous objects with highly complicated pore micro-architecture using data generated by computer aided design (CAD) or other imaging modalities [1]. This technique has been used for fabrication of porous biodegradable polymeric scaffolds that are intended, by design, to have reproducible and well-define...

This paper reviews four critical mechanisms for successful applications of hydraulic fracturing that have emerged or grown in importance over the past 2 decades. These critical issues are managing height growth, decreasing near-wellbore tortuosity, predicting and engineering network versus localized growth geometry, and promoting simultaneous growth of multiple hydraulic fractures. Building on ...

Groundwater-surface water (GW-SW) interaction lengthens hydraulic residence times, increases contact between solutes and biologically active surfaces, and often creates a gradient of redox conditions conducive to an array of biogeochemical processes. As such, the interaction of hydraulic patterns and biogeochemical activity is suspected to be an important determinant of elemental spiraling in s...

This paper analyzes the properties of a two-field critical gradient model that couples a heat equation to an evolution equation for the turbulence intensity. It is shown that the dynamics of a perturbation is ballistic or diffusive depending on the shape of the pulse and also on the distance of the temperature gradient to the instability threshold. This dual character appears in the linear resp...

The analyzed electrohydraulic servo valve is jet pipe type, is one of the mechatronics component used for precision flow control application. The jet pipe servo valves have one movable nozzle and two collector ports, from where fluid is ducted to the main valve spool. The servovalve analyzed here is basically used in fuel control application in Variable Geometry Actuation System (VGAS) of a gas...

The Hydraulic excavator machines are heavy duty earth mover consisting of a boom, arm and bucket. It works on principle of hydraulic fluid with hydraulic cylinder and hydraulic motors. The Hydraulic excavator backhoe operation require coordinated movement of boom, arm and bucket to control the bucket tip position by following a desired trajectory and to use the excavator machines effectively in...