Dispersion of solutes in a variable aperture fracture results from a combination of molecular diffusion and velocity variations in both the plane of the fracture (macrodispersion) and across the fracture aperture (Taylor dispersion). We use a combination of physical experiments and computational simulations to test a theoretical model in which the effective longitudinal dispersion coefficient D...

Understanding the dispersion processes within marshes is important to assess their filtering abilities and their ecological limits. A laboratory experiment was designed to study the influence of marsh vegetation on longitudinal dispersion. The flow through vegetation was modeled by a recirculating current going through an array of wooden dowels in a 24 m long flume. The longitudinal dispersion ...

A brief survey of the economics of price dispersion, written for the New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd Edition. Journal of Economic Literature classification numbers: C72, D43, D82, D83. Price dispersion occurs when different sellers offer different prices for the same good in a given market. Thus, it differs from price discrimination under which a single seller offers different prices ...

The adsorption of basic dyes from aqueous solutions onto granular activated carbon and natural zeolite was studied using a fixed bed column. The design procedures for fixed bed adsorption columns were investigated for two basic dyes Maxilon Goldgelb GL EC 400 % (MG-400) and Maxilon Schwarz FBL-01 300 % (MS-300). A computer program based on the solid diffusion control model has been developed. T...

We employ the tight binding model to describe the electronic band structure of bilayer graphene and we explain how the optical absorption coefficient of a bilayer is influenced by the presence and dispersion of the electronic bands, in contrast to the featureless absorption coefficient of monolayer graphene. We show that the effective low energy Hamiltonian is dominated by chiral quasiparticles...

OBJECTIVE To study the possible association or QT dispersion and mean QTc intervals, as measured from standard 12 lead electrocardiograms, with baroreceptor-cardiac reflex sensitivity (BRS) in insulin dependent diabetic patients. DESIGN Comparative study of non-invasive assessment of BRS, QT interval, and QT dispersion. SETTING Large teaching hospital. SUBJECTS 31 young asymptomatic, norm...

Noise is an audible acoustic energy that adversely affects the health, physiological and psychological well being of the individuals or populations. One of the major pollutants from gas flaring is the noise emanating from gas flaring stations in the Niger – Delta area of Nigeria. Noise dispersion produces many adverse effects on man and animals. Experimental analysis of noise dispersion and wea...

An analytical study is presented of dispersion in steady and oscillatory open-channel flows under the combined effects due to reversible sorptive phase exchange with the bed and irreversible air–water reaction on the free surface. The free-surface reaction is assumed to be so weak that the asymptotic mean concentration can be developed well before undue substantial loss to the air occurs. The e...

Crosstalk due to four-wave mixing (FWM) is the dominant nonlinear effect in long-haul multi-channel optical communication systems which can severely limit system performance. In this paper, we have simulated the effect of chromatic dispersion on FWM using equal and unequal channel spacing in terms input/output spectrum, eye diagram and bit error rate. Results show that the effect of FWM reduces...