on a finsler manifold, we define conformal vector fields and their complete lifts and prove that incertain conditions they are homothetic.

This study presents the design, implementation, and assessment of a combined passive active flow control technique with aim increasing aerodynamic performance fixed-wing Micro Air Vehicles (MAVs). Power consumption restrictions in MAVs support choice solutions such as use modified (tubercled) wing leading edge. strategy successfully allows to delay mitigate stall but detrimental effects are fou...

In this paper, the lift-law method was applied to design the axial flow pump. Based on Reynolds time-averaged N-S equations and standard k turbulent model, three-dimensional air-water bubbly flow in an axial flow pump impeller was simulated. Under the condition of bubble void fraction of 5%, pressure and void fraction distributions were respectively obtained, movement of bubbles in the impeller...

The industrial production of cells has a large unmet need for greater process monitoring, in addition to the standard temperature, pH and oxygen concentration determination. Monitoring the cell health by a vast range of fluorescence cell-based assays can greatly improve the feedback control and thereby ensure optimal cell production, by prolonging the fermentation cycle and increasing the biore...

Hiring committees address the glut of highly qualified applicants for faculty positions by experimenting with new evaluation methods and adapting their expectations for today's increasingly competitive academic environment.

Ever since his earliest times, man must have dreamed of copying the birds; of flying, of gaining mastery over the third dimension of space. The earliest practicable route to achieve the aim of flying was in the use of balloons. The first balloons were hot-air balloons; they relied on the lower density of hot air, compared to that of the surrounding air, to obtain the lift they needed. Balloons ...

The murine B-lymphocyte hybridoma cell line, CC9C10, was grown in serum-free continuous culture at steady-state dissolved oxygen (DO) concentrations of 10%, 50%, and 100% of air saturation in both LH Series 210 (LH) and New Brunswick Scientific (NBS) CelliGen bioreactors. All culture parameters were monitored and controlled and were nominally identical at steady state in the two bioreactors. Th...

Conventional stirred-tank bioreactor (STR) designs are optimised for cultures of bacteria but not fungal cultures; therefore, a new Air-L-Shaped Bioreactor (ALSB) was fabricated. The ALSB designed to eliminate the wall growth and clumping mycelium in STRs. Ganoderma lucidum used as model its biomass exopolysaccharide (EPS) production were maximised by optimising agitation rate, glucose concentr...

One of the factors which affects the gas lift performance is specific gravity of a lift gas (or the Molecular weight), which can influence the gas solubility in oil and has a direct effect on the gas lift performance. There are some previous researches which have included the lift gas specific gravity in their modeling, but in none of them, a comprehensive research about the effect of lift gas ...