Plasma-facing components (PFCs) in tokamaks are exposed to high-heat loads during abnormal events such as plasma disruptions and edge-localized modes. The most significant erosion and plasma contamination problem is macroscopic melt splashes and losses from metallic divertor plates and wall materials into core plasma. The classical linear stability analysis is used to assess the initial conditi...

[1] In the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Victoria Land, Antarctica, melting of glacial ice is the primary source of water to streams, lakes, and associated ecosystems. To understand geochemical fluxes and ecological responses to past and future climates requires a physically based energy balance model. We applied a one-dimensional model to one site on Taylor Glacier using 11 years of daily meteorologica...

Modeling turbulent convection in the melt is the most di cult part of the simulation of the transport processes in the growth of large-diameter silicon crystals by the Czochralski (CZ) process. We report the application of hybrid nite-element/ nitevolume methods for the integrated modeling of turbulence in the melt and heat transfer by conduction, convection and radiation throughout the CZ syst...

Regulation of macromolecular interactions by phosphorylation is crucial in signaling networks. In the spindle assembly checkpoint (SAC), which enables errorless chromosome segregation, phosphorylation promotes recruitment of SAC proteins to tensionless kinetochores. The SAC kinase Mps1 phosphorylates multiple Met-Glu-Leu-Thr (MELT) motifs on the kinetochore subunit Spc105/Knl1. The phosphorylat...

Recent geochemical studies of MORB genesis suggest that at least some degree of chemical disequilibrium occurs during the transport of magma to the surface. If disequilibrium transport does occur in the mantle, it would seem to preclude melt being distributed in a porous network on grain boundaries that could rapidly re-equilibrate with the solid. The questions remain however, as to how big a m...

The ingot formation or “melt” process is the first step in many steel making operations. This process involves melting steel and alloys for desired chemical composition, then pouring it into a variety of ingot molds. Complex technological and resource constraints can make the planning and scheduling of such processes extremely challenging. In this paper, we report our experience in developing s...

In this work, the structural and magnetic properties of ingot and melt-spun Pr3Fe24.75Co2.75Ti1.5 compounds have been investigated. The structural characterization of the compounds, by X-ray powder diffraction, is evidenced for a monoclinic Nd3(Fe,Ti)29-type structure (A2/m space group). A 2-type FOMP have been observed in the magnetic AC susceptibility curves of the ingot and melt-spun compoun...

Functionalization of a cobalt/dioxolene complex with branched, asymmetric alkyl chains promotes non-cooperative and cooperative valence tautomerisms synchronized with thermodynamically favoured crystal-to-melt and kinetically generated glass-to-melt phase transitions, respectively, depending on the degree of crystallinity.

[1] The ‘‘transition zone water filter’’ (Bercovici and Karato, 2003) model relies on the presence of a dense hydrous melt above the 410-km discontinuity that is formed by dehydration melting as wet wadsleyite undergoes a phase change to low-water-solubility olivine. Recent studies suggest that, particularly in the Pacific, there is sufficient water in the transition zone for dehydration meltin...

The purpose of the study was to increase the dissolution and bioavailability of BCS class II drug, paliperidone by amorphization. The technique that was evaluated for preparing amorphous paliperidone (PAL) was Hot Melt Extrusion (HME). In case of hot melt extrusion process, copovidone was used essentially as a hydrophilic polymer with plasticizers like PEG (6000 and 20000), stearic acid and cet...