To investigate the composition distribution that develops in continuously-cast steel during a grade change, an efficient, accurate, and user-friendly computational model has been developed. The model is fully transient and consists of three submodels, which account for mixing in the tundish, mixing in the liquid core of the strand, and solidification. The first submodel of mixing in the tundish...

We present a new algorithm for maximum likelihood convolutive independent component analysis (ICA) in which components are unmixed using stable autoregressive filters determined implicitly by estimating a convolutive model of the mixing process. By introducing a convolutive mixing model for the components, we show how the order of the filters in the model can be correctly detected using Bayesia...

A control-oriented two-zone charge mixing model is developed to simplify, but to describe mixing of fresh charge and residual gas during the intake stroke. Engine valve timing has a strong influence on the realization of stable homogeneous charge compression ignition (HCCI), since it affects turbulent flow that promotes mixing of fresh charge and residual gas. Controlled auto-ignition of a HCCI...

supercritical carbon dioxide has gained increasing attention in food and pharmaceutical processing owing to the fact that it is environmentally inexpensive, not flammable, essentially non-toxic, and it has a convenient critical point. also, it has been attracting much attention in many fields, such as extraction of sensitive materials and pharmaceutical processing and polymerization processes. ...

I examine diierent aspects of the physics of mixing in stars: convection model, mixing timescales, mixing at the convective borders (overshooting), and mixing linked to a \second parameter" (rotation and related magnetic elds), in several astrophysical contexts, going from dating of open clusters to lithium destruction and production in stars.

This paper theoretically and experimentally investigates a micromixer based on combined hydrodynamic focusing and time-interleaved segmentation. Both hydrodynamic focusing and time-interleaved segmentation are used in the present study to reduce mixing path, to shorten mixing time, and to enhance mixing quality. While hydrodynamic focusing reduces the transversal mixing path, time-interleaved s...

We consider the simplest extension of the standard electroweak model by one sterile neutrino that allows for neutrino masses and mixing. We find that its leptonic sector contains much less free physical parameters than previously realized. In addition to the two neutrino masses, the lepton mixing matrix in charged current interactions involves (n−1) free physical mixing angles for n generations...

Uncertainty associated with mixing models is often substantial, but has not yet been fully incorporated in models. The objective of this study is to develop and apply a Bayesian-mixing model that estimates probability distributions of source contributions to a mixture associated with multiple sources for assessing the uncertainty estimation in sediment fingerprinting in Zidasht catchment, Iran....

Inadequate design and improper mixing operation in anaerobic digesters often lead to poor mixing and digester failures due to the presence of dead zones formed in the digester. More research is required to understand the mixing phenomena in anaerobic digesters and thus improve their efficiency. This paper investigates the efficiency of mixing of digester sludge in a mechanically agitated vessel...