Attenuation results in loss of seismic wave intensity over distance and time. Attenuation via viscous dissipation results from relative fluid-solid motion and pressure gradients within the fluid, which is contained in a pore or crack. Here, a classic derivation of dissipative attenuation is summarized and its drawbacks and need for derivations specific to the microscopic scale are explained. Tw...

An analysis is carried out to investigate the effects of variable chemical reaction, thermophoresis, temperaturedependent viscosity and thermal radiation on an unsteady MHD free convective heat and mass transfer flow of a viscous, incompressible, electrically conducting fluid past an impulsively started infinite inclined porous plate by taking into account the viscous dissipation effects. The g...

We develop systematically a numerical approximation strategy to discretize a hydrodynamic phase field model for a binary fluid mixture of two immiscible viscous fluids, derived using the generalized Onsager principle that warrants not only the variational structure but also the energy dissipation property. We first discretize the governing equations in space to arrive at a semi-discretized, tim...

The recently demonstrated extremely water-repellent surfaces with contact angles close to 180° with nearly zero hysteresis approach the fundamental limit of non-wetting. The measurement of the small but non-zero energy dissipation of a droplet moving on such a surface is not feasible with the contemporary methods, although it would be needed for optimized technological applications related to d...

Oscillating thermal diffusion in a sound wave in a mixture of two gases is remarkably effective for separating the components of the mixture. We consider this separation process in boundary-layer approximation, with zero temperature gradient and zero concentration gradient along the direction of sound propagation. In the boundary layer, the combination of thermal diffusion with the oscillating ...

We study the time evolution of a sessile liquid droplet, which is initially put onto a solid surface in a non-equilibrium configuration and then evolves towards its equilibrium shape. We adapt here the standard approach to the dynamics of mechanical dissipative systems, in which the driving force, i.e. the gradient of the system's Lagrangian function, is balanced against the rate of the dissipa...

the present study focuses on the performance of precast concrete beam-column dowel connections subjected to cyclic loading by conducting experiments. in this study, one-third scale model of two types of precast and a monolithic beam-column connection were cast and tested under reverse cyclic loading. the precast connections considered for this study is a beam-column connection where beam is con...