OBJECTIVE We compared the adverse effects of two types of real ambient particles; i.e., total suspended particles from an electrostatic precipitator of a steel mill and fine air particles from an urban ambient particulate matter of 2.5 µm, on mucociliary clearance. METHOD Mucociliary function was quantified by mucociliary transport, ciliary beating frequency and the amount of acid and neutral...

Many dissolved substances attach easily to sediment particles. In the presence of suspended sediments bioavailability of dissolved substances is therefore, usually reduced and clays are even applied to "wash" natural waters upon pollution. In organisms which feed on food organisms in the size range of these suspended sediment particles, however, bioavailability of such substances may even incre...

This paper is concerned with the use of oscillating particles instead of the usual frozen particles to model a suspended particle in the dissipative particle dynamics (DPD) method. A suspended particle is represented by a set of basic DPD particles connected to reference sites by linear springs of very large stiffness. The reference sites, collectively modeling a rigid body, move as a rigid bod...

Particulate matter is a natural part of the atmosphere, where the solid or liquid particles are suspended in the air. These suspended particles, also known as suspended particulate matter represents a dispersion aerosol system. In the air there are many types of microscopic airborne particles originated from both natural and anthropogenic processes, such as atmospheric clouds of water droplets,...

– Networks of caustics can occur in the distribution of particles suspended in a randomly moving gas. These can facilitate coagulation of particles by bringing them into close proximity, even in cases where the trajectories do not coalesce. The long-time morphology of these caustic patterns depends upon the Lyapunov exponents λ1, λ2 of the suspended particles, as well as the rate J at which par...

in order to understand the importance of particle size and agglomeration for nano-eco-toxicological studies in aquatic environments, the acute toxicity of two different types (suspended powder and colloidal) of silver nanoparticles (agnps) were studied in alevin and juvenilerainbow trout. fish were exposed to each type of agnps at nominal concentrations of 0.032, 0.1, 0.32, 1, 3.2, 10, 32, and ...

Suspended particle matter (SPM) includes phytoplankton and non-coloring Suspended particle matter. Its concentrations, size, distribution is very complex, and so it has not strict theory to describe the matter character. The method of using remote sensing technology to monitor water quality by obtaining the suspended particulate matter (SPM) concentration was studied in this paper, and the inve...

In this paper, the effect of suspended particles on thermal convection in an incompressible Rivlin-Ericksen elastico-viscous fluid in a porous medium is considered. For the porous medium, the Brinkman model is employed. By applying a normal mode analysis method, the dispersion relation has been derived and solved analytically. It is observed that the medium permeability, suspended particles, gr...