Submitted: Jul 12, 2013; Accepted: Aug 26, 2013; Published: Aug 29, 2013 Abstract: Sand production in water, oil and gas wells is usually controlled by gravel packing techniques worldwide. Consideration in the gravel pack design requires that the particle size is five or six times the formation sand depending on the formation sand median diameter. Sieve analysis result shows that the grain size...

Sicarius and Homalonychus are unrelated, desert-dwelling spiders that independently evolved the ability to cover themselves in fine sand particles, making them cryptic against their background. Observations that particles associate with these spiders' setae inspired us to investigate the role of setal microstructure in particle capture and retention. Here we report that Sicarius and Homalonychu...

Straw checkerboard barrier (SCB) is the most representative antidesertification measure and plays a significant role in antidesertification projects. Large-eddy simulation and discrete-particle tracing were used to numerically simulate the wind sand movement inside the straw checkerboard barrier (SCB), study the movement characteristics of sand particles, find the transverse velocities of sand ...

Fluid animations in computer graphics show interactions with various kinds of objects. However, fluid flowing through a granular material such as sand is still not possible within current frameworks. In this paper, we present the simulation of fine granular materials interacting with fluids. We propose a unified Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics framework for the simulation of both fluid and gran...

The ability to manage inventories of carbon, tritium, and high-Z elements in fusion plasmas depends on means for effective dust removal. A dust conveyor, based on a moving electrostatic potential well, was tested with particles of tungsten, carbon, glass, and sand. A digital microscope imaged a representative portion of the conveyor, and dust particle size and volume distributions were derived ...

Instability of liquefaction is one of the major reasons which results in the failure of earth structure such as dam. The present study focuses on the simulation of static liquefaction behavior for granular materials such as sand and sand-silt mixtures. Based on micromechanical analysis of inter-particle behavior, a simple one-scale model is proposed to simulate the stress-strain response of san...

Department of Chemical Engineering, A. U. College of Engineering (A), Andhra University, Visakhapatnam – 530 003, Andhra Pradesh, INDIA. Email: [email protected], Phone: +919959340230 ABSTRACT: Sand matrix based KCl controlled release fertilizer is made and tested. The parameters of the study are initial fraction of KCl, fractional binder, Fractional inert, Diameter of the pellet and P...

this study aimed to evaluate the potential of image ratioing techniques to detect and map the extent and particle composition of sand dunes in the erg of gavkhouni in isfahan province. the 6/4 ratio index and also a new index called sadi which was calculated using landsat band 3, 6 and 7 were applied to a georeferenced landsat tm image. to evaluate the performance of ratio techniques, the extra...