In a recent letter (C. Giraudet et al., EPL 111, 60013 (2015)) we reported preliminary data showing evidence of a slowing-down of non-equilibrium fluctuations of the concentration in thermodiffusion experiments on a binary mixture of miscible fluids. The reason for this slowing-down was attributed to the effect of confinement. Such tentative explanation is here experimentally corroborated by ne...

Linear theory of the ablative Rayleigh-Taylor instability in anisotropic diffusive materials is presented. This analysis indicates that enhancing diffusion in a plane transverse to the mean longitudinal flow can strongly reduce the growth of the instability. In the context of inertial confinement fusion, it is shown that anisotropic diffusion can be achieved using a laminated ablator made of su...

A thermal diffusion flow probe which gave a continuous, dynamic, quantitative record of cortical blood flow (CBF) was used to assess CBF in experimental animals with controlled hypotension. Acute hypotension was produced by trimethaphan camsylate, halothane, and sodium nitroprusside. Halothane produced less reduction in CBF per drop in blood pressure than the other two agents.

Based on the first law of thermodynamics and thermal diffusion equation, the thermal physical model of thermogenesis for brown adipocyte is deduced. The model settles the long-standing questioning about the ability of raising cellular temperature by endogenous thermogenesis, and explains the thermogenic characteristics of brown adipocyte. The model and calculations also suggest that the number ...

Thermal diffusion coefficients in three ternary mixtures are measured in a thermogravitational column. One of the mixtures consists of one normal alkane and two aromatics (dodecane-isobutylbenzene-tetrahydronaphthalene), and the other two consist of two normal alkanes and one aromatic (octane-decane-1-methylnaphthalene). This is the first report of measured thermal diffusion coefficients (for a...

reactor core for nuclear power plant (1293 mwe) is of pressurized water reactor (pwr) type , with net electric output of 1200 mwe. the reactor is designed by a german company kwu (krafts werk :union:). in order to introduce the methods of calculation of the reactor core parameters to the students at the institute of nuclear science and technology, and in addition to provide them with the basic ...

Particle transport in magnetized plasmas is investigated with a fluid model of drift wave turbulence. An analytical calculation shows that magnetic field curvature and thermodiffusion drive an anomalous pinch. The curvature driven pinch velocity is consistent with the prediction of turbulence equipartition theory. The thermodiffusion flux is found to be directed inward for a small ratio of elec...

Surface magnetoelastic waves are coupled elastic and magnetic excitations that propagate along the surface of a magnetic material. Ultrafast optical techniques allow for a non-contact excitation and detection scheme while providing the ability to measure both elastic and magnetic components individually. Here we describe a simple setup suitable for excitation and time resolved measurements of h...

New stochastic models of thermodiffusion are constructed and their hydrodynamical limits are studied through a first order Chapman-Enskog expansion. These models differ from earlier ones by taking into account all first order contributions proportional to the temperature gradient and, thus, allow for both positive and negative Soret coefficients, in accordance with observations.