Experimental results are presented concerning the boundary shear stress distribution in a rectangular compound section channel comprising rectangular main channel and two symmetrically disposed floodplains. Different dimensionless ratios of shear stress distributions are obtained and related to relevant parameters. The floodplains due to the momentum transfer between the deep section and floodp...

In this paper we investigate the generation and structure of roll waves flows down a porous inclined plane and subjected to an applied surface shear stress. The unsteady equations of motion for the fluid layer are depth integrated according to the von Kármán momentum integral method accounting for the variation of the velocity distribution with depth. The slip boundary condition at the interfac...

We have recently described patterns of adhesion of different types of leukocytes downstream of a backward facing step. Here the predicted fluid dynamics in channels incorporating backward facing steps are described, and related to the measured velocities of flowing cells, patterns of attachment and characteristics of rolling adhesion for neutrophils perfused over P-selectin. Deeper (upstream de...

The standard nonequilibrium molecular dynamics algorithm for steady shear flow (SLLOD ) employs Lees–Edwards periodic boundary conditions. It is not widely known that these boundary conditions make the system non–autonomous. The "steady state" shear stress is in fact time periodic. The standard response theory derivations for steady shear do not take proper account of these non–autonomous terms...

The excess enthalpy and shear strain behavior of the β-Sn (101) grain boundary containing various amounts of Ag and Cu solute atoms was investigated using molecular simulation. An increase in either type of solute at the interface lowers the excess enthalpy of the grain boundary. The enthalpies of segregation for both solute types are computed as the slope of excess enthalpy of the grain bounda...

In the present work, thermo-electro vibration of the piezoelectric nanoplates resting on the elastic foundations using nonlocal elasticity theory are considered. In-plane and transverse displacements of the nanoplate have been approximated by six different modified shear deformation plate theories considering transverse shear deformation effects and rotary inertia. Moreover, two new distributio...

An important feature of most rivers and canals is their habitats for a rich of aquatic vegetation which is extremely important from an environmental and ecological point of view. These variations in habitat mean that it is rare to find a cross-section of a natural channel which has the same roughness along its perimeter. In these channels, flow conditions lead to a complex flow situation with i...

The relationship between plate boundary forces and the observed stress field in the Pacific Northwest is established using numerical niodels of continental deformation. Because the orientation of the greatest horizontal principal stress throughout the Pacific Northwest differs considerably from the direction of convergence between the Juan de Fuca and North American plates. the relationship haw...

We describe a simple method for estimating turbulent boundary layer wall friction using the fit of measured velocity data to a boundary layer model profile that extends the logarithmic profile all the way to the wall. Two models for the boundary layer profile are examined, the power-series interpolation scheme of Spalding and the Musker profile which is based on the eddy viscosity concept. The ...

Many densely packed suspensions and colloids exhibit a behavior known as Discontinuous Shear Thickening in which the shear stress jumps dramatically and reversibly as the shear rate is increased. We performed rheometry and video microscopy measurements on a variety of suspensions to determine the mechanism for this behavior. We distinguish Discontinuous Shear Thickening from inertial effects by...