Saturated sand-packed column experiments were conducted to investigate the influence of physicochemical factors on the transport and retention of surfactant stabilized silver nanoparticles (AgNPs). The normalized concentration in breakthrough curves (BTCs) of AgNPs increased with a decrease in solution ionic strength (IS), and an increase in water velocity, sand grain size, and input concentrat...

Saturated sand-packed column experiments were conducted to investigate the influence of physicochemical factors on the transport and retention of surfactant stabilized silver nanoparticles (AgNPs). The normalized concentration in breakthrough curves (BTCs) of AgNPs increased with a decrease in solution ionic strength (IS), and an increase in water velocity, sand grain size, and input concentrat...

We have studied the phase dynamics in an oscillatory chemical system (Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction). The phase distribution and isophase lines in the 2D phase space were reconstructed. The dynamics proved to be well described in terms of the Burgers equation. The phase dependence of the coefficients of the equation was taken into account to estimate the region of the applicability of the Burge...

We have reconstructed the quantum state of optical pulses containing single photons using the method of phase-randomized pulsed optical homodyne tomography. The single-photon Fock state 1> was prepared using conditional measurements on photon pairs born in the process of parametric down-conversion. A probability distribution of the phase-averaged electric field amplitudes with a strongly non-Ga...

In a two-person Rock-Paper-Scissors (RPS) game, if we set a loss worth nothing and a tie worth 1, and the payoff of winning (the incentive a) as a variable, this game is called as generalized RPS game. The generalized RPS game is a representative mathematical model to illustrate the game dynamics, appearing widely in textbook. However, how actual motions in these games depend on the incentive h...

The emergence of complex spatial patterns in agent-based models is closely connected with the symmetries and relationships present between individual microscopic constituents. Games such as Rock-Paper-Scissors (RPS) have a closed cycle relationship amongst players which extends the symmetry. RPS and related games can be played by agents arranged on a spatial grid and have been shown to generate...

This paper considers a dynamical system subjected to damage evolution in variable operating conditions to illustrate the reconstruction of slow-time (damage) dynamics using fast-time (vibration) measurements. Working in the reconstructed fast-time phase space, phase space warping-based feature vectors are constructed for slow-time damage identification. A subspace of the feature space correspon...

Transmitting high-quality, real-time interactive video over lossy networks is challenging because network data loss can severely degrade video quality. A promising feedback technique for low-latency video repair is Reference Picture Selection (RPS), whereby the encoder selects one of several previous frames as a reference frame for predictive encoding of subsequent frames. RPS operates in two d...