Using the climate change experiments generated for the Fourth Assessment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, this study examines some aspects of the changes in the hydrological cycle that are robust across the models. These responses include the decrease in convective mass fluxes, the increase in horizontal moisture transport, the associated enhancement of the pattern of evaporati...

Pool boiling is of interest in high heat flux applications because of its potential for removing large amount of heat resulting from the latent heat of evaporation and little pressure drop penalty for circulating coolant through the system. However, the heat transfer performance of pool boiling systems is not adequate to match the cooling ability provided by enhanced microchannels operating und...

A systematic study of the decay properties of Yb compound nuclei with excitation energies of 100–300 MeV was performed. The emission patterns of light charged particles detected in coincidence with evaporation residues produced in Ni1 Mo and O1 Sm reactions have been measured and compared to statistical model predictions. There is found to be significant disagreement between the experiment and ...

In this study, a significant effect of sodium citrate increasing fenofibrate dissolution has been demonstrated. This effect was dependent on the polymer: drug mixing weight ratio, the sodium citrate type and the method used to disperse the drug with in the polymer. The greater the sodium citrate content the higher the drug dissolution was, up to a maximum corresponding to a polymer: drug ratio ...

This paper describes a computer model of human thermoregulation based on the Fiala model that we have extended with a module for active body climate control. The main stimulus for the development of this model is the need to predict the thermal response of the human body to the actual prototype for active body climate control. This prototype supports the heat exchange mechanisms of the body by ...

Th e complexity of water budgeting module as shown in this paper is represented in phases. By experimental measurement of precipitation and lysimetric measurement of percolation runoff the fi rst phase establishes monthly and annual soil-water budgets of skeletal and clayey soils, and hence the infl uence of soil water-retention potential on hydrologic cycle and water budget over a four year pe...

evaporation. Taking the mean density and Bond albedo of a typical Vulcanoid to be the same as that of Mercury, we ®nd that objects with radii z satisfying 0:1 ( z ( 50 km can evade both drag and evaporation in the Vulcanoid belt. This is one of the most dynamically stable regimes in the entire Solar System. If further searches do not detect any intra-mercurial objects, this is a strong indicato...

This study focuses on identifying key factors that influence large-scale hydrological model performance. It draws on experiences from modelling in the Arctic, West Africa, and Europe with the HYPE model (HYdrological Prediction of the Environment). We use multiple evaluation criteria to analyse the influence of catchment delineation, climate input data, model parameterisation, and water managem...

We have studied the influence of far ultraviolet (UV) radiation (6 < hν < 13.6 eV) from a massive young stellar object (YSO) on the chemistry of its own envelope by extending the models of Doty et al. (2002) to include a central source of UV radiation. The models are applied to the massive star-forming region AFGL 2591 for different inner UV field strengths. Depth-dependent abundance profiles f...

Novel transducers for detecting an ultra-small volume of an analyte solution play pivotal roles in many applications such as chemical analysis, environmental protection and biomedical diagnosis. Recent advances in optofluidics offer tremendous opportunities for analyzing miniature amounts of samples with high detection sensitivity. In this work, we demonstrate enormous enhancement factors (106-...