An experimental study of scalar mixing in a laminar vortex is presented for vortices generated between two gas streams flowing parallel to each other in a rectangular flow channel. An isolated line vortex is initiated on demand by momentarily increasing one stream velocity in relation to the other using an electromagnetically actuated piston. The temporal piston motion profile is tailored to ge...

Local bioenergy will play a crucial role in national and regional sustainable energy strategies. Effective siting and feedstock procurement strategies are critical to the development and implementation of bioenergy systems. This paper aims to improve spatial decision-support in this domain by shifting focus from homogenous (forestry or agricultural) regions toward heterogeneous regions—i.e., ar...

Because multicore CPUs have become the standard with all major hardware manufacturers, it becomes increasingly important for programming languages to provide programming abstractions that can be mapped effectively onto parallel architectures. Stream processing is a programming paradigm where computations are expressed as independent actors that communicate via data streams. The coarse-grained p...

In this paper, we study the global existence of steady subsonic Euler flows through infinitely long nozzles without the assumption of irrotationality. It is shown that when the variation of Bernoulli’s function in the upstream is sufficiently small and mass flux is in a suitable regime with an upper critical value, then there exists a unique global subsonic solution in a suitable class for a ge...

This paper presents a hierarchical analysis of stream ecosystem distribution and sensitivity to natural and anthropogenic disturbances for the Bighorn National Forest, Wyoming. We designated stream gradient, flow regime, and lithology as environmental parameters that would result in the most robust, readily applied, and parsimonious description of physical and chemical characteristics of indivi...

In this paper Cell Delay Variation (CDV) in an ATM multiplexer is investigated in the case where a Constant Bit Rate (CBR) traac stream is mixed with a background traac stream that arrives in the form of independent and identically distributed batches with general batch size distribution (Batch Bernoulli process). An exact Markovian solution approach is presented which gives the entries in the ...

In this article we study local and global well-posedness of the Lagrangian Averaged Euler equations. We show local well-posedness in TriebelLizorkin spaces and further prove a Beale-Kato-Majda type necessary and sufficient condition for global existence involving the stream function. We also establish new sufficient conditions for global existence in terms of mixed Lebesgue norms of the general...

Profound changes in concentrations of phytoplankton biomass and rates of primary production in warm-core Gulf Stream rings can occur, apparently in response to nutrient enrichment, within a few months after a ring separates from the Gulf Stream. In Ring 8 1 -D at 3 months of age the dependence on NO,was 2%3 times as high as in the northern Sargasso Sea and in Ring 79-E shortly after formation. ...

mega is a mixed-initiative system with the ultimate purpose of supporting theorem proving in main-stream mathematics and mathematics education. The current system consists of a proof planner and an integrated collection of tools for formulating problems, proving subproblems, and proof presentation.

the main problem of solid waste management system in tehran is to handle a large amount of waste (7.641 ton/day in 2008). therefore, source reduction can be introduced as one of the first priority for solid waste management in tehran. this research represents the first attempt to quantify the source reduction potential in the city, and subsequently, outlines the principle guidelines, legislatio...