Although zebra mussels (Dreissena polymorpha) initially colonized shallow habitats within the North American Great Lakes, quagga mussels (Dreissena bugensis) are becoming dominant in both shallow- and deep-water habitats. Shell morphology differs among zebra, shallow quagga and deep quagga mussels but functional consequences of such differences are unknown. We examined effects of shell morpholo...

Modeling data on the sphere is fundamental to many problems in the geosciences. Classical approaches to these problems are based on expansions of spherical harmonics and/or approximations on latitude/longitude based grids. The former are quite algorithmically complex, while the latter suffer from the notorious pole problem. Additionally, neither of the methods can be easily generalized to other...

This paper presents a method for target recognition and classification in shallow water environment. It is based on timefrequency filtering matched to a free field reference target response. The decision strategy lies on the comparison of the reference and the filter output signal. The method is applied to an experimental data base containing target acoustic responses measured in a tank for typ...

The optical properties of a concentric nanometer-sized spherical shell comprised of an (active) 3-level gain medium core and a surrounding plasmonic metal shell are investigated. Current research in optical metamaterials has demonstrated that including lossless plasmonic materials to achieve a negative permittivity in a nano-sized coated spherical particle can lead to novel optical properties s...

In this study, CeO2 hollow spherical nanoparticles, CeO2/SiO2 @ CeO2 core/shell composites,and hollow CeO2/SiO2 sensors were synthesized and their microstructures were researched byFT-IR, XRD, FESEM, EDX and BET analyses. The peaks observed in the FT-IR spectra of the synthesizedsamples corresponded to Ce-O stretching vibration (ca. 566 cm-1) and O-Si-O bendingvibration (ca. 470 cm-1). XRD diff...

The morphology of Bucky onions is investigated by ab initio calculations using Yang’s new O(N) method. It is found that for large single shell fullerenes with Ih symmetry, the spherical morphology has the lower energy than that of polyhedrons. The formation energy per atom follows a simple scaling law. Including an estimate of inter-shell van de Waals interactions leads to the conclusion that s...

Hydrothermal convection of pore water with a temperature-dependent viscosity within a permeable, internally heated, moderately thin spherical shell is investigated by both a perturbation analysis and a direct numerical simulation. The analysis and simulation are mainly focused on a thin spherical shell in that convective instabilities are characterized by the spherical harmonic degree l=6 with ...

This paper concerns the slow viscous flow through a swarm of concentric clusters of porous spherical particles. An aggregate of clusters of porous spherical particles is considered as a hydro-dynamically equivalent to a porous spherical shell enclosing a solid spherical core. The Brinkman equation inside and the Stokes equation outside the porous spherical shell in their stream function formula...