Considering non-negative characteristic of the particle size distribution (PSD), based on trust-regionreflective Newton method, two non-negative regularization methods of truncated singular value decomposition (TSVD) and Tikhonov (TIK) for photon correlation spectroscopy (PCS) are proposed in this paper. Combining two regularization parameter criterions of GCV and L-curve, two non-negative regu...

Impact cratering produces characteristic variations in the topographic power spectral density (PSD) of cratered terrains, which are controlled by the size-frequency distribution of craters and the spectral content (shape) of individual features. These variations are investigated here in two parallel approaches. First, a cratered terrain model, based on Monte Carlo emplacement of craters and ben...

In this article, Static Light Scattering (SLS) measurements are processed to estimate the Particle Size Distribution (PSD) of polymeric particle systems incorporating prior information obtained from an alternative experimental technique: Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM). SEM is a direct experimental technique for particle sizing but it uses just a small fraction of the particles so it has a c...

More and more studies are based on digital microstructures of cement pastes obtained either by numerical modelling or by experiments. A comprehensive understanding of the their pore structures, therefore, becomes significant. In this study, the pore structure of a virtual cement paste (HYMO-1d) generated by cement hydration model HYMOSTRUC 3D is characterized. The pore structure of HYMO-1d is c...

The effect of some drug properties (wettability and particle size distribution) on granule properties (mean particle size, particle size distribution, sphericity, and granule strength) were investigated in a high (>97%) drug-loading formulation using fluidized bed rotor granulation. Three drugs: acetaminophen (APAP); ibuprofen (IBU); and ethenzamide (ETZ) were used as model drugs based on their...

The properties of nanoparticles and the performance of products made with nano-sized precursors significantly depend on the shape of the particle size distribution (PSD) or more precisely the broadness of the PSD, the modality and of course the specific particle sizes covered by the PSD. Especially the controlled adjustment of particle size is of interest due to the size-dependent physical and ...

We investigated eleven particle-size distribution (PSD) models to determine the appropriate models for describing the PSDs of 16349 Chinese soil samples. These data are based on three soil texture classification schemes, including one ISSS (International Society of Soil Science) scheme with four data points and two Katschinski's schemes with five and six data points, respectively. The adjusted ...

The particle-size distribution (PSD) is the key information required by several models for prediction of soil-water characteristic curve (SWCC). performance these has been extensively investigated in literature; however, limited studies have undertaken with respect to uncertainty associated SWCC predictions resulting from variability PSD. This study aims investigate influence PSD SWCCs using fi...

A novel optimization scheme that makes use of a genetic algorithm to predict the pore size distribution from air permeability measurements is presented. Pore size distribution (PSD) is like the blueprint of a porous medium; all the hydraulic characteristics of the medium can be determined once it is known. However, the available experimental methods to determine the PSD are usually quite time c...

for all properties whereas tillage practices contributed the most to the variation of infiltrability. Tillage causes soil fragmentation thereby increasing the proportion Quantifying the temporal dynamics of the PSD may of interaggregate (structural) pore space. The resulting tilled layer have important applications, but to do so in a determintends to be structurally unstable as manifested by a ...