Nanofluids with enhanced thermal properties are candidates for thermal management in automotive systems, with scope for improving energy efficiency. In particular, many studies have reported on dispersions of nanoparticles with long-term stability in the base fluid, with qualitative evaluations of the dispersion stability via either the naked eye or optical instruments. Additives such as surfac...

An experiment was performed in which the dispersion of an aerosol, generated from a point source using aviation smoke oil, was measured under weakly unstable and neutral conditions at the mouth of Red Butte Canyon in Utah. The objectives of this experiment were to determine how atmospheric stability affects near-ground dispersion of passive scalars and to further understand the underlying physi...

We study stability of N-soliton solutions of the FPU lattice equation. Solitary wave solutions of FPU cannot be characterized as a critical point of conservation laws due to the lack of infinitesimal invariance in the spatial variable. In place of standard variational arguments for Hamiltonian systems, we use an exponential stability property of the linearized FPU equation in a weighted space w...

The results of the effects of electrolyte type and concentration, nanoparticle concentration, pH, and temperature on the mobility and aqueous stability of polyethylene glycol (PEG)-coated silica nanoparticles are presented. Nanoparticle mobility was evaluated based on the ability to inhibit montmorillonite swelling in aqueous solutions through visual swelling tests, and the results were quantif...

The Lagrange particle diffusion model LASAT and the Gaussian Austrian Odour Dispersion Model AODM are used to calculate direction-dependent separation distances around livestock farms. As the method has been published already in several papers, the focus is here on the differences of the results due to model physics. With both models, the same peak-to-mean algorithm is used to calculate short-t...

We define the logit dynamic for games with continuous strategy spaces and establish its fundamental properties , i.e. the existence, uniqueness and continuity of solutions. We apply the dynamic to the analysis of the Burdett and Judd (1983) model of price dispersion. Our objective is to assess the stability of the logit equilibrium corresponding to the unique Nash equilibrium of this model. Alt...

Despite the promising anticancer potential of curcumin, its therapeutic application has been limited, owing to its poor solubility, bioavailability, and chemical fragility. Therefore, various formulation approaches have been attempted to address these problems. In this study, we entrapped curcumin into monoolein (MO)-based liquid crystalline nanoparticles (LCNs) and evaluated the physicochemica...