the effect of vanillin on the corrosion behavior of aa6061 al alloy in 3.5% nacl solution wasinvestigated using potentiodynamic polarization and electrochemical noise (en) techniques. vanillinoffers interesting possibilities for corrosion inhibition due to its nontoxicity and high solubility inaqueous media. the best inhibition effect at 200 ppm vanillin was a marked characteristic of theinhibi...

laser fusion simulations are carried out for dt and d- he pellets by using a hydrodynamic code including heating from all charged reaction products and neutrons. it is shown that the inclusion of the side reactions and heating from all reaction products in the fuel pellets have an appreciable effect on the plasma temperature, the icf drive energy requirement, fusion gain and the ignition condit...

We apply Shannon entropy as a measure of information content in survey data, and define information efficiency as the empirical entropy divided by the maximum attainable entropy. In a case study of the Norwegian Function Assessment Scale, entropy calculations show that the 5-point response version has higher information efficiency than the 4-point version.

spray drying is one of the most important processes applied in the industry. the equipment used in this process evaporates water in a very short time and so, need a lot of energy. in this work, we used microsoft excel as an analysis tool for the optimization of fuel usage in this dryer. we have described the process in terms of thermodynamic calculations and mass and heat balance equations. our...

by means of first principles calculations we show that both rutile and anatase phases of bulk tio2 doped by s, se or pb can display substantial decreasing in the band gap (up to 50%), while doping by zr does not sizably affect the band-gap value. moreover, the absorption edge is shifted (up to 1 ev) to the lower energy range in the case of tio2 doped by s or pb that opens a way to enhancing of ...

A variational formulation of the time–dependent linear response based on the Sternheimer method is developed in order to make practical ab initio calculations of dynamical spin susceptibilities of solids. Using gradient density functional and a muffin–tin–orbital representation, the efficiency of the approach is demonstrated by applications to selected magnetic and strongly paramagnetic metals....

We develop further the integration procedure in the generalised invariant formalism , and demonstrate its efficiency by obtaining a class of Petrov type N pure radiation metrics without any explicit integration, and with comparatively little detailed calculations. The method is similar to the one exploited by Edgar and Vickers when deriving the general conformally flat pure radiation metric. A ...

The metabolic rate of precocial bird eggs reaches a plateau when about 80% of the incubation period has passed. This is unexpected, as in many species the embryo continues to grow and maintenance costs must therefore increase. To investigate this paradox, daily energy budgets were constructed for embryos of four galliform species according to two models that used empirical data on egg metabolic...