Numerical studies have been carried out to investigate flow instabilities in a natural circulation loop with supercritical CO2. For steady-state and dynamic analyses of the loop under supercritical conditions, a single-channel, one-dimensional model is developed. In this model, equations for the conservation of mass, momentum and energy are discretized using an implicit finite difference scheme...

This work focuses on the prediction of turbulent flow in a Confined Impinging Jet Reactor using Large Eddy Simulation (LES). Three dimensional transient simulations were performed for various flow rates, ranging from quasi-steady laminar flow to unsteady turbulent flow. Predictions of the mean and fluctuating velocities were compared with micro Particle Image Velocimetry (mPIV) data. Good agree...

Increasing genomic instability is associated with aging in eukaryotes, but the connection between genomic instability and natural variation in life span is unknown. We have quantified chronological life span and loss-of-heterozygosity (LOH) in 11 natural isolates of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. We show that genomic instability increases and mitotic asymmetry breaks down during chronological aging....

The evolutionary forces influencing genetic differentiation among populations are identified. Natural selection, random genetic drift, and mutations promote differentiation while phenotypic plasticity and gene flow delay or prevent differentiation. Evolution is a dynamic force which leads to instability and absence of any perfection in the adaptive process. Natural selection acts mainly on phen...

This paper introduces a new class of methods, which we call Möbius schemes, for the numerical solution of matrix Riccati differential equations. The approach is based on viewing the Riccati equation in its natural geometric setting, as a flow on the Grassmanian of m-dimensional subspaces of an (n + m)-dimensional vector space. Since the Grassmanians are compact differentiable manifolds, and the...