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In many gravel-bedded rivers, floods that fill the channel banks create just enough shear stress to move the median-sized gravel particles on the bed surface (D50). Because this observation is common and is supported by theory, the coincidence of bankfull flow and the incipient motion of D50 has become a commonly used assumption. However, not all natural gravel channels actually conform to this...

In the tritium breeding blanket of nuclear fusion reactors, heat transfer behavior and thermal-mechanical response breeder pebble bed are affected by inner packing structure, which is crucial for design optimization a reliable in blanket. Thus, effect size distribution fixed wall on structure contact force poly-disperse were investigated numerical simulation. The results show that has significa...

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