When a granular mixture involving grains of different sizes is shaken, sheared, mixed, or left to flow, grains tend to separate by sizes in a process known as size segregation. In this study, we explore the size segregation mechanism in granular chute flows in terms of the pressure distribution and granular microstructure. Therefore, two-dimensional discrete numerical simulations of bidisperse ...

Background: Gold nanoparticles (GNPs) are among the most promising radiosensitive materials in radiotherapy. Studying the effective sensitizing factors such as nanoparticle size, concentration, surface features, radiation energy and cell type can help to optimize the effect and possible clinical application of GNPs in radiation therapy. In this study, the radiation sensitive polymer gel was use...

Given a complete graph Kn = (V, E), with edge weight ce on each edge, we consider the problem of partitioning the vertices of graph Kn into subcliques that each have at least S vertices, so as to minimize the total weight of the edges that have both endpoints in the same subclique. It is an extension of the classic Clique Partition Problem that can be well solved using triangle inequalities, bu...

In this paper, we show how application scheduling can be used to reduce the turn-around time of supercomputer jobs. Our approach focuses on the use of SA, an AppLeS application scheduler, to adaptively craft the request to be submitted to the supercomputer based on the current state of the system. We demonstrate that SA significantly improves a job’s turn-around time in a variety of scenarios. ...

A subspace partition of P = PG(n, q) is a collection of subspaces of P whose pairwise intersection is empty. Let σq(n, t) denote the minimum size (i.e., minimum number of subspaces) in a subspace partition of P in which the largest subspace has dimension t. In this paper, we determine the value of σq(n, t) for n ≤ 2t+ 2. Moreover, we use the value of σq(2t+ 2, t) to find the minimum size of a m...

Introduction: Nowadays,  considerable developments  in  the field  of  radiotherapy have  been  achieved.  They  include  the  advances  made  in  the  equipments  and  treatment  planning  techniques  which  require  highly complex calculations. Such achievements have made it possible to treat cancer patients not only  with  higher  radiation  dose  but  also  with  higher  precision  and  con...

three activated carbons are synthesized in a rotary reactor at different activation times. the adsorption isotherms of the samples are measured the pore size distribution of the samples is determined using combined saito and foley method, bjh method. an average potential function has been determined inside the cylindrical pores. the effect of activation time on the pore size distribution sample...

in this study, sio2 nanoparticles were successfully synthesized via sol-gel precipitation method and the effects of different parameters such as temperature, ethanol, ammonia and tetraethylorthosilicate (teos) contents based on water were investigated in a systematic way applying taguchi experimental design method. it was found that, among all the investigated parameters, ethanol as a co-solven...