abstract microbial contaminants transport to groundwater is a serious environmental problem that can result in large outbreaks of waterborne diseases. some of bacteria can travel from vadose zone and cause contamination of groundwater resources. thus, an accurate prediction of transport and fate of pathogenic microorganisms in unsaturated soil is needed to protect groundwater resources. the mai...

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With respect to disasters, earthquake is one of the leading causes of death. Its aftermath can be abated if proper actions take place before the onset of the earthquake. Various sectors in a country are responsible for managing disasters, but the lack of knowledge about the positive effects of their actions makes them reluctant to act decisively. Retrofitting buildings and structures, positioni...

Rockfill dams are accounted as useful measures in watershed management projects. How-ever, the sediment transport through the rockfill materials, could impact their lifetime duration. Previously, researches have been conducted to describe the various hydraulically issues of the flow passing through these structures However; there is no general relationship to estimate the sediment transport rat...

in this paper, we study the plasmonic thermal conductance of ordered stacks of metallic nanorings in a host material. using second quantized formalism of the random phase approximation, we first determine the dispersion relations of surface plasmon waves on the stacks of nanorings. then, using landauer-buttiker formalism, we determine the coefficient of plasmonic thermal conductance and heat cu...

the magnetoresistance of a one-dimensional electron gas in a metallic ferromagnetic nanowire containing two atomic-size domain walls has been investigated in the presence of spin-orbit interaction. the magnetoresistance is calculated in the ballistic regime, within the landauer-büttiker formalism. it has been demonstrated that the conductance of a magnetic nanowire with double domain walls can ...

flow and sediment transport processes are different and more complex in coarse-bed rivers than in sand-bed rivers. the main goal of the present study is to evaluate different modes of sediment transport using different hydrometric and hydraulic methods, and to address the major uncertainties. four river reaches were selected as representatives of coarse-bed rivers in the northwest of iran. a se...