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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Young-Laplace Equation"”.
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Optimization of hydrophobic meshes for oil spill recovery
… was predicted using a modified version of the Young-Laplace equation incorporating an unpinned meniscus. The model was successful for meshes with pore radii between 7 - 220 tm, which could hold back up to 40 cm of water. Finally, a bench-scale apparatus was built to test the oil permeate flux …
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Investigation into the dispensing-based fabrication process for tissue scaffolds
… layers and portions are modeled based on the Young-Laplace equation. Thus the dispensing-based fabrication process can be predicted in terms of the flow rate and the scaffold porosity. The effects of operation conditions on the fabrication result are identified theoretically and …
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Accounting for temperature and local structure in atomistic calculations of interface free energies in metals
… capillary pressure of the interface using the Young-Laplace equation and then derive its free energy. Applying this method to Cu/He and Nb/He interfaces, I find that these interface energies are dependent on He pressure and interface curvature but not explicitly on temperature. I fit analytical …
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Pore Wetting in Desalination of Brine Using Membrane Distillation Process
… to be recorded largely. In the next phase, an equation is presented for the estimation of liquid entry pressure (LEP), a membrane parameter closely related to pore wetting, using computational fluid dynamics (CFD) tools and genetic programming (GP) as an intelligent technique. This equation can …
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Surface Forces in Thin Liquid Films
… forces have been calculated using the Young-Laplace equation and the Reynolds lubrication approximation, respectively, with the surface forces being determined by subtracting the latter from the former. The results are useful for better understanding the effects of electrolyte and pH on …
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Stratification in Drying Particle Suspensions
This thesis is on molecular dynamics studies of drying suspensions of bidisperse nanoparticle mixtures. I first use an explicit solvent model to investigate how the structure of the dry film depends on the evaporation rate of the solvent and the initial volume fractions of the nanoparticles. My …
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Physical properties, evaporation and combustion characteristics of nanofluid-type fuels
… using the pendant drop method by solving the Young-Laplace equation. The results show that surface tension increases both with particle concentration (above a critical concentration) and particle size. This is because the Van der Waals forces between particles at the liquid/gas interface …