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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"adhesion model"”.
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Multi-scale computational modeling of particle adhesion dynamics under shear flow
… exist in the understanding of particulate adhesion process in biological and industrial flows since these problems require modeling a wide range of spatiotemporal scales. The thesis is focused on multiscale modeling of particle adhesion process in shear flow with broad applications to …
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Fundamental Modeling and Experimental Investigation of Dynamic Friction at the Meso and Micro Scales
In this work, a basic dynamic friction model without any empirical parameters has been developed and used to predict and explain important dynamic friction phenomena. The validation of the proposed dynamic friction model has also been confirmed via experimental measurements. Moreover, adhesion …
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Evaluation of the Performance of a Charged Droplet Scrubber (Aerosol, Collection)
… in terms of the collision efficiency and the adhesion efficiency. Two models, the fixed collector model and the accelerating collector model, were proposed to predicted the collision efficiency. The former finds its application in low-energy scrubbers where the collectors usually fall at …
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Compressive Instabilities in Metal-coated Polymer Microtrusses
… of these systems. Hence this study focuses on modelling local shell buckling, one of the critical buckling mechanisms. In studying filled-shell buckling, hollow-shell buckling theory provides the framework for the behaviour of the shell as it undergoes buckling in a filled cylindrical shell. …
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Direct simulations of cells motions and deformations in flow
… channels with both smooth and uneven walls under adhesion force between the leukocytes and the channel wall. Leukocytes are represented by two composite fluid models. The first model is the compound-drop model in which the cytoplasm and the nucleus are modeled as fluids, and the second one is the …
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Development of Forward Osmosis Based Separations: A Novel Approach in Membrane Technology
… test with charged protein adsorption, bacterial adhesion, model secondary wastewater effluents, and hydraulic fracturing produce water.</p> <p>Beyond the surface decoration, the ultra-thin graphene oxide (GO) FO membrane was fabricated by pressure-assisted self-assembly (PASA). The nanostructure …
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Experimental and theoretical investigation of the role of nanofibrous topography feature size on adhesion of Candida albicans
… to prevent biofilm formation from the early adhesion stage, continue to gain momentum. Nanoscale structural features, ubiquitous in both natural and synthetic surfaces, are increasingly recognized to have wide-ranging effects on microorganism adhesion and biofilm development. In this thesis, …
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Evaluating the efficacy of brewers’ yeast-derived functional feed additives in mitigating soybean meal-induced enteritis in Atlantic salmon
… supplementation using an ex vivo pathogen adhesion model. Following a five-week dietary intervention, intestines from fish fed 0.02% PβG showed reduced Aeromonas salmonicida attachment, along with preserved tissue structure and lower local inflammation. Systemic immune analysis revealed …