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The thinning of the liquid layer over a probe in two-phase flow
The draining of the thin water film that is formed between a two dimensional, infinite, initially flat oil-water interface and a smooth, symmetric probe, as the interface is advected by a steady and uniform flow parallel to the probe axis, is modelled using classical fluid dynamics.
The governing equations are nondimensionalised using values appropriate to the oil extraction industry. The bulk flow is driven by inertia and, in some extremes, surface tension while the viscous effects are initially confined to thin boundary layers on the probe and the interface. The flow in the thin water film is dominated by surface tension, and passes through a series of asymptotic regimes in which inertial forces are gradually overtaken by viscous forces. For each of these regimes, and for those concerning the earlier stages of approach, possible solution strategies are discussed and relevant literature reviewed.
Consideration is given to the drainage mechanism around a probe which protrudes a fixed specified distance into the oil. A lubrication analysis of the thin water film may be matched into a capillary-static solution for the outer geometry using a slender transition region if, and only if, the pressure gradient in the film is negative as it meets the static meniscus. The remarkable result is that, in practice, there is a race between rupture in the transition region and rupture at the tip. The analysis is applicable to the case of a very slow far field flow and offers significant insight into the non-static case.
Finally, a similar approach is applied to study the motion of the thin water film in the fully inviscid approximation, with surface tension and a density contrast between the fluids
Air-cushioning in impact problems
This paper concerns the displacement potential formulation to study the post-impact influence of an aircushioning layer on the two-dimensional impact of a liquid half-space by a rigid body. The liquid and air are both ideal and incompressible and attention is focussed on cases when the density ratio between the air and liquid is small. In particular, the correction to classical Wagner theory is analysed in detail for the impact of circular cylinders and wedges
Coral spawning information
Information on reproduction in reef corals is presented. An understanding of its reproductive behaviour is an important factor in helping to preserve the coral reef ecosystems
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Indirect long-term global radiative cooling from NOx emissions
Anthropogenic emissions of shortâlived, chemically reactive gases, such as NO x and CO, are known to influence climate by altering the chemistry of the global troposphere and thereby the abundance of the greenhouse gases O3, CH4 and the HFCs. This study uses the characteristics of the natural modes of the tropospheric chemical system to decompose the greenhouse effect of NO x and CO emissions into (i) shortâlived modes involving predominantly tropospheric O3 and (ii) the longâlived mode involving a global coupled CH4âCOâO3 perturbation. Combining these two classes of greenhouse perturbationsâlarge, shortâlived, regional O3 increases and smaller, longâlived, global decreases in CH4 and O3âwe find that most types of anthropogenic NO x emissions lead to a negative radiative forcing and an overall cooling of the earth
The statistical significance of the N-S asymmetry of solar activity revisited
The main aim of this study is to point out the difficulties found when trying
to assess the statistical significance of the North-South asymmetry (hereafter
SSNSA) of the most usually considered time series of solar activity. First of
all, we distinguish between solar activity time series composed by integer or
non-integer and dimensionless data, or composed by non-integer and dimensional
data. For each of these cases, we discuss the most suitable statistical tests
which can be applied and highlight the difficulties to obtain valid information
about the statistical significance of solar activity time series. Our results
suggest that, apart from the need to apply the suitable statistical tests,
other effects such as the data binning, the considered units and the need, in
some tests, to consider groups of data, affect substantially the determination
of the statistical significance of the asymmetry. Our main conclusion is that
the assessment of the statistical significance of the N-S asymmetry of solar
activity is a difficult matter and that an absolute answer cannot be given,
since many different effects influence the results given by the statistical
tests. In summary, the quantitative results about the statistical significance
of the N-S asymmetry of solar activity provided by different authors, as well
as the studies about its behaviour, must be considered with care because they
depend from the chosen values of different parameters or from the considered
units.Comment: Astronomy and Astrophysics Latex, 9 pages, 4 figure
Boundary conditions for free surface inlet and outlet\ud problems
We investigate and compare the boundary conditions that are to be applied to free surface problems involving inlet and outlets of Newtonian fluid, typically found in coating processes. The flux of fluid is a priori known at an inlet, but unknown at an outlet, where it is governed by the local behaviour near the film-forming meniscus. In the limit of vanishing capillary number Ca it is well-known that the flux scales with Ca2/3, but this classical result is nonuniform as the contact angle approaches . By examining this limit we find a solution that is uniformly valid for all contact angles. Furthermore, by considering the far-field behaviour of the free surface we show that there exists a critical capillary number above which the problem at an inlet becomes over-determined. The implications of this result for the modelling of coating flows are discussed
Coral spawning information
Information on reproduction in reef corals is presented. An understanding of its reproductive behaviour is an important factor in helping to preserve the coral reef ecosystems.Coral reefs, Spawning
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