When poured into a container, cohesive granular materials form low-density, open granular aggregates. If pressed upon with a ram, these aggregates densify by particle rearrangement. In this paper we introduce experimental ...

As microchannel heat exchangers have become more sophisticated in their design, more exact understanding of the flow inside them is necessary. A decrease in diameter enhances the heat transfer (which takes place at the ...

Fluctuation correlation spectroscopy (FCS) is an experimental technique for the study of hydrodynamics and molecular interactions of microscopic systems. The method monitors the statistical behavior of spontaneous equilibrium ...

Pretreatment is the rate-limiting step for bioethanol production from lignocellulosic biomass, and subsequently intensive studies have been undertaken to improve the pretreatment efficiency. However, so far most pretreatment ...

We describe a type and effect system for ensuring deterministic semantics in a concurrent object-oriented language. Our system provides several new capabilities over previous work, including support for linear arrays ...

Type systems for object-oriented programming languages have been studied a great deal over the past few years. Since Smalltalk was one of the earliest object-oriented languages, it is not surprising that there have been ...

Due to the increasing penetration of wind power, engineers are finding it useful to have models to investigate wind turbine performance. For different applications, an accurate modeling of aerodynamics, power electronics, ...

Object-oriented frameworks can make parallel programming easier by providing generic parallel algorithms such as map, reduce, or scan, and letting the user fill in the details with sequential code. However, such frameworks ...