Browsing by Subject "Porous media"
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(2003-07-01)One of the main mechanisms of failure of levees is a phenomenon called ‘‘piping,’’ which generally begins with the formation of a sand boil at the leeward side of the levee, and has been frequently observed to proceed ...
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(2021-12-06)Porous media and randomly packed beds are used in a wide variety of engineering applications, including thermal energy storage, modeling of the earth to be drilled in the petroleum industry, heap leaching for precious metal ...
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(2022-06-21)An experimental investigation was conducted on the hydraulic characteristics of annular type wick structures for heat pipes. An experimental facility that can measure porosity, permeability and effective pore radius of the ...
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(2015-06-05)This dissertation is devoted to the development, study and testing of numerical methods for elliptic and parabolic equations with heterogeneous coefficients. The motivation for this study is to meet the need for fast and ...
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(2014-05-03)Safety related issues in Nuclear Power Plants (NPPs) have always been of concern, especially those issues that are related to Light Water Reactors (LWRs) and their Design Basis Accidents (DBA). One of the ongoing issues ...
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(2019-11-25)Predicting the radiative properties of porous media is highly important in many engineering applications (e.g. additive manufacturing). The radiative properties of packed beds highly depend on the geometry and configuration ...