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An Electrical Matlab Model Of Plasma Electrolytic Oxidation, Huize Xue
An Electrical Matlab Model Of Plasma Electrolytic Oxidation, Huize Xue
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Plasma Electrolytic Oxidation (PEO), a part of Plasma electrolytic Deposition (PED), has been developing for surface modification of metallic materials in the past 20 years. During PEO process, sample always connect with anode of DC power source, under high temperature, accelerating process of oxidation reaction to from an average and dense oxidation film. A general passage, Plasma electrolysis for surface engineering, written by A.L. Yerokhin, X. Nie gives us a trend of what happened during PEO process but did not determine specific material and value. Linxin Zhu’s Development of PEO invent a new boiling system and investigated relationship between surface …
Novel Model Of Cerebrospinal Fluid Dynamics Based On Hemodynamically Driven Cyclic Brain Compliance Variation, Bruno A. Mantilla
Novel Model Of Cerebrospinal Fluid Dynamics Based On Hemodynamically Driven Cyclic Brain Compliance Variation, Bruno A. Mantilla
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This study provides a novel explanation for the CerebrQ-Spinal Fluid (CSF) flow pattern observed in phase contrast cine-MRJ studies. CSF dynamics has been traditionally explained as a bulk flow from the site of production to the site of absorption. Studies done with phase contrast cine-MRI show a more complex CSF movement, that is not explainable by the bulk flow paradigm. This study describes a mechanism explaining how the energy delivered by the heart in each cycle is responsible not only for the blood flow, but also for the CSF circulation. This mechanism is based on a cyclic variation of brain …
Heavy Metal Adsorption On Iron Oxide And Iron Oxide-Coated Silica : Macroscopic, Spectroscopic, And Modeling Studies, Ying Xu
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To accurately model metal mobility and bioavailability in soils and sediments, systematic sorption studies are needed using representative and well-characterized minerals. Two important surfaces are iron oxide and silica, which are ubiquitous and associated with one another in the environment playing important roles in metal distribution. The objectives of this research are to develop models for predicting speciation and mobility of toxic trace metal ions in groundwater, soils, and sediments when competing ions are present. A model system for soils and sediments, iron oxide-coated silica, was synthesized; the degree of coatings was highly sensitive to the particle size of silica …