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Recent progress in colloidal science has led to elaborate self-assembled structures whose complexity raises hopes for elaborating new materials. However, the throughputs are extremely low and consequently, the chance to produce materials of…
A novel micromixing technique that exploit a thrust of droplets into the mixing interface is developed. The technique enhances the mixing by injecting immiscible droplets in a mixing channel and the methodology enables a control of the…
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We present a short review of the current and recent development in the field of superfluid 3He and 4He. The review is based on the topics discussed at the NSF sponsoredWorkshop on Grand Challenges in Quantum Fluids and Solids chaired by…
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A novel, particle based, probabilistic approach for the simulation of cloud microphysics is proposed, which is named the Super-Droplet Method (SDM). This method enables accurate simulation of cloud microphysics with less demanding cost in…