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Ultrasonic wave attenuation({\alpha}) measurement by pulse-echo method exhibits pronounced dependence on experimental conditions. It is shown to be an inherent characteristic of the method itself. Estimation of {\alpha} from the component…
The velocity (v) and attenuation constant (a) for ultrasonic waves of frequencies 1MHz and 2MHz propagating through aqueous sodium chloride solution have been measured over the concentration (c) region 0-5.3 mol.L-1 at room temperature (250…
Despite its fundamental role in the dynamics of compressible fluids, bulk viscosity has received little experimental attention and there remains a paucity of measured data. Acoustic spectroscopy provides a robust and accurate approach to…
The reported results for ultrasonic wave attenuation constant ({\alpha}) in pure water show noticeable inconsistency in magnitude. A "Propagating-Wave" model analysis of the most popular pulse-echo technique indicates that this is a…
The dynamics of water in electrolyte solutions exhibits a striking, ion-specific anomaly: the diffusion coefficient of water is enhanced relative to the neat liquid in chaotropic CsI solutions, yet suppressed in kosmotropic NaCl solutions.…
The alkali metal ions in aqueous electrolyte solutions have strong influence on the surrounding network structure of water formed through hydrogen bonds. The extent of ionic perturbation to the structure of water depends on the nature of…
Theoretical calculations of the mixed aggregation/coalescence (kFC) rate corresponding to a set of hexadecane-in-water nano-emulsions stabilized with sodium dodecyl sulphate (SDS) at different NaCl concentrations are presented. The rates…
A spectral element solver is developed for the high-fidelity simulation of the unsteady flow over an aerospike nozzle. The Navier-Stokes solver is a kinetic-energy-preserving, discontinuous Galerkin spectral element method (DGSEM) combined…
Nonlinear wave-mixing in solids with ultrafast x-rays can provide new insight into complex electronic dynamics of materials. Here, tabletop-based attosecond noncollinear four-wave mixing (FWM) spectroscopy using one extreme ultraviolet…
The dependence of the actual/effective ionic concentration on the nominal salt concentration is experimentally investigated for aqueous solutions of NaCl and KCl. The actual ionic bulk density is determined by means of the impedance…
We propose and experimentally verify two methods to scale arbitrary units to photocurrent spectral density (A/eV) in Fourier Transform Photocurrent (FTPC) spectroscopy. We also propose the FTPC scaling to responsivity (A/W), provided a…
Rates of aggregation of dodecane-in-water (d/w) nanoemulsions stabilized with 7.5 mM sodium dodecylsulfate (SDS) are evaluated beyond 500 mM NaCl. As in the case of hexadecane-in-water (h/w) emulsions, it is found that flocculation rates…
The random motion of molecules in living cells has consistently been reported to deviate from standard Brownian motion, a behavior coined as ``anomalous diffusion''. Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy (FCS) is a powerful method to…
The electrokinetic transport in a neutral system consists of an aqueous NaCl solution confined in a nanochannel with two similar parallel phosphorene walls, and is investigated for different black, blue, red, and green phosphorene…
Recent laboratory efforts and telescopic observations of Europa have shown the relevance of a yellow colouration of sodium chloride (NaCl) caused by crystal defects generated by irradiation. We further investigate this process by…
X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) is a powerful experimental tool to probe the local structure in materials with the core hole excitations. Here, the oxygen K-edge XAS spectra of the NaCl solution and pure water are computed by using a…
We consider a coupled system of Navier Stokes, Maxwell Stefan and Poisson Boltzmann equations by incorporating the variation of dielectric constant, which governs the electro osmotic flow in nano channel, describing the evolution of the…
Sum frequency generation vibrational spectra of the water molecules at the NaF and KF aqueous solution surfaces showed significantly different spectral features and different concentration dependence. This result is the first direct…
We present a numerical method for studying the normal modes of accretion flows around black holes. In this first paper, we focus on two-dimensional, viscous, hydrodynamic disks, for which the linear modes have been calculated analytically…
Nanomechanical resonators promise diverse applications ranging from mass spectrometry to quantum information processing, requiring long phonon lifetimes and frequency stability. Although two-level system (TLS) defects govern dissipation at…