• 제목/요약/키워드: Fickian behavior

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BIFURCATIONS IN A HUMAN MIGRATION MODEL OF SCHEURLE-SEYDEL TYPE-II: ROTATING WAVES

  • Kovacs, Sandor
    • Journal of applied mathematics & informatics
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    • 제16권1_2호
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    • pp.69-78
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    • 2004
  • This paper treats the conditions for the existence of rotating wave solutions of a system modelling the behavior of students in graduate programs at neighbouring universities near each other which is a modified form of the model proposed by Scheurle and Seydel. We assume that both types of individuals are continuously distributed throughout a bounded two-dimension spatial domain of two types (circle and annulus), across whose boundaries there is no migration, and which simultaneously undergo simple (Fickian) diffusion. We will show that at a critical value of a system-parameter bifurcation takes place: a rotating wave solution arises.

Diffusion of Water in Sulfonated Polystyrene Ionomers

  • Manoj, N.R.;Ratna, D.;Weiss, R.A.
    • Macromolecular Research
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    • 제12권1호
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    • pp.26-31
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    • 2004
  • Using gravimetry, we have studied the diffusion of water into sulfonated polystyrene ionomers. Diffusion coefficients were calculated from Fick's equation. The water sorption was found to be dependent on the ion content (3.6-11 mol%) and the nature of the cation (H, Na, Li, or Zn). The sorption kinetics indicates a slight deviation from Fickian behavior. We used the analytical solution of Fick's equation to evaluate the concentration profiles, which are in good agreement with the experimental results.

DEHP Migration Behavior from Excessively Plasticized PVC Sheets

  • Kim, Jung-Hwan;Kim, Seong-Hun;Lee, Chang-Hyung;Nah, Jae-Woon;Hahn, Airan
    • Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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    • 제24권3호
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    • pp.345-349
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    • 2003
  • The quantity, process and kinetics of di-(2-ethylhexyl)phthalate (DEHP) migration in the 30/70 and 40/60 poly(vinylchloride) (PVC)/DEHP blends were investigated using gas chromatograph. A thin and flexible PVC sheet was soaked in surrounding medium (SM) of water/ethanol mixture and acetonitrile with constant stirring to release DEHP. By observed concentration of DEHP in the SM, it is found that acetonitrile is more intense in DEHP migration than water/ethanol mixture. In addition the amount of extracted DEHP is proportional to the leaching temperature and added ratio of DEHP. The behavior of DEHP migration from flexible PVC sheets was described by the Ficks's law with $2.72-10.1\;{times}\;10^{-10}$ cm²/s of the diffusion coefficients.

폴리프로필렌 카보네이트/박리흑연 나노복합필름의 수분흡수 거동 (Water Sorption Behaviors of Poly(Propylene Carbonate)/Exfoliated Graphite Nanocomposite Films)

  • 김도완;김인수;서종철;한학수
    • 공업화학
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    • 제24권6호
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    • pp.621-627
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    • 2013
  • 친환경 소재인 폴리프로필렌카보네이트(PPC)를 포장소재로서 응용하기 위하여 가로세로비가 큰 박리흑연 EFG(exfoliated graphite)를 이용하여 함량을 달리한 6종류의 PPC/EFG 나노복합필름을 제조하였다. 제조한 나노복합필름의 수분흡수 거동을 gravimetric method를 이용하여 측정하였으며, 나노복합필름의 수분에 대한 화학적 친화성(chemical affinity)과 모폴로지(morphology) 변화를 이용하여 해석하였다. 필름 내로의 수분확산 거동은 박막의 불균일성에도 불구하고 Fickian diffusion model에 잘 부합하였으며, EFG의 함량이 증가할수록 수분 확산계수와 수분 흡수량은 $12.5{\times}10^{-10}cm^2sec^{-1}$에서 $7.2{\times}10^{-10}cm^2sec^{-1}$, 8.9 wt%에서 4.2 wt%로 각각 감소하였다. 이는 수분에 대한 PPC의 차단특성이 EFG의 도입에 따라 향상되는 것을 의미한다. 높은 가로세로비를 가진 EFG를 PPC에 도입함으로써 PPC/EFG 나노복합필름의 수분에 대한 우수한 차단성 특성 발현은 패키징분야를 포함한 차단성이 요구되는 분야로의 친환경 PPC 응용성이 클 것으로 기대된다. 한편, EFG의 도입효과를 극대화하기 위한 추가적인 EFG의 분산성 향상연구가 필요하다.

Analysis of activated colloidal crud in advanced and modular reactor under pump coastdown with kinetic corrosion

  • Khurram Mehboob;Yahya A. Al-Zahrani
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • 제54권12호
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    • pp.4571-4584
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    • 2022
  • The analysis of rapid flow transients in Reactor Coolant Pumps (RCP) is essential for a reactor safety study. An accurate and precise analysis of the RCP coastdown is necessary for the reactor design. The coastdown of RCP affects the coolant temperature and the colloidal crud in the primary coolant. A realistic and kinetic model has been used to investigate the behavior of activated colloidal crud in the primary coolant and steam generator that solves the pump speed analytically. The analytic solution of the non-dimensional flow rate has been determined by the energy ratio β. The kinetic energy of the coolant fluid and the kinetic energy stored in the rotating parts of a pump are two essential parameters in the form of β. Under normal operation, the pump's speed and moment of inertia are constant. However, in a coastdown situation, kinetic damping in the interval has been implemented. A dynamic model ACCP-SMART has been developed for System Integrated Modular and Advanced Reactor (SMART) to investigate the corrosion due to activated colloidal crud. The Fickian diffusion model has been implemented as the reference corrosion model for the constituent component of the primary loop of the SMART reactor. The activated colloidal crud activity in the primary coolant and steam generator of the SMART reactor has been studied for different equilibrium corrosion rates, linear increase in corrosion rate, and dynamic RCP coastdown situation energy ratio b. The coolant specific activity of SMART reactor equilibrium corrosion (4.0 mg s-1) has been found 9.63×10-3 µCi cm-3, 3.53×10-3 µC cm-3, 2.39×10-2 µC cm-3, 8.10×10-3 µC cm-3, 6.77× 10-3 µC cm-3, 4.95×10-4 µC cm-3, 1.19×10-3 µC cm-3, and 7.87×10-4 µC cm-3 for 24Na, 54Mn, 56Mn, 59Fe, 58Co, 60Co, 99Mo, and 51Cr which are 14.95%, 5.48%, 37.08%, 12.57%, 10.51%, 0.77%, 18.50%, and 0.12% respectively. For linear and exponential coastdown with a constant corrosion rate, the total coolant and steam generator activity approaches a higher saturation value than the normal values. The coolant and steam generator activity changes considerably with kinetic corrosion rate, equilibrium corrosion, growth of corrosion rate (ΔC/Δt), and RCP coastdown situations. The effect of the RCP coastdown on the specific activity of the steam generators is smeared by linearly rising corrosion rates, equilibrium corrosion, and rapid coasting down of the RCP. However, the time taken to reach the saturation activity is also influenced by the slope of corrosion rate, coastdown situation, equilibrium corrosion rate, and energy ratio β.