Analytical study of heat and mass transfer in unsteady MHD radiant flow of Williamson nanofluid over stretching sheet with heat generation and chemical reaction

This paper presents the analytical study of heat and mass transfer in a two-dimensional time-dependent flow of Williamson nanofluid near a permeable stretching sheet by considering the effects of external magnetic field, viscous dissipation, Joule heating, thermal radiation, heat source, and chemical reaction. Suitable transformations are introduced to reformulate the governing equations and the boundary conditions convenient for computation. The resulting sets of nonlinear differential equations are then solved by the homotopy analysis method. The study on the effects of relevant parameters on fluid velocity, temperature, and concentration profiles is analyzed and presented in graphical and tabular forms. Upon comparison of the present study with respect to some other previous studies, a very good agreement is obtained. The study points out that the transfer of heat can substantially be enhanced by decreasing viscoelasticity of the fluid and the transfer of mass can be facilitated by increasing permeability of the stretching sheet.     

脉冲强光对黄曲霉菌孢子的杀菌效果、微观结构及动力学的影响

脉冲强光是一种新兴的非热杀菌技术。为研究和预测脉冲强光对黄曲霉菌孢子的杀菌作用,在强度2.86,1.60,1.08,0.93 W/cm2脉冲强光下对固体培养基中黄曲霉菌孢子处理1~60 s,并对处理前、后孢子的微观形态进行扫描电镜分析。运用Log-linear模型、Weibull模型和Weibull+tail模型对杀菌致死曲线进行动力学分析。研究表明,随着照射强度增加和时间的延长,脉冲强光对黄曲霉菌孢子的杀菌效果增强。初始菌落数为5.15 lg(CFU/mL)的孢子在2.86 W/cm2下处理19 s可被全部杀死。电镜照片显示脉冲强光处理后孢子细胞结构崩溃。Weibull模型和Weibull+tail模型较Log-linear模型能更好地拟合脉冲强光处理黄曲霉菌孢子的杀菌曲线(R2>0.95)。其中Weibull+tail模型能更加精确地拟合杀菌动力学过程(R2=0.9727)。     

Evaluation of modified adaptive k-means segmentation algorithm

Computational Visual Media - Segmentation is the act of partitioning an image into different regions by creating boundaries between regions. k-means image segmentation is the simplest prevalent...