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International audience; The set of equations governing reacting two-phase flows in liquid-propellant rocket engines is simplified and linearized around a steady base flow. In the particular case of a liquid/gas coaxial injector, models for the atomization, evaporation and combustion source terms are derived from a simplified physical description of both the oxidizer liquid core and spray. The resulting equations are projected onto a modal basis, leading to a quasi-linear dynamic description of the evolution of the system. In this paper, detailed model reduction focuses on the evaporation of polydisperse sprays and on the propagation of acoustic waves within the gas.

Background This study aimed to explore the feasibility of applying the respiratory “critical care-sub-critical care-rehabilitation integrated management model” in severe stroke-associated pneumonia and evaluate its effect. Methods From January to September 2018, 24 patients with severe stroke-associated pneumonia, who were admitted to the Respiratory Intensive Care Unit of the Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine Department of Henan Provincial People’s Hospital, were randomly divided into two groups: integrated management group and control group. According to the admission criteria of the respiratory “critical care-sub-critical care-rehabilitation integrated model” prescribed by the above-mentioned hospital, patients were grouped. The professional respiratory therapy team participated in the whole treatment. The acute physiology and chronic health evaluation II (APACHE II) score, clinical pulmonary infection score (CPIS) and oxygenation index of these two groups were dynamically observed, and the average hospital stay, 28-day mortality and patient satisfaction were investigated. Results Patients in the integrated management group and control group were similar before treatment (P > 0.05). After treatment, the main indicators, the APACHE II score, CPIS score and oxygenation index, were significantly different between the integration group and control group (P P < 0.05). However, the 28-day mortality wasn’t significantly different (P > 0.05). Conclusions For patients with severe stroke-associated pneumonia, it was feasible to implement the respiratory “critical care-sub-critical care-rehabilitation integrated management model”, which could significantly improve the treatment effect, shorten average hospitalization days and improve patient/family satisfaction.

International audience; We study with a 1D particle-in-cell (PIC) simulation the evolution of a subcritical perpendicular fast magnetosonic shock. The shock propagates at 1.5 times the fast magnetosonic speed. Some upstream protons are reflected by the shock's electric potential. They form a beam which carries less energy than those that are reflected magnetically by super-critical shocks. The beam triggers the growth of a fast magnetosonic solitary wave upstream of the shock, which reflects the beam protons back to the shock. Extracting the momentum and energy of this beam allows the solitary wave to grow into a proto-shock that is trailed by a short downstream region. Protons from the shock-reflected proton beam increase the density of the plasma between the shock and the proto-shock reducing its potential difference relative to both surrounding structures. Bulk protons, which cross the proto-shock, react to the decreased potential jump. The plasma behind the proto-shock accelerates and so does the shock. The trailing end of the proto-shock speeds up in order to continue reflecting the beam protons and eventually it catches up with its front; the proto-shock collapses and the self-reformation fails. A more energetic proton beam could decrease the potential jump across the shock, let it collapse and replace it with the proto-shock.

Let $10 \mbox{ in } \Omega, \quad \partial_\nu u = 0 \mbox{ on } \partial\Omega. \] We suppose that $f(0)=f(1)=0$ and that $f$ is negative between the two zeros and positive after. In case $\Omega$ is a ball, we also require that $f$ grows less than the Sobolev-critical power at infinity. We prove a priori bounds of radial solutions, focusing in particular on solutions which start above 1. As an application, we use the shooting technique to get existence, multiplicity and oscillatory behavior (around 1) of non-constant radial solutions., Comment: 26 pages, 3 figures

Sesame seeds contain a vast array of lignans and phenolic compounds having important biological properties. An optimized method to obtain these seed components was designed by using water and ethanol at high pressure and temperature conditions. The maximum concentrations of lignans, total phenolics, flavonoids and flavonols compounds were achieved at 220 °C extraction temperature and 8 MPa pressure, using 63.5% ethanol as co-solvent. Under these conditions, the obtained sesame extracts gave the best radical scavenging capacity. Kinetic studies showed a high extraction rate of phenolic compounds until the first 50 min of extraction, and it was in parallel with the highest scavenging capacity. The comparison of our results with those obtained under conventional extraction conditions (normal pressure, ambient temperature) suggests that recovery of sesame bioactive compounds may be markedly enhanced using water/ethanol mixtures at sub-critical conditions. Fil: Bodoira, Romina Mariana. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Córdoba. Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biología Vegetal. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas Físicas y Naturales. Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biología Vegetal; Argentina Fil: Velez, Alexis. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Bahia Blanca. Planta Piloto de Ingeniería Química (I). Grupo Vinculado al Plapiqui - Investigación y Desarrollo en Tecnología Química; Argentina Fil: Andreatta, Alfonsina Ester. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Bahia Blanca. Planta Piloto de Ingeniería Química (I). Grupo Vinculado al Plapiqui - Investigación y Desarrollo en Tecnología Química; Argentina. Universidad Tecnológica Nacional; Argentina Fil: Martinez, Marcela Lilian. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Córdoba. Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biología Vegetal. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas Físicas y Naturales. Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biología Vegetal; Argentina Fil: Maestri, Damian. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Córdoba. Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biología Vegetal. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas Físicas y Naturales. Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biología Vegetal; Argentina

This article accounts the relationship between the microstructure of pearlitic steels (influenced by the cold-drawn manufacturing process) and the growing rate of sub critical cracks, produced by a cyclic-constant amplitude load. The microstructural study is performed in two levels: the pearlitic colony (first level) and the pearlitic lamellar microstructure (second microstructural level). The analysis of the fatigue behaviour was focused on the region II of the fatigue crack propagation regime, in which the crack growing rate per cicle, da/dN, is controlled by the amplitude of the stress intensity range, as described by Paris law. The enhancement of the fatigue behaviour, in the stable growing zone, is related with the progressive orientation of the pearlitic colonies in the cold drawing direction, showing a linear relation between the intersect parameter of the Paris law (mechanical property) and the alignment angle of the microstructure.Este artículo pretende poner de manifiesto la influencia que los cambios microestructurales inducidos en un acero hipoeutectoide mediante un proceso de trefilado, tienen sobre la velocidad de crecimiento de fisuras sub-críticas, desarrolladas por solicitación cíclica con amplitud de carga constante. El análisis microestructural ha sido realizado a dos niveles: la colonia perlítica (primer nivel) y la microestructura laminar de la perlita (segundo nivel microestructural). El análisis del comportamiento en fatiga se ha centrado en la región II del régimen de propagación de fisuras por fatiga, en donde la velocidad de crecimiento de fisuras, da/dN, está controlada por la amplitud del factor de intensidad de tensiones, K, según queda descrito por la ley de Paris. Los resultados obtenidos muestran que la mejora en el comportamiento en fatiga de los aceros, en la zona de crecimiento estable de la fisura, se relaciona con el alineamiento de las colonias perlíticas en la dirección del trefilado, encontrando una relación lineal entre la constante de proporcionalidad de la ley de Paris (propiedad mecánica) con el ángulo de alineación de la microestructura.

This paper presents the experimental results for the flow around a sphere: a smooth sphere in flow with low inlet turbulence, a sphere with trip wire and a sphere in flow with high free stream turbulence, at sub critical Reynolds number. The mean velocity field and the turbulence quantities are obtained using laser-Doppler anemometry. Comparison of velocity field and turbulence character is tics for different flow configuration are given.

The uniform flow around a circular cylinder at Reynolds number 1e5 is simulated in a three dimensional domain by means of the newly developed Self-induced angular Moment Method, SMoM, turbulence model. The global force coefficients, Strouhal number, pressure distributions and wall shear stress distributions are compared to experimental findings reported in literature. The SMoM turbulence model is found to provide maximum, minimum and time-mean pressure coefficient distributions in very good agreement with experimental findings.

En las ciencias medicas, cualquier modelo animal de experimentacion debe ser reproducible y ajustado al proposito de simular la respuesta fisiologica humana. En la investigacion de la respuesta a la lesion osea, cuando son utilizados sustitutos oseos, es de gran importancia el estudio de defectos que no logran sanar, a menos que sean tratados con terapia de ingenieria de tejidos. Este fracaso define el concepto de "defecto de tamano critico" (CDS) el cual tiene limites diferentes segun la especie animal utilizada y la ubicacion del defecto. Aunque se trata de un concepto basico, cuando el objetivo del estudio es investigar la interfaz hueso-biomaterial, es de primordial importancia obtener la maxima superficie de contacto que sea posible. Para ello, se propone una modificacion en el enfoque quirurgico del modelo clasico de defecto de tamano subcritico biparietal en la boveda de conejo.

International audience; Taking into account stress fluctuations due to thermal noise, we study thermally activated irreversible crack growth in disordered media. The influence of material disorder on sub-critical growth of a single crack in two-dimensional brittle elastic material is described through the introduction of a gaussian rupture threshold distribution. We derive analytical predictions for crack growth velocity and material lifetime in agreement with direct numerical calculations. It is claimed that crack growth process is inhibited by disorder: velocity decreases and lifetime increases with disorder. More precisely, lifetime is shown to follow a super-Arrhenius law, with an effective temperature $\theta-\theta_d$, where $\theta$ is related to the thermodynamical temperature and $\theta_d$ to the disorder variance.

In the standard scenario, the electroweak phase transition is a first order phase transition which completes by the nucleation of critical bubbles. Recently, there has been speculation that the standard picture of the electroweak phase transition is incorrect. Instead, it has been proposed that throughout the phase transition appreciable amounts of both broken and unbroken phases of $SU(2)$ coexist in equilibrium. I argue that this can not be the case. General principles insure that the universe will remain in a homogenous state of unbroken $SU(2)$ until the onset of critical bubble production., 7 pages plus three figures. OHSTPY-HEP-T-92-016 A topdrawer file of the figures is appended to the end