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Splitting of the gas flow (also of the test gas ) in accordance with the effective pumping speed at the partial flow branch point... 

Fig. 1. Bistability and hysteresis in the Edelstein mode 34 . In this figure xss ([X] ) is plotted as a function of a ([A]) for constant total enzyme concentration, [E], = 30, and [B] = 0.2. The upper and lower values (flow branch and thermodynamic branches, respectively) of jtss are stable. The intermediate branch (dashed line) is unstable. Suppose one starts with a solution of composition P, on the thermodynamic branch, and then proceeds to increase a. Stable solutions of x with increasing values result, until point N is reached. At this point an increase in a results in a transition to the flow branch. Decreasing a causes Xss to decrease along the flow branch, until point M is reached, whereupon an abrupt transition back to the thermodynamic branch occurs. Increases in a bring ss back to P, completing a hysteresis loop...

Lamella Division. Lamella or bubble division proceeds by subdividing foam bubbles or lamellae. Thus, mobile foam bubbles must preexist. Division is illustrated in Figure 6. A translating foam bubble encounters a point where flow branches in two directions (Figure 6a). The interface stretches around the branch point and enters both flow paths. The initial bubble divides into two separate bubbles (Figure 6b) that continue to move downstream. 

V2, Vuc are transported, where a part of the flow branches off into the actual microchannels of width and depth e. For each of the channel segments a relationship between the pressure drop Ap and the average flow velocity u of the form... 

A bistability between an oscillatory branch and a flow branch has been reported for the gallic acid system by using the stirring rate as control parameter, indicating complex role of temperature and stirring rate as the control parameters [23], Bistability in an uncatalysed oscillator in a CSTR has been observed in initial [BrO jg [Br ]o concentration space. It occurs between an oscillatory and a flow branch. Hysterisis is also found to occur. 

The situation that we have just described is known as bistability. The solid lines in Figure 2.6 indicate stable branches, while the dashed line is an unstable branch of steady states. In a flow system, the lower branch is called the equilibrium or thermodynamic branch, because it extends from the thermodynamic equilibrium point at zero flow rate. The upper or flow branch is so named because it can be accessed from high flow rate. Typically, the composition of steady states on the equilibrium branch resembles that of the products, while states on the flow branch look more like the reactants in the input flow. Obviously, in the limits of zero or infinite flow, we obtain the compositions of the equilibrium state and the pure reactants, respectively. The arrows in Figure 2.6b indicate the direction that the system will take when the flow rate reaches a particular value. Notice that the system remembers its history. Which state the system resides in depends on where it came from—that is, low or high flow rate. This memory effect, associated with the switching between branches of states in a bistable system, is known as hysteresis. 

As far as distillation complexes with flows branching are concerned, their main pecuharity is that they can be described as sets of several two-section columns interacting with one another. 

Tesaf V (2006) Multi-Level Flow Branching. Proc of Conf Engineering Mechanics, Svratka, May 2006... 

Fig. 1 Typical bistability in a C.S.T.R. 0 thermodynamic branch (2) flow branch...

When the stirring rate is decreased, the flow branch is favoured. One could speak of a "forced nucleation" but this term is somehow misleading since the process is purely deterministic and the local perturbation due to the feed is permanent. The validity of the conclusions implies that the input flow is large enough to define the small volume above. This is certainly the case close to ks, where the flow becomes dominant compared to the reaction processes on a macroscopic scale. The transition is shifted to lower values of the flow rate. For the reverse transition at k-j, where the flow is often very small and where the reaction process becomes dominant no definite conclusion can be drawn. We shall now develop these ideas on simple models and show that localized injection of reactants induces effects in qualitative agreement with the experiments. 

MICHEAU - Could you make some comments about the comparison between near to and far from equilibrium phase transitions. Especially, about the universality of some critical exponents For example in gas-liquid phase transition and thermodynamics to flow branch transitions in a bistable CSTR ... 

Fig. 1. Steady-state redox potential E as a function of total flow F for NPM conditions (full curves) and PM conditions (broken curves) at different stirring rates S. Downward arrows indicate spontaneous transitions from the thermodynamic branch to the flow branch. The constraint coMosition of the react /. ...

Fig. 4. Transition from the thermodynamic branch to the flow branch after 4 changes in the stirring rate.

Cyclomatic complexity is extremely useful in determining how to test software. The cyclomatic complexity of a program is also the minimum number of tests needed to cover every control flow branch of a program. If the cyclomatic complexity of a program is 5, then at least 5 tests must be devised to test every branch of code. Such tests do not guarantee total coverage of all possible test conditions, but they will verify that every statement in the program will contribute to at least one test. 

The computational fluid dynamics (CFD) module of COMSOL 4.0 multiphysics was employed to model the oxygen flow through PMMA—PMMA nanofiber mat sandwich films. The Darcy s law interface under the porous media and subsurface flow branch can be used to model low-velocity flows, for which the primary driving force is the pressure gradient across the membrane, and the fluid is mostly influenced by the frictional resistance within the pores. 

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