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At the distant edge of the boundary layer it is assumed that the velocity just equals the main stream velocity and that there is no discontinuity in the velocity profile. 

The procedure here is similar to that adopted previously. A heat balance, as opposed to a momentum balance, is taken over an element which extends beyond the limits of both the velocity and thermal boundary layers. In this way, any fluid entering or leaving the element through the face distant from the surface is at the stream velocity u and stream temperature 0S. A heat balance is made therefore on the element shown in Figure 11.10 in which the length l is greater than the velocity boundary layer thickness S and the thermal boundary layer thickness t. 

Thus far, Ft has never found a definite position in Ea vs. correlations, more for the uncertainty in the reliability of its pzc than for its work function. On the other hand, Pt is a highly heterogeneous metal and the fact that only polycrystalline surfaces have been used in double-layer studies has not helped remove suspicions. According to Frumkin s data,10,14 the pzc ofpc-Pt is around 0.2 V(SHE) (in acidic solution). If this value is introduced into Fig. 14 (the 0 of pc-Pt is around 5.5 eV),22,65 343,856 865,866 the point of Pt would fall far distant from the line of mercurylike metals and near the line of d-metals. 

First, in the striated muscles, the cross-sectional organization of filaments is highly ordered in a hexagonal pattern commensurate with the ratio of actin to myosin filaments and the distribution of active myosin heads, S-1 segments, helically every 60 degrees around the myosin filament. In smooth muscle, with perhaps 13 actin filaments per myosin filament, many actin filaments appear to be ranked in layers around myosin filaments. It is not known how the more distant actin filaments participate in contraction. 

Figure 4.29 demonstrates validity of equation (4.26) in the case of butane at various pressures. It is seen that the dots representing two experimental series fit the same straight line. This means (according to the equation) that K2 values are equal and independent of the pressure of butane. In liquefied butane, the value increases significantly. This indicates that adsorption involves not only hydrogen atoms produced in the adsorption layer, but those produced in distant layers of the liquid adjacent to the surface. 

Figure 1.25 shows the boundary layer that develops over a flat plate placed in, and aligned parallel to, the fluid having a uniform velocity upstream of the plate. Flow over the wall of a pipe or tube is similar but eventually the boundary layer reaches the centre-line. Although most of the change in the velocity component vx parallel to the wall takes place over a short distance from the wall, it does continue to rise and tends gradually to the value vx in the fluid distant from the wall (the free stream). Consequently, if a boundary layer thickness is to be defined it has to be done in some arbitrary but useful way. The normal definition of the boundary layer thickness is that it is the distance from the solid boundary to the location where vx has risen to 99 per cent of the free stream velocity v . The locus of such points is shown in Figure 1.25. It should be appreciated that this is a time averaged distance the thickness of the boundary layer fluctuates owing to the velocity fluctuations.

In electrochemical reactors, the externally imposed velocity is often low. Therefore, natural convection can exert a substantial influence. As an example, let us consider a vertical parallel plate reactor in which the electrodes are separated by a distance d and let us assume that the electrodes are sufficiently distant from the reactor inlet for the forced laminar flow to be fully developed. Since the reaction occurs only at the electrodes, the concentration profile begins to develop at the leading edges of the electrodes. The thickness of the concentration boundary layer along the length of the electrode is assumed to be much smaller than the distance d between the plates, a condition that is usually satisfied in practice. 

If one assumes, however, that tritium is scavenged in a similar manner as other radioactivity, then immediately following the detonation most of the tritium observed in the present ejecta profiles would have been in the missile ejecta stratum. This supposition is supported by the consistent pattern of tritium distribution with depth on the crater lip and at more distant stations where ejecta was deposited as a thin layer on undisturbed soil materials. 

Gamma radioactivity is localized in the surface or missile ejecta layer even on the crater lip where the total ejecta depth is 2 to 5 feet. Whenever ejecta was deposited in a shallow layer on the undisturbed soil surface, only a small amount of gamma radioactivity has been leached. It has been demonstrated, however, that a subtle preferential movement of 137Cs has taken place in the ejecta, at both the crater lip and more distant sites, by a consideration of the 137Cs/54Mn ratios in those ejecta materials. 

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