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    • Compact travelling waves in viscoelastic solids 

      Destrade, Michel (IOP Science, 2009-09-02)
      We introduce a model for nonlinear viscoelastic solids, for which travelling shear waves with compact support are possible. Using analytical and numerical methods, we investigate the general case of this model, and an ...

    • Comparative chemical kinetic analysis and skeletal mechanism generation for syngas combustion with NOx chemistry 

      Wang, Quan-De; Sun, Yanjin; Curran, Henry J. (American Chemical Society, 2019-12-09)
      Emission of nitrogen oxides (NOx) are one of the major environmental concerns arising from the combustion of syngas. Strategies to reduce emission and improve the efficiency of syngas combustion can be developed using ...

    • Comparative genome analysis identifies novel nucleic acid diagnostic targets for use in the specific detection of Haemophilus influenzae 

      Coughlan, Helena; Reddington, Kate; Tuite, Nina; Wee Boo, Teck; Cormican, Martin; Barrett, Louise; Smith, Terry; Clancy, Eoin; Barry, Thomas (Elsevier, 2015-06-23)
      Haemophilus influenzae is recognised as an important human pathogen associated with invasive infections, including bloodstream infection and meningitis. Currently used molecular-based diagnostic assays lack specificity in ...

    • A comparative reactivity study of 1-alkene fuels from ethylene to 1-heptene 

      Dong, Shijun; Zhang, Kuiwen; Senecal, Peter K.; Kukkadapu, Goutham; Wagnon, Scott W.; Barrett, Stephen; Lokachari, Nitin; Panigaphy, Snehasish; Pitz, William J.; Curran, Henry J. (Elsevier, 2020-09-23)
      A comparative reactivity study of 1-alkene fuels from ethylene to 1-heptene has been performed using ignition delay time (IDT) measurements from both a high-pressure shock tube and a rapid compression machine, at an ...

    • A comparative study of the effect of varied reaction environments on a swirl stabilized flame geometry via optical measurements 

      Banyon, Colin; Rodriguez-Henriquez, Jose J.; Paterakis, George; Malliotakis, Zisis; Souflas, Konstantinos; Keramiotis, Christos; Vourliotakis, George; Mauss, Fabian; Curran, Henry J.; Skevis, George; Koutmos, Panagiotis; Founti, Maria (Elsevier, 2018-01-04)
      The present work is a part of a larger experimental campaign which examines the behaviour of various fuels on a swirl stabilized flame burner configuration. Overall, detailed speciation measurements and temperature ...

    • Comparing borehole televiewer logs with continuous core: An example from New Zealand 

      Milloy, Sophie Frances; McLean, Katie; McNamara, David D. (International Geothermal Association, 2015-04-19)
      The use of borehole televiewer logging is a recent addition to the well logging toolkit available to the geothermal industry in New Zealand. The information acquired from borehole televiewer (BHTV) equipment, such as the ...

    • Comparison of established diagnostic methodologies and a novel bacterial smpB real-time PCR assay for the specific detection of haemophilus influenzae associated with respiratory tract infections 

      Reddington, Kate; Schwenk, Stefan; Tuite, Nina; Platt, Gareth; Davar, Danesh; Coughlan, Helena; Personne, Yoann; Enne, Virve I.; Zumla, Alimuddin; Barry, Thomas (American Society for Microbiology, 2015-06-23)
      Haemophilus influenzae is a significant causative agent of respiratory tract infections (RTI) worldwide. The development of a rapid H. influenzae diagnostic assay that would allow for the implementation of infection control ...

    • Comparison of performance of an earthen plate and nafion as membrane separators in dual chamber microbial fuel cells 

      Jana, Partha Sarathi; Ghangrekar, Makarand Madhao; Leech, Dónal (Universitatea Tehnica "Gheorghe Asachi" Iasi. Editura Politehnium, Romania, 2018-02)
      The performance of microbial fuel cells (MFC) employing an earthen plate as a membrane separator is compared to that using Nafion 117 in an identical up-flow dual-chambered cylindrical cell configuration. The MFC configuration ...

    • Comparison of the fluorescence behavior of a biocrude oil and crude petroleum oils 

      Ryder, Alan G. (ACS Publications (American Chemical Society), 2006-02-15)
      The production and characterization of biocrude and petroleum like products from natural, renewable resources such as oil-bearing plant seeds is an interesting area of research at the moment. The present article discusses ...

    • Comparison of the performance of several recent hydrogen combustion mechanisms 

      Olm, Carsten; Zsély, István; Pálvölgyi, Róbert; Varga, Tamás; Nagy, Tibor; Curran, Henry J.; Turányi, Tamás (Elsevier ScienceDirect, 2014-03-12)
      A large set of experimental data was accumulated for hydrogen combustion: ignition measurements in shock tubes (770 data points in 53 datasets) and rapid compression machines (229/20), concentration time profiles in flow ...

    • Comparison of the performance of several recent syngas combustion mechanisms 

      Olm, Carsten; Zsély, István Gy; Varga, Tamás; Curran, Henry J. (Elsevier ScienceDirect, 2015-01-22)
      A large set of experimental data was accumulated for syngas combustion: ignition studies in shock tubes (732 data points in 62 datasets) and in rapid compression machines (492/47), flame velocity determinations (2116/217) ...

    • Competition between the Yops of Yersinia enterocolitica for delivery into eukaryotic cells: Role of the SycE chaperone binding domain of YopE 

      Boyd, Aoife (American Society for Microbiology, 2000-09)
      A type III secretion-translocation system allows Yersinia adhering at the surface of animal cells to deliver a cocktail of effector Yops (YopH, -O, -P, -E, -M, and -T) into the cytosol of these cells. Residues or codons 1 ...

    • Complexifiable characteristic classes 

      Rahm, Alexander D. (2013)

    • Complexifiable characteristic classes 

      Rahm, Alexander D. (Springer, 2014-01)
      We examine the topological characteristic cohomology classes of complexified vector bundles. In particular, all the classes coming from the real vector bundles underlying the complexification are determined.

    • A comprehensive cocrystal screening study of chlorothiazide 

      Aljohani, Marwah; Pallipurath, Anuradha R.; McArdle, Patrick; Erxleben, Andrea (American Chemical Society, 2017-09-01)
      Cocrystal formation of chlorothiazide (ctz) was screened with a variety of coformers with carboxyl, amide, hydroxyl, sulfonamide, pyridine, amidine, and amine functional groups. New cocrystals with acetamide (aca), benzamide ...

    • A comprehensive combustion chemistry study of 2,5-dimethylhexane 

      Sarathy, S. Mani; Javed, Tamour; Karsenty, Florent; Heufer, Alexander; Wang, Weijing; Park, Sungwoo; Elwardany, Ahmed; Farooq, Aamir; Westbrook, Charles K.; Pitz, William J.; Oehlschlaeger, Matthew A.; Dayma, Guillaume; Curran, Henry J.; Dagaut, Philippe (Elsevier ScienceDirect, 2014-01-16)
      Iso-paraffinic molecular structures larger than seven carbon atoms in chain length are commonly found in conventional petroleum, Fischer-Tropsch (FT), and other alternative hydrocarbon fuels, but little research has been ...

    • A comprehensive experimental and improved kinetic modeling study on the pyrolysis and oxidation of propyne 

      Panigrahy, Snehasish; Liang, Jinhu; Nagaraja, Shashank S.; Zuo, Zhaohong; Kim, Gihun; Dong, Shijun; Kukkadapu, Goutham; Pitz, William J.; Vasu, Subith S.; Curran, Henry J. (Elsevier, 2020-09-15)
      To improve our understanding of the combustion characteristics of propyne, new experimental data for ignition delay times (IDTs), pyrolysis speciation profiles and flame speed measurements are presented in this study. IDTs ...

    • A comprehensive experimental and kinetic modeling study of 1-and 2-pentene 

      Dong, Shijun; Zhang, Kuiwen; Ninnemann, Erik M.; Najjar, Ahmed; Kukkadapu, Goutham; Baker, Jessica; Arafin, Farhan; Wang, Zhandong; Pitz, William J.; Vasu, Subith S.; Sarathy, S. Mani; Senecal, Peter K.; Curran, Henry J. (Elsevier, 2020-10-15)
      1- and 2-pentene are components in gasoline and are also used as representative alkene components in gasoline surrogate fuels. Most of the available ignition delay time data in the literature for these fuels are limited ...

    • A comprehensive experimental and kinetic modeling study of 1-hexene 

      Dong, Shijun; Aul, Christopher; Gregoire, Claire; Cooper, Sean P.; Mathieu, Olivier; Petersen, Eric L.; Rodriguez, Jose; Mauss, Fabian; Wagno, Scott W.; Kukkadapu, Goutham; Pitz, William J.; Curran, Henry J. (Elsevier, 2021-06-13)
      It is important to understand the low-temperature chemistry of 1-hexene as it is used as a representative alkene component in gasoline surrogate fuels. Ignition delay times (IDTs) of 1-hexene measured in rapid compression ...

    • A comprehensive experimental and modeling study of isobutene oxidation 

      Zhou, Chong-Wen; Li, Yang; O'Connor, Eoin; Somers, Kieran P.; Thion, Sébastien; Keesee, Charles; Mathieu, Olivier; Petersen, Eric L.; DeVerter, Trent A.; Oehlschlaeger, Matthew A.; Kukkadapu, Goutham; Sung, Chih-Jen; Alrefae, Majed; Khaled, Fathi; Farooq, Aamir; Dirrenberger, Patricia; Glaude, Pierre-Alexandre Glaude; Battin-Leclerc, Frédérique; Santner, Jeffrey; Ju, Yiguang; Held, Timothy; Haas, Francis M.; Dryer, Frederick L.; Curran, Henry J. (Elsevier, 2016-03-17)
      Isobutene is an important intermediate in the pyrolysis and oxidation of higher-order branched alkanes, and it is also a component of commercial gasolines. To better understand its combustion characteristics, a series of ...