Hair flow sensors: from bio-inspiration to bio-mimicking—a review

J Tao, XB Yu - Smart Materials and Structures, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
A great many living beings, such as aquatics and arthropods, are equipped with highly
sensitive flow sensors to help them survive in challenging environments. These sensors are …

Materials made of carbon nanotubes. The carbon nanotube forest

EG Rakov - Russian Chemical Reviews, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
Publications concerning research on unique material made of carbon nanotubes (CNTs)
aligned perpendicular to the substrate surface, namely, CNT forest, are analyzed and …

Theory and applications of macroscale models in porous media

I Battiato, PT Ferrero V, D O'Malley, CT Miller… - Transport in Porous …, 2019 - Springer
Abstract Systems dominated by heterogeneity over a multiplicity of scales, like porous
media, still challenge our modeling efforts. The presence of disparate length-and time …

Hierarchical Carbon Nanotube Membrane-Supported Gold Nanoparticles for Rapid Catalytic Reduction of p-Nitrophenol

H Wang, Z Dong, C Na - ACS Sustainable Chemistry & …, 2013 - ACS Publications
Gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) have attracted increasing attention as catalysts for pollutant
degradation because of their unique reactivity. Direct use of gold nanoparticles in water …

Dispersion due to combined pressure-driven and electro-osmotic flows in a channel surrounded by a permeable porous medium

Z Kou, M Dejam - Physics of Fluids, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
The combined electro-osmotic and pressure-driven flows (PDFs) have pronounced impacts
on the solute transport in permeable porous media, particularly mixing and separation …

Universal scaling-law for flow resistance over canopies with complex morphology

S Rubol, B Ling, I Battiato - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
Flow resistance caused by vegetation is a key parameter to properly assess flood
management and river restoration. However, quantifying the friction factor or any of its …

[HTML][HTML] Particle migration of suspensions in a pressure-driven flow over and through a porous structure

P Mirbod, NC Shapley - Journal of Rheology, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Laboratory experiments were conducted to study particle migration and flow properties of
non-Brownian, noncolloidal suspensions ranging from 10% to 40% particle volume fraction …

Nonlinear flow response of soft hair beds

J Alvarado, J Comtet, E De Langre, AE Hosoi - Nature Physics, 2017 - nature.com
We are 'hairy'on the inside: beds of passive fibres anchored to a surface and immersed in
fluids are prevalent in many biological systems, including intestines, tongues, and blood …

Homogenizability conditions for multicomponent reactive transport

F Boso, I Battiato - Advances in Water Resources, 2013 - Elsevier
We consider multicomponent reactive transport in porous media involving three reacting
species, two of which undergo a nonlinear homogeneous reaction, while a third precipitates …

[HTML][HTML] Experimental analysis of the flow near the boundary of random porous media

Z Wu, P Mirbod - Physics of Fluids, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
The aim of this work is to experimentally examine flow over and near random porous media.
Different porous materials were chosen to achieve porosity ranging from 0.95 to 0.99. In this …