Analytic study of the xylem flow in a bifurcating green plant is presented. The model involves a set of non-linear differential equations, which are tackled using the perturbation method of solutions. Solutions of the velocity, temperature, concentration, Nusselt and Sherwood num...
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Research Article10.9734/AJOPACS/2016/31458
José Luis Pinedo-Vega, Carlos Ríos-Martínez, Mirna Patricia Talamantes-Carlos, Fernando Mireles-García, J. Ignacio Dávila-Rangel & Valentín Badillo-Almaraz·Asian Journal of Physical and Chemical Sciences·2017
The deduction of 4 coefficients of the semi-empirical mass formula is presented as a function with two constants of proportionality: which relates the energy of the nuclear volume with volume and which relates volume with the mass number. Next the development of a proprietary m...
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Research Article10.9734/AJOPACS/2016/31266
The cohesive energies of lithium (Li), chromium (Cr), iron (Fe) and molybdenum (Mo) were computed using density functional theory (DFT). DFT based Fritz Haber Institute-ab initio molecular simulation (FHI-aims) computer code has several input parameters in which some of the varia...
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Research Article10.9734/AJOPACS/2016/30695
The possibility of a photon being scattered more than once may be significant for a rectangular sample having a finite depth and lateral dimensions. The current evaluation is carried out to study about the energy and intensity distributions of 279, 662 and 1120 keV gamma rays mul...
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Research Article10.9734/AJOPACS/2016/30981
Three lithosections of Benin Formation located along Lemna – Parlimentary Road Transect in Calabar, consisting of clay, gray shale intercalated with peat, mudstone , medium to coarse grained sandstones and pebbly sandstones were studied stratigraphically with a view to discern...
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Research Article10.9734/AJOPACS/2016/30942
Various experimental design methods are widely used in various fields including science, social and educational sciences. The use of orthogonal arrays in fractional factorial designs are efficient. For this purpose, in this study, the adsorption performance of diatomite for Maxil...
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Research Article10.9734/AJOPACS/2016/30838
The schist enclaves in Oban massif, south-eastern Nigeria are deformed predominantly in a brittle manner and contain a superfluity of mesoscopic structural features such as joints, conjugate shear fractures, foliation planes and mineral veins. The analysis of these structural ele...
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Research Article10.9734/AJOPACS/2016/30076
This article presents the effects of thermal radiation, Soret and Duffour terms on MHD fluid (which is the study of an electrically conducting fluid and its interaction with magnetic field) with oscillatory suction over a vertical plate. The solution of the dimensionless equation...
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Research Article10.9734/AJOPACS/2016/30060