Yampa River-Colorado River Drainage Divide Origin Determined from Topographic Map Evidence, Southern Routt County, Colorado, USA

Detailed topographic map evidence and a new Cenozoic geologic and glacial history paradigm are used to determine the previously unexplained Yampa River-Colorado River drainage divide origin. The Yampa River now flows in a north direction away from the Colorado River (between the Park Range to the east and the Flat Tops region to the west) before turning in a west direction to reach the Unita Mountains where it joins the south-oriented Green River, which eventually joins the southwest-oriented Colorado River. Topographic maps show the Yampa-Colorado River drainage divide is asymmetric with steeper slopes leading to the Colorado River, barbed (south-oriented) tributaries leading to north-oriented Yampa River headwaters (especially near the Yampa River turn to the west), and evidence of a large north-to-south oriented diverging and converging channel complex that preceded present-day drainage routes. Map evidence is interpreted to mean massive south-oriented floods flowed through what are now north-oriented Yampa River headwaters valleys and that headward erosion of a deep west-oriented valley beheaded and reversed those south-oriented flood flow channels to create the north-oriented Yampa River headwaters and the Egeria Park area Yampa-Colorado River drainage divide seen today. Large south-oriented floods leading to the Colorado River (while regional uplift was occurring) are inconsistent with accepted Cenozoic geologic and glacial history paradigm predictions, but are predicted by a newly proposed Cenozoic geologic and glacial history paradigm in which a thick continental ice sheet created a deep “hole” by eroding underlying bedrock and also by causing crustal warping that raised the present-day northern Colorado east-west continental divide as immense south-oriented meltwater floods flowed across it.

Dissipative flow features of Carreau nanofluid with thermal radiation inside plane wall channel:Jeffery-Hamel analysis

The current article communicates a numerical investigation on laminar flow of dissipative generalized Newtonian Carreau nanofluid flowing through vertical conduit with converging and diverging plane walls.Thermal and concentration characteristics due to enthalpy change,activation energy,and non-linear thermal radiation have been examined in the presence of buoyancy forces.The channel walls for both temperature and volumetric fraction are assumed to be isothermal.The instability mechanism of nanofluids is reported using a two-phase nanofluid model,which works reasonably well for nanoparticle concentrations below a certain threshold.A Jeffery-Hamel(J-H)flow model is developed by assuming an incompressible purely radial flow of Carreau nanofluids with heat and mass transportation.Using the suitable non-dimensional variables,the resulting nonlinear partial differential equations are turned into a system of ordinary differential equations.The modified governing equations are then numerically solved using the built-in boundary value problem solver bvp4c,on the template form of commercial software MATLAB.The impacts of material,geometrical and thermophysical parameters governing the J-H problem are discussed and illustrated.Results indicate that higher buoyance forces incline the velocity profiles in converging enclosure,while a slight reduction is perceived in opposing forces.A significant decrease of wall heat transmission is reflected for larger values of activation energy and radiation parameter.For endorsing this communication,a comparison analysis is established with existing research and noticed a remarkable agreement.Practically,the flow inside converging and diverging channels are deployed in nuclear reactors that use plate-type nuclear energies,high heat-flux condensed heat exchangers,high-performance micro-electronic cooling systems,jets,rockets nozzles,and jet propulsion inlet.