High surface area activated carbons were produced by thermal activation of waste bamboo scaffolding with phosphoric acid.Single component equilibrium dye adsorption was conducted on the carbons produced and compared w...High surface area activated carbons were produced by thermal activation of waste bamboo scaffolding with phosphoric acid.Single component equilibrium dye adsorption was conducted on the carbons produced and compared with a commercially available carbon.Two acid dyes with different molecular sizes,namely Acid Yellow 117(AY117) and Acid Blue 25(AB25),were used to evaluate the adsorption capacity of the produced carbons.It was found that the dye with smaller molecular size,AB 25,was readily adsorbed onto the produced carbon,nearly three times higher than a commercially available carbon,while the larger size dye,AY117,showed little adsorption.The experimental data were analyzed using isotherm equations including Langmuir,Freundlich,Tempkin,Toth,Redlich-Peterson and Sips equations.The equilibrium data were then analyzed using five different non-linear error analysis methods.展开更多
The purpose of this paper is to obtain the optimal error estimates of O(h) for the highly nonconforming elements to a fourth order variational inequality with curvature obstacle in a convex domain with simply supporte...The purpose of this paper is to obtain the optimal error estimates of O(h) for the highly nonconforming elements to a fourth order variational inequality with curvature obstacle in a convex domain with simply supported boundary by using the novel function splitting method and the orthogonal properties of the nonconforming finite element spaces.Morley's element approximation is our special case.展开更多
In 2D fast multipole method for scattering problems,square quadrature rule is used to discretize the Bessel integral identity for diagonal expansion of 2D Helmholtz kernel,and numerical integration error is introduced...In 2D fast multipole method for scattering problems,square quadrature rule is used to discretize the Bessel integral identity for diagonal expansion of 2D Helmholtz kernel,and numerical integration error is introduced. Taking advantage of the relationship between Euler-Maclaurin formula and trapezoidal quadrature rule,and the relationship between trapezoidal and square quadrature rule,sharp computable bound with analytical form on the error of numerical integration of Bessel integral identity by square quadrature rule is derived in this paper. Numerical experiments are presented at the end to demonstrate the accuracy of the sharp computable bound on the numerical integration error.展开更多
基金the support of the Research Grant Council of Hong Kong SARthe Innovation and Technology Fund of Hong Kong SAR+1 种基金the Hong Kong University of Science and TechnologyGreen Island International
文摘High surface area activated carbons were produced by thermal activation of waste bamboo scaffolding with phosphoric acid.Single component equilibrium dye adsorption was conducted on the carbons produced and compared with a commercially available carbon.Two acid dyes with different molecular sizes,namely Acid Yellow 117(AY117) and Acid Blue 25(AB25),were used to evaluate the adsorption capacity of the produced carbons.It was found that the dye with smaller molecular size,AB 25,was readily adsorbed onto the produced carbon,nearly three times higher than a commercially available carbon,while the larger size dye,AY117,showed little adsorption.The experimental data were analyzed using isotherm equations including Langmuir,Freundlich,Tempkin,Toth,Redlich-Peterson and Sips equations.The equilibrium data were then analyzed using five different non-linear error analysis methods.
文摘The purpose of this paper is to obtain the optimal error estimates of O(h) for the highly nonconforming elements to a fourth order variational inequality with curvature obstacle in a convex domain with simply supported boundary by using the novel function splitting method and the orthogonal properties of the nonconforming finite element spaces.Morley's element approximation is our special case.
基金the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 11074170)the Independent Research Program of State Key Laboratory of Machinery System and Vibration (SKLMSV) (No. MSV-MS-2008-05)the Visiting Scholar Program of SKLMSV (No. MSV-2009-06)
文摘In 2D fast multipole method for scattering problems,square quadrature rule is used to discretize the Bessel integral identity for diagonal expansion of 2D Helmholtz kernel,and numerical integration error is introduced. Taking advantage of the relationship between Euler-Maclaurin formula and trapezoidal quadrature rule,and the relationship between trapezoidal and square quadrature rule,sharp computable bound with analytical form on the error of numerical integration of Bessel integral identity by square quadrature rule is derived in this paper. Numerical experiments are presented at the end to demonstrate the accuracy of the sharp computable bound on the numerical integration error.
