Laboratory and Field Investigation of Buoyant Plume Structure and Ground Level Concentration Shiyan Chen Department of Mechanical Engineering Advisor: Professor Marko Princevac Abstract: Atmospheric surface layer (ASL) is a part of the atmosphere that is strongly affected by Earth's surface. Biosphere is located within ASL,…

Elastic Effects in Granular Flows Dr. Charles S. Campbell University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA 90089-1453 USA Previously, granular flows had been divided into (1) the slow, quasistatic regime using models born of metal plasticity theory and (2) the fast, rapid-flow regime using models born of the kinetic theory of…