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Thomas J. O'Brien

- Verified email at uconn.edu - Cited by 1478

Thomas James O'Brien

- Verified email at ic.ac.uk - Cited by 120

Early screw fixation versus casting in the treatment of acute Jones fractures

…, MF Clapper, TJ O'Brien - … American journal of …, 2005 - journals.sagepub.com
Background There is considerable variability in the literature concerning the optimal treatment
of acute Jones fractures. Hypothesis Early surgical fixation of acute Jones fractures will …

Conditioned narcotic withdrawal in humans

CP O'Brien, T Testa, TJ O'Brien, JP Brady, B Wells - Science, 1977 - science.org
Subjective and physiological manifestations of the narcotic withdrawal syndrome were produced
as a conditioned response. Withdrawal reactions precipitated by the narcotic antagonist …

Extension of Hill–Koch–Ladd drag correlation over all ranges of Reynolds number and solids volume fraction

S Benyahia, M Syamlal, TJ O'Brien - Powder Technology, 2006 - Elsevier
… Syamlal, TJ O'Brien, The effect of model parameters on the predictions of core-annular
flow behavior in a fast-fluidized gas/solids bed. Unpublished, presented at the 2004 AICHE …

Fractures of the fifth metatarsal: analysis of a fracture registry

MF Clapper, TJ O'Brien, PM Lyons - Clinical Orthopaedics and …, 1995 - journals.lww.com
To understand better the natural history of fractures of the fifth metatarsal, a fracture registry
was established consisting of patients who had acute fractures of the fifth metatarsal. The first …

Debt vs. equity and asymmetric information: A review

LS Klein, TJ O'Brien, SR Peters - Financial Review, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
Recent Nobel Prizes to Akerlof, Spence, and Stiglitz motivate this review of basic concepts
and empirical evidence on information asymmetry and the choice of debt vs. equity. We first …

Evaluation of boundary conditions used to model dilute, turbulent gas/solids flows in a pipe

S Benyahia, M Syamlal, TJ O'Brien - Powder Technology, 2005 - Elsevier
… For gas–particle flow, the interphase momentum exchange is modeled as:(4) I 2 ⁢ i = − I 1
⁢ i = − β 21 U r ⁢ i where β 21 is the drag coefficient modeled following Syamlal and O'Brien […

Fluid dynamic simulation of O3 decomposition in a bubbling fluidized bed

M Syamlal, TJ O'Brien - AIChE journal, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
Recent advances in dense, multiphase, computational fluid dynamics (CFD) have allowed
accurate simulation of the gas and particle motion in bubbling and circulating fluidized beds. …

Hydrodynamics of particle segregation in fluidized beds

D Gera, M Syamlal, TJ O'Brien - International Journal of Multiphase Flow, 2004 - Elsevier
Research in multiple particulate phase hydrodynamics is important in many industrial
applications that involve segregation or mixing processes, specifically in mineral classification, …

Study of the ability of multiphase continuum models to predict core‐annulus flow

S Benyahia, M Syamlal, TJ O'Brien - AIChE Journal, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
We use the well established core‐annulus flow regime as a numerical benchmark to
evaluate the sensitivity of gas–solids continuum models and boundary conditions to model …

[BOOK][B] Computational gas-solids flows and reacting systems: theory, methods and practice: theory, methods and practice

S Pannala, M Syamlal, TJ O'Brien - 2010 - books.google.com
Gas-solids reactors, which often constitute critical steps of energy and chemical conversion
processes, are in desperate need of new design methods to increase their efficiency and …