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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Research Letters in Materials Science Volume 2007, Article ID 52576, 5 pages doi:10.1155/2007/52576 Research Letter Flow Characteristics of Gas and Liquid through a Cell Porous Disk Yasuyuki Hirano, Koichi Takeda, Testuya Yano, Seiji Kumagai, and Seiichi Sudo Department of Machine Intelligence and System Engineering, Akita Prefectural University, Yurihonjo 015-0055, Japan Correspondence should be addressed to Yasuyuki Hirano, d07s004@akita-pu.ac.jp Received 12 September 2007; Accepted 9 November 2007 Recommended by Kwai S. Chan This paper describes applications of cell porous materials. The authors investigated the flow characteristics of a gas-liquid mixture in a rotating porous disk. For theoretical analyses, the gas is assumed to permeate the entire disk surface. A simple one-dimensional model illustrates that the residence time of the liquid is much greater than that of the gas. Violent interaction in small cells is likely to enhance the chemical reaction between gas and liquid. Cell porous materials might also be exploited for chemical reaction pur- poses. Copyright © 2007 Yasuyuki Hirano et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. 1. INTRODUCTION represent the disk radius and its width. The rotating disk is sealed from the bottom faceplate. The ambient gas enters the Applications of porous materials have been investigated in porous disk through its upper surface. At the periphery, the various fields. The Institute of Theor