Rurality

This chapter investigates the use of the rural setting in Folk Horror. David Gladwell's 1976 experimental feature Requiem for a Village questions the logic of such location-bred violence by looking into darker aspects of the rural. This is not simply through emphasis upon the topographical difference between urban and rural areas but more akin to the accoutrements of rural living and lifestyle; the aesthetics of farming, and other practices that are required to live off the land have a dual character of violence and history. Folk Horror regularly builds its sense of the horrific around societies and groups of people that have very specific ways of life, and it is not by sheer chance that these often happen to be rural rather than urban. This sense of divide between the two accounts for what was called ‘skewed belief systems and ideologies’, but there is more to it than the allowing of pulp forms of paganism and occultism to grow; Folk Horror uses the otherness that can be attributed to rural life to warp the very reality of its narrative worlds and often for its own explicit means.

Research on Contamination Caused by the Topographical Difference in Batch Transportation

This paper presents the mixing model for illuminating the influence of density, viscosity and the topographical height difference on the interfacial product-mixing in pipeline, in which a new virtual axial dispersion coefficient related with contamination concentration and its gradient was utilized. With the simplification of the Reynolds number of the mixture unvaried with the concentration, contamination concentration distribution relevant to density difference and gravitation acceleration etc was developed. When the Reynolds number of the mixture was a function of concentration, the mixing model was solved numerically by Crank-Nicholson implicit difference scheme. Analysis indicated that the effect of inclination angle on contamination decreases gradually with the increase of the distance traveled by the interface and the contamination Reynolds number. Particularly, the degree of effect became invisible when pipeline is in completely turbulent flow, and the Reynolds number is greater than the critical Reynolds number defined by Austin and Palfrey while the pipeline was considerably long. In the undulate long-distance multi-products pipeline, contamination due to topographical height difference can be ignored in turbulent flow while the Reynolds number is greater than critical Reynolds number.