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Research article
Evaluation of wall slip effects on the flow characteristics of
petroleum coke–water slurry flow along pipelines
Xiaobin Zhang,1,2 Meng Liu,3,4* Kagiso Bikane4 and Yanrong Li1
1
College of Mining Engineering, Taiyuan University of Technology, Taiyuan 030024, China
2
Shanxi Water Conservancy Technical Institute, Yuncheng 044004, China
3
School of Energy and Environment, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, China
4
Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, UK

Received 19 December 2016; Revised 4 July 2017; Accepted 7 July 2017

ABSTRACT: Flow characteristics of petroleum coke–water slurry (PCWS) were investigated in a slurry transportation
facility. True rheological properties, drag reduction, and flow resistances of PCWS under the influence of wall slip were
studied using the Tikhonov regularization method. Results show that the shear viscosity is insensitive to changes in the shear
rate when the solid loading of PCWS is 59.8 wt%. However, the PCWS of 61.1 wt% exhibits typical dilatant fluid properties.
As the shear rate increases, the PCWS of 63.4 wt% initially exhibits shear thinning, and then, the viscosity increases sharply
when the shear rate exceeds 250 s
1. In addition, the slurry also displays shear thinning at the shear rates exceeding 600 s
1.
Modified friction factor-generalized Reynolds number correlation is established to describe the resistance properties of a
laminar flow of PCWS. When increasing the velocity, the drag reduction produced by the wall slip behavior reduces for
the 59.8 wt% PCWS but increases for the 61.1 wt% PCWS. The drag reduction decreases at the outset followed by an
increase for the 63.4 wt% PCWS. A decrease in the inner diameter of pipeline could enhance the effect of drag reduction
of PCWS flowing in a pipeline. © 2017 Curtin University and John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

KEYWORDS: petroleum coke–water slurry; wall slip behavior; Tikhonov regularization; drag reduction; generalized
Reynolds number

INTRODUCTION As the flow rate increases, the resistance loss between

Petroleum coke–water slurry (PCWS) has been widely
utilized in numerous industrial applications, and the
performance of slurry ability of PCWS also has been
investigated by several researchers [1–8]. Zhan et al. [1]
demonstrated that the better rheological properties of
PCWS were obtained using black liquid instead of
water during preparation. Gao et al. [2–4] investigated
the effect of operation parameters on the rheological
properties of PCWS and found that the highest solid
concentration of 68% can be achieved by optimizing
the particle distribution and the amount of a chemical
additive. Marchand et al. [5] found that the ideal
rheological behaviors of PCWS can be obtained using
polyvinyl alcohol and xanthan gum as chemical
additives. However, the flow characteristics of PCWS
flowing in a straight pipeline have not been studied
extensively, particularly the true rheological properties,
drag reduction, and resistance properties under the
influence of wall slip.
*Correspondence to: Meng Liu, School of Energy and
Environment, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, China. E-mail:
lmubear@seu.edu.cn
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the slurry and pipe inner wall is enhanced, especially for
a slurry flowing in a small pipe diameter. There is a
phenomenon known as drag reduction, which assists
the slurry transportation. Many factors such as the wall
slip behavior, decreased turbulence production, and
rheological characteristics have been proposed to reveal
the mechanism of drag reduction [9,10]. However, the
mechanism of drag reduction in a pipeline has not
yet been clarified. According to previous researchers
[11–13]
, the wall slip behavior is one of the main reasons
for the drag reduction in a flow of slurry. Additionally,
particle concentration and shear viscosity in the slip
layer were much lower than other flow regions,
resulting in a reduction of the energy consumption by
the pumping system. Moreover, the viscosity, pressure
loss, and friction factor would be underestimated if wall
slip effects were not considered in the fluid true flow
properties [14]. Zambrano et al. [15] accurately predicted
pressure drop and fanning friction factor of heavy oil
slurry flowing in a horizontal pipeline using
computational fluid dynamics software combined with
a three-dimensional, algebraic slip mixture model.
Therefore, it is necessary to consider the wall slip
behavior in the calculation of rheological behavior and
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resistance properties of PCWS flowing in the pipelines.
It is well known that different fluids show different wall
slip characteristics when flowing in pipes, and the wall
slip effect is related to many factors, including particle
size, test geometry, concentration, and surface
properties [11,16]. Numerical methods have been
developed to investigate the wall slip characteristics of
slurry flowing in a pipeline [17–21]. The most important
and the most widely used numerical method is the
classical Mooney method [17]. However, the classical
Mooney method cannot be used in the non-Newtonian
solid–liquid fluid with a significant immigration of
particles. A modified Mooney method was developed
by Jastrzebski et al. [18] for the generalized Newtonian
fluids, and it built the relationship of slip velocity and
flow dimension [19]. Tikhonov regularization method
developed by Yeow et al. [20,21] has been widely used
to analyze the experimental data to calculate the slip
characteristics of a fluid relating to phase separation,
i.e. particle immigration and sedimentation, and
changes in local solid concentration [11,12,22]. This
method is modified from classical Mooney method,
and the results of slip characterization do not depend
on the assumed rheological constitutive equation and
data extrapolation.
In this study, the true rheological characteristics,
drag reduction behavior, and resistance properties of
PCWS flowing in straight pipelines under different
flow conditions (solid loading, velocity, and pipe inner
diameter) were investigated using the Tikhonov
regularization method. Additionally, the prediction of
the friction factor in straight pipeline by applying
generalized Reynolds number for non-Newtonian
fluids was developed.
EXPERIMENTAL
Experimental setup
The schematic of the closed-loop pipeline is shown in
Fig. 1. The experiment setup consists of a screw pump,
Figure 1. Schematic diagram of slurry transportation test facility.
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stainless steel pipelines, water cooling system, and a
slurry tank (1 m3). PCWS was prepared and sealed in
a slurry tank, and the flow characteristics of PCWS
were conducted using different internal diameters (10,
14, 16, and 20 mm) of stainless steel pipelines with
absolute surface roughness 0.015 mm. The flow rate
Q and pressure drop ΔP of PCWS flowing in the
pipeline were measured using the electromagnetic flow
meter and a differential pressure sensor, respectively, in
which the data were recorded online. The slurry was
pumped through the test section straight pipe (1.8 m)
by a 2 m3/h screw pump with a frequency converter
to regulate the flow rate. The water cooling system
was installed in the pipeline to control the slurry
temperature. All the experiments were operated at
25 ± 1°C. Before each experiment, the slurry was
stirred and pumped for more than 0.5 h to allow it to
homogenize the slurry. In addition, each test was
repeated twice to ensure the accuracy of the
experimental data.
Materials
Petroleum coke–water slurry was prepared by blending
pulverized petroleum coke (obtained from Jinling
Petro-Chemistry Company, Nanjing, China), tap water,
and chemical additives (stabilizer and anionic surface
active agents, obtained from Nanjing University) in a
slurry tank. Weighed tap water was first added into
the tank, and then, the speed of agitator was set to
100 rpm/min. Subsequently, the petroleum coke
particles and a chemical additive were placed into the
tank. The ratio of additive was kept at 3 wt‰ based
on the mass of petroleum coke for all PCWS. The
mixture was stirred using an agitator at 100 rpm for
1 h. Flow behaviors of PCWS were investigated at
three solid loading at 59.8, 61.1, and 63.4 wt%,
respectively. The particle size distribution of petroleum
coke is shown in Fig. 2. Petroleum coke particles
exhibit a typical bimodal distribution, and more than
80% of the particles are less than 200 μm.
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THEORETICAL slip velocity function and shear rate function at the

discrete shear stress point is minimized. When the
Determinations of wall slip behavior in pipeline linear combination of S1 and S2 is smallest, the value
of us(τ w) and γ(τ) is the solution of the Tikhonov
The flow structure of slurry in a pipeline consists of a regularization method [11,12,20,21,24–27].
plug flow region, deforming region, and slip layer and
is described in Fig. 3. The thickness of the slip layer Method for determination of friction factor
is very thin compared with the pipe diameter, and the
shear viscosity of the fluid in the slip layer is much For the non-Newtonian fluids, the generalized
lower than that of the other two regions [23]. From Reynolds number is often used to establish the relation
Fig. 3, the velocity in the laminar flow regime consists with friction factor and is given by Eqn (2).
of wall slip velocity us and bulk slurry velocity Vc.
Based on the classical Mooney method [17], the τw 16 τ w =μe 16 16
velocity equation can be described by Eqn (1). f ¼
¼ ¼ ¼ (2)
ρV 2
ρVD=μe 8V=D Reμe =M Reg
2

8V 8us ðτ w Þ 4 τw 2
¼ þ 3 ∫τ¼0 τ γðτ Þdτ (1) where Reμe is the Reynolds number calculated by the
D D τw
effective viscosity μe which is defined as the ratio of
wall shear stress and apparent shear rate 8Vc/D [28].
where V is the mean velocity, D is pipe internal
diameter, and 8V/D is apparent shear rate; 8usDðτw Þ is the
τw τ 4w
contribution of wall slip behavior; us(τ w) is the wall slip μe ¼ 8V c  ¼ τw 2 (3)
velocity and function of wall shear stress τ w; D 4∫τ¼0 τ γðτ Þdτ
4 τw 2
τ 3w ∫τ¼0 τ γðτ Þdτ is ascribed to the shear flow and only
function of local wall shear stress. The Tikhonov
regularization method was applied to solve Eqn (1)
using many sets of data from different internal τ w =μe 8V c =D
M¼ ¼ ¼ 1
us =V (4)
diameters. The solution of the Tikhonov regularization 8V=D 8V=D
method is to discretize the right two terms of Eqn (1) in
the range of wall shear stress and calculate the apparent Therefore, the generalized Reynolds number for non-
shear rate using the data of Q and ΔP under different Newtonian fluids exhibiting wall slip phenomenon is
internal diameter. In addition, the calculation should determined by Eqn (5).
meet the following two conditions: (1) minimum
overall relative error S1 of apparent shear rate between Reμe ρVD
the calculated value and the experimental value and (2) Reg ¼  
us ¼
  (5)
the sum of the square S2 of the second derivative of the 1
V μe 1
uVs

Figure 2. Particle size distribution of pulverized petroleum

coke.
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Figure 3. Flow structure of petroleum coke–water slurry.

Method for determination of drag reduction
During the transportation of PCWS in the pipelines,
drag reduction phenomenon takes place due to the
existence of slip phenomenon near the pipe wall.
Drag reduction is defined as the ratio of pressure
drop reduction caused by wall slip behavior and
pressure drop of PCWS flowing in the pipelines
without wall slip [29].
overlap, particularly for the 61.1 and 63.4 wt% PCWS.
For the 63.4 wt% PCWS, the larger the diameter of the
pipe diameter, the greater the wall stress at the same
apparent shear rates. The rheological properties of
slurry should be intrinsic features of the slurry, and the
flow behavior curves should be independent of the
geometry size [14,19]. Yilmazer et al. [30] and Kalyon [31]
demonstrated that the rheological flow curves for
different pipe diameters exhibited a deviation and did

2τ w
fs ¼ (6)
ρV 2

2τ w
fc ¼ (7)
ρV 2c

 2
ΔPc
ΔPs fs Vc
DR ¼ ¼1
¼1

ΔPc fc V

us 2
¼1
1
(8)
V

where ΔPc and fc are the pressure drop and friction

factor of PCWS flowing in the pipelines without wall
slip and ΔPs and fs are the pressure drop and friction
factor of PCWS flowing in the pipelines exhibiting wall
slip phenomenon.

RESULTS AND DISCUSSION

True rheological characteristics of petroleum

coke–water slurry

The flow behaviors of PCWS in the pipeline based on

the assumption that there is no wall slip phenomenon
are displayed in Fig. 4. The flow behavior curves of Figure 4. Apparent flow curves of petroleum coke–water
PCWS flowing in different diameter pipes did not slurry.
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not overlap at constant apparent shear rate, indicating the
effect of the presence of the apparent wall slip. Barnes
[32]
also found that the most obvious evidence of the
presence of wall slip is obtaining different rheological
properties in different-sized geometries. This suggests
that there is the wall slip behavior in the PCWS flowing.
For the concentrated suspensions, the ‘slip layer’
adjacent to the wall is generated by the migration of the
solid particles. It will decrease the viscosity of slurry
and friction loss and has strong influence on the
rheological properties. In addition, the factors affecting
wall slip include [24,33,34] particle size, concentration of
slurry, dimensions of the measuring geometries,
temperature, and shear stress. From Fig. 4, the flow
behavior curves diverged more significantly for PCWS
at high solid loading than that for PCWS at low solid
loading, suggesting that the wall slip behavior became
more significant on the PCWS with the higher solid
loading. The particles in the high shear rate region (near
the pipe wall) were migrated to low shear rate region (the
Figure 5. True rheological of petroleum coke–water slurry
flowing in pipline. (a) Shear rate vs. shear stress. (b) Shear
rate vs. true shear viscosity.
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center) when the slurry was flowing, resulting in a
generally relatively thin layer of water near to the pipe
wall and produced the wall slip phenomenon [35–37]. As
the solid loading of PCWS increases, velocity gradients
increase in the slip layer and the wall slip phenomenon
gets enhanced. Flow behavior curves obtained based on
the assumption that the PCWS flowing in the pipelines
does not have wall slip phenomenon deviate from the
true flow behaviors. The stronger the wall slip is, the
deviation is more apparent.
The experimental data were analyzed using a
numerical method based on Tikhonov regularization
to solve Eqn (1), and the true rheological characteristics
of PCWS are shown in Fig. 5(a). The flow curves of
three solid loading PCWS obtained from different
diameter overlap closely, suggesting that the effect of
wall slip on the flow curves was modified. In addition,
the plot of viscosity and shear rate is also displayed in
Fig. 5(b). The shear viscosity of PCWS is influenced
by solid loading and shear rates. At a PCWS solid
loading of 59.8 wt%, the shear viscosity is insensitive
to the shear rates and has the similar shear properties
as Newtonian fluids. When the solid loading of PCWS
is 61.1 wt%, PCWS becomes a dilatant fluid, and its
shear viscosity increases significantly with shear rates.
PCWS changes from a dilatant fluid to a pseudo-plastic
fluid when the shear rates increase for a solid loading of
63.4 wt%. Galindo-Rosales et al. [38] also found that
some shear thickening non-Newtonian fluids exhibited
complex rheological properties. Slurry first exhibits
shear thinning at low shear rate, followed by shear
thickening when shear rate exceeds a critical value,
and a subsequent shear thinning at high shear rates.
The variation trend of shear viscosity vs. shear rates
for slurry flowing in the pipe is controlled by two
forces: repulsion and hydrodynamic forces [39]. When
the interactions between particles are dominated by
repulsion forces, the forces keep particles as far away
as possible from each other. In addition, the slurry flow
arises in the form of particles moving into adjacent
vacancies, resulting in an extremely high but finite
viscosity of slurry. As the hydrodynamic forces
dominate the interactions, the particles with small
space in the direction of shear are forced into layers.
However, the space between the layers is larger, which
brings about a lower viscosity than the ordered three-
dimensional situation. In a flow of slurry, different
forces control the different shear rate regions. The main
parameters that control the variation trends are particle
size distribution, solid loading, particle shape, and
interaction between particles [40].
The rheological properties of PCWS is very
complicated and controlled by the two forces: repulsion
and hydrodynamic forces in the pipe flow. When the
solid loading of PCWS is 59.8 wt%, the particle
spacing is large, and the interactions between the
particles are weak as observed in Fig. 5. Hydrodynamic
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forces dominate the structure of PCWS, resulting in a
lower viscosity of the slurry. Additionally, the lower
viscosity is insensitive to the shear rate. When the solid
loading is increased to 61.1 wt%, the particle spacing
decreases and the dominant forces change from
hydrodynamic forces to repulsion forces. That is to
say, PCWS transforms from a layer structure to a
three-dimensional spacing structure. Moreover, its
shear viscosity increases accordingly [37]. As the solid
loading reaches 63.4 wt%, the three-dimensional
spacing structure formed from the transformation of
PCWS in a low shear rate zone is destroyed gradually
when the shear rate surpasses a critical shear rate. As
a result, the shear viscosity of PCWS increases with
shear rate in the low shear rate zone and decreases with
shear rate in high shear rate zone. This indicates that
the PCWS transforms from a dilatant fluid to a
pseudo-plastic fluid.
Friction factor of petroleum coke–water slurry
in pipe flow
Solid loading and shear rate have an important impact
on the wall slip phenomenon, rheological
characteristics, and flow pattern of PCWS in the pipe
flow and thus have a considerable influence on the
flowing resistance of PCWS. In the study, friction
factor was employed to investigate the flowing
resistance properties of PCWS. Average values of
measured parameters were used to calculate the friction
factor and the generalized Reynolds number according
to Eqns (2) and (5), respectively. Figures 6 and 7
present the data for the friction factor of PCWS flowing
in the pipelines. From Fig. 6, it can be observed that the
friction factor of PCWS with different solid loadings
decreases rapidly with an increase in velocity at a low
velocity region and at a smaller velocity in a high
velocity region. Additionally, the friction factor varies
Figure 6. Resistance coefficient of petroleum coke–water
slurry in pipe flow.
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Figure 7. Relationship between f and Reg of petroleum
coke–water slurry in pipe flow.
linearly with velocity in the dual-logarithm coordinate
system. When the solid loading is increased from
59.8 to 61.1 wt%, the friction factor increased
significantly. However, a further increase in the solid
loading from 61.1 to 63.4 wt.% led to a smaller growth
of the friction factor. This is because the PCWS
exhibits a significant wall slip phenomenon at high
solid loading and produces a drag reduction
phenomenon that reduces the influence of the viscosity
difference [12,24]. Moreover, PCWS at 61.1 wt% is a
dilatant fluid and has a high shear viscosity at high
shear rate. Consequently, the viscosity difference was
weakened, and the differences between the friction
factors decreased as observed from Fig. 6.
The generalized Reynolds number is employed to
replace the Reynolds number for Newtonian fluids.
This number was calculated according to Eqn (5) using
true rheological characteristics. The wall slip velocity
was obtained by solving Eqn (1) based on Tikhonov
regularization. Figure 7 displays the relation between
the friction factor and the generalized Reynolds
number. It indicates that the friction factor for PCWS
with different solid loading falls on the same line. The
power law equation was employed to fit these curves.
The fitting result is expressed in Eqn (9). Results show
that it has a similar form with Newtonian fluids.
f ¼ 16=Reg (9)
Drag reduction of petroleum coke–water slurry
in pipe flow
The friction factor is dependent on the wall slip
behavior and rheological characteristics as analyzed in
the preceding texts. Therefore, the drag reduction is
employed to investigate the resistance properties. The
drag reduction could reveal the flow pattern of PCWS
in pipe flows and demonstrate the variation trends of
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the rheological characteristics and the wall slip [12].
Besides, the drag reduction could indicate effects of
the rheological characteristics and the wall slip on the
variation trends of resistance properties of PCWS in
pipe flow. Figures 8 and 9 present the variations of
the drag reduction of PCWS in the pipe flow with an
increase in the velocity. From Fig. 8, it was observed
that the drag reduction of PCWS with solid loading at
59.8 wt% decreases with velocity. As the solid loading
is increased to 61.1 wt%, the drag reduction of PCWS
in pipe flow increases with velocity. However, there
is a critical velocity at which the drag reduction
transforms from a downward trend to an upward trend
at a solid loading of 63.4 wt%. This was a result of the
PCWS flow in the pipelines consisting of the slip layer,
deforming zone, and plug flow region [11,13,14]. An
increase in the velocity led to an increase in the velocity
gradients and a gradual expansion of the deforming
zone. However, the shear viscosity of PCWS at
59.8 wt% was insensitive to the shear rate and velocity.
Therefore, an increase in velocity has a greater impact
on the deforming zone and contributes less to the
velocity gradients in the slip layer. This suggests that
the mean velocity in the bulk slurry region increases
rapidly than the wall slip velocity in the slip layer.
Furthermore, the drag reduction is mainly dependent
on the wall slip velocity and the mean velocity
according to Eqn (8). Therefore, the drag reduction of
PCWS in a pipe flow decreases with an increase in
velocity. When the solid loading is increased to
61.1 wt%, the PCWS becomes a dilatant fluid, and
the shear viscosity of PCWS increases with the shear
rate. As a result, the deforming zone expands slowly,
and the velocity gradients in the slip layer increase
rapidly [13]. Consequently, the wall slip velocity greatly
impacts the PCWS flow and causes the drag reduction
to rise with an increase in velocity. At a solid loading
of 63.4 wt%, the shear viscosity of PCWS has a high
Figure 8. Effects of concentration on the drag reduction of
petroleum coke–water slurry in pipe flow.
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Figure 9. Effects of diameter on the drag reduction of
petroleum coke–water slurry in pipe flow.
viscosity at a low shear rate situation, and the viscosity
decreases for a short shear zone. The viscosity then
increases with the shear rate. As the shear rate
surpasses 600 s
1, the shear viscosity begins to
decrease. Reduction of viscosity would accelerate the
expansion of the deforming zone, and the mean
velocity in the bulk slurries increases quickly. An
increase in viscosity would play an opposite role.
However, when the curve of shear viscosity has an
extreme point, the growth rate of the wall slip and the
mean velocity in the bulk slurries need to go through
a process of change to match the variation of the shear
viscosity of the PCWS [11,13,14,24]. Therefore, when the
shear rate surpasses the critical point, the viscosity
changes in the opposite trend. However, the drag
reduction still varies in the original trend at a smaller
shear rate. As such, unlike viscosity, the variation of
the drag reduction has a delaying phenomenon.
Consequently, the drag reduction of PCWS with
63.4 wt% only has two opposite variation trends, while
the viscosity of PCWS has two critical shear rates, and
its variation trends change twice.
Figure 9 demonstrates the effects of pipe inner
diameter on the drag reduction. It can be seen from
Fig. 9 that the drag reduction of PCWS in pipe flow
increases with a decrease in pipe inner diameter.
According to Eqn (8), the drag reduction of PCWS
flowing in the pipelines can be expressed as shown in
the following equation.

us 2
DR ¼ 1
1

V !2
us
¼1
1
   (10)
us þ 4VR c R4
From Eqn (1), us is a function of wall shear stress and
does not change with pipe inner diameter. Besides, 4Vc/R
is the second term in Eqn (1).
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4V c 4 τw
¼ 3 ∫τ¼0 τ 2 γðτ Þdτ (11)
R τw
Equation (11) was transformed into Eqn (12) after
integration using the power law rheological model.
4V c
τ w 1n 4n
¼ (12)
R k 3n þ 1
Therefore, 4Vc/R also does not change with pipe
inner diameter. Therefore, the drag reduction increases
with an increase in the pipe diameter basing on
Eqn (10).
CONCLUSIONS
The rheological properties of PCWS 59.8 and
61.1 wt% exhibit a nearly Newtonian fluid and shear
thickening fluid property, respectively. As the shear
rate increases, PCWS of 63.4 wt% initially displays a
little shear thinning fluid, followed by a shear
thickening fluid, and a subsequent shear thinning fluid.
The friction factor increases with an increase of the
solid loading and decreases when the velocity is
increased. The friction factor Reynolds number
correlation is established for the laminar pipe flows of
PCWS. When increasing the velocity, the drag
reduction produced by the wall slip decreases for
59.8 wt% PCWS and increases for 61.1 wt%.
However, for 63.4 wt% PCWS, there is an observed
initial reduction of the drag reduction and an increase
thereafter. A reduction of the pipe inner diameter could
enhance the drag reduction of PCWS.
Acknowledgements
The research is supported by National Nature Science
Foundation of China (51206028) and China
Postdoctoral Science Foundation and Special
Foundation (2012M520971 and 2013T60491).
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