We consider torsional flow of a viscoelastic fluid in a cone-and-plate device. This flow is known to undergo a purely elastic instability when the Deborah number reaches a critical value. Beyond this critical value a Hopf bifurcation to spiral vortices occurs. In this paper we consider the stability of the flow to non-axisymmetric disturbances when the Reynolds number is non-zero. We examine th...

We report on the first three-dimensional hydrodynamic simulations of secular and dynamical nonaxisymmetric instabilities in collapsing, rapidly rotating stellar cores which extend well beyond core bounce. The resulting gravitational radiation has been calculated using the quadrupole approximation. We find that secular instabilities do not occur during the simulated time interval of several 10ms...

A transport barrier which is characterized by the steeper temperature or/and density gradient has been observed both in the core region (internal transport barrier : ITB) and edge region (edge transport barrier : ETB) in the plasmas with non-axisymmetric magnetic fields compared with the gyro-Bohm type L-mode transport. A reduction of thermal conductivity and particle diffusivity in these plasm...

The topic of this thesis is the investigation of the local states of stress resulting from the introduction of a v-notch in a coaxial circle on the pressurized surface of a circumferentially clamped plate subject to axisymmetric loading. The understanding of the fracture behavior of a component experiencing such a condition is of particular interest to the aerospace and defense industries where...