In order to investigate the supersonic internal flows with shock waves, a new supersonic wind tunnel (pressure-vacuum type, Mach 2.0 and 4.0) was designed and constructed in Muroran Institute of Technology. This paper describes firstly outlines of the new Mach 4 supersonic wind tunnel, and describes secondly the location, structure and characteristics of the Mach 2 and 4 pseudo-shock waves in a...

the production of shear flow profile in a wind tunnel test-section with the aid of in-plain horizontal wire-grids is explained. the design procedure with experimental results are given. it is concluded that the deepest shear, produced by this procedure, cannot have a slope of more than 1.777. it is shown that the stagnation streamlines in a shear flow will be displaced due to the existence of s...

In numerous epidemiologic, clinical, and experimental studies, dietary sodium intake has been linked to blood pressure, and a reduction in dietary salt intake has been documented to lower blood pressure. In young subjects, salt intake has a programming effect in that blood pressure remains elevated even after a high salt intake has been reduced. Elderly subjects, African Americans, and obese pa...

Numerical simulation of air flow disturbed around a train body with different angle of train nose and different velocity of high speed train in a very long tunnel have been made. Three-dimensional flow theory is capable of modeling the effects of interest in the tunnel environment. The scale of train is 2500mm×320mm×427mm length×width×heigh, and the scale of tunnel is 150m×10.4m×8.2m length×wid...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the efficiency of a hydrogel adherent ocular bandage for sealing of scleral tunnel incisions in human eye globes. METHODS A 4-mm scleral tunnel incision was made in each of 10 globes and bursting pressure was measured using the Seidel test to check for wound leakage. Globes were sealed using either two interrupted 10-0 nylon sutures (n = 5) or an adherent ocular bandage...

A new test, called the carpal compression test, consists of application of direct pressure on the carpal tunnel and the underlying median nerve. The results of the Tinel percussion test, the Phalen wrist-flexion test, and the new test were evaluated in thirty-one patients (forty-six hands) in whom the presence of carpal tunnel syndrome had been proved electrodiagnostically, as well as in a cont...

Twenty-three out of thirty-six patients using a forearm arteriovenous fistula for dialysis reported symptoms of carpal tunnel syndrome in the fistula hand during dialysis. By contrast with other reported groups of patients with the syndrome, symptoms were common in male patients, and confined to the non-dominant (fistula) hand. Predialysis venous pressure in the hand and hand volume were increa...

This paper presents recent results from an Industry-University-Defence collaborative project whose aim is to characterise the hydroacoustic environment of the Australian Maritime College Cavitation Tunnel. After summarising the operation of the tunnel, a methodology for measuring and processing the hydroacoustic measurements is presented that includes a technique for reducing the level of turbu...

due to urbanization and population increase, need for metro tunnels, has been considerably increased in urban areas. estimating the surface settlement caused by tunnel excavation is an important task especially where the tunnels are excavated in urban areas or beneath important structures. many models have been established for this purpose by extracting the relationship between the settlement a...

The benchmark active controls technology and wind tunnel test program at NASA Langley Research Center was started with the objective to investigate the nonlinear, unsteady aerodynamics and active flutter suppression of wings in transonic flow. The paper will present the flutter suppression control law design process, numerical nonlinear simulation and wind tunnel test results for the NACA 0012 ...