Direct numerical simulation was used to study the effect of controlled forcing at the jet nozzle on downstream mixing in a Mach 0.8 jet. The jet was forced by small slot jet actuators near the nozzle lip which blew normal to the initial jet shear layer and excited a flapping mode in the jet. The actuator jets and the nozzle itself were not explicitly simulated to spare the expense of including ...

We briefly review the status of various conventional quark-antiquark mesons below 2 GeV and outline some open questions: strangeantistrange orbitally excited vector meson, nonet axial-tensor (chiral partners well known tensor mesons), isoscalar mixing angle in pseudotensor sector, which can eventually represent a novel manifestation chiral anomaly.

Recent reports of the observation of the decay τ → ντ + K + π + π raise interesting questions. The u − s quark mass difference can induce an effective second-class current in the strange sector and enhance decays to helicity-suppressed scalar states. This suggests searches for scalar strange mesons in the τ → ντ + K + η and τ → ντ + K + π decay modes. τ decays to axial vector final states may c...

The turbulent mixing of a primary jet and its surrounding fluid in a pipe with inlet conditions that result in flow separation is studied. Detailed profiles of the axial mean and rms velocities have been measured with a laser Doppler anemometer. Measured spectra of axial velocity fluctuations show the presence of coherent structures. The performance of a two-equation turbulence model in conjunc...

Quantum fluctuations and stability of tetrahedral deformations in atomic nuclei. The possible existence of stable axial octupole and tetrahedral deformations is investigated in 80 Zr and 98 Zr. HFBCS calculations with parity projection have been performed for various parametrizations of the Skyrme energy functional. The correlation and ex-citation energies of negative parity states associated w...

Lattice gauge theories with Wilson fermions break chiral symmetry. In the U(1) axial vector current this manifests itself in the anomaly. On the other hand it is generally expected that the axial vector flavour mixing current is non-anomalous. We give a short, but strict proof of this to all orders of perturbation theory, and show that chiral symmetry restauration implies a unique multiplicativ...

Ablation of vegetal cytoplasm from newly fertilized Xenopus eggs results in the development of permanent blastula-type embryos (PBEs). PBEs cleave normally and develop into a very simple tissue consisting only of atypical epidermis. We tried to restore complete embryonic development in PBEs by cytoplasmic transplantation or by mRNA injection. We show a two-step reconstruction of the body plan. ...

We consider a model of incompressible trailing vortices consisting of an array of counter-rotating structures in a doubly periodic domain, infinite in the vertical direction. The two-dimensional vortex array of Mallier and Maslowe is combined with an axial velocity profile chosen proportional to the initial axial vorticity to provide an initial condition for the vortex wake. This base flow is a...

We investigate the possible restoration of chiral and axial symmetries across the phase transition at finite temperature and chemical potential, by analyzing the behavior of several physics quantities, such as the quark condensates and the topological susceptibility, the respective derivatives in order to chemical potential, and the masses of meson chiral partners. We discuss whether only chira...