In a previous study, Arai implemented a sliding vocal-tract model based on Fant’s three-tube model and demonstrated its usefulness for education in acoustics and speech science. The sliding vocal-tract model consists of a long outer cylinder and a short inner cylinder, which simulates tongue constriction in the vocal tract. This model can produce different vowels by sliding the inner cylinder a...

The interaction between an initially laminar boundary layer developed spatially on a flat plate under the influence of vortex shedding induced from a rotating circular cylinder has been simulated numerically. The rotational speed of the cylinder is varied to generate the vortex shedding of different intensities. Also the flat plate is kept at different positions from the cylinder. Due to asymme...

PURPOSE To determine the refractive cylinder effect of rotating a toric intraocular lens (IOL) and identify the sources of refractive astigmatic surprise after toric IOL implantation. SETTING Private practice, Melbourne, Australia. DESIGN Experimental study. METHODS Vergence formulas using a standard reduced eye model were used to bring all lens powers to the corneal plane. Double-angle v...

We compute bound-state energies in two three-dimensional coupled waveguides, each obtained from the two-dimensional configuration considered in part I by rotating the geometry about a different axis. The first geometry consists of two concentric circular cylindrical waveguides coupled by a finite length gap along the axis of the inner cylinder and the second is a pair of planar layers coupled l...

The results of an experimental study on intermittent spiral vortices observed in a counter-rotating Taylor-Couette system with an additional axial through flow, i.e. SpiralPoiseuille flow, are presented. Convectively unstable upstream propagating spiral vortices appear in the laminar basic flow from an oscillatory instability and in general become absolutely unstable at higher inner cylinder Re...

Recently, Halliday et al. presented an idea by inserting the “source” terms into the two-dimensional (2D) lattice Boltzmann equation (LBE) so that the emergent dynamics of the lattice fluid can be transformed into the cylindrical polar system. This paper further extends the idea of Halliday et al. to include the effect of azimuthal rotation. The terms related to the azimuthal effect are conside...