We present the results of an experimental investigation conducted as part of a multidisciplinary effort intended to address systematically the problem of closed-loop flow control by assembling expertise from numerical and experimental flow analysis, flow modeling, and control design disciplines. Experiments were conducted using a shallow-cavity flow in a small-scale wind tunnel that can operate...

Action recognition represents one of the most difficult problems in computer vision given that it embodies the combination of several uncertain attributes, such as the subtle variability associated with individual human behavior and the challenges that come with viewpoint variations, scale changes and different temporal extents. Nevertheless, action recognition solutions are critical in a great...

A cryogenic shock tube has been developed as a tool for research in fluid mechanics and low-temperature physics. The shock tube was designed to operate with the test section immersed in a cryogenic liquid. A unique diaphragm-changing mechanism makes this shock tube an economical and practical device. There are several advantages in operating a shock tube at cryogenic temperatures. Shock waves o...

A real-time flow visualization system that produces 17 images over a time span of 150 ms is used to visualize the mixing layers of Mach 1.3 (M c50.59) and Mach 2.0 (M c50.87) ideally expanded high Reynolds number axisymmetric jets. These image sequences reveal details about the influence of compressibility on the dynamics of turbulence structures. In general, the behavior observed in axisymmetr...

It is known that catalepsy serves as an experimental animal model of parkinsonism. In this study, the relationship between in vivo dopamine D1 and D2 receptor occupancies and catalepsy was investigated to predict the intensity of catalepsy induced by drugs that bind to D1 and D2 receptors nonselectively. 3H-SCH23390 and 3H-raclopride were used for the labeling of D1 and D2 receptors, respective...

Submitted for the DFD10 Meeting of The American Physical Society Simulation of Strong Shock and Turbulence Interactions using High-Order Shock-Fitting Algorithms1 PRADEEP RAWAT, XIAOLIN ZHONG, University of California Los Angeles — We present results for Direct Numerical Simulations (DNS) of interactions of shock waves with realistic isotropic turbulence using shock-fitting schemes that are hig...

We propose a low Mach number, Godunov-type finite volume scheme for the numerical solution of the compressible Euler equations of gas dynamics. The scheme combines Klein’s non-stiff/stiff decomposition of the fluxes (J. Comput. Phys. 121:213-237, 1995) with an explicit/implicit time discretization (Cordier et al., J. Comput. Phys. 231:56855704, 2012) for the split fluxes. This results in a scal...