BACKGROUND Currently there is no noninvasive imaging modality used to risk stratify patients requiring lead extractions. We report the novel use of superior vena cava (SVC) echocardiography to identify lead fibrosis and complex cardiac implantable electronic device (CIED) lead extraction. With an aging population and expanding indications for cardiac device implantation, the ability to deal wit...

ABSTRACT: This study has demonstrated a design tool for turbulent flow detection in Flock 1 data using Multi-Objective Evolutionary Algorithm which based on Pareto optimal solutions. The Flock 1 data along the Suez Canal, Egypt and Farasan Islands, Saudi Arabia are involved in this study. The study also shows that Multi-Objective Evolutionary Algorithm provides an accurate pattern of turbulent ...

Turbulent blood flow may contribute to a variety of pathophysiological effects. Because of its postulated importance, this study was undertaken to determine whether turbulent flow does in fact occur in the human body. In 15 persons (seven normal, seven aortic valvular disease, one prosthetic aortic valve), point velocity was measured in the ascending aorta with a hot-film anemometer probe. In o...

M ost of us associate turbulence with a bumpy ride on a plane. Yet turbulent flow is practically everywhere, even if we aren’t aware of it. The air we exhale, the blood pumped through our bodies’ ascending aorta, and the steam rising from a hot cup of coffee are all in turbulent motion. Even if we could see these flows, it would be difficult to discern any order in the whirling currents that th...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the geometric effects and pulsatile characteristics during the stenotic flows in tapering arteries. Design/methodology/approach – The low Reynolds number k ! turbulence model is applied to describe the stenotic flows in the tapering arteries in this paper. The results are divided into two sections. The first section characterizes the geometr...

Laser-Doppler velocity measurements adjacent to the bounding walls of three-dimensional (3-D) backward-facing step flow are performed for the purpose of mapping the boundaries of the reverse flow regions that develop in this geometry (adjacent to the sidewalls, the flat wall and the stepped wall) as a function of the Reynolds number. The backward-facing step geometry is configured by a step hei...

Two different tools, the non-empirical resolvent analysis and the data-based dynamic mode decomposition, are employed to assess the changes induced by transpiration in the dynamics of a turbulent pipe flow. The focus is on very large-scale motions. Both analyses permit the observation of streamwise waviness in the large flow structures and how the transpiration can inhibit fluctuation in locali...

We determine the initial condition on the laminar-turbulent boundary closest to the laminar state using nonlinear optimization for plane Couette flow. Resorting to the general evolution criterion of nonequilibrium systems we optimize the route to the statistically steady turbulent state, i.e., the state characterized by the largest entropy production. This is the first time information from the...

The contribution deals with a self-consistent description of time-mean turbulent lubricant flow, i.e. flow through a wedgeshaped gap confined by counter-sliding solid surfaces. The methods adopted are matched asymptotic expansions, where the slenderness or aspect ratio of the gap and the accordingly defined Reynolds number represent the perturbation parameters. As a remarkable finding, a load-b...

This review paper focuses to ascertain a new approach in turbulence generation on the structure of premixed flames and external combustion using a fractal grid pattern. This review paper discusses the relationship between fractal pattern and turbulence flow. Many researchers have explored the fractal pattern as a new concept of turbulence generators, but researchers rarely study fractal turbule...