In the present investigation the distribution of mean velocity, static pressure and total pressure are experimentally studied on an annular curved diffuser of 37.5° angle of turn with an area ratio of 1.284 and centerline length was chosen as three times of inlet diameter. The experimental results then were numerically validated with the help of Fluent and then a series of parametric investigat...

We present experiments on the synchronization of a dynamical, chemical process in an extended, flowing, fluid system. The oscillatory Belousov-Zhabotinsky chemical reaction is the process studied, and the flow is an annular chain of counterrotating vortices. Azimuthal motion of the vortices is controlled externally, enabling us to vary the type of transport. We find that oscillations of the Bel...

BACKGROUND The aim of the study was to determine the relationship between the rate of peak early mitral inflow velocity and the peak early diastolic mitral annular tissue velocities in normal controls and to compare them with subjects with diastolic dysfunction. METHODS The relationship between early passive diastolic transmitral flow and peak early mitral annular velocity in the normal and i...

INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVES To evaluate ventricular function using Doppler echocardiography in patients with an atrial septal defect (ASD). METHODS The study involved 158 children, who were divided into two groups: Group 1 comprised 111 children with an ASD, and Group 2, 47 healthy children. Left ventricular systolic function was evaluated by measuring the ejection fraction, the shortening fr...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the power of prenatal 2-D ultrasound examination in the 2nd trimester as a method of choice for accurate diagnosis of annular pancreas. METHODS Co-incidence of the double bubble sign (often accompanying gastroduodenal dilatation) together with a hyperechogenic band around the duodenum (corresponding with the tissue of annular pancreas) was used as a diagnostic criterion....

in this study, the vibration behavior of functional graded (fg) circular and annular nanoplate embedded in a visco-pasternak foundation and coupled with temperature change is studied. the effect of in-plane pre-load and temperature change are investigated on the vibration frequencies of fg circular and annular nanoplate. to obtain the vibration frequencies of the fg circular and annular nanopla...

We study the fundamental problem of spherical Couette flow (SCF) in the presence of heat and under the action of a gravitational field. The flow is considered as unsteady, axisymmetric and the fluid as viscous, incompressible and Newtonian. The numerical technique, which we use, is convergent and consistent and can be applied to 3D or 2D flow motions. We focus our attention to such aspect ratio...

We show cyclic sieving phenomena on annular noncrossing permutations with given cycle types. We define annular q-Kreweras numbers, annular q-Narayana numbers, and annular q-Catalan numbers, and show that a sum of annular q-Kreweras numbers becomes an annular q-Narayana number and a sum of annular q-Narayana numbers becomes an annular q-Catalan number. We also show that these polynomials are clo...

0894-1777/$ see front matter 2010 Elsevier Inc. A doi:10.1016/j.expthermflusci.2010.12.007 ⇑ Corresponding author. Tel.: +91 44 2257 4154. E-mail address: [email protected] (A.R. Balakrishna The effect of tube diameter on two-phase frictional pressure drop was investigated in circular tubes with inner diameters of 0.6, 1.2, 1.7, 2.6 and 3.4 mm using air and water. The gas and liquid superficial...