An experimental investigation was conducted to examine acoustic receptivity and subsequent boundary-layer instability evolution for a Blasius boundary layer formed on a flat plate in the presence of two-dimensional (2-D) and oblique (3-D) surface waviness. The effect of the non-localized surface roughness geometry and acoustic wave amplitude on the receptivity process was explored. The surface ...

This paper presents an inverse Algebraic Wavenumber Identification (AWI) technique for multi-modal 1D-periodic structures, which can extract complex wavenumbers from steady-state vibration measurements under stochastic conditions. These wave dispersion characteristics provide valuable vibroacoustic indicators model updating, damage monitoring in operational conditions, or metamaterial design. e...

Fourier Transform infrared (FTIR) absorption spectra of hydroxyl were measured on olivine phenocrysts from hydrous basaltic melts that originated in island-arc tectonic settings. The basaltic melts encompass a wide range of silica activities from orthopyroxene-saturated hypersthene-normative to nepheline-normative compositions. The intensities and wavenumber placement of hydroxyl absorption ban...

Theory and numerical simulations are used to investigate the concentration fluctuations and the microstructure in dilute sedimenting suspensions of orientable and deformable particles at zero Reynolds number. The case of orientable particles is studied using prolate and oblate spheroids, while viscous droplets in the small deformation regime illustrate the effects of deformability. An efficient...

The concentration dependence of the C=O stretching (νC=O) band of N,N’-dimethylacetamide (NdMA) in cyclohexane, n-hexane, and CCl4 has been investigated by infrared (IR) and polarized Raman spectroscopy. For the neat liquid of NdMA, the noncoincidence of the anisoand isotropic Raman wavenumbers is evident. In the 0.47 M cyclohexane solution of NdMA, the noncoincidence effect almost disappears a...