Molecular dynamics results for the dynamic Prigogine-Defay ratio are presented for two glass-forming liquids, thus evaluating the experimentally relevant quantity for testing whether metastable-equilibrium liquid dynamics is described by a single parameter to a good approximation. For the Kob-Andersen binary Lennard-Jones mixture as well as for an asymmetric dumbbell model liquid, a single-para...

In dogs, a wire with a pressure-sensitive transducer was inserted percutaneously into the subarachnoid space and manipulated under fluoroscopic monitoring in the posterior fossa or upper cervical spinal canal. Pressure recordings from the wire showed fluctuations in pressure corresponding to the cardiac cycle. When a balloon was distended in the foramen magnum, maximum and minimum pressures inc...

Globular proteins tend to unfold in response to the application of hydrostatic pressure typically above 3 kbar. This process is driven by a decrease in volume, which may occur either by releasing intra-molecular voids or by contraction of the solvent near the newly exposed protein surface. The latter involves changes in structure of the protein–solvent network. By dynamic neutron scattering we ...

We show that there are strong similarities in the spin-lattice relaxation of nonmagnetic organic chargetransfer salts and that these similarities can be understood in terms of spin fluctuations. Further, we show that, in all of the -phase organic superconductors for which there is nuclear-magnetic-resonance data, the energy scale for the spin fluctuations coincides with the energy scale for the...

BACKGROUND Despite constant fluctuations in cardiac preload caused by the effects of respiration and changes in posture on venous return to the heart, arterial blood pressure remains remarkably constant. The effects of instantaneous lung volume (ILV) and variations of central venous pressure (CVP) on blood pressure (BP) were studied by use of frequency domain techniques to quantify the contribu...

The unsteady RANS equations are solved for the internal flow through the first one and a half stages of a transonic compressor operating in an off-design condition. To establish a steady performance prediction, the mixing-plane method is used and reasonable comparison to experimental data is obtained for the design configuration. To predict the fully unsteady flow, the sliding-mesh method is us...

This paper utilizes descriptor state-space formulation for computation of energy amplification in incompressible channel flows. The dynamics of velocity and pressure fluctuations in these flows are described by a system of partial differential-algebraic equations. Typically, the evolution model is obtained by projecting the velocity fluctuations on a divergence-free subspace which eliminates pr...

by Jacob Allen Cress The relationship between optical aberrations and coherent structures in the turbulent boundary layer is investigated in a series of experiments. A statistical model is derived using the “extended” Strong Reynolds Analogy that allows the total temperature to vary and also presumes pressure fluctuations in the boundary layer are negligible compared to temperature fluctuations...

Rotating cavitation is one of the flow instabilities associated with cavitation, which has been a problem for the development of turbopumps of liquid rocket engines since it causes super-synchronous shaft vibration. Recently, it is argued that rotating cavitation might also cause large repetitive stresses on blades. This paper describes about the theoretical prediction of unsteady blade forces ...

Rats with implanted telemetry transponders were blood sampled by jugular puncture, periorbital puncture or tail vein puncture, or sampled by jugular puncture in carbon dioxide (CO2), isoflurane or without anaesthesia in a crossover design. Heart rate, blood pressure and body temperature were registered for three days after sampling. Initially blood pressure increased, but shortly after sampling...