This paper presents the experimental study of pressure and velocity fluctuations and their interdependence, in the turbulent flow impinging on arrangements of yawed circular cylinders simulating inclined tube banks with square arrangement and a pitch to diameter ratio of 1.26. Measurements were performed with hot-wires and a pressure transducer. Behaviour of fluctuating quantities is described ...

We present a new vortex solution made of a domain wall compactified into a cylinder and stabilized by the magnetic flux within. When the thickness of the wall is much less than the radius of the vortex some precise results can be obtained, such as the tension spectrum and profile functions. This vortex can naturally end on the wall that has created it, making the simplest junction between a wal...

Flow visualisation using tracer and particle techniques is well known to be susceptible to fallacious interpretation for unsteady shear flows. Recent experimental observations using these types of techniques have led to the conclusion that even for low Reynolds number flows, the vortex breakdown bubble in a torsionally driven cylinder is not closed and has an inflow/outflow asymmetry at its tai...

The instability mechanisms and mixing enhancement arising from the interaction of a compressible vortex ring with a normal shock wave were studied in a colinear, dual-shock tube. This flow geometry simulates features of the interaction of a shock wave with a jet containing streamwise vorticity, a configuration of significant interest for supersonic combustion applications. Flow visualization an...

Vortex rings are one of the fundamental flow structures in nature. In this paper, the generation of circulation and vortex rings by a vortex generator with a static converging conic nozzle exit is studied numerically. Conic nozzles can manipulate circulation and other flow invariants by accelerating the flow, increasing the Reynolds number, and by establishing a two-dimensional flow at the exit...

The flux-tube solution in the dual Ginzburg-Landau (DGL) theory in the Bogomol’nyi limit is studied by using the manifestly Weyl invariant form of the DGL Lagrangian. The dual gauge symmetry is extended to [U(1)]m, and accordingly, there appear three different types of the flux-tube. The string tension for each flux-tube is calculated analytically and is found to be the same owing to the Weyl s...

We examine the behavior of the vortex defects on the world-sheet when a solitonic d5 brane is existing in the d-dimensional target space, and it is seen that the vortices of any charge should be dissociated to the free-gas phase when they approach to the brane. The meanings of this fact are addressed through the analysis of the renormalization group equations on the world sheet. e-mail: gouroku...