Alternative hypotheses had been advanced as to the components forming the elongate fin coursing along the ventral margin of much of the body and tail from behind the abdominal region to the posterior margin of the tail in the Electric Eel, Electrophorus electricus. Although the original species description indicated that this fin was a composite of the caudal fin plus the elongate anal fin char...

The residual strain profiles were measured through the thickness of friction-stir welded (FSW) plates using neutron diffraction to study the relationship between the angular distortion and the residual strain distribution. Three different weld specimens were prepared from a 6061-T6 aluminum alloy with the purpose of separating the effects of the frictional heat and plastic deformation on the re...

The digitally reconfigurable surface is a pin based mechanism for creating physical threedimensional contoured surfaces from a computer aided design (CAD) input. When the digital design is properly downloaded into the device, a pin array is collectively actuated to the desired geometry. A rubber interpolation layer is held onto the tops of the pins by vacuum pressure to prevent undesired dimpli...

because of production process and constrains conditions, circular graphene sheet may be opposed to structural defect and pin hole, respectively. some of the defects and pin hole on a circular graphene sheet can be considered as an eccentric hole on the sheet. hence, analyzing behavior of circular graphene sheet with an eccentric hole is important. free vibration of an eccentric annular graphene...

We investigate cross-cut cylindrical heat sink to improve cooling of a light-emitting diode (LED) bulb compared with conventional plate-fin cylindrical heat sinks using various installation angles. In contrast to plate-fin heat sinks, whereby the fins in the upper heat sink do not provide effective cooling at large installation angles, flow formed between the cross-cut fins and the air reached ...

Flow over a traveling wavy foil with a passively flapping flat plate has been investigated using a multiblock lattice Boltzmann equation and the immersed boundary method. The foil undergoes prescribed undulations in the lateral direction and the rigid flat plate has passive motion determined by the fluid structure interaction. This simplified model is used to study the effect of the fish caudal...