Pressure waves are thought to travel from the left atrium (LA) to the pulmonary artery (PA) only retrogradely, via the vasculature. In seven anesthetized open-chest dogs, a balloon was placed in the LA, which was rapidly inflated and deflated during diastole, early systole, and late systole. High-fidelity pressures were measured within and around the heart. Measurements were made at low volume ...

The scattering of linearly polarized electromagnetic waves incident from a dielectric from a rough surface separating the dielectric from a vacuum is studied by using the extinction theorem. The angular distributions of the ensemble average of intensity of the reflected and transmitted fields are calculated numerically for several values of the angle of incidence, the surface statistical parame...

results the results showed that the epoxy plates 6 and 2 mm thick had the highest and the lowest averages of shielding effectiveness at 4.48 db and 1.90 db, respectively. however, increasing the thickness was useful up to 4 mm. in addition, in a similar attenuation pattern, x-band frequency was divided into lower, middle, and upper sections. the lower section had the highest shielding effective...

We present a proof-of-principle study about the use of a sensor for the nondestructive monitoring of strength development in hydrating concrete. The nondestructive evaluation technique is based on the propagation of highly nonlinear solitary waves (HNSWs), which are non-dispersive mechanical waves that can form and travel in highly nonlinear systems, such as one-dimensional particle chains. A b...

We consider propagation of waves in a stratified non-isothermal magnetic atmosphere. The situation of interest corresponds to waves in the outer solar (chromosphere and corona) and other stellar atmospheres. The waves are simulated by using a high-resolution, well-balanced finite volume based massively parallel code termed SURYA. Numerical experiments in both two and three space dimensions invo...

A temporal model based on the Biot theory is developed to describe the transient ultrasonic propagation in porous media with elastic structure, in which the viscous exchange between fluid and structure are described by fractional derivatives. The fast and slow waves obey a fractional wave equation in the time domain. The solution of Biot's equations in time depends on the Green functions of eac...