The tip-clearance flow in axial turbomachines is studied using large-eddy simulation with particular emphasis on understanding the unsteady characteristics of the tip-leakage vortical structures and the underlying mechanisms for cavitation-inducing low-pressure fluctuations. Systematic and detailed analysis of the velocity and pressure fields has been made in a linear cascade with a moving end-...

Objective: To investigate the possible causes of abnormal blood pressure control in light chain related (primary, AL) amyloidosis. Design: Cardiovascular, autonomic, and respiratory response to passive tilting were investigated in 51 patients with primary amyloidosis (mean (SEM) age 56 (2) years) and in 20 age matched controls. Spontaneous fluctuations in RR interval, respiration, end tidal car...

This study evaluated fluctuations in the output signal of a densimeter, an in situ suspended-sediment measurement device based on a very sensitive differential pressure transducer. Although the densimeter produced accurate less than 10% error results in the laboratory for concentrations of 10–1,000 mg/L, there was a much larger fluctuation in the field test output signal. These fluctuations wer...

There is a practical need to fully understand the mechanisms involved in the flow/pressure fluctuations around a screened microphone. A stream of uniform flow with low-frequency turbulence encountering a rigid, impermeable spherical windscreen is considered in this study. Pressure distributions on the surface of the sphere are determined by the flow structure. Pressure fluctuations at the cente...

The present study was designed to determine whether cerebrovascular autoregulation is intact in experimental meningitis and to examine the relationship between fluctuations in cerebral blood flow (CBF) and increased intracranial pressure (ICP). Measurements of CBF were determined by the radionuclide microsphere technique in rabbits with experimental Streptococcus pneumoniae meningitis with simu...

The supine and erect arterial blood pressure and pulse rate were measured in 13 patients with Parkinson's disease, chronically treated with levodopa and peripheral decarboxilase inhibitors presenting with or without On-Off phenomenon (end-of-dose akinesia). In the patients with dose-related response fluctuations the mean systo-diastolic blood pressure, both supine and erect, was found significa...

sound power is considered as an excellent measure for evaluating the efficiency of noise controls as well as for comparing noise sources in workrooms. this parameter can be determined by sound pressure or intensity based methods in real conditions of workrooms. this paper aims empirically to compare these in situ methods in relation to a typical industrial machine located in workroom in terms o...

This paper presents a model of an electrohydraulic fatigue testing system that emphasizes components upstream of the servovalve and actuator. Experiments showed that there are significant supply and return pressure fluctuations at the respective ports of the servovalve. The model presented allows prediction of these fluctuations in the time domain in a modular manner. An assessment of design ch...

Because of high pressure fluctuations in Combination Electronic Unit Pump (CEUP) system during fuel injection cycles, physical properties of diesel fuel including density, acoustic wave speed and bulk modulus also vary. These physical properties of fuel have significant importance in predicting the fuel injection behavior and its optimization. A 1D viscous damped mathematical model of wave equa...

The dependence of the size of the cooperative unit (C.U.) of amphiphilic molecules on surface pressure (π) in the liquid expanded (LE)-liquid condensed (LC) phase coexistence region of Langmuir monolayers has been formulated and calculated using measured isotherm data. The C.U. size changes largely depending on the surface pressure in the coexistence region: these submicroscopic molecular aggre...