scholarly journals Temporal and spatial structures of flickering aurora derived from high-speed imaging photometer observations at Syowa Station in the Antarctic

Author(s):  
Kazuyo Sakanoi
eLife ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
Author(s):  
César S Mendes ◽  
Imre Bartos ◽  
Turgay Akay ◽  
Szabolcs Márka ◽  
Richard S Mann

Coordinated walking in vertebrates and multi-legged invertebrates such as Drosophila melanogaster requires a complex neural network coupled to sensory feedback. An understanding of this network will benefit from systems such as Drosophila that have the ability to genetically manipulate neural activities. However, the fly's small size makes it challenging to analyze walking in this system. In order to overcome this limitation, we developed an optical method coupled with high-speed imaging that allows the tracking and quantification of gait parameters in freely walking flies with high temporal and spatial resolution. Using this method, we present a comprehensive description of many locomotion parameters, such as gait, tarsal positioning, and intersegmental and left-right coordination for wild type fruit flies. Surprisingly, we find that inactivation of sensory neurons in the fly's legs, to block proprioceptive feedback, led to deficient step precision, but interleg coordination and the ability to execute a tripod gait were unaffected.


Author(s):  
Christoph A. Schmalhofer ◽  
Peter Griebel ◽  
Manfred Aigner

Gas turbines will play a significant role in future power generation systems because they provide peak capacity due to their fast start-up capability and high operational flexibility. However, in order to meet the COP 21 goals, de-carbonization of as turbine fuels is required. Compared to natural gas operation, autoignition and flashback risks in gas turbines operated on hydrogen-rich fuels are higher which has to be taken into account for a proper gas turbine design. From investigations of these phenomena at relevant operating conditions with appropriate measurement techniques, e.g. high-speed imaging, the understanding of the non-stationary processes occurring during autoignition can be improved and design guidelines for a safe and reliable gas turbine operation can be derived. The present study investigates the influences of elevated carrier-air preheating temperatures and hydrogen fuel volume fractions on autoignition at hot gas temperatures higher than 1100 K and pressures of 15 bar. An in-line co-flow injector is used to inject the hydrogen-nitrogen fuel mixtures. The formation, temporal and spatial development of autoignition kernels at high-temperature vitiated air conditions, e.g. relevant to reheat combustor operation, are studied. The experiments were conducted in an optically accessible mixing section of a generic reheat combustor. The hydrogen-nitrogen fuel mixtures of up to 70 vol. % hydrogen are injected in-line into the mixing section along with the carrier-air which was preheated to temperatures between 303 K and 703 K. High-speed imaging was used to detect the autoignition kernels and their temporal and spatial development from luminescence signals. Particle Image Velocimetry measurements were conducted to obtain the velocity distribution in the mixing section at autoignition conditions. The influences of vitiated air temperatures and carrier preheating temperatures on autoignition and flame stabilisation limits are shown, alongside the spatial distribution of different types of autoignition kernels, developing at different stages of the autoignition process. The development of autoignition kernels could be linked to the shear layer development derived from global experimental conditions.


2019 ◽  
Vol 47 (3) ◽  
pp. 196-210
Author(s):  
Meghashyam Panyam ◽  
Beshah Ayalew ◽  
Timothy Rhyne ◽  
Steve Cron ◽  
John Adcox

ABSTRACT This article presents a novel experimental technique for measuring in-plane deformations and vibration modes of a rotating nonpneumatic tire subjected to obstacle impacts. The tire was mounted on a modified quarter-car test rig, which was built around one of the drums of a 500-horse power chassis dynamometer at Clemson University's International Center for Automotive Research. A series of experiments were conducted using a high-speed camera to capture the event of the rotating tire coming into contact with a cleat attached to the surface of the drum. The resulting video was processed using a two-dimensional digital image correlation algorithm to obtain in-plane radial and tangential deformation fields of the tire. The dynamic mode decomposition algorithm was implemented on the deformation fields to extract the dominant frequencies that were excited in the tire upon contact with the cleat. It was observed that the deformations and the modal frequencies estimated using this method were within a reasonable range of expected values. In general, the results indicate that the method used in this study can be a useful tool in measuring in-plane deformations of rolling tires without the need for additional sensors and wiring.


2017 ◽  
Vol 09 (05) ◽  
pp. 1750064 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Van Hirtum ◽  
X. Pelorson

Experiments on mechanical deformable vocal folds replicas are important in physical studies of human voice production to understand the underlying fluid–structure interaction. At current date, most experiments are performed for constant initial conditions with respect to structural as well as geometrical features. Varying those conditions requires manual intervention, which might affect reproducibility and hence the quality of experimental results. In this work, a setup is described which allows setting elastic and geometrical initial conditions in an automated way for a deformable vocal fold replica. High-speed imaging is integrated in the setup in order to decorrelate elastic and geometrical features. This way, reproducible, accurate and systematic measurements can be performed for prescribed initial conditions of glottal area, mean upstream pressure and vocal fold elasticity. Moreover, quantification of geometrical features during auto-oscillation is shown to contribute to the experimental characterization and understanding.


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