scholarly journals Uniform Distribution and Densification of Jets in Needleless Electrospinning Using Annular Tip Nozzle

Polymers ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (8) ◽  
pp. 1301 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hongbo Chen ◽  
Chuansheng Wang ◽  
Imdad Ali ◽  
Haoyi Li ◽  
Xiaoqing Chen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Free Surface ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Repulsive Force ◽  
Closed Curve ◽  
Environmental Friendliness ◽  
Ultrafine Fibers ◽  
Needleless Electrospinning ◽  
Straight Line ◽  
Distribution Process ◽  
Practical Guidance

Numerous jets can be generated simultaneously on a nozzle by needleless melt electrospinning technology which has the advantages of solvent-free residues and environmental friendliness; and potential industrial application prospects. In this paper, the linear annular tip nozzle was taken as the research object, and the high-speed image acquisition of the jets generation and distribution process of annular tip nozzle was carried out and compared with that of straight-line tip nozzle. The results showed that the repulsive force between the jets caused a slight adjustment in the position of the jets on the free surface, the force between the jets on the annular closed curve canceled each other and eventually reached the equilibrium state, making the position of the jets stable and the distance between the jets the same, and the distance between the jets was related to the intensity of the induced electric field at the tip of the nozzle. Relevant conclusions can provide scientific and practical guidance for the design of needleless electrospinning nozzles on free surface in order to achieve uniform and efficient preparation of ultrafine fibers.

Experimental Investigation of Boundary Layer Instabilities on the Free Surface of Non-Turbulent Jet

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthieu A. Andre ◽  
Philippe M. Bardet
Keyword(s):  
Boundary Layer ◽  
Free Surface ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Particle Tracking Velocimetry ◽  
Capillary Waves ◽  
Wave Growth ◽  
Image Velocimetry ◽  
Planar Laser ◽  
Surface Visualization ◽  
The Waves

Shear instabilities induced by the relaxation of laminar boundary layer at the free surface of a high speed liquid jet are investigated experimentally. Physical insights into these instabilities and the resulting capillary wave growth are gained by performing non-intrusive measurements of flow structure in the direct vicinity of the surface. The experimental results are a combination of surface visualization, planar laser induced fluorescence (PLIF), particle image velocimetry (PIV), and particle tracking velocimetry (PTV). They suggest that 2D spanwise vortices in the shear layer play a major role in these instabilities by triggering 2D waves on the free surface as predicted by linear stability analysis. These vortices, however, are found to travel at a different speed than the capillary waves they initially created resulting in interference with the waves and wave growth. A new experimental facility was built; it consists of a 20.3 × 146.mm rectangular water wall jet with Reynolds number based on channel depth between 3.13 × 104 to 1.65 × 105 and 115. to 264. based on boundary layer momentum thickness.

scholarly journals A New Rotor Position Measurement Method for Permanent Magnet Spherical Motors

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (12) ◽  
pp. 2415 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yin Lu ◽  
Cungang Hu ◽  
Qunjing Wang ◽  
Yi Hong ◽  
Weixiang Shen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Permanent Magnet ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Measurement Method ◽  
Coordinate Frame ◽  
Feature Points ◽  
Position Measurement ◽  
Experimental Platform ◽  
Rotor Position ◽  
Straight Line ◽  
The World

This paper proposes a new high-precision rotor position measurement (RPM) method for permanent magnet spherical motors (PMSMs). In the proposed method, a LED light spot generation module (LSGM) was installed at the top of the rotor shaft. In the LSGM, three LEDs were arranged in a straight line with different distances between them, which were formed as three optical feature points (OFPs). The images of the three OFPs acquired by a high-speed camera were used to calculate the rotor position of PMSMs in the world coordinate frame. An experimental platform was built to verify the effectiveness of the proposed RPM method.

scholarly journals Three-Dimensional (3-D) Immersed-Boundary (IB) Based Tornado Model for Computational Analysis of Disastrous Wind Load on Buildings

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xixiong Guo ◽  
Jun Cao
Keyword(s):  
Wind Field ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Outer Boundary ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Influence Factors ◽  
Research Direction ◽  
Wind Loading ◽  
Immersed Boundary ◽  
Design Strategies ◽  
Straight Line

This study is aimed at developing a novel computational framework that can essentially simulate a tornadic wind field and investigate the wind loadings on ground constructions. It is well known that tornado is a highly turbulent airflow that simultaneously translates, rotates and updrafts with a high speed. Tornadoes induce a significantly elevated level of wind forces if compared to a straight-line wind. A suitably designed building for a straight-line wind would fail to survive when exposed to a tornadic-like wind of the same wind speed. It is necessary to design buildings that are more resistant to tornadoes. Since the study of tornado dynamics relying on field observations and laboratory experiments is usually expensive, restrictive, and time-consuming, computer simulation mainly via the large eddy simulation (LES) method has become a more attractive research direction in shedding light on the intricate characteristics of a tornadic wind field. For numerical simulation of a tornado-building interaction scenario, it looks quite challenging to seek a set of physically-rational and meanwhile computationally-practical boundary conditions to accompany traditional CFD approaches; however, little literature can be found, as of today, in three-dimensional (3D) computational tornado dynamics study. Inspired by the development of the immersed boundary (IB) method, this study employed a re-tailored Rankine-combined vortex model (RCVM) that applies the “relative motion” principle to the translational component of tornado, such that the building is viewed as “virtually” translating towards a “pinned” rotational flow that remains time-invariant at the far field region. This revision renders a steady-state kinematic condition applicable to the outer boundary of a large tornado simulation domain, successfully circumventing the boundary condition updating process that the original RCVM would have to suffer, and tremendously accelerating the computation. Wind loading and its influence factors are comprehensively investigated and analyzed both on a single building and on a multiple-building configuration. The relation between the wind loadings and the height and shape of the building is also examined in detail. Knowledge of these loadings may lead to design strategies that can enable ground construction to be more resistant to tornadoes, reducing the losses caused by this type of disastrous weather.

scholarly journals The human sperm beats anisotropically and asymmetrically in 3D

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hermes Gadêlha ◽  
Paul Hernández-Herrera ◽  
Fernando Montoya ◽  
Alberto Darszon ◽  
Gabriel Corkidi
Keyword(s):  
Ion Channels ◽  
Mathematical Analysis ◽  
Molecular Motors ◽  
High Speed ◽  
3D Imaging ◽  
Human Sperm ◽  
Travelling Wave ◽  
Fundamental Question ◽  
Sperm Flagellum ◽  
Straight Line

The canonical beating of the human sperm flagellum is postulated to be symmetric. This is despite the reported asymmetries inherent to the flagellar axonemal structure, from distribution and activation of molecular motors to, even, the localisation of regulatory ion channels. This raises a fundamental question: how symmetric beating is possible within such intrinsically asymmetric flagellar complex? Here, we employ high-speed 3D imaging with mathematical analysis capable of resolving the flagellar movement in 4D (3D+time). This reveals that the human sperm beating is both anisotropic and asymmetric, and composed by a superposition of two transversal waves: an asymmetric travelling wave and a symmetric standing wave. This novel anisotropic travelling-pulsation mechanism induces sperm rolling self-organisation and causes a flagellar kinematic illusion, so that the beat appears to be symmetric if observed with 2D microscopy. The 3D beating anisotropy thus regularises the intrinsic flagellar asymmetry to achieve symmetric side-to-side movement and straight-line swimming.

Practical Evaluation of Steady Flow Resulting from a Free-Surface Pressure Patch

2009 ◽  
Vol 53 (03) ◽  
pp. 137-150
Author(s):  
Francis Noblesse ◽  
Gérard Delhommeau ◽  
Chi Yang
Keyword(s):  
Free Surface ◽  
Surface Pressure ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Surface Effect ◽  
Practical Method ◽  
Analytical Approximation ◽  
Surface Boundary ◽  
Steady Flows ◽  
Local Flow ◽  
The Green Function

The linearized potential flow resulting from a distribution of pressure that advances at constant speed along a straight path at the free surface of calm water, of effectively infinite depth and lateral extent, is considered. A practical method for evaluating the free-surface elevation caused by the moving free-surface pressure patch—which can be used to model steady flows of air-cushion vehicles, high-speed planing boats, surface-effect ships, and some types of hybrid ships—is given. The key ingredient of this method is a highly simplified analytical approximation to the local-flow component in the expression for the Green function associated with the classic Michell-Kelvin linearized free-surface boundary condition.

An Analysis of Heave Added Mass and Damping of a Surface-Effect Ship

1981 ◽  
Vol 25 (01) ◽  
pp. 44-61
Author(s):  
C. H. Kim ◽  
S. Tsakonas
Keyword(s):  
Free Surface ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Surface Effect ◽  
Practical Method ◽  
Added Mass ◽  
Damping Coefficients ◽  
Calm Water ◽  
Surface Effect Ship ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Computational Procedures

The analysis presents a practical method for evaluating the added-mass and damping coefficients of a heaving surface-effect ship in uniform translation. The theoretical added-mass and damping coefficients and the heave response show fair agreement with the corresponding experimental values. Comparisons of the coupled aero-hydrodynamic and uncoupled analytical results with the experimental data prove that the uncoupled theory, dominant for a long time, that neglects the free-surface effects is an oversimplified procedure. The analysis also provides means of estimating the wave elevation of the free surface, the escape area at the stern and the volume which are induced by a heaving surface-effect ship in uniform translation in otherwise calm water. Computational procedures have been programmed in the FORTRAN IV language and adapted to the PDP-10 high-speed digital computer.

On Line Distributions of Kelvin Sources

1964 ◽  
Vol 8 (04) ◽  
pp. 45-52
Author(s):  
E. O. Tuck
Keyword(s):  
Free Surface ◽  
Physical Properties ◽  
Velocity Potential ◽  
Fourier Transforms ◽  
Point Sources ◽  
Straight Line ◽  
On Line ◽  
New Form ◽  
Line Of Singularities

The velocity potential for the flow due to point sources distributed arbitrarily along a straight line near to or at a linearized gravitational free surface is obtained in a new form by use of Fourier transforms. Such a method of representing the potential facilitates the determination of its behavior near to the line of singularities; this behavior is derived formally and its physical properties discussed. A brief illustration is given of a method of using this result in o theory for the motion of a slender ship.

Recent Trends of HIP Equipment Technology in Japan

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Takao Fujikawa ◽  
Yasuo Manabe ◽  
Makoto Yoneda ◽  
Shigeo Kofune ◽  
Tomomitsu Nakai
Keyword(s):  
High Speed ◽  
Hot Isostatic Pressing ◽  
Environmental Friendliness ◽  
Nano Technology ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
Ceramic Components ◽  
Historical Viewpoint ◽  
Wafer Processing ◽  
Novel Processing ◽  
Magnetic Recording Heads

The progress of HIP (Hot Isostatic Pressing) is discussed from both the historical viewpoint and its future potential. HIP is now recognized as a useful method to obtain products with isotropic properties and high density. It is used in the manufacture of high integrity castings, various PM products and ceramic components. Especially in Japan these resultant natures have attracted attention from ceramic researchers, because HIP can compensate for the lack of reliability due to residual porosity formed in the sintering stage. P/M High speed tool steel billets, alumina cutting tool inserts, soft ferrite for magnetic recording heads all have been produced by the HIP process. Research activities are now expanding into so-called nano-technology areas such as Si-wafer processing and nano-level sensors. Entering the 21st century, however, a sluggish economy and environmental friendliness are producing strong demand for further development of smaller and lighter products with higher mechanical or electronic properties. In addition to these, the requirement for the higher productivity to reduce processing cost is intensifying, thus the developmental works on HIP equipment technology are being focussed on the improvement of its productivity as well as application to novel processing areas.

Antioxidant ultrafine fibers developed with microalga compounds using a free surface electrospinning

2019 ◽  
Vol 93 ◽  
pp. 131-136 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juliana Botelho Moreira ◽  
Loong-Tak Lim ◽  
Elessandra da Rosa Zavareze ◽  
Alvaro Renato Guerra Dias ◽  
Jorge Alberto Vieira Costa ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Free Surface ◽  
Ultrafine Fibers ◽  
Free Surface Electrospinning

scholarly journals Flow Structures of the Air-Water Layer in the Free Surface Region of High-Speed Open Channel Flows

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Feng Jiang ◽  
Weilin Xu ◽  
Jun Deng ◽  
Wangru Wei
Keyword(s):  
Free Surface ◽  
Layer Thickness ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Open Channel ◽  
Water Layer ◽  
Channel Flows ◽  
Flow Structures ◽  
Air Velocity ◽  
Open Channel Flows ◽  
The Relationship

In hydraulic engineering, intense free surface breakups have been observed to develop in high-speed open channel flows, resulting in a mixed air-water layer near the free surface that grows with the development of self-aeration. This region is characterized by a substantial number of droplets coexisting with an induced air layer above. Little information about this droplet layer is currently available and no practicable approach has been proposed for predicting the parameters of the induced air layer based on the related flow structures in the droplet layer. In this research, laboratory experiments were accordingly conducted to observe the detailed droplet layer development in terms of layer thickness, droplet size, and frequency distributions under comparative flow conditions. Based on the simplified droplet layer roughness determined using the experimentally measured mean droplet size, the classical power-law of boundary layer theory was applied to provide an analytical solution for the air velocity profile inside the air layer. The relationship of air layer growth to droplet layer thickness, which is a key factor when determining the air velocity distribution, was also established, and the analytical results were proven to be in reasonable agreement with air velocity profiles presented in the literature. By determining the relationship between droplet layer properties and air velocity profiles, the study establishes a basis for the improved modeling of high-speed open channel flows.

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