Erratum: Cylindrical Antennas Immersed in Arbitrary Homogeneous Isotropic Media

Longitudinal waves in homogeneous anisotropic cylindrical bars immersed in fluid

The propagation of a longitudinal wave in an anisotropic cylindrical bar immersed in water is considered. Energy is leaked into the surrounding fluid in the form of traveling waves, and this leakage determines the amplitude of the signal in the rod. This aspect is important in nondestructive evaluation of composite rods. The governing equation of the longitudinal waves traveling in the rod is o...

Preferential concentration and rise velocity reduction of bubbles immersed in a homogeneous and isotropic turbulent flow

The behavior of small spherical bubbles immersed in a homogeneous isotropic turbulent carrier flow of a heavier fluid has been experimentally studied. Air bubbles with diameters between 10 and 900 lm were injected in the test section of a horizontal water channel and allowed to interact with the turbulence induced by a grid located at the entrance to the test section. Point measurements of the ...

Fundamental limits of cylindrical antennas

Homogeneous and isotropic big rips?

We investigate the way big rips are approached in a fully inhomogeneous description of the space-time geometry. If the pressure and energy densities are connected by a (supernegative) barotropic index, the spatial gradients and the anisotropic expansion decay as the big rip is approached. This behaviour is contrasted with the usual big-bang singularities. A similar analysis is performed in the ...

Spinodal decomposition in homogeneous and isotropic turbulence.

We study the competition between domain coarsening in a symmetric binary mixture below critical temperature and turbulent fluctuations. We find that the coarsening process is arrested in the presence of turbulence. The physics of the process shares remarkable similarities with the behavior of diluted turbulent emulsions and the arrest length scale can be estimated with an argument similar to th...