The liquid metal flow and the solidification behaviours in a multi-cavity casting mould of two automotive cast parts were simulated in three dimensions. The commercial code, FLOW-3D® was used because it can track the front of the molten metal by a Volume of Fluid (VOF) method and allows complicated parts to be modeled by the Fractional Area/Volume Obstacle Representation (FAVOR) meth...

Detonations and deflagration-to-detonation transition (DDT) are experimentally studied in horizontal pipes which are partially filled with water. The gas layer above the water is stoichiometric hydrogen–oxygen at 1 bar. The detonation wave produces oblique shock waves in the water, which focus at the bottom of the pipe due to the curvature of the walls. This results in peak pressures at the bot...

In this work we study the dynamic behaviour of compound shells of revolution partially filled with an ideal incompressible fluid based on boundary-value problems. New analytical mathematical model with corresponding discrete scheme for the elastic displacements and the dynamic liquid pressure is developed. The discrete scheme is based on the method of discrete singularities. A code to perform t...

BACKGROUND Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is being used increasingly to evaluate and manage a variety of retinal diseases, but not much is known about the minification of the OCT images in gas-filled eyes. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of gas-filled eyes on the size of the OCT images. METHODS This was retrospective case series of 81 consecutive eyes of 79 patient...

In many industrial processes granular materials are mixed together in partially filled slowly rotating drums. In this paper a general theoretical framework is developed for the quasi-two-dimensional motion of granular material in a rotating drum. The key assumption is that the body can be divided into a fluid-like and a solid-like region, that are separated by a non-material singular surface at...

We consider the problems of completing a low-rank positive semidefinite square matrix M or a low-rank rectangular matrix N from a given subset of their entries. We study the local and global uniqueness of such completions by analysing the structure of the graphs determined by the positions of the known entries of M or N . We show that the unique completability testing of rectangular matrices is...

Microscale roughness on an otherwise smooth hydrophobic surface can significantly reduce the resistance to an external liquid flow. We study static drag reduction over a lubricantinfused surface by looking at an array of two-dimensional transverse grooves partially filled with a second immiscible fluid. Numerical simulations at separate length scales are used to probe the static drag reduction ...

This paper presents general stability conditions for a spinning spacecraft with partially liquid-filled tanks by using Rumyanstev and Mclntyre methods. These methods are compared for accuracy and limitation by applying them to a specific case of a spinning spacecraft with two partially liquid-filled tanks. The stability conditions require that, for a stable motion, the spin to transverse moment...

Centrifuge-based cell salvage and washing systems, available since the 1970s, have decreased the use of allogeneic blood transfusions (1). Although intraoperative salvage and autotransfusion avoids the risks of allogeneic transfusion, case reports document adverse reactions to this blood, potentially related to inadequate washing (2). The cleanliness of partially filled cell salvage bowls has b...