We tested predictions of a computational model (Hill et al., 2002) of the leech heartbeat timing network. The timing network consists of two segmental oscillators located in the third (G3) and fourth (G4) segmental ganglia. Each oscillator consists of two reciprocally inhibitory oscillator interneurons along with the coordinating interneuron fibers that link them. In the model, the network was ...

We searched the COBE DIRBE Sky and Zodi Atlas for a wake of dust trailing Mars and for Trojan dust near Jupiter’s L5 Lagrange point. We compare the DIRBE images to a model Mars wake based on the empirical model of the Earth’s wake as seen by the DIRBE and place a 3-σ upper limit on the fractional overdensity of particles in the Mars wake of 18% of the fractional overdensity trailing the Earth. ...

The modeling of the turbulent wake of a self-propelled body in a stratified fluid is discussed. The scaling parameter is taken to be the internal Froude number, using the speed and diameter of the body and Vaisala frequency of the fluid. Arguments are presented to suggest that the ratio of the time for the wake to collapse to the characteristic time of the turbulence is invariant with model sca...

Individual pitch control (IPC) for wind turbine load reduction in Region 3 operation is improved when wake interaction is considered. The Larsen wake model is applied for composing the rotor wind profile for downstream turbines under wake interaction. The wind profile of the turbine wake was generated by modifying the NREL’s TurbSim codes. The state-space models of wind turbine were obtained vi...