We present multiepoch VLBA observations of the compact jet of GRS 1915+105 conducted at 15.0 and 8.4 GHz during a plateau state of the source in 2003 March-April. These observations show that the compact jet is clearly asymmetric. Assuming an intrinsically symmetric continuous jet flow, using Doppler boosting arguments and an angle to the line of sight of θ = 70 • , we obtain values for the vel...

We report the discovery of a transient jet in the supersoft X-ray source RX J0925.7-4758. The jet was observed in the Hα line during a single night in June 1997 and had disappeared one day later. RX J0925.7-4758 is the third supersoft source to exhibit collimated outflows. The peak jet velocity of 5,200 km s−1, strongly argues in favour of a white dwarf in RX J0925.7-4758. Simple modelling of t...

A global noise reduction of a high-subsonic jet is achieved by experimental use of an impinging microjets system. The microjet velocity relative to the main jet velocity, the longitudinal distance of injection and the number of microjets are the three parameters examined in order to obtain the maximum noise reduction. This optimized microjet configuration is obtained by a balance between low-fr...

As a new manufacturing process, abrasive water jet (AWJ)cutting has been very effective for difficult-to-machine materials. From the point of view of jet generation, abrasive water jets can be categorized as injection jeti or suspension jets. Injection jets are the most commonly used type for practical applications. An injection AWJ is formed by accelerating small abrasive particles through con...

The current research on confined submerged waterjets mainly focuses on the flow field of the impinging jet and wall jet. The double-sided wall vertically confined waterjet, which is widely used in many fields such as mining, cleaning and surface strengthening, has rarely been studied so far. In order to explore the influence of a double-sided wall confined width on the velocity field of submerg...

We present high angular resolution millimeter wavelength continuum and CO(2–1) observations of the circumstellar disk surrounding the TTauri star DG Tauri. We show that the velocity pattern in the inner regions of the disk is consistent with Keplerian rotation about a central 0.67M⊙ star. The disk rotation is also consistent with the toroidal velocity pattern in the initial channel of the optic...

When an asymmetric bubble collapses it generally produces a well defined high velocity jet. This is remarkable because one might expect such a collapse to produce a complex or chaotic flow rather than an ordered one. I present a dimensional argument for the ubiquity of jets from collapsing bubbles, and model the aspherical collapse of a bubble with pieces of Rayleigh’s solution for spherical co...

The first laboratory astrophysics experiments to produce a radiatively cooled plasma jet with dynamically significant angular momentum are discussed. A new configuration of wire array z pinch, the twisted conical wire array, is used to produce convergent plasma flows each rotating about the central axis. Collision of the flows produces a standing shock and jet that each have supersonic azimutha...

Temperature fluctuation in fluid causes high cycle thermal fatigue in shroud structure according to its amplitude and frequency. There are still some incidents of thermal fatigue and leakage in light water reactors (Japanese PWR Tomari-2 in 2003, French PWR CIVAUX in 1998), and also in sodium cooled reactors (French FBR PHENIX in 1992). Mixing tee is a typical component where temperature fluctu...

Simultaneous planar laser-induced fluorescence (PLIF) and particle image velocimetry (PIV) yield measurements of two-dimensional jet fluid concentration and velocity fields, both the mean and fluctuating terms, in turbulent crossflowing jets. The jet-to-crossflow velocity ratio is r = 5.7 and the jet exit Reynolds number is approximately 5000. The measurements concern the developing region of t...