The flow field of a radial wall jet created by the impingement of a round synthetic jet normal to a flat surface was characterized using hot-wire anemometry. In the synthetic wall jets the width of the outer layer was observed to increase linearly with the radial distance along the wall, while the local maximum velocity varied inversely. The synthetic wall jet exhibits self-similar behavior as ...

In this paper the flow field of a rectangular synthetic jet driven by a piezoelectric membrane issuing into a quiescent environment is studied. The similarities exhibited by synthetic and continuous turbulent jets lead to the hypothesis that a rectangular synthetic jet within a limited region downstream of the orifice be modeled using similarity analysis just as a continuous planar jet. Accordi...

OBJECTIVES We investigated popliteal venous haemodynamics of the VenaJet Jet Impulse Technology system within a below-knee fibreglass cast. DESIGN Randomized controlled trial. PARTICIPANTS Twenty-four healthy participants aged 18-54 had both feet placed within the Jet Impulse Technology system and were randomised for one or other leg to be within a below-knee fibreglass cast. SETTING Paci...

Large eddy simulations (LES) of co-flowing round jets with 33.6 million grid points are carried out using 16 Sun 1 GHz UltraSPARC III Cu processors. An in-depth processor scalability analysis is carried out for an MPI based code for a finite-volume solution of time dependent Navier-Stokes equations. The solver is based on a second-order structured staggered grid discretization, second-order tim...

The developing turbulent region of a round jet was investigated using an improved implementation of digital particle image velocimetry (DPIV). The two-dimensional flow field in planes normal and parallel to the axial velocity was measured at locations between 15 and 30 diameters downstream, for two Reynolds numbers of 5500 and 16,000. The study consisted of instantaneous snapshots of the veloci...

Air-jet weaving is an advanced weaving method with high efficiency and productivity. It is one of the most widely used methods of weaving in the world. In air-jet filling insertion, the motion of weft yarn is caused by friction between weft yarn and air blown through nozzle. After declamping and subjecting the yarn to air stream, its motion is not active but very complicated and influenced by ...

A Mach 0.9 jet at Reynolds number 3600 is simulated along with its radiated sound by direct numerical solution of the flow equations. The numerical simulation is shown to be in excellent agreement with experimental measurements at the same flow conditions. Basic turbulence and sound statistics are presented and analyzed. Pressure data is Fourier transformed in the streamwise direction and in ti...

The effect of the excitation frequency synthetic jet actuators on mean velocity issuing from an array circular orifices is investigated experimentally, focusing acoustic characteristics actuator’s cavity. Two cavity configurations are considered. In first configuration, jets generated by exciting a single, large having sixteen via piezoelectric elements. second volume configuration divided into...

The corresponding laminar problem has been theoretically analyzed by Schlichting3 in 1933. Neither of these solutions, however, holds for finite opening, i.e. at a short distance from the opening. Kuethe,3 in 1935, extended Tollmien's results to the case of a two-dimensional jet issuing into a medium not at rest and also worked out an approximate method for'the computation of the velocity profi...