We investigate properties of convective solutions of the Boussinesq thermal convection in a moderately rotating spherical shell allowing the inner and outer sphere rotation due to the viscous torque of the fluid. The ratio of the inner and outer radii of the spheres, the Prandtl number and the Taylor number are fixed to 0.4, 1 and 500, respectively. The inertial moments of the inner and outer s...

It's important to understand the dynamic behavior of a structure under operating condition from the view point of vibration shapes of a structure on well excited frequency components and accurate identification of amplitude on each point of a structure. Operating Deflection Shapes (ODSs) can be defined for nonlinear and non stationary structural motion. ODSs provide very useful information for ...

Numerical and experimental data for the heat transfer as a function of the Rossby number Ro in turbulent rotating Rayleigh-Bénard convection are presented for the Prandtl number Pr=4.38 and the Rayleigh number Ra=2.91×10(8) up to Ra=4.52×10(9). The aspect ratio Γ≡D/L, where L is the height and D the diameter of the cylindrical sample, is varied between Γ=0.5 and 2.0. Without rotation, where the...

A numerical study of dynamos in rotating convecting plane layers is presented which focuses on magnetic energies and dissipation rates and the generation of mean fields (where the mean is taken over horizontal planes). The scaling of the magnetic energy with the flux Rayleigh number is different from the scaling proposed in spherical shells, whereas the same dependence of the magnetic dissipati...

This presentation investigates Active Structural Acoustic Control (ASAC) of rotating machinery with high modal density, by placing actuators as close as possible to the noise source. For this purpose, an experimental set-up has been built, as discussed in [3]. The set-up consists of a shaft supported by two bearings, of which one is made “active” by mounting piezo-actuators around it, to influe...

F(o)F(1)-ATPase is a rotary motor protein synthesizing ATP from ADP driven by a cross-membrane proton gradient. The proton flow through the membrane-embedded F(o) generates the rotary torque that drives the rotation of the asymmetric shaft of F(1). Mechanical energy of the rotating shaft is used by the F(1) catalytic subunit to synthesize ATP. It was suggested that elastic power transmission wi...