BACKGROUND LV diastolic vortex formation has been suggested to critically contribute to efficient blood pumping function, while altered vortex formation has been associated with LV pathologies. Therefore, quantitative characterization of vortex flow might provide a novel objective tool for evaluating LV function. The objectives of this study were 1) assess feasibility of vortex flow analysis du...

The motion of two-dimensional inviscid, incompressible fluid with regions of constant vorticity is studied for three classes of geophysically motivated problem. First, equilibria consisting of point vortices located near a vorticity interface generated by a shear flow are found analytically in the linear (small-amplitude) limit and then numerically for the fully nonlinear problem. The equilibri...

The positions of the centres of the leading-edge vortices above four slender wings have been located at several angles of incidence using a Kiel tube probe, and measured using a mutual inductance method of &stance measurement. This method was developed for use in this experiment to provide accurate information about the position of a probe in the flow field by measuring the mutual inductances b...

A Lagrangian describing a gas of ideal pointlike vortices interacting with a quantum gas of spin-0 particles confined in an infinite or finite subset of R2 is derived. Singleand two-vortex dynamics is studied in the special case of a homogeneous gas in infinite and finite systems. Special attention is given to the case of the annulus (ring) for which new analytic and numerical solutions are fou...

We review the topic of quantized vortices in multicomponent Bose-Einstein condensates of dilute atomic gases, with an emphasis on that in two-component condensates. First, we review the fundamental structure, stability and dynamics of a single vortex state in a slowly rotating two-component condensates. To understand recent experimental results, we use the coupled Gross-Pitaevskii equations and...

In recent decades, many dams have been built or are under construction. Due to the high demand for water and soil erosion, increasing the need for dam construction in different regions are quite tangible. In 1900 the number of large dams, did not exceed 50. But in the 1950s to 1986 the number of large dams (over 15 meters), more than 39,000 were counted. The 70s dams has been increasing develop...

By means of electrical transport measurements we have studied the rectified motion of vortices in ratchet potentials engineered on overdamped Josephson junction arrays. The rectified voltage as a function of the vortex density shows a maximum efficiency close a matching condition to the period of the ratchet potential indicating a collective vortex motion. Vortex current reversals were detected...

The linear stability of thin vortex rings are studied by short-wavelength stability analysis. The modified Hill–Schrödinger equation for vortex rings, which incorporates curvature effect, is derived. It is used to evaluate growth rates analytically. The growth rates are also evaluated by numerical calculation and they agree well with analytical values for small e which is the ratio of core radi...