Introduction: A range of neuropathological changes occur in normal ageing and an important aim of neuroimaging research is to detect these changes in vivo. Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) measures water diffusion in tissue and is used to infer white matter structural integrity. Recent animal studies suggest that neuropathological change can be further elucidated, beyond simple tissue integrity, ...

in this study, aerodynamic characteristics of a circular cylinder in an axial flow have been investigated numerically and experimentally. the model has been considered as a cylinder with truncated nose and fineness ratio of 3 (length to diameter ratio of 3). the investigation involves a series of wind tunnel measurements, flow visualization, and numerical simulation. we used different mach numb...

STUDY DESIGN Biomechanics of human intervertebral discs before and after nucleotomy. OBJECTIVE To noninvasively quantify the effect of nucleotomy on internal strains under axial compression in flexion, neutral, and extension positions, and to determine whether the change in strains depended on degeneration. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA Herniation and nucleotomy may accelerate the progression ...

The present work considers the modeling of turbulent flow in reed type valves of reciprocating compressors and is based on a simplified geometry of the actual valve, that is, a radial diffuser with axial feeding. Despite its simplicity the geometry chosen for the analysis has important flow features present in practical geometries. Due to its claimed capability to predict flow including feature...

The hydrodynamical problem of flow in proximal renal tubule is investigated by considering axisymmetric flow of a viscous, incompressible fluid through a long narrow tube of varying cross-section with reabsorption at the wall. Two cases for reabsorption have been studied (i) when the bulk flow, Q, decays exponentially with the axial distance x, and (ii) when Q is an arbitrary function of x such...

A mathematical analysis has been carried out for the axial flow of a Bingham plastic fluid, in the Concentric Cylinder Viscometer which consists of a cylindrical sample holder (the cup) and a cylindrical spindle (the bob) coaxial with the cup. The fluid to be tested flows through the annular gap of the cup and the bob system, sheared by the rotation of the inner cylinder, while the outer cy...

We study theoretically magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) motion of a binary electrolyte in a concentric annulus subjected to a uniform, axial magnetic field. The annulus’ cylindrical surfaces serve as electrodes. When a potential difference is imposed across the cylindrical electrodes, radial electric current flows in the solution and interacts with the axial magnetic field to induce a Lorentz body for...

The scale up of an isothermal micro-trickle bed reactor operated under radio frequency (RF) heating has been performed. The effect of the reactor length, tube diameter and number of parallel tubes on the temperature non-uniformity parameter has been studied. The axial and radial temperature profiles were calculated using a 2D convection and conduction heat transfer problem with heat transfer pr...