This paper concerns the design and analysis, of a ball type continuously variable transmission, (B-CVT). This B-CVT has a simple kinematic structure, and same as a toroidal CVT, transmits power by friction on the contact points between input and output discs, that are connected to each other by balls. After, a brief introduction of our B-CVT structure, the performa...

An approximate numerical mthod is presented for analysis and determination of modal characteristics in straight, pretwisted non-unifom helicopter blades. The analysis considers the coupled flapwise bending (out of plane), chordwise bending (in plane), and torsion vibration of both rotating and non-rotating blades. The proposed method is based on the integral expansion of Green functions (struct...

We discuss generic properties of rotating nonlinear wave solutions, the so called azimuthons, in nonlocal media. Variational methods allow us to derive approximative values for the rotating frequency, which is shown to depend crucially on the nonlocal response function. Further on, we link families of azimuthons to internal modes of classical non-rotating stationary solutions, namely vortex and...

A rotating Bose-Einstein condensate is shown to exhibit a Bloch band structure even in the absence of a periodic potential. Vortices enter the condensate via Bragg reflection if the frequency of a rotating drive is adiabatically increased or decreased, or if the interaction is adiabatically changed at a constant rotating drive. A localized state analogous to a gap soliton in a periodic system i...

The two known exact solutions of Einstein’s field equations describing rotating objects of physical significance – a black hole and a rigidly rotating disk of dust – are discussed using a single mathematical framework related to Jacobi’s inversion problem. Both solutions can be represented in such a form that they differ in the choice of a complex parameter and a real solution of the axisymmetr...

We study the gravitational time delay in ray propagation due to rotating masses in the linear approximation of general relativity. Simple expressions are given for the gravitomagnetic time delay that occurs when rays of radiation cross a slowly rotating shell, equation (14), and propagate in the field of a distant rotating source, equation (16). Moreover, we calculate the local gravitational ti...

The spacetime metric around a rotating SuperConductive Ring (SCR) is deduced from the gravitomagnetic London moment in rotating superconductors. It is shown that theoretically it is possible to generate Closed Timelike Curves (CTC) with rotating SCRs. The possibility to use these CTC’s to travel in time as initially idealized by Gödel is investigated. It is shown however, that from a technology...

Virtually all electrical motors use magnetic field rotation to spin their rotors. A three-phase AC induction motor is the only type where the rotating magnetic field is created naturally in the stator because of the nature of the supply. DC motors depend either on mechanical or electronic commutation to create rotating magnetic fields. A single-phase AC induction motor depends on extra electric...

We present evidence for a counter-rotating core in the low-luminosity (M B = −18.2) elliptical galaxy NGC 770 based on internal stellar kinematic data. This counter-rotating core is unusual as NGC 770 is not the primary galaxy in the region and it lies in an environment with evidence of ongoing tidal interactions. We discovered the counter-rotating core via single-slit Keck * /ESI echelle spect...