Experimental studies and numerical simulation of growth and lift-off processes of single bubbles formed on designed nucleation sites have been conducted under low-gravity conditions. Merging of multiple bubbles and lift-off processes during boiling of water in the parabola flights of KC-135 aircraft were also experimentally studied. The heating area of the flat heater surface was discretized an...

A 28-year-old woman with chronic glomerulonephritis who was treated with prednisolone for many years developed pneumonia due to Nocardia that required treatment with co-trimoxazole. She subsequently developed acute necrotizing pancreatitis and her hospital course was complicated by a prolonged fever. In the fourth week, a computed tomography (CT) scan of the abdomen to evaluate the severity of ...

The interaction between small- and large-scale structures, the coexisting bottom-up top-down processes are studied in a turbulent plane Couette flow, where space-filling longitudinal rolls appear at relatively low values of Reynolds number $Re$. A DNS database $Re_\tau=101$ is built to replicate highest $Re$ considered recent experimental work by Kawata Alfredsson (Phys. Rev. Lett., vol.120, 20...

Off-pump coronary surgery is an established entity. Safe exposure of inferior and lateral wall vessels remains a challenge for complete revascularization. We compared deep pericardial stitches with apical suction to overcome this challenge. There were 16 patients in each group. Patients with only anterior wall disease were excluded. Heart rate, arterial blood pressure, central venous pressure, ...

The role of inelastic collisions in Hall thruster operation is studied through simulation of the electron energy distribution function (EEDF) inside the thruster channel. The electron Boltzmann equation is solved using the Lorentz approximation (two-term expansion) and the "local-field" approximation. The resultant zero-dimensional Boltzmann equation takes into account inelastic losses due to i...

An example is given of a plane topological defect solution of linearized Einstein-Cartan (EC) field equation representing a cosmic wall boundary of spinning matter. The source of Cartan torsion is composed of two orthogonal lines of static polarized spins bounded by the cosmic plane wall. The KopczyńskiObukhov Tresguerres (KOT) spin fluid stress-energy current coincides with thin planar matter ...