Orbital blowout fracture frequently occurs along the floor or medial aspect of the orbital wall, which are the two thinnest areas of the bony orbit. True trapdoor injury of the orbit is less common and is rare as an isolated medial wall injury, because the medial orbital wall has several bony septa within the ethmoid sinus that provide support and decrease the risk of a trapdoor fracture. Addit...

Shell must cease drilling well before the water freezes over lest a late-season blowout cause oil to accumulate under the ice through the winter.

A detection method of lean blowout in a laboratory-scale premixed gas-turbine model combustor has been proposed from a view point of nonlinear dynamics. The translation error, which quantifies the degree of the parallelism of trajectories in the phase space constructed from the time-series data of the combustion-chamber pressure fluctuations, is used as a detector in this work. The dynamic beha...

We consider examples of loss of stability of chaotic attractors in invariant subspaces (blowouts) that occur on varying two parameters, i.e. codimension two blowout bifurca-tions. Such bifurcations act as organising centres for nearby codimension one behaviour, analogous to the case for codimension two bifurcations of equilibria. We consider examples of blowout bifurcations showing change of cr...

Abstract Sudden tire failure (a blowout) is a major cause of traffic accidents, many of them involving fatalities. If the automobile can quickly identify that a blowout has occurred, the braking system can be programmed to carry out braking and stability control to slow down the vehicle steadily. Hence, timely identification of a blowout or severe leakage is a key enabler of using the braking s...