This study describes the mechanical role that cranial sutures play in fish during feeding. The long-term goal of our work is to establish relationships between suture form and function, so that functional inferences can be made from suture morphology in fossil taxa. To this end, strain gauges were surgically implanted across selected sutures in the skull roof of four individuals of Polypterus e...

The aim of this paper is to investigate the effect of the variable thermal conductivity and the inclined uniform magnetic field on the plane Poiseuille flow of viscous incompressible electrically conducting fluid between two porous plates Joule heating in the presence of a constant pressure gradient through non-uniform plate temperature. It is assumed that the fluid injection occurs at lower pl...

Background and Objectives: Suction is a necessary and common method which aids in the release of secretion from the respiratory system for the patients who have undergone mechanical ventilation. One of the most common complications of suction is hypoxemia which causes dysrhythmia and death. The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of open and closed-endotracheal suction on cardiov...

A versatile integrated circuit timer for intermittent suction, animal-baited insect traps is described. Various attributes of this circuit include continuously and independently variable on and off periods, extremely low power consumption, accurate timing range from microseconds through hours, operation on 5-17 VDC, and miniaturization.

The boundary layer fluid flow in a channel with heat source, soret effects and slip condition was studied. The governing equations were solved using perturbation technique. The effects of different parameters such Prandtl number Pr , Hartmann number M, Schmidt number Sc, suction parameter  , soret number Sr and the heat source s on velocity, temperature and concentration were studied. Numerica...

The study of unsteady hydrodynamic free convective flow of a viscous incompressible fluid past a vertical porous plate in the presence of a variable suction has been made. Approximate solutions have been derived for the velocity and temperature fields, shear stress, and rate of heat transfer using perturbation technique. It is observed that main fluid velocity decreases with increase in Prandtl...

in this study, the effect of suction and the parameters such as suction amplitude, suction coefficient and suction jet length on naca0012 was evaluated. the turbulence employed model was the rsm model. suction jet is located in 10% of the chord length. the range of suction jet entrance velocity was selected from 0.1 to 0.5 of freestream velocity. the maximum increase in lift to drag ratio was s...

Abstract It was fairly accepted to interpret soil behaviour at the microstructural level by utilising effective degree of saturation instead total in stress equation for unsaturated fine-grained soils. However, this interpretation pure sands under-represented literature. On basis shear strength evolution with suction, paper reports a series experimental tests evaluate use fine sands. The compri...

INTRODUCTION The design of a surgical rotary vacuum shaver as a predecessor to the microdebrider has been attributed to Urban in 1968. His targeted use of this device to assist in the removal of acoustic neuromas did not find general use. Powered shavers were subsequently adopted in the field of orthopedic surgery and reintroduced successfully in the 1990s into otolaryngology for use in endosco...

A free convective unsteady visco-elastic flow through porous medium bounded by an infinite vertical porous plate with variable suction, constant heat flux under the influence of transverse uniform magnetic field along with permeability in the presence of radiation has been investigated in the present study. The suction velocity of the porous medium fluctuates with time about the constant mean. ...