Background: Acute intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) heterogeneity on NCCT, characterized by qualitative and quantitative methods, is predictive of hematoma expansion and mortality however association with the spot sign is not well-described. We sought to validate and determine the association between qualitative and quantitative hematoma heterogeneity with expansion and the spot sign, respectively...

This paper presents preliminary velocity and scalar measurements of low swirl intensity jets in air. Swirling jets were generated using a micro-injector swirl generator. Velocity fields of the jets were obtained using Multi-grid Cross Correlation Digital Particle Image Velocimetry. Initial flow visualizations were performed using planar laser induced fluorescence with acetone as tracer species.

Soot concentration distribution is investigated both numerically and experimentally in methane-air diffusion flame. The experimental work is conducted with a cylindrical swirl stabilized combustor. Filter paper technique is used to measure soot volume fraction inside the combustor. The numerical simulation is based on the solution of the fully-coupled conservation equations for swirling turbule...

In this manuscript, the experimental setup was designed and fabricated for optimizing the parameters of a catalytic converter of INDICA V2 exhaust system. Three turbulence intensify devices, namely Swirl Venturi, Swirl Blades and Swirl Contour, were close-fitted before the catalytic converter. The heating element is embedded in its body and thermocouples are used for knowing the performance at ...

An experimental investigation on the reduction of nitrogen oxide emission from swirling, turbulent diffusion flames was conducted using a prototype multi-annular burner. The burner utilizes swirl-induced centrifugal body forces to dampen turbulent exchange between the fuel and air streams, allowing an extended residence time for fuel pyrolysis and fuel-N conversion chemistry in a locally fuel-r...

The paper reviews striking features of swirling flows—collapse, swirl generation, vortex breakdown, hysteresis, and axisymmetry breaking—and the mechanisms involved with the help of conical similarity solutions of the Navier-Stokes equations. The strong accumulation of axial and angular momenta, observed in tornadoes and flows over delta wings, corresponds to collapse, i.e. the singularity deve...

One-dimensional stability analysis of a hydraulic system composed of a penstock, a runner, and a draft tube was carried out to determine the cause of the full load draft tube surge. It is assumed that the cavity volume at the runner exit is a function of the pressure at the vortex core evaluated from the instantaneous local pressure at the runner exit and an additional pressure decrease due to ...

A 32-year-old woman (gravida 2, para 2) presented with severe, midepigastric abdominal pain that began 3 hours after delivery. Her surgical history was significant for laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (LRYGB) 4 years earlier. An axial computed tomographic (CT) image of the abdomen depicted twisting of central mesentery and origin of the “swirl” (image A, arrow). A coronal CT image of the a...

A non-parallel analysis of time-oscillatory instability of conical jets reveals important features not found in prior studies. Flow deceleration significantly enhances the shearlayer instability for both swirl-free and swirling jets. In swirl-free jets, flow deceleration causes the axisymmetric instability (absent in the parallel approximation). The critical Reynolds number Rea for this instabi...

Rayleigh scattering temperature measurements were obtained in a turbulent reactive swirling coaxial jet discharged from a swirl-stabilized burner along the jet-flame centerline. They are reported up to 10 fuel nozzle diameters downstream of the burner exit at a Reynolds number of 29000. The effect of swirl numbers (S=0.3, 0.58, 1.07) on the temperature fields, the power spectral density of temp...