Aerodynamic drag force breakdown of a typical transport aircraft shows that lift-induced drag can amount to as much as 40% of total drag at cruise conditions and 80-90% of the total drag in take-off configuration. One way of reducing lift-induced drag is by using wing-tip devices. By applying several types of winglets, which are already used on commercial airplanes, we study their influence on ...

PURPOSE The European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer quality-of-life questionnaire-OG25 was developed to evaluate the quality of life in patients with stomach and esophageal cancer. The following are included in the OG25 but not in the STO22: odynophagia, choked when swallowing, weight loss, trouble eating with others, trouble swallowing saliva, trouble talking, and trouble wi...

• The actual flow rate is constant for the outlet pressure range of 35.30 psig to as low as a complete vacuum. The flow rate can be obtained from the charts on pages 16-18; e.g. for an orifice of .010" diameter and with 80 psig inlet pressure, the choked flow rate is 8.4 scfh (page 16). This flow rate will be constant for all outlet pressure conditions between 35.30 psig and full vacuum. 0 1 .5...

We adopted the transient numerical method for simulation of an ELECTRE vehicle with opposing jet at altitude 53.3 km and 13 Ma to explore characteristics as well performance in heat drag reductions hypersonic nonequilibrium flows. The time-accurate, N-S equations coupled five-species Park chemical kinetic model vibrational energy excitation were applied, open source solver Hy2FOAM based on Open...

Compact zero-mass pulsatile jet actuators are proposed for low speed maneuvering, ducking, and station keeping of small underwater vehicles. To this end, optimization of synthetic jets for maximal thrust generation is investigated. Flow field of such jets are initially dominated by vortex ring formation. Pinched-off vortices characterize the extremum impulse accumulated by the leading vortex ri...

Contemporary numerical models of the global atmosphere include parameterizations of various drag mechanisms, e.g., orographic and convective gravity wave drag (GWD), mountain drag, surface friction drag, and artificial model top drag. These mechanisms, except for friction drag, directly affect the magnitude of the polar night jet, whose variation significantly affects the tropospheric circulati...

Original scientific paper First theoretical papers, summarizing the high mechanical energy cumulation when high-speed drops impact on the solid surface as a result of the water hammer effect, have been known since 1960’s. Heymann has demonstrated that pressure maximum during the impact of a spherical drop of a liquid is several times higher than the presupposed maximum for the classical waterha...

A "cannot-ventilate, cannot-intubate" situation is critical. In difficult airway management, transtracheal jet ventilation (TTJV) has been recommended as an invasive procedure, but specialized equipment is required. However, the influence of upper airway resistance (UAR) during TTJV has not been clarified. The aim of this study was to compare TTJV using a manual jet ventilator (MJV) and the oxy...