We investigate the connection between the equatorial Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO) and different types of the Northern Hemisphere mid-winter major stratospheric sudden warmings (SSWs), i.e., vortex-displacement and vortex-split SSWs. The MJO-SSW relationship for vortex-split SSWs is stronger than that for vortex-displacement SSWs, as a result of the stronger and more coherent eastward propaga...

Background: The theory of microstretch elastic bodies was first developed by Eringen (1971, 1990, 1999, 2004). This theory was developed by extending the theory of micropolar elastcity. Each material point in this theory has three deformable directors. Methods: The governing equations of a transversely isotropic microstretch material are specialized in x-z plane. Plane wave solutions of these g...

Consider a standing wave in a stretched string. As we proceed horizontally along the string, the vertical displacement (or amplitude) of the wave increases in one direction, passes through a maximum, decreases to zero and then increases in the opposite direction. The places where the amplitude is zero are called nodes. The nodes lie on a plane called the nodal plane (which lies perpendicular to...

BACKGROUND Aimed to elucidate the characteristics of the spectra of superior venae cavae (SVC) in respiratory cycles in patients with right heart failure. METHODS The spectra of SVC of 30 patients with right heart failure and 30 paired healthy subjects were recorded through right supraclavicular fossa view. The profiles of spectra of superior venae cavae were observed, and peak velocity and v...

in this paper, the propagation of the waves in the laminated composite plates which is subjected to low velocity impact is investigated using the finite element method. a rigid metallic projectile with spherical nose is considered and the impact of this projectile with laminated composite is studied in this study. considering a finite element model the governing equations of the problem is disc...

In this paper we derive optimal a priori L∞(L2) error estimates for mixed finite element displacement formulations of the acoustic wave equation. The computational complexity of this approach is equivalent to the traditional mixed finite element formulations of the second order hyperbolic equations in which the primary unknowns are pressure and the gradient of pressure. However, the displacemen...

Spaceborne synthetic aperture radar (SAR) is still the only instrument providing directional ocean wave information on a global and continuous basis. Different retrieval schemes for the derivation of two-dimensional ocean wave spectra Fk from SAR data have been developed (Krogstad, 1994; Hasselmann et al., 1996; Mastenbroek, 2000; Dowd, 2001; Johnson et al., 2003). The potential of the data for...

Focusing on soil liquefaction, the seismic records during the Niigata-ken earthquake in 1964, the southern Hyogo prefecture earthquake in 1995 and the 2011 off the Pacific coast of Tohoku earthquake are analyzed by the non-stationary Fourier spectra. The shift of dominant frequency in the seismic record of Kawagishi-cho during the Niigata-ken earthquake is evaluated based on the time-variant pr...