Hydrodynamic Profiles Research Articles

Stimulated Brillouin backscattering in long-scale-length plasmas

Stimulated Brillouin backscattering in long-scale-length plasmas is calculated using a wave kinetic model. In these calculations use is made of computed hydrodynamic profiles for these plasmas. Results are presented for the parameters of the joint Naval Research Laboratory–Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory experiments and for reactor size pellets of 5 mm characteristic length. Means of reducing high levels of backscattering for the latter case are investigated.

Interferometric and hydrodynamic flow profiles produced in water by a spreading monolayer

Spreading of an alcohol or carboxylic acid monolayer at the air/water interface causes a transient increase in refractive index of the subsurface water layers. It has been established that this change in the refractive index results from a cooling in the water that accompanies the spreading. Hydration of the polar groups of these spreading molecules is exothermic, and would cause a temperature increase. So the observed cooling seems to indicate a sudden increase in evaporation, brought about by a stirring of the steady-state diffusion layer of water vapor above the interface. The spreading process is accompanied by large movements in the subsurface water layers but this motion of itself does not cause any detectable refractive index change. These hydrodynamic flow profiles produced by the spreading are measured and reported.

Analysis and performance of the gas lubricated tilting pad thrust bearing: Transactions of the American Society of Lubrication Engineers, Vol 12, No 3 (July 1969) pp 206–215

Gas lubricated tilting pad thrust bearing analysis and performance, determining optimum hydrodynamic crown profile

Analysis and Performance of the Gas-Lubricated Tilting Pad Thrust Bearing

Gas lubricated tilting pad thrust bearing analysis and performance, determining optimum hydrodynamic crown profile