Saturation of vortex rings ejected from shock-accelerated interfaces

MJ Wadas, LH Khieu, GS Cearley, HJ LeFevre… - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
Structures evoking vortex rings can be discerned in shock-accelerated flows ranging from
astrophysics to inertial confinement fusion. By constructing an analogy between vortex rings …

On the dynamics of unconfined and confined vortex rings in dense suspensions

K Zhang, DE Rival - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2020 - cambridge.org
An experimental study of particle–vortex interactions has been undertaken in suspensions
with volume fractions up to. Time-resolved particle image velocimetry measurements using a …

Droplet nuclei caustic formations in exhaled vortex rings

A Papoutsakis, I Danaila, F Luddens, M Gavaises - Scientific reports, 2022 - nature.com
Vortex ring (VR) structures occur in light or hoarse cough configurations. These instances
consist of short impulses of exhaled air resulting to a self-contained structure that can travel …

The influence of background co-flow on the propulsive characteristics of starting jets

J Zhu, G Zhang, H Xia, SCM Yu, L Gao - Ocean Engineering, 2024 - Elsevier
The influence of uniform background co-flow on the propulsive characteristics of starting jets
with stroke ratios (length to diameter ratio, L/D) from 1 to 5 and velocity ratios (ratio of co-flow …

Dynamics of volcanic vortex rings

F Pulvirenti, S Scollo, C Ferlito, FM Schwandner - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Vortex rings can easily be generated in the laboratory or with homemade devices, but they
have also been observed on volcanoes, since the eighteenth century. However, the physical …

Lagrangian study of entrainment for confined vortex rings in dense suspensions using echo-LPT

M Barnes, K Zhang, D Rival - Experiments in Fluids, 2024 - Springer
An ultrasound-based Lagrangian particle tracking (echo-LPT) method is used to investigate
path-dependent quantities for confined vortex rings in dense suspensions with volume …

Scaling of the translational velocity of vortex rings behind conical objects

G de Guyon, K Mulleners - Physical Review Fluids, 2021 - APS
Ring vortices are efficient at transporting fluid across long distances. They can be found in
nature in various ways: they propel squids, inject blood in the heart, and entertain dolphins …

4D flow MRI and CFD simulations of pulsatile flow in a phantom model of arterial stenosis: visualizing the vortex dynamics

A Kazemi, R Nath, MJ Negahdar… - Medical Imaging …, 2021 - spiedigitallibrary.org
We compared steady and pulsatile CFD simulations with 4D Flow MRI in a phantom model
of arterial stenosis and investigated the hemodynamic features distal to the occlusion. With …

Investigation into fresh air delivery performance with vortex ring

C Gong, Y Cheng, Y Jiang - Science of The Total Environment, 2023 - Elsevier
An air supply mode based on vortex ring structures was proposed to deliver fresh air for
good indoor air quality. This study focused on the influence of air supply parameters …

Parametric study on flow characteristics of air vortex ring supply using large-eddy simulation

C Gong, Y Jiang, Y Cheng - International Journal of Thermal Sciences, 2023 - Elsevier
Air vortex-ring-based supply mode was proposed to deliver fresh air. The influence of air
supply parameters on the entrainment and mixing of air vortex rings was investigated …