Journal of Fluids Engineering: Recent submissions
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Discussion: “Experiments on Laminar Flow Development in Rectangular Ducts” (Sparrow, E. M., Hixon, C. W., and Shavit, G., 1967, ASME J. Basic Eng., 89, pp. 116–123)
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Discussion: “Cavitation Damage Studies With Rotating Disk in Water” (Wood, G. M., Knudsen, L. K., and Hammitt, F. G., 1967, ASME J. Basic Eng., 89, pp. 98–109)
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Discussion: “Fatigue Crack Propagation in Low-Alloy Heat-Treated Steels” (Brothers, A. J., and Yukawa, S., 1967, ASME J. Basic Eng., 89, pp. 19–25)
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Numerical Fourier Transform Calculations for Pulse Testing Procedures
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1967)Pulse testing of systems, where the input is a controlled function of time, is a well-established procedure. One data reduction technique numerically calculates the Fourier transforms of the ... -
Transfer Functions and Input Impedances of Pressurized Piping Systems
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1967)This paper presents a method to determine the transfer function and input impedance of a pressurized fluid piping system. Distributed parameters are used to arrive at a transfer function of a ... -
A Format Method for Generating Liapunov Functions
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1967)A method is developed for generating Liapunov functions, V, which have the property that, along the trajectories of a system under consideration, the scalar functions V̇ or (V̇ − Vt ) take ... -
A Unified Approach to the Analysis of Uniform One-Dimensional Distributed Systems
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1967)Proper selection and ordering of the variables of uniform, linear, one-dimensional distributed, dynamic models are shown to simplify their analysis, particularly when several simultaneous energy ... -
Human Body as an Inconstant Heat Source and Its Relation to Clothes Insulation: Part 2—Experimental Investigation Into Dynamics of the Source
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1960)Quantitative measurement on the human in the so-called evaporative, vasomotor, and metabolic control regimes has revealed frequency spectrum of sustained thermal power oscillations with approximate ... -
Propagation of Disturbance in Fluid Lines
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1967)The purpose of this paper is to investigate the phenomena of the decay and dispersion of a disturbance pulse as it travels in a fluid along a pipe. A disturbance has associated with it ... -
A New Type of Pneumatic Triangle Wave Oscillator
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1967)A new type of pneumatic oscillator is presented which produces triangular waveforms of pressure versus time. The device can be used for both high power and low power applications. It utilizes ... -
On Fitting With Functional Polynomials
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1967)A method is introduced for finding a functional polynomial fit of a continuous functional. This method radically reduces the number of measured records required by straightforward techniques for ... -
An Experimental Determination of Differential Equations to Describe Simple Nonlinear Systems
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1967)A method is presented for the determination of ordinary differential equations to describe the performance of existing lumped-parameter, time-invariant, nonlinear physical systems. It is assumed ... -
Optimum Control of Linear Systems With Transportation Lag
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1967)A necessary condition for the optimum control of a linear system with input delay or transportation lag is derived in terms of the system weighting function. For a general quadratic integrand ... -
Feedback Control of Linear Distributed Systems
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1967)The optimum feedback control of controllable linear distributed stationary systems is discussed. A linear closed-loop system is assured by restricting the criterion to be the integral of quadratics ... -
The Frequency Response of Pneumatic Lines
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1967)The amplitude frequency response (transfer gain curve) of 0.170-in-ID blocked pneumatic lines of the type used in fluidic systems was experimentally determined. Several lengths (20 ft and less) ... -
Optimum Nonuniform Error Quantizers for Feedback Control Systems
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1967)The effects of nonuniform error quantization on feedback control system stability from the viewpoint of the existence of limit cycles are discussed. The existence of limit cycle is investigated ... -
The Second Describing Function and Removal of Jump Resonance by Signal Stabilization
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1967)A derivative of the output of a nonlinear element is taken with respect to the input. For commonly occurring nonlinearities which are piecewise linear, this derivative is sectionally constant ... -
Design of Nonlinear Sampled-Data System for Acceleration Measurement
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1967)The design of a sampled-data nonlinear system for three-axes acceleration measurement is discussed. The basic specific force equation is given, and the equation for the indicated velocity (integral ... -
A Fluidic Temperature Control Using Frequency Modulation and Phase Discrimination
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1967)Methods of using fluidic devices for sensing and controlling temperature were developed for gas turbine engine application. Frequency modulation and phase discrimination techniques were used both ... -
Human Body as an Inconstant Heat Source and Its Relation to Determination of Clothes Insulation: Part 1—Descriptive Models of the Heat Source
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1960)A precise characterization of the thermal resistance of clothes requires an accurate description of the static and dynamic thermal characteristics of the human-heat source. Experimental measurements ...