Development of viscosity instability in a porous medium

Translated from Zhurnal Prikladnoi Mekhaniki i Tekhnicheskoi Fiziki, No. 2, pp. 116–120, March–April, 1989.     

An investigation of the component composition of the essential oil of Monarda fistulosa

The composition of the essential oil of wild bergamot bee balm introduced into the Krasnodarsk Krai has been analyzed by chromatomass spectrometry. The essential oil contains 34 components of which the main ones are α-pinene (3.5%), β-pinene (2.9%), α-terpinene (1.7%), p-cymene (32.5), an aliphatic aldehyde (6.3%), sabinene hydrate (1.9%), β-caryophyllene (1.1%), the methyl ether of carvacrol (5.5%), citronellyl acetate (1.6%), thymol (12.6%), and carvacrol (24.0%). The compounds were identified on the basis of their mass-spectrometric characteristics and arithmetical retention indices. A. N. Severtsov Institute of Animal Evolutionary Morphology and Ecology, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Moscow. All-Union Scientific-Research Institute of Drugs, Moscow. Translated from Khimiya Prirodnykh Soedinenii, Vol. 5, pp. 646–649, September–October, 1989.     

Structure of saturation jumps in nonequilibrium displacement from porous media

The nonequilibrium displacement characteristics are investigated experimentally and by numerical calculation of the nonequilibrium percolation equations under various conditions of wetting of the porous medium by the displacing and displaced fluids. A scheme for calculating the disequilibrium parameter is proposed.Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Mekhanika Zhidkosti i Gaza, No. 6, pp. 97–104, November–December, 1990.     

Magnetohydrodynamic interaction in hypersonic air flow past a blunt body

Hypersonic MHD air flow past a blunt body in the presence of an external magnetic field is considered. The MHD effect on the flow consists in a significant increase in the shock wave stand-off from the body surface and a significant reduction in the heat flux to the wall (up to 50%). It is shown that even in the presence of a strong Hall effect the intensity of the magnetohydrodynamic interaction in the plasma behind the shock wave remains at a high level commensurable with the ideal case of the absence of a Hall effect.     

Experimental study of viscous instability in a porous medium

Translated from Zhurnal Prikladnoi Mekhaniki i Tekhnicheskoi Fiziki, No. 4, pp. 79–84, July–August, 1989.     

Wave Regimes of Viscous Film Flow down a Vertical Cylinder

The flow of a viscous liquid film down a vertical cylinder in the gravity field is considered. In the case of small Reynolds numbers for long-wave perturbations on a cylinder of radius much greater than the film thickness, the problem can be reduced to a single nonlinear equation for the evolution of the film thickness perturbation. For axially symmetric solutions, this equation coincides with the well-known Sivashinsky-Kuramoto equation. The results of a numerical analysis of this equation for three-dimensional stationary traveling solutions of the problem are reported. The effect of the problem parameters on the solution behavior is demonstrated. Soliton type solutions are presented.     

Reaction–Diffusion Equations in Immunology

Computational Mathematics and Mathematical Physics - The paper is devoted to the recent works on reaction–diffusion models of virus infection dynamics in human and animal organisms. Various...     

A New Approach to Estimation of the Thermal Conductivity of Titanium Alloys

Crystallography Reports - The thermal conductivities of seven titanium alloys (VT1-0, VT18U, VT20, IMI834, Ti6242S, Ti6Al4V, and Ti6Al7Nb) have been measured. According to the data obtained, the...     

Nonstationary periodic spatial waves on the surface of a viscous liquid film falling down a vertical cylinder

The flows of viscous liquid film over the outer surface of a vertical cylinder are examined. Investigation of wave regimes in the case of low flow rates and large cylinder radii is reduced to the analysis of solutions to a nonlinear evolution equation for the film thickness. There are countable numbers of steady-state traveling solution families in the considered model. In turn, most of them are unstable to 2D and 3D perturbations. Thus, evolution of initial perturbations in different ranges of parameter values differs significantly. Some typical scenarios of perturbation development are presented in this work. Initial perturbations with some symmetries, kept in the process of evolution, are of a particular interest. In these cases, solutions are drawn up to the steady-state traveling solutions with similar symmetry.