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Papers by Fazle Hussain

Attention is given to the role of large-scale coherent structures in the enhancement of mixing an... more Attention is given to the role of large-scale coherent structures in the enhancement of mixing and chemical reactions in turbulent free shear flows. Direct numerical simulations of temporally growing but spatially periodic mixing layers are analyzed over a range of Damkoehler numbers through rollup and two successive pairings of the spanwise vortices. Mixing layer behavior with controlled forcing at the

A recent database from direct numerical simulation (DNS) of a turbulent boundary layer (TBL) up t... more A recent database from direct numerical simulation (DNS) of a turbulent boundary layer (TBL) up to Reθ=4300Reθ=4300 (Schlatter and Örlü, 2010) is analysed to extract the dominant flow structures in the near-wall region. In particular, the question of whether hairpin vortices are significant features of near-wall turbulence is addressed. A number of different methods based on the λ2λ2 criterion (Jeong and Hussain, 1995) is used to extract turbulent coherent structures: Three-dimensional flow visualisation with quantitative estimates of hairpin population, conditional averaging and planar hairpin vortex signatures (HVS). First, visualisations show that during the initial phase of laminar-turbulent transition induced via tripping, hairpin vortices evolving from transitional ΛΛ vortices are numerous, and can be considered as the dominant structure of the immediate post-transition stage of the boundary layer. This is in agreement with previous experiments and low-Reynolds-number simulati...

Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 1997

Coherent structures (CS) near the wall (i.e. y+ [less-than-or-eq, slant] 60) in a numerically sim... more Coherent structures (CS) near the wall (i.e. y+ [less-than-or-eq, slant] 60) in a numerically simulated turbulent channel flow are educed using a conditional sampling scheme which extracts the entire extent of dominant vortical structures. Such structures are detected from the instantaneous flow field using our newly developed vortex definition (Jeong & Hussain 1995) a region of negative [lambda]2, the second

Physics of Fluids A: Fluid Dynamics, 1993

A database obtained from direct numerical simulation of a turbulent channel flow is analyzed to e... more A database obtained from direct numerical simulation of a turbulent channel flow is analyzed to extract the streamwise component of the propagation velocity V of velocity, vorticity, and pressure fluctuations from their space‐time correlations. A surprising result is that V is ...

PLoS ONE, 2014

We report cell mechanical changes in response to alteration of expression of the human equilibrat... more We report cell mechanical changes in response to alteration of expression of the human equilibrative nucleoside transporter-1 (hENT1), a most abundant and widely distributed plasma membrane nucleoside transporter in human cells and/or tissues. Modulation of hENT1 expression level altered the stiffness of pancreatic cancer Capan-1 and Panc 03.27 cells, which was analyzed by atomic force microscopy (AFM) and correlated to microfluidic platform. The hENT1 knockdown induced reduction of cellular stiffness in both of cells up to 70%. In addition, cellular phenotypic changes such as cell morphology, migration, and expression level of epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) markers were observed after hENT1 knockdown. Cells with suppressed hENT1 became elongated, migrated faster, and had reduced E-cadherin and elevated Ncadherin compared to parental cells which are consistent with epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT). Those cellular phenotypic changes closely correlated with changes in cellular stiffness. This study suggests that hENT1 expression level affects cellular phenotype and cell elastic behavior can be a physical biomarker for quantify hENT1 expression and detect phenotypic shift. Furthermore, cell mechanics can be a critical tool in detecting disease progression and response to therapy.

Physical Review Letters, 2012

A series of Mach-number- (M) invariant scalings is derived for compressible turbulent boundary la... more A series of Mach-number- (M) invariant scalings is derived for compressible turbulent boundary layers (CTBLs), leading to a viscosity weighted transformation for the mean-velocity profile that is superior to van Driest transformation. The theory is validated by direct numerical simulation of spatially developing CTBLs with M up to 6. A boundary layer edge is introduced to compare different M flows and is shown to better present the M-invariant multilayer structure of CTBLs. The new scalings derived from the kinetic energy balance substantiate Morkovin's hypothesis and promise accurate prediction of the mean profiles of CTBLs.

Physical Review Letters, 2006

We report pulsed field magnetization and ESR experiments on a fCu 3 g nanomagnet, where antiferro... more We report pulsed field magnetization and ESR experiments on a fCu 3 g nanomagnet, where antiferromagnetically coupled Cu 2 (S 1=2) ions form a slightly distorted triangle. The remarkable feature is the observation of a half step magnetization, hysteresis loops, and an asymmetric magnetization between a positive and a negative field in a fast sweeping external field. This is attributed to an adiabatic change of magnetization. The energy levels determined by ESR unveil that the different mixing nature of a spin chirality of a total S 1=2 Kramers doublet by virtue of Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interactions is decisive for inducing half step magnetization.

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Physical Review D, 1984

We present a leading order perturbative QCD calculation of the F meson hadroproducti on and evalu... more We present a leading order perturbative QCD calculation of the F meson hadroproducti on and evaluate the central arid diffractive production cross sections under current and Tevatron Fermilab energies .

Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena, 1989

The reconnection of two antiparallel viscous vortices is simulated in a periodic domain. Reynolds... more The reconnection of two antiparallel viscous vortices is simulated in a periodic domain. Reynolds numbers based on circulation divided by viscosity range from 1600 to 3200. Symmetries are used along with increased resolution in the direction normal to the dividing plane to reduce the computation requirements. As the Reynolds number is increased a significant increase in enstrophy is not seen, but there is a significant increase in the peak vorticity that is consistent with a singularity of the three-dimensional, incompressible Euler equations in a finite time. The re, connection region is characterized by vortex sheets and large relative helieity in the outer regions of the reconnect.ion. A power law regime is found in energy spectra.

Optics Letters, 1993

An innovative multibeam holographic particle velocimetry technique is described for three-dimensi... more An innovative multibeam holographic particle velocimetry technique is described for three-dimensional flowvelocity measurement.

Journal of the Optical Society of America A, 1993

In-line holography of particle fields suffers from image deterioration caused by intrinsic speckl... more In-line holography of particle fields suffers from image deterioration caused by intrinsic speckle noise. This is not accounted for by previous theoretical treatments based on the scattering of a single particle, nor has there been any quantitative description of this noise except for an empirical criterion by Royer [Nouv. Rev. Opt. 5, 87 (1974)] based on geometrical obscuration. We develop a theoretical model for in-line holography of multiple particles, using diffraction theory and statistical analysis, and show that the virtual image of the particle ensemble is the dominant source of speckle in reconstruction. We quantify the effect of speckle with a signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). The SNR is found to depend on a speckle parameter (which embodies particle diameter, concentration, and sample depth) and on the film gamma. Experimental results show reasonably good agreement with our model. The SNR equation provides prediction of image quality and thence application limits of in-line holography for particle fields. The fundamental understanding obtained here points not only to constraints but also to possible improvements in experimental procedures.

Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, 2009

... Analysis of a nanochanneled membrane structure through convective gas flow Alessandro Gratton... more ... Analysis of a nanochanneled membrane structure through convective gas flow Alessandro Grattoni1, Enrica De Rosa1, Silvia Ferrati1, Zongxing Wang2, Anna Gianesini1, Xuewu Liu1, Fazle Hussain3, Randy Goodall4 and Mauro Ferrari1,5,6,7 ...

Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 1991

The interaction of two identical circular viscous vortex rings starting in a side-byside configur... more The interaction of two identical circular viscous vortex rings starting in a side-byside configuration is investigated by solving the Navier-Stokes equation using a spectral method with 643 grid points. This study covers initial Reynolds numbers (ratio of circulation to viscosity) up to 1153. The vortices undergo two successive reconnections, fusion and jhsion, as has been visualized experimentally, but the simulation shows topological details not observed in experiments. The shapes of the evolving vortex rings are different for different initial conditions, but the mechanism of the reconnection is explained by bridging ) except that the bridges are created on the front of the dipole close to the position of the maximum strain rate. Spatial structures of various field quantities are compared. It is found that domains of high energy dissipation and high enstrophy production overlap, and that they are highly localized in space compared with the regions of concentrated vorticity. The kinetic energy decays according to the same power laws as found in fully developed turbulence, consistent with concentrated regions of energy dissipation. The main vortex cores survive for a relatively long time. On the other hand, the helicity density which is higher in roots of bridges and threads (or legs) changes rapidly in time. The high-helicity-density and high-energy-dissipation regions overlap significantly although their peaks do not always do so. Thus a longlived structure may carry high-vorticity rather than necessarily high-helicity density. It is shown that the time evolution of concentration of a passive scalar is quite different from that of the vorticity field, confirming our longstanding warning against relying too heavily on flow visualization in laboratory experiments for studying vortex dynamics and coherent structures.

Journal of Controlled Release, 2012

Nanoparticles for cancer therapy and imaging are designed to accumulate in the diseased tissue by... more Nanoparticles for cancer therapy and imaging are designed to accumulate in the diseased tissue by exploiting the Enhanced Permeability and Retention (EPR) effect. This limits their size to about 100 nm. Here, using intravital microscopy and elemental analysis, we compare the in vivo localization of particles with different geometries and demonstrate that plateloid particles preferentially accumulate within the tumor vasculature at unprecedented levels, independent of the EPR effect. In melanoma-bearing mice, 1000× 400 nm plateloid particles adhered to the tumor vasculature at about 5% and 10% of the injected dose per gram organ (ID/g) for untargeted and RGD-targeted particles respectively, and exhibited the highest tumor-to-liver accumulation ratios (0.22 and 0.35). Smaller and larger plateloid particles, as well as cylindroid particles, were more extensively sequestered by the liver, spleen, and lungs. Plateloid particles appeared well-suited for taking advantage of hydrodynamic forces and interfacial interactions required for efficient tumoritropic accumulation, even without using specific targeting ligands.

Journal of Computational Physics, 2011

We present a successful hierarchical modeling approach which accounts for interface effects on di... more We present a successful hierarchical modeling approach which accounts for interface effects on diffusivity, ignored in classical continuum theories. A molecular dynamics derived diffusivity scaling scheme is incorporated into a finite element method to model transport through a nanochannel. In a 5 nm nanochannel, the approach predicts 2.2 times slower mass release than predicted by Fick's law by comparing time spent to release 90% of mass. The scheme was validated by predicting experimental glucose diffusion through a nanofluidic membrane with a correlation coefficient of 0.999. Comparison with experiments through a nanofluidic membrane showed interface effects to be crucial. We show robustness of our discrete continuum model in addressing complex diffusion phenomena in biomedical and engineering applications by providing flexible hierarchical coupling of molecular scale effects and preserving computational finite element method speed.

Fluid Dynamics Research, 1991

To understand the topology and dynamics of coherent structures (CS), the interactions of CS with ... more To understand the topology and dynamics of coherent structures (CS), the interactions of CS with fine-scale turbulence, and the effects of CS on entrainment, mixing and combustion, experimental tools are needed that can measure velocity (preferably vorticity) vector fields in both 3D space and time. While traditional measurement techniques

ASAIO Journal, 2005

1 Mechanical Engineering, Rice University, TX; 2 Mechanical Engineering, University of Houston, T... more 1 Mechanical Engineering, Rice University, TX; 2 Mechanical Engineering, University of Houston, TX; 3 Center for Computational Engineering Science, RWTH Aachen University, Germany; 4 Chemical Engineering, Rice University, TX; 5 Center for Artificial Organ ...

Applied Optics, 1995

Prior approaches 1e.g., off-axis holography2 to overcoming the limitations of in-line holography ... more Prior approaches 1e.g., off-axis holography2 to overcoming the limitations of in-line holography for particle fields, namely, intrinsic speckle noise and depth resolution, involved an increased complexity of the optical system. The in-line recording and off-axis viewing 1IROV2 technique employs a single laser beam to record an in-line hologram, which is then viewed off axis during reconstruction. The signal-to-noise ratio and depth resolution of IROV are higher than conventional in-line holography by an order of magnitude and are comparable with off-axis holography. IROV is a much simpler approach than off-axis holography and is highly promising for holographic particle velocimetry. Measurements of the threedimensional flow velocity field of a vortex ring obtained by an IROV-based holographic particle velocimetry system are presented.

Physics of Fluids, 1994

The effects of coherent structures on mixing and chemical reaction in a temporally growing plane ... more The effects of coherent structures on mixing and chemical reaction in a temporally growing plane mixing layer are studied by direct numerical simulations of an incompressible flow with binary, irreversible, isothermal reactions. ‘‘Rolls’’ and ‘‘ribs’’ (counter-rotating longitudinal vortices connecting the nominally spanwise rolls) give rise to two distinctively different shapes for probability density functions (PDFs) of species concentration. It is

Attention is given to the role of large-scale coherent structures in the enhancement of mixing an... more Attention is given to the role of large-scale coherent structures in the enhancement of mixing and chemical reactions in turbulent free shear flows. Direct numerical simulations of temporally growing but spatially periodic mixing layers are analyzed over a range of Damkoehler numbers through rollup and two successive pairings of the spanwise vortices. Mixing layer behavior with controlled forcing at the

A recent database from direct numerical simulation (DNS) of a turbulent boundary layer (TBL) up t... more A recent database from direct numerical simulation (DNS) of a turbulent boundary layer (TBL) up to Reθ=4300Reθ=4300 (Schlatter and Örlü, 2010) is analysed to extract the dominant flow structures in the near-wall region. In particular, the question of whether hairpin vortices are significant features of near-wall turbulence is addressed. A number of different methods based on the λ2λ2 criterion (Jeong and Hussain, 1995) is used to extract turbulent coherent structures: Three-dimensional flow visualisation with quantitative estimates of hairpin population, conditional averaging and planar hairpin vortex signatures (HVS). First, visualisations show that during the initial phase of laminar-turbulent transition induced via tripping, hairpin vortices evolving from transitional ΛΛ vortices are numerous, and can be considered as the dominant structure of the immediate post-transition stage of the boundary layer. This is in agreement with previous experiments and low-Reynolds-number simulati...

Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 1997

Coherent structures (CS) near the wall (i.e. y+ [less-than-or-eq, slant] 60) in a numerically sim... more Coherent structures (CS) near the wall (i.e. y+ [less-than-or-eq, slant] 60) in a numerically simulated turbulent channel flow are educed using a conditional sampling scheme which extracts the entire extent of dominant vortical structures. Such structures are detected from the instantaneous flow field using our newly developed vortex definition (Jeong & Hussain 1995) a region of negative [lambda]2, the second

Physics of Fluids A: Fluid Dynamics, 1993

A database obtained from direct numerical simulation of a turbulent channel flow is analyzed to e... more A database obtained from direct numerical simulation of a turbulent channel flow is analyzed to extract the streamwise component of the propagation velocity V of velocity, vorticity, and pressure fluctuations from their space‐time correlations. A surprising result is that V is ...

PLoS ONE, 2014

We report cell mechanical changes in response to alteration of expression of the human equilibrat... more We report cell mechanical changes in response to alteration of expression of the human equilibrative nucleoside transporter-1 (hENT1), a most abundant and widely distributed plasma membrane nucleoside transporter in human cells and/or tissues. Modulation of hENT1 expression level altered the stiffness of pancreatic cancer Capan-1 and Panc 03.27 cells, which was analyzed by atomic force microscopy (AFM) and correlated to microfluidic platform. The hENT1 knockdown induced reduction of cellular stiffness in both of cells up to 70%. In addition, cellular phenotypic changes such as cell morphology, migration, and expression level of epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) markers were observed after hENT1 knockdown. Cells with suppressed hENT1 became elongated, migrated faster, and had reduced E-cadherin and elevated Ncadherin compared to parental cells which are consistent with epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT). Those cellular phenotypic changes closely correlated with changes in cellular stiffness. This study suggests that hENT1 expression level affects cellular phenotype and cell elastic behavior can be a physical biomarker for quantify hENT1 expression and detect phenotypic shift. Furthermore, cell mechanics can be a critical tool in detecting disease progression and response to therapy.

Physical Review Letters, 2012

A series of Mach-number- (M) invariant scalings is derived for compressible turbulent boundary la... more A series of Mach-number- (M) invariant scalings is derived for compressible turbulent boundary layers (CTBLs), leading to a viscosity weighted transformation for the mean-velocity profile that is superior to van Driest transformation. The theory is validated by direct numerical simulation of spatially developing CTBLs with M up to 6. A boundary layer edge is introduced to compare different M flows and is shown to better present the M-invariant multilayer structure of CTBLs. The new scalings derived from the kinetic energy balance substantiate Morkovin's hypothesis and promise accurate prediction of the mean profiles of CTBLs.

Physical Review Letters, 2006

We report pulsed field magnetization and ESR experiments on a fCu 3 g nanomagnet, where antiferro... more We report pulsed field magnetization and ESR experiments on a fCu 3 g nanomagnet, where antiferromagnetically coupled Cu 2 (S 1=2) ions form a slightly distorted triangle. The remarkable feature is the observation of a half step magnetization, hysteresis loops, and an asymmetric magnetization between a positive and a negative field in a fast sweeping external field. This is attributed to an adiabatic change of magnetization. The energy levels determined by ESR unveil that the different mixing nature of a spin chirality of a total S 1=2 Kramers doublet by virtue of Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interactions is decisive for inducing half step magnetization.

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Physical Review D, 1984

We present a leading order perturbative QCD calculation of the F meson hadroproducti on and evalu... more We present a leading order perturbative QCD calculation of the F meson hadroproducti on and evaluate the central arid diffractive production cross sections under current and Tevatron Fermilab energies .

Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena, 1989

The reconnection of two antiparallel viscous vortices is simulated in a periodic domain. Reynolds... more The reconnection of two antiparallel viscous vortices is simulated in a periodic domain. Reynolds numbers based on circulation divided by viscosity range from 1600 to 3200. Symmetries are used along with increased resolution in the direction normal to the dividing plane to reduce the computation requirements. As the Reynolds number is increased a significant increase in enstrophy is not seen, but there is a significant increase in the peak vorticity that is consistent with a singularity of the three-dimensional, incompressible Euler equations in a finite time. The re, connection region is characterized by vortex sheets and large relative helieity in the outer regions of the reconnect.ion. A power law regime is found in energy spectra.

Optics Letters, 1993

An innovative multibeam holographic particle velocimetry technique is described for three-dimensi... more An innovative multibeam holographic particle velocimetry technique is described for three-dimensional flowvelocity measurement.

Journal of the Optical Society of America A, 1993

In-line holography of particle fields suffers from image deterioration caused by intrinsic speckl... more In-line holography of particle fields suffers from image deterioration caused by intrinsic speckle noise. This is not accounted for by previous theoretical treatments based on the scattering of a single particle, nor has there been any quantitative description of this noise except for an empirical criterion by Royer [Nouv. Rev. Opt. 5, 87 (1974)] based on geometrical obscuration. We develop a theoretical model for in-line holography of multiple particles, using diffraction theory and statistical analysis, and show that the virtual image of the particle ensemble is the dominant source of speckle in reconstruction. We quantify the effect of speckle with a signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). The SNR is found to depend on a speckle parameter (which embodies particle diameter, concentration, and sample depth) and on the film gamma. Experimental results show reasonably good agreement with our model. The SNR equation provides prediction of image quality and thence application limits of in-line holography for particle fields. The fundamental understanding obtained here points not only to constraints but also to possible improvements in experimental procedures.

Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, 2009

... Analysis of a nanochanneled membrane structure through convective gas flow Alessandro Gratton... more ... Analysis of a nanochanneled membrane structure through convective gas flow Alessandro Grattoni1, Enrica De Rosa1, Silvia Ferrati1, Zongxing Wang2, Anna Gianesini1, Xuewu Liu1, Fazle Hussain3, Randy Goodall4 and Mauro Ferrari1,5,6,7 ...

Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 1991

The interaction of two identical circular viscous vortex rings starting in a side-byside configur... more The interaction of two identical circular viscous vortex rings starting in a side-byside configuration is investigated by solving the Navier-Stokes equation using a spectral method with 643 grid points. This study covers initial Reynolds numbers (ratio of circulation to viscosity) up to 1153. The vortices undergo two successive reconnections, fusion and jhsion, as has been visualized experimentally, but the simulation shows topological details not observed in experiments. The shapes of the evolving vortex rings are different for different initial conditions, but the mechanism of the reconnection is explained by bridging ) except that the bridges are created on the front of the dipole close to the position of the maximum strain rate. Spatial structures of various field quantities are compared. It is found that domains of high energy dissipation and high enstrophy production overlap, and that they are highly localized in space compared with the regions of concentrated vorticity. The kinetic energy decays according to the same power laws as found in fully developed turbulence, consistent with concentrated regions of energy dissipation. The main vortex cores survive for a relatively long time. On the other hand, the helicity density which is higher in roots of bridges and threads (or legs) changes rapidly in time. The high-helicity-density and high-energy-dissipation regions overlap significantly although their peaks do not always do so. Thus a longlived structure may carry high-vorticity rather than necessarily high-helicity density. It is shown that the time evolution of concentration of a passive scalar is quite different from that of the vorticity field, confirming our longstanding warning against relying too heavily on flow visualization in laboratory experiments for studying vortex dynamics and coherent structures.

Journal of Controlled Release, 2012

Nanoparticles for cancer therapy and imaging are designed to accumulate in the diseased tissue by... more Nanoparticles for cancer therapy and imaging are designed to accumulate in the diseased tissue by exploiting the Enhanced Permeability and Retention (EPR) effect. This limits their size to about 100 nm. Here, using intravital microscopy and elemental analysis, we compare the in vivo localization of particles with different geometries and demonstrate that plateloid particles preferentially accumulate within the tumor vasculature at unprecedented levels, independent of the EPR effect. In melanoma-bearing mice, 1000× 400 nm plateloid particles adhered to the tumor vasculature at about 5% and 10% of the injected dose per gram organ (ID/g) for untargeted and RGD-targeted particles respectively, and exhibited the highest tumor-to-liver accumulation ratios (0.22 and 0.35). Smaller and larger plateloid particles, as well as cylindroid particles, were more extensively sequestered by the liver, spleen, and lungs. Plateloid particles appeared well-suited for taking advantage of hydrodynamic forces and interfacial interactions required for efficient tumoritropic accumulation, even without using specific targeting ligands.

Journal of Computational Physics, 2011

We present a successful hierarchical modeling approach which accounts for interface effects on di... more We present a successful hierarchical modeling approach which accounts for interface effects on diffusivity, ignored in classical continuum theories. A molecular dynamics derived diffusivity scaling scheme is incorporated into a finite element method to model transport through a nanochannel. In a 5 nm nanochannel, the approach predicts 2.2 times slower mass release than predicted by Fick's law by comparing time spent to release 90% of mass. The scheme was validated by predicting experimental glucose diffusion through a nanofluidic membrane with a correlation coefficient of 0.999. Comparison with experiments through a nanofluidic membrane showed interface effects to be crucial. We show robustness of our discrete continuum model in addressing complex diffusion phenomena in biomedical and engineering applications by providing flexible hierarchical coupling of molecular scale effects and preserving computational finite element method speed.

Fluid Dynamics Research, 1991

To understand the topology and dynamics of coherent structures (CS), the interactions of CS with ... more To understand the topology and dynamics of coherent structures (CS), the interactions of CS with fine-scale turbulence, and the effects of CS on entrainment, mixing and combustion, experimental tools are needed that can measure velocity (preferably vorticity) vector fields in both 3D space and time. While traditional measurement techniques

ASAIO Journal, 2005

1 Mechanical Engineering, Rice University, TX; 2 Mechanical Engineering, University of Houston, T... more 1 Mechanical Engineering, Rice University, TX; 2 Mechanical Engineering, University of Houston, TX; 3 Center for Computational Engineering Science, RWTH Aachen University, Germany; 4 Chemical Engineering, Rice University, TX; 5 Center for Artificial Organ ...

Applied Optics, 1995

Prior approaches 1e.g., off-axis holography2 to overcoming the limitations of in-line holography ... more Prior approaches 1e.g., off-axis holography2 to overcoming the limitations of in-line holography for particle fields, namely, intrinsic speckle noise and depth resolution, involved an increased complexity of the optical system. The in-line recording and off-axis viewing 1IROV2 technique employs a single laser beam to record an in-line hologram, which is then viewed off axis during reconstruction. The signal-to-noise ratio and depth resolution of IROV are higher than conventional in-line holography by an order of magnitude and are comparable with off-axis holography. IROV is a much simpler approach than off-axis holography and is highly promising for holographic particle velocimetry. Measurements of the threedimensional flow velocity field of a vortex ring obtained by an IROV-based holographic particle velocimetry system are presented.

Physics of Fluids, 1994

The effects of coherent structures on mixing and chemical reaction in a temporally growing plane ... more The effects of coherent structures on mixing and chemical reaction in a temporally growing plane mixing layer are studied by direct numerical simulations of an incompressible flow with binary, irreversible, isothermal reactions. ‘‘Rolls’’ and ‘‘ribs’’ (counter-rotating longitudinal vortices connecting the nominally spanwise rolls) give rise to two distinctively different shapes for probability density functions (PDFs) of species concentration. It is