Examples of leading edge

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Take the reverse-flow trailing edge to lie along the remaining forward-flow leadingedge.
The reason for this not too infrequent occurrence was traced to leaking nozzle seals or pressure holes or to damage on the flat-plate leadingedge.
The non-symmetry is manifested in an abrupt cut-off of the rear edge of the laser pulse compared with its leadingedge.
Flags on the experimental points: leadingedge; trailing edge.
This enables the solution to be found in the regions near both the stationary trailing edge and the moving leadingedge.
Since the a-wave, or at least its leadingedge, reflects the responses of the cones themselves, then one would not expect any opponent mechanisms.
They state, in mathematical language, that the main flow has overrun the waiting front, and its leadingedge has assumed a new name.
This region almost exactly encloses the backflow between the wing leadingedge and the centre of the mean vortex.
Both of these studies used a wing with a circular leadingedge.
The oscillation buildup time of the device, when driven by an electron beam with a rectangular leadingedge, was about 15 oscillation periods.
These three features can also be seen as the mature lines of investigation and analysis by the 'leadingedge' paradigm.
Both represent the same object, namely the leadingedge of the main flow.
As the incident energy increases, the temporal profile of the reflected high-energy pulse shows a smooth and un-modulated envelope with a moderately steep leadingedge.
The dynamics of the leadingedge is described by the linearized equations.
The concept of a convective instability does not provide insight into the nature of a leadingedge.
An analysis of the flow over a leadingedge with distributed roughness is presented.
The large adverse gradients next to the leadingedge were an exaggeration resulting from the local breakdown (non-uniformity) of the linearization discussed earlier.
It is shown that the principal sound is generated by the leadingedge of the aerofoil when i t interacts with the streaming jet.
Figures 5 and 6 show two of the numerical examples for the wings with a straight leadingedge.
At its leadingedge, the depth of the lower layer falls to zero rapidly.
This creates a region of unstable stratification at the leadingedge that does not involve the light fluid eventually overrun by the current.
The strength of the vorticity sources a t the leadingedge will be time-dependent because of the unsteady pressure gradients.
During migration, the cells extend filopodia, and there is extensive ruffling at the leadingedge.
Too often our colleagues have chased the leadingedge of the wave of (sub)urban development.
These drugs did not consistently increase or decrease the amplitude of the leadingedge of the a-wave.
Fore wing with bare area near leadingedge (fig. 34).
The simulation exhibits all features typically observed in experimental flows near the gravity-current head, including the lobe-and-cleft structure at the leadingedge.
Solidification will also be most rapid at the leadingedge of the blob which will also contribute to the narrowing.
Again far downstream from the leadingedge, we expect an asymptotic behaviour independent of streamwise distance.
The three regions to be considered in this problem are the leadingedge, the region far downstream, and the corner.
The leadingedge of a moving cell contains actin filaments that are continually polymerising.
He also reports seeing an intermittent rushing of fluid upstream from the leadingedge of the protuberance in a 'jet' close to the wall.
In this case the separation always grew from the leadingedge during the decelerating half of the cycle.
All disturbance components have their peaks in the region around the leadingedge and decay quickly with increasing distance from the nose.
A drip would normally be placed on the leadingedge of the panel.
The cone is the envelope of the sonic spheres created by the passing of the leadingedge through the shock.
As expected, catalysis from the leadingedge leads to a significant decrease in the atomic oxygen mass fraction near the surface.
It is seen that there are two points of registration for leadingedge and trailing edge of an e-beam current pulse.
The downstream solution is uniformly valid from the leadingedge; therefore, the composite expansion is not necessary for this problem.
Since the second-order contribution grows with distance from the leadingedge, these effects may be quite pronounced near the trailing edge of the plate.
The effect of the trailing edge is to diffract sound waves generated by the leadingedge.
This means adding nodes in such a way that the resolution normal to the leadingedge is greater than in the spanwise resolution.
As previously mentioned, this progression of the leadingedge reflects the dominant influence of the negative vorticity in the outer half of the jet.
The trailing-edge noise is thus an order of magnitude smaller than that from the leadingedge.
Matching this expression through a local edge flow solution gives the boundary conditions for @ at the leadingedge.
There the cavity starts from the leadingedge and the two-dimensional character of detachment is found again.
Three suction perforations were located on the upper surface 450 mm from the leadingedge.
The billowy nature of thermals does not appear to result in excessive scatter when using the leadingedge to define the thermal's position.
A vertical platinum wire of 0.025 mm diameter was placed a t various locations upstream of the leadingedge.
It is by no means certain, however, that the hypothesis that the leadingedge should remain straight throughout the motion is justified.
Numerical evidence tentatively suggests the formation of the fingers, but does not support the appearance of triangular shapes for the leadingedge.
A set of calculations was performed in which the surface was catalytic from the leadingedge.
The gradual increase of the wall velocity at the leadingedge, and decrease at the trailing edge, are also evident in the figure.
This leads on the present over-simplifiedtheory to the suggestion that a hydromechanically advantageous configuration has the leadingedge bowed forward but the trailing edge straight.
This gradient polarizes and thereby guides endothelial cells at the leadingedge of expanding vessel networks, providing a mechanism to control vascular patterning.
Upon saturated amplification, the leadingedge of the pulse experiences higher amplification, which makes the leading front steeper.
Low intensity pulses appearing at the leadingedge of the pulse are artifacts generated by the cross-correlator.
The nature of lead users and measurement of leadingedge status.
The female pronucleus formed during this time and was located at the leadingedge of the egg aster.
The contours also show some negative production in the corner between the wall and the wing leadingedge.
The angle is controlled by adjusting two threaded bolts that support the leadingedge of the alignment plate.
When the sheet is sufficiently elongated, the profile of the free surface shows an upward bulge near the leadingedge.
Fore wing hyaline with bare area near leadingedge (fig. 42).
Averaging with respect to the leadingedge considerably sharpened the gradients in the ensemble mean near the leading edge, without changing its mean position.
The results are undoubtedly much improved but there has been a lot of unnecessary refinement around the leadingedge.
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