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Examples of vane

vane
The helical vortex precesses about the tube centreline in the same direction as the rotation imparted by the swirl vanes.
Examples include heart valve leaflets, parachute canopies, thin airfoils (including bird, insect, or bat wings), sails, kites, flags, and weather vanes.
The vortex centre and free stagnation point were found using the vane probe.
This effect would be minimized if the vanes are made perfectly symmetric.
A turbo molecular pump, backed by a rotary vane pump is connected to the chamber.
Nevertheless, it is important to remember here that the vane was of k i t e size; a 1.0 cm square.
This is a very thin vane, normally 1 x 1cm, mounted on a spindle so that the vane can rotate.
If this idea was completely correct the vane would have reversed its direction of rotation as it was moved into the core.
Both a turbine airflow meter indicating to 0.1 m/s and a sensitive wind vane did not respond to airflow in the experimental area.
Discharge was controlled independently of the swirl vanes with a motoroperated cone valve at the upstream end of the stilling chamber.
The inertial oscillations, though unsteady, may produce a non-linear higher order steady component by interacting with the vanes in the tank.
Vane directions agreed everywhere with the calculated streamline directions, within the ability of the eye to judge.
These conditioning units included diffusers, corner vanes, a honeycomb, screens and a contraction and were inserted within the channel to suppress any spatial and temporal nonuniformity of the flow.
This is illustrated by the weather vane.
Vane was himself surprised that there had not been more escapes and, therefore, damage.
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