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  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,412 Views
26 Pages

9 September 2021

In a high viscosity, polymeric fluid initially at rest, the release of elastic energy produces vorticity in the form of coherent motions (vortex rings). Such behavior may enhance mixing in the low Reynolds number flows encountered in microfluidic app...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,218 Views
11 Pages

Generation of Vortex Lattices at the Liquid–Gas Interface Using Rotating Surface Waves

  • Hua Xia,
  • Nicolas Francois,
  • Jean-Baptiste Gorce,
  • Horst Punzmann and
  • Michael Shats

16 April 2019

In this paper, we demonstrate experimentally that by generating two orthogonal standing waves at the liquid surface, one can control the motion of floating microparticles. The mechanism of the vortex generation is somewhat similar to a classical Stok...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,119 Views
13 Pages

A Preliminary Study on the Inversion Method for the Refraction Structure Parameter from Vortex Electromagnetic Waves

  • Qixiang Liao,
  • Zheng Sheng,
  • Shudao Zhou,
  • Peng Guo,
  • Zhiyong Long,
  • Mingyuan He and
  • Jiping Guan

15 June 2023

When vortex electromagnetic waves propagate through a turbulent atmosphere, the amplitude and phase of the electromagnetic waves are disturbed, creating the scintillation effect. According to the scintillation index of vortex waves, a new method of r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,083 Views
19 Pages

Targets’ Radial and Tangential Velocities Estimation Based on Vortex Electromagnetic Waves

  • Caipin Li,
  • Shengyuan Li,
  • Dong You,
  • Wencan Peng,
  • Jinwei Li,
  • Yu Li,
  • Qiang Li and
  • Zhanye Chen

9 August 2022

The orbital angular momentum (OAM) of a vortex electromagnetic wave (VEW) has gained attention as a newly explored information carrier. OAM modes provide vortex azimuth resolution, which is a new degree of freedom (DOF) in radar application. Due to t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,968 Views
21 Pages

An Efficient Method for Simulating Typhoon Waves Based on a Modified Holland Vortex Model

  • Lvqing Wang,
  • Zhaozi Zhang,
  • Bingchen Liang,
  • Dongyoung Lee and
  • Shaoyang Luo

A combination of the WAVEWATCH III (WW3) model and a modified Holland vortex model is developed and studied in the present work. The Holland 2010 model is modified with two improvements: the first is a new scaling parameter, bs, that is formulated wi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,917 Views
16 Pages

The Hydrodynamic Behavior of Vortex Shedding behind Circular Cylinder in the Presence of Group Focused Waves

  • Iskander Abroug,
  • Nizar Abcha,
  • Fahd Mejri,
  • Emma Imen Turki and
  • Elena Ojeda

22 December 2021

Vortex shedding behind an elastically mounted circular cylinder in the presence of group focused waves propagating upstream was investigated using a classical approach (time series and FFT) and nonclassical approach (complex 2D Morlet wavelets). Wave...

  • Article
  • Open Access
943 Views
20 Pages

In this study, an unsteady vortex element method is applied to the analysis of a horizontal wing in order to investigate its propulsive performance when operating as a biomimetic thruster. The foil undergoes a combined heaving and pitching motion at...

  • Article
  • Open Access
819 Views
21 Pages

The Aggregated Electromagnetic Vortex Wave and Multi-Modal Imaging Experiment

  • Caipin Li,
  • Xiaomin Tan,
  • Shitao Zhu,
  • Shengyuan Li,
  • Dong You,
  • Jiao Liu,
  • Wencan Peng,
  • Tao Wu,
  • Yifeng He and
  • Zhuo Zhang
  • + 1 author

25 October 2025

Electromagnetic vortex waves have received widespread attention in many fields due to their unique physical characteristics. The information dimension provided by vortex electromagnetic waves brings possibilities for future breakthroughs in radar det...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,814 Views
19 Pages

28 May 2021

In modern turbine rotors, tip-leakage flow is a common phenomenon that accounts for about 1/3 of the stage loss. Studies show that as the imposed load increases, a shock wave appears in the tip region, which causes a significant interference on the l...

  • Technical Note
  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,631 Views
13 Pages

Three-Dimensional Imaging with Bistatic Vortex Electromagnetic Wave Radar

  • Jia Liang,
  • Qun Zhang,
  • Ying Luo,
  • Hang Yuan and
  • Yijun Chen

21 June 2022

The vortex electromagnetic wave radar based on monostatic geometry can realize the imaging of a radar target in both range dimension and azimuth dimension by adjusting vortex electromagnetic wave modes, but it has no ability to distinguish the elevat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
546 Views
21 Pages

The tip leakage flow at both sides of the nozzle vane is an important factor for the reduction in turbine aerothermal performance. A strong shock wave is generated at the trailing edge of the nozzle vane under transonic condition, which can interfere...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,331 Views
15 Pages

Application of Near-Far Field Conversion to Measurement of Scattering on Bessel Vortex Electromagnetic Wave

  • Zhe Wu,
  • Yu Yun,
  • Nengwu Liu,
  • Jiaji Wu,
  • Zhensen Wu,
  • Lingkun Ma and
  • Agostino Monorchio

21 January 2025

The measurement and analysis of the interaction between Bessel vortex electromagnetic (EM) and several standard targets are presented in this paper. With the aid of the angular spectrum expansion (ASE) method and physics optics (PO) theorem, scatteri...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,513 Views
14 Pages

Flow and Combustion Characteristics of Wave Rotor–Trapped Vortex Combustor System

  • Yiqin Kang,
  • Chenlu Wang,
  • Gangyi Fang,
  • Fei Xing and
  • Shining Chan

28 December 2022

Breaking through the limit of conventional compression and combustion, wave rotor and trapped vortex combustors are able to improve the thermal efficiency of gas turbines. Detailed two-dimensional numerical simulations based on Ansys Fluent were perf...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
2,894 Views
12 Pages

By using the two-frequency coherence function model of a beam in a turbulent medium and the localized wave theory of the polychromatic beam, we develop the spectrum average mutual coherence function of the localized wave of Bessel–Gaussian ampl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,486 Views
35 Pages

Evolution of Velocity Field and Vortex Structure during Run-Down of Solitary Wave over Very Steep Beach

  • Chang Lin,
  • Wei-Ying Wong,
  • Ming-Jer Kao,
  • Ching-Piao Tsai,
  • Hwung-Hweng Hwung,
  • Yun-Ta Wu and
  • Rajkumar V. Raikar

23 November 2018

An experimental results on the spatio-temporal variation of velocity field and vortex structure, generated from the separated boundary layers on the offshore side of the still-water shoreline, during the run-down process of non-breaking solitary wave...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
2,928 Views
19 Pages

2 June 2023

Vortex electromagnetic (EM) waves, with different orbital angular momentum (OAM) modes, have the ability to distinguish the azimuth of radar targets, and then the two-dimensional reconstruction of the targets can be achieved. However, the vortex EM w...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,775 Views
11 Pages

Quarter-Wave Plate Metasurfaces for Generating Multi-Channel Vortex Beams

  • Ziheng Zhang,
  • Manna Gu,
  • Guosen Cui,
  • Yuxiang Zhou,
  • Teng Ma,
  • Kaixin Zhao,
  • Yunxiao Li,
  • Chunxiang Liu,
  • Chuanfu Cheng and
  • Li Ma

17 February 2024

Metasurfaces of quarter-wave plate (QWP) meta-atoms have exhibited high flexibility and versatile functionalities in the manipulation of light fields. However, the generation of multi-channel vortex beams with the QWP meta-atom metasurfaces presents...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,129 Views
23 Pages

The vortex-induced motion response of semi-submersible platforms can result in fatigue damage to the mooring and riser systems, thereby compromising production safety. Consequently, investigating the characteristics and mechanisms of vortex-induced m...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,404 Views
29 Pages

Numerical Investigation on Unsteady Shock Wave/Vortex/Turbulent Boundary Layer Interactions of a Hypersonic Vehicle during Its Shroud Separation

  • Pengcheng Cui,
  • Hongyin Jia,
  • Jiangtao Chen,
  • Guiyu Zhou,
  • Xiaojun Wu,
  • Mingsheng Ma,
  • Huan Li and
  • Jing Tang

19 October 2022

Hypersonic vehicles are drawing more and more attention now and for the near future, especially in the low-altitudes near space, from 20 km to 45 km. The reliable separation of the protecting shroud from the hypersonic vehicle is a prerequisite and c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,235 Views
16 Pages

Analysis of Gravity Wave Characteristics during a Hailstone Event in the Cold Vortex of Northeast China

  • Xiujuan Wang,
  • Lingkun Ran,
  • Yanbin Qi,
  • Zhongbao Jiang,
  • Tian Yun and
  • Baofeng Jiao

20 February 2023

Based on high-resolution pressure data collected by a microbarograph and Fourier transform (FFT) data processing, a detailed analysis of the frequency spectra characteristics of gravity waves during a hailstone event in the cold vortex of Northeast C...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,537 Views
21 Pages

27 May 2024

Vortex electromagnetic wave radar carrying orbital angular momentum can compensate for the deficiency of planar electromagnetic wave radar in detecting motion parameters perpendicular to the direction of electromagnetic wave propagation, thus providi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,700 Views
15 Pages

Longitudinal Multi-Channel Focused Vortex and Vector Beams Generation by Quarter-Wave Plate Meta-Atom Metasurfaces

  • Teng Ma,
  • Kaixin Zhao,
  • Manna Gu,
  • Haoyan Zhou,
  • Chunxiang Liu,
  • Chuanfu Cheng,
  • Qingrui Dong and
  • Li Ma

20 February 2025

Metasurface-based longitudinal modulation introduces the propagation distance as a new degree of freedom, extending the light modulation with metasurfaces from 2D to 3D space. However, relevant longitudinal studies have been constrained to designing...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,795 Views
13 Pages

In this paper, tight focusing of a superposition of a vortex laser beam with topological charge n with linear polarization and a plane wave with the same linear polarization directed along the horizontal axis is considered. Using the Richards–W...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,751 Views
18 Pages

Micro-Motion Parameter Extraction of Multi-Scattering-Point Target Based on Vortex Electromagnetic Wave Radar

  • Lijun Bu,
  • Yongzhong Zhu,
  • Yijun Chen,
  • Xiaoou Song,
  • Yufei Yang and
  • Yadan Zang

22 November 2022

In addition to traditional linear Doppler shift, the angular Doppler shift in vortex electromagnetic wave (VEMW) radar systems carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM) can provide more accurate target identification micro-motion parameters, especially...

  • Article
  • Open Access
608 Views
15 Pages

22 August 2025

Vortex electromagnetic (EM) waves exhibit spiral wavefront phase distributions, owing to their orbital angular momentum (OAM). Thus, the scattered waves from targets contain OAM characteristics, demonstrating novel scattering properties. Although res...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,634 Views
17 Pages

In order to investigate the effects of the top-end dynamic boundary of risers caused by floater motions on their vortex-induced vibration (VIV) characteristics, a combined model comprising a buoyancy can with a relatively simple structural form and a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
6,006 Views
27 Pages

Floating offshore structures (FOS) must be designed to be stable, to float, and to be able to support other structures for which they were designed. These FOS are needed for different transfer operations in oil terminals. However, water waves affect...

  • Article
  • Open Access
46 Citations
7,000 Views
15 Pages

13 July 2016

Integrating wave energy converters with breakwaters is a promising concept for wave energy utilization. On the basis of fulfilling the wave protection demands, pile-supported Oscillating Water Column (OWC)-type breakwaters can also meet the local nee...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,359 Views
13 Pages

5 September 2023

Fifty years of daily ERA5 reanalysis data are employed to investigate the linkages between the strength of the stratospheric polar vortex and the tropospheric polar vortex during the boreal winter. The strong coupling events, anomalies in both the st...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
830 Views
17 Pages

2 April 2025

Orbital angular momentum beams have been extensively researched due to their ability to enhance the channel capacity of microwave systems. Metasurface near-field calculations of different sizes have been completed. Near-field calculations with Gaussi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
4,076 Views
12 Pages

A Novel Scheme for MIMO-SAR Systems Using Rotational Orbital Angular Momentum

  • Xiangxi Bu,
  • Zhuo Zhang,
  • Xingdong Liang,
  • Longyong Chen,
  • Haibo Tang,
  • Zheng Zeng and
  • Jie Wang

18 October 2018

The vortex electromagnetic (EM) wave with orbital angular momentum (OAM) brings a new degree of freedom for synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging, although to date, its application to multi-input multi-output (MIMO) SAR has not yet been widely repor...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,609 Views
15 Pages

3 March 2019

Atmospheric turbulence has an impact on the transmission of electromagnetic vortex waves with an orbital angular momentum (OAM) mode. In this paper, based on the joint atmospheric turbulence model, we examine the influence of atmospheric turbulence o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,131 Views
9 Pages

10 February 2025

Through comprehensive research on the working principles of the generalized Snell’s law, this paper presents a quasi-metasurface based on the theory of wavefront difference. The proposed structure successfully demonstrates the vortex manipulati...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,569 Views
18 Pages

The Fundamental Regularities of the Evolution of Elastic Vortices Generated in the Surface Layers of Solids under Tangential Contact Loading

  • Evgeny V. Shilko,
  • Sergey V. Astafurov,
  • Alexandr S. Grigoriev,
  • Alexey Yu. Smolin and
  • Sergey G. Psakhie

Conventionally discussed dynamic mechanisms of elastic strain energy redistribution in near-contact surface regions include P and S elastic wave pulses radiating from the contact surface. At the same time, the elastic strain energy can be transferred...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,884 Views
21 Pages

Evaluating Long-Term Variability of the Arctic Stratospheric Polar Vortex Simulated by CMIP6 Models

  • Siyi Zhao,
  • Jiankai Zhang,
  • Chongyang Zhang,
  • Mian Xu,
  • James Keeble,
  • Zhe Wang and
  • Xufan Xia

21 September 2022

The Arctic stratospheric polar vortex is a key component of the climate system, which has significant impacts on surface temperatures in the mid-latitudes and polar regions. Therefore, understanding polar vortex variability is helpful for extended-ra...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,969 Views
17 Pages

22 October 2020

Wave attenuation for the purpose of coastal protection has been an important topic in coastal engineering. Wave attenuation in relation to the vortices induced by a solitary-like wave propagating over submerged breakwaters (BWs) is discussed in this...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,856 Views
20 Pages

Study on Aerodynamic Performance and Wake Characteristics of a Floating Offshore Wind Turbine in Wind–Wave Coupling Field

  • Xiaoling Liang,
  • Zheng Li,
  • Xingxing Han,
  • Shifeng Fu,
  • Weijun Zhu,
  • Tianmei Pu,
  • Zhenye Sun,
  • Hua Yang and
  • Wenzhong Shen

22 June 2024

Floating offshore wind turbines (FOWTs) exhibit complex motion with multiple degrees of freedom due to the interaction of wind and waves. The aerodynamic performance and wake characteristics of these turbines are highly intricate and challenging to a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,629 Views
13 Pages

Enhanced Detection in Droplet Microfluidics by Acoustic Vortex Modulation of Particle Rings and Particle Clusters via Asymmetric Propagation of Surface Acoustic Waves

  • Yukai Liu,
  • Miaomiao Ji,
  • Nanxin Yu,
  • Caiqin Zhao,
  • Gang Xue,
  • Wenxiao Fu,
  • Xiaojun Qiao,
  • Yichi Zhang,
  • Xiujian Chou and
  • Wenping Geng

10 June 2022

As a basis for biometric and chemical analysis, issues of how to dilute or concentrate substances such as particles or cells to specific concentrations have long been of interest to researchers. In this study, travelling surface acoustic wave (TSAW)-...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,143 Views
19 Pages

16 April 2024

Three-dimensional (3D) computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations have been carried out to investigate the complex interaction of a planar shock wave (Ma = 1.22) with a cylindrical bubble. The unsteady Reynolds-averaged Navier–Stokes (URANS...

  • Technical Note
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,596 Views
13 Pages

Zonal Asymmetry of the Stratopause in the 2019/2020 Arctic Winter

  • Yu Shi,
  • Oleksandr Evtushevsky,
  • Gennadi Milinevsky,
  • Andrew Klekociuk,
  • Wei Han,
  • Oksana Ivaniha,
  • Yulia Andrienko,
  • Valery Shulga and
  • Chenning Zhang

20 March 2022

The aim of this work is to study the zonally asymmetric stratopause that occurred in the Arctic winter of 2019/2020, when the polar vortex was particularly strong and there was no sudden stratospheric warming. Aura Microwave Limb Sounder temperature...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,115 Views
23 Pages

30 November 2023

We address the sources and dynamics of vorticity and helicity and their relations in transitions to turbulence arising due to Kelvin–Helmholtz instability (KHI) “Tube” and “Knot” (T&K) events. Such events are common...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,186 Views
14 Pages

Forward-Looking Imaging Based on the Linear Wavefront of the Modulated Field

  • Yiming Zhong,
  • Yi Zhang,
  • Yiwen Yu,
  • Houjun Sun and
  • Xiangdong Zhang

The vortex electromagnetic wave improves the range-azimuth forward-looking imaging performance with its spiral spatial phase distribution. However, the beam of the vortex electromagnetic wave is divergent, which makes it difficult to detect the targe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
5,489 Views
16 Pages

2 February 2019

This paper presents a numerical study of the solitary wave interaction with a submerged breakwater using the Consistent Particle Method (CPM). The distinct feature of CPM is that it computes the spatial derivatives by using the Taylor series expansio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,381 Views
19 Pages

Characteristics of Higher Harmonic Forces on Submerged Horizontal Cylinders with Sharp and Round Corners

  • Hongfei Mao,
  • Jinwen Zeng,
  • Guanglin Wu,
  • Hanqing Chen,
  • Shuqin Zhang,
  • Yuanting Yang and
  • Qinru Yang

13 September 2024

In this study, a two-phase flow numerical wave tank model based on the viscous flow theory was applied to conduct computational research on the interaction between waves and submerged horizontal cylinders. The research objective is to reveal the hydr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
51 Citations
5,094 Views
14 Pages

7 August 2018

Submerged floating tunnel (SFT) is an innovative underwater structure for crossing long straits, which withstands the effects of water wave and current throughout its lifecycle. This paper proposes a theoretical approach to investigate the nonlinear...

  • Article
  • Open Access
38 Citations
4,664 Views
13 Pages

3 January 2019

In this paper, the theoretical model of Rossby waves in two-layer fluids is studied. A single quasi-geostrophic vortex equation is used to derive various models of Rossby waves in a one-layer fluid in previous research. In order to explore the propag...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,786 Views
11 Pages

Frequency Scanning Dual-Mode Asymmetric Dual-OAM-Wave Generation Base on Broadband PB Metasurface

  • Jiayu Yu,
  • Qiurong Zheng,
  • Xueqin Tang,
  • Jie He,
  • Jie Liu,
  • Bin Zhang and
  • Kun Zou

15 July 2022

Increasing information capacity is significant for high-speed communication systems in a congested radio frequency sequence. Vortex waves carrying mode orthogonal orbital angular momentum (OAM) have gained considerable attention in recent years, owin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,034 Views
22 Pages

Numerical Study of Air Flow Induced by Shock Impact on an Array of Perforated Plates

  • Lite Zhang,
  • Zilong Feng,
  • Mengyu Sun,
  • Haozhe Jin and
  • Honghui Shi

16 August 2021

This study is focused on the propagation behavior and attenuation characteristics of a planar incident shock wave when propagating through an array of perforated plates. Based on a density-based coupled explicit algorithm, combined with a third-order...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,976 Views
16 Pages

Direct numerical simulation (DNS) of a droplet-laden, turbulent Couette airflow over a waved water surface is performed modeling the marine atmospheric boundary (MABL) layer carrying idealized spume droplets. Both the instantaneous and mean flow prop...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,208 Views
11 Pages

17 October 2022

We propose a system of self-consistent equations for electron fluid in solids which describes both longitudinal vortex flows and frozen-in internal electromagnetic fields. It is shown that in the case of an ideal electron fluid, the proposed model de...

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