by Edward Stanley Piekos., Thesis (Ph.D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2000., Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-208)., This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special…

The analogous techniques of photoactivation of fluorescence (PAF) and fluorescence recovery after photobleaching
(FRAP) have been applied previously to the study of actin dynamics in living cells. Traditionally, separate
experiments estimate the mobility of actin monomer or the lifetime of…

Thrust-producing harmonically oscillating foils are studied through force and power
measurements, as well as visualization data, to classify the principal characteristics of
the flow around and in the wake of the foil. Visualization data are obtained using
digital particle image…

Visualization studies of the flow behind an oscillating tapered cylinder are performed
at Reynolds numbers from 400 to 1500. The cylinder has taper ratio 40:1 and is
moving at constant forward speed U while being forced to oscillate harmonically
in…

Forces are measured at both ends of rigid cylinders with span 60 cm, performing
transverse oscillations within an oncoming stream of water, at Reynolds number
Re ~3800. Forced harmonic motions and free vibrations of uniform and tapered
cylinders are studied.…

The MIT Libraries'€™ proposed to the Mellon Foundation to plan a preservation archive for
dynamic electronic journals (DEJA : a€“ Dynamic E-Journal Archive) that would be reliable, secure,
enduring, and sustainable over the long term. The Foundation'€™s own request for…

The MIT Libraries has built a durable digital document repository called DSpace to house the
digital output of our faculty's research. DSpace will be a home for the digital documents our
faculty want to share with their colleagues around the…

We employ a three-dimensional, nonlinear inviscid numerical method, in conjunction
with experimental data from live fish and from a fish-like robotic mechanism, to
establish the three-dimensional features of the flow around a fish-like body swimming
in a straight line, and…

Joseph Y.N. Hui., Bibliography: p. [5], "September 1984." Reprinted from IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, vol. SAC-2, no.4, July 1984., "... supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant NSF/ECS 78-19880..." "... Advanced Project Agency under Grant ONR-N00014-75-C1183."

Joseph Y.N. Hui., Bibliography: p. 582., "September 1984." Reprinted from IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, vol. SAC-2, no.4, July 1984., "...National Science Foundation... Grant NSF/ECS-79-19880." "...Advanced Research Project Agency... Grant ONR/N00014-75-C1183."