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T Bohr

Publications and source records attributed to T Bohr.

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PubMed2004

Pattern formation of underwater sand ripples with a skewed drive.

In this paper we present an experimental study of the dynamics of underwater sand ripples when a regular pattern of ripples is subjected to a skewed oscillatory flow, i.e., one not perpendicular to the direction of the ripple crests. Striking patterns with new, superposed ripples on top of the original ones occur very quickly with a characteristic angle, which is, in general, not perpendicular to the flow. A slower, more complex transition then follows, leading to the final state where the ripples are again perpendicular to the flow. We investigate the variation of the superposed pattern as a function of the direction, amplitude, and frequency of the drive, and as a function of the viscosity (by changing the temperature). We quantify the dynamics of the entire transition process and finally study the grain motion around idealized (solid) skewed ripples. This leads to a characteristic mean path of a single particle. The path has a shape close to a parallelogram, with no apparent connection to the pattern of real, superposed ripples. On the other hand, a thin layer of sand sprinkled on the solid ripples leads to qualitatively similar patterns.

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PubMed2003

Anatomy of a bathtub vortex.

We present experiments and theory for the "bathtub vortex," which forms when a fluid drains out of a rotating cylindrical container through a small drain hole. The fast down-flow is found to be confined to a narrow and rapidly rotating "drainpipe" from the free surface down to the drain hole. Surrounding this drainpipe is a region with slow upward flow generated by the Ekman layer at the bottom of the container. This flow structure leads us to a theoretical model similar to one obtained earlier by Lundgren [J. Fluid Mech. 155, 381 (1985)]], but here including surface tension and Ekman upwelling, comparing favorably with our measurements. At the tip of the needlelike surface depression, we observe a bubble-forming instability at high rotation rates.

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PubMed2001

Stability balloon for two-dimensional vortex ripple patterns.

Patterns of vortex ripples form when a sand bed is subjected to an oscillatory fluid flow. Here we describe experiments on the response of regular vortex ripple patterns to sudden changes of the driving amplitude a or frequency f. A sufficient decrease of f leads to a "freezing" of the pattern, while a sufficient increase of f leads to a supercritical secondary "pearling" instability. Sufficient changes in the amplitude a lead to subcritical secondary "doubling" and "bulging" instabilities. Our findings are summarized in a "stability balloon" for vortex ripple pattern formation.

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PubMed2001

Breakdown of universality in transitions to spatiotemporal chaos.

We show that the transition from laminar to active behavior in extended chaotic systems can vary from a continuous transition in the universality class of directed percolation with infinitely many absorbing states to what appears as a first-order transition. The latter occurs when finite lifetime nonchaotic structures, called "solitons," dominate the dynamics. We illustrate this scenario in an extension of the deterministic Chaté-Manneville coupled map lattice model and in a soliton including variant of the stochastic Domany-Kinzel cellular automaton.

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PubMed1995

Death certificates: an efficient source for ascertainment of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease cases.

Case ascertainment for an epidemiologic study of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) can be difficult. This report investigates the efficiency of various sources of case ascertainment for CJD. Cases were identified utilizing neuropathologists, hospitals and death certificates from 11 targeted states. For the period of 1986-1988, 247 death certificates indicating a diagnosis of CJD were obtained. Only 26 potential cases were identified without death certificates. The proportion of neuropathologically confirmed cases identified by death certificates only, i.e., which were not identified through any other source, was 42%. Furthermore, 80% of all the neuropathologically confirmed cases were ascertained utilizing death certificates as a source. Of the remaining 20%, 7% were ascertained through neuropathologists only, 10% through hospitals only, 1.5% through a combination of hospitals and neuropathologists, and 1.5% through another source. The false-positive rate for death certificates with neuropathology (which may have been performed after the death certificate was filled out) was estimated to be 8.3%. The results indicate that death certificates were by far the most efficient source for initial ascertainment of potential CJD cases to be followed by verification of diagnosis.

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