The CMA provides enhanced productivity whereby all elements can be analyzed in one run, fulfilling all environmental detection limit requirements of the US-EPA. The CMA can be fitted to any model in the Jobin Yvon ICP product range very easily, allowing rapid and efficient analysis of hydride forming elements down to ultra trace levels. The CMA is very simple to set up and can be used as the standard sample introduction system. If a run does not require the use of hydride generation to reach ultra-trace levels, simply turn off the pump that transports the hydride generation reagents to the chamber.
Detailed schlieren and laser lightsheet visualizations of the near wake of micro vortexgenerator (MVG) revealed large structures that were different from those of the undisturbedturbulent boundary layer. These structures were attributed to the rapid breakdownof the primary trailing vortex pair. The breakdown was thought to arise from a cylindricalKelvin–Helmholtz-like instability surface. The structures appear to be hairpin or ring-likein nature that showed eruptions into the freestream flow, entraining it.