DOCUMENTING SPOKEN AND SUNG TEXTS OF THE DAGAABA OF WEST AFRICA

Documenting Spoken and Sung Texts of the Dagaaba of West Africa

This article discusses a documentation of spoken texts, sung texts, and dances of the Dagaaba, a mainly oral West African cultural group based on actual interdisciplinary linguistic and musicological field research within the group.The importance of this documentation lies in the fact that traditional oral cultures are fast disappearing among some

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Analysis of the Unsteady Flow Field in a Centrifugal Compressor from Peak Efficiency to Near Stall with Full-Annulus Simulations

This study concerns a 2.5 pressure ratio centrifugal compressor stage consisting of a splittered unshrouded impeller and a vaned diffuser.The aim of this paper is to investigate the modifications of the flow structure when the operating point moves from peak efficiency to near stall.The investigations are based on the results of unsteady three-dime

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