Ticket: Inauguration Ceremonies, Section 11

Inauguration Ceremonies ticket January twentieth 1993, 11:30 A.M., admit bearer to section 11 West Front of Capitol. Gates open 9:00 A.M. Musical Prelude 10:30 A.M. Date: January 20, 1993 Box 16 Folder 1

CFD analysis on control of secondary losses in STME LOX turbines with endwall fences

The rotor blade in the newly designed LOX turbine for the future Space Transportation Main Engine (STME) has a severe flow turning angle, nearly 160 degrees. The estimated secondary loss in the rotor alone accounts for nearly 50 percent of the total loss over the entire stage. To reduce such a loss, one of the potential methods is to use fences attached on the turbine endwall (hub). As a prelude to examining the effects of endwall fence with actual STME turbine configuration, the present study focuses on similar issues with a different, but more generic, geometry - a rectangular duct with a 160-degree bend. The duct cross-section has a 2-to-1 aspect ratio and the radii of curvature for the inner and outer wall are 0.25 and 1.25 times the duct width, respectively. The present emphasis lies in examining the effects of various fence-length extending along the streamwise direction. The flowfield is numerically simulated using the FDNS code developed earlier by Wang and Chen. The FDNS code is a pressure based, finite-difference, Navier-Stokes equations solver

Quench front progression in a superheated porous medium: experimental analysis and model development

In case of severe accident in a nuclear reactor, the fuel rods may be highly damaged and oxidized and finally collapse to form a debris bed. Removal of decay heat from a debris bed is a challenging issue because of the difficulty for water to flow inside. Currently, IRSN has started experimental program PEARL with two experimental facilities PRELUDE and PEARL, to investigate the reflood process at high temperature, for various particle sizes. On the basis of PRELUDE experimental results, the thermal hydraulic features of the quench front have been analysed and the intensity of heat transfers was estimated. From a selection of experimental results, a reflooding model was improved and validated. The model is implemented in the code ICARE-CATHARE developed by IRSN which is used for severe accident reactor analysis

Learn Quantum Mechanics with Haskell

To learn quantum mechanics, one must become adept in the use of various mathematical structures that make up the theory; one must also become familiar with some basic laboratory experiments that the theory is designed to explain. The laboratory ideas are naturally expressed in one language, and the theoretical ideas in another. We present a method for learning quantum mechanics that begins with a laboratory language for the description and simulation of simple but essential laboratory experiments, so that students can gain some intuition about the phenomena that a theory of quantum mechanics needs to explain. Then, in parallel with the introduction of the mathematical framework on which quantum mechanics is based, we introduce a calculational language for describing important mathematical objects and operations, allowing students to do calculations in quantum mechanics, including calculations that cannot be done by hand. Finally, we ask students to use the calculational language to implement a simplified version of the laboratory language, bringing together the theoretical and laboratory ideas.Comment: In Proceedings TFPIE 2015/6, arXiv:1611.0865

Boston University Symphony Orchestra, Thursday, October 29, 1998

This is the concert program of the Boston University Symphony Orchestra performance on Thursday, October 29, 1998 at 8:00 p.m., at the Tsai Performance Center, 685 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachucetts. Works performed were Catfish Row: Symphonic Suite from Porgy and Bess by George Gershwin, Perlude a l'apres-midi d'un faune by Claude Debussy, and Symphony No. 7 in C major, Op. 105 by Jean Sibelius. Digitization for Boston University Concert Programs was supported by the Boston University Humanities Library Endowed Fund

“Romanticism in T.S. Eliot’s Early Poetry: Music and Words”

In his lecture “The Music of Poetry” (1942), T.S. Eliot said, “I think that a poet may gain much from the study of music.” Indeed, much of his poetry shows his debt to music, for instance in the musical titles of his early poems, jazz rhythms in the Waste Land, and the instrumental reference in the Four Quartets. This paper reviews Eliot’s preoccupation with Romanticism through an invocation of Romantic musical genres. T.S. Eliot wrote his early poems during a time when other poets like Ezra Pound vigorously denounced the Romantic project and its Victorian inheritors. Around the same time, representative composers like Claude Debussy and Igor Stravinsky experimented with the idea of tonality and the ways it could be subverted. Listeners that had been accustomed to the idea of tonal music with a main pulse or meter that would carry throughout were thrown off by the measure-to-measure switches in time signatures, music that had no tonal center, and a seemingly lack of form; something that was easily comparable to the fragmentation prevalent in Eliot’s work of the same period. This paper illustrates through close readings how the poems “Nocturne,” “Preludes,” “Rhapsody on a Windy Night,” and “Portrait of a Lady” demonstrate this parallel shift from the Romantic tradition into a new concept of music and literature: post-tonality in the former, and modernism in the latter. Eliot uses Romantic musical forms in the first three as the framework for themes of isolation, fragmentation, and disillusionment, and within his exposure of Romantic cliché in “Portrait of a Lady” one can see his desire to move towards something new

Tsai Performance Center Tenth Anniversary Concert

This is the concert program of the Tsai Performance Center Tenth Anniversary Concert performance on Tuesday, May 4, 1999 at 8:00 p.m, at the Tsai Performance Center, 685 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts. Works performed were Overture to The Consecration of the House, Op. 124 by Ludwig van Beethoven, Danza by Susan Epstein, From Sieben Fruhe Lieder by Alban Berg, Concerto No. 2 in A major for Piano and Orchestra by Franz Liszt, and Prelude to Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg by Richard Wagner. Digitization for Boston University Concert Programs was supported by the Boston University Humanities Library Endowed Fund

The Educational Bridge Project Fifth Annual Russian Festival: Nevsky String Quartet and Charles String Quartet, October 26, 2002

This is the concert program of the Nevsky String Quartet and Charles String Quartet performance on Saturday, October 26, 2002 at 8:00 p.m., at the Concert Hall, 855 Commonwealth Avenue. Works performed were Quartet in D Major, Op. 11 by Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky, String Quartet by Andrei Petov, Quartet No. 1, "From the Salvation Army" by Charles Ives, and Prelude and Scherzo for Octet, Op. 11 by Dmitri Shostakovich. Digitization for Boston University Concert Programs was supported by the Boston University Humanities Library Endowed Fund