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Penn State axial flow turbine facility: Performance and nozzle flow field
The objective is to gain a thorough understanding of the flow field in a turbine stage including three-dimensional inviscid and viscid effects, unsteady flow field, rotor-stator interaction effects, unsteady blade pressures, shear stress, and velocity field in rotor passages. The performance of the turbine facility at the design condition is measured and compared with the design distribution. The data on the nozzle vane static pressure and wake characteristics are presented and interpreted. The wakes are found to be highly three-dimensional, with substantial radial inward velocity at most spanwise locations
On the equation of motion of compact binaries in Post-Newtonian approximation
A third post-Newtonian (3 PN) equation of motion for two spherical compact
stars in a harmonic coordinate has been derived based on the surface integral
approach and the strong field point particle limit. The strong field point
particle limit enables us to incorporate a notion of a self-gravitating regular
star into general relativity. The resulting 3 PN equation of motion is Lorentz
invariant, unambiguous, and conserves an energy of the binary orbital motion.Comment: 7 pages, no figure. Proceedings of the 5th Amaldi Conference on
Gravitational Waves, Pisa, Italy, 6-11 July 200
Pole dynamics for the Flierl-Petviashvili equation and zonal flow
We use a systematic method which allows us to identify a class of exact
solutions of the Flierl-Petvishvili equation. The solutions are periodic and
have one dimensional geometry. We examine the physical properties and find that
these structures can have a significant effect on the zonal flow generation.Comment: Latex 40 pages, seven figures eps included. Effect of variation of
g_3 is studied. New references adde
Quantum oscillation of magnetoresistance in tunneling junctions with a nonmagnetic spacer
We make a theoretical study of the quantum oscillations of the tunneling
magnetoresistance (TMR) as a function of the spacer layer thickness. Such
oscillations were recently observed in tunneling junctions with a nonmagnetic
metallic spacer at the barrier-electrode interface. It is shown that momentum
selection due to the insulating barrier and conduction via quantum well states
in the spacer, mediated by diffusive scattering caused by disorder, are
essential features required to explain the observed period of oscillation in
the TMR ratio and its asymptotic value for thick nonmagnetic spacer.Comment: 4 pages, 5 figures, two column, REVTex4 styl
Effective Sampling in the Configurational Space by the Multicanonical-Multioverlap Algorithm
We propose a new generalized-ensemble algorithm, which we refer to as the
multicanonical-multioverlap algorithm. By utilizing a non-Boltzmann weight
factor, this method realizes a random walk in the multi-dimensional,
energy-overlap space and explores widely in the configurational space including
specific configurations, where the overlap of a configuration with respect to a
reference state is a measure for structural similarity. We apply the
multicanonical-multioverlap molecular dynamics method to a penta peptide,
Met-enkephalin, in vacuum as a test system. We also apply the multicanonical
and multioverlap molecular dynamics methods to this system for the purpose of
comparisons. We see that the multicanonical-multioverlap molecular dynamics
method realizes effective sampling in the configurational space including
specific configurations more than the other two methods. From the results of
the multicanonical-multioverlap molecular dynamics simulation, furthermore, we
obtain a new local-minimum state of the Met-enkephalin system.Comment: 15 pages, (Revtex4), 9 figure
Phase diagram of YBaCuO at TT based on Cu(2) transverse nuclear relaxation
Two maxima in transverse relaxation rate of Cu(2) nuclei in
YBaCuO are observed, at T = 35 K and T = 47 K. Comparison of
the Cu(2) and Cu(2) rates at T = 47 K indicates the magnetic
character of relaxation. The enhancement at T = 47 K of fluctuating local
magnetic fields perpendicular to the CuO planes is connected with the
critical fluctuations of orbital currents. Maximum at T = 35 K is connected
with the appearance of inhomogeneous supeconducting phase. Together with data
published to date, our experimental results allow to suggest a qualitatively
new phase diagram of the superconducting phase.Comment: 4 LaTEX pages + 3 figures in *.ps forma
Ion structure factors and electron transport in dense Coulomb plasmas
The dynamical structure factor of a Coulomb crystal of ions is calculated at
arbitrary temperature below the melting point taking into account multi-phonon
processes in the harmonic approximation. In a strongly coupled Coulomb ion
liquid, the static structure factor is split into two parts, a
Bragg-diffraction-like one, describing incipient long-range order structures,
and an inelastic part corresponding to thermal ion density fluctuations. It is
assumed that the diffractionlike scattering does not lead to the electron
relaxation in the liquid phase. This assumption, together with the inclusion of
multi-phonon processes in the crystalline phase, eliminates large
discontinuities of the transport coefficients (jumps of the thermal and
electric conductivities, as well as shear viscosity, reported previously) at a
melting point.Comment: 4 pages, 2 figures, REVTeX using epsf.sty. Phys. Rev. Lett., in pres
Chi-square test on candidate events from CW signal coherent searches
In a blind search for continuous gravitational wave signals scanning a wide
frequency band one looks for candidate events with significantly large values
of the detection statistic. Unfortunately, a noise line in the data may also
produce a moderately large detection statistic.
In this paper, we describe how we can distinguish between noise line events
and actual continuous wave (CW) signals, based on the shape of the detection
statistic as a function of the signal's frequency. We will analyze the case of
a particular detection statistic, the F statistic, proposed by Jaranowski,
Krolak, and Schutz.
We will show that for a broad-band 10 hour search, with a false dismissal
rate smaller than 1e-6, our method rejects about 70 % of the large candidate
events found in a typical data set from the second science run of the Hanford
LIGO interferometer.Comment: proceedings of GWDAW8, 2003 conference, 12pages, 6 figure
Analysis of Microstrip Lines with Alternative Implementation of Conductors and Superconductors
An analysis of microstrip line structures in which either the strip or the ground plane or both are made of a high Tc superconductor is presented. The effect of implementation of a superconductor to the strip and the ground plane is explained with the calculation of a conductor loss of the structure by the Phenomenological Loss Equivalence Method (PEM). The theoretical values are compared with the experimental results from a ring resonator which is made of a gold ground plane and a high Tc superconductor, YBa2Cu3O(7-x), strip
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