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Diagnosing numerical Cherenkov instabilities in relativistic plasma simulations based on general meshes
Numerical Cherenkov radiation (NCR) or instability is a detrimental effect
frequently found in electromagnetic particle-in-cell (EM-PIC) simulations
involving relativistic plasma beams. NCR is caused by spurious coupling between
electromagnetic-field modes and multiple beam resonances. This coupling may
result from the slow down of poorly-resolved waves due to numerical (grid)
dispersion and from aliasing mechanisms. NCR has been studied in the past for
finite-difference-based EM-PIC algorithms on regular (structured) meshes with
rectangular elements. In this work, we extend the analysis of NCR to
finite-element-based EM-PIC algorithms implemented on unstructured meshes. The
influence of different mesh element shapes and mesh layouts on NCR is studied.
Analytic predictions are compared against results from finite-element-based
EM-PIC simulations of relativistic plasma beams on various mesh types.Comment: 31 pages, 20 figure
Irrigação e fertirrigação na cultura do maracujá.
Métodos e sistemas de irrigação; Necessidades hídricas da cultura; Exigências nutricionais; Necessidades de nutrientes para fertirrigação; Marcha de absorção de nutrientes; Cálculo da necessidade de fertilizante; Cálculo da solução fertilizante
Two Superconducting Phases in CeRh_1-xIr_xIn_5
Pressure studies of CeRh_1-xIr_xIn_5 indicate two superconducting phases as a
function of x, one with T_c >= 2 K for x < 0.9 and the other with T_c < 1.2 K
for x > 0.9. The higher T_c phase, phase-1, emerges in proximity to an
antiferromagnetic quantum-critical point; whereas, Cooper pairing in the lower
T_c phase-2 is inferred to arise from fluctuations of a yet to be found
magnetic state. The T-x-P phase diagram of CeRh_1-xIr_xIn_5, though
qualitatively similar, is distinctly different from that of
CeCu_2(Si_1-xGe_x)_2.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figure
Acute Cervical Epidural Hematoma: Case Report.
A 74 year-old patient with a nocturnal onset of neck and chest pain was brought to an emergency clinic. Physical examination and cardiac assessment were normal. Three hours after the addmittance, a flaccid paralysis of the four limbs supervened. Suspecting of an unusual onset of central nervous system infection, a lumbar puncture was performed, yielding 20 ml of normal cerebrospinal fluid. Thirty oinutes after the puncture, the patient completely regained neurological funcion. He was then referred to a General Hospital where a computed tomography (CT) scan was done showing a large cervical epidural bleeding in the posterolateral region of C4/C5 extending to C7/Th1, along with a C6 vertebral body hemangioma. A magnetic resonance imaging revealed the same CT findings. A normal selective angiography of vertebral arteries, carotid arteries and thyreocervical trunk was carried out. Spontaneous spinal epidural hematoma (ASSEH) is a rare but dramatic cause of neurological impairment. In this article we report a fortunate case of complete recovery after an unusual spine cord decompression. We also review the current literature concerning diagnosis and treatment of ASSEH.58726-3
Finite Element Time-Domain Body-of-Revolution Maxwell Solver based on Discrete Exterior Calculus
We present a finite-element time-domain (FETD) Maxwell solver for the
analysis of body-of-revolution (BOR) geometries based on discrete exterior
calculus (DEC) of differential forms and transformation optics (TO) concepts.
We explore TO principles to map the original 3-D BOR problem to a 2-D one in
the meridian plane based on a Cartesian coordinate system where the cylindrical
metric is fully embedded into the constitutive properties of an effective
inhomogeneous and anisotropic medium that fills the domain. The proposed solver
uses a TE/TM field decomposition and an appropriate set of DEC-based basis
functions on an irregular grid discretizing the meridian plane. A symplectic
time discretization based on a leap-frog scheme is applied to obtain the
full-discrete marching-on-time algorithm. We validate the algorithm by
comparing the numerical results against analytical solutions for resonant
fields in cylindrical cavities and against pseudo-analytical solutions for
fields radiated by cylindrically symmetric antennas in layered media. We also
illustrate the application of the algorithm for a particle-in-cell (PIC)
simulation of beam-wave interactions inside a high-power backward-wave
oscillator.Comment: 42 pages, 19 figure
Sequenciação Total do Genoma no Instituto Ricardo Jorge: um virar de página na Microbiologia Clínica
comunicação oral, CO5Esta comunicação tem como objectivo divulgar à comunidade médico-científica o impacto significativo que a WGS, agora disponível no Instituto Nacional de Saúde Doutor Ricardo Jorge (INSA), terá em termos de Microbiologia Clínica.N/
Measurements and analysis of the upper critical field on an underdoped and overdoped compounds
The upper critical field is one of the many non conventional
properties of high- cuprates. It is possible that the
anomalies are due to the presence of inhomogeneities in the local charge
carrier density of the planes. In order to study this point, we
have prepared good quality samples of polycrystalline
using the wet-chemical method, which has demonstrated to produce samples with a
better cation distribution. In particular, we have studied the temperature
dependence of the second critical field, , through the magnetization
measurements on two samples with opposite average carrier concentration
() and nearly the same critical temperature, namely
(underdoped) and (overdoped). The results close to do not
follow the usual Ginzburg-Landau theory and are interpreted by a theory which
takes into account the influence of the inhomogeneities.Comment: Published versio
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