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Experience with a software engineering environment framework
Experience with a software engineering environment framework tool called the Automated Product Control Environment (APCE) is described. The goals of the framework design, an overview of the major functions and features of the framework, and implementation and use of the framework are presented. Aspects of the framework discussed include automation and control; portability, distributability, and interoperability; cost/benefit analysis; and productivity. Results of using the framework are discussed and the framework approach is briefly compared to other software development environment approaches
Methods for heat transfer and temperature field analysis of the insulated diesel phase 2 progress report
This report describes work done during Phase 2 of a 3 year program aimed at developing a comprehensive heat transfer and thermal analysis methodology for design analysis of insulated diesel engines. The overall program addresses all the key heat transfer issues: (1) spatially and time-resolved convective and radiative in-cylinder heat transfer, (2) steady-state conduction in the overall structure, and (3) cyclical and load/speed temperature transients in the engine structure. During Phase 2, radiation heat transfer model was developed, which accounts for soot formation and burn up. A methodology was developed for carrying out the multi-dimensional finite-element heat conduction calculations within the framework of thermodynamic cycle codes. Studies were carried out using the integrated methodology to address key issues in low heat rejection engines. A wide ranging design analysis matrix was covered, including a variety of insulation strategies, recovery devices and base engine configurations. A single cylinder Cummins engine was installed at Purdue University, and it was brought to a full operational status. The development of instrumentation was continued, concentrating on radiation heat flux detector, total heat flux probe, and accurate pressure-crank angle data acquisition
Methods for heat transfer and temperature field analysis of the insulated diesel
Work done during phase 1 of a three-year program aimed at developing a comprehensive heat transfer and thermal analysis methodology oriented specifically to the design requirements of insulated diesel engines is reported. The technology developed in this program makes possible a quantitative analysis of the low heat rejection concept. The program is comprehensive in that it addresses all the heat transfer issues that are critical to the successful development of the low heat rejection diesel engine: (1) in-cylinder convective and radiative heat transfer; (2) cyclic transient heat transfer in thin solid layers at component surfaces adjacent to the combustion chamber; and (3) steady-state heat conduction in the overall engine structure. The Integral Technologies, Inc. (ITI) program is comprised of a set of integrated analytical and experimental tasks. A detailed review of the ITI program approach is provided, including the technical issues which underlie it and a summay of the methods that were developed
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Describes savings and revenue sources and policies to reduce healthcare spending that could finance comprehensive reform with a public option, such as reducing physician and hospital payments, investing in prevention programs, and capping tax exclusions
Pressure-induced phase transition and bi-polaronic sliding in a hole-doped Cu_2O_3 ladder system
We study a hole-doped two-leg ladder system including metal ions, oxygen, and
electron-lattice interaction, as a model for Sr_{14-x}Ca_xCu_{24}O_{41-\delta}.
Single- and bi-polaronic states at 1/4-hole doping are modeled as functions of
pressure by applying an unrestricted Hartree-Fock approximation to a multiband
Peierls-Hubbard Hamiltonian. We find evidence for a pressure-induced phase
transition between single-polaron and bi-polaron states. The electronic and
phononic excitations in those states, including distinctive local lattice
vibrational modes, are calculated by means of a direct-space Random Phase
approximation. Finally, as a function of pressure, we identify a transition
between site- and bond-centered bi-polarons, accompanied by a soft mode and a
low-energy charge-sliding mode. We suggest comparisons with available
experimented data
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Observation of a 500meV Collective Mode in LaSrCuO and NdCuO
Utilizing resonant inelastic x-ray scattering, we report a previously
unobserved mode in the excitation spectrum of LaSrCuO at 500
meV. The mode is peaked around the (,0) point in reciprocal space and is
observed to soften, and broaden, away from this point. Samples with x=0, 0.01,
0.05, and 0.17 were studied. The new mode is found to be rapidly suppressed
with increasing Sr content and is absent at =0.17, where it is replaced by a
continuum of excitations. The peak is only observed when the incident x-ray
polarization is normal to the CuO planes and is also present in NdCuO.
We suggest possible explanations for this excitation.Comment: 5 pages, 5 figure
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