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Separation of gas mixtures by centrifugation
Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) centrifuge utilizing electric currents and magnetic fields produces a magnetic force which develops supersonic rotational velocities in gas mixtures. Device is superior to ordinary centrifuges because rotation of gas mixture is produced by MHD force rather than mechanical means
Genus Topology of the Cosmic Microwave Background from the WMAP 3-Year Data
We have independently measured the genus topology of the temperature
fluctuations in the cosmic microwave background seen in the Wilkinson Microwave
Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) 3-year data. A genus analysis of the WMAP data
indicates consistency with Gaussian random-phase initial conditions, as
predicted by standard inflation. We set 95% confidence limits on
non-linearities of -101 < f_{nl} < 107. We also find that the observed low l (l
<= 8) modes show a slight anti-correlation with the Galactic foreground, but
not exceeding 95% confidence, and that the topology defined by these modes is
consistent with that of a Gaussian random-phase distribution (within 95%
confidence).Comment: MNRAS LaTeX style (mn2e.cls), EPS and JPEG figure
Report on objective ride quality evaluation
The correlation of absorbed power as an objective ride measure to the subjective evaluation for the bus data was investigated. For some individual bus rides the correlations were poor, but when a sufficient number of rides was used to give reasonable sample base, an excellent correlation was obtained. The following logarithmical function was derived: S = 1.7245 1n (39.6849 AP), where S = one subjective rating of the ride; and AP = the absorbed power in watts. A six-degree-of-freedom method developed for aircraft data was completed. Preliminary correlation of absorbed power with ISO standards further enhances the bus ride and absorbed power correlation numbers since the AP's obtained are of the same order of magnitude for both correlations. While it would then appear that one could just use ISO standards, there is no way to add the effect of three degrees of freedom. The absorbed power provides a method of adding the effects due to the three major directions plus the pitch and roll
A New Halo Finding Method for N-Body Simulations
We have developed a new halo finding method, Physically Self-Bound (PSB)
group finding algorithm, which can efficiently identify halos located even at
crowded regions. This method combines two physical criteria such as the tidal
radius of a halo and the total energy of each particle to find member
particles. Two hierarchical meshes are used to increase the speed and the power
of halo identification in the parallel computing environments. First, a coarse
mesh with cell size equal to the mean particle separation is
used to obtain the density field over the whole simulation box. Mesh cells
having density contrast higher than a local cutoff threshold
are extracted and linked together for those adjacent to each other. This
produces local-cell groups. Second, a finer mesh is used to obtain density
field within each local-cell group and to identify halos. If a density shell
contains only one density peak, its particles are assigned to the density peak.
But in the case of a density shell surrounding at least two density peaks, we
use both the tidal radii of halo candidates enclosed by the shell and the total
energy criterion to find physically bound particles with respect to each halo.
Similar to DENMAX and HOP, the \hfind method can efficiently identify small
halos embedded in a large halo, while the FoF and the SO do not resolve such
small halos. We apply our new halo finding method to a 1-Giga particle
simulation of the CDM model and compare the resulting mass function
with those of previous studies. The abundance of physically self-bound halos is
larger at the low mass scale and smaller at the high mass scale than proposed
by the Jenkins et al. (2001) who used the FoF and SO methods. (abridged)Comment: 10 pages, 8 figs, submitted to Ap
Rich variety of defects in ZnO via an attractive interaction between O-vacancies and Zn-interstitials
As the concentration of intrinsic defects becomes sufficiently high in
O-deficient ZnO, interactions between defects lead to a significant reduction
in their formation energies. We show that the formation of both O-vacancies and
Zn-interstitials becomes significantly enhanced by a strong attractive
interaction between them, making these defects an important source of n-type
conductivity in ZnO.Comment: 12 pages, 4 figure
Second-order discrete Kalman filtering equations for control-structure interaction simulations
A general form for the first-order representation of the continuous, second-order linear structural dynamics equations is introduced in order to derive a corresponding form of first-order Kalman filtering equations (KFE). Time integration of the resulting first-order KFE is carried out via a set of linear multistep integration formulas. It is shown that a judicious combined selection of computational paths and the undetermined matrices introduced in the general form of the first-order linear structural systems leads to a class of second-order discrete KFE involving only symmetric, N x N solution matrix
Structural Anomalies at the Magnetic and Ferroelectric Transitions in (R=Tb, Dy, Ho)
Strong anomalies of the thermal expansion coefficients at the magnetic and
ferroelectric transitions have been detected in multiferroic . Their
correlation with anomalies of the specific heat and the dielectric constant is
discussed. The results provide evidence for the magnetic origin of the
ferroelectricity mediated by strong spin-lattice coupling in the compounds.
Neutron scattering data for indicate a spin reorientation at the
two low-temperature phase transitions
Black Hole Solutions of Kaluza-Klein Supergravity Theories and String Theory
We find U(1)_{E} \times U(1)_{M} non-extremal black hole solutions of
6-dimensional Kaluza-Klein supergravity theories. Extremal solutions were found
by Cveti\v{c} and Youm\cite{C-Y}. Multi black hole solutions are also
presented. After electro-magnetic duality transformation is performed, these
multi black hole solutions are mapped into the the exact solutions found by
Horowitz and Tseytlin\cite{H-T} in 5-dimensional string theory compactified
into 4-dimensions. The massless fields of this theory can be embedded into the
heterotic string theory compactified on a 6-torus. Rotating black hole
solutions can be read off those of the heterotic string theory found by
Sen\cite{Sen3}.Comment: 23 pages text(latex), a figure upon reques
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