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A study of the break-up characteristics of Chena River Basin using ERTS imagery
The author has identified the following significant results. The Chena River Basin was selected because of the availability of ground truth data for comparison. Very good agreement for snow distribution and rates of ablation was found between the ERTS-1 imagery, the snowmelt model, and field measurements. Monitoring snowmelt rates for relatively small basins appears to be practical. The main limitation of the ERTS-1 imagery is the interval of coverage. More frequent overflights providing coverage are needed for the study of transient hydrologic events. ERTS-1 data is most useful when used in conjunction with snowmelt prediction models and existing snow course data. These results should prove very useful in preliminary assessment of hydrologic conditions in ungaged watersheds and will provide a tool for month-to-month volume forecasting
Break-up characteristics of the Chena River watershed, central Alaska
The author has identified the following significant results. The snow melt for a small watershed (5130 sq km) in Central Alaska was successfully monitored with ERTS-1 imagery. Aerial photography was used as supporting data for periods without satellite coverage. Comparison both with actual measurements and with a computer model showed good agreement
Integrated technology rotor/flight research rotor concept definition study
As part of the Integrated Technology Rotor/Flight Research Rotor (ITR/FRR) Program a number of advanced rotor system designs were conceived and investigated. From these, several were chosen that best meet the started ITR goals with emphasis on stability, reduced weight and hub drag, simplicity, low head moment stiffness, and adequate strength and fatigue life. It was concluded that obtaining low hub moment stiffness was difficult when only the blade flexibility of bearingless rotor blades is considered, unacceptably low fatigue life being the primary problem. Achieving a moderate hub moment stiffness somewhat higher than state of the art articulated rotors in production today is possible within the fatigue life constraint. Alternatively, low stiffness is possible when additional rotor elements, besides the blades themselves, provide part of the rotor flexibility. Two primary designs evolved as best meeting the general ITR requirements that presently exist. An I shaped flexbeam with an external torque tube can satisfy the general goals but would have either higher stiffness or reduced fatigue life. The elastic gimbal rotor can achieve a better combination of low stiffness and high fatigue life but would be a somewhat heavier design and possibly exhibit a higher risk of aeromechanical instability
Spin Response and Neutrino Emissivity of Dense Neutron Matter
We study the spin response of cold dense neutron matter in the limit of zero
momentum transfer, and show that the frequency dependence of the
long-wavelength spin response is well constrained by sum-rules and the
asymptotic behavior of the two-particle response at high frequency. The
sum-rules are calculated using Auxiliary Field Diffusion Monte Carlo technique
and the high frequency two-particle response is calculated for several
nucleon-nucleon potentials. At nuclear saturation density, the sum-rules
suggest that the strength of the spin response peaks at 40--60
MeV, decays rapidly for 100 MeV, and has a sizable strength below
40 MeV. This strength at relatively low energy may lead to enhanced neutrino
production rates in dense neutron-rich matter at temperatures of relevance to
core-collapse supernova.Comment: 11 pages, 4 figures. Minor change. Published versio
The two dimensional Hubbard model:a theoretical tool for molecular electronics
When speaking about molecular electronics, the obvious question which occurs
is how does one study it theoretically. The simplest theoretical model suitable
for application in molecular electronics is the two dimensional Hubbard model.
The aim of the present paper is to introduce this model, and give some examples
of the systems which it can describe. After a short mathematically oriented
discussion, it will be shown how to calculate the electrical conductivity of a
particular planar system: a rectangular lattice with mutually independent
conductivities along the two axes,but without using the 2D Hamiltonian. This
system could find applications in high Tc studies. It will finally be shown
that the electrical conductivity of graphene can be determined not by using the
full formalism of the Hubbard model, but by a slight reformulation of the
Hamiltonian of the 1D Hubbard modelComment: Lecture given at the 16 Int.School of Cond.Matt.Physics,August
29.,-September 3 2010.,Varna (Bulgaria
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Incompatibility of modulated checkerboard patterns with the neutron scattering resonance peak in cuprate superconductors
Checkerboard patterns have been proposed in order to explain STM experiments
on the cuprates BSCCO and Na-CCOC. However the presence of these patterns has
not been confirmed by a bulk probe such as neutron scattering. In particular,
simple checkerboard patterns are inconsistent with neutron scattering data, in
that they have low energy incommsensurate (IC) spin peaks rotated 45 degrees
from the direction of the charge IC peaks. However, it is unclear whether other
checkerboard patterns can solve the problem. In this paper, we have studied
more complicated checkerboard patterns ("modulated checkerboards") by using
spin wave theory and analyzed noncollinear checkerboards as well. We find that
the high energy response of the modulated checkerboards is inconsistent with
neutron scattering results, since they fail to exhibit a resonance peak at
(pi,pi), which has recently been shown to be a universal feature of cuprate
superconductors. We further argue that the newly proposed noncollinear
checkerboard also lacks a resonance peak. We thus conclude that to date no
checkerboard pattern has been proposed which satisfies both the low energy
constraints and the high energy constraints imposed by the current body of
experimental data in cuprate superconductors.Comment: 5 pages, 5 figures, Fig.2 update
Scaling and Duality in Semi-exclusive Processes
We discuss extending scaling and duality studies to semi-exclusive processes.
We show that semi-exclusive hard pion photoproduction should exhibit scaling
behavior in kinematic regions where the photon and pion both interact directly
with the same quark. We show that such kinematic regions exist. We also show
that the constancy with changing momentum transfer of the resonance
peak/scaling curve ratio, familiar for many resonances in deep inelastic
scattering, is also expected in the semi-exclusive case.Comment: 8 pages, 4 figures, submitted to Phys.Rev.
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