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Stability of Two-Dimensional Soft Quasicrystals
The relative stability of two-dimensional soft quasicrystals is examined
using a recently developed projection method which provides a unified numerical
framework to compute the free energy of periodic crystal and quasicrystals.
Accurate free energies of numerous ordered phases, including dodecagonal,
decagonal and octagonal quasicrystals, are obtained for a simple model, i.e.
the Lifshitz-Petrich free energy functional, of soft quasicrystals with two
length-scales. The availability of the free energy allows us to construct phase
diagrams of the system, demonstrating that, for the Lifshitz-Petrich model, the
dodecagonal and decagonal quasicrystals can become stable phases, whereas the
octagonal quasicrystal stays as a metastable phase.Comment: 11 pages, 7 figure
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Computer model of catalytic combustion/Stirling engine heater head
The basic Acurex HET code was modified to analyze specific problems for Stirling engine heater head applications. Specifically, the code can model: an adiabatic catalytic monolith reactor, an externally cooled catalytic cylindrical reactor/flat plate reactor, a coannular tube radiatively cooled reactor, and a monolithic reactor radiating to upstream and downstream heat exchangers
An Intelligent Auxiliary Vacuum Brake System
The purpose of this paper focuses on designing an intelligent, compact, reliable, and robust auxiliary vacuum brake system (VBS) with Kalman filter and self-diagnosis scheme. All of the circuit elements in the designed system are integrated into one programmable system-on-chip (PSoC) with entire computational algorithms implemented by software. In this system, three main goals are achieved: (a) Kalman filter and hysteresis controller algorithms are employed within PSoC chip by software to surpass the noises and disturbances from hostile surrounding in a vehicle. (b) Self-diagnosis scheme is employed to identify any breakdown element of the auxiliary vacuum brake system. (c) Power MOSFET is utilized to implement PWM pump control and compared with relay control. More accurate vacuum pressure control has been accomplished as well as power energy saving. In the end, a prototype has been built and tested to confirm all of the performances claimed above
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