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Servo-Stabilization of Low-Frequency Oscillations in a Liquid Bipropellant Rocket Motor
The recent work of H. S. Tsien concerning the servostabilization of rocket motors is extended to the liquid bipropellant rocket motor. It is shown that by use of a feedback system containing a device to sense the combustion chamber pressure, a suitably designed amplifier, and a servomechanism which governs the propellant How, the low-frequency oscillations which occur in the rocket configuration may be stabilized for any value of combustion time lag. A method is given for determining a transfer function of the feedback loop which will assure stable operation. The technique of the Satche diagram is employed in stability analysis
A conceptual design study for the secondary mirror drive of the shuttle infrared telescope facility (SIRTF)
Various conceptual designs for the secondary mirror actuator system to be used in the Shuttle Infrared Telescope Facility (SIRTF) were evaluated. In addition, a set of design concepts was developed to assist in the solution of problems crucial for optimum performance of the secondary mirror actuator system. A specific conceptual approach was presented along with a plan for developing that approach and identifying issues of critical importance in the developmental effort
Predicting the stability of atom-like and molecule-like unit-charge Coulomb three-particle systems
Non-relativistic quantum chemical calculations of the particle mass, m Ā± 2 , corresponding to the dissociation threshold in a range of Coulomb three-particle systems of the form {m Ā± 1 m Ā± 2 m ā 3 } , are performed variationally using a series solution method with a Laguerre-based wavefunction. These masses are used to calculate an accurate stability boundary, i.e., the line that separates the stability domain from the instability domains, in a reciprocal mass fraction ternary diagram. This result is compared to a lower bound to the stability domain derived from symmetric systems and reveals the importance of the asymmetric (mass-symmetry breaking) terms in the Hamiltonian at dissociation. A functional fit to the stability boundary data provides a simple analytical expression for calculating the minimum mass of a third particle required for stable binding to a two-particle system, i.e., for predicting the bound state stability of any unit-charge three-particle system
Parrondo-like behavior in continuous-time random walks with memory
The Continuous-Time Random Walk (CTRW) formalism can be adapted to encompass
stochastic processes with memory. In this article we will show how the random
combination of two different unbiased CTRWs can give raise to a process with
clear drift, if one of them is a CTRW with memory. If one identifies the other
one as noise, the effect can be thought as a kind of stochastic resonance. The
ultimate origin of this phenomenon is the same of the Parrondo's paradox in
game theoryComment: 8 pages, 3 figures, revtex; enlarged and revised versio
Cohomology of toric line bundles via simplicial Alexander duality
We give a rigorous mathematical proof for the validity of the toric sheaf
cohomology algorithm conjectured in the recent paper by R. Blumenhagen, B.
Jurke, T. Rahn, and H. Roschy (arXiv:1003.5217). We actually prove not only the
original algorithm but also a speed-up version of it. Our proof is independent
from (in fact appeared earlier on the arXiv than) the proof by H. Roschy and T.
Rahn (arXiv:1006.2392), and has several advantages such as being shorter and
cleaner and can also settle the additional conjecture on "Serre duality for
Betti numbers" which was raised but unresolved in arXiv:1006.2392.Comment: 9 pages. Theorem 1.1 and Corollary 1.2 improved; Abstract and
Introduction modified; References updated. To appear in Journal of
Mathematical Physic
Low-temperature phases in Pb(Zr0.52Ti0.48)O3: A neutron powder diffraction study
A neutron powder diffraction study has been carried out on Pb(Zr0.52Ti0.48)O3
in order to resolve an ongoing controversy about the nature of the
low-temperature structure of this strongly-piezoelectric and
technologically-important material. The results of a detailed and systematic
Rietveld analysis at 20 K are consistent with the coexistence of two monoclinic
phases having space groups Cm and Ic respectively, in the approximate ratio
4:1, and thus support the findings of a recent electron diffraction study by
Noheda et al. [Phys. Rev. B 66, 060103 (2002)]. The results are compared to
those of two recent conflicting neutron powder diffraction studies of materials
of the same nominal composition by Hatch et al. [Phys. Rev. B 65, 212101
(2002)] and Frantti et al. [Phys. Rev. B 66, 064108 (2002)].Comment: RevTex4, 16 pages, 6 color figure
Assembly and analysis of fragmentation data for liquid propellant vessels
Fragmentation data was assembled and analyzed for exploding liquid propellant vessels. These data were to be retrieved from reports of tests and accidents, including measurements or estimates of blast yield, etc. A significant amount of data was retrieved from a series of tests conducted for measurement of blast and fireball effects of liquid propellant explosions (Project PYRO), a few well-documented accident reports, and a series of tests to determine auto-ignition properties of mixing liquid propellants. The data were reduced and fitted to various statistical functions. Comparisons were made with methods of prediction for blast yield, initial fragment velocities, and fragment range. Reasonably good correlation was achieved. Methods presented in the report allow prediction of fragment patterns, given type and quantity of propellant, type of accident, and time of propellant mixing
Theory of One-Channel vs. Multi-Channel Kondo Effects for Ce Impurities
We introduce a model for Ce impurities in cubic metals which exhibits
competition between the Fermi-liquid fixed point of the single channel Kondo
model and the non-Fermi-liquid fixed point of the two- and three-channel Kondo
models. Using the non-crossing approximation and scaling theory, we find: (i) A
possible three-channel Kondo effect between the one- and two-channel regimes in
parameter space. (ii) The sign of the thermopower is a fixed point diagnostic.
(iii) Our results will likely survive the introduction of additional and
conduction states. We apply this model to interpret the non-Fermi liquid alloy
LaCeCuSi.Comment: 13 pages, Revtex, To appear in Phys. Rev. Let
Exit times in non-Markovian drifting continuous-time random walk processes
By appealing to renewal theory we determine the equations that the mean exit
time of a continuous-time random walk with drift satisfies both when the
present coincides with a jump instant or when it does not. Particular attention
is paid to the corrections ensuing from the non-Markovian nature of the
process. We show that when drift and jumps have the same sign the relevant
integral equations can be solved in closed form. The case when holding times
have the classical Erlang distribution is considered in detail.Comment: 9 pages, 3 color plots, two-column revtex 4; new Appendix and
references adde
Extremely low longāterm erosion rates around the Gamburtsev Mountains in interior East Antarctica
The high elevation and rugged relief (>3 km) of the Gamburtsev Subglacial Mountains (GSM) have long been considered enigmatic. Orogenesis normally occurs near plate boundaries, not cratonic interiors, and largeāscale tectonic activity last occurred in East Antarctica during the PanāAfrican (480ā600 Ma). We sampled detrital apatite from Eocene sands in Prydz Bay at the terminus of the Lambert Graben, which drained a large preāglacial basin including the northern Gamburtsev Mountains. Apatite fissionātrack and (UāTh)/He cooling ages constrain bedrock erosion rates throughout the catchment. We doubleādated apatites to resolve individual cooling histories. Erosion was very slow, averaging 0.01ā0.02 km/Myr for >250 Myr, supporting the preservation of high elevation in interior East Antarctica since at least the cessation of Permian rifting. Longāterm topographic preservation lends credence to postulated highāelevation mountain ice caps in East Antarctica since at least the Cretaceous and to the idea that coldābased glaciation can preserve tectonically inactive topography
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