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Analysis of high load dampers
High load damping requirements for modern jet engines are discussed. The design of damping systems which could satisfy these requirements is also discusseed. In order to evaluate high load damping requirements, engines in three major classes were studied; large transport engines, small general aviation engines, and military engines. Four damper concepts applicable to these engines were evaluated; multi-ring, cartridge, curved beam, and viscous/friction. The most promising damper concept was selected for each engine and performance was assessed relative to conventional dampers and in light of projected damping requirements for advanced jet engines
Tunable non-Gaussian resources for continuous-variable quantum technologies
We introduce and discuss a set of tunable two-mode states of
continuous-variable systems, as well as an efficient scheme for their
experimental generation. This novel class of tunable entangled resources is
defined by a general ansatz depending on two experimentally adjustable
parameters. It is very ample and flexible as it encompasses Gaussian as well as
non-Gaussian states. The latter include, among others, known states such as
squeezed number states and de-Gaussified photon-added and photon-subtracted
squeezed states, the latter being the most efficient non-Gaussian resources
currently available in the laboratory. Moreover, it contains the classes of
squeezed Bell states and even more general non-Gaussian resources that can be
optimized according to the specific quantum technological task that needs to be
realized. The proposed experimental scheme exploits linear optical operations
and photon detections performed on a pair of uncorrelated two--mode Gaussian
squeezed states. The desired non-Gaussian state is then realized via ancillary
squeezing and conditioning. Two independent, freely tunable experimental
parameters can be exploited to generate different states and to optimize the
performance in implementing a given quantum protocol. As a concrete instance,
we analyze in detail the performance of different states considered as
resources for the realization of quantum teleportation in realistic conditions.
For the fidelity of teleportation of an unknown coherent state, we show that
the resources associated to the optimized parameters outperform, in a
significant range of experimental values, both Gaussian twin beams and
photon-subtracted squeezed states.Comment: 13 pages, 7 figure
Transient dynamics of a flexible rotor with squeeze film dampers
A series of simulated blade loss tests are reported on a test rotor designed to operate above its second bending critical speed. A series of analyses were performed which predicted the transient behavior of the test rig for each of the blade loss tests. The scope of the program included the investigation of transient rotor dynamics of a flexible rotor system, similar to modern flexible jet engine rotors, both with and without squeeze film dampers. The results substantiate the effectiveness of squeeze film dampers and document the ability of available analytical methods to predict their effectiveness and behavior
Analyzing How BERT Performs Entity Matching
State-of-the-art Entity Matching (EM) approaches rely on transformer architectures, such as BERT, for generating highly contextualized embeddings of terms. The embeddings are then used to predict whether pairs of entity descriptions refer to the same real-world entity. BERT-based EM models demonstrated to be effective, but act as black-boxes for the users, who have limited insight into the motivations behind their decisions. In this paper, we perform a multi-facet analysis of the components of pre-trained and fine-tuned BERT architectures applied to an EM task. The main findings resulting from our extensive experimental evaluation are (1) the fine-tuning process applied to the EM task mainly modifies the last layers of the BERT components, but in a different way on tokens belonging to descriptions of matching / non-matching entities; (2) the special structure of the EM datasets, where records are pairs of entity descriptions is recognized by BERT; (3) the pair-wise semantic similarity of tokens is not a key knowledge exploited by BERT-based EM models
Slow epidemic extinction in populations with heterogeneous infection rates
We explore how heterogeneity in the intensity of interactions between people
affects epidemic spreading. For that, we study the
susceptible-infected-susceptible model on a complex network, where a link
connecting individuals and is endowed with an infection rate
proportional to the intensity of their contact
, with a distribution taken from face-to-face experiments
analyzed in Cattuto (PLoS ONE 5, e11596, 2010). We find an extremely
slow decay of the fraction of infected individuals, for a wide range of the
control parameter . Using a distribution of width we identify two
large regions in the space with anomalous behaviors, which are
reminiscent of rare region effects (Griffiths phases) found in models with
quenched disorder. We show that the slow approach to extinction is caused by
isolated small groups of highly interacting individuals, which keep epidemic
alive for very long times. A mean-field approximation and a percolation
approach capture with very good accuracy the absorbing-active transition line
for weak (small ) and strong (large ) disorder, respectively
Experimental study of transient dynamics of a flexible rotor
The results of an experimental program to investigate the transient response of a flexible rotor are presented. The program consisted of a series of tests conducted on a rig with a rotor designed to operate above its first bending critical speed. The purpose of the tests was to obtain experimental data on the transient behavior of a flexible rotor under conditions simulating those which might occur in a jet aircraft engine. The scope of the program included tests to measure the response of both balanced and unbalanced rotors during steady-state operation, acceleration, deceleration, and simulated blade loss
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