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Method of welding joint in closed vessel improves quality of seam
To facilitate welding of closed vessels, a metal backup strip is used at the junction inside the vessel. After welding from the outside, this strip is dissolved by a chemically reactive solvent poured through a filler hole into the vessel
Air Flow Investigation for Location of Angle of Attack Head on a JN4h Airplane
The technical staff of the NACA at Langley Field, has made a series of free flight tests with a JN4h airplane in order to find the best place for an instrument for measuring the angle of attack. A "neutral zone" was found where the air remains either at rest relative to the undisturbed air beyond the influence of the airplane, or is set in motion parallel to the motion of the airplane. This zone is about midway between the two wings and slightly in front of, or at the vertical plane through the leading edges of the wings but the exact position as well as the outlines of the zone varies considerably as the conditions of flight change
Two-state system driven by imperfect pi pulses: an estimate of the error accumulation in bang-bang control methods
The evolution of a two-state system driven by a sequence of imperfect pi
pulses (with random phase or amplitude errors) is calculated. The resulting
decreased fidelity is used to derive a plausible limit on the performance of
"bang-bang" control methods for the suppression of decoherence.Comment: 9 pages, 3 figures; submitted to Journal of Modern Optic
Forest resource information system
Remote sensing technology providing St. Regis with an independent operational system and having LANDSAT data as a significant and viable contributor was documented and transferred. Primary emphasis was placed on documenting developmental LARSYS (LARSYSDV) software modules. Timelines and a short description of the software documentation process is given
Computational Study of the Structure and Thermodynamic Properties of Ammonium Chloride Clusters Using a Parallel J-Walking Approach
The thermodynamic and structural properties of (NHCl) clusters,
n=3-10 are studied. Using the method of simulated annealing, the geometries of
several isomers for each cluster size are examined. Jump-walking Monte Carlo
simulations are then used to compute the constant-volume heat capacity for each
cluster size over a wide temperature range. To carry out these simulations a
new parallel algorithm is developed using the Parallel Virtual Machine (PVM)
software package. Features of the cluster potential energy surfaces, such as
energy differences among isomers and rotational barriers of the ammonium ions,
are found to play important roles in determining the shape of the heat capacity
curves.Comment: Journal of Chemical Physics, accepted for publicatio
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