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Energy efficient engine. Low pressure turbine test hardware detailed design report
The low pressure turbine for the energy efficient engine is a five-stage configuration with moderate aerodynamic loading incorporating advanced features of decambered airfoils and extended blade overlaps at platforms and shrouds. Mechanical integrity of 18,000 hours on flowpath components and 36,000 hours on all other components is achieved along with no aeromechanical instabilities within the steady-state operating range. Selection of a large number (156) of stage 4 blades, together with an increased stage 4 vane-to-blade gap, assists in achieving FAR 36 acoustic goals. Active clearance control (ACC) of gaps at blade tips and interstage seals is achieved by fan air cooling judiciously applied at responsive locations on the casing. This ACC system is a major improvement in preventing deterioration of the 0.0381 cm (0.015 in.) clearances required to meet the integrated-core/low-spool turbine efficiency goal of 91.1% and the light propulsion system efficiency goal of 91.7%
Dynamics of the peel front and the nature of acoustic emission during peeling of an adhesive tape
We investigate the peel front dynamics and acoustic emission of an adhesive
tape within the context of a recent model by including an additional
dissipative energy that mimics bursts of acoustic signals. We find that the
nature of the peeling front can vary from smooth to stuck-peeled configuration
depending on the values of dissipation coefficient, inertia of the roller, mass
of the tape. Interestingly, we find that the distribution of AE bursts shows a
power law statistics with two scaling regimes with increasing pull velocity as
observed in experiments. In this regimes, the stuck-peeled configuration is
similar to the `edge of peeling' reminiscent of a system driven to a critical
state.Comment: Accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. Let
Estimations for the Single Diffractive production of the Higgs boson at the Tevatron and the LHC
The single diffractive production of the standard model Higgs boson is
computed using the diffractive factorization formalism, taking into account a
parametrization for the Pomeron structure function provided by the H1
Collaboration. We compute the cross sections at next-to-leading order accuracy
for the gluon fusion process, which includes QCD and electroweak corrections.
The gap survival probability () is also introduced to account for
the rescattering corrections due to spectator particles present in the
interaction, and to this end we compare two different models for the survival
factor. The diffractive ratios are predicted for proton-proton collisions at
the Tevatron and the LHC for the Higgs boson mass of = 120 GeV.
Therefore, our results provide updated estimations for the diffractive ratios
of the single diffractive production of the Higgs boson in the Tevatron and LHC
kinematical regimes.Comment: 20 pages, 6 figures, 3 table
Cavitation-induced force transition in confined viscous liquids under traction
We perform traction experiments on simple liquids highly confined between
parallel plates. At small separation rates, we observe a simple response
corresponding to a convergent Poiseuille flow. Dramatic changes in the force
response occur at high separation rates, with the appearance of a force plateau
followed by an abrupt drop. By direct observation in the course of the
experiment, we show that cavitation accounts for these features which are
reminiscent of the utmost complex behavior of adhesive films under traction.
Surprisingly enough, this is observed here in purely viscous fluids.Comment: Submitted to Physical Review Letters on May 31, 2002. Related
informations on http://www.crpp.u-bordeaux.fr/tack.htm
Geometric analysis of noisy perturbations to nonholonomic constraints
We propose two types of stochastic extensions of nonholonomic constraints for
mechanical systems. Our approach relies on a stochastic extension of the
Lagrange-d'Alembert framework. We consider in details the case of invariant
nonholonomic systems on the group of rotations and on the special Euclidean
group. Based on this, we then develop two types of stochastic deformations of
the Suslov problem and study the possibility of extending to the stochastic
case the preservation of some of its integrals of motion such as the Kharlamova
or Clebsch-Tisserand integrals
Secondary schooling and rural youth transitions in Lesotho and Zimbabwe
Based on case studies centred on two rural secondary schools in Lesotho and Zimbabwe, this paper examines the gendered impacts of schooling on young people’s transitions to adulthood. School attendance is shown, first, to disrupt the conventional pathways to adulthood: young people attending school may leave home sooner than they otherwise would, and take responsibility for their day-to-day survival, while marriage and childbearing are often delayed. More significantly, secondary schooling reflects, and contributes to, a growing sense that adulthood itself is not fixed. An alternative version of adulthood is promoted through schools in which formal sector employment is central. Yet while young people are encouraged to opt for, and work towards, this goal, only a minority are able to obtain paid employment. The apparent possibility of determining one’s own lifecourse serves to cast the majority of young people as failures in their transitions to adulthood
Preliminary hidrological results from Sarennes glacier basin, French Alps
Located in the French Alps, Glacier de Sarennes is a small glacier which has its mass balance, measured since 1948. Now since 1992, the Snow Engineenng and Avalanche control department of Cemagref Grenoble measures water leve1 in the emissary of this glacier at the altitude of 2800 meters. The time step of these records is 10 minutes. The aim of this study is to realize the first hydrological assessment, despite having few records until now, to be able to control the new experimental discharge station, and to extract the first scientific results
Preliminary hidrological results from Sarennes glacier basin, French Alps
Located in the French Alps, Glacier de Sarennes is a small glacier which has its mass balance, measured since 1948. Now since 1992, the Snow Engineenng and Avalanche control department of Cemagref Grenoble measures water leve1 in the emissary of this glacier at the altitude of 2800 meters. The time step of these records is 10 minutes. The aim of this study is to realize the first hydrological assessment, despite having few records until now, to be able to control the new experimental discharge station, and to extract the first scientific results
Evaluation of a measles vaccine campaign by oral-fluid surveys in a rural Kenyan district: interpretation of antibody prevalence data using mixture models
We evaluated the effectiveness of a measles vaccine campaign in rural Kenya, based on oral-fluid surveys and mixture-modelling analysis. Specimens were collected from 886 children aged 9 months to 14 years pre-campaign and from a comparison sample of 598 children aged 6 months post-campaign. Quantitative measles-specific antibody data were obtained by commercial kit. The estimated proportions of measles-specific antibody negative in children aged 0–4, 5–9 and 10–14 years were 51%, 42% and 27%, respectively, pre- campaign and 18%, 14% and 6%, respectively, post-campaign. We estimate a reduction in the proportion susceptible of 65–78%, with ~85% of the population recorded to have received vaccine. The proportion of ‘weak’ positive individuals rose from 35% pre-campaign to 54% post-campaign. Our results confirm the effectiveness of the campaign in reducing susceptibility to measles and demonstrate the potential of oral-fluid studies to monitor the impact of measles vaccination campaigns
Clinical and pharmacologic features of monoclonal antibodies and checkpoint blockade therapy in multiple myeloma
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