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Method and apparatus for using magneto-acoustic remanence to determine embrittlement
A method and apparatus for testing steel components for temperature embrittlement uses magneto-acoustic emission to nondestructively evaluate the component are presented. Acoustic emission signals occur more frequently at higher levels in embrittled components. A pair of electromagnets are used to create magnetic induction in the test component. Magneto-acoustic emission signals may be generated by applying an AC current to the electromagnets. The acoustic emission signals are analyzed to provide a comparison between a component known to be unembrittled and a test component. Magnetic remanence is determined by applying a DC current to the electromagnets and then by turning the magnets off and observing the residual magnetic induction
Scattered light mapping of protoplanetary disks
High-contrast scattered light observations have revealed the surface
morphology of several dozens of protoplanetary disks at optical and
near-infrared wavelengths. Inclined disks offer the opportunity to measure part
of the phase function of the dust grains that reside in the disk surface which
is essential for our understanding of protoplanetary dust properties and the
early stages of planet formation. We aim to construct a method which takes into
account how the flaring shape of the scattering surface of an (optically thick)
protoplanetary disk projects onto the image plane of the observer. This allows
us to map physical quantities (scattering radius and scattering angle) onto
scattered light images and retrieve stellar irradiation corrected (r^2-scaled)
images and dust phase functions. We apply the method on archival polarized
intensity images of the protoplanetary disk around HD 100546 that were obtained
with VLT/SPHERE in R'-band and VLT/NACO in H- and Ks-band. The brightest side
of the r^2-scaled R'-band polarized intensity image of HD 100546 changes from
the far to the near side of the disk when a flaring instead of a geometrically
flat disk surface is used for the r^2-scaling. The decrease in polarized
surface brightness in the scattering angle range of ~40-70 deg is likely a
result of the dust phase function and degree of polarization which peak in
different scattering angle regimes. The derived phase functions show part of a
forward scattering peak which indicates that large, aggregate dust grains
dominate the scattering opacity in the disk surface. Projection effects of a
protoplanetary disk surface need to be taken into account to correctly
interpret scattered light images. Applying the correct scaling for the
correction of stellar irradiation is crucial for the interpretation of the
images and the derivation of the dust properties in the disk surface layer.Comment: Accepted for publication in A&A, 6 pages, 3 figure
An interferometric study of the post-AGB binary 89 Herculis. II Radiative transfer models of the circumbinary disk
The presence of disks and outflows is widespread among post-AGB binaries. In
the first paper of this series, a surprisingly large fraction of optical light
was found to be resolved in the 89 Her post-AGB system. The data showed this
flux to arise from close to the central binary. Scattering off the inner rim of
the circumbinary disk, or in a dusty outflow were suggested as two possible
origins. With detailed dust radiative transfer models of the disk we aim to
discriminate between these two configurations. By including Herschel/SPIRE
photometry, we extend the SED such that it now fully covers UV to sub-mm
wavelengths. The MCMax radiative transfer code is used to create a large grid
of disk models. Our models include a self-consistent treatment of dust settling
as well as of scattering. A Si-rich composition with two additional opacity
sources, metallic Fe or amorphous C, are tested. The SED is fit together with
mid-IR (MIDI) visibilities as well as the optical and near-IR visibilities of
Paper I, to constrain the structure of the disk and in particular of its inner
rim. The near-IR visibility data require a smooth inner rim, here obtained with
a two-power-law parameterization of the radial surface density distribution. A
model can be found that fits all the IR photometric and interferometric data
well, with either of the two continuum opacity sources. Our best-fit passive
models are characterized by a significant amount of mm-sized grains, which are
settled to the midplane of the disk. Not a single disk model fits our data at
optical wavelengths though, the reason being the opposing constraints imposed
by the optical and near-IR interferometric data. A geometry in which a passive,
dusty, and puffed-up circumbinary disk is present, can reproduce all the IR but
not the optical observations of 89 Her. Another dusty, outflow or halo,
component therefore needs to be added to the system.Comment: 15 pages, in pres
Numerical Approach to Multi Dimensional Phase Transitions
We present an algorithm to analyze numerically the bounce solution of
first-order phase transitions. Our approach is well suited to treat phase
transitions with several fields. The algorithm consists of two parts. In the
first part the bounce solution without damping is determined, in which case
energy is conserved. In the second part the continuation to the physically
relevant case with damping is performed. The presented approach is numerically
stable and easily implemented.Comment: 18 pages, 8 figures; some comments, a reference and a table adde
Thermal performance of two heat exchangers for thermoelectric generators
Thermal performance of heat exchanger is important for potential application in integrated solar cell/module and
thermoelectric generator (TEG) system. Usually, thermal performance of a heat exchanger for TEGs is analysed
by using a 1D heat conduction theory which ignores the detailed phenomena associated with thermo-hydraulics.
In this paper, thermal and mass transports in two different exchangers are simulated by means of a steady-state,
3D turbulent flow k -e model with a heat conduction module under various flow rates. In order to simulate an
actual working situation of the heat exchangers, hot block with an electric heater is included in the model. TEG
model is simplified by using a 1D heat conduction theory, so its thermal performance is equivalent to a real TEG.
Natural convection effect on the outside surfaces of the computational model is considered. Computational
models and methods used are validated under transient thermal and electrical experimental conditions of a TEG.
It is turned out that the two heat exchangers designed have a better thermal performance compared with an
existing heat exchanger for TEGs, and more importantly, the fin heat exchanger is more compact and has nearly
half temperature rise compared with the tube heat exchanger
Embracing corruption burstiness: Fast error recovery for ZigBee under wi-Fi interference
This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from the publisher via the DOI in this record.The ZigBee communication can be easily and severely interfered by Wi-Fi traffic. Error recovery, as an important means for
ZigBee to survive Wi-Fi interference, has been extensively studied in recent years. The existing works add upfront redundancy to
in-packet blocks for recovering a certain number of random corruptions. Therefore the bursty nature of ZigBee in-packet corruptions
under Wi-Fi interference is often considered harmful, since some blocks are full of errors which cannot be recovered and some blocks
have no errors but still requiring redundancy. As a result, they often use interleaving to reshape the bursty errors, before applying
complex FEC codes to recover the re-shaped random distributed errors. In this paper, we take a different view that burstiness may be
helpful. With burstiness, the in-packet corruptions are often consecutive and the requirement for error recovery is reduced as
”recovering any k consecutive errors” instead of ”recovering any random k errors”. This lowered requirement allows us to design far
more efficient code than the existing FEC codes. Motivated by this implication, we exploit the corruption burstiness to design a simple
yet effective error recovery code using XOR operations (called ZiXOR). ZiXOR uses XOR code and the delay is significantly reduced.
More, ZiXOR uses RSSI-hinted approach to detect in packet corruptions without CRC, incurring almost no extra transmission
overhead. The testbed evaluation results show that ZiXOR outperforms the state-of-the-art works in terms of the throughput (by 47%)
and latency (by 22%)This work was supported by the National Natural Science
Foundation of China (No. 61602095 and No. 61472360), the
Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (No.
ZYGX2016KYQD098 and No. 2016FZA5010), National Key
Technology R&D Program (Grant No. 2014BAK15B02), CCFIntel
Young Faculty Researcher Program, CCF-Tencent Open
Research Fund, China Ministry of Education—China Mobile
Joint Project under Grant No. MCM20150401 and the EU FP7
CLIMBER project under Grant Agreement No. PIRSES-GA-
2012-318939. Wei Dong is the corresponding author
Similar zone-center gaps in the low-energy spin-wave spectra of NaFeAs and BaFe2As2
We report results of inelastic-neutron-scattering measurements of low-energy
spin-wave excitations in two structurally distinct families of iron-pnictide
parent compounds: Na(1-{\delta})FeAs and BaFe2As2. Despite their very different
values of the ordered magnetic moment and N\'eel temperatures, T_N, in the
antiferromagnetic state both compounds exhibit similar spin gaps of the order
of 10 meV at the magnetic Brillouin-zone center. The gap opens sharply below
T_N, with no signatures of a precursor gap at temperatures between the
orthorhombic and magnetic phase transitions in Na(1-{\delta})FeAs. We also find
a relatively weak dispersion of the spin-wave gap in BaFe2As2 along the
out-of-plane momentum component, q_z. At the magnetic zone boundary (q_z = 0),
spin excitations in the ordered state persist down to 20 meV, which implies a
much smaller value of the effective out-of-plane exchange interaction, J_c, as
compared to previous estimates based on fitting the high-energy spin-wave
dispersion to a Heisenberg-type model.Comment: 5 pages, 4 figures, 1 tabl
Uptake of Virtual Visits in A Geriatric Primary Care Clinic During the COVID‐19 Pandemic
Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/156159/2/jgs16534.pdfhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/156159/1/jgs16534_am.pd
Top-quark FCNC Productions at LHC in Topcolor-assisted Technicolor Model
We evaluate the top-quark FCNC productions induced by the topcolor assisted
technicolor (TC2) model at the LHC. These productions proceed respectively
through the parton-level processes g g -> t c_bar, c g->t, c g -> t g, c g -> t
Z and c g -> t \gamma. We show the dependence of the production rates on the
relevant TC2 parameters and compare the results with the predictions in the
minimal supersymmetric model. We find that for each channel the TC2 model
predicts a much larger production rate than the supersymmetric model. All these
rare productions in the TC2 model can be enhanced above the 3-sigma sensitivity
of the LHC. Since in the minimal supersymmetric model only c g -> t is slightly
larger than the corresponding LHC sensitivity, the observation of these
processes will favor the TC2 model over the supersymmetric model. In case of
unobservation, the LHC can set meaningful constraints on the TC2 parameters.Comment: 5 pages, 4 fig
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