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Reusable rocket engine turbopump health monitoring system, part 3
Degradation mechanisms and sensor identification/selection resulted in a list of degradation modes and a list of sensors that are utilized in the diagnosis of these degradation modes. The sensor list is divided into primary and secondary indicators of the corresponding degradation modes. The signal conditioning requirements are discussed, describing the methods of producing the Space Shuttle Main Engine (SSME) post-hot-fire test data to be utilized by the Health Monitoring System. Development of the diagnostic logic and algorithms is also presented. The knowledge engineering approach, as utilized, includes the knowledge acquisition effort, characterization of the expert's problem solving strategy, conceptually defining the form of the applicable knowledge base, and rule base, and identifying an appropriate inferencing mechanism for the problem domain. The resulting logic flow graphs detail the diagnosis/prognosis procedure as followed by the experts. The nature and content of required support data and databases is also presented. The distinction between deep and shallow types of knowledge is identified. Computer coding of the Health Monitoring System is shown to follow the logical inferencing of the logic flow graphs/algorithms
Spechts Ferry (Middle Ordovician) bryozoan fauna from Illinois, Wisconsin, and Iowa.
Information circular / Illinois State Geological
Zero gravity apparatus Patent
Zero gravity apparatus utilizing pneumatic decelerating means to create payload subjected to zero gravity conditions by dropping its heigh
Quarkonia in Hamiltonian Light-Front QCD
A constituent parton picture of hadrons with logarithmic confinement
naturally arises in weak coupling light-front QCD. Confinement provides a mass
gap that allows the constituent picture to emerge. The effective renormalized
Hamiltonian is computed to , and used to study charmonium and
bottomonium. Radial and angular excitations can be used to fix the coupling
, the quark mass , and the cutoff . The resultant hyperfine
structure is very close to experiment.Comment: 9 pages, 1 latex figure included in the text. Published version (much
more reader-friendly); corrected error in self-energ
Probing the gravitational geon
The Brill-Hartle gravitational geon construct as a spherical shell of small
amplitude, high frequency gravitational waves is reviewed and critically
analyzed. The Regge-Wheeler formalism is used to represent gravitational wave
perturbations of the spherical background as a superposition of tensor
spherical harmonics and an attempt is made to build a non-singular solution to
meet the requirements of a gravitational geon. High-frequency waves are seen to
be a necessary condition for the geon and the field equations are decomposed
accordingly. It is shown that this leads to the impossibility of forming a
spherical gravitational geon. The attempted constructs of gravitational and
electromagnetic geons are contrasted. The spherical shell in the proposed
Brill-Hartle geon does not meet the regularity conditions required for a
non-singular source and hence cannot be regarded as an adequate geon construct.
Since it is the high frequency attribute which is the essential cause of the
geon non-viability, it is argued that a geon with less symmetry is an unlikely
prospect. The broader implications of the result are discussed with particular
reference to the problem of gravitational energy.Comment: Replaced with revised version (substantial changes and additions,
conclusions unchanged), 36 pages, LaTex, 3 figures available from the author
Farmer response to rationed and uncertain irrigation supplies
Water resource management / Water use efficiency / Evapotranspiration / Agricultural production / Irrigated farming / Irrigation scheduling / Water allocation / Water supply / Water scarcity / Water delivery / Reservoirs / Uncertainty / Yield
Bulk/Boundary Thermodynamic Equivalence, and the Bekenstein and Cosmic-Censorship Bounds for Rotating Charged AdS Black Holes
We show that one may pass from bulk to boundary thermodynamic quantities for
rotating AdS black holes in arbitrary dimensions so that if the bulk quantities
satisfy the first law of thermodynamics then so do the boundary CFT quantities.
This corrects recent claims that boundary CFT quantities satisfying the first
law may only be obtained using bulk quantities measured with respect to a
certain frame rotating at infinity, and which therefore do not satisfy the
first law. We show that the bulk black hole thermodynamic variables, or
equivalently therefore the boundary CFT variables, do not always satisfy a
Cardy-Verlinde type formula, but they do always satisfy an AdS-Bekenstein
bound. The universal validity of the Bekenstein bound is a consequence of the
more fundamental cosmic censorship bound, which we find to hold in all cases
examined. We also find that at fixed entropy, the temperature of a rotating
black hole is bounded above by that of a non-rotating black hole, in four and
five dimensions, but not in six or more dimensions. We find evidence for
universal upper bounds for the area of cosmological event horizons and
black-hole horizons in rotating black-hole spacetimes with a positive
cosmological constant.Comment: Latex, 42 page
Initial bound state studies in light-front QCD
We present the first numerical QCD bound state calculation based on a
renormalization group-improved light-front Hamiltonian formalism. The QCD
Hamiltonian is determined to second order in the coupling, and it includes
two-body confining interactions. We make a momentum expansion, obtaining an
equal-time-like Schrodinger equation. This is solved for quark-antiquark
constituent states, and we obtain a set of self-consistent parameters by
fitting B meson spectra.Comment: 38 pages, latex, 5 latex figures include
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