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Transport of water in polysulphide elastomers
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HLA-CSPIF panel on commercial off-the-shelf distributed simulation
Commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) simulation packages are widely used in many areas of industry. Several research groups are attempting to integrate distributed simulation principles and techniques with these packages to potentially give us COTS distributed simulation. The High Level Architecture-COTS Simulation Package Interoperation Forum (HLA-CSPIF) is a group of researchers and practitioners that are studying methodological and technological issues in this area. This panel paper presents the views of four members of this forum on the technical problems that must be overcome for this emerging field to be realized
Electron acceleration by cascading reconnection in the solar corona I Magnetic gradient and curvature effects
Aims: We investigate the electron acceleration in convective electric fields
of cascading magnetic reconnection in a flaring solar corona and show the
resulting hard X-ray (HXR) radiation spectra caused by Bremsstrahlung for the
coronal source. Methods: We perform test particle calculation of electron
motions in the framework of a guiding center approximation. The electromagnetic
fields and their derivatives along electron trajectories are obtained by
linearly interpolating the results of high-resolution adaptive mesh refinement
(AMR) MHD simulations of cascading magnetic reconnection. Hard X-ray (HXR)
spectra are calculated using an optically thin Bremsstrahlung model. Results:
Magnetic gradients and curvatures in cascading reconnection current sheet
accelerate electrons: trapped in magnetic islands, precipitating to the
chromosphere and ejected into the interplanetary space. The final location of
an electron is determined by its initial position, pitch angle and velocity.
These initial conditions also influence electron acceleration efficiency. Most
of electrons have enhanced perpendicular energy. Trapped electrons are
considered to cause the observed bright spots along coronal mass ejection
CME-trailing current sheets as well as the flare loop-top HXR emissions.Comment: submitted to A&
Frequency-sweep examination for wave mode identification in multimodal ultrasonic guided wave signal
This article has been made available through the Brunel Open Access Publishing Fund.Ultrasonic guided waves can be used to assess and monitor long elements of a structure from a single position. The greatest challenges for any guided wave system are the plethora of wave modes arising from the geometry of the structural element which propagate with a range of frequency-dependent velocities and the interpretation of these combined signals reflected by discontinuities in the structural element. In this paper, a novel signal processing technique is presented using a combination of frequency-sweep measurement, sampling rate conversion, and Fourier transform. The technique is applied to synthesized and experimental data to identify different modes in complex ultrasonic guided wave signals. It is demonstrated throughout the paper that the technique also has the capability to derive the time of flight and group velocity dispersion curve of different wave modes in field inspections. © 2014 IEEE
Combined Field Integral Equation Based Theory of Characteristic Mode
Conventional electric field integral equation based theory is susceptible to
the spurious internal resonance problem when the characteristic modes of closed
perfectly conducting objects are computed iteratively. In this paper, we
present a combined field integral equation based theory to remove the
difficulty of internal resonances in characteristic mode analysis. The electric
and magnetic field integral operators are shown to share a common set of
non-trivial characteristic pairs (values and modes), leading to a generalized
eigenvalue problem which is immune to the internal resonance corruption.
Numerical results are presented to validate the proposed formulation. This work
may offer efficient solutions to characteristic mode analysis which involves
electrically large closed surfaces
Coexistence of superconductivity and antiferromagnetism in self-doped bilayer t-t'-J model
A self-doped bilayer t-t'-J model of an electron- and a hole-doped planes is
studied by the slave-boson mean-field theory. A hopping integral between the
differently doped planes, which are generated by a site potential, are
renormalized by the electron-electron correlation. We find coexistent phases of
antiferromagnetic (AFM) and superconducting orders, although the magnitudes of
order parameters become more dissimilar in the bilayer away from half-filling.
Fermi surfaces (FS's) with the AFM order show two pockets around the nodal and
the anti-nodal regions. These results look like a composite of electron- and
hole-doped FS's. In the nodal direction, the FS splitting is absent even in the
bilayer system, since one band is flat due to the AFM order.Comment: 6 pages, 4 figure
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