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An aeroacoustic investigation into the effect of self-oscillating trailing edge flaplets
The aeroacoustics of a NACA 0012 aerofoil with an array of self-oscillating flexible flaplets attached on the trailing edge has been investigated at low to moderate chord based Reynolds number (50,000 -- 350,000) and at geometric angles of attack from -- . When the aerofoil is untripped, tonal peaks are observed on the baseline aerofoil. When the passive flaplets are attached to the pressure side of the aerofoil, the tonal peak is removed. If the flaplets are then placed on the suction side, the tonal peak is reduced, but not removed. It is therefore hypothesised that the flaplets on the pressure side modifies the laminar separation bubble situated on the pressure side of the aerofoil, a key mechanism for tonal noise. Throughout all cases, both tripped and untripped, a low frequency (0.1 kHz -- 0.6 kHz) noise reduction and a slight increase at higher frequencies (>2 kHz) is seen. This gives an average overall sound pressure level (OSPL) reduction of 1.5 -- 2 dB for the flaplets affixed to the pressure side. The cases where the tonal noise component is removed an OSPL reduction of up to 20 dB can be seen
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Vortex Shedding and Modal Behavior of a Circular Cylinder Equipped with Flexible Flaps
When a cylinder is subject to a flow, vortices will be shed that can lead to strong tonal noise. The modification of the cylinder with soft, flexible flaps made of silicone rubber has been shown to affect the vortex shedding cycle in a way that the Strouhal number associated with the vortex shedding suddenly jumps to a higher value at a certain Reynolds number. In the present study, the effect of the flexible flaps on the vortex shedding is further examined by subsequently reducing the number of flaps and additionally shortening their length. Acoustic measurements and camera recordings of the flap motion, performed in an aeroacoustic wind tunnel, suggest that the sudden jump of the Reynolds number is caused by the movement of the outer flaps. A comparison with the eigenfrequencies obtained from a numerical modal analysis of the different flap rings revealed that the cause of the Strouhal number jump is most likely a lock-in of the natural vortex shedding cycle with the next higher eigenfrequency of the outer flaps
Population Annealing with Weighted Averages: A Monte Carlo Method for Rough Free Energy Landscapes
The population annealing algorithm introduced by Hukushima and Iba is
described. Population annealing combines simulated annealing and Boltzmann
weighted differential reproduction within a population of replicas to sample
equilibrium states. Population annealing gives direct access to the free
energy. It is shown that unbiased measurements of observables can be obtained
by weighted averages over many runs with weight factors related to the free
energy estimate from the run. Population annealing is well suited to
parallelization and may be a useful alternative to parallel tempering for
systems with rough free energy landscapes such as spin glasses. The method is
demonstrated for spin glasses.Comment: 9 pages, 5 figures; version 2 has improved figure 5 and new titl
General approach for studying first-order phase transitions at low temperatures
By combining different ideas, a general and efficient protocol to deal with
discontinuous phase transitions at low temperatures is proposed. For small
's, it is possible to derive a generic analytic expression for appropriate
order parameters, whose coefficients are obtained from simple simulations. Once
in such regimes simulations by standard algorithms are not reliable, an
enhanced tempering method, the parallel tempering -- accurate for small and
intermediate system sizes with rather low computational cost -- is used.
Finally, from finite size analysis, one can obtain the thermodynamic limit. The
procedure is illustrated for four distinct models, demonstrating its power,
e.g., to locate coexistence lines and the phases density at the coexistence.Comment: 5 page
Observations of comet Levy 1990c in the (OI) 6300-A line with an imaging Fabry-Perot
We have observed the comet Levy 1990c during 16-25 August 1990 using the MPAE focal reducer system based Fabry-Perot etalon coupled with the 1 meter telescope of the Observatory of Hoher List. The free spectral range and resolution limit of the interferometer was approximately 2.18 A and approximately 0.171 A respectively. Classical Fabry-Perot fringes were recorded on a CCD in the cometary (OI) 6300 A line. They are well resolved from telluric air glow and cometary NH2 emission. Our observations indicate that the (OI) is distributed asymmetrically with respect to the center of the comet. In this paper we report the spatial distribution of (OI) emission and its line width in the coma of comet Levy
Make life simple: unleash the full power of the parallel tempering algorithm
We introduce a new update scheme to systematically improve the efficiency of
parallel tempering simulations. We show that by adapting the number of sweeps
between replica exchanges to the canonical autocorrelation time, the average
round-trip time of a replica in temperature space can be significantly
decreased. The temperatures are not dynamically adjusted as in previous
attempts but chosen to yield a 50% exchange rate of adjacent replicas. We
illustrate the new algorithm with results for the Ising model in two and the
Edwards-Anderson Ising spin glass in three dimensionsComment: 4 pages, 5 figure
Doppler velocities in the ion tail of comet Levy 1990c
We have obtained time alternating sequences of column density maps and Doppler velocity fields in the plasma tail of comet Levy 1990c. We describe the observing technique and data analysis, and we present first results
Microcanonical versus Canonical Analysis of Protein Folding
The microcanonical analysis is shown to be a powerful tool to characterize
the protein folding transition and to neatly distinguish between good and bad
folders. An off-lattice model with parameter chosen to represent polymers of
these two types is used to illustrate this approach. Both canonical and
microcanonical ensembles are employed. The required calculations were performed
using parallel tempering Monte Carlo simulations. The most revealing features
of the folding transition are related to its first-order-like character,
namely, the S-bend pattern in the caloric curve, which gives rise to negative
microcanonical specific heats, and the bimodality of the energy distribution
function at the transition temperatures. Models for a good folder are shown to
be quite robust against perturbations in the interaction potential parameters.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figure
Entropic effects in large-scale Monte Carlo simulations
The efficiency of Monte Carlo samplers is dictated not only by energetic
effects, such as large barriers, but also by entropic effects that are due to
the sheer volume that is sampled. The latter effects appear in the form of an
entropic mismatch or divergence between the direct and reverse trial moves. We
provide lower and upper bounds for the average acceptance probability in terms
of the Renyi divergence of order 1/2. We show that the asymptotic finitude of
the entropic divergence is the necessary and sufficient condition for
non-vanishing acceptance probabilities in the limit of large dimensions.
Furthermore, we demonstrate that the upper bound is reasonably tight by showing
that the exponent is asymptotically exact for systems made up of a large number
of independent and identically distributed subsystems. For the last statement,
we provide an alternative proof that relies on the reformulation of the
acceptance probability as a large deviation problem. The reformulation also
leads to a class of low-variance estimators for strongly asymmetric
distributions. We show that the entropy divergence causes a decay in the
average displacements with the number of dimensions n that are simultaneously
updated. For systems that have a well-defined thermodynamic limit, the decay is
demonstrated to be n^{-1/2} for random-walk Monte Carlo and n^{-1/6} for Smart
Monte Carlo (SMC). Numerical simulations of the LJ_38 cluster show that SMC is
virtually as efficient as the Markov chain implementation of the Gibbs sampler,
which is normally utilized for Lennard-Jones clusters. An application of the
entropic inequalities to the parallel tempering method demonstrates that the
number of replicas increases as the square root of the heat capacity of the
system.Comment: minor corrections; the best compromise for the value of the epsilon
parameter in Eq. A9 is now shown to be log(2); 13 pages, 4 figures, to appear
in PR
Effects of phase transitions in devices actuated by the electromagnetic vacuum force
We study the influence of the electromagnetic vacuum force on the behaviour
of a model device based on materials, like germanium tellurides, that undergo
fast and reversible metal-insulator transitions on passing from the crystalline
to the amorphous phase. The calculations are performed at finite temperature
and fully accounting for the behaviour of the material dielectric functions.
The results show that the transition can be exploited to extend the distance
and energy ranges under which the device can be operated without undergoing
stiction phenomena. We discuss the approximation involved in adopting the
Casimir expression in simulating nano- and micro- devices at finite
temperature
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