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The transmissibility of vibration isolators with a nonlinear anti-symmetric damping characteristic
In the present study, the concept of the Output Frequency Response Function (OFRF), recently proposed by the authors, is applied to theoretically investigate the transmissibility of SDOF passive vibration isolators with a nonlinear anti-symmetric damping curve. The results reveal that a nonlinear anti-symmetric damping characteristic has almost no effect on the transmissibility of SDOF vibration isolators over both low and high frequency ranges where the frequencies are much lower or higher than the isolator’s resonant frequency. On the other hand, the introduction of a nonlinear anti-symmetric damping can significantly reduce the transmissibility of the vibration isolator over the resonant frequency region. The results indicate that nonlinear vibration isolators with an anti-symmetric damping characteristic have great potential to overcome the dilemma encountered in the design of passive linear vibration isolators, that is, increasing the level of damping to reduce the transmissibility at the resonance could increase the transmissibility over the range of higher frequencies. These important theoretical conclusions are then verified by simulation studies
Simulation of Flow of Mixtures Through Anisotropic Porous Media using a Lattice Boltzmann Model
We propose a description for transient penetration simulations of miscible
and immiscible fluid mixtures into anisotropic porous media, using the lattice
Boltzmann (LB) method. Our model incorporates hydrodynamic flow, diffusion,
surface tension, and the possibility for global and local viscosity variations
to consider various types of hardening fluids. The miscible mixture consists of
two fluids, one governed by the hydrodynamic equations and one by diffusion
equations. We validate our model on standard problems like Poiseuille flow, the
collision of a drop with an impermeable, hydrophobic interface and the
deformation of the fluid due to surface tension forces. To demonstrate the
applicability to complex geometries, we simulate the invasion process of
mixtures into wood spruce samples.Comment: Submitted to EPJ
Entangled state preparation via dissipation-assisted adiabatic passages
The main obstacle for coherent control of open quantum systems is decoherence
due to different dissipation channels and the inability to precisely control
experimental parameters. To overcome these problems we propose to use
dissipation-assisted adiabatic passages. These are relatively fast processes
where the presence of spontaneous decay rates corrects for errors due to
non-adiabaticity while the system remains in a decoherence-free state and
behaves as predicted for an adiabatic passage. As a concrete example we present
a scheme to entangle atoms by moving them in and out of an optical cavity.Comment: 11 pages, 7 figures, minor changes, accepted for publication in Phys.
Rev.
Interacting Modified Variable Chaplygin Gas in Non-flat Universe
A unified model of dark energy and matter is presented using the modified
variable Chaplygin gas for interacting dark energy in a non-flat universe. The
two entities interact with each other non-gravitationally which involves a
coupling constant. Due to dynamic interaction, the variation in this constant
arises that henceforth changes the equations of state of these quantities. We
have derived the effective equations of state corresponding to matter and dark
energy in this interacting model. Moreover, the case of phantom energy is
deduced by putting constraints on the parameters involved.Comment: 9 pages; Accepted for publication in European Physical Journal
Phase-space analysis of interacting phantom cosmology
We perform a detailed phase-space analysis of various phantom cosmological
models, where the dark energy sector interacts with the dark matter one. We
examine whether there exist late-time scaling attractors, corresponding to an
accelerating universe and possessing dark energy and dark matter densities of
the same order. We find that all the examined models, although accepting stable
late-time accelerated solutions, cannot alleviate the coincidence problem,
unless one imposes a form of fine-tuning in the model parameters. It seems that
interacting phantom cosmology cannot fulfill the basic requirement that led to
its construction.Comment: 6 figures, use revtex, v2: minor corrections, references added,
accepted for publication in JCA
Cosmological model with interactions in the dark sector
A cosmological model is proposed for the current Universe consisted of
non-interacting baryonic matter and interacting dark components. The dark
energy and dark matter are coupled through their effective barotropic indexes,
which are considered as functions of the ratio between their energy densities.
It is investigated two cases where the ratio is asymptotically stable and their
parameters are adjusted by considering best fits to Hubble function data. It is
shown that the deceleration parameter, the densities parameters, and the
luminosity distance have the correct behavior which is expected for a viable
present scenario of the Universe.Comment: 6 pages, 8 figure
Competition between decay and dissociation of core-excited OCS studied by X-ray scattering
We show the first evidence of dissociation during resonant inelastic soft
X-ray scattering. Carbon and oxygen K-shell and sulfur L-shell resonant and
non-resonant X-ray emission spectra were measured using monochromatic
synchrotron radiation for excitation and ionization. After sulfur, L2,3 ->
{\pi}*, {\sigma}* excitation, atomic lines are observed in the emission spectra
as a consequence of competition between de-excitation and dissociation. In
contrast the carbon and oxygen spectra show weaker line shape variations and no
atomic lines. The spectra are compared to results from ab initio calculations
and the discussion of the dissociation paths is based on calculated potential
energy surfaces and atomic transition energies.Comment: 12 pages, 6 pictures, 2 tables,
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.59.428
Charm multiplicity and the branching ratios of inclusive charmless b quark decays in the general two-Higgs-doublet models
In the framework of general two-Higgs-doublet models, we calculate the
branching ratios of various inclusive charmless b decays by using the low
energy effective Hamiltonian including next-to-leading order QCD corrections,
and examine the current status and the new physics effects on the determination
of the charm multiplicity and semileptonic branching ratio .
Within the considered parameter space, the enhancement to the ratio due to the charged-Higgs penguins can be as large as a factor of 8 (3) in
the model III (II), while the ratio can be increased from
the standard model prediction of 2.49% to 4.91% (2.99%) in the model III (II).
Consequently, the value of and can be decreased simultaneously
in the model III. The central value of will be lowered slightly by
about 0.003, but the ratio can be reduced significantly from the
theoretical prediction of in the SM to , for GeV, respectively. We find that
the predicted and the measured now agree within roughly one
standard deviation after taking into account the effects of gluonic charged
Higgs penguins in the model III with a relatively light charged Higgs boson.Comment: 25 pages, Latex file, axodraw.sty, 6 figures. Final version to be
published in Phys.Rev.
Proton-Antiproton Annihilation into a Lambda_c-Antilambda_c Pair
The process p-pbar -> Lambda_c-Antilambda_c is investigated within the
handbag approach. It is shown that the dominant dynamical mechanism,
characterized by the partonic subprocess u-ubar -> c-cbar factorizes in the
sense that only the subprocess contains highly virtual partons, a gluon to
lowest order of perturbative QCD, while the hadronic matrix elements embody
only soft scales and can be parameterized in terms of helicity flip and
non-flip generalized parton distributions. Modelling these parton distributions
by overlaps of light-cone wave functions for the involved baryons we are able
to predict cross sections and spin correlation parameters for the process of
interest.Comment: 39 pages, 7 figures, problems with printout of figures resolved, Ref.
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