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Validation of scramjet exhaust simulation technique at Mach 6
Current design philosophy for hydrogen-fueled, scramjet-powered hypersonic aircraft results in configurations with strong couplings between the engine plume and vehicle aerodynamics. The experimental verification of the scramjet exhaust simulation is described. The scramjet exhaust was reproduced for the Mach 6 flight condition by the detonation tube simulator. The exhaust flow pressure profiles, and to a large extent the heat transfer rate profiles, were then duplicated by cool gas mixtures of Argon and Freon 13B1 or Freon 12. The results of these experiments indicate that a cool gas simulation of the hot scramjet exhaust is a viable simulation technique except for phenomena which are dependent on the wall temperature relative to flow temperature
Validation of scramjet exhaust simulation technique
Scramjet/airframe integration design philosophy for hypersonic aircraft results in configurations having lower aft surfaces that serve as exhaust nozzles. There is a strong coupling between the exhaust plume and the aerodynamics of the vehicle, making accurate simulation of the engine exhaust mandatory. The experimental verification of the simulation procedure is described. The detonation tube simulator was used to produce an exact simulation of the scramjet exhaust for a Mach 8 flight condition. The pressure distributions produced by the exact exhaust flow were then duplicated by a cool mixture Argon and Freon 13B1. Such a substitute gas mixture validated by the detonation tube technique could be used in conventional wind tunnel tests. The results presented show the substitute gas simulation technique to be valid for shockless expansions
Recent developments in classical density functional theory: Internal energy functional and diagrammatic structure of fundamental measure theory
An overview of several recent developments in density functional theory for
classical inhomogeneous liquids is given. We show how Levy's constrained search
method can be used to derive the variational principle that underlies density
functional theory. An advantage of the method is that the Helmholtz free energy
as a functional of a trial one-body density is given as an explicit expression,
without reference to an external potential as is the case in the standard
Mermin-Evans proof by reductio ad absurdum. We show how to generalize the
approach in order to express the internal energy as a functional of the
one-body density distribution and of the local entropy distribution. Here the
local chemical potential and the bulk temperature play the role of Lagrange
multipliers in the Euler-Lagrange equations for minimiziation of the
functional. As an explicit approximation for the free-energy functional for
hard sphere mixtures, the diagrammatic structure of Rosenfeld's fundamental
measure density unctional is laid out. Recent extensions, based on the
Kierlik-Rosinberg scalar weight functions, to binary and ternary non-additive
hard sphere mixtures are described.Comment: 15 pages, 6 figure
COMPARISON OF JUMP HEIGHT VALUES DERIVED FROM A FORCE PLATFORM AND VERTEC
This study simultaneously assessed jump heights derived from a force platform and a Vertec as well as the reliability of each instrument. Twenty-one recreationally active adults performed 3 maximal countermovement jumps reaching to a Vertec that was placed above the force platform. A repeated measures ANOVA was used to assess differences between Vertec jump height and force platform derived jump height. Results revealed a 27% higher jump height when assessed by the Vertec, compared to the force platform. Intra-class correlations were used to assess trial-to-trial reliability. Both instruments displayed excellent reliability. Practitioners could use the following regression equation to interpret measurements from the force platform: Vertec jump height = force platform height (1.024) + 0.142m
The van Hove distribution function for Brownian hard spheres: dynamical test particle theory and computer simulations for bulk dynamics
We describe a test particle approach based on dynamical density functional
theory (DDFT) for studying the correlated time evolution of the particles that
constitute a fluid. Our theory provides a means of calculating the van Hove
distribution function by treating its self and distinct parts as the two
components of a binary fluid mixture, with the `self' component having only one
particle, the `distinct' component consisting of all the other particles, and
using DDFT to calculate the time evolution of the density profiles for the two
components. We apply this approach to a bulk fluid of Brownian hard spheres and
compare to results for the van Hove function and the intermediate scattering
function from Brownian dynamics computer simulations. We find good agreement at
low and intermediate densities using the very simple Ramakrishnan-Yussouff
[Phys. Rev. B 19, 2775 (1979)] approximation for the excess free energy
functional. Since the DDFT is based on the equilibrium Helmholtz free energy
functional, we can probe a free energy landscape that underlies the dynamics.
Within the mean-field approximation we find that as the particle density
increases, this landscape develops a minimum, while an exact treatment of a
model confined situation shows that for an ergodic fluid this landscape should
be monotonic. We discuss possible implications for slow, glassy and arrested
dynamics at high densities.Comment: Submitted to Journal of Chemical Physic
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