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Ozonation of cooling tower waters
Continuous ozone injection into water circulating between a cooling tower and heat exchanger with heavy scale deposits inhibits formation of further deposits, promotes flaking of existing deposits, inhibits chemical corrosion and controls algae and bacteria
Type II and heterotic one loop string effective actions in four dimensions
We analyze the reduction to four dimensions of the R^4 terms which are part
of the ten-dimensional string effective actions, both at tree level and one
loop. We show that there are two independent combinations of R^4 present, at
one loop, in the type IIA four dimensional effective action, which means they
both have their origin in M-theory. The d=4 heterotic effective action also has
such terms. This contradicts the common belief thathere is only one R^4 term in
four-dimensional supergravity theories, given by the square of the Bel-Robinson
tensor. In pure N=1 supergravity this new R^4 combination cannot be directly
supersymmetrized, but we show that, when coupled to a scalar chiral multiplet
(violating the U(1) -symmetry), it emerges in the action after elimination
of the auxiliary fields.Comment: v2: 22 pages. Discussion on the new R^4 term and extended
supergravity has been abridged and improved. Published versio
Deeply penetrating banded zonal flows in the solar convection zone
Helioseismic observations have detected small temporal variations of the
rotation rate below the solar surface corresponding to the so-called `torsional
oscillations' known from Doppler measurements of the surface. These appear as
bands of slower and faster than average rotation moving equatorward. Here we
establish, using complementary helioseismic observations over four years from
the GONG network and from the MDI instrument on board SOHO, that the banded
flows are not merely a near-surface phenomenon: rather they extend downward at
least 60 Mm (some 8% of the total solar radius) and thus are evident over a
significant fraction of the nearly 200 Mm depth of the solar convection zone.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figures To be published in ApJ Letters (accepted 3/3/2000
The supermembrane revisited
The M2-brane is studied from the perspective of superembeddings. We review
the derivation of the M2-brane dynamics and the supergravity constraints from
the standard superembedding constraint and we discuss explicitly the induced
d=3, N=8 superconformal geometry on the worldvolume. We show that the gauged
supermembrane, for a target space with a U(1) isometry, is the standard
D2-brane in a type IIA supergravity background. In particular, the D2-brane
action, complete with the Dirac-Born-Infeld term, arises from the gauged
Wess-Zumino worldvolume 4-form via the brane action principle. The discussion
is extended to the massive D2-brane considered as a gauged supermembrane in a
massive D=11 superspace background. Type IIA supergeometry is derived using
Kaluza-Klein techniques in superspace.Comment: Latex, 46 pages, clarifying remarks and references adde
Solar-cycle variation of the sound-speed asphericity from GONG and MDI data 1995-2000
We study the variation of the frequency splitting coefficients describing the
solar asphericity in both GONG and MDI data, and use these data to investigate
temporal sound-speed variations as a function of both depth and latitude during
the period from 1995-2000 and a little beyond. The temporal variations in even
splitting coefficients are found to be correlated to the corresponding
component of magnetic flux at the solar surface. We confirm that the
sound-speed variations associated with the surface magnetic field are
superficial. Temporally averaged results show a significant excess in sound
speed around 0.92 solar radii and latitude of 60 degrees.Comment: To be published in MNRAS, accepted July 200
Two-Dimensional Helioseismic Power, Phase, and Coherence Spectra of {\it Solar Dynamics Observatory} Photospheric and Chromospheric Observables
While the {\it Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager} (HMI) onboard the {\it Solar
Dynamics Observatory} (SDO) provides Doppler velocity [], continuum
intensity [], and line-depth [] observations, each of which is
sensitive to the five-minute acoustic spectrum, the {\it Atmospheric Imaging
Array} (AIA) also observes at wavelengths -- specifically the 1600 and 1700
Angstrom bands -- that are partly formed in the upper photosphere and have good
sensitivity to acoustic modes. In this article we consider the characteristics
of the spatio--temporal Fourier spectra in AIA and HMI observables for a
15-degree region around NOAA Active Region 11072. We map the
spatio--temporal-power distribution for the different observables and the HMI
Line Core [], or Continuum minus Line Depth, and the phase and coherence
functions for selected observable pairs, as a function of position and
frequency. Five-minute oscillation power in all observables is suppressed in
the sunspot and also in plage areas. Above the acoustic cut-off frequency, the
behaviour is more complicated: power in HMI is still suppressed in the
presence of surface magnetic fields, while power in HMI and the AIA bands
is suppressed in areas of surface field but enhanced in an extended area around
the active region, and power in HMI is enhanced in a narrow zone around
strong-field concentrations and suppressed in a wider surrounding area. The
relative phase of the observables, and their cross-coherence functions, are
also altered around the active region. These effects may help us to understand
the interaction of waves and magnetic fields in the different layers of the
photosphere, and will need to be taken into account in multi-wavelength local
helioseismic analysis of active regions.Comment: 18 pages, 15 figures, to be published in Solar Physic
Chemical vapour deposition (CVD) of molybdenum into medium pore H-zeolites
Funding Information: Ac k n o wle d ge m e nts BPLN DIKTI and partial support from Dr. Y. Krisnandi through PUPT BPPTN 2018 grant No. 481/UN2.R3.1/HKP.05.00/2018.Peer reviewedPublisher PD
Orthosymplectically invariant functions in superspace
The notion of spherically symmetric superfunctions as functions invariant
under the orthosymplectic group is introduced. This leads to dimensional
reduction theorems for differentiation and integration in superspace. These
spherically symmetric functions can be used to solve orthosymplectically
invariant Schroedinger equations in superspace, such as the (an)harmonic
oscillator or the Kepler problem. Finally the obtained machinery is used to
prove the Funk-Hecke theorem and Bochner's relations in superspace.Comment: J. Math. Phy
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