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Recent progress towards predicting aircraft ground handling performance
Capability implemented in simulating aircraft ground handling performance is reviewed and areas for further expansion and improvement are identified. Problems associated with providing necessary simulator input data for adequate modeling of aircraft tire/runway friction behavior are discussed and efforts to improve tire/runway friction definition, and simulator fidelity are described. Aircraft braking performance data obtained on several wet runway surfaces are compared to ground vehicle friction measurements. Research to improve methods of predicting tire friction performance are discussed
Recent Progress Towards Predicting Aircraft Ground Handling Performance
The significant progress which has been achieved in development of aircraft ground handling simulation capability is reviewed and additional improvements in software modeling identified. The problem associated with providing necessary simulator input data for adequate modeling of aircraft tire/runway friction behavior is discussed and efforts to improve this complex model, and hence simulator fidelity, are described. Aircraft braking performance data obtained on several wet runway surfaces is compared to ground vehicle friction measurements and, by use of empirically derived methods, good agreement between actual and estimated aircraft braking friction from ground vehilce data is shown. The performance of a relatively new friction measuring device, the friction tester, showed great promise in providing data applicable to aircraft friction performance. Additional research efforts to improve methods of predicting tire friction performance are discussed including use of an instrumented tire test vehicle to expand the tire friction data bank and a study of surface texture measurement techniques
The linear polarization of lunar thermal emission at 3.1 mm wavelength
Several observations of the distribution of linearly polarized lunar thermal emission were made at a wavelength of 3.1 mm with 4.88 m parabolic reflector from February to March 1971. A shadow corrected rough surface thermal emission model was least squares fitted to the data. Results indicate an effective lunar dielectric constant of 1.34 + or -.08 with surface roughness characterized by a standard deviation of surface slopes of 18 deg + or - 2 deg. A comparison of these results with previously published values at other wavelengths suggests that the effective lunar dielectric constant decreases with decreasing wavelength
Competition Between Stripes and Pairing in a t-t'-J Model
As the number of legs n of an n-leg, t-J ladder increases, density matrix
renormalization group calculations have shown that the doped state tends to be
characterized by a static array of domain walls and that pairing correlations
are suppressed. Here we present results for a t-t'-J model in which a diagonal,
single particle, next-near-neighbor hopping t' is introduced. We find that this
can suppress the formation of stripes and, for t' positive, enhance the
d_{x^2-y^2}-like pairing correlations. The effect of t' > 0 is to cause the
stripes to evaporate into pairs and for t' < 0 to evaporate into
quasi-particles. Results for n=4 and 6-leg ladders are discussed.Comment: Four pages, four encapsulated figure
Linear Optical CNOT Gate in the Coincidence Basis
We describe the operation and tolerances of a non-deterministic, coincidence
basis, quantum CNOT gate for photonic qubits. It is constructed solely from
linear optical elements and requires only a two-photon source for its
demonstration.Comment: Submitted to Physical Review
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CCH <i>N</i> = 4-3 emission from dense interstellar clouds
The authors have searched for N = 4 - 3 rotational line emission from the ethynyl radical CCH, at 349 GHz toward a number of galactic molecular clouds. They have detected emission from ten giant molecular clouds and have derived CCH column densities on the order of 1014 - 1015cm-2. They find that CCH emission arises from dense gas, n(H2) ~ 104 - 105cm-3, but not from very dense material, n(H2) > 106cm-3, nor from hot gas such as the "hot core" region in Orion
High Velocity Impact Performance of a Dual Layer Thermal Protection System for the Mars Sample Return Earth Entry Vehicle
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