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Shock accelerated cylindrical gas inhomogeneities. Part 2 - A heavy gas cylinder
Experiments have been carried out in which a cylindrical volume of a heavy gas is impulsively
accelerated by a weak shock wave. A laminar jet of sulphur hexafluoride (SF_6) is used to produce
the heavy gas cylinder. Planar laser induced fluorescence (PLIF) is used to visualize the flow. In
viewing the PLIF images it is discovered that the vorticity that early on resides on the boundary
between the two gasses, separates from the cylinder to form a pair of vortices. Subsequently these
vortices wrap the heavy gas around them. This process is quite different from what is observed
when the cylinder is lighter than its surroundings. Similar experiments with helium (part 1 of this
series) showed that a small amount light gas stays with the vorticity, eventually becoming part of
the vortex cores. A simple model capable of explaining these differences is presented. In addition,
the displacement of the jet cross section is measured and agrees reasonably well with previous
experimental and computational results
Shock-induced mixing of a light-gas cylinder
Experiments have been carried out to quantify the mixing induced by the interaction of a weak shock wave with a cylindrical volume of a gas (helium) that is lighter than its surroundings (air). In these experiments a round laminar jet was used to produce the light-gas cylinder, and planar laser-induced fluorescence (PLIF), utilizing a fluorescent tracer (biacetyl) mixed with the helium, was used to visualize the flow. These techniques provide a higher quality of flow visualization than that obtained in previous investigations. In addition, the PLIF technique could be used for the measurement of species concentration. The distortion of the helium cylinder produced by the passing shock wave was found to be similar to that displayed by images from previous experimental and computational investigations. The downstream
displacement of several points on the boundary of the light-gas cylinder are measured and agree reasonably well with the results of earlier experimental and theoretical studies as well. Because the mixing process causes the helium originally contained within the cylinder to be dispersed into the surrounding air, the PLIF image area inside the contour at one half the maximum concentration of the
fluorescent tracer decreases as the two gases mixed. The change in this area is used as a measure of the mixing rate, and it is found that the time rate of change of this
area divided by the area of the initial jet is approximately - 0.7 X 10^3 S^(-1)
New camera tube improves ultrasonic inspection system
Electron multiplier, incorporated into the camera tube of an ultrasonic imaging system, improves resolution, effectively shields low level circuits, and provides a high level signal input to the television camera. It is effective for inspection of metallic materials for bonds, voids, and homogeneity
End-to-end Recovery of Human Shape and Pose
We describe Human Mesh Recovery (HMR), an end-to-end framework for
reconstructing a full 3D mesh of a human body from a single RGB image. In
contrast to most current methods that compute 2D or 3D joint locations, we
produce a richer and more useful mesh representation that is parameterized by
shape and 3D joint angles. The main objective is to minimize the reprojection
loss of keypoints, which allow our model to be trained using images in-the-wild
that only have ground truth 2D annotations. However, the reprojection loss
alone leaves the model highly under constrained. In this work we address this
problem by introducing an adversary trained to tell whether a human body
parameter is real or not using a large database of 3D human meshes. We show
that HMR can be trained with and without using any paired 2D-to-3D supervision.
We do not rely on intermediate 2D keypoint detections and infer 3D pose and
shape parameters directly from image pixels. Our model runs in real-time given
a bounding box containing the person. We demonstrate our approach on various
images in-the-wild and out-perform previous optimization based methods that
output 3D meshes and show competitive results on tasks such as 3D joint
location estimation and part segmentation.Comment: CVPR 2018, Project page with code: https://akanazawa.github.io/hmr
Measurement of dimensional stability
A technique was developed for measuring, with a precision of one part 10 to the 9th power, changes in physical dimensions delta L/L. Measurements have commenced on five materials: Heraeus-Schott Homosil (vitreous silica), Corning 7940 (vitreous silica), Corning ULE 7971 (titanium silicate), Schott Zero-Dur, and Owens-Illinois Cer-Vit C-101. The study was extended to include Universal Cyclops Invar LR-35 and Simonds-Saw Superinvar
Accuracy of Approximate Eigenstates
Besides perturbation theory, which requires, of course, the knowledge of the
exact unperturbed solution, variational techniques represent the main tool for
any investigation of the eigenvalue problem of some semibounded operator H in
quantum theory. For a reasonable choice of the employed trial subspace of the
domain of H, the lowest eigenvalues of H usually can be located with acceptable
precision whereas the trial-subspace vectors corresponding to these eigenvalues
approximate, in general, the exact eigenstates of H with much less accuracy.
Accordingly, various measures for the accuracy of the approximate eigenstates
derived by variational techniques are scrutinized. In particular, the matrix
elements of the commutator of the operator H and (suitably chosen) different
operators, with respect to degenerate approximate eigenstates of H obtained by
some variational method, are proposed here as new criteria for the accuracy of
variational eigenstates. These considerations are applied to that Hamiltonian
the eigenvalue problem of which defines the "spinless Salpeter equation." This
(bound-state) wave equation may be regarded as the most straightforward
relativistic generalization of the usual nonrelativistic Schroedinger
formalism, and is frequently used to describe, e.g., spin-averaged mass spectra
of bound states of quarks.Comment: LaTeX, 14 pages, Int. J. Mod. Phys. A (in print); 1 typo correcte
Ultra-Efficient Cooling of Resonators: Beating Sideband Cooling with Quantum Control
The present state-of-the-art in cooling mechanical resonators is a version of
"sideband" cooling. Here we present a method that uses the same configuration
as sideband cooling --- coupling the resonator to be cooled to a second
microwave (or optical) auxiliary resonator --- but will cool significantly
colder. This is achieved by varying the strength of the coupling between the
two resonators over a time on the order of the period of the mechanical
resonator. As part of our analysis, we also obtain a method for fast,
high-fidelity quantum information-transfer between resonators.Comment: 4 pages, revtex4-1, 2 png figure
Shock enhancement and control of hypersonic mixing and combustion
The possibility that shock enhanced mixing can
substantially increase the rate of mixing between
coflowing streams of hydrogen and air has been
studied in experimental and computational investigations.
Early numerical computations indicated that
the steady interaction between a weak shock in air
with a coflowing hydrogen jet can be well approximated
by the two-dimensional time-dependent interaction
between a weak shock and an initially circular
region filled with hydrogen imbedded in air. An experimental
investigation of the latter process has been
carned out in the Caltech 17 Inch Shock Tube in experiments
in which the laser induced fluorescence of
byacetyl dye is used as a tracer for the motion of the
helium gas after shock waves have passed across the
helium cylinder. The flow field has also been studied
using an Euler code computation of the flow field.
Both investigations show that the shock impinging
process causes the light gas cylinder to split into two
parts. One of these mixes rapidly with air and the
other forms a stably stratified vortex pair which mixes
more slowly; about 60% of the light gas mixes rapidly
with the ambient fluid. The geometry of the flow field
and the mixing process and scaling parameters are
discussed here. The success of this program encouraged
the exploration of a low drag injection system in
which the basic concept of shock generated streamwise
vorticity could be incorporated in an injector for
a Scramjet combustor at Mach numbers between 5
and 8. The results of a substantial computational
program and a description of the wind tunnel model and preliminary experimental results obtained in the
High Reynolds Number Mach 6 Tunnel at NASA Langley
Research Center are given here
Rapid-purification protocols for optical homodyning
We present a number of rapid-purification feedback protocols for optical
homodyne detection of a single optical qubit. We derive first a protocol that
speeds up the rate of increase of the average purity of the system, and find
that like the equivalent protocol for a non-disspative measurement, this
generates a deterministic evolution for the purity in the limit of strong
feedback. We also consider two analogues of the Wiseman-Ralph
rapid-purification protocol in this setting, and show that like that protocol
they speed up the average time taken to reach a fixed level of purity. We also
examine how the performance of these algorithms changes with detection
efficiency, being an important practical consideration.Comment: 6 pages, revtex4, 3 eps figure
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