Thermodynamic formalism for contracting Lorenz flows

We study the expansion properties of the contracting Lorenz flow introduced by Rovella via thermodynamic formalism. Specifically, we prove the existence of an equilibrium state for the natural potential $\hat\phi_t(x,y, z):=-t\log J_{(x, y, z)}^{cu}$ for the contracting Lorenz flow and for $t$ in an interval containing $[0,1]$. We also analyse the Lyapunov spectrum of the flow in terms of the pressure

Pionic decay of a possible d' dibaryon and the short-range NN interaction

We study the pionic decay of a possible dibaryon d′→N+N+π in the microscopic quark shell model. The initial d′ dibaryon wave function (JP=0-, T=0) consists of one 1ħω six-quark shell-model s5p[51]X configuration. The most important final six-quark configurations s6[6]X, s4p2[42]X, and (s4p2-s52s)[6]X are properly projected onto the NN channel. The final state NN interaction is investigated by means of two phase-equivalent—but off-shell different—potential models. We demonstrate that the decay width Γd′ depends strongly on the short-range behavior of the NN wave function. In addition, the width Γd′ is very sensitive to the mass and size of the d′ dibaryon. For dibaryon masses slightly above the experimentally suggested value Md′=2.065GeV, we obtain a pionic decay width of Γd′≈0.18–0.32MeV close to the experimental value Γd′≈0.5MeV.Obukhovsky, I. Itonaga, K. ; Wagner, Georg ; Buchmann, A. ; Faessler, Aman

Materials exposure test facilities for varying low-Btu coal-derived gas

As a part of the United States Department of Energy's High Temperature Turbine Technology Readiness Program, the Morgantown Energy Technology Center is participating in the Ceramics Corrosion/Erosion Materials Study. The objective is to create a technology base for ceramic materials which could be used by stationary gas power turbines operating in a high-temperature, coal-derived, low-Btu gas products of combustion environment. Two METC facilities have been designed, fabricated and will be operated simultaneously exposing ceramic materials dynamically and statically to products of combustion of a coal-derived gas. The current studies will identify the degradation of ceramics due to their exposure to a coal-derived gas combustion environment

Control of temperature and heat flux in a combustor using coal-derived gas of varying heat content. [Patent application]

The present invention is directed to a fuel-air control system for a combustor in which coal-derived gas of varying heat content is used. To maintain the temperature in the combustor at an essentially constant value the fuel-to-air ratio is adjusted by using a temperature actuated variable pressure regulator in the gas feed line to compensate for the variability of the heat content of the gas. The velocity of the products of combustion is maintained at an essentially constant flow rate by controlling the mass flow of the air and fuel through linked valves on the gas and air feed lines

High-density compression experiments at ILE, Osaka

Direct-drive implosion experiments on the GEKKO XII laser (9 kJ, 0.5 μm, 2 ns) with deuterium and tritium (DT) exchanged plastic hollow shell targets demonstrated fuel areal densities (ρR) of approximately 0.1 g/cm2 and fuel densities of approximately 600 times liquid density at fuel temperatures of approximately 0.3 keV. (The density and ρR values refer only to DT and do not include carbons in the plastic targets.) These values are to be compared with thermonuclear ignition conditions, i.e., fuel densities of 500-1000 times liquid density, fuel areal densities greater than 0.3 g/cm2, and fuel temperatures greater than 5 keV. The irradiation nonuniformity in these experiments was significantly reduced to a level of <5% in root mean square by introducing random-phase plates. The target irregularity was controlled to a 1% level. The fuel ρR was directly measured with the neutron activation of Si, which was originally compounded in the plastic targets. The fuel densities were estimated from the ρR values using the mass conservation relation, where the ablated mass was separately measured using the time-dependent X-ray emission from multilayer targets. Although the observed densities were in agreement with one-dimensional calculation results with convergence ratios of 25-30, the observed neutron yields were significantly lower than those of the calculations. This suggests the implosion uniformity is not sufficient to create a hot spark in which most neutrons should be generated