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Surface roughness and interfacial slip boundary condition for quartz crystal microbalances
The response of a quartz crystal microbalance (QCM) is considered using a wave equation for the substrate and the Navier-Stokes equations for a finite liquid layer under a slip boundary condition. It is shown that when the slip length to shear wave penetration depth is small, the first order effect of slip is only present in the frequency response. Importantly, in this approximation the frequency response satisfies an additivity relation with a net response equal to a Kanazawa liquid term plus an additional Sauerbrey "rigid" liquid mass. For the slip length to result in an enhanced frequency decrease compared to a no-slip boundary condition, it is shown that the slip length must be negative so that the slip plane is located on the liquid side of the interface. It is argued that the physical application of such a negative slip length could be to the liquid phase response of a QCM with a completely wetted rough surface. Effectively, the model recovers the starting assumption of additivity used in the trapped mass model for the liquid phase response of a QCM having a rough surface. When applying the slip boundary condition to the rough surface problem, slip is not at a molecular level, but is a formal hydrodynamic boundary condition which relates the response of the QCM to that expected from a QCM with a smooth surface. Finally, possible interpretations of the results in terms of acoustic reflectivity are developed and the potential limitations of the additivity result should vapour trapping occur are discussed
Late-time acceleration with steep exponential potentials
In this letter, we study the cosmological dynamics of steeper potential than
exponential. Our analysis shows that a simple extension of an exponential
potential allows to capture late-time cosmic acceleration and retain the
tracker behavior. We also perform statefinder and diagnostics to
distinguish dark energy models among themselves and with CDM. In
addition, to put the observational constraints on the model parameters, we
modify the publicly available CosmoMC code and use an integrated data base of
baryon acoustic oscillation, latest Type Ia supernova from Joint Light Curves
sample and the local Hubble constant value measured by the Hubble Space
Telescope.Comment: 9 pages, 5 figures, 2 table
Accuracy of the domain method for the material derivative approach to shape design sensitivities
Numerical accuracy for the boundary and domain methods of the material derivative approach to shape design sensitivities is investigated through the use of mesh refinement. The results show that the domain method is generally more accurate than the boundary method, using the finite element technique. It is also shown that the domain method is equivalent, under certain assumptions, to the implicit differentiation approach not only theoretically but also numerically
Epitaxial Ferromagnetic Nanoislands of Cubic GdN in Hexagonal GaN
Periodic structures of GdN particles encapsulated in a single crystalline GaN
matrix were prepared by plasma assisted molecular beam epitaxy. High resolution
X-ray diffractometery shows that GdN islands, with rock salt structure are
epitaxially oriented to the wurtzite GaN matrix. Scanning transmission electron
microscopy combined with in-situ reflection high energy electron diffraction
allows for the study of island formation dynamics, which occurs after 1.2
monolayers of GdN coverage. Magnetometry reveals two ferromagnetic phases, one
due to GdN particles with Curie temperature of 70K and a second, anomalous room
temperature phase.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figure
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Computer Generation of Metal Components by Simultaneous Deposition of Mould, Cores and Part
A new solid freeforming method based on co-delivery of mould powder materials and part
powder materials using vibration-controlled, dry powder valves is presented in this paper. Thin
layers of stainless steel powder are delivered to the forming area according to the cross-section of
the CAD file to produce the component. Mould powder which has low sinterability is delivered to
the non-forming areas of the same layer. All powders are delivered by computer-controlled,
acoustic powder valves. The flow rate and switching of the valves provides the composition and
shape control during fabrication. The stacked layers of loose powder are then sintered in a
conventional furnace. The mould materials are removed after sintering. This method avoids the
high thermal stress problem in selective laser sintering, avoids high capitalisation, makes use of
conventional furnaces and allows for the incorporation of three dimensional function gradients.
Test pieces including step wedge and Spierpinski’s cube were fabricated. Advantages, limitations
and problems are discussed.Mechanical Engineerin
Zirconium carbide as an electrocatalyst for the chromous-chromic redox couple
Zirconium carbide is used as a catalyst in a REDOX cell for the oxidation of chromous ions to chromic ions and for the reduction of chromic ions to chromous ions. The zirconium carbide is coated on an inert electronically conductive electrode which is present in the anode fluid of the cell
Stable embedded solitons
Stable embedded solitons are discovered in the generalized third-order
nonlinear Schroedinger equation. When this equation can be reduced to a
perturbed complex modified KdV equation, we developed a soliton perturbation
theory which shows that a continuous family of sech-shaped embedded solitons
exist and are nonlinearly stable. These analytical results are confirmed by our
numerical simulations. These results establish that, contrary to previous
beliefs, embedded solitons can be robust despite being in resonance with the
linear spectrum.Comment: 2 figures. To appear in Phys. Rev. Let
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