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Measurement and correlation of aerodynamic heating to surface corrugation stiffened structures in thick turbulent boundary layers
The flow conditions for which heating distributions were measured on corrugated surfaces and wavy walls in turbulent boundary layers are shown, along with the ratio of the displacement thickness to the roughness height versus the local edge Mach number for an equivalent smooth surface. The present data are seen to greatly extend the range of data available on corrugated surfaces in turbulent boundary layers. These data were obtained by testing fullscale corrugation roughened panels in the wall boundary layer of a supersonic and hypersonic wind tunnel. The experimental program used to obtain the data is described. The data are analyzed and correlated in terms of the pertinent flow and geometric parameters. The developed correlations are compared with the available thin boundary layer data, as well as with previously published correlation techniques
Study of Uncertainties of Predicting Space Shuttle Thermal Environment
Quantitative estimates of the uncertainty in predicting aerodynamic heating rates for a fully reusable space shuttle system are developed and the impact of these uncertainties on Thermal Protection System (TPS) weight are discussed. The study approach consisted of statistical evaluations of the scatter of heating data on shuttle configurations about state-of-the-art heating prediction methods to define the uncertainty in these heating predictions. The uncertainties were then applied as heating rate increments to the nominal predicted heating rate to define the uncertainty in TPS weight. Separate evaluations were made for the booster and orbiter, for trajectories which included boost through reentry and touchdown. For purposes of analysis, the vehicle configuration is divided into areas in which a given prediction method is expected to apply, and separate uncertainty factors and corresponding uncertainty in TPS weight derived for each area
Analytical comparison of hypersonic flight and wind tunnel viscous/inviscid flow fields
Flow fields were computed about blunted, 0.524 and 0.698 radians, cone configurations to assess the effects of nonequilibrium chemistry on the flow field geometry, boundary layer edge conditions, boundary layer profiles, and heat transfer and skin friction. Analyses were conducted at typical space shuttle entry conditions for both laminar and turbulent boundary layer flow. In these calculations, a wall temperature of 1365 K (2000 F) was assumed. The viscous computer program used in this investigation was a modification of the Blottner non-similar viscous code which incorporated a turbulent eddy viscosity model after Cebeci. The results were compared with equivalent calculations for similar (scaled) configurations at typical wind tunnel conditions. Wind tunnel test gases included air, nitrogen, CF4 and helium. The viscous computer program used for wind tunnel conditions was the Cebeci turbulent non-similar computer code
Aerothermodynamic Assessment of Corrugated Panel Thermal Protection Systems
The feasibility of using corrugated panels as a thermal protection system for an advanced space transportation vehicle was investigated. The study consisted of two major tasks: development of improved correlations for wind tunnel heat transfer and pressure data to yield design techniques, and application of the design techniques to determine if corrugated panels have application future aerospace vehicles. A single-stage-to-orbit vehicle was used to assess advantages and aerothermodynamic penalties associated with use of such panels. In the correlation task, experimental turbulent heat transfer and pressure data obtained on corrugation roughened surfaces during wind tunnel testing were analyzed and compared with flat plate data. The correlations and data comparisons included the effects of a large range of geometric, inviscid flow, internal boundary layer, and bulk boundary layer parameters in supersonic and hypersonic flow
Improved Algorithms for Approximate String Matching (Extended Abstract)
The problem of approximate string matching is important in many different
areas such as computational biology, text processing and pattern recognition. A
great effort has been made to design efficient algorithms addressing several
variants of the problem, including comparison of two strings, approximate
pattern identification in a string or calculation of the longest common
subsequence that two strings share.
We designed an output sensitive algorithm solving the edit distance problem
between two strings of lengths n and m respectively in time
O((s-|n-m|)min(m,n,s)+m+n) and linear space, where s is the edit distance
between the two strings. This worst-case time bound sets the quadratic factor
of the algorithm independent of the longest string length and improves existing
theoretical bounds for this problem. The implementation of our algorithm excels
also in practice, especially in cases where the two strings compared differ
significantly in length. Source code of our algorithm is available at
http://www.cs.miami.edu/\~dimitris/edit_distanceComment: 10 page
The generalized localization lengths in one dimensional systems with correlated disorder
The scale invariant properties of wave functions in finite samples of one
dimensional random systems with correlated disorder are analyzed. The random
dimer model and its generalizations are considered and the wave functions are
compared. Generalized entropic localization lengths are introduced in order to
characterize the states and compared with their behavior for exponential
localization. An acceptable agreement is obtained, however, the exponential
form seems to be an oversimplification in the presence of correlated disorder.
According to our analysis in the case of the random dimer model and the two new
models the presence of power-law localization cannot be ruled out.Comment: 7 pages, LaTeX (IOP style), 2 figure
Conductance Increase by Electron-Phonon Interaction in Quantum Wires
We investigate the influence of electron-phonon interactions on the
DC-conductance of a quantum wire in the limit of one occupied
subband. At zero temperature, a Tomonaga-Luttinger-like renormalization of
to a value slightly larger than is calculated for a
realistic quantum wire model.Comment: 12 pages RevTeX, no figure. Appears in Phys. Rev.
Optimization Methods in Emotion Recognition System
Emotions play big role in our everyday communication and contain important information. This work describes a novel method of automatic emotion recognition from textual data. The method is based on well-known data mining techniques, novel approach based on parallel run of SVM (Support Vector Machine) classifiers, text preprocessing and 3 optimization methods: sequential elimination of attributes, parameter optimization based on token groups, and method of extending train data sets during practical testing and production release final tuning. We outperformed current state of the art methods and the results were validated on bigger data sets (3346 manually labelled samples) which is less prone to overfitting when compared to related works. The accuracy achieved in this work is 86.89% for recognition of 5 emotional classes. The experiments were performed in the real world helpdesk environment, was processing Czech language but the proposed methodology is general and can be applied to many different languages
Bipolar spintronics: From spin injection to spin-controlled logic
An impressive success of spintronic applications has been typically realized
in metal-based structures which utilize magnetoresistive effects for
substantial improvements in the performance of computer hard drives and
magnetic random access memories. Correspondingly, the theoretical understanding
of spin-polarized transport is usually limited to a metallic regime in a linear
response, which, while providing a good description for data storage and
magnetic memory devices, is not sufficient for signal processing and digital
logic. In contrast, much less is known about possible applications of
semiconductor-based spintronics and spin-polarized transport in related
structures which could utilize strong intrinsic nonlinearities in
current-voltage characteristics to implement spin-based logic. Here we discuss
the challenges for realizing a particular class of structures in semiconductor
spintronics: our proposal for bipolar spintronic devices in which carriers of
both polarities (electrons and holes) contribute to spin-charge coupling. We
formulate the theoretical framework for bipolar spin-polarized transport, and
describe several novel effects in two- and three-terminal structures which
arise from the interplay between nonequilibrium spin and equilibrium
magnetization.Comment: 16 pages, 7 figure
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