203 research outputs found
Design and performance of a fixed, nonaccelerating, guide vane cascade that operates over an inlet flow angle range of 60 deg
A unique set of wind tunnel guide vanes are designed with an inverse design code and analyzed with a panel method and an integral boundary layer code developed at the NASA Lewis Research Center. The fixed guide vanes, 80 feet long with 6-foot chord length, were designed for the NASA Ames 40 x 80/80 x 120 ft Wind Tunnel. Low subsonic flow is accepted over a 60 deg range of inlet angle from either the 40 x 80 leg or the 80 x 120 leg of the wind tunnel, and directed axially into the main leg of the tunnel where drive fans are located. Experimental tests of 1/10-scale models were conducted to verify design calculations
Progress toward the development of dual junction GaAs/Ge solar cells
Large area GaAs/Ge cells offer substantial promise for increasing the power output from existing silicon solar array designs and for providing an enabled technology for missions hitherto impossible using silicon. Single junction GaAs/Ge cells offer substantial advantages in both size, weight, and cost compared to GaAs cells but the efficiency is limited to approximately 19.2 to 20 percent AMO. The thermal absorptance of GaAs/Ge cells is also worse than GaAs/GaAs cells (0.88 vs 0.81 typ.) due to the absorption in the Ge substrate. On the other hand dual junction GaAs/Ge cells offer efficiencies up to ultimately 24 percent AMO in sizes up to 8 x 8 cm but there are still technological issues remaining to achieve current matching in the GaAs and Ge cells. This can be achieved through tuned antireflection (AR) coatings, improved quality of the GaAs growth, improved quality Ge wafers and the use of a Back Surface Field (BSF)/Back Surface Reflector (BSR) in the Ge cell. Although the temperature coefficients of efficiency and voltage are higher for dual junction GaAs/Ge cells, it has been shown elsewhere that for typical 28 C cell efficiencies of 22 percent (dual junction) vs 18.5 percent (single junction) there is a positive power tradeoff up to temperatures as high as 120 C. Due to the potential ease of fabrication of GaAs/Ge dual junction cells there is likely to be only a small cost differential compared to single junction cells
Ames 40 X 80/80 X 120 Foot Wind Tunnel: Turning Vanes Design
A number of different turning vanes are designed for the NASA Ames wind tunnel. Computer codes are used to design and analyze the turning vanes to insure that they comply with their individual constraints. The presentation is given in viewgraph format and displays pressure coefficients for the different turning vanes as well as loss coefficients versus inlet flow angles
The Proteus Navier-Stokes code
An effort is currently underway at NASA Lewis to develop two- and three-dimensional Navier-Stokes codes, called Proteus, for aerospace propulsion applications. The emphasis in the development of Proteus is not algorithm development or research on numerical methods, but rather the development of the code itself. The objective is to develop codes that are user-oriented, easily-modified, and well-documented. Well-proven, state-of-the-art solution algorithms are being used. Code readability, documentation (both internal and external), and validation are being emphasized. This paper is a status report on the Proteus development effort. The analysis and solution procedure are described briefly, and the various features in the code are summarized. The results from some of the validation cases that have been run are presented for both the two- and three-dimensional codes
A New Tool for the Lamb Shift Calculation
We solve the Bethe-Salpeter equation for hydrogenic bound states by choosing
an appropriate interaction kernel . We want to use our solution to
calculate up to a higher order the hydrogen Lamb-shift, and as a first
application we present up to order \left(\aa / \pi\right)(\za)^7 the
contribution of the lowest order self-energy graph, calculated {\it exactly}.
The basic formalism is a natural extension to the hydrogenic bound states of
the one previously presented by R. Barbieri and E. Remiddi and used in the case
of positronium.Comment: 21 pages, Latex, Preprint DFUB-94-0
Frequency Tracking and Parameter Estimation for Robust Quantum State-Estimation
In this paper we consider the problem of tracking the state of a quantum
system via a continuous measurement. If the system Hamiltonian is known
precisely, this merely requires integrating the appropriate stochastic master
equation. However, even a small error in the assumed Hamiltonian can render
this approach useless. The natural answer to this problem is to include the
parameters of the Hamiltonian as part of the estimation problem, and the full
Bayesian solution to this task provides a state-estimate that is robust against
uncertainties. However, this approach requires considerable computational
overhead. Here we consider a single qubit in which the Hamiltonian contains a
single unknown parameter. We show that classical frequency estimation
techniques greatly reduce the computational overhead associated with Bayesian
estimation and provide accurate estimates for the qubit frequencyComment: 6 figures, 13 page
Systematic corrections for bosonic and fermionic vector models without auxiliary fields
In this paper, colorless bilocal fields are employed to study the large
limit of both fermionic and bosonic vector models. The Jacobian associated with
the change of variables from the original fields to the bilocals is computed
exactly, thereby providing an exact effective action. This effective action is
shown to reproduce the familiar perturbative expansion for the two and four
point functions. In particular, in the case of fermionic vector models, the
effective action correctly accounts for the Fermi statistics. The theory is
also studied non-perturbatively. The stationary points of the effective action
are shown to provide the usual large gap equations. The homogeneous
equation associated with the quadratic (in the bilocals) action is simply the
two particle Bethe Salpeter equation. Finally, the leading correction in
is shown to be in agreement with the exact matrix of the model.Comment: 24 pages, uses REVTEX macros. Replaced with final version to appear
in Phys. Rev.
Dynamics of Electric Field Domains and Oscillations of the Photocurrent in a Simple Superlattice Model
A discrete model is introduced to account for the time-periodic oscillations
of the photocurrent in a superlattice observed by Kwok et al, in an undoped 40
period AlAs/GaAs superlattice. Basic ingredients are an effective negative
differential resistance due to the sequential resonant tunneling of the
photoexcited carriers through the potential barriers, and a rate equation for
the holes that incorporates photogeneration and recombination. The
photoexciting laser acts as a damping factor ending the oscillations when its
power is large enough. The model explains: (i) the known oscillatory static I-V
characteristic curve through the formation of a domain wall connecting high and
low electric field domains, and (ii) the photocurrent and photoluminescence
time-dependent oscillations after the domain wall is formed. In our model, they
arise from the combined motion of the wall and the shift of the values of the
electric field at the domains. Up to a certain value of the photoexcitation,
the non-uniform field profile with two domains turns out to be metastable:
after the photocurrent oscillations have ceased, the field profile slowly
relaxes toward the uniform stationary solution (which is reached on a much
longer time scale). Multiple stability of stationary states and hysteresis are
also found. An interpretation of the oscillations in the photoluminescence
spectrum is also given.Comment: 34 pages, REVTeX 3.0, 10 figures upon request, MA/UC3M/07/9
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