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Hysteresis and competition between disorder and crystallization in sheared and vibrated granular flow
Experiments on spherical particles in a 3D Couette cell vibrated from below
and sheared from above show a hysteretic freezing/melting transition. Under
sufficient vibration a crystallized state is observed, which can be melted by
sufficient shear. The critical line for this transition coincides with equal
kinetic energies for vibration and shear. The force distribution is
double-peaked in the crystalline state and single-peaked with an approximately
exponential tail in the disordered state. A linear relation between pressure
and volume () exists for a continuum of partially and/or
intermittently melted states over a range of parameters
Conceptual design of an orbital propellant transfer experiment. Volume 2: Study results
The OTV configurations, operations and requirements planned for the period from the 1980's to the 1990's were reviewed and a propellant transfer experiment was designed that would support the needs of these advanced OTV operational concepts. An overall integrated propellant management technology plan for all NASA centers was developed. The preliminary cost estimate (for planning purposes only) is 31.8 M is for shuttle user costs
Some Pattern Recognition Challenges in Data-Intensive Astronomy
We review some of the recent developments and challenges posed by the data
analysis in modern digital sky surveys, which are representative of the
information-rich astronomy in the context of Virtual Observatory. Illustrative
examples include the problems of an automated star-galaxy classification in
complex and heterogeneous panoramic imaging data sets, and an automated,
iterative, dynamical classification of transient events detected in synoptic
sky surveys. These problems offer good opportunities for productive
collaborations between astronomers and applied computer scientists and
statisticians, and are representative of the kind of challenges now present in
all data-intensive fields. We discuss briefly some emergent types of scalable
scientific data analysis systems with a broad applicability.Comment: 8 pages, compressed pdf file, figures downgraded in quality in order
to match the arXiv size limi
Study of fuel cells using storable rocket propellants quarterly report no. 2, 18 may - 17 aug. 1965
Catalysts for Aerozine-50 reforming and nitrogen tetroxide decomposition for development of rocket fuel cells operating on storable propellan
Variability of a Stellar Corona on a Time Scale of Days: Evidence for Abundance Fractionation in an Emerging Coronal Active Region
Elemental abundance effects in active coronae have eluded our understanding for almost three decades, since the discovery of the first ionization potential (FIP) effect on the sun. The goal of this paper is to monitor the same coronal structures over a time interval of six days and resolve active regions on a stellar corona through rotational modulation. We report on four iso-phase X-ray spectroscopic observations of the RS CVn binary EI Eri with XMM-Newton, carried out approximately every two days, to match the rotation period of EI Eri. We present an analysis of the thermal and chemical structure of the EI Eri corona as it evolves over the six days. Although the corona is rather steady in its temperature distribution, the emission measure and FIP bias both vary and seem to be correlated. An active region, predating the beginning of the campaign, repeatedly enters into our view at the same phase as it rotates from beyond the stellar limb. As a result, the abundances tend slightly, but consistently, to increase for high FIP elements (an inverse FIP effect) with phase. We estimate the abundance increase of high FIP elements in the active region to be of about 75% over the coronal mean. This observed fractionation of elements in an active region on time scales of days provides circumstantial clues regarding the element enrichment mechanism of non-flaring stellar coronae
The Effects of Turbulence on Three-Dimensional Magnetic Reconnection at the Magnetopause
Two- and three-dimensional particle-in-cell simulations of a recent encounter
of the Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission (MMS) with an electron diffusion
region at the magnetopause are presented. While the two-dimensional simulation
is laminar, turbulence develops at both the x-line and along the magnetic
separatrices in the three-dimensional simulation. The turbulence is strong
enough to make the magnetic field around the reconnection island chaotic and
produces both anomalous resistivity and anomalous viscosity. Each contribute
significantly to breaking the frozen-in condition in the electron diffusion
region. A surprise is that the crescent-shaped features in velocity space seen
both in MMS observations and in two-dimensional simulations survive, even in
the turbulent environment of the three-dimensional system. This suggests that
MMS's measurements of crescent distributions do not exclude the possibility
that turbulence plays an important role in magnetopause reconnection.Comment: Revised version accepted by GR
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