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Laboratory modeling and analysis of aircraft-lightning interactions
Modeling studies of the interaction of a delta wing aircraft with direct lightning strikes were carried out using an approximate scale model of an F-106B. The model, which is three feet in length, is subjected to direct injection of fast current pulses supplied by wires, which simulate the lightning channel and are attached at various locations on the model. Measurements are made of the resulting transient electromagnetic fields using time derivative sensors. The sensor outputs are sampled and digitized by computer. The noise level is reduced by averaging the sensor output from ten input pulses at each sample time. Computer analysis of the measured fields includes Fourier transformation and the computation of transfer functions for the model. Prony analysis is also used to determine the natural frequencies of the model. Comparisons of model natural frequencies extracted by Prony analysis with those for in flight direct strike data usually show lower damping in the in flight case. This is indicative of either a lightning channel with a higher impedance than the wires on the model, only one attachment point, or short streamers instead of a long channel
Control and structural optimization for maneuvering large spacecraft
Presented here are the results of an advanced control design as well as a discussion of the requirements for automating both the structures and control design efforts for maneuvering a large spacecraft. The advanced control application addresses a general three dimensional slewing problem, and is applied to a large geostationary platform. The platform consists of two flexible antennas attached to the ends of a flexible truss. The control strategy involves an open-loop rigid body control profile which is derived from a nonlinear optimal control problem and provides the main control effort. A perturbation feedback control reduces the response due to the flexibility of the structure. Results are shown which demonstrate the usefulness of the approach. Software issues are considered for developing an integrated structures and control design environment
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Comprehensive Organic Analysis of Antartic Micrometeorites
Introduction: Micrometeorites (MMs) are thought to be significant contributors of organic material to the early Earth [1], and a variety of techniques have been employed to identify their organic composition [2-6]. These include the identification of key organic groups using combinations of infrared, energy dispersive Xray, electron energy loss and Raman spectroscopy and scanning transmission X-ray microscopy [2-4], highlighting similarities between that of MMs and carbonaceous chondrites.
Few studies, however, have focused on the characterisation of individual micrometeoritic organic components. Microscopic L2MS has been used to identify up to C5 polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and their alkyl derivatives [5]. A combination of ionexchange chromatography and fluorimetric detection has also been successful in identifying a number of protein amino acids including glycine and alanine [6].
We have previously reported a method to analyse ?g-sized quantities of extraterrestrial materials, with prior application to assessing organic volatile release from MM atmospheric entry heating simulations [7]. In this study we utilise this technique to characterise the organic composition of Antarctic terrestrial particles and MMs collected in 1994 from Cap-Prudhomme [8]
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Quantum Hall effect in supersymmetric Chern-Simons theories
We introduce a supersymmetric Chern-Simons theory whose low energy physics is
that of the fractional quantum Hall effect. The supersymmetry allows us to
solve the theory analytically. We quantise the vortices and, by relating their
dynamics to a matrix model, show that their ground state wavefunction is in the
same universality class as the Laughlin state. We further construct coherent
state representations of the excitations of a finite number of vortices. These
are quasi-holes. By an explicit computation of the Berry phase, without
resorting to a plasma analogy, we show that these excitations have fractional
charge and spin.This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from APS via http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.92.23512
Vortices and monopoles in a harmonic trap
The Omega-deformation is a harmonic trap, penning certain excitations near
the origin in a manner consistent with supersymmetry. Here we explore the
dynamics of BPS monopoles and vortices in such a trap. We pay particular
attention to monopoles in the Higgs phase, when they are confined to a vortex
string. Unusually for BPS solitons, the mass of these confined monopoles is
quadratic in the topological charges. We compute an index theorem to determine
the number of collective coordinates of confined monopoles. Despite being
restricted to move on a line, we find that they have a rich dynamics. As the
strength of the trap increases, the number of collective coordinates can
change, sometimes with constituent monopoles disappearing, sometimes with new
ones emerging.We are supported by STFC and by the European Research Council under the European Unionâs Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013), ERC grant agreement STG 279943, âStrongly Coupled Systemsâ.This is the final version of the article. It was first available from Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/JHEP12(2015)09
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