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Thermoconvective flow velocity in a high-speed magnetofluid seal after it has stopped
Convective flow is investigated in the high-speed (linear velocity of the shaft seal is more than 1 m/s) magnetofluid shaft seal after it has been stopped. Magnetic fluid is preliminarily heated due to viscous friction in the moving seal. After the shaft has been stopped, nonuniform heated fluid remains under the action of a high-gradient magnetic field. Numerical analysis has revealed that in this situation, intense thermomagnetic convection is initiated. The velocity of magnetic fluid depends on its viscosity. For the fluid with viscosity of 2 × 10 -4 m 2/s the maximum flow velocity within the volume of magnetic fluid with a characteristic size of 1 mm can attain a value of 10 m/s
Mathematical Structure of Relativistic Coulomb Integrals
We show that the diagonal matrix elements where
are the standard Dirac matrix operators
and the angular brackets denote the quantum-mechanical average for the
relativistic Coulomb problem, may be considered as difference analogs of the
radial wave functions. Such structure provides an independent way of obtaining
closed forms of these matrix elements by elementary methods of the theory of
difference equations without explicit evaluation of the integrals. Three-term
recurrence relations for each of these expectation values are derived as a
by-product. Transformation formulas for the corresponding generalized
hypergeometric series are discussed.Comment: 13 pages, no figure
Luminescent and dosimetric properties of nanostructured ceramics based on aluminum oxide
The main features of thermoluminescence (TL) of nanostructured ceramics based on anion-defective aluminum oxide have been investigated. The kinetic parameters of the TL dosimetric peak at 475 K have been determined. The possibility of using nanostructured ceramics for beta-radiation dosimetry of high doses (up to 1 kGy) with thermoluminescence of deep traps has been justified. It has been found that the light sum of the dosimetric peak decreases with an increase in the heating rate due to the temperature quenching of the luminescence. The obtained results have confirmed that the mechanism of TL quenching in anion-defective aluminum oxide is associated with the temperature dependence of the probability of the capture in deep traps, which can be caused by thermal ionization of excited states of F-centers. © 2013 Pleiades Publishing, Ltd
Orthogonal polynomials of discrete variable and Lie algebras of complex size matrices
We give a uniform interpretation of the classical continuous Chebyshev's and
Hahn's orthogonal polynomials of discrete variable in terms of Feigin's Lie
algebra gl(N), where N is any complex number. One can similarly interpret
Chebyshev's and Hahn's q-polynomials and introduce orthogonal polynomials
corresponding to Lie superlagebras.
We also describe the real forms of gl(N), quasi-finite modules over gl(N),
and conditions for unitarity of the quasi-finite modules. Analogs of tensors
over gl(N) are also introduced.Comment: 25 pages, LaTe
The role of deep centers in formation of luminescent and dosimetric properties of wide-gap materials
Galactic Rotation Parameters from Data on Open Star Clusters
Currently available data on the field of velocities Vr, Vl, Vb for open star
clusters are used to perform a kinematic analysis of various samples that
differ by heliocentric distance, age, and membership in individual structures
(the Orion, Carina--Sagittarius, and Perseus arms). Based on 375 clusters
located within 5 kpc of the Sun with ages up to 1 Gyr, we have determined the
Galactic rotation parameters
Wo =-26.0+-0.3 km/s/kpc,
W'o = 4.18+-0.17 km/s/kpc^2,
W''o=-0.45+-0.06 km/s/kpc^3, the system contraction parameter K = -2.4+-0.1
km/s/kpc, and the parameters of the kinematic center Ro =7.4+-0.3 kpc and lo =
0+-1 degrees. The Galactocentric distance Ro in the model used has been found
to depend significantly on the sample age. Thus, for example, it is 9.5+-0.7
kpc and 5.6+-0.3 kpc for the samples of young (50 Myr)
clusters, respectively. Our study of the kinematics of young open star clusters
in various spiral arms has shown that the kinematic parameters are similar to
the parameters obtained from the entire sample for the Carina-Sagittarius and
Perseus arms and differ significantly from them for the Orion arm. The
contraction effect is shown to be typical of star clusters with various ages.
It is most pronounced for clusters with a mean age of 100 Myr, with the
contraction velocity being Kr = -4.3+-1.0 km/s.Comment: 14 pages, 4 figures, 2 table
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