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Icing Characteristics and Anti-Icing Heat Requirements for Hollow and Ternally Modified Gas-Heated Inlet Guide Vanes
A two-dimensional inlet-guide-vane cascade was investigated to determine the effects of ice formations on the pressure losses across the guide vanes and to evaluate the heated gas flow and temperature required to prevent Icing at various conditions. A gas flow of approximately 0.4 percent of the inlet-air flow was necessary for anti-icing a hollow guide-vane stage at an inlet-gas temperature of 500 F under the following icing conditions: air velocity, 280 miles per hour; water content, 0.9 gram per cubic meter; and Inlet-air static temperature, 00 F. Also presented are the anti-icing gas flows required with modifications of the hollow Internal gas passage, which show heatinput savings greater than 50 percent
Enhancing creative problem solving and creative self-efficacy: a preliminary study
The ability to improve creative problem solving (CPS) is considered to be an important resource in a variety of fields such as education (see Murdock, 2003) and business (see Thompson, 2003). Previous research suggests that interventions aimed at training people to improve their CPS skills can be effective, however it is not always clear what tools are being used and it is sometimes difficult to untangle the effect the different tools are having (see Vernon, Hocking, & Tyler, 2016, for a review). This study therefore aimed to utilise an empirically- based creativity toolkit in an 8 week training program aimed at enhancing students' CPS skills. The intervention group was comprised of 33 psychology students who signed up to undertake 8 weeks of CPS training and the control group (n = 9) were matched for contact time, undertaking 8 weeks of cognitive psychology lectures instead. In week 1 (Time 1) and week 8 (Time 2) all participants were assessed using two Unusual Uses Tasks (UUT) and a Creative Problem Solving (CPS) task and were also asked to fill out measures of creative self-efficacy. Analyses revealed that whilst the control group showed no improvement on any of the measures from Time 1 to Time 2, the intervention group showed a significant increase in both their creative self-efficacy and also their levels of creativity on both the UUT and CPS tasks. Whilst a follow- up study utilising a larger control group is ideally needed, these preliminary findings nonetheless support the use of this empirically based creativity toolkit for enhancing creativity problem solving skills
Investigation of external refrigeration systems for long term cryogenic storage Final report
Data on external refrigeration systems for space storage of cryogens for long period
Investigation of external refrigeration systems for long-term cryogenic storage
Evaluation of cryogenic refrigeration systems for space application
SUSY dark matter and lepton flavor violation
We study lepton flavor-violating (LFV) processes within a supersymmetric
type-I seesaw framework with flavor-blind universal boundary conditions,
properly accounting for the effect of the neutrino sector on the dark matter
relic abundance. We consider several possibilities for the neutrino Yukawa
coupling matrix and show that in regions of SUSY parameter space that yield the
correct neutralino relic density, LFV rates can differ from naive estimates by
up to two orders of magnitude. Contrary to common belief, we find that current
LFV limits do not exclude neutrino Yukawa couplings larger than top Yukawa
couplings. We introduce the ISAJET-M program that was used for the
computations.Comment: 37 pages, 9 figures, 6 tables. Version to appear in PR
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NACA Research Memorandums
"Several methods of cyclic de-icing of a gas-heated airfoil were investigated to determine ice-removal characteristics and heating requirements. The cyclic de-icing system with a spanwise ice-free parting strip in the stagnation region and a constant-temperature gas-supply duct gave the quickest and most reliable ice removal. Heating requirements for the several methods of cyclic de-icing are compared, and the savings over continuous ice prevention are shown. Data are presented to show the relation of surface temperature, rate of surface heating, and heating time to the removal of ice" (p. 1)
Implications of a 125 GeV Higgs scalar for LHC SUSY and neutralino dark matter searches
The ATLAS and CMS collaborations have reported an excess of events in the
\gamma\gamma, ZZ^*\to 4\ell and WW^* search channels at an invariant mass m
\simeq 125 GeV, which could be the first evidence for the long-awaited Higgs
boson. We investigate the consequences of requiring m_h\simeq 125 GeV in both
the mSUGRA and NUHM2 SUSY models. In mSUGRA, large values of trilinear soft
breaking parameter |A_0| are required, and universal scalar m_0\agt 0.8 TeV is
favored so that we expect squark and slepton masses typically in the multi-TeV
range. This typically gives rise to an "effective SUSY" type of sparticle mass
spectrum. In this case, we expect gluino pair production as the dominant
sparticle creation reaction at LHC. For m_0< 5 TeV, the superpotential
parameter \mu > 2 TeV and m_A> 0.8 TeV, greatly restricting neutralino
annihilation mechanisms. These latter conclusions are softened if m_0\sim 10-20
TeV or if one proceeds to the NUHM2 model. The standard neutralino abundance
tends to be far above WMAP-measured values unless the neutralino is
higgsino-like. We remark upon possible non-standard (but perhaps more
attractive) cosmological scenarios which can bring the predicted dark matter
abundance into accord with the measured value, and discuss the implications for
direct and indirect detection of neutralino cold dark matter.Comment: 24 pages including 23 .eps figures; updated version 3 contains also
b-> tau+nu branching fractio
Spectroscopic Measurements Of Temperature And Plasma Impurity Concentration During Magnetic Reconnection At The Swarthmore Spheromak Experiment
Electron temperature measurements during counterhelicity spheromak merging studies at the Swarthmore Spheromak Experiment (SSX) [M. R. Brown, Phys. Plasmas 6, 1717 (1999)] are presented. VUV monochromator measurements of impurity emission lines are compared with model spectra produced by the non-LTE excitation kinematics code PRISMSPECT [J. J. MacFarlane et al., in Proceedings of the Third Conference on Inertial Fusion Science and Applications (2004)] to yield the electron temperature in the plasma with 1 mu s time resolution. Average T(e) is seen to increase from 12 to 19 eV during spheromak merging. Average C III ion temperature, measured with a new ion Doppler spectrometer (IDS) [C. D. Cothran et al., Rev. Sci. Instrum. 77, 063504 (2006)], likewise rises during spheromak merging, peaking at similar to 22 eV, but a similar increase in T(i) is seen during single spheromak discharges with no merging. The VUV emission line measurements are also used to constrain the concentrations of various impurities in the SSX plasma, which are dominated by carbon, but include some oxygen and nitrogen. A burst of soft x-ray emission is seen during reconnection with a new four-channel detector (SXR). There is evidence for spectral changes in the soft x-ray emission as reconnection progresses, although our single-temperature equilibrium spectral models are not able to provide adequate fits to all the SXR data. (C) 2009 American Institute of Physics. [DOI: 10.1063/1.3099603
Relationship between Intelligence and Criterion Task Set Performance1
↵1 This research was sponsored in part by the Workload and Ergonomics Branch of the Armstrong Aerospace Medical Research Laboratory, United States Air Force, under Contract F33615-85-D-0514 through the Southeastern Center for Electrical Engineering Education (SCEEEHER/86-9). The United States Government is authorized to reproduce and distribute reprints for government purposes notwithstanding any copyright notation hereon. The authors wish to thank Gary Reid for his interest and support in the completion of this projectYeshttps://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/manuscript-submission-guideline
Supersymmetry discovery potential of the LHC at 10 and 14 TeV without and with missing
We examine the supersymmetry (SUSY) reach of the CERN LHC operating at
and 14 TeV within the framework of the minimal supergravity
model. We improve upon previous reach projections by incorporating updated
background calculations including a variety of Standard Model (SM)
processes. We show that SUSY discovery is possible even before the detectors
are understood well enough to utilize either or electrons in
the signal. We evaluate the early SUSY reach of the LHC at TeV by
examining multi-muon plus jets and also dijet events with {\it no}
missing cuts and show that the greatest reach in terms of
occurs in the dijet channel. The reach in multi-muons is slightly smaller in
, but extends to higher values of . We find that an observable
multi-muon signal will first appear in the opposite-sign dimuon channel, but as
the integrated luminosity increases the relatively background-free but
rate-limited same-sign dimuon, and ultimately the trimuon channel yield the
highest reach. We show characteristic distributions in these channels that
serve to distinguish the signal from the SM background, and also help to
corroborate its SUSY origin. We then evaluate the LHC reach in various
no-lepton and multi-lepton plus jets channels {\it including} missing
cuts for and 14 TeV, and plot the reach for integrated
luminosities ranging up to 3000 fb at the SLHC. For TeV,
the LHC reach extends to and 2.9 TeV for
and integrated luminosities of 10, 100, 1000 and
3000 fb, respectively. For TeV, the LHC reach for the same
integrated luminosities is to m_{gluino}=2.4,\3.1, 3.7 and 4.0 TeV.Comment: 34 pages, 25 figures. Revised projections for the SUSY reach for
ab^-1 integrated luminosities, with minor corrections of references and text.
2 figures added. To appear in JHE
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