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Anisotropic cosmological models with spinor and scalar fields and viscous fluid in presence of a term: qualitative solutions
The study of a self-consistent system of interacting spinor and scalar fields
within the scope of a Bianchi type I (BI) gravitational field in presence of a
viscous fluid and term has been carried out. The system of equations
defining the evolution of the volume scale of BI universe, energy density and
corresponding Hubble constant has been derived. The system in question has been
thoroughly studied qualitatively. Corresponding solutions are graphically
illustrated. The system in question is also studied from the view point of blow
up. It has been shown that the blow up takes place only in presence of
viscosity.Comment: 18 pages, 14 figures, 12 Tables, section "Basic equations" has been
rewritte
Phenomenology of Wall Bounded Newtonian Turbulence
We construct a simple analytic model for wall-bounded turbulence, containing
only four adjustable parameters. Two of these parameters characterize the
viscous dissipation of the components of the Reynolds stress-tensor and other
two parameters characterize their nonlinear relaxation. The model offers an
analytic description of the profiles of the mean velocity and the correlation
functions of velocity fluctuations in the entire boundary region, from the
viscous sub-layer, through the buffer layer and further into the log-layer. As
a first approximation, we employ the traditional return-to-isotropy hypothesis,
which yields a very simple distribution of the turbulent kinetic energy between
the velocity components in the log-layer: the streamwise component contains a
half of the total energy whereas the wall-normal and the cross-stream
components contain a quarter each. In addition, the model predicts a very
simple relation between the von-K\'arm\'an slope and the turbulent
velocity in the log-law region (in wall units): . These
predictions are in excellent agreement with DNS data and with recent laboratory
experiments.Comment: 15 pages, 11 figs, included, PRE, submitte
Eye-CU: Sleep Pose Classification for Healthcare using Multimodal Multiview Data
Manual analysis of body poses of bed-ridden patients requires staff to
continuously track and record patient poses. Two limitations in the
dissemination of pose-related therapies are scarce human resources and
unreliable automated systems. This work addresses these issues by introducing a
new method and a new system for robust automated classification of sleep poses
in an Intensive Care Unit (ICU) environment. The new method,
coupled-constrained Least-Squares (cc-LS), uses multimodal and multiview (MM)
data and finds the set of modality trust values that minimizes the difference
between expected and estimated labels. The new system, Eye-CU, is an affordable
multi-sensor modular system for unobtrusive data collection and analysis in
healthcare. Experimental results indicate that the performance of cc-LS matches
the performance of existing methods in ideal scenarios. This method outperforms
the latest techniques in challenging scenarios by 13% for those with poor
illumination and by 70% for those with both poor illumination and occlusions.
Results also show that a reduced Eye-CU configuration can classify poses
without pressure information with only a slight drop in its performance.Comment: Ten-page manuscript including references and ten figure
Universal Model of Finite-Reynolds Number Turbulent Flow in Channels and Pipes
In this Letter we suggest a simple and physically transparent analytical
model of the pressure driven turbulent wall-bounded flows at high but finite
Reynolds numbers Re. The model gives accurate qualitative description of the
profiles of the mean-velocity and Reynolds-stresses (second order correlations
of velocity fluctuations) throughout the entire channel or pipe in the wide
range of Re, using only three Re-independent parameters. The model sheds light
on the long-standing controversy between supporters of the century-old log-law
theory of von-K\`arm\`an and Prandtl and proposers of a newer theory promoting
power laws to describe the intermediate region of the mean velocity profile.Comment: 4 pages, 6 figs, re-submitted PRL according to referees comment
Universal behaviour of ideal and interacting quantum gases in two dimensions
I discuss ideal and interacting quantum gases obeying general fractional
exclusion statistics. For systems with constant density of single-particle
states, described in the mean field approximation, the entropy depends neither
on the microscopic exclusion statistics, nor on the interaction. Such systems
are called {\em thermodynamically equivalent} and I show that the microscopic
reason for this equivalence is a one-to-one correspondence between the excited
states of these systems. This provides a method, different from the
bosonisation technique, to transform between systems of different exclusion
statistics. In the last section the macroscopic aspects of this method are
discussed.
In Appendix A I calculate the fluctuation of the ground state population of a
condensed Bose gas in grandcanonical ensemble and mean field approximation,
while in Appendix B I show a situation where although the system exhibits
fractional exclusion properties on microscopic energy intervals, a rigorous
calculation of the population of single particle states reveals a condensation
phenomenon. This also implies a malfunction of the usual and simplified
calculation technique of the most probable statistical distributions.Comment: About 14 journal pages, with 1 figure. Changes: Body of paper: same
content, with slight rephrasing. Apendices are new. In the original
submission I just mentioned the condensation, which is now detailed in
Appendix B. They were intended for a separate paper. Reason for changes:
rejection from Phys. Rev. Lett., resubmission to J. Phys. A: Math. Ge
Deep level transient spectroscopy studies on BaTiO<SUB>3</SUB> and Ba<SUB>1-x</SUB>Ca<SUB>x</SUB>TiO<SUB>3</SUB> thin films deposited on Si substrates
Laser ablation grown BaTiO3 and Ba1-xCaxTiO3 thin films were studied in the metal-ferroelectric-semiconductor configuration by the deep level transient spectroscopy (DLTS) technique. The capture cross section, bulk and interface traps were determined from the DLTS technique. The distributions of calculated interface states were mapped with the silicon energy band gap for both the thin films. The interface states of the Ba1-xCaxTiO3 thin films were found to be higher than the BaTiO3 thin films. The substitution of Ca2+ into the Ba2+ sites of BaTiO3 results in a decreased lattice constant, thereby leading to shrinkage in the unit cell. This might be one of the reasons for the higher density of interface states present in Ba1-xCaxTiO3, as it leads to a large number of unsaturated bonds at the interface of Si substrate-thin films. The calculated capture cross section of the interface traps in both the BaTiO3 and Ba1-xCaxTiO3 thin films was very low in the range of 10-21 cm2
Hopping magneto-transport via nonzero orbital momentum states and organic magnetoresistance
In hopping magnetoresistance of doped insulators, an applied magnetic field
shrinks the electron (hole) s-wave function of a donor or an acceptor and this
reduces the overlap between hopping sites resulting in the positive
magnetoresistance quadratic in a weak magnetic field, B. We extend the theory
of hopping magnetoresistance to states with nonzero orbital momenta. Different
from s-states, a weak magnetic field expands the electron (hole) wave functions
with positive magnetic quantum numbers, m > 0, and shrinks the states with
negative m in a wide region outside the point defect. This together with a
magnetic-field dependence of injection/ionization rates results in a negative
weak-field magnetoresistance, which is linear in B when the orbital degeneracy
is lifted. The theory provides a possible explanation of a large low-field
magnetoresistance in disordered pi-conjugated organic materials (OMAR).Comment: 4 pages, 3 figure
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