Combustor liner construction

A combustor liner is fabricated from a plurality of individual segments each containing counter/parallel Finwall material and are arranged circumferentially and axially to define the combustion zone. Each segment is supported by a hook and ring construction to an opened lattice frame with sufficient tolerance between the hook and ring to permit thermal expansion with a minimum of induced stresses

Liquid rocket metal tanks and tank components

Significant guidelines are presented for the successful design of aerospace tanks and tank components, such as expulsion devices, standpipes, and baffles. The state of the art is reviewed, and the design criteria are presented along with recommended practices. Design monographs are listed

Simulation of axial channeling radiation on a thin Ge single crystal

Based on classical electrodynamics the radiation emitted by axially channeled electrons has been investigated by means of computer simulations. Using the Doyle-Turner approximation for the atomic scattering factor and taking thermal vibrations of atoms into account, we calculated the two-dimensional continuum potential of the 110 crystallographic axis of a thin Ge single crystal. The trajectories, velocities and accelerations of electrons are obtained by solving the equations of motion in three dimensions, and the spectral-angular distribution of radiation has been calculated within classical approach

Texas Citrus: Packingline Operations.

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Texas Citrus: Harvesting and Pre-pack Handling.

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Texas Citrus: Packingline Operations.

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Texas Citrus: Harvesting and Pre-pack Handling.

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Enhancement of the stability of genetic switches by overlapping upstream regulatory domains

We study genetic switches formed from pairs of mutually repressing operons. The switch stability is characterised by a well defined lifetime which grows sub-exponentially with the number of copies of the most-expressed transcription factor, in the regime accessible by our numerical simulations. The stability can be markedly enhanced by a suitable choice of overlap between the upstream regulatory domains. Our results suggest that robustness against biochemical noise can provide a selection pressure that drives operons, that regulate each other, together in the course of evolution.Comment: 4 pages, 5 figures, RevTeX

The Exchange Gate in Solid State Spin Quantum Computation: The Applicability of the Heisenberg Model

Solid state quantum computing proposals rely on adiabatic operations of the exchange gate among localized spins in nanostructures. We study corrections to the Heisenberg interaction between lateral semiconductor quantum dots in an external magnetic field. Using exact diagonalization we obtain the regime of validity of the adiabatic approximation. We also find qualitative corrections to the Heisenberg model at high magnetic fields and in looped arrays of spins. Looped geometries of localized spins generate flux dependent, multi-spin terms which go beyond the basic Heisenberg model.Comment: 13 pages, 8 figure