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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
How the Liquid-Liquid Transition Affects Hydrophobic Hydration in Deeply Supercooled Water
We determine the phase diagram of liquid supercooled water by extensive
computer simulations using the TIP5P-E model [J. Chem. Phys. {\bf 120}, 6085
(2004)]. We find that the transformation of water into a low density liquid in
the supercooled range strongly enhances the solubility of hydrophobic
particles. The transformation of water into a tetrahedrally structured liquid
is accompanied by a minimum in the hydration entropy and enthalpy. The
corresponding change in sign of the solvation heat capacity indicates a loss of
one characteristic signature of hydrophobic hydration. The observed behavior is
found to be qualitatively in accordance with the predictions of the information
theory model of Garde et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 77}, 4966 (1996)].Comment: 4 pages, 4 figures, twocolumn Revtex, modified text applied changes
to figure 1, 2d, 3,
Analysis of supersonic conical flows
Method of characteristics analytical technique for flow predictions of supersonic cross flows over conical bodie
True and False Foodplants of \u3ci\u3eCallosamia Promethea\u3c/i\u3e (Lepidoptera: Saturniidae) in Southern Michigan
A survey in 1980 of the associations of over 400 cocoons of Callosamia promethea Drury in vegetation along and adjacent to southern Michigan roadsides gave evidence for seven species of true larval foodplants (not including two others known in the area from other studies) and 17 species of false foodplants, the latter determined by the (1) rarity of their association with cocoons, (2) only one or two cocoons per plant, and (3) their proximity to a well known true foodplant. Three species, sassafras, black cherry, and buttonbush, are evidently the most important true foodplants in this area. Comparisons are made of the foodplants in terms of past literature, geography, and taxonomic relationships
Assessment of mapping exposed ferrous and ferric iron compounds using Skylab-EREP data
The author has identified the following significant results. The S190B color photography is as useful as LANDSAT data for the mapping of color differences in the rocks and soils of the terrain. An S192 ratio of 0.79 - 0.89 and 0.93 - 1.05 micron bands produced an apparently successful delineation of ferrous, ferric, and other materials, in agreement with theory and ratio code studies. From an analysis of S191 data, basalt and dacite were separated on the basis of differences in spectral emissivity in the 8.3 - 12 micron region
Heat transfer coefficients for liquid hydrogen turbopumps
Empirical equations were derived to establish the appropriate heat transfer coefficients as functions of the temperature drops and heat transfer rates for a wide range of convective and boiling conditions at different locations in a liquid hydrogen turbopump
Epitaxial growth of deposited amorphous layer by laser annealing
We demonstrate that a single short pulse of laser irradiation of appropriate energy is capable of recrystallizing in open air an amorphous Si layer deposited on a (100) single-crystal substrate into an epitaxial layer. The laser pulse annealing technique is shown to overcome the interfacial oxide obstacle which usually leads to polycrystalline formation in normal thermal annealing
Radiation from a charged particle-in-flight from a laminated medium to vacuum
The radiation from a charged particle-in-flight from a semi-infinite
laminated medium to vacuum and back,- from vacuum to the laminated medium, has
been investigated. Expressions for the spectral-angular distribution of
radiation energy in vacuum (at large distances from the boundary of laminated
medium) were obtained for both the cases with no limitations on the amplitude
and variation profile of the laminated medium permittivity. The results of
appropriate numerical calculations are presented and possible applications of
the obtained results are discussed.Comment: 8 pages, 6 figures, contribution to Proceedings of International
Symposium RREPS-2009, 07-11 September, 2009, Zvenigorod, Russi
Transition metal oxides using quantum Monte Carlo
The transition metal-oxygen bond appears prominently throughout chemistry and
solid-state physics. Many materials, from biomolecules to ferroelectrics to the
components of supernova remnants contain this bond in some form. Many of these
materials' properties strongly depend on fine details of the TM-O bond and
intricate correlation effects, which make accurate calculations of their
properties very challenging. We present quantum Monte Carlo, an explicitly
correlated class of methods, to improve the accuracy of electronic structure
calculations over more traditional methods like density functional theory. We
find that unlike s-p type bonding, the amount of hybridization of the d-p bond
in TM-O materials is strongly dependant on electronic correlation.Comment: 20 pages, 4 figures, to appear as a topical review in J. Physics:
Condensed Matte
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