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Visualization and imaging methods for flames in microgravity
The visualization and imaging of flames has long been acknowledged as the starting point for learning about and understanding combustion phenomena. It provides an essential overall picture of the time and length scales of processes and guides the application of other diagnostics. It is perhaps even more important in microgravity combustion studies, where it is often the only non-intrusive diagnostic measurement easily implemented. Imaging also aids in the interpretation of single-point measurements, such as temperature, provided by thermocouples, and velocity, by hot-wire anemometers. This paper outlines the efforts of the Microgravity Combustion Diagnostics staff at NASA Lewis Research Center in the area of visualization and imaging of flames, concentrating on methods applicable for reduced-gravity experimentation. Several techniques are under development: intensified array camera imaging, and two-dimensional temperature and species concentrations measurements. A brief summary of results in these areas is presented and future plans mentioned
Nonlinear three wave interaction in pair plasmas
It is shown that nonlinear three-wave interaction, described by
vector-product type nonlinearities, in pair plasmas implies much more
restrictive conditions for a double energy transfer, as compared to
electron-ion plasmas
Rapid procedure for the extraction of DNA from fungal spores and mycelia.
A method is described for the reliable preparation of DNA from fungal spores and mycelia and from plant tissues. A number of fungal and plant species were used in the study to indicate the generality of the method. The DNA prepared by this protocol was digested by restriction endonucleases and served as template using standard polymerase chain reaction conditions
Calibration of a shock wave position sensor using artificial neural networks
This report discusses the calibration of a shock wave position sensor. The position sensor works by using artificial neural networks to map cropped CCD frames of the shadows of the shock wave into the value of the shock wave position. This project was done as a tutorial demonstration of method and feasibility. It used a laboratory shadowgraph, nozzle, and commercial neural network package. The results were quite good, indicating that artificial neural networks can be used efficiently to automate the semi-quantitative applications of flow visualization
Protein Adsorption using a Lattice Toy Model
Protein adsorption is an important subfield of Biophysics particularly relevant in medical science. Using a computational simulation with a basic but configurable two-dimensional square lattice model of approximate amino acid interactions, I investigated the entropic effects of protein adsorption on a weakly attractive surface. These simulations allow for a precise calculation of the partition functions of these complex systems, from which I can then analyze other thermodynamic properties
Nonlinear polarisation and dissipative correspondence between low frequency fluid and gyrofluid equations
The correspondence between gyrofluid and low frequency fluid equations is
examined. The lowest order conservative effects in ExB advection, parallel
dynamics, and curvature match trivially. The principal concerns are
polarisation fluxes, and dissipative parallel viscosity and parallel heat
fluxes. The emergence of the polarisation heat flux in the fluid model and its
contribution to the energy theorem is reviewed. It is shown that gyroviscosity
and the polarisation fluxes are matched by the finite gyroradius corrections to
advection in the long wavelength limit, provided that the differences between
gyrocenter and particle representations is taken into account. The dissipative
parallel viscosity is matched by the residual thermal anisotropy in the
gyrofluid model in the collision dominated limit. The dissipative parallel heat
flux is matched by the gyrofluid parallel heat flux variables in the collision
dominated limit. Hence, the gyrofluid equations are a complete superset of the
low frequency fluid equations.Comment: RevTeX 4, 28 pages, no figures, final revised version for Physics of
Plasmas prior to proof stag
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