313 research outputs found
Water-LBE flow similarity laws and their numerical experiments
Paper presented to the 10th International Conference on Heat Transfer, Fluid Mechanics and Thermodynamics, Florida, 14-16 July 2014.This paper studies theoretically and numerically flow similarity laws between water and lead-bismuth eutectic (LBE) liquid. It is associated practically with the problem how to use water to simulate experimentally natural convections in an LBE cooled reactor. It is revealed that Reynolds, Richardson and thermal power similarity laws can hold not only globally (in a sense of the global parameters) but also locally. The water model scale, power and other factors are determined by choosing the inlet and outlet temperatures, so that the local Reynolds numbers at these two points in the water experiment are equal to the corresponding LBE ones. Several cases are shown by the variation of the inlet temperature. There are two particular cases: (i) Froude numbers are equal additionally; (ii) the model scale is one to one. For the case of the model scale 1:1, the similarity solution is presented in detail. Numerical experiments of reactor flows of both water and LBE are carried out. They show that the theoretical similarity predictions can have deviations of 5% in Reynolds number and 10% in Richardson number. The reason for it is that flow patterns in the upper coolant plenum are different due to the much lower LBE Prandtl number than waters one.cf201
Study of intercalation and deintercalation of Na_xCoO_2 yH_2O single crystals
Single crystals of NaxCoO2 with beta-phase (x=0.55, 0.60 and 0.65),
alpha'-phase (x=0.75) and alpha-phase (x=0.9, 1.0) have been grown by the
floating zone technique. The Na-extraction and hydration were carried out for
the alpha'-sample to get superconducting phase of NaxCoO2.yH2O (x~0.3, y~1.3).
Hydrated single crystals exhibit cracked layers perpendicular to the c-axis due
to a large expansion when the water is inserted into the structure. A study of
intercalation/deintercalation was performed to determine the stability of the
hydrated phase and effects of hydration on the structure of the compound. X-ray
diffraction and Thermogravimetric experiments are used to monitor the process
of water molecules accommodated in and removed from the crystal lattice. The
initial intercalation process takes place with two-water molecules
corresponding to y=0.6) inserted in a formula unit, followed by a group of four
(y=1.3) to form a cluster of Na(H2O)4. Thermogravimetric analysis suggests that
the deintercalation occurs with the removal of the water molecules one by one
from the hydrated cluster at elevated temperatures of approximately 50, 100,
200 and 300 C, respectively. Our investigations reveal that the hydration
process is dynamic and that water molecule inter- and deintercalation follow
different reaction paths in an irreversible way.Comment: 15 pages, 6 figures, figures with higher resolution by email request
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Chiral effect in plane isotropic micropolar elasticity and its application to chiral lattices
In continuum mechanics, the non-centrosymmetric micropolar theory is usually
used to capture the chirality inherent in materials. However when reduced to a
two dimensional (2D) isotropic problem, the resulting model becomes non-chiral.
Therefore, influence of the chiral effect cannot be properly characterized by
existing theories for 2D chiral solids. To circumvent this difficulty, based on
reinterpretation of isotropic tensors in a 2D case, we propose a continuum
theory to model the chiral effect for 2D isotropic chiral solids. A single
material parameter related to chirality is introduced to characterize the
coupling between the bulk deformation and the internal rotation which is a
fundamental feature of 2D chiral solids. Coherently, the proposed continuum
theory is also derived for a triangular chiral lattice from a homogenization
procedure, from which the effective material constants of the lattice are
analytically determined. The unique behavior in the chiral lattice is
demonstrated through the analyses of a static tension problem and a plane wave
propagation problem. The results, which cannot be predicted by the non-chiral
model, are validated by the exact solution of the discrete model.Comment: 33 pages, 7 figure
Cronin Effect and High-p_T Suppression in pA Collisions
We review the predictions of the theory of Color Glass Condensate for gluon
production cross section in p(d)A collisions. We demonstrate that at moderate
energies, when the gluon production cross section can be calculated in the
framework of McLerran-Venugopalan model, it has only partonic level Cronin
effect in it. At higher energies/rapidities corresponding to smaller values of
Bjorken x quantum evolution becomes important. The effect of quantum evolution
at higher energies/rapidities is to introduce suppression of high-p_T gluons
slightly decreasing the Cronin enhancement. At still higher energies/rapidities
quantum evolution leads to suppression of produced gluons at all values of p_T.Comment: 32 pages, 8 figures, v2: extended and improved discussion, references
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Travelling solitons in the parametrically driven nonlinear Schroedinger equation
We show that the parametrically driven nonlinear Schroedinger equation has
wide classes of travelling soliton solutions, some of which are stable. For
small driving strengths nonpropogating and moving solitons co-exist while
strongly forced solitons can only be stably when moving sufficiently fast.Comment: The paper is available as the JINR preprint E17-2000-147(Dubna,
Russia) and the preprint of the Max-Planck Institute for the Complex Systems
mpipks/0009011, Dresden, Germany. It was submitted to Physical Review
Analyses of transients for 400MWth-class EFIT accelerator driven transmuter with the SIMMER-III code
Anomaly analysis of Hawking radiation from Kaluza-Klein black hole with squashed horizon
Considering gravitational and gauge anomalies at the horizon, a new method
that to derive Hawking radiations from black holes has been developed by
Wilczek et al. In this paper, we apply this method to non-rotating and rotating
Kaluza-Klein black holes with squashed horizon, respectively. For the rotating
case, we found that, after the dimensional reduction, an effective U(1) gauge
field is generated by an angular isometry. The results show that the gauge
current and energy-momentum tensor fluxes are exactly equivalent to Hawking
radiation from the event horizon.Comment: 15 pages, no figures, the improved version, accepted by Eur. Phys. J.
Partial wave analysis of J/\psi \to \gamma \phi \phi
Using events collected in the BESII detector, the
radiative decay is
studied. The invariant mass distribution exhibits a near-threshold
enhancement that peaks around 2.24 GeV/.
A partial wave analysis shows that the structure is dominated by a
state () with a mass of
GeV/ and a width of GeV/. The
product branching fraction is: .Comment: 11 pages, 4 figures. corrected proof for journa
Measurements of the observed cross sections for exclusive light hadrons containing at , 3.650 and 3.6648 GeV
By analyzing the data sets of 17.3, 6.5 and 1.0 pb taken,
respectively, at , 3.650 and 3.6648 GeV with the BES-II
detector at the BEPC collider, we measure the observed cross sections for
, , ,
and at the three energy
points. Based on these cross sections we set the upper limits on the observed
cross sections and the branching fractions for decay into these
final states at 90% C.L..Comment: 7 pages, 2 figure
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