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Cavitation Event Rates and Nuclei Distributions
This paper examines the relationship between the cavitation event rates on axisymmetric headforms and the nuclei distributions in the incident flow. An analytical model is developed to relate these quantities and the results are compared with experimental cavitation event rates measured in the Large Cavitation Channel (LCC) at David Taylor Research Center (DTRC) on three different sizes of Schiebe body. The experiments were carried out at various cavitation numbers, tunnel velocities and air contents.
Boundary layer, bubble screening and observable cavitation bubble size effects on the event rates are examined. The trends in the event rates with changing cavitation number and body size are consistent with those observed experimentally. However the magnitudes of the event rates are about an order of magnitude larger than the experimental data. Nevertheless it is shown that the cavitation inception values predicted using a certain critical event rate are consistent with those observed experimentally
TeV scale Dark Matter and electroweak radiative corrections
Recent anomalies in cosmic rays data, namely from the PAMELA collaboration,
can be interpreted in terms of TeV scale decaying/annihilating Dark Matter. We
analyze the impact of radiative corrections coming from the electroweak sector
of the Standard Model on the spectrum of the final products at the interaction
point. As an example, we consider virtual one loop corrections and real gauge
bosons emission in the case of a very heavy vector boson annihilating into
fermions. We show that the effect of electroweak corrections is relevant, but
not as big as sometimes claimed in the literature. At such high scales, one
loop electroweak effects are so big that eventually higher orders/resummations
have to be considered: we advocate for the inclusion of these effects in parton
shower Montecarlos aiming at the description of TeV scale physics.Comment: Comments added, published versio
Observations and scaling of travelling bubble cavitation
Recent observations of growing and collapsing bubbles in flows over axisymmetric headforms have revealed the complexity of the ‘micro-fluid-mechanics’ associated with these bubbles (van der Meulen & van Renesse 1989; Briancon-Marjollet et al. 1990; Ceccio & Brennen 1991). Among the complex features observed were the bubble-to-bubble and bubble-to-boundary-layer interactions which leads to the shearing of the underside of the bubble and alters the collapsing process. All of these previous tests, though, were performed on small headform sizes. The focus of this research is to analyse the scaling effects of these phenomena due to variations in model size, Reynolds number and cavitation number. For this purpose, cavitating flows over Schiebe headforms of different sizes (5.08, 25.4 and 50.8 cm in diameter) were studied in the David Taylor Large Cavitation Channel (LCC). The bubble dynamics captured using high-speed film and electrode sensors are presented along with the noise signals generated during the collapse of the cavities.
In the light of the complexity of the dynamics of the travelling bubbles and the important bubble/bubble interactions, it is clear that the spherical Rayleigh-Plesset analysis cannot reproduce many of the phenomena observed. For this purpose an unsteady numerical code was developed which uses travelling sources to model the interactions between the bubble (or bubbles) and the pressure gradients in the irrotational flow outside the boundary layer on the headform. The paper compares the results of this numerical code with the present experimental results and demonstrates good qualitative agreement between the two
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Cosmetic Talc-Related Pulmonary Granulomatosis.
Inhalation of cosmetic talc can lead to pulmonary foreign-body granulomatosis, though fewer than 10 cases of inhaled cosmetic talc-related pulmonary granulomatosis have been reported in adults. We report the case of a 64-year-old man with diffuse, bilateral pulmonary nodules and ground glass opacities associated with chronic inhalation of cosmetic talc. Transbronchial biopsy showed peribronchiolar foreign-body granulomas. After cessation of talc exposure, the patient demonstrated clinical and radiographic improvement without the use of corticosteroids. This case demonstrates that a conservative approach with cessation of exposure alone, without the use of corticosteroids, can be an effective therapy in cosmetic talc-related pulmonary granulomatosis
Response Functions Improving Performance in Analog Attractor Neural Networks
In the context of attractor neural networks, we study how the equilibrium
analog neural activities, reached by the network dynamics during memory
retrieval, may improve storage performance by reducing the interferences
between the recalled pattern and the other stored ones. We determine a simple
dynamics that stabilizes network states which are highly correlated with the
retrieved pattern, for a number of stored memories that does not exceed
, where depends on the global
activity level in the network and is the number of neurons.Comment: 13 pages (with figures), LaTex (RevTex), to appear on Phys.Rev.E (RC
Suppression of low-frequency noise in two-dimensional electron gas at degenerately doped Si:P \delta-layers
We report low-frequency 1/f noise measurements of degenerately doped Si:P
\delta-layers at 4.2K. The noise was found to be over six orders of magnitude
lower than that of bulk Si:P systems in the metallic regime and is one of the
lowest values reported for doped semiconductors. The noise was found to be
nearly independent of magnetic field at low fields, indicating negligible
contribution from universal conductance fluctuations. Instead interaction of
electrons with very few active structural two-level systems may explain the
observed noise magnitudeComment: 4 pages, 4 figure
Beeping a Maximal Independent Set
We consider the problem of computing a maximal independent set (MIS) in an
extremely harsh broadcast model that relies only on carrier sensing. The model
consists of an anonymous broadcast network in which nodes have no knowledge
about the topology of the network or even an upper bound on its size.
Furthermore, it is assumed that an adversary chooses at which time slot each
node wakes up. At each time slot a node can either beep, that is, emit a
signal, or be silent. At a particular time slot, beeping nodes receive no
feedback, while silent nodes can only differentiate between none of its
neighbors beeping, or at least one of its neighbors beeping.
We start by proving a lower bound that shows that in this model, it is not
possible to locally converge to an MIS in sub-polynomial time. We then study
four different relaxations of the model which allow us to circumvent the lower
bound and find an MIS in polylogarithmic time. First, we show that if a
polynomial upper bound on the network size is known, it is possible to find an
MIS in O(log^3 n) time. Second, if we assume sleeping nodes are awoken by
neighboring beeps, then we can also find an MIS in O(log^3 n) time. Third, if
in addition to this wakeup assumption we allow sender-side collision detection,
that is, beeping nodes can distinguish whether at least one neighboring node is
beeping concurrently or not, we can find an MIS in O(log^2 n) time. Finally, if
instead we endow nodes with synchronous clocks, it is also possible to find an
MIS in O(log^2 n) time.Comment: arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1108.192
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