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Nonlinear analysis of pressure oscillations in ramjet engines
Pressure oscillations in ramjet engines have been studied using an approximate method which treats the flow fields in the inlet and the combustor separately. The acoustic fields in the combustor are expressed as syntheses of coupled nonlinear oscillators corresponding to the acoustic modes of the chamber. The influences of the inlet flow appear in the admittance function at the inlet /combustor interface, providing the necessary boundary condition for calculation of the combustor flow. A general framework dealing with nonlinear multi-degree-of-freedom system has also been constructed to study the time evolution of each mode. Both linear and nonlinear stabilities are treated. The results obtained serve as a basis for investigating the existence and stabilities of limit cycles for acoustic modes. As a specific example, the analysis is applied to a problem of nonlinear transverse oscillations in ramjet engines
Linear Theory of Pressure Oscillations in liquid-Fueled Ramjet Engines
Pressure oscillations in ramjet engines are studied.
within quasi one-dimensional linear acoustics. The flow
field in the dump combustor is approximated by division
into three parts: a flow of reactants, a region containing combustion products, and a recirculation zone, separated by a flame sheet and a dividing streamline.
The three zones are matched by considering kinematic
and conservation relations. Acoustic fields in the inlet
section and in the combustion chamber are coupled to
provide an analytical equation for the complex wave
number characterizing the linear stability. The calculated results are compared with the experimental data reported by the Naval Weapons Center. Reasonable agreements are obtained
Numerical calculations of pressure oscillations in a side-dump ramjet engine
Pressure oscillations in a side-dump ramjet engine
have been studied, using a one-dimensional numerical
analysis. The engine is treated in two parts; the inlet
section, including a region of two-phase flow downstream
of fuel injection, and a dump combustor. Each
region is treated separately and matched with the
other. Following calculation of the mean flow field, the
oscillatory characteristics of the engine are determined
by its reponse to a disturbance imposed on the
mean fiow. Results have shown favorable comparison
with experimental data obtained at the Naval Weapons
Center, China Lake
Fast quantum information transfer with superconducting flux qubits coupled to a cavity
We present a way to realize quantum information transfer with superconducting
flux qubits coupled to a cavity. Because only resonant qubit-cavity interaction
and resonant qubit-pulse interaction are applied, the information transfer can
be performed much faster, when compared with the previous proposals. This
proposal does not require adjustment of the qubit level spacings during the
operation. Moreover, neither uniformity in the device parameters nor exact
placement of qubits in the cavity is needed by this proposal.Comment: 6 pages, 3 figure
Antiferromagnetic Alignment and Relaxation Rate of Gd Spins in the High Temperature Superconductor GdBa_2Cu_3O_(7-delta)
The complex surface impedance of a number of GdBaCuO
single crystals has been measured at 10, 15 and 21 GHz using a cavity
perturbation technique. At low temperatures a marked increase in the effective
penetration depth and surface resistance is observed associated with the
paramagnetic and antiferromagnetic alignment of the Gd spins. The effective
penetration depth has a sharp change in slope at the N\'eel temperature, ,
and the surface resistance peaks at a frequency dependent temperature below 3K.
The observed temperature and frequency dependence can be described by a model
which assumes a negligibly small interaction between the Gd spins and the
electrons in the superconducting state, with a frequency dependent magnetic
susceptibility and a Gd spin relaxation time being a strong function
of temperature. Above , has a component varying as , while below it increases .Comment: 4 Pages, 4 Figures. Submitted to Phys. Rev.
Micromachined membrane particle filters
We report here several particle membrane filters (8 x 8 mm^2) with circular, hexagonal and rectangular through holes. By varying hole dimensions from 6 to 12 pm, opening factors from 4 to 45 % are achieved. In order to improve the filter robustness, a composite silicon nitride/Parylene membrane technology is developed. More importantly, fluid dynamic performance of the filters is also studied by both experiments and numerical simulations. It is found that the gaseous flow through the filters depends strongly on opening factors, and the measured pressure drops are much lower than that from numerical simulation using the Navier-Stokes equation. Interestingly, surface velocity slip can only account for a minor part of the discrepancy. This suggests that a very interesting topic for micro fluid mechanics research is identified
Scalable Methods for Adaptively Seeding a Social Network
In recent years, social networking platforms have developed into
extraordinary channels for spreading and consuming information. Along with the
rise of such infrastructure, there is continuous progress on techniques for
spreading information effectively through influential users. In many
applications, one is restricted to select influencers from a set of users who
engaged with the topic being promoted, and due to the structure of social
networks, these users often rank low in terms of their influence potential. An
alternative approach one can consider is an adaptive method which selects users
in a manner which targets their influential neighbors. The advantage of such an
approach is that it leverages the friendship paradox in social networks: while
users are often not influential, they often know someone who is.
Despite the various complexities in such optimization problems, we show that
scalable adaptive seeding is achievable. In particular, we develop algorithms
for linear influence models with provable approximation guarantees that can be
gracefully parallelized. To show the effectiveness of our methods we collected
data from various verticals social network users follow. For each vertical, we
collected data on the users who responded to a certain post as well as their
neighbors, and applied our methods on this data. Our experiments show that
adaptive seeding is scalable, and importantly, that it obtains dramatic
improvements over standard approaches of information dissemination.Comment: Full version of the paper appearing in WWW 201
Perturbative calculation of the scaled factorial moments in second-order quark-hadron phase transition within the Ginzburg-Landau description
The scaled factorial moments are studied for a second-order
quark-hadron phase transition within the Ginzburg-Landau description. The role
played by the ground state of the system under low temperature is emphasized.
After a local shift of the order parameter the fluctuations are around the
ground state, and a perturbative calculation for can be carried out.
Power scaling between 's is shown, and a universal scaling exponent
is given for the case with weak correlations and weak
self-interactions.Comment: 12 pages in RevTeX, 12 eps figure
Leveraging RFID in hospitals: patient life cycle and mobility perspectives
The application of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) to patient care in hospitals and healthcare facilities has only just begun to be accepted. This article develops a set of frameworks based on patient life cycle and time-and-motion perspectives for how RFID can be leveraged atop existing information systems to offer many benefits for patient care and hospital operations.
It examines how patients are processed from admission to discharge, and considers where RFID can be applied. From a time-and-motion perspective, it shows how hospitals can apply RFID in three ways: fixed RFID readers interrogate mobile objects; mobile, handheld readers interrogate fixed objects; and mobile, handheld readers interrogate mobile objects.
Implemented properly, RFID can significantly aid the medical staff in performing their duties. It can greatly reduce the need for manual entry of records, increase security for both patient and hospital, and reduce errors in administering medication. Hospitals are likely to encounter challenges, however, when integrating the technology into their day-to-day operations. What we present here can help hospital administrators determine where RFID can be deployed to add the most value
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