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    Technique for producing wind-tunnel heat-transfer models

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    Inexpensive thin skinned wind tunnel models with thermocouples on certain surface areas were fabricated. Thermocouples were designed for measuring aerodynamic heat transfer in wind tunnels

    Validation of cognitive models for collaborative hybrid systems with discrete human input

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    We present a method to validate a cognitive model, based on the cognitive architecture ACT-R, in dynamic humanautomation systems with discrete human input. We are inspired by the general problem of K-choice games as a proxy for many decision making applications in dynamical systems. We model the human as a Markovian controller based on gathered experimental data, that is, a non-deterministic control input with known likelihoods of control actions associated with certain configurations of the state-space. We use reachability analysis to predict the outcome of the resulting discrete-time stochastic hybrid system, in which the outcome is defined as a function of the system trajectory. We suggest that the resulting expected outcomes can be used to validate the cognitive model against actual human subject data. We apply our method to a twochoice game in which the human is tasked with maximizing net coverage of a robotic swarm that can operate under rendezvous or deployment dynamics. We validate the corresponding ACTR cognitive model generated with the data from eight human subjects. The novelty of this work is 1) a method to compute expected outcome in a hybrid dynamical system with a Markov chain model of the human's discrete choice, and 2) application of this method to validation of cognitive models with a database of actual human subject data

    Pressure-induced unconventional superconductivity in the heavy-fermion antiferromagnet CeIn3: An 115In-NQR study under pressure

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    We report on the pressure-induced unconventional superconductivity in the heavy-fermion antiferromagnet CeIn3 by means of nuclear-quadrupole-resonance (NQR) studies conducted under a high pressure. The temperature and pressure dependences of the NQR spectra have revealed a first-order quantum-phase transition (QPT) from an AFM to PM at a critical pressure Pc=2.46 GPa. Despite the lack of an AFM quantum critical point in the P-T phase diagram, we highlight the fact that the unconventional SC occurs in both phases of the AFM and PM. The nuclear spin-lattice relaxation rate 1/T1 in the AFM phase have provided evidence for the uniformly coexisting AFM+SC phase. In the HF-PM phase where AFM fluctuations are not developed, 1/T1 decreases without the coherence peak just below Tc, followed by a power-law like T dependence that indicates an unconventional SC with a line-node gap. Remarkably, Tc has a peak around Pc in the HF-PM phase as well as in the AFM phase. In other words, an SC dome exists with a maximum value of Tc = 230 mK around Pc, indicating that the origin of the pressure-induced HF SC in CeIn3 is not relevant to AFM spin fluctuations but to the emergence of the first-order QPT in CeIn3. When the AFM critical temperature is suppressed at the termination point of the first-order QPT, Pc = 2.46 GPa, the diverging AFM spin-density fluctuations emerge at the critical point from the AFM to PM. The results with CeIn3 leading to a new type of quantum criticality deserve further theoretical investigations

    Effects of Turbulence, Eccentricity Damping, and Migration Rate on the Capture of Planets into Mean Motion Resonance

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    Pairs of migrating extrasolar planets often lock into mean motion resonance as they drift inward. This paper studies the convergent migration of giant planets (driven by a circumstellar disk) and determines the probability that they are captured into mean motion resonance. The probability that such planets enter resonance depends on the type of resonance, the migration rate, the eccentricity damping rate, and the amplitude of the turbulent fluctuations. This problem is studied both through direct integrations of the full 3-body problem, and via semi-analytic model equations. In general, the probability of resonance decreases with increasing migration rate, and with increasing levels of turbulence, but increases with eccentricity damping. Previous work has shown that the distributions of orbital elements (eccentricity and semimajor axis) for observed extrasolar planets can be reproduced by migration models with multiple planets. However, these results depend on resonance locking, and this study shows that entry into -- and maintenance of -- mean motion resonance depends sensitively on migration rate, eccentricity damping, and turbulence.Comment: 43 pages including 14 figures; accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journa

    Numerical simulation of drop impact and jet buckling problems using the eXtended Pom-Pom model

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    This work presents numerical simulations of two fluid flow problems involving moving free surfaces: the impacting drop and fluid jet buckling. The viscoelastic model used in these simulations is the eXtended Pom-Pom (XPP) model. To validate the code, numerical predictions of the drop impact problem for Newtonian and Oldroyd-B fluids are presented and compared with other methods. In particular, a benchmark on numerical simulations for a XPP drop impacting on a rigid plate is performed for a wide range of the relevant parameters. Finally, to provide an additional application of free surface flows of XPP fluids, the viscous jet buckling problem is simulated and discussed. (C) 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.CNPq (Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cientifico e Tecnologico) [477858/2009-0, 305447/2010-6, 302631/2010-0, 471793/2010-8]Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cientifico e Tecnologico (CNPq)Fundacao de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado de Sao Paulo (FAPESP)FAPESP (Fundacao de Amparo a pesquisa do Estado de Sao Paulo) [2009/15892-9]CAPESCAPES [BEX 2844/10-9]FCTFCTFEDER [PTDC/EME-MFE/114322/2009]FEDE

    Stresses of PTT, Giesekus, and Oldroyd-B fluids in a Newtonian velocity field near the stick-slip singularity

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    Made available in DSpace on 2018-11-26T17:44:33Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2017-12-01Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)Royal Society Newton International Exchanges GrantConselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)BEPEWe characterise the stress singularity of the Oldroyd-B, Phan-Thien-Tanner (PTT), and Giesekus viscoelastic models in steady planar stick-slip flows. For both PTT and Giesekus models in the presence of a solvent viscosity, the asymptotics show that the velocity field is Newtonian dominated near to the singularity at the join of the stick and slip surfaces. Polymer stress boundary layers are present at both the stick and slip surfaces. Byintegrating along streamlines, we verify the polymer stress behavior of r(-4/11) for PTT and r(-5/16) for Giesekus, where r is the radial distance from the singularity. These asymptotic results for PTT and Giesekus do not hold in the limit of vanishing quadratic stress terms for Oldroyd-B. However, we can consider the Oldroyd-B model in the fixed kinematics of a prescribed Newtonian velocity field. In contrast to PTT and Giesekus, this is not the correct balance for the momentum equation but does allow insight into the behavior of the Oldroyd-B equations near the singularity. A three-region asymptotic structure is again apparent with now a polymer stress singularity of r(-4/5). The high Weissenberg boundary layer equations are found to manifest themselves at the stick surface and are of thickness r(3/2). At the slip surface, dominant balance between the upper convected stress and rate-of-strain terms gives a slip boundary layer of thickness r(2). The solution of the slip boundary layer shows that the polymer stress is now singular along the slip surface. These results are supported through numerical integration along streamlines of the Oldroyd-B equations in a Newtonian velocity field. The Oldroyd-B model thus extends the point singularity at the join of the stick and slip surfaces to the whole of slip surface. As such, it does not have a physically meaningful solution in a Newtonian velocity field. We would expect a similar stress behavior for this model in the true viscoelastic velocity field. Published by AIP Publishing.Univ Bath, Dept Math Sci, Bath BA2 7AY, Avon, EnglandUniv Sao Paulo, Inst Ciencias Matemat & Comp, BR-13566590 Sao Carlos, SP, BrazilUniv Estadual Paulista, Fac Ciencias & Tecnol, Dept Matemat & Comp, BR-19060900 Presidente Prudente, SP, BrazilUniv Estadual Paulista, Fac Ciencias & Tecnol, Dept Matemat & Comp, BR-19060900 Presidente Prudente, SP, BrazilFAPESP: 2015/50094-7Royal Society Newton International Exchanges Grant: 2015/NI150225CNPq: 307459/2016-0FAPESP: 2014/17348-2BEPE: 2016/20389-
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