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Viscous flows in rotating pipes with internal cavities and related vortex breakdowns
The problem of predicting vortex breakdown, which is characterized by a drastic change in core size and trajectory, is still basically unsolved. In the present paper, viscous flow in a long rotating pipe is analyzed, as a model for the type of breakdown observed in wake vortices. The full Navier-Stokes equations are shown to simplify to a set of unlinked partial differential equations. These equations allow for two separate solutions, for both full pipe flows (the classic rotating Hagen-Poiseuille flow) and cavity flows, in which a central area, with no net mass flux or viscous dissipation, is produced. Conditions permitting switching from one type of flow to the other, with no change in the mass flux or velocities at the pipe surface, are found. It is then argued that these conditions indicate when vortex breakdown will occur
Notes on Evanescent Wave Bragg-Reflection Waveguides
We investigate an extended version of the Bragg reflection waveguide (BRW)
with air gaps as one of the layers. This design has the potential of
drastically simplifying the epitaxial structure for integrated nonlinear
optical elements at the expense of more complicated structuring. This approach
would afford much more flexibility for designing and varying BRW structures.
Here, we discuss an extension of the established theory for BRW slabs and
report our results of applying Marcatili's method for rectangular waveguides to
the BRW case. With this analytic approach we can estimate the effective index
of the modes orders of magnitudes faster than with full numerical techniques
such as finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) or finite elements. Initial
results are mixed; while phase-matched designs have been found, they currently
have no significant advantage over other schemes.Comment: 5 pages, 2 figure
Photonic Entanglement for Fundamental Tests and Quantum Communication
Entanglement is at the heart of fundamental tests of quantum mechanics like
tests of Bell-inequalities and, as discovered lately, of quantum computation
and communication. Their technological advance made entangled photons play an
outstanding role in entanglement physics. We give a generalized concept of
qubit entanglement and review the state of the art of photonic experiments.Comment: 54 pages, 33 figures. Review article submitted to QIC (Rinton
Dark Higgs Models at the 7 TeV LHC
We study how collider data and electroweak precision observables affect the
parameter space of models including a new dark force mediated by a massive U(1)
gauge boson. It acquires mass via a Higgs mechanism in the dark sector which is
connected to the Standard Model through kinetic mixing of the two U(1) gauge
bosons and the Higgs potential. We assess the impact of the 7 TeV LHC and show
that most of the parameter space of the model can be probed with an integrated
luminosity of 15 fb^-1.Comment: 20 pages, 8 figures; references, clarification and note added;
conclusions unaltered; version accepted for publication in JHEP; v3: added
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Uncertainty of the optimum influence factor levels in multicriteria optimization using the concept of desirability
The Desirability Index (DI) is a widely used method for multicriteria optimization in industrial quality control, by which optimal levels of the process influencing factors are determined in order to archieve maximum process quality. In practice however situations may occur in which slight changes of these factor levels lead to lower production costs or to facilitation of the production process and therefore would be preferred. In this paper an innovative approach for measuring the effect of these changes on the DI based on its distribution is introduced. --
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