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Instrument accurately measures small temperature changes on test surface
Calorimeter apparatus accurately measures very small temperature rises on a test surface subjected to aerodynamic heating. A continuous thin sheet of a sensing material is attached to a base support plate through which a series of holes of known diameter have been drilled for attaching thermocouples to the material
Heat sensing instrument Patent
Heat sensing instrument, using thermocouple junction connected under heavy conducting materia
A linearized theory method of constrained optimization for supersonic cruise wing design
A linearized theory wing design and optimization procedure which allows physical realism and practical considerations to be imposed as constraints on the optimum (least drag due to lift) solution is discussed and examples of application are presented. In addition to the usual constraints on lift and pitching moment, constraints are imposed on wing surface ordinates and wing upper surface pressure levels and gradients. The design procedure also provides the capability of including directly in the optimization process the effects of other aircraft components such as a fuselage, canards, and nacelles
Cyclotron resonance propulsion system semiannual report no. 1
Cyclotron resonance plasma accelerator for space propulsion application
Discrimination of unique biological communities in the Mississippi lignite belt
Small scale hardcopy LANDSAT prints were manually interpreted and color infrared aerial photography was obtained in an effort to identify and map large contiguous areas of old growth hardwood stands within Mississippi's lignite belt which do not exhibit signs of recent disturbance by agriculture, grazing, timber harvesting, fire, or any natural catastrophe, and which may, therefore, contain unique or historical ecological habitat types. An information system using land cover classes derived from digital LANDSAT data and containing information on geology, hydrology, soils, and cultural activities was developed. Using computer-assisted land cover classifications, all hardwood remnants in the study area which are subject to possible disturbance from surface mining were determined. Twelve rare plants were also identified by botanists
Silicon halide-alkali metal flames as a source of solar grade silicon
The feasibility of using alkali metal-silicon halide diffusion flames to produce solar-grade silicon in large quantities and at low cost is demonstrated. Prior work shows that these flames are stable and that relatively high purity silicon can be produced using Na + SiCl4 flames. Silicon of similar purity is obtained from Na + SiF4 flames although yields are lower and product separation and collection are less thermochemically favored. Continuous separation of silicon from the byproduct alkali salt was demonstrated in a heated graphite reactor. The process was scaled up to reduce heat losses and to produce larger samples of silicon. Reagent delivery systems, scaled by a factor of 25, were built and operated at a production rate of 0.5 kg Si/h. Very rapid reactor heating rates are observed with wall temperatures reaching greater than 2000 K. Heat release parameters were measured using a cooled stainless steel reactor tube. A new reactor was designed
An ERTS-1 study of coastal features on the North Carolina coast
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Numerical methods for the design and analysis of wings at supersonic speeds
Numerical methods for the design and analysis of arbitrary-planform wings at supersonic speeds are reviewed. Certain deficiencies are revealed, particularly in application to wings with slightly subsonic leading edges. Recently devised numerical techniques which overcome the major part of these deficiencies are presented. The original development as well as the more recent revisions are subjected to a thorough review
Cosmological Perturbations from a Group Theoretical Point of View
We present a new approach to cosmological perturbations based on the theory
of Lie groups and their representations. After re-deriving the standard
covariant formalism from SO(3) considerations, we provide a new expansion of
the perturbed Friedmann-Lemaitre-Robertson-Walker (FLRW) metric in terms of
irreducible representations of the Lorentz group. The resulting decomposition
splits into (scalar, scalar), (scalar, vector) and (vector, vector) terms.
These equations directly correspond to the standard Lifshitz classification of
cosmological perturbations using scalar, vector and tensor modes which arise
from the irreducible SO(3) representation of the spatial part of the metric.
While the Lorentz group basis matches the underlying local symmetries of the
FLRW spacetime better than the SO(3), the new equations do not provide further
simplification compared to the standard cosmological perturbation theory. We
conjecture that this is due to the fact that the so(3,1) ~ su(2) x su(2)
Lorentz algebra has no pair of commuting generators commuting with any of the
translation group generators.Comment: To be published in Classical and Quantum Gravit
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