Soret-driven convection of binary mixture in a horizontal porous layer in the presence of a heat or concentration source

Soret-driven convection of a binary mixture in a shallow porous layer is analyzed. The analysis focuses on the behavior of the system in the presence of a concentration or heat source. In the long-wavelength limit, regimes are found in which the flow regions near the source and at the periphery are separated by narrow annular transition regions. It is also shown that the outward concentration flux from the source is dominated by convection, whereas heat can be transferred from the source both by convection and by diffusion. Multistability between these two regimes is possible.     

Effects of Spatial Coherence and Dispersive Diffraction on a Change in Optical Spectrum

This paper describes a change in optical spectrum on propagation in free space for a particular class of spatially partially coherent fields emanating from a polychromatic secondary source. A rectangular opening aperture in an opaque screen, illuminated with an extended incoherent polychromatic primary source, works as the secondary source. The spectral change is explored in detail theoretically and experimentally in association with spatial coherence in the secondary source as well as dispersive diffraction by the secondary source. The peak shift of the spectrum is associated with the coherence area for characterizing the secondary source. The peak shift becomes maximum if the secondary source is spatially coherent, but no shift occurs if the secondary source is spatially incoherent.     

On superdiffusive behavior of a passive tracer in a random flow

In this note we consider a passive tracer model describing particle dispersion in a turbulent flow. The trajectory of the particle is given by the solution of an ordinary differential equation , , where is a divergence-free, random vector field that is spatially homogeneous and isotropic. We show that trajectories of the tracer display superdiffusive behavior when the random velocity decorrelates, at large distances, but does it not rapidly but rather at some moderate rate. The main tools used in the proofs are variational principles and Tauberian-type theorems.     

Acoustic propagation from a spiral wave front source in an ocean environment

A spiral wave front source generates a pressure field that has a phase that depends linearly on the azimuthal angle at which it is measured. This differs from a point source that has a phase that is constant with direction. The spiral wave front source has been developed for use in navigation; however, very little work has been done to model this source in an ocean environment. To this end, the spiral wave front analogue of the acoustic point source is developed and is shown to be related to the point source through a simple transformation. This makes it possible to transform the point source solution in a particular ocean environment into the solution for a spiral source in the same environment. Applications of this transformation are presented for a spiral source near the ocean surface and seafloor as well as for the more general case of propagation in a horizontally stratified waveguide.     

The possibility of suppressing a near-by interfering point source by using a mode-selective array in shallow water

It is suggested that the available information—the differences in both range and depth between a target point source and an interfering point source—in a shallow water channel should be processed by a vertical mode-selective array. The processing gain of the mode-selective array for suppressing the near interference point source is estimated theoretically.     

Density perturbations excited near a pulsating point source in a streaming plasma

The leading term of the electron density perturbations around a harmonic point source moving with a superthermal velocity through a maxwellian plasma is studied for distances that tend to zero. Pronounced asymmetry is found, the field being concentrated mainly in a conical region downstream behind the source (the Cherenkov cone).     

Dynamic color screening in a classical quark plasma

Screening of a moving infinite color sheet source is examined in a quark plasma at finite temperature. The classical chromohydrodynamic equations for quarks are integrated, to obtain profiles for quark current density, which in turn are used to solve the SU(2) Yang-Mills equations numerically. This provides a classical but non-perturbative treatment for the screening of a moving source in quark plasma. The results show two interesting features. We observe that if the test source is at rest the screening does not depend on the color dynamics and the behavior is very similar to that in Coulomb plasma. When the test source is moving with non-relativistic velocity the non-abelian features manifest themselves by weakening the screening and also by exhibiting an oscillatory profile with distance.     

Generating and probing a two-photon fock state with a single atom in a cavity

A two-photon Fock state is prepared in a cavity sustaining a "source mode" and a "target mode," with a single circular Rydberg atom. In a third-order Raman process, the atom emits a photon in the target while scattering one photon from the source into the target. The final two-photon state is probed by measuring by Ramsey interferometry the cavity light shifts induced by the target field on the same atom. Extensions to other multiphoton processes and to a new type of micromaser are briefly discussed.     

Simulation study of a magnetocardiogram based on a virtual heart model: effect of a cardiac equivalent source and a volume conductor

In this paper,we present a magnetocardiogram(MCG) simulation study using the boundary element method(BEM) and based on the virtual heart model and the realistic human volume conductor model.The different contributions of cardiac equivalent source models and volume conductor models to the MCG are deeply and comprehensively investigated.The single dipole source model,the multiple dipoles source model and the equivalent double layer(EDL) source model are analysed and compared with the cardiac equivalent source models.Meanwhile,the effect of the volume conductor model on the MCG combined with these cardiac equivalent sources is investigated.The simulation results demonstrate that the cardiac electrophysiological information will be partly missed when only the single dipole source is taken,while the EDL source is a good option for MCG simulation and the effect of the volume conductor is smallest for the EDL source.Therefore,the EDL source is suitable for the study of MCG forward and inverse problems,and more attention should be paid to it in future MCG studies.     

On a New Non-Geometric Element in Gravity

In this essay a generalized notion of flavor-oscillation clocks is introduced. The generalization contains the element that various superimposed mass eigenstates may have different relative orientation of the component of their spin with respect to the rotational axis of the gravitational source. It is found that these quantum mechanical clocks do not always redshift identically when moved from the gravitational environment of a non-rotating source to the field of a rotating source. The non-geometric contributions to the redshifts may be interpreted as quantum mechanically induced fluctuations over a geometric structure of space-time.     

Variation of plasma parameters in a modified mode of plasma production in a double plasma device

A modified mode of plasma production in a double plasma device is presented and plasma parameters are controlled in this configuration. Here plasma is produced by applying a discharge voltage between the hot filaments in the source (cathode) and the target magnetic cage (anode) of the device. In this configuration, the hot electron emitting filaments are present only in the source and the magnetic cage of this is kept at a negative bias such that due to the repulsion of the cage bias, the primary electrons can go to the grounded target and produce plasma there. The plasma parameters can be controlled by varying the voltages applied to the source magnetic cage and the separation grid of the device.     

The field of an equivalent multipole composite radiator in a waveguide

The possibility of replacing a spatially extended volume low-frequency sound source, which forms a three-dimensional directional field in the far-field zone, by an equivalent multipole source is considered. Developing the ideas of L.M. Brekhovskikh, who obtained the solution for a monopole, exact and simplified models of the source field are constructed in the form of superpositions of multipoles of various orders. The models are considered in the integral, mode, and ray approximations applied to the unbounded space and homogeneous and plane-layered waveguides. The results of computations are presented, and the conclusion is made that the contribution of the vertical dipole and quadrupole components to the interference structure of the field amplitude in a waveguide decreases with an increase in the distance from the source. The phase structure is found to be stable regardless of the type of the complex multipole source.     

Ionization formation of plasma inhomogeneity by the near-zone field of a magnetic-type source in a magnetized plasma

An investigations is made of the steady-state structure of a plasma inhomogeneity arising as a result of high-frequency heating and additional ionization of a background magnetized plasma by the near-zone field of a magnetic-type source (ring electric current). It is assumed that the source axis is parallel to an external magnetic field; the source frequency belongs in the low hybrid band. The main attention is focused on the particular case (important for possible applications) when the characteristic longitudinal and transverse scales of density distribution considerably exceed the corresponding scales of distribution of the electron temperature and of the source field. Simplified equations for the near-zone field of the source, the electron temperature, and the plasma density are written for this particular case. Based on the numerical solution of these equations, steady-state distributions of plasma parameters in the formed plasma inhomogeneity are found. It is demonstrated that a plasma inhomogeneity proves to be markedly extended along the external magnetic field. It is found that, for the values of the source current that are attainable under the conditions of active ionospheric and model laboratory experiments, the maximum plasma density in a nonuniform plasma may appreciably exceed the background value.     

Evolution of the angular power spectrum of scattered radiation from a point source upon propagation in a turbid medium

The propagation of radiation from a point source through a plane layer of an absorbing medium with smooth random permittivity inhomogeneities is considered for the case in which the source and a receiver are spaced by different distances from the layer boundaries. The angular power spectra of the scattered radiation are calculated by the method of statistical modeling for different values of the layer thickness, positions of the source and the receiver relative to the layer, and absorption in the layer. The results for the moments of the angular power distribution obtained earlier in the small-angle approximation are fully confirmed. The transformation of the angular power spectrum upon variation of the source or receiver position with respect to the layer is analyzed for the first time.     

混响场中用相关传声器识别声源直达声的近似工程法

本文研究了在混响场中用相关传声器识别主声源直达声的近似工程法，包括理论及实验技术。采用该方法对一个置于混响声污染下的恒定声源进行了直达声测量，并将测量结果与该恒定声源的消声室测量结果进行了比较，结果表明：相关传声器近似工程法在很大程度上能减少混响声对主要源声压测量的干扰，从而能在混响声场中获取一定精度的主声源声压级。     

浅海单矢量传感器宽带声源三维定位仿真

针对水平不变的浅海波导中单矢量传感器对低频宽带声源的三维被动定位问题,首先利用平均声强器估计声源方位;其次,通过分离简正模的声压和水平振速分量联合处理获得运动声源相对速度,进一步基于垂直声能流中简正模相干项特征频率不变性以及长时间窗口中多快拍信号的统一处理,建立WARPING变换频谱作为代价函数的搜索处理器,估计该段信号的初始距离,进而获得各时刻声源距离,所提出的方法避免了对拷贝声场和引导声源的依赖;最后,利用多阶简正模相干项与非相干项能量模基处理方法,当声场中存在三阶以上简正模时,可对声源深度进行匹配估计。仿真分析表明,单个矢量传感器能够给出声源的方位、距离及深度估计结果。     

Experiments and molecular-dynamics simulation of elastic waves in a plasma crystal radiated from a small dipole source

The radiation of elastic waves from a localized source is observed experimentally in a two-dimensional plasma crystal. An initial shear stress applied by a laser forms a small dipole source. The emerging complex wave pattern is shown to consist of outgoing compressional and shear wave pulses. Subsequent structures are identified as inward-going waves due to the finite size of the source region, which reappear on the opposite side. The compressional wave forms a trailing wave train due to strong dispersion, while the nondispersive shear wave evolves into a vortex-antivortex pair on either side. The experiments are compared with a molecular-dynamics simulation.     

光斑的形状因子及其在光纤定解问题中的应用

通过比较面光源与多极子点源两种辐射场,定义了光斑的形状因子,它决定于光斑上的源强分布.给出了形状因子的确定方法,求出了几种常见光斑的形状因子.把形状因子应用于光纤理论,补充了入射端面上的定解条件,完整地设定了定解问题.利用形状因子简单讨论了光纤端面的源强分布对光纤模式特性的影响 关键词： 光纤光学 多极子面光源 形状因子     

Putting in operation a full-scale ultracold-neutron source model with superfluid helium

A project of the source of ultracold neutrons for the WWR-M reactor based on superfluid helium for ultracold-neutron production has been developed. The full-scale source model, including all required cryogenic and vacuum equipment, the cryostat, and the ultracold-neutron source model has been created. The superfluid helium temperature T = 1.08 K without a heat load and T = 1.371 K with a heat load on the simulator of P = 60 W has been achieved in experiments at a technological complex of the ultracold-neutron source. The result proves the feasibility of implementing the ultracold-neutron source at the WWR-M reactor and the possibility of applying superfluid helium in nuclear engineering.