Nonlinear surface waves propagating along a boundary of magnetoactive plasma and vacuum

Dispersion relation is obtained for a nonlinear unpolarized surface wave propagating along a boundary between vacuum and a magnetoactive plasma in a geometry when a dc-magnetic field is parallel to both the boundary and the propagation of the surface wave. A general approach used is based on the knowledge of the corresponding first integral of Maxwell's equations.     

翼型绕流电磁控制的实验和数值研究

分布在弱电介质溶液中的电磁力(Lorentz力)，可以有效地控制边界层的流动.利用以转动水槽为主的实验系统和基于双时间步Roe格式的数值方法，对翼型绕流的电磁控制进行了实验和数值研究.结果表明，对于一定攻角的翼型，电磁力可以控制其绕流形态.当电磁力方向与流动方向相同时，可以抑制分离，消除涡街，其效果与减小攻角类似.当电磁力的方向与流动方向相反时，可在流场中形成大涡组成的涡街，增强流体的混合能力，其效果与增大攻角类似.     

Analysis of propagation of ionization waves in nonuniform channels with noncircular cross sections

We investigate the propagation of ionization waves in nonuniform channels of a dc glow discharge. The dependences of the distances between adjacent strata on the cross-sectional area of the channel are measured using the method of image visualization and processing. It is found that the form of the dependences is determined to a considerable extent by the channel geometry: for a specific channel, the dependence can be increasing, decreasing, or nonmonotonic with a local peak.     

Experimental study of neutral-current and charged-current neutrino cross sections

Samples of 9200 muon-neutrino and 3800 muon-antineutrino interactions on nuclei were obtained with the fine-grain calorimeter of the CHARM Collaboration at the CERN 200 GeV narrow-band neutrino beam. The interactions were classified as either neutral-current or charged-current processes on an event-by-event basis. Neutral-current and charged-current cross sections in neutrino and antineutrino interactions are presented. From these results we deduce a statistically significant contribution of right-handed coupling to the neutral hadronic current, and a value of the electroweak mixing angle corresponding to sin²θ = 0.220 ± 0.014.     

Attenuation and dispersion of Rayleigh waves propagating on a cracked surface: an effective field approach

A new effective field approach describing the attenuation and dispersion of a Rayleigh wave propagating on a surface containing a distribution of one-dimensional, surface-breaking cracks is presented. Limited by the validity of the independent scattering approximation, the model utilizes the complex transmission coefficient of a single crack to build expressions for the phase velocity and attenuation coefficient of an effective Rayleigh wave. The model is shown to be able to accommodate the effect of compressive residual stresses that tend to close the distributed cracks at their mouth, and therefore substantially reduce the attenuation and the velocity change caused by an equivalent distribution of open cracks. Wherever possible, the predictions of the new model are compared with those of other approaches and critical remarks are offered which discuss the advantages of the effective field approach over the others. Finally, an extension of this approach to distributions of two-dimensional surface-breaking cracks is outlined.     

Direct numerical reconstruction of inelastic cross sections from REELS and ISS spectra

The reconstruction of inelastic scattering cross sections faces two problems: the measured signal (energy spectrum) is a multiple scattering signal; the inelastic energy loss is nonuniform over the target depth. In this paper, we present a method for numerical reconstruction of cross sections from characteristic energy loss spectra, which efficiently solves both problems within a multilayer model. It is shown that the inverse problem of cross section extraction in the three-layer model is ill-conditioned, and the method is practically inapplicable to the three-layer model. The direct numerical reconstruction method yields a strongly “noised” result and can be applied only to obtain a priori information on the inelastic cross section form for further fitting. Using a combination of two methods, inelastic scattering cross sections were reconstructed for aluminum from characteristic energy loss spectra at probe beam energies of 5 and 40 keV. It is shown that ionization in solids should be described as a local process and as a collective one using the dispersion formula similarly to the case of excitation plasmons.     

A numerical study of the transient behaviors of solitary waves inrelativistic plasmas

The authors study the transient behaviors of solitary waves in a relativistic plasma with nonisothermal electrons. In particular, the modified Korteweg-de Vries (K-dV) equation is solved numerically with a Gaussian function as the initial condition. In addition, it is found that the time evolution of solitons from the initial profile is quite similar to that of a K-dV equation with the exception that the soliton speeds are faster. It is also found that the relativistic ions and the nonisothermal electrons tend to have a similar effect on the soliton behavior of the wave, making nonisothermal electrons more noticeable     

Experimental limits on axion production and interaction cross sections,and decay rate

Limits on axion production in proton interactions at 26 GeV are given on the basis of some results of the Gargamelle neutrino experiment at the CERN PS.     

Experimental and numerical investigations of the texture evolution in copper wire drawing

Polycrystalline copper wires are drawn in a single and multiple step for the equivalent area reduction (RA) of ∼33% The single step and multiple step drawing process was simulated using a rate independent crystal plasticity with finite strain, which is implemented as a user routine in commercial finite element package ABAQUS. The texture of the copper wires were characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD) and compared with the texture based finite element (FE) simulation predictions. Initial 〈10 0〉 fiber decreases during the drawing process and is replaced by 〈1 1 1〉 fiber. The 〈1 1 1〉 oriented grains are predominant in a single step drawing compared to a multiple step of the equivalent area reduction. The finite element analysis takes into account active crystallographic slip and orientation effects during the drawing process. Regions at the interface of die–wire exhibited complex textures, which was widely seen in the multiple step drawing pattern.     

The structure of a shock electromagnetic wave synchronous with several waves propagating in coupled transmission lines with different types of dispersion

A shock electromagnetic wave is studied numerically in the case when its structure is equally defined by two or more synchronous waves. The analysis relies on the previously suggested electrodynamic system of two coupled transmission lines one of which is normally dispersive (coaxial line) and the other is anomalously dispersive (ladder-type bar slow-wave structure).     

Experimental and numerical investigations of resonant vibration characteristics for piezoceramic plates.

Electronic speckle pattern interferometry (ESPI) is a full field, non-contact technique for measuring the surface displacement of a structure subjected to static loading or, especially, to dynamic vibration. In this article we employ an optical system called the amplitude-fluctuation ESPI with out-of-plane and in-plane measurements to investigate the vibration characteristics of piezoceramic plates. Two different configurations of piezoceramic plates, namely the rectangular and the circular plates, are discussed in detail. As compared with the film recording and optical reconstruction procedures used for holographic interferometry, the interferometric fringes of AF-ESPI are produced instantly by a video recording system. Because the clear fringe patterns will be shown only at resonant frequencies, both the resonant frequencies and the corresponding mode shapes are obtained experimentally at the same time by the proposed AF-ESPI method. Excellent quality of the interferometric fringe patterns for both the in-plane and out-of-plane vibration mode shapes is demonstrated. The resonant frequencies of the piezoceramic plates are also measured by the conventional impedance analysis. From experimental results, we find that the out-of-plane vibration modes (type A) with lower resonant frequencies cannot be measured by the impedance analysis and only the in-plane vibration modes (type B) will be shown. However, both the out-of-plane (bending) and in-plane (extensional) vibration modes of piezoceramic plates are obtained by the AF-ESPI method. Finally, the numerical finite element calculations are also performed, and the results are compared with the experimental measurements. It is shown that the numerical calculations and the experimental results agree fairly well for both the resonant frequencies and the mode shapes.     

Direct numerical experiment on the measurement of the dispersion relation for gravity waves in the presence of the condensate

During previous numerical experiments on isotropic turbulence of surface gravity waves we observed formation of the long wave background (condensate). It was shown (Korotkevich, Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 074504 (2008)) that the presence of the condensate changes a spectrum of direct cascade, corresponding to the flux of energy to the small scales from pumping region (large scales). Recent experiments show that the inverse cascade spectrum is also affected by the condensate. In this case mechanism proposed as a cause for the change of direct cascade spectrum cannot work. But inverse cascade is directly influenced by the linear dispersion relation for waves, as a result direct measurement of the dispersion relation in the presence of condensate is necessary. We performed the measurement of this dispersion relation from the direct numerical experiment. The results demonstrate that in the region of inverse cascade influence of the condensate cannot be neglected.     

Experimental and numerical investigations on the interactions of volatile flame and char combustion of a coal particle

The model that takes chemical reactions, heat and mass transfers in the boundary layer of the particle into account simultaneously, is developed for simulating the combustion of a pulverized coal particle. The FTIR in situ temperature-measurements and the comparison between numerical simulations for the pulverized coal and the devolatilized char show that the volatile flame induces the combustion of the primary product of surface oxidation CO. Due to the influence of volatile flame, the char particle can be ignited at temperature lower than its heterogeneous ignition temperature, which elucidates the physical essence of joint hetero-homogeneous ignition mode discovered by Jüntgen.     

Constraints on the asymptotic behaviour of total cross sections

We derive constraints on the asymptotic behaviour of total cross sections which follow from dispersion relations and measured real parts of the forward scattering amplitudes. For πN and pp scattering, these constraints are calculated using recent results from FNAL and Serpukhov. The relation to other methods is discussed.     

Models with rising cross sections and the inverse amplitude sum rules

Models for pion-nucleon scattering with rising cross sections are analyzed using dispersive sum rules which are valid for the inverse of the scattering amplitude. The validity of these sum rules is intimately connected with the positivity of Im T(s, t = 0). A numerical analysis shows that some of the models have difficulties when analytically continued into the complex energy plane.