Tracer Study on Catalytic Hydrogen Exchange Reactions over Nickel Catalyst

In heterogeneous catalysis it is important to know the reactivity of C-H bond in the hydrocarbon molecules. Experiments have been performed to obtain information about the exchange reaction of adsorbed hydrogen with methane and ethylene. In order to reduce the probability of forming products which contain more than one tritium atom, hydrogen labelled with H³ with low activity has been used.     

Using self-similar properties of turbulent premixed flames to downsize chemical tables in high-performance numerical simulations

Detailed chemical mechanisms have to be incorporated in turbulent combustion modelling to predict flame propagation, ignition, extinction or pollutant formation. Unfortunately, hundreds of species and thousands of elementary reactions are involved in hydrocarbon chemical schemes and cannot be handled in practical simulations, because of the related computational costs and the need to model the complexity of their interaction with turbulent motions. Detailed chemistry may be handled using look-up tables, where chemical parameters such as reaction rates and/or species mass fractions are determined from a reduced set of coordinates, progress variables or mixture fractions, as proposed in ILDM, FPI or FGM methods. Nevertheless, these tables may require large computer memory spaces and non-negligible access times. This issue becomes of crucial importance when running on massively parallel computers: to implement these databases in shared memories would induce a large number of data exchanges, reducing the overall code performance; on the other hand duplicating databases in every local processor memory may become impossible either for large databases or small local memories. This work proposes to take advantage of the self-similar behaviour of turbulent premixed flames to reduce the size of these chemical databases, specifically when running on massively parallel machines, under the FPI (Flame Prolongation of ILDM) framework. Several approaches to reduce the database are investigated and discussed both in terms of memory requirements and access times. A very good compromise is obtained for methane–air turbulent premixed flames, where the size of the database is decreased by a factor of 1000, while the access time is reduced by about 60%.     

Extensions of Szegö's theory of orthogonal polynomials,III

Let {ø _n (dμ)} be a system of orthonormal polynomials on the unit circle with respect to a measuredμ. Szegö's theory is concerned with the asymptotic behavior ofø _n (dμ) when logμ′∈L ¹. In what follows we will discuss the asymptotic behavior of the ratioø _n (dμ ₂)/ø _n (dμ ₁) on the unit circle whendμ ₁ anddμ ₂ are close in a sense (e.g.,dμ ₂=gdμ ₁, where g≥0 is such thatQ(e ^it )g(t) andQ(e ^it )/g(t) are bounded for a suitable polynomialQ) and μ ₁ ^′ >0 almost everywhere or (a somewhat weaker requirement) lim _n→∞Φ _n (dμ ₁,0)=0 for the monic polynomial Φ _n . The asymptotic behavior of the same fraction outside the unit circle was discussed in an earlier paper.     

Excitation functions for some output channels following the p +55Mn interaction atE p=1·3–2·0 MeV

Excitation functions for the⁵⁵Mn(p, p )⁵⁵Mn,⁵⁵Mn(p, n )⁵⁵Fe and⁵⁵Mn(p, )⁵⁶Fe reactions are studied for proton beam energyE _p=1·3–2 MeV. The excitation functions are established from yield functions for -rays emitted from the first excited states of final nuclei. Many resonances are observed and competition of their decay into all three output channels is analysed. Spin-parity assignment for some resonant states in the⁵⁶Fe compound nucleus is deduced.Participated partly in the course of his work on a Thesis.The authors wish to thank the staff of the Van de Graaff accelerator at Charles University in Prague for the efficient operation of the machine and dr. I. Wilhelm for the valuable technical help in the early period of the experimental work. One of us (N. A. N.) acknowledges the staff of the Dept. of Nuclear Physics of Charles University in Prague for the excellent working conditions.     

Preparation and basic physical properties of BiTeI single crystals

A modified Bridgman method is described, which makes it possible to prepare homogeneous BiTeI crystals using excess iodine. At room temperature the values of the electrical conductivity of the crystals range around 2000 ^–1 cm^–1, the Hall constant value about 0·09 cm^–3 coul^–1, the Seebeck coefficient about 50 V K^–1. In connection with the assumption of super-stoichiometric iodine content we expect there exist point defects in the crystals, where Te atoms are replaced with I atoms, which gives rise to electric conductivity. On the basis of the temperature dependence of the electron mobility one can suppose a mixed mechanism of the scattering of the free carriers by the acoustic branch of lattice vibrations and by ionized impurities.     

Influence of Coriolis coupling on inelastic scattering of deuterons

Influence of Coriolis coupling on excitation of some Nilsson states in¹⁵⁵Gd,¹⁵⁷Gd and¹⁶⁷Er by inelastic scattering of 12·1 MeV deuterons is analysed. Expanded Nilsson potential with hexadecapolar deformation is used for the model calculations. Theoretical values of reduced transition probability,B(E2) are compared with experimental ones.     

160Tb nuclear orientation in yttrium single crystal

First experimental results of¹⁶⁰Tb nuclear orientation in yttrium single crystal matrix are described. The influence of external magnetic field in combination with the crystal field interaction is discussed.     

Spurious resonances in a version of the algebraic Resonating-Group Method

It is shown that the conditions claimed to transform the algebraic version of the Resonating-Group Model, originally invented for scattering problems, into a complex eigenvalue problem corresponding to resonant states are necessary but not sufficient. This can be concluded from the fact that false resonances are produced along with true ones. They can be distinguished and discarded by introducing an arbitrary non-linear parameter. The true solutions are invariant against this parameter but the false ones can be swept out even into non-physical regions of the energy.Devoted to Prof. E.W.Schmid on the occasion of his 60th birthday