Effectiveness and design of surface texturing for different lubrication regimes

The aim of the present research work was to investigate the possibilities of designing surface texturing for different lubrication regimes and to evaluate its effectiveness, especially under starved, boundary and mixed lubrication regimes. This was achieved by combining an experimental tribological investigation with a surface-roughness analysis, a 2D FEM simulation and fluid dynamic modelling. The tribological investigation under unidirectional and reciprocating sliding was focused on the effect of the laser-texturing parameters—including the dimple depth and size, the dimple area density and the contact size—on the coefficient of friction under different lubrication regimes, achieved by varying the sliding speed, the normal load and the lubricant viscosity.     

The influence of the sample dimension on the distance between twist disclinations in a planar sample of chiral smectic C liquid crystal

The influence of the finite dimension of a chiral smectic C liquid crystal planar sample on the helical pitch length is discussed. The discussion is based on the properties of the disclination PH₂ system described in Czech. J. Phys. B35 (1985) 655. It is concluded that the existence of the sample free surface can lead to pitch changes with respect to the pitch of a perfect infinite chiral smectic C liquid crystal.     

Magnetic dimer motion effects in a rotating magnetic field (A qualitative model of magnetoviscosity and permittivity in magnetorheological suspensions)

The motion of a pair of uniform interacting spherical mesoscopic particles situated in a viscous fluid under the influence of a rotating magnetic field was studied. The coupling interactions between the particles were chosen as a superposition of steric and dipolar pair potentials (for the dipoles parallel to the external field). The model dynamics consisting of particular rotation and vibration modes is the result of the interplay of viscous and interaction forces. The transition from the synchronous to the asynchronous regime of dimer rotation has been found. The results were discussed from a synergetic point of view. A qualitative picture of behaviour of the effective magnetoviscosity and permittivity for dimerized magnetorheological suspension has been given.     

Cross sections of the interactions of He nuclei with protons

⁴He-p collisions at two values of⁴He momenta 8.6 GeV/c and 13.6 GeV/c as well as the³He-p collisions at 13.5 GeV/c have been studies using the one-meter JINR hydrogen bubble chamber. Total, elastic, topological and reaction cross sections have been measured. The cross sections have been determined on a sample of minimum biased events.     

Sturmian functions for nonlocal interactions

The problem of calculation of Sturmian functions (positive energy Weinberg states) for nonlocal (exchange) interactions is considered. It is shown that the method of continued fractions proposed by Horáek and Sasakawa makes the calculation of Sturmian eigenfunctions and eigenvalues feasible even for complicated nonlocal interactions. As an example Sturmian functions and Sturmian eigenvalues for the low energy electron-hydrogen scattering in the static exchange approximation are calculated. In addition a very general proof of convergence of the method of continued fractions is presented.Dedicated to the memory of Professor Jozef Kvasnica.     

The temperature and pressure in the plasma parallel plate accelerator

This paper presents the results of plasma temperature and pressure calculations in the parallel plate accelerator during the accelerating process. The plasma pressure is calculated by means in Dalton's law.     

The effect of replacing pnictogen elements on the physical properties of SrMg_2X_2(X=N,P,As,Sb,Bi) Zintl compounds

The effect of replacing the anion from N to Bi down the group in the periodic table is investigated on SrMg_2X_2(X = N,P,As,Sb,Bi).A full potential linearized augmented plane wave plus local orbitals method is used along with different exchange–correlation potentials to obtain the lattice constants,phonons,electronic,and optical properties of the Sr Mg_2X_2(X = N,P,As,Sb,Bi) Zintl compounds.A good agreement is achieved and our calculations are validated by previous experimental and theoretical data.All compounds have shown stable dynamical behavior with gamma centered longitudinal response having no imaginary frequencies.Electronic band structures reveal the semiconducting nature of the compounds.The Pnictogen(X)-p state contributed mainly in the valence band and the Sr-d state forms the conduction of the compounds.Relative charge transfer and low overlapping of the atomic densities indicates the preferable ionic bonding character of these materials.In the optical properties,real and imaginary parts of dielectric function,complex refractive index,birefringence,reflectivity,and optical conductivity are calculated.These compounds can be utilized in the optical and optoelectronic devices.     

Some optical specificity of ultrathin crystalline films

The changes of optical properties under boundary presence in molecular crystal nanofilm were theoretically investigated in this work. The dispersion law and states of excitons as well as their space distribution along boundary direction have been determined using adjusted Green's function method and also by combined analytical and numerical calculations. On the basis of real and imaginary part of relative permittivity, both absorption and refraction indices were determined, and the influences of boundary parameters on occurrence of a very selective and strictly discrete absorption were analyzed.     

External influence on magnetic properties of Fe-based nanocrystalline alloys

Amorphous and nanocrystalline ribbons of NANOPERM, FINEMET and HITPERM were studied by Mössbauer spectroscopy (MS) after the influence of external factors: different annealing atmospheres, tensile stress and several kinds of corrosion. MS is a suitable tool for such studies because the spectral parameters are very sensitive to changes in the vicinity of the probe — ⁵⁷Fe nuclei. The most sensitive parameters were hyperfine magnetic field in crystalline component, average hyperfine field in amorphous component and direction of net magnetic moments. Influence of external factors modified also the structure of the alloys, i.e. new or modified phases were identified by MS phase analysis.     

A model of solidification under microgravity conditions

The influence of the microgravity environment on solidification processes is discussed. A simple model of the solidification of a binary-alloy is presented with the chemical diffusion influenced by the gravitational field. Using the results of Mullins and Sekerka, we employ the linear theory of hydrodynamic stability to investigate the interfacial instability driving the pattern-forming processes in solidification. As a result, we estimate the characteristic size of the elements of the emerging pattern. We show that, in spite of good agreement of our result with the size of cellulae observed in experiments, the model cannot explain the changes in the patterns occurring in space environment. In conclusion we shortly discuss the possibility of adding realism to our simple model by including the effect of convection.