Thermal system identification using fractional models for high temperature levels around different operating points

This work aims at the preparation of an experiment for the thermal modeling of an ARMCO iron sample (iron of the American Rolling Mill COmpany) for small temperature variations around different operating points. Fractional models have proven their efficacy for modeling thermal diffusion around the ambient temperature and for small variations. Due to their compactness, as compared to rational models and to finite element models, they are suitable for modeling such diffusive phenomena. However, for large temperature variations, thermal characteristics such as thermal conductivity and specific heat vary along with the temperature. In this context, the thermal diffusion obeys a nonlinear partial differential equation and cannot be modeled by a single linear model. In this paper, thermal diffusion of the iron sample is modeled around different operating points for temperatures ranging from 400 to 1070?K, which is above the Curie point (In physics and materials science, the Curie temperature (T _C), or Curie point, is the temperature at which a ferromagnetic or a ferrimagnetic material becomes paramagnetic.) showing that for a large range of temperature variations, a nonlinear model is required. Identification and validation data are generated by finite element methods using COMSOL Software.     

Light neutralino dark matter in the pMSSM

We present an investigation of the dependence of searches for boosted Higgs bosons using jet substructure on the perturbative and non-perturbative parameters of the Herwig++ Monte Carlo event generator. Values are presented for a new tune of the parameters of the event generator, together with the an estimate of the uncertainties based on varying the parameters around the best-fit values.     

Synthesis and X-ray structure of tetrakis[μ-(3,4-dimethoxy-α-β-dihydrocinnamato)] dimethanoldicopper(II)

The synthesis, magnetic, and structural properties of the title compound are reported. The crystals are triclinic, space groupP¯1, witha=15.084(2),b=11.820(1),c=7.5253(7) Å, =71.50(1),=77.61(1), =68.68(1)° andZ=1; the structure was solved by Patterson and Fourier methods and refined toR 0.0351 for 4147 observed reflections. The content of the unit cell consists of a centrosymmetrical copper acetate-like molecule in which each copper can be described as square-pyramidally surrounded by four carboxylic oxygens in the basal plane [1.955(2)–1.970(2) Å], one methanolic oxygen in the apical site [2.206(2) Å] and a CuCu interaction of 2.612(5) Å at a sixth position of a distorted octahedron. The dimers are packed by means of hydrogen bonds formed between the methanolic OH group and the carboxylic O(2) atom of one adjacent complex and by normal Van der Waals contacts. The subnormal magnetic moment, characteristic of exchange interactions between the two copper(II) ions, and the energy of the d-d band observed are consistent with the reported dinuclear copper(II) acetate-like structure.     

Simulación numérica de la agitación en tanques de almacenamiento de líquidos mediante una estrategia lagrangiana euleriana arbitraria

Sloshing of fluids with a free surface contained in liquid storage tanks is numerically simulated by an arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian formulation. The fluid is considered viscous and Newtonian, while the flow is assumed laminar and incompressible. A partitioned and distributed computational code is employed, which solves three instances each time step: (i) the determination of the fluid state, given by the Navier–Stokes equations; (ii) the displacement of the free surface; and (iii) the update of the position of the internal nodes of the mesh, that is deformed as a consequence of the free surface displacement. The purpose of the work is verifying the applicability of the method to sloshing problems with known solutions, as well as the resolution of some practical examples. Numerical examples include validations against analytical solutions, where the wave period and damping rate are well captured, comparisons with reference results from other authors and a sample of sloshing induced by seismic actions.     

Front Cover: One-Pot Catalytic Synthesis of Optically Active Drug (S)-Clopidogrel (Eur. J. Org. Chem. 40/2023)

A first catalytic preparation of the popular antiplatelet drug (S)-clopidogrel, known with the tradename of Plavix, has been developed in a one-pot and innovative approach. The synthesis can be performed using commercially available ortho-chlorobenzaldehyde, 1-naphthylsulfonyl acetonitrile, tert-butyl hydroperoxide (TBHP), 4,5,6,7-tetrahydrothieno[3,2-c]pyridine and 20 mol % of a quinidine derived organocatalyst in a single solvent. A Knoevenagel/asymmetric epoxidation/domino ring-opening esterification (DROE) sequence enabled to obtain (S)-clopidogrel in 61 % overall yield and 62 % ee. Fine optimization of the reaction conditions proved to be crucial to set up a selective and efficient process.     

Effects of spatial dispersion on exciton absorption

The exciton absorption is studied in the spatially dispersive case. The energy propagation properties of the medium are used to define an appropriate absorption coefficient. The specific example of PbI₂ is considered in order to display the role of spatial dispersion.     

-quotients of quaternion-Kähler manifolds

The notion of symplectic reduction has been generalized to manifolds endowed with other structures, in particular to quaternion-Kähler manifolds, namely Riemannian manifolds with holonomy in . In this work we prove that the only complete quaternion-Kähler manifold with positive scalar curvature obtainable as a quaternion-Kähler quotient by a circle action is the complex Grassmannian .