Re-examined principles of thrust generation by a track on soft ground

Dr. Bekker’s first book Theory of land locomotion offers in fact two different concepts of thrust generation on soft ground with respect to the slip: (a) as the push of grousers causing horizontal soil “distortion” and (b) as the shear force in the failure plane linked with the shear deformation. Bekker preferred the second concept and backed it up by the unique shear-ring measuring technique. To clear up the matter, the author decided to re-examine the thrust generation by a track plate experimentally in field conditions. The tests have shown that the initial stage of thrust generation in compressible ground is always horizontal soil compression by grousers, which divides the soil under a track into separate blocks initially at rest. This compression increases at least to the transition point, when a block is sheared off simultaneously at the bottom and in both lateral planes and starts sliding along the channel formed by the preceding grouser. The analysis of these measurements enabled to define the compressive displacement of the face of the soil block (travel of the grouser) appurtenant to the mentioned transition point, useful to define the thrust–slip curve. The case may also be described by the conventional shear stress–shear displacement relationship, imagined to take place in the bottom failure plane, however, namely the “shear displacement” is rather an unusual quantity.     

An efficient and extensible format,library, and API for binary trajectory data from molecular simulations

Molecular dynamics simulations is an important application in theoretical chemistry, and with the large high‐performance computing resources available today the programs also generate huge amounts of output data. In particular in life sciences, with complex biomolecules such as proteins, simulation projects regularly deal with several terabytes of data. Apart from the need for more cost‐efficient storage, it is increasingly important to be able to archive data, secure the integrity against disk or file transfer errors, to provide rapid access, and facilitate exchange of data through open interfaces. There is already a whole range of different formats used, but few if any of them (including our previous ones) fulfill all these goals. To address these shortcomings, we present “Trajectory Next Generation” (TNG)—a flexible but highly optimized and efficient file format designed with interoperability in mind. TNG both provides state‐of‐the‐art multiframe compression as well as a container framework that will make it possible to extend it with new compression algorithms without modifications in programs using it. TNG will be the new file format in the next major release of the GROMACS package, but it has been implemented as a separate library and API with liberal licensing to enable wide adoption both in academic and commercial codes. © 2013 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.     

Influence of the effect of librations on energy exchange between ultrashort light counterpulses in a medium with Kerr nonlinearity

The influence of the effect of molecular librations on the interaction of high-power ultrashort counterpulses in Kerr liquids with anisotropic molecules is investigated. Molecular librations are shown to substantially affect the shape of the output pulses. A narrow peak with an intensity fourfold to fivefold higher than the input-pulse intensity develops on the leading edge. This peak is followed by a series of narrow damped spikes, the duration of which correlates with the libration time. Translated from Zhurnal Prikladnoi Spektroskopii, Vol. 67, No. 3, pp. 398–401, May–June, 2000.     

Effective quantum efficiency in the pulsed homodyne detection of a n-photon state

Homodyne detection can be used to perform measurements on various quantum states of the light, such as conditional single photon states produced by parametric fluorescence processes. In the pulsed regime, the time and frequency overlap between the single photon wave packet and the local oscillator field plays a crucial role. We show in this paper that this overlap can be characterized by an effective quantum efficiency, which is explicitly calculated in various situations of experimental interest. Received 27 July 2000 and Received in final form 29 November 2000     

Ordering of diagnostic information in encoded medical images. Accuracy progression

A concept of diagnostic accuracy progression for embedded coding of medical images was presented. Implementation of JPEG2000 encoder with a modified PCRD optimization algorithm was realized and initially verified as a tool for accurate medical image streaming. Mean square error as a distortion measure was replaced by other numerical measures to revise quality progression according to diagnostic importance of successively encoded image information. A faster increment of image diagnostic importance during reconstruction of initial packets of code stream was reached. Modified Jasper code was initially tested on a set of mammograms containing clusters of microcalcifications and malignant masses, and other radiograms. Teleradiologic applications were considered as the first area of interests.     

Practical segment intersection with finite precision output

The fundamental problem of finding all intersections among a set of line segments in the plane has numerous important applications. Reliable implementations need to cope with degenerate input and limited precision. Representing intersection points with fixed precision can introduce extraneous intersections. This paper presents simple solutions to these problems and shows that they impose only a very modest performance penalty. Test data came from a data compression problem involving a map database.     

Energetic efficiency of laser thermonuclear targets with ablator shells made of beryllium materials: A comparative analysis

The energetic characteristics of the compression and burning of targets with beryllium and beryllium deuteride shells are compared. The characteristics considered include the hydrodynamic efficiency, the efficiency of energy transmission to the thermonuclear fuel, and the gain factor found from numerical simulation using the ‘Diana’ one-dimensional mathematical code. The calculations are carried out for direct-drive cryogenic laser targets with the ablator shells made of beryllium or beryllium deuteride with parameters corresponding to the third harmonic of energy of the neodymium-laser radiation with a pulse energy of 1–3 MJ. It is proved that the gain of beryllium hydride targets can be brought to the level of beryllium targets due to variations in the geometrical parameters of BeD₂ targets. It is shown that the fission of BeD₂ or BeDT ablators in reactor-scale targets could significantly contribute to the final thermonuclear yield. __________ Translated from Preprint No. 20 of the P. N. Lebedev Physical Institute, Moscow (2001).     

色散缓变光纤中增益系数的取值对皮秒脉冲孤子效应压缩的影响

从描述皮秒光脉冲在色散缓变光纤(FSDD)中所满足的非线性Schro¨dinger方程(NLS)出发,数值模拟了高阶皮秒脉冲在增益系数取值不同的色散缓变光纤中的孤子效应压缩,研究分析了增益系数所产生的影响。计算结果表明,对于孤子阶数确定的光脉冲,增益系数有一最佳取值范围,对应于孤子效应压缩的参量———脉冲压缩比有最佳值。讨论了初始啁啾的影响。     

基于磁通压缩技术的爆炸磁频率发生器的参数选择

 爆炸磁频率发生器是一种结构简单、小型化的电磁脉冲产生和辐射装置。为了优化其性能，从数学模型入手进行研究，得出输出信号所满足的Bessel函数，分析了在不同电参数下输出信号的模式及电路中的能量分配。研究结果表明，当电感变化到初始值的1/e所需时间与初始载波频率的乘积较大时，发生器的输出信号为振荡模式，且二者乘积越大，载波频率越高，对其辐射越有利。     

Construction of data-adaptive orthogonal wavelet bases with an extension of principal component analysis

We show that orthonormal bases of functions with multiscale compact supports can be obtained from a generalization of principal component analysis. These functions, called multiscale principal components (MPCs), are eigenvectors of the correlation operator expressed in different vector subspaces. MPCs are data-adaptive functions that minimize their correlation with the reference signal. Using MPCs, we construct orthogonal bases which are similar to dyadic wavelet bases. We observe that MPCs are natural wavelets, i.e. their average is zero or nearly zero if the signal has a dominantly low-pass spectrum. We show that MPCs perform well in simple data compression experiments, in the presence or absence of singularities. We also introduce concentric MPCs, which are orthogonal basis functions having multiscale concentric supports. Use as kernels in convolution products with a signal, these functions allow to define a wavelet transform that has a striking capacity to emphasize atypical patterns.