Bianchi Type-III Cosmic Strings and Domain Walls Cosmological Model in General Relativity

Bianchi type-III space time is considered in the presence of cosmic strings and thick domain walls source in the frame work of general relativity. Exact cosmological models using various cases of ρ=α λ and p=γ ρ are presented. It is observed that the behavior of these models (with cosmic strings and domain walls), based on their physical and kinematical properties, is found to be identical.     

光谱法研究细胞色素c氧化酶CuA结构域蛋白的稳定性

利用荧光光谱和圆二色谱研究了细胞色素c氧化酶CuA结构域蛋白的稳定性.结果表明,随着溶液pH值的升高,CuA结构域蛋白的稳定性降低.随着温度的升高,CuA结构域蛋白的二级结构遭到破坏.脱金属形式蛋白的热稳定性减小,表明双核金属铜中心的存在对CuA结构域蛋白的稳定性起重要作用.     

Moving domain walls in magnetic nanowires

This paper investigates the reversal of magnetic nanowires via a perturbation argument from the static case. We consider the gradient flow equation of the micromagnetic energy including the nonlocal stray field energy. For thin wires and weak external magnetic fields we show the existence of travelling wave solutions. These travelling waves are almost constant on the cross section and can thus be seen as moving domain walls of a type called transverse wall.     

A parameter-uniform Schwarz method for a coupled system of reaction–diffusion equations

We consider an arbitrarily sized coupled system of one-dimensional reaction–diffusion problems that are singularly perturbed in nature. We describe an algorithm that uses a discrete Schwarz method on three overlapping subdomains, extending the method in [H. MacMullen, J.J.H. Miller, E. O’Riordan, G.I. Shishkin, A second-order parameter-uniform overlapping Schwarz method for reaction-diffusion problems with boundary layers, J. Comput. Appl. Math. 130 (2001) 231–244] to a coupled system. On each subdomain we use a standard finite difference operator on a uniform mesh. We prove that when appropriate subdomains are used the method produces ε-uniform results. Furthermore we improve upon the analysis of the above-mentioned reference to show that, for small ε, just one iteration is required to achieve the expected accuracy.     

完全相容稳定模糊谓词转换器

谓词转换器语义是用程序验证技术来定义程序语言的一种方式.为描述程序的语义,在稳定模糊谓词的基础上建立完全相容稳定模糊谓词转换器,讨论完全相容稳定模糊谓词转换器的拓扑语义. 同时给出它与状态转换器之间的一个保序关系,说明完全相容稳定模糊谓词转换器一定是状态转换器.     

Non-linear electromechanical response of 1–3 type piezocomposites

Domain switching in piezoelectric materials is caused by external loads such as electric field and stress that leads to non-linear behaviour. A study is carried out to compare the non-linear behaviour of 1–3 piezocomposites with different volume fractions and bulk piezoceramics. Experiments are conducted to measure the electrical displacement and strain on piezocomposites and bulk ceramics under high cyclic electrical loading and constant compressive prestress. A thermodynamically consistent uni-axial framework is developed to predict the nonlinear behaviour by combining the phenomenological and micromechanical techniques. Volume fractions of three distinct uni-axial variants (instead of six variants) are used as internal variables to describe the microscopic state of the material. In this model, the grain boundary effects are taken into account by introducing the back fields (electric field and stress) as non-linear kinematic hardening functions. An analytical model based on equivalent layered approach is used to calculate effective properties such as elastic, piezoelectric, and dielectric constants for different volume fractions of piezocomposites. The predicted effective properties are incorporated in the proposed uni-axial model and the dielectric hysteresis (electrical displacement versus electric field) as well as butterfly curves (strain versus electric field) are simulated. Comparison between the experiments and simulations show that this model can reproduce the characteristics of non-linear response. It is observed that the variation in fiber volume fraction and compressive stress has a significant influence on the response of the 1–3 piezocomposites.     

An Efficient Parallel ADI Algorithm for Turbomachinery Flows

The paper describes a domain decomposition strategy which allows high efficiency parallel simulations of turbomachinery flows. The implicit ADI parallel solver is based on the scalar approximate factorisation. The Navier-Stokes (NS) and turbulence model equations are discretised by centred finite differences. The results prove that the parallel calculations with domain decomposition, in which each sub-domain explicitly communicates with the adjacent ones at the end of each implicit iteration, may suffer from a considerable deterioration of the convergence rate. A simple sub-iterative domain recoupling strategy allows recovering the convergence rate of a single processor computation. The strategy is carefully analysed and optimised in terms of inter-processor data communication rate and algorithm memory requirements. The span-wise domain decomposition is particularly suited for turbomachinery flows and is applied to a radial impeller and to an axial turbine stator and stage to prove the validity and the accuracy of the proposed approach. The results indicate that the parallel recoupled algorithm usually reach efficiencies of 0.8, with peaks over 0.9 with up to 16 processors, thereby allowing a considerable speed-up of design and verification calculations.     

Tuning of non-uniform switch toughening in ferroelectric composites by an electric field

This paper deals with a mode III interfacial crack subject to anti-plane stress and in-plane electric fields. The analysis concentrates on the tuning of fracture toughness from non-uniform ferroelectric-ferroelastic domain switch-ing by an electric field. The electric loading changes the size of the asymmetric switching zone. Employing the weight function method, we obtain the electrically-dependent switch toughening for stationary and quasi-static growing interfacial cracks, respectively. Multi-domain solutions are derived for non-poled and fully-poled ferroelectric composites. Numer-ical results are presented on the electric field tuning of the critical applied stress intensity factor. The research provides ways to optimize fracture properties of ferroelectric compos-ites by altering the electric field.     

Domain reversal behavior in perpendicular magnetic nanothin films

We report domain reversal behavior in perpendicular ferromagnetic nanothin films investigated by means of a novel magneto-optical microscope magnetometer, capable of grabbing domain reversal patterns in real time under an applied field as well as simultaneous measurements of 8000 local hysteresis loops with 400-nm special resolution. Three contrasting domain reversal behaviors are found to exist: wall-motion dominant, dendritic-growth dominant, and nucleation dominant reversal. Quantitative analysis reveals that the contrasting reversal behavior is mainly caused by a sensitive change in wall-motion speed and that the reversal ratio of wall-motion speed over nucleation rate is a governing parameter for the contrasting domain reversal dynamics. The activation volumes of the wall-motion and nucleation processes are found generally unequal, and the inequality is closely related with the domain dynamics. The domain reversal pattern is truly coincident with submicron-scale local coercivity variation and local switching time of domain evolution is exponentially dependent on local coercivity governed by a thermal activation relaxation process. The observed domain reversal behavior could be well predicted by a Monte Carlo simulation of a micromagnetic model based on the uniaxial magnetic anisotropy of nanothin films.     

Core loss analysis of Finemet type nanocrystalline alloy ribbon with different thickness

Nanocrystalline soft magnetic materials are widely used in power electronic applications due to their high permeability,magnetization and low core loss.In this paper,Fe_(73.5)Cu_1Nb_3Si_(15.5)B_7(at%)nanocrystalline alloy ribbons,with ultra-thin thickness of 14μm,and also 18 and 22μm,were prepared by a planar flow casting method with a single roller device.Soft magnetic properties of these ribbons were analyzed after nanocrystallization annealing.The experiments were conducted on toroidal samples using IWATSU B-H Analyzer over a frequency range of 10–100 kHz,at induction amplitudes of 100–500 m T,at room temperature.It was found that the excess eddy current loss P_(ex)was the dominant factor in the overall core loss above 10 k Hz.The toroidal samples made of the 14μm thickness ribbon exhibit very low total core loss of 48 W/kg at a frequency of100 kHz and magnetic flux density of 300 mT.The ratio of the P_(ex)was up to 89%at 100 kHz.The ribbon with lower thickness exhibits lower P_(ex)and therefore lower total core loss.The domain structure evidences were found.It indicates that the ribbons with small thickness are preferable for application in high frequency condition.