New Experimental Data for the Validation of Radiative Heat Transfer

The numerical simulation of radiative heat transfer is now well established. Key ingredients in such a simulation model are calculated view factors that are used to describe the exchange of radiated energy between different surfaces. Several methods for the calculation of these geometrical factors are available, including Integration, Monte Carlo, and the Hemi-cube methods. Several analytical test cases are also available, such as the well-known “parallel plates” case, which allow modelers to validate their view factor routines. However, there is much less information available that combines both view factor information and heat transfer effects simultaneously.

This article describes the construction of a simple testing rig that allows experiments to be performed that combine view factor effects with measured heat transfer exchanged between surfaces only. The equipment has been used to consider simple cases, such as the parallel plates test case, and also cases where shadowing is important. The results of these experiments are presented as experimental benchmarking data for model users and developers.     

一个积分不等式

由连续单调函数的几何意义直观地得出一个不等式,即若设函数f（x）在[0,b]上连续且单调递减,则有b∫0^af（x）dx≥a∫0^bf（x）dx（0≤a≤b）.通过构造辅助函数给出其数学证明,并对其加以推广．     

Bias voltage effect on electron tunneling across a junction with a ferroelectric-ferromagnetic two-phase composite barrier

The effect of bias voltage on electron tunneling across a junction with a ferroelectric-ferromagnetic composite barrier is investigated theoretically. Because of the inversion symmetry breaking of the spontaneous ferroelectric polarization, bias voltage dependence of the electron tunneling shows significant differences between the positive bias and the negative one. The differences of spin filtering or tunnel magnetoresistance increase with the increasing absolute value of bias voltage. Such direction preferred electron tunneling is found intimately related with the unusual asymmetry of the electrical potential profile in two-phase composite barrier and provides a unique change to realize rectifying functions in spintronics.     

Universality in bibliometrics

Many discussions have enlarged the literature in Bibliometrics since the Hirsch proposal, the so called h-index. Ranking papers according to their citations, this index quantifies a researcher only by its greatest possible number of papers that are cited at least h times. A closed formula for h-index distribution that can be applied for distinct databases is not yet known. In fact, to obtain such distribution, the knowledge of citation distribution of the authors and its specificities are required. Instead of dealing with researchers randomly chosen, here we address different groups based on distinct databases. The first group is composed of physicists and biologists, with data extracted from Institute of Scientific Information (ISI). The second group is composed of computer scientists, in which data were extracted from Google-Scholar system. In this paper, we obtain a general formula for the h-index probability density function (pdf) for groups of authors by using generalized exponentials in the context of escort probability. Our analysis includes the use of several statistical methods to estimate the necessary parameters. Also an exhaustive comparison among the possible candidate distributions are used to describe the way the citations are distributed among authors. The h-index pdf should be used to classify groups of researchers from a quantitative point of view, which is meaningfully interesting to eliminate obscure qualitative methods.     

Variational treatment of Faraday waves in inhomogeneous Bose-Einstein condensates

Motivated by the recent experimental progress on the collective modes of a Bose-Einstein condensate whose atomic scattering length is tuned via Feshbach resonances, we analyze by variational means the dynamics of Faraday waves in trapped Bose-Einstein condensates. These waves can be excited by modulating periodically either the strength of the magnetic trap or the atomic scattering length. To study their dynamics, we develop a variational model that describes consistently both the bulk part of an inhomogeneous, low-density, cigar-shaped condensate and small-amplitude, small-wavelength Faraday waves. The main ansatz used in the variational treatment is tailored around a set of Gaussian envelopes and we show extensions for the high-density regime using a q-Gaussian function. Finally, we show explicitly that for drives of small amplitude, the two methods of obtaining Faraday waves are equivalent, and we discuss the existing experimental results.     

Rayleigh dissipation from the general recurrence of metrics in path spaces

Given a pair (metric g, symmetric 2-covariant tensor field H though as a Rayleigh dissipation) on a path space (manifold M, semispray S), the family of nonlinear connections N such that H equals the dynamical derivative of g with respect to (S,N) is determined by using the Obata tensors. In this way, we generalize the case of metric nonlinear connections as well as that of recurrent metrics. As applications, we treat firstly the case of Finslerian (α,β)-metrics finding all nonlinear connections for which the associated Finsler-Sasaki metric is exactly the dynamical derivative of the Riemannian-Sasaki metric. Secondly, we apply our results for the case of Beil metrics used in Relativity and field theories.     

Fuzzy real valued lacunary I-convergent sequences

In this article, we introduce the concept of lacunary I-convergent sequence of fuzzy real numbers and study some basic properties.     

A note on strong matrix summability via ideals

Following the line of recent works of Das et al. (2011) [15] and Savas and Das (2011) [19] we apply the notion of ideals to strong matrix summability, and in this note, we introduce the notion of strong A^I-summability with respect to an Orlicz function. We make certain investigations on the classes of sequences arising out of this new summability method.