Conductivity degradation of NiO-containing 8YSZ and 10YSZ electrolyte during reduction

Yttria-stabilized zirconia (YSZ) electrolyte containing dissolved nickel as a result of co-sintering in air with NiO was shown by TEM and magnetic measurements to develop isolated, nano-sized metallic nickel precipitates during treatments in hydrogen-containing atmosphere. During exposure to hydrogen containing atmosphere at 1000 °C for 500 h, an exponential decrease in oxygen ion conductivity was observed in Ni-doped 8YSZ, while no conductivity change was observed in Ni-doped 10YSZ.     

A two-sided Arnoldi algorithm with stopping criterion and MIMO selection procedure

In this paper we introduce a two-sided Arnoldi method for the reduction of high order linear systems and we propose useful extensions, first of all a stopping criterion to find a suitable order for the reduced model and secondly, a selection procedure to significantly improve the performance in the multi-input multi-output (MIMO) case. One application is in micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS). We consider a thermo-electric micro thruster model, and a comparison between the commonly used Arnoldi algorithm and the two-sided Arnoldi is performed.     

Working group report: Heavy-ion physics and quark-gluon plasma

This is the report of Heavy Ion Physics and Quark-Gluon Plasma at WHEPP-09 which was part of Working Group-4. Discussion and work on some aspects of quark-gluon plasma believed to have created in heavy-ion collisions and in early Universe are reported.