Soliton transport in tubelike networks is studied by solving the nonlinear Schrödinger equation (NLSE) on finite thickness ("fat") graphs. The dependence of the solution and of the reflection at vertices on the graph thickness and on the angle between its bonds is studied and related to a special case considered in our previous work, in the limit when the thickness of the graph goes to zero. It...

The charged 2D black hole is visualized as presenting an potential barrier V OUT (r∗) to on-coming tachyon wave. Since this takes the complicated form, an approximate form V APP (r∗) is used for scattering analysis. We calculate the reflection and transmission coefficients for scattering of tachyon off the charged 2D black hole. The Hawking temperature is also derived from the reflection coeffi...

This paper focuses on acoustic reflectivity of the ocean bottom, and describes inversion of reflection data from an experiment designed to study the physical properties and structure of the ocean bottom. The formalism of Bayesian inference is reviewed briefly to establish an understanding of the approach for inversion that is in widespread use. A Bayesian inversion of ocean bottom reflection co...

The main characteristic of rubber is a viscoelasticity. So it is important to research the characteristic of the viscoelasticity of the high frequency band for the friction between a rubber material and the hard one with roughness, for instance, the tire and the road. As for the measurement of the viscoelasticity of rubber, DMA (Dynamic Mechanical Analysis) is general. However, some problems ar...

The left atrium (LA) acts as a booster pump during late diastole, generating the Doppler transmitral A wave and contributing incrementally to left ventricular (LV) filling. However, after volume loading and in certain disease states, LA contraction fills the LV less effectively, and retrograde flow (i.e., the Doppler Ar wave) into the pulmonary veins increases. The purpose of this study was to ...

Reliable communication is crucial for successful deployment of wireless sensor networks. Therefore, it is important to understand the impact of environmental conditions on the performance of the radios (Chipcon CC1000 transceivers) used in typical sensor nodes. This paper reports on an extensive set of measurements taken in a potato field, where the foliage has an important effect on the propag...

A modified ray approach isused to model the slot lens for determining V(z) and the results are compared with experiment for several materials. The slot lens is also used to obtain V(z) of ycut quartz for a number of slot orientations relative to the crystalline x axis. The Rayleigh wave velocity as a function of propagation direction is then deduced from these measurements and compared with acc...

Numerical simulations are performed to investigate the interaction of acoustic waves with an array of equally-spaced two-dimensional micro-cavities on an otherwise flat plate without external boundary-layer flow. This acoustic scattering problem is important in the design of ultrasonic absorptive coatings (UAC) for hypersonic laminar flow control. The reflection coefficient, characterizing the ...

This work is concerned with the scattering of a train of progressive waves by a small undulation of the bottom of a laterally unbounded sea, using two-dimensional linear water wave theory. Assuming irrotational motion, a simplified perturbation analysis is employed to obtain the first-order corrections to the velocity potential by using the Green’s integral theorem in a suitable manner, and the...