Closed form expressions are developed for the thermoelastic curvature of the initially plane end faces of a traction free cylinder subjected to arbitrary axisymmetric heat flux, the curved surfaces being assumed insulated. The solution is developed from a potential function representation of displacement and temperature for an elastic layer. The reciprocal theorem is invoked to show that the tr...

A direct signature of electron transport at the metallic surface of a topological insulator is the Aharonov-Bohm oscillation observed in a recent study of Bi2Se3 nanowires [Peng, Nature Mater. 9, 225 (2010)] where conductance was found to oscillate as a function of magnetic flux ϕ through the wire, with a period of one flux quantum ϕ0=h/e and maximum conductance at zero flux. This seemingly agr...

High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) circuit breakers have to suppress high values of currents at high voltages in absence of current-zero points. This makes the arc interruption more severe than the case of conventional AC networks. For circuit breaking in HVDC networks, a capacitor-inductor set has been inserted in parallel with the circuit breaker to inject reverse current to the interruption ...

This Letter reports on 3-dimensional simulations of Kerr black hole magnetospheres that obey the general relativistic equations of perfect magnetohydrodynamics (MHD). In particular, we study powerful Poynting flux dominated jets that are driven from dense gas in the equatorial plane in the ergosphere. The physics of which has been previously studied in the simplified limit of an ergopsheric dis...

This is a mathematical study of the long-lived hydromagnetic structures produced in the tenuous solar corona by the turbulent, resistive relaxation of a magnetic field under the condition of extremely high electrical conductivity. The relaxation theory of Taylor (1974), originally developed for a laboratory device, is extended to treat the open atmosphere where the relaxing field must interact ...

Error norms for three variants of Larsen’s benchmark problem are evaluated using three numerical methods for solving the discrete ordinates approximation of the neutron transport equation in multidimensional Cartesian geometry. The three variants ,of Larsen’s test problem are concerned with the incoming flux boundary conditions: unit incoming flux on the left and bottom edges (Larsen’s configur...

In this paper a numerical approach of the elasto-plastic problem with mixed hardening in the plane stress state, within the classical constitutive framework of small deformation, is proposed. In the formalized problem, the non-zero normal component of the strain (namely, the component in the direction perpendicular to the plane of stress) is considered to be compatible with the plane stress. We...

The present work solves two-dimensional Advection-Dispersion Equation (ADE) in a semi-infinite domain. A variable source concentration is regarded as the monotonic decreasing function at the source boundary (x=0). Depth-dependent variables are considered to incorporate real life situations in this modeling study, with zero flux condition assumed to occur at the exit boundary of the domain, i.e....

Recently, the solar fusion reaction Be(p,γ)B has received renewed interest: on one hand, it represents the source of the high-energy neutrinos that have been measured in the SNO and Super-Kamiokande experiments to pin down neutrino oscillations; the zero-energy S17-factor is directly proportional to the predicted solar neutrino flux to be compared to the SNO and Super-K experiments. On the othe...

in this paper, the conjugate gradient method coupled with adjoint problem is used in order to solve the inverse heat conduction problem and estimation of the time- dependent heat flux using the temperature distribution at a point in a three layer system with none homogeneous boundary conditions. also, the effect of noisy data on final solution is studied. for solving this problem the general co...