Results from a wind tunnel model of the sheared atmospheric convective boundary layer (CBL) are presented and discussed. The model is realized in the thermally stratified wind tunnel of the Institute of Hydrology and Water Resources Planning (IHW), University of Karlsruhe. Design of the wind tunnel, and the technique employed for velocity and temperature measurements are described. The performe...

New and published experimental measurements of spatial and temporal aspects of variable-viscosity convection are compared with boundary layer models. Viscosity m is assumed to decrease with increasing temperature T so that convection occurs beneath a relatively stagnant layer. Of particular interest to applications involving asymptotically large viscosity variations, is the result that both the...

Abstract. H-modes operated at higher li with the current ramp down have shown higher energy confinement with higher density in JT-60U. The H-factor evaluated for the core plasma depends strongly on li with the relation of H89core ∝ li for the case without sawtooth activities. Center peaked profiles of electron density and electron temperature are obtained in high li H-modes. While the periphera...

Silicon, the mainstay semiconductor in microelectronic circuitry, is considered unsuitable for optoelectronic applications owing to its indirect electronic band gap, which limits its efficiency as a light emitter. Here we show the light emission properties of boron-doped wurtzite silicon nanowires measured by cathodoluminescence spectroscopy at room temperature. A visible emission, peaked above...

The spin transport inside an odd-frequency spin-triplet superconductor differs from that of a conventional due to its distinct symmetry properties. We study emergent by replacing the spin-singlet gap matrix in Usadel equation with representing pairing is odd under inversion energy. show peculiar nature density states allows for even larger injection than normal-state. Moreover, when inherits te...

Bright room temperature visible emission is obtained in heterostructures consisting of approximately 3.5 nm thick ZnO ultrathin films grown on Si-nanowires produced by means of self-masking dry etching in hydrogen-containing plasma. The ZnO films were deposited on Si-nanowires by using atomic layer deposition (ALD) under an ambient temperature of 25 degrees C. The orders of magnitude enhancemen...

A regional model is used to study the radiative effect of boundary layer clouds over the Southeast Pacific on large-scale atmosphere circulation during August–October in 1999. With the standard settings, the model simulates reasonably well the large-scale circulation over the eastern Pacific, precipitation in the intertropical convergence zone (ITCZ) north of the equator, and marine boundary la...

An aerosol light detection and ranging (LIDAR) system was used to measure the depth of the atmospheric mixing layer over Taipei, Taiwan in the spring of 2005. This paper presents the variations of the mixing height and the mixing ratios of air pollutants during an episode of air quality deterioration (March 7-10, 2005), when Taipei was under an anti-cyclonic outflow of a traveling high-pressure...

We studied the heating efficiency of an electrically heated vest (EHV), its relationship to the microclimate temperature distribution in a three-layer clothing ensemble, and the effect of an EHV on the clothing's total thermal insulation by both theoretical analysis and thermal manikin measurements. The heat losses at different ambient conditions and heating states were recorded and the heating...

An analysis of heat transfer in the flow of a viscous, in-compressible fluid along an infinite porous plate is presented when the plate is subjected to a transverse sinusoidal suction. The flow field becomes three-dimensional due to this type of suction velocity. Expressions for the flow and temperature fields are obtained by series expansion method. It is found during the course of discussion ...