A theory of clustering of inertial particles advected by a turbulent velocity field caused by an instability of their spatial distribution is suggested. The reason for the clustering instability is a combined effect of the particles inertia and a finite correlation time of the velocity field. The crucial parameter for the clustering instability is the size of the particles. The critical size is...

Dear Editor, This letter is concerned with the path following of underactuated autonomous surface vessels (ASV) in presence surge velocity constraint and asymmetric saturation as well unknown dynamics. To cope constraints both magnitude rate dynamics, an adaptive finite-time sliding mode control scheme (AFTSM) designed. Then ASV's could be addressed correspondingly by a novel guidance projectio...

In this paper, the path following controller of an omnidirectional mobile robot (OMR) has been extended in such a way that the forward velocity has been optimized and the actuator velocity constraints have been taken into account. Both have been attained through the proposed model predictive control (MPC) framework. The forward velocity has been included into the objective function, while the a...

We have used a two-dimensional drift-diffusion simulator, augmented by including accurate low-field mobility curves obtained by the Monte Carlo method, to study the operation of SiC MOSFETs both at room and high temperatures. A comparison with Si MOSFETs at room temperature is performed. Although drain current was higher in Si MOSFETs, SiC MOSFETs showed lower saturation conductance values. The...

ABSTRACT Characteristics of variable threshold voltage CMOS (VTCMOS) in the series connected circuits are investigated by means of device simulation. It is newly found that the performance degradation due to the body effect in series connected circuit is suppressed by utilizing VTCMOS. Lowering the threshold voltage (Vth) enhances the drive current and alleviates the degradation due to the seri...

Following previous experimental and computational studies, we further investigate the applicability of the Stuart-Landau equation to describe the Hopf bifurcation occurring for flow past a circular cylinder. In contrast to previous findings, it is shown that when the amplitude variable is taken as the transverse velocity component at a point in the wake, the so-called Landau constant varies con...

We have measured the shape of the Autler–Townes doublet and the peak of electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) under plasma conditions. We compare the experimental results with the calculated spectrum of the probe field of a three-level ArII Λ-scheme by taking into account Coulomb collisions. We show that the Coulomb broadening of the EIT peak is small (less than 40%), while the saturat...

Swedish wheeled mobile robots have remarkable mobility properties allowing them to rotate and translate at the same time. Being holonomic systems, their kinematics model results in the possibility of designing separate and independent position and heading trajectory tracking control laws. Nevertheless, if these control laws should be implemented in the presence of unaccounted actuator saturatio...

Attenuation and velocity dispersion are strongly dependent on pore fluids, particularly partial gas saturation, and thus could become valuable direct hydrocarbon indicators. Unfortunately, application of these properties is not frequent due to incomplete understanding of the phenomena and lack of appropriate tools to extract the information. Laboratory measurements at frequencies and amplitudes...