Solid assembly meshing has all of the same “dirty geometry” induced issues as single part meshing but also has the difficulty associated with generating a conformal mesh between solids where solid-solid interfaces are not obvious. Mesh generators usually don’t have CAD assembly constraint information to identify interfacing solids and must therefore rely on geometric proximity to deduce these i...

The AVHRR compatible vegetation index derived from MERIS full resolution (FR) data is based on top of atmosphere radiances (ESA L2 data). This continuity index is developed using radiative transfer models for simulating the reflectance of the broad spectral channels of the NOAA – AVHRR and the small spectral bands of MERIS. A linear combination of MERIS channels describes each AVHRR channel. Th...

and thus being a universal hash function family is equivalent to having a probability distribution on functions from D to R that maps elements of D in a uniform pairwise independent fashion. Typically we will consider D = {0, 1} and R = {0, 1} form < n. The following construction due to Dietzfelbinger is particularly convenient: The space of keys is all strings K = (a, b) where a, b ∈ {0, 1} an...

We report a detailed investigation of flicker noise in novel GaN/AlGaN heterostructure field-effect transistors (GaN HFET). Low values of 1=f noise found in these devices (i.e., the Hooge parameter is on the order of 10 ) open up the possibility for applications in communication systems. We have examined the scaling of the noise spectral density with the device dimensions in order to optimize t...