To realize the sound pressure unit directly, the method of sound pressure measurement based on acoustic particle velocity with LDA technique was described. In order to get a simple acoustic field, a travelling wave tube was designed. The sound pressure distribution obtained by microphone along the tube was measured. The result showed the acoustic field inside the tube could be considered as tra...

The precise calibration of acoustic particle velocity sensors in pressure-velocity (p-v) probes is still a great challenge and not fully solved, since no standardized reference sensor exists. Current available techniques does not allow for simultaneous calibration of all three components of the particle velocity sensor. Furthermore, most of the available calibration procedures require anechoic ...

Interaction between a magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) pulse and a charged particle is discussed both numerically and theoretically. Charged particles can be accelerated efficiently in the presence of spatially correlated MHD waves, such as short large amplitude magnetic structures, by successive mirror reflection (Fermi process). In order to understand this process, we study the reflection probabilit...

Segregation and mixing of granular mixtures during heap formation has important consequences in industry and agriculture. This research investigates three different final particle configurations of bidisperse granular mixtures--stratified, segregated and mixed--during filling of quasi-two-dimensional silos. We consider a large number and wide range of control parameters, including particle size...

The friction and diffusion coefficients of a massive Brownian particle in a mesoscopic solvent are computed from the force and the velocity autocorrelation functions. The mesoscopic solvent is described in terms of free streaming of the solvent molecules, interrupted at discrete time intervals by multiparticle collisions that conserve mass, momentum, and energy. The Brownian particle interacts ...

We introduce a large class of random velocity elds on the periodic lattice and in discrete time having a certain hidden Markov structure. The generalized Lagrangian velocity (the velocity eld as viewed from the location of a single moving particle) has similar hidden Markov structure, and its law is found exactly. As a result, the law of the trajectory of an individual particle is known in prin...

Contaminant control is becoming a major issue of nanoscale device. Cryogenic aerosol beam using micron-sized aerosol particles has long been successfully used to remove contaminant particles (CPs) down to 50nm, and supersonic particle beam using particles smaller than 100nm lowered the limit of cleaning down to 20nm size. In this study, the supersonic particle beam technique that uses nanometer...

A simultaneous measurement technique for the velocity distributions and scholar distributions, e.g., pressure, temperature, and so on, has been proposed. It visualized the spatial distribution using the multi-purpose particles, which has been coated with pressure-sensitive dye. The proposed particle technique, called the PSParticle method, is a hybrid system combining the technologies of pressu...

When an individual is closed to the optimal particle, its velocity will approximate to zero. This is the main reason why the particle swarm optimization algorithm is prone to trap into local minima, therefore using a strategy in which the velocity is not dependent on the size of distance between the individual and the optimal particle but only dependent on its direction, an adaptive scheme is a...

We perform molecular dynamics (MD) simulations (based on the soft-sphere model) of a model dry granular system consisting of two types of spherical particles differing in size and/or density to characterize particle-particle momentum transfer (solid drag). The velocity difference between two types of particles is specified in the initial conditions, and the evolution of relative mean velocity a...