PHOENICS-2010 has been applied to the simulation of heat transfer within a solar panel design on behalf of the LE2M Laboratory of ICAM, Nantes, France. The panel is assumed to be horizontal and consists of three layers; glass, collector and backboard, with air spaces between. The aim of the panel is to warm air through solar irradiation. The glass and collector gather heat by the "greenhouse ef...

An accurate determination of the “time-of-flight” in swarm experiments with a parallel plate drift chamber requires that the time evolution of the charge induced on the collector is linear. This is obtained in very large chambers where the edge effects can be neglected. However, the experimental conditions of high-mobility carriers and highly pressurized gases impose some constraints on the acc...

Weak References constitute an elegant mechanism for an application to interact with its garbage collector. In most of its typical uses, weak references are used through weak tables (e.g., Java’s WeakHashMap). However, most implementations of weak tables have a severe limitation: Cyclic references between keys and values in weak tables prevent the elements inside a cycle from being collected, ev...

Introduction: A neutrino observatory planned for South Pole offers an opportunity to collect a timesequenced 100,000-yr record of micrometeorites and terrestrial dust deposited in Antarctic ice with 20–100yr resolution. This unprecedented record bears on numerous studies including the evolution of near-Earth cosmic-dust and the provenance of micrometeorites, the relationship between ET influx a...

The concept of a collector-distributor lane system, as part of a regional arterial street improvement program is introduced. Such a system can improve operational aspects of certain urban arterial streets by provision of a transitional space between through-traffic streams and entering-exiting streams. Facilities for which this concept is most applicable, are arterial streets along which develo...

Exposure of collector mirrors facing the hot, dense pinch plasma in plasma-based EUV light sources to debris (fast ions, neutrals, off-band radiation, droplets) remains one of the highest critical issues of source component lifetime and commercial feasibility of nanolithography at 13.5-nm. Typical radiators used at 13.5-nm include Xe and Sn. Fast particles emerging from the pinch region of the ...

5.1. BJT Fundamentals. In this section we discuss the main principles behind the operation of the BJT. The NPN bipolar transistor consists of 2 NP-PN junctions, as depicted in Fig. 5.1.a. The bipolar device is composed of two diodes back to back with different doping profiles; the BJT has 3 terminals labeled as E(Emitter), B(Base) and C(Collector). The emitter is the most doped terminal and emi...

This paper describes a storage management system that is flexible and efficient. The representation of run-time tags yields fast allocation, type testing, and field extraction, and the memory model reduces virtual memory paging during garbage collection. The storage management system coexists gracefully with other languages’ run-time systems, facilitating the use of multiple languages within a ...

Microsoft’s Rotor is a shared-source CLI implementation intended for use as a research platform. It is particularly attractive for research because of its complete implementation and extensive libraries, and because its modular design allows different implementations of certain components (e.g., just-in-time compilers). Our group has independently developed a highperformance just-in-time (JIT) ...