Natural disasters such as storms usually bring significant damages to distribution grids. Many distribution grids are not equipped with sensors that can pinpoint the location of actual faults. This further complicated...
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Many experimentally relevant systems are quasi-one-dimensional, consisting of nearly decoupled chains. In these systems, there is a natural separation of scales between the strong intrachain interactions and the weak ...
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Many experimentally relevant systems are quasi-one-dimensional, consisting of nearly decoupled chains. In these systems, there is a natural separation of scales between the strong intrachain interactions and the weak interchain coupling. When the intrachain interactions are integrable, weak interchain couplings play a crucial part in thermalizing the system. Here, we develop a Boltzmann-equation formalism involving a collision integral that is asymptotically exact for any interacting integrable system, and apply it to develop a quantitative theory of relaxation in coupled Bose gases in the experimentally relevant Newton’s cradle setup. We find that relaxation involves a broad spectrum of timescales. We provide evidence that the Markov process governing relaxation at late times is gapless; thus, the approach to equilibrium is generally nonexponential, even for spatially uniform perturbations.
We consider the problem of channel estimation and joint active and passive beamforming for reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) assisted millimeter wave (mmWave) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) orthogonal fr...
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Electromagnetic waves on single conductors (Goubau waves) are investigated for the interrogation of wireless sensors. A demonstration of interrogation of a surface acoustic wave (SAW) sensor is presented, followed by ...
Electromagnetic waves on single conductors (Goubau waves) are investigated for the interrogation of wireless sensors. A demonstration of interrogation of a surface acoustic wave (SAW) sensor is presented, followed by the results of simulation of wave launchers on conductors of varying radius.
Soft robots offer an exciting and novel alternative to traditional robots composed of rigid bodies. Many of the primary benefits soft robots have over more traditional robots result from their inherent compliance and ...
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Soft robots offer an exciting and novel alternative to traditional robots composed of rigid bodies. Many of the primary benefits soft robots have over more traditional robots result from their inherent compliance and their potential for low force interactions with their environments. Therefore, modeling soft robots requires the ability to accurately simulate contact mechanics. In this work, we present the solution of contact mechanics finite element problems specifically for soft robots in a MOOSE-based multiphysics simulation platform we developed, Kraken. The primary contributions of this work are threefold. Firstly, our implementations enable the modeling of additional types of contact critical to the simulation of soft robots. Next, we demonstrate how our new self contact method can be used to dramatically decrease the computational cost of contact modeling. Finally, we demonstrate the abilities of Kraken as a platform to simulate the complex interactions of soft robots and the environment.
Mechanical straining-induced bandgap modulation in two-dimensional (2D) materials has been confined to volatile and narrow modulation due to substrate slippage and poor strain transfer. We report the thermomechanical ...
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Electron irradiation of water-rich ices plays a significant role in initiating the chemical and physical processes on the surface of airless icy bodies in radiation environments such as Europa and Enceladus, as well a...
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Electron irradiation of water-rich ices plays a significant role in initiating the chemical and physical processes on the surface of airless icy bodies in radiation environments such as Europa and Enceladus, as well as on the Moon, comets, and asteroids interacting with the solar wind. The sputtering process by electrons and ions leads to chemical modification and outgassing of their icy surfaces and the subsequent formation of a tenuous atmosphere. Though electron-sputtering yields are known to be lower compared to ion-sputtering yields, one needs to also account for their differential fluxes. Europa receives about 10 times more electron flux than proton flux, making electron-induced outgassing important to study and understand. Here, we report a rigorous experimental study of electron bombardment of Europa analog crystalline and amorphous pure water ices at 100 K under ultrahigh vacuum and compare our results with reported data in the literature to provide quantitative data for low-energy electron-induced chemistry and sputtering of water-ice. In our experiments, the electron-induced sputtering yields of all the gaseous species H2, O, OH, H2O, and O2 are investigated for electron energies lower than 2 keV in terms of partial pressure vs. time of irradiation. The effective averaged change in partial pressure of the desorbed species is converted to the number of sputtered atoms or molecules per second per cm2 from the ice, and then to the sputtering yields (number of species sputtered per electron). These values at different electron fluences (electrons/cm2) are then used to derive the number of atoms or molecules desorbed or sputtered per keV of incident electrons, to enable utilizing our data to quantify the contribution of electron-sputtering process towards the exospheric composition of Europa. Our data agrees well with the previously reported data for the sputtering of O2 and H2O yield for the amorphous ice. We also find that crystalline ice shows significantly
Background: Patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) have a higher risk of cognitive impairment (CI). However, complexity of CI diagnosis and lack of simple screening approaches limited early screening and intervention ...
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We consider the problem of downlink channel estimation for intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-assisted millimeter Wave (mmWave) orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) systems. By exploring the inherent sp...
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