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  • Open Access
3 Citations
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Classical and Quantum Signatures of Quantum Phase Transitions in a (Pseudo) Relativistic Many-Body System

  • Maximilian Nitsch,
  • Benjamin Geiger,
  • Klaus Richter and
  • Juan-Diego Urbina

We identify a (pseudo) relativistic spin-dependent analogue of the celebrated quantum phase transition driven by the formation of a bright soliton in attractive one-dimensional bosonic gases. In this new scenario, due to the simultaneous existence of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,372 Views
21 Pages

9 May 2022

The temporal evolution of pandemics described by the susceptible-infectious-recovered (SIR)-compartment model is sensitively determined by the time dependence of the infection (a(t)) and recovery (μ(t)) rates regulating the transitions from the su...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,548 Views
9 Pages

Functional Segmentation Method for the Design of Compact Adiabatic Devices

  • Tu-Lu Liang,
  • Xi Cheng,
  • Mei Yu,
  • Jin Shi,
  • Gangxiong Wu,
  • Ruirui Jiang,
  • Weiwei Rong and
  • Wei Shao

6 September 2023

In this study, a functional segmentation method for the design of adiabatic devices is presented. This method can be applied to calculate the compact adiabatic waveguide shapes for adiabatic taper waveguides and adiabatic mode converters. We introduc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,456 Views
14 Pages

19 June 2024

A critical component of predicting thermal convection and dynamo action in the cores of terrestrial planetary bodies is the adiabatic heat flux at the top of the core. Powders of Fe, FeS, and Fe-9wt%Si were mixed to imitate the core of Asteroid 4 Ves...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,386 Views
19 Pages

20 April 2023

A thermal equilibrium model is established to investigate the heat leak of a space liquid hydrogen tank under different thermal adiabatic structures. The feasibility of the common bulkhead tank in realizing thrust or rotation reorientation by evapora...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,281 Views
18 Pages

26 April 2023

An analytical solution is obtained for the problem of two interacting, identical but separated spin 1/2 particles in a time-dependent external magnetic field, in a general case. The solution involves isolating the pseudo-qutrit subsystem from a two-q...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
26,632 Views
21 Pages

Density Functional Study of Structures and Electron Affinities of BrO4F/BrO4F-

  • Liangfa Gong,
  • Jieming Xiong,
  • Xinmin Wu,
  • Chuansong Qi,
  • Wei Li and
  • Wenli Guo

8 July 2009

The structures, electron affinities and bond dissociation energies of BrO4F/BrO4F− species have been investigated with five density functional theory (DFT) methods with DZP++ basis sets. The planar F-Br…O2…O2 complexes possess 3A' electronic state fo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,524 Views
21 Pages

The Effects of Mainstream Reynolds Number and Blowing Ratio on Film Cooling of Gas Turbine Vanes

  • Germán Sierra-Vargas,
  • Diego Garzón-Alvarado and
  • Carlos Duque-Daza

26 September 2023

Film cooling performance was evaluated numerically for three mainstream Reynolds numbers and four blowing ratios (BR). A computational model based on finite volume discretization was used to solve an incompressible and transient flow over a NACA 4412...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,289 Views
7 Pages

Influence of Spectral Filtration on Pulse Dynamics in Ring-Cavity Mamyshev Oscillator

  • Anastasia Bednyakova,
  • Evgeny Kuprikov,
  • Irina Geraseva and
  • Alexey Kokhanovskiy

5 November 2021

Here we present a numerical study of pulsing build-up dynamics inside the fiber Mamyshev Oscillator (MO). The main scope of the investigation is to describe the influence of the spectral separation between the filters on self-starting MO dynamics and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,533 Views
26 Pages

10 August 2022

A distributed propulsion system has the advantage of saving 5–15% fuel burn through ingesting the fuselage boundary layer of an aircraft by fan or compressor. However, due to boundary layer ingestion (BLI), the fan stage will continuously opera...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,737 Views
17 Pages

Driving Interactions Efficiently in a Composite Few-Body System

  • Alan Kahan,
  • Thomás Fogarty,
  • Jing Li and
  • Thomas Busch

7 October 2019

We study how to efficiently control an interacting few-body system consisting of three harmonically trapped bosons. Specifically, we investigate the process of modulating the inter-particle interactions to drive an initially non-interacting state to...

  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,785 Views
10 Pages

27 August 2021

In a mostly review paper, we show that the important problem of symmetry, broken symmetry, and spontaneous broken symmetry of polyatomic systems is directly related to the Jahn–Teller (JT) and pseudo-Jahn–Teller (PJT) effects, including the hidden-JT...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,317 Views
19 Pages

Development of a Multichannel Membrane Reactor with a Solid Oxide Cell Design

  • Hong Huang,
  • Ziyue Guo,
  • Remzi Can Samsun,
  • Stefan Baumann,
  • Nikolaos Margaritis,
  • Wilhelm Albert Meulenberg,
  • Ralf Peters and
  • Detlef Stolten

17 January 2023

In this study, we aim to adapt a solid oxide cell (SOC) to a membrane reactor for general chemical reactions to leverage the readily available multichannel design of the SOC. As a proof-of-concept, the developed reactor is tested for syngas productio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,151 Views
14 Pages

Robust Optimized Pulse Schemes for Atomic Fountain Interferometry

  • Michael H. Goerz,
  • Mark A. Kasevich and
  • Vladimir S. Malinovsky

10 February 2023

The robustness of an atomic fountain interferometer with respect to variations in the initial velocity of the atoms and deviations from the optimal pulse amplitude is examined. We numerically simulate the dynamics of an interferometer in momentum spa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,033 Views
19 Pages

Separate Calibration of Johnson–Cook Model for Static and Dynamic Compression of a DNAN-Based Melt-Cast Explosive

  • Hanfei Xie,
  • Xiangrong Zhang,
  • Feichao Miao,
  • Tao Jiang,
  • Yingzhong Zhu,
  • Xinxin Wu and
  • Lin Zhou

27 August 2022

When describing the relation between the flow stress and plastic strain of a material under a wide range of strain rates and temperatures, the original Johnson–Cook model generally requires a complicated modification, resulting in a loss of sim...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,696 Views
19 Pages

New Insights into Flow for a Low-Bypass-Ratio Transonic Fan with Optimized Rotor

  • Mingjun Liu,
  • Zhenjiu Zhang,
  • Zhuoming Liang,
  • Haibing Xiao,
  • Huanlong Chen,
  • Xianqing Yang and
  • Changxiao Shao

24 October 2023

In this paper, a three-dimensional aerodynamics optimization system is built and applied to optimize a rotor blade to balance the conflicts between stall margin, total pressure ratio, adiabatic efficiency, and mass flow rate for the high-loading and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,386 Views
16 Pages

Two-Phase Flow Visualization and Heat Transfer Characteristics Analysis in Ultra-Long Gravity Heat Pipe

  • Feng Li,
  • Juanwen Chen,
  • Jiwen Cen,
  • Wenbo Huang,
  • Zhibin Li,
  • Qingshan Ma and
  • Fangming Jiang

14 June 2023

The ultra-long gravity heat pipe has a long heat transfer distance and narrow working fluid flow channel within its tube. Due to these unique design features, the vapor–liquid counter-flow and heat transfer characteristics of these heat pipes a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,009 Views
24 Pages

31 December 2022

We study the dynamics of gauge-invariant scalar perturbations in cosmological scenarios with a modified Friedmann equation, such as quantum gravity bouncing cosmologies. We work within a separate universe approximation which captures wavelengths larg...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,524 Views
16 Pages

31 July 2022

This paper aims to contribute to the analysis of a heat sink designed for the active cooling of small flat surfaces. The heat transfer device investigated here consists of a flat square substrate and a cover, separated by parallel channels with a rec...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,291 Views
15 Pages

29 April 2024

Spin qubits in semiconductor quantum dots are an attractive candidate for scalable quantum information processing. Reliable quantum state transfer and entanglement between spatially separated spin qubits is a highly desirable but challenging goal. He...

  • Article
  • Open Access
933 Views
16 Pages

6 December 2024

Neutrino flavor oscillations and conversion in an interacting background (MSW effects) may reveal the charge-parity violation in the next generation of neutrino experiments. The usual approach for studying these effects is to numerically integrate th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,606 Views
21 Pages

Intensification of Heat and Mass Transfer in a Diabatic Column with Vortex Trays

  • Nikolai A. Voinov,
  • Anastasiya V. Bogatkova and
  • Denis A. Zemtsov

We used vortex contact devices that we developed and investigated to make a new design of an alcohol diabatic distillation column with heat exchange pipes (as the reflux condenser) passing through concentrating section trays. In the column, ascending...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
5,718 Views
15 Pages

14 April 2022

Inconsistencies in a monomer battery pack can lead to the over-discharge of a single battery. Although deep over-discharge can be avoided by optimizing the battery control system, slight over-discharge still often occurs in the battery pack. The agin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,291 Views
22 Pages

Assessment of Rate-Dependency and Adiabatic Heating on the Essential Work of Fracture of Press-Hardening Steels

  • Simon Jonsson,
  • David Frómeta,
  • Laura Grifé,
  • Fredrik Larsson and
  • Jörgen Kajberg

13 March 2025

The automotive industry is currently in a paradigm shift transferring the fleet over from internal combustion vehicles to battery electric vehicles (BEV). This introduces new challenges when designing the body-in-white (BIW) due to the sensitive and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
18,136 Views
12 Pages

5 September 2014

High order Raman generation has received considerable attention as a possible method for generating ultrashort pulses. A large number of Raman orders can be generated when the Raman-active medium is pumped by two laser pulses that have a frequency se...

  • Comment
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,392 Views
15 Pages

26 April 2017

Tailleux has written about the concept of epineutral mixing and has attempted to justify it from an energetic viewpoint. However, Tailleux’s approach is incorrect because it ignores the unsteady nature of the density field during baroclinic motions,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,158 Views
17 Pages

14 August 2025

In the context of advancing sustainable energy solutions, this paper provides a detailed modelling study of the process integration of biomass gasification to produce syngas and subsequent methanation for methane production. The process is assumed to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,796 Views
36 Pages

Elastic materials include metal plates, rubber, foam, airbags and so on, which have a good buffer effect, toughness and strong recovery ability. In this paper, the deformation and thermal diffusion of 2D and 3D thin plates are studied. Two models are...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,525 Views
25 Pages

Extended Stress–Strain Characterization of Automotive Steels at Dynamic Rates

  • Giuseppe Mirone,
  • Raffaele Barbagallo,
  • Michele Maria Tedesco,
  • Daniele De Caro and
  • Matteo Ferrea

2 June 2022

Demanding structural applications require a detailed knowledge of the materials response up to the very late stages before failure. Ductile high-strength steels may undergo pronounced necking over the majority of their straining life; this makes a re...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,624 Views
20 Pages

Influence of the Slot Fillet and Vane Root Fillet on the Turbine Vane Endwall Cooling Performance

  • Kun Du,
  • Xiangpeng Pei,
  • Xiaoming Shan,
  • Zunsheng Zhao and
  • Cunliang Liu

10 July 2023

Due to machining techniques and dust deposition, gas turbine upstream slots and vane roots are always filleted, significantly affecting the cooling performance of the endwall. The effects of upstream slot fillet and vane root fillet on the cooling pe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
7,036 Views
39 Pages

30 December 2021

One of the most important and complex effects in compressible fluid flow simulation is a shock-capturing mechanism. Numerous high-resolution Euler-type methods have been proposed to resolve smooth flow scales accurately and to capture the discontinui...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,774 Views
13 Pages

Spontaneous Emission of an Atom Near an Oscillating Mirror

  • Alessandro Ferreri,
  • Michelangelo Domina,
  • Lucia Rizzuto and
  • Roberto Passante

8 November 2019

We investigate the spontaneous emission of one atom placed near an oscillating reflecting plate. We consider the atom modeled as a two-level system, interacting with the quantum electromagnetic field in the vacuum state, in the presence of the oscill...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
3,643 Views
18 Pages

20 January 2021

A numerical study was conducted to investigate the flow and heat transfer characteristics of a supersonic second throat exhaust diffuser for high-altitude simulations. The numerical results were satisfactorily validated by the experimental results. A...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,339 Views
17 Pages

Production of Fuels and Chemicals from a CO2/H2 Mixture

  • Yali Yao,
  • Baraka Celestin Sempuga,
  • Xinying Liu and
  • Diane Hildebrandt

19 November 2020

In order to explore co-production alternatives, a once-through process for CO2 hydrogenation to chemicals and liquid fuels was investigated experimentally. In this approach, two different catalysts were considered; the first was a Cu-based catalyst t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,951 Views
20 Pages

The Effect of Different Configurations of Copper Structures on the Melting Flow in a Latent Heat Thermal Energy Semi-Cylindrical Unit

  • Mohamed Boujelbene,
  • Amira M. Hussin,
  • Seyed Abdollah Mansouri Mehryan and
  • Mohsen Sharifpur

13 October 2023

Utilizing latent heat thermal energy storage (LHTES) units shows promise as a potential solution for bridging the gap between energy supply and demand. While an LHTES unit benefits from the latent heat of the high-capacity phase change material (PCM)...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
7,388 Views
20 Pages

Optimization Design of a 2.5 Stage Highly Loaded Axial Compressor with a Bezier Surface Modeling Method

  • Song Huang,
  • Jinxin Cheng,
  • Chengwu Yang,
  • Chuangxin Zhou,
  • Shengfeng Zhao and
  • Xingen Lu

1 June 2020

Due to the complexity of the internal flow field of compressors, the aerodynamic design and optimization of a highly loaded axial compressor with high performance still have three problems, which are rich engineering design experience, high dimension...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,803 Views
22 Pages

A variety of models of inflation in the early Universe have been proposed and applied to describe successfully the origin of all possible structures in the Universe. On the other hand, inflation theory is still phenomenological and needs systematic p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,644 Views
31 Pages

PyVaporation: A Python Package for Studying and Modelling Pervaporation Processes

  • Denis Andzheevich Sapegin and
  • Aleksei Viktorovich Chekmachev

15 August 2022

PyVaporation—a freely available Python package with an open-source code for modelling and studying pervaporation processes—is introduced. The theoretical background of the solution, its applicability and limitations are discussed. The usa...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,968 Views
15 Pages

Numerical Study on Separation Performance of Cyclone Flue Used in Grate Waste Incinerator

  • Dong-mei Chen,
  • Jing-yu Ran,
  • Jun-tian Niu,
  • Zhong-qing Yang,
  • Ge Pu and
  • Lin Yang

20 November 2019

The traditional treatment of waste incineration flue gas is mostly carried out in low temperatures, but there are some problems such as corrosion of the heating surface at high and low temperatures, re-synthesis of dioxins, and low efficiency. Theref...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,846 Views
29 Pages

LBM-MHD Data-Driven Approach to Predict Rayleigh–Bénard Convective Heat Transfer by Levenberg–Marquardt Algorithm

  • Taasnim Ahmed Himika,
  • Md Farhad Hasan,
  • Md. Mamun Molla and
  • Md Amirul Islam Khan

13 February 2023

This study aims to consider lattice Boltzmann method (LBM)–magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) data to develop equations to predict the average rate of heat transfer quantitatively. The present approach considers a 2D rectangular cavity with adiabatic s...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
8,093 Views
17 Pages

Design of A New Hydraulic Accumulator for Transient Large Flow Compensation

  • Donglai Zhao,
  • Wenjie Ge,
  • Xiaojuan Mo,
  • Bo Liu and
  • Dianbiao Dong

13 August 2019

Hydraulic accumulators are widely used in industry due to their ability to store energy and absorb fluid shock. Researchers have designed kinds of novel accumulators with better performance in these specific areas. However, the pressure in these accu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
5,623 Views
18 Pages

Investigation of Separated Two-Phase Thermosiphon Loop for Relieving the Air-Conditioning Loading in Datacenter

  • Hafiz M. Daraghmeh,
  • Mohammed W. Sulaiman,
  • Kai-Shing Yang and
  • Chi-Chuan Wang

29 December 2018

This study investigates the feasibility of using R-134a filled separated two-phase thermosiphon loop (STPTL) as a free cooling technique in datacenters. Two data center racks one of them is attached with fin and tube thermosiphon were cooled by CRAC...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
3,765 Views
15 Pages

9 May 2018

The traditional vapor compression cooling system (VCS) has been criticized for its heavy reliance on electricity consumption and limited control ability of humidity. Compared with the VCS, the liquid desiccant cooling system (LDCS) is more efficient...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,455 Views
15 Pages

Minimal Active Space for Diradicals Using Multistate Density Functional Theory

  • Jingting Han,
  • Ruoqi Zhao,
  • Yujie Guo,
  • Zexing Qu and
  • Jiali Gao

This work explores the electronic structure as well as the reactivity of singlet diradicals, making use of multistate density functional theory (MSDFT). In particular, we show that a minimal active space of two electrons in two orbitals is adequate t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,146 Views
19 Pages

This work focuses its attention on possibilities to enhance the stability of an axial compressor using a casing treatment technique. Circumferential grooves machined into the case are considered and their performances evaluated using three-dimensiona...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,790 Views
26 Pages

29 June 2017

There is no theoretical underpinning that successfully explains how turbulent mixing is fed by wave breaking associated with nonlinear wave-wave interactions in the background oceanic internal wavefield. We address this conundrum using one-dimensiona...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
5,151 Views
25 Pages

Flexibility and Hydration of Amphiphilic Hyperbranched Arabinogalactan-Protein from Plant Exudate: A Volumetric Perspective

  • Verónica Mejia Tamayo,
  • Michaël Nigen,
  • Rafael Apolinar-Valiente,
  • Thierry Doco,
  • Pascale Williams,
  • Denis Renard and
  • Christian Sanchez

Plant Acacia gum exudates are composed by glycosylated hydroxyproline-rich proteins, which have a high proportion of heavily branched neutral and charged sugars in the polysaccharide moiety. These hyperbranched arabinogalactan-proteins (AGP) display...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,658 Views
26 Pages

18 October 2024

In a gas–water interaction problem, the nonlinear relationship between shock wave velocity is introduced into a Hugoniot curve, and a Mie–Grüneisen Equation of state (EOS) is established by setting the Hugoiot curve as the reference...

  • Article
  • Open Access
41 Citations
4,365 Views
23 Pages

Heat Transfer Improvement in a Double Backward-Facing Expanding Channel Using Different Working Fluids

  • Tuqa Abdulrazzaq,
  • Hussein Togun,
  • Hamed Alsulami,
  • Marjan Goodarzi and
  • Mohammad Reza Safaei

1 July 2020

This paper reports a numerical study on heat transfer improvement in a double backward-facing expanding channel using different convectional fluids. A finite volume method with the k-ε standard model is used to investigate the effects of step, Reynol...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,336 Views
18 Pages

26 June 2020

This article discusses the photoinduced charge transfer (CT) kinetics within the reaction center complex of photosystem II (PSII RC). The PSII RC exhibits a structural symmetry in its arrangement of pigments forming two prominent branches, D1 and D2....

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