The objective of this paper is to examine the effectiveness of wall oscillation as a control scheme of drag reduction. Two flow configurations are considered: constant flow rate and constant mean pressure gradient. The Navier-Stokes equations are solved using Fourier-Chebyshev spectral methods and the oscillation in sinusoidal form is enforced on the walls through boundary conditions for the sp...

The Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO) represents a significant driver of Northern Hemisphere climate, but the forcing mechanisms pacing the AMO remain poorly understood. Here we use the available proxy records to investigate the influence of solar and volcanic forcing on the AMO over the last ~450 years. The evidence suggests that external forcing played a dominant role in pacing the AMO ...

Receptive elds in V1 have been shown to be wider during synchronized than during non-synchronized EEG states, where, in addition, they can shrink over time in response to ashed stimuli. In the present paper we employ a neural eld approach to describe the activity patterns in V1 analytically. Expressions for spatio-temporal receptive elds are derived and tted to experimental data. The model supp...

This paper present a single stage CMOS Voltage controlled oscillator with a high oscillation frequency and low power consumption. The VCO is a single stage circuit has a low phase noise due to reduced noise sources. The VCO is intended to operate as a frequency synthesizer in a PLL to generate local oscillator frequency (LO) for an acquisition system, providing in-phase/Q-phase outputs. The per...

Global Positioning System radio occultation measurements by FORMOsa SATellite mission-3/Constellation Observing System for Meteorology, Ionosphere and Climate satellites were used to analyse the characteristics of the 8-h oscillation in sporadic E (ES) layers. Six-year averages based on the 3-monthly mean zonal means from December 2006 to November 2012 were constructed for the amplitude of the ...

approved: John F. Wager This thesis focuses on two aspects of transparent electronics, SnO2 transparent thin-film transistors (TTFTs) and transparent circuits. Both depletionand enhancement-mode SnO2 TTFTs are realized. The maximum effective mobility for the depletionand enhancement-mode devices are 2 cmVs and 0.8 cmVs, respectively. A variety of techniques to decrease the carrier concentration...

Based on fluoride-based plasma treatment of the gate region in AlGaN/GaN HEMTs and post-gate rapid thermal annealing (RTA), enhancement mode (E-mode) AlGaN/GaN HEMTs with low on-resistance and low knee-voltage were fabricated. The fabricated E-mode AlGaN/GaN HEMT with 1 μm-long gate exhibits a threshold voltage of 0.9 V, a kneevoltage of 2.2 V, a maximum drain current density of 310 mA/mm, a pe...

Neurons within the intact respiratory network produce bursts of action potentials that cause inspiration or expiration. Within inspiratory bursts, activity is synchronized on a shorter timescale to generate clusters of action potentials that occur in a set frequency range and are called synchronous oscillations. We investigated how GABA and glycine modulate synchronous oscillations and respirat...