Motivated by our earlier work, we analyze how the inflaton decay reheats the Universe within supersymmetry. In a nonsupersymmetric case the inflaton usually decays via preheating unless its couplings to other fields are very small. Naively one would expect that supersymmetry enhances bosonic preheating as it introduces new scalars such as squarks and sleptons. On the contrary, we point out that...

The low bulk density and low flowability of lignocellulosic biomass feedstock have been regarded widely as major barriers for a sustainable and efficient supply system. Densification of biomass is a viable option to increase the bulk (and inherent energy) density and flowability of feedstock, leading to improved efficiency of the supply system. The energy consumption of feedstock densification ...

We derive analytical expressions for the propagation speed of downward combustion fronts of thin solid fuels with a background flow initially at rest. The classical combustion model for thin solid fuels that consists of five coupled reaction-convection-diffusion equations is here reduced into a single equation with the gas temperature as the single variable. For doing so we apply a two-zone com...

There are well-known reasons to believe that inflation took place and was followed by reheating to some temperature T R . Before a thermal equilibrium was reached, the coherent oscillations of the inflaton could create the environment in which a resonant non-thermal production of particles could rapidly transfer energy from the inflaton to the other fields. This stage, known as preheating [1], ...

In many models of inflation, the period of accelerated expansion ends with preheating, a highly non-thermal phase of evolution during which the inflaton pumps energy into a specific set of momentum modes of field(s) to which it is coupled. This necessarily induces large, transient density inhomogeneities which can source a significant spectrum of gravitational waves. In this paper, we consider ...

We describe a detailed analytic model for predicting statistical quantities (such as number counts, redshift distributions and sizes) of clusters detected in blank-field, thermal Sunyaev-Zel’dovich effect experiments. We include in this model the possibility of non-Gaussian density perturbations in the early Universe and also describe a simple model for the effects of preheating on cluster Suny...

Alternating current preheating (ACP) of lithium-ion batteries has the advantage a high heating rate while inhibiting lithium plating. Two strategies based on terminal voltage control and full battery impedance were proposed to simplify ACP implementation. However, such either severely compromise or induce non-negligible To maximize ensuring no plating, an method anode potential is developed usi...

act— A CFD-based numerical model has been ed for the determination of the volume concentration ber density of soot in a laminar diffusion flame of in air, under transient condition following ignition of e. The transience is studied from the point of ignition final steady state is reached. The burner is an axiric co-flowing one with the fuel issuing through a port and air through an annular port...