Strong third-order harmonic (TH) emission is observed with a conversion efficiency higher than 10(-3) from a plasma channel formed by self-guided femtosecond laser pulses propagating in air. The main characteristics of TH emission in various conditions and the phase-matching condition between the fundamental and the TH wave are investigated. An optimized condition is found, under which the TH c...

Progress in understanding the phase-dependent reactivity of chlorine dioxide (OClO) is outlined. Resonance Raman intensity analysis studies of gaseous and solution-phase OClO are presented which demonstrate that the optically prepared excited state undergoes significant modification in solution. In addition, time-resolved resonance Raman studies are presented which demonstrate that geminate rec...

We studied in this work a modified version of the Ziff, Gulari and Barshad (ZGB) model in which the adsorption probabilities of CO and O 2 are site dependent. We employed Monte Carlo simulations to determine the phase diagram of the model as a function of the partial pressure of CO in the gaseous phase, and of the relative adsorption probabilities. For the case where there is no site with affin...

A major computational code called CERV was developed to determine complex equilibrium compositions of a nonideal mixture of numerous imperfect gases and compressible liquid and solid species with phase transitions for closed-vessel applications. This code minimizes Gibbs energy using reaction variables, in contrast to other major codes like BRL-Blake, BRCBagheera and NASA-CEA that use compositi...

reduction of exhaust emissions is a major research task in diesel engine development in view of increasing concerns regarding environmental protection and stringent exhaust gas regulations. simultaneousreduction of nox emissions and particulate matter is quite difficult due to the soot/nox trade-off and isoften accompanied by fuel consumption penalties. towards this aim, automotive engineers ha...

We report the first quantitative measurement of extended x-ray absorption fine structure (EXAFS) from hydrogen atoms. A single oscillation is observed from gaseous water consistent with the location of the covalently bonded hydrogen in H 2O. The experimental phase and amplitude of the oscillation are in excellent agreement with curved wave multiple scattering calculations for isolated water mol...

The enhanced spin polarization produced by optical pumping of gaseous rubidium/xenon samples has made possible a number of recent experiments in nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Here we report MRI of laser-polarized xenon in the solid phase at low temperature. Due to the high xenon density in the solid phase and the enhanced spin polarization, ...

the objective of this research is to develop an accurate numerical method to be used in showing the deformation of a liquid fuel droplet in a convective field. to simultaneously solve the internal liquid droplet flow field as well as the external gas phase flow field, a nonstaggered rectangular grid system without any coordinate transformation is used. transition from the gas field to the liqui...