The “science fact” section of the March 1965 issue of Analog magazine featured an article by Richard P. McKenna that proposed a “motor” which would consist of a solenoid magnet that can rotate about its axis, plus a radioactive source mounted on that axis [1]. When a charged particle is emitted by a radioactive decay it traverses the solenoid field, which bends the particle’s trajectory, giving...

This study focuses on the impact of the interface contamination on the collision efficiency between bubbles and inertial particles. The bubble’s surface mobility has been integrated into the collision modelling by using the hydrodynamics stagnant-cap model, in which the clean angle yclean is used to characterise the interface contamination level. Direct numerical simulations have been performed...

We report a non-iterative localization algorithm that utilizes the scaling of a three-dimensional (3D) image in the axial direction and focuses on evaluating the radial symmetry center of the scaled image to achieve the desired single-particle localization. Using this approach, we analyzed simulated 3D particle images by wide-field microscopy and confocal microscopy respectively, and the 3D tra...

In this paper, discrete-time inverse optimal control for trajectory tracking is applied for a three-phase linear induction motor (LIM). The system mathematical model is in the Nonlinear Block Controller Form (NBCF) in order to achieve trajectory tracking. The control law computes the input voltage signals which are optimal in the sense that this control law minimizes a meaningful cost functiona...

Strong electrostatic turbulence in magnetically confined plasmas is characterized by trapping or eddying of particle trajectories produced by the E × B stochastic drift. Trapping is shown to produce strong effects on test particles and on test modes by causing nonstandard trajectory statistics: non-Gaussian distribution, memory effects, and coherence. Trapped trajectories form quasi-coherent st...

In this paper, a fuzzy controllers type Takagi_Sugeno is optimized by method of Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO). This algorithm automatically adjust the membership function of fuzzy controllers to control a trajectory of nonholonomic mobile robot that involves path trajectory using two optimized fuzzy controllers one for speed control and the other for azimuth control. The mobile robot is mod...

Effect of temperature on hydrodynamics of bubbling gas-solid fluidized beds was investigated.  Experiments were carried out in the range of 25-600 ºC and different superficial gas velocities in the range of 0.17-0.78 m/s with sand particles. Time-position trajectory of particles was obtained by radioactive particle tracking technique. These data were used for determination of mean velocitie...

The mechanism and kinetics of the growth of silicon nanoparticles via particle}particle interactions has been investigated through the use of classical molecular dynamics (MD) trajectory calculations. Computations over a broad range of temperatures and particle sizes have shown that particle sintering is very dependent on size and temperature when solid-like, and considerably less sensitive whe...

The present research studies the motion of a particle or a spacecraft that comes from an orbit around the Sun, which can be elliptic or hyperbolic, and that makes a passage close enough to the Earth such that it crosses its atmosphere. The idea is to measure the Sun-particle two-body energy before and after this passage in order to verify its variation as a function of the periapsis distance, a...