We consider radiative backreaction for global strings using the Kalb-Ramond formalism. In analogy to the point electron in classical electrodynamics, we show how local radiative corrections to the equations of motion allow one to remove the divergence in the self field and calculate a first order approximation to the radiation backreaction force. The effects of this backreaction force are studi...

identification of damping parameter is usually more complicated and unreliable comparing to mass or stiffness identification in structural dynamics. there are many factors such as intermolecular friction, coulomb friction and viscous damping affecting the damping mechanisms in a structure. therefore it is difficult, and in some cases impossible, to describe the details of damping mechanisms by ...

Indispensable subsystems of the International Linear Collider (ILC) will be the damping rings, which will shrink the emittances of the electron and positron beams. This idea was first proposed by Amaldi [1]. Once the beams enter their respective main linacs, the ultra low emittances should already have been achieved in the damping rings, where the equilibrium emittances are determined by the ba...

The radiation reaction fields are calculated for an accelerated changing dipole in scalar and electromagnetic radiation fields. The acceleration reaction is shown to alter the damping of a time varying dipole in the EM case, but not the scalar case. In the EM case, the dipole radiation reactionfield can exert a force on an accelerated monopole charge associated with the accelerated dipole. The ...

The prediction of the acoustic radiation of the compressor shell is resulting from a numerical vibro-acoustic model, involving the description of the compressor pump structure, compressor gas cavity and compressor shell structure, through the use of the FEM and BEM techniques. The presence of refrigerant and lubricating oil in the compressor cavity were taken into account, as well as the presen...

In this note, we show how to marginalize over the damping parameter of the PageRank equation so as to obtain a parameter-free version known as TotalRank. Our discussion is meant as a reference and intended to provide a guided tour towards an interesting result that has applications in information retrieval and classification.

In this article we consider an n-dimentional thermoelastic system with a viscoelastic damping localized on a part of the boundary. We establish an explicit and general decay rate result that allows a larger class of relaxation functions and generalizes previous results existing in the literature.