We consider the combined role of the thermal ionization, magneto-rotational and gravitational instabilities in thin accretion disks around supermassive black holes. We find that in the portions of the disk unstable to the ionization instability, the gas remains well coupled to the magnetic field even on the cold, neutral branch of the thermal limit cycle. This suggests that the ionization insta...

Based on the variational formulation of linear thermodynamics as developed previously by the writer, thermomechanical reciprocity relations are discussed which lead to new methods of analysis of thermal stresses. These reciprocity relations are quite different from the usual ones derived from the analogy of thermal loading with a combination of surface and body-force distribution. The results a...

the effects of pulsed electric field (pef) on the cell disintegration of sugar beet were studied. field strength (0.5kv/cm to 6kv/cm), pulse number (1 to 100 pulses) and capacity of capacitors (0.5 f to 32 f) were evaluated on degree of cell disintegration and consumed energy in pef treatment. the field conditions of 1 and 2 kv/cm, 8 f with 20 and 10 pulses respectively disintegrated the cel...

In a recent paper Dajka, et.al., [J. Phys. A 40, F879 (2007)] predicted that some composite systems can be entangled forever even if coupled with a thermal bath. We analyze the transient entanglement of a single-Cooper-pair box biased by a classical voltage and irradiated by a quantized field and find the unusual feature that the phase-damped cavity can lead to a long-lived entanglement. The re...

In work reported at last year’s QNDE meeting, a first step towards the development of a model for the Scanning Laser Source (SLS) technique was presented, which provides an analytical formulation for the transient response of an isotropic, homogeneous, linearly elastic half-space submitted to a pulsed laser line source operating in the thermoelastic regime. The formulation takes into account op...

The abrasion is a significant issue, especially in machining of rigid steels. A functional and suitable approach for enhancing the heat transfer from machining area is using an intermediate fluid with higher heat transfer potential instead of common fluids. The objective of this experimental study is to discuss production, stability and thermal conductivity examination of water/graphene oxide n...

The thermal properties, including thermal time constants, of GaInN light-emitting diodes LEDs and laser diodes LDs are analyzed. The thermal properties of unpackaged LED chips are described by a single time constant, that is, the thermal time constant associated with the substrate. For unpackaged LD chips, we introduce a heat-spreading volume. The thermal properties of unpackaged LD chips are d...

Relaxation of thermal-remanent magnetization and isothermal remanent magnetization of spin glass in Cd& „Mn„Te diluted magnetic semiconductors have been studied at different conditions. Magnetization relaxation can be described by a power-law decay, M(t) =Mpt (f & to and to=2 s) with small values of a or a logarithmic decay M(t}=MD(1—a lnt) (t & to and to=2 s). Temperature and applied magnetic-...

Transient lens (TL) spectroscopy was developed with sub-micrometer spatial resolution to observe the temporal and special behavior of the nonradiative processes of carrier dynamics in InGaN/GaN quantum wells (QW). We have observed the carrier density dynamics and the thermal dynamics in the TL signals with a nanosecond pulsed laser. We have also observed TL and photoluminescence (PL) signals by...