Information on the position of all five 5d levels of Ce in 17 different fluoride compounds has been collected. A model involving the polarizability of the fluoride ions, originally suggested by Morrison @J. Chem. Phys. 72, 1001 ~1980!#, is used to calculate the so-called spectroscopic polarizability asp from the observed average energy of the 5d configuration. It will be compared with actual in...

Introduction:SURGEOSIGHT is a dedicated intra-operative hand-held gamma camera designed and manufactured by our team to be used for lymphoscintigraphy. Although conventional gamma cameras are widely used, they lack the capability of the sentinel lymph node (SLN) imaging in the operation room. Like conventional gamma cameras it is necessary to calibrate SURGEOSIGHT for linearity...

Abstract. Stabilized formulations are now widely used in the computation of turbulent flows. The Streamline-Upwind/Petrov-Galerkin (SUPG) and Pressure-Stabilizing/PetrovGalerkin (PSPG) methods are among the most popular stabilized formulations. The Discontinuity Capturing Directional Dissipation (DCDD) was first introduced as a complement to the SUPG and PSPG stabilizations for the computation ...

We performed terahertz near-field experiments on single rectangular holes with various lengths grown on an electro-optic crystal substrate with lambda/100 resolution. We find that the near-field amplitude becomes proportionally larger as the rectangle becomes narrower, strongly suggesting that a constant energy passes through even for a very narrow slit. The occurrence of a large field enhancem...

We present an unconditionally energy stable finite-difference scheme for the phase field crystal equation. The method is based on a convex splitting of a discrete energy and is semiimplicit. The equation at the implicit time level is nonlinear but represents the gradient of a strictly convex function and is thus uniquely solvable, regardless of time step size. We present local-in-time error est...

A unique and potentially useful fluid configuration which is possible in zero gravity is the liquid cylinder. One example is floating-zone crystal growth which, in zero gravity, involves a cylindrical melt bridging two solid cylinders. In low gravity, when the length of a cylindrical liquid bridge exceeds it's circumference, the bridge becomes unstable and breaks. A liquid bridge of length L an...

We present a model and discretization that couples the Ericksen model of liquid crystals with variable degree of orientation to the Allen-Cahn equations with a mass constraint. The coupled system models liquid crystal droplets with anisotropic surface tension effects due to the liquid crystal molecular alignment. The total energy consists of the Ericksen energy, phase-field (Allen-Cahn) energy,...

We model the hydrodynamics of a shear cell experiment with an immiscible nematic liquid crystal droplet in a viscous fluid using an energetic variational approach and phase-field methods [86]. The model includes the coupled system for the flow field for each phase, a phase-field function for the diffuse interface and the orientational director field of the liquid crystal phase. An efficient num...