Structural changes and properties of zirconium alloy subjected to the thermal shock in the solar furnace were investigated. Specimens were prepared from unirradiated cold-worked RBMK Zr-2.5Nb fuel channel pressure tube material after adding hydrogen to the sections of the tubes up to 150 ppm. Tests were done at temperatures up to 1460 C and heating rates 50-83 C per second. After thermal treatm...

Fermi acceleration has not been considered to be viable to explain non-thermal electrons (20 100 KeV) produced in solar ares, because of its high injection energy. Here, we propose that non-thermal electrons are e ciently accelerated by rst-order Fermi process at the fast shock, as a natural consequence of the new magnetohydrodynamic picture of the aring region revealed with Yohkoh. An oblique ...

Master moulds are used to cast copper anode moulds. These iron moulds are made of grey or nodular cast irons. According to desirable properties of ductile irons, it was expected that ductile cast iron ...

Microstructural, mechanical, and thermal-shock behavior of hot-gas candle fiters obtained from different manufacturers have been evaluated. These filters include both monolithic ceramic and composite materials. Based on the results obtained so far, composite filters perform better than monolithic ceramic filters in a thermal-shock environment. During thermal-shock testing, the monolithic cerami...

It has been demonstrated that C54 TiSi2 phase formation can be significantly enhanced by multi-thermal-shock (MTS) method. In this work, the enhancement mechanism of C54 phase formation and the interfacial reactions between TiSi2 and Si were investigated. The results indicate that the semi-coherent interface between TiSi2 C49 phase and Si substrate may be responsible for the rough surface of th...

With a self-similar magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) model of an exploding progenitor star and an outgoing rebound shock and with the thermal bremsstrahlung as the major radiation mechanism in X-ray bands, we reproduce the early X-ray light curve observed for the recent event of XRO 080109/SN 2008D association. The X-ray light curve consists of a fast rise, as the shock travels into the “visible layer...

Northern and southern subspecies of the Atlantic killifish, Fundulus heteroclitus, differ in maximal thermal tolerance. To determine whether these subspecies also differ in their heat shock response (HSR), we exposed 20°C acclimated killifish to a 2 h heat shock at 34°C and examined gene expression in fish from both subspecies during heat shock and recovery using real-time quantitative PCR and ...

Charged particles can be reflected and accelerated by strong (i.e., high Mach number) astrophysical collisionless shock waves, streaming away to form a foreshock region in communication with the shock. Foreshocks are primarily populated by suprathermal ions that can generate foreshock disturbances-large-scale (i.e., tens to thousands of thermal ion Larmor radii), transient (∼5-10  per day) stru...

Fourier and hyperbolic models of heat transfer on a fin that is subjected to a periodic boundary condition are solved analytically. The differential equation in Fourier and non-Fourier models is solved by the Laplace transform method. The temperature distribution on the fin is obtained using the residual theorem in a complex plan for the inverse Laplace transform method. The thermal shock is ge...