This paper employs an analytic reconnection model to investigate the conditions under which Hall currents can influence reconnection and Ohmic dissipation rates. It is first noted that time dependent magnetohydrodynamic systems can be analyzed by decomposing the magnetic and velocity fields into guide field and reconnecting field components. A formally exact solution shows that Hall currents ca...

The vertical redistribution of the geostrophic momentum by the residual effects of pressure perturbations (called the layer-thickness form drag) is investigated using thickness-weighted temporal-averaged mean primitive equations for a continuously stratified fluid in an adiabatic formulation. A four-box energy diagram, in which the mean and eddy kinetic energies are defined by the thickness-wei...

Grouped and single pile behavior differs owing to the impacts of the pile-to-pile interaction. Ultimate lateral resistance and lateral subgrade modulus within a pile group are known as the key parameters in the soil-pile interaction phenomenon. In this study, a series of experimental investigation was carried out on single and group pile subjected to monotonic lateral loadings. Experimental inv...

We define three new take-away games, the Rat game, the Mouse game and the Fat Rat game. Three winning strategies are given for the Rat game and outlined for the Mouse and Fat Rat games. The efficiencies of the strategies are determined. Whereas the winning strategies of nontrivial take-away games are based on irrational numbers, our games are based on rational numbers. Another motivation stems ...

Nanoindentation is a useful technique for probing the mechanical properties of bone, and finite element (FE) modeling of the indentation allows inverse determination of elastoplastic constitutive properties. However, all but one FE study to date have assumed frictionless contact between indenter and bone. The aim of this study was to explore the effect of friction in simulations of bone nanoind...

A study of the expected sensitivity of the ATLAS experiment to discover the Standard Model Higgs boson produced via vector boson fusion (VBF) and its decay to H → ττ → ``+ 4ν is presented. The study is based on simulated proton-proton collisions at a centreof-mass energy of 14TeV. For the first time the discovery potential is evaluated in the presence of additional proton-proton interactions (p...

The role of intakes in deformation twiming of Iamellar TiAl (ywl~l (a*) crystals creep deformed at an ekvated temperature have been investigated. Since the multiplication of lattice dislocations within both y and etzlamellae is very limited as a result of a refined lamekr microstmture, the gliding of interfheii dislocations on both y/a2 and y/y interfaces (i.e. interface sliding) becomes an imp...

Several authors have written papers dealing with a class of combinatorial games consisting of one-pile and two-pile counter pickup games for which the maximum number of counters that can be removed on each move changes during the play of the game. See Holshouser [8],[7], and Flanigan [4]. The maximum number of counters that can be removed can depend upon a number of factors including the number...