We measure temperature fluctuations in the Rayleigh-Bénard apparatus, which is a closed cylindrical container with the bottom wall heated and the top wall cooled. The aspect ratio, which is the diameter-to-height ratio of the apparatus, is unity. The Rayleigh number is 1.5 x 10(11). The working fluid is cryogenic helium gas. We compute temperature structure functions up to order 16, and use ext...

We present a new method to analyze the performance of Reed-Solomon codes for hybrid-ARQ over Rayleigh fading channels with imperfect interleaving. Using the asymptotic results of level crossings of the faded envelope, we characterize the packet error probability as a function of the Doppler frequency and mean signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). We then use the notion of equivalent Doppler frequency to...

Convection in a colloidal suspension with a large negative separation ratio psi is studied experimentally by heating from above. Shadowgraph observations at very large solutal Rayleigh numbers Rtilde; are reported as a function of time. Fast relaxation oscillations are reported for the root mean square value of the shadowgraph intensity. While pure fluids exhibit a transition to turbulent conve...

We have carried out absolute calibrations of the LHD YAG Thomson scattering system by using Raman scattering and Rayleigh scattering in order to verify the applicability of Rayleigh calibration in the LHD Thomson scattering, and make a comparative study of Raman and Rayleigh calibrations. In the LHD Thomson scattering device, Rayleigh calibration is expected to give more reliable calibration fa...

When averaged over sources or disorder, cross correlation of diffuse fields yields the Green's function between two passive sensors. This technique is applied to elastic ultrasonic waves in an open scattering slab mimicking seismic waves in the Earth's crust. It appears that the Rayleigh wave reconstruction depends on the scattering properties of the elastic slab. Special attention is paid to t...

Experimental and numerical data for the heat transfer as a function of the Rayleigh, Prandtl, and Rossby numbers in turbulent rotating Rayleigh-Bénard convection are presented. For relatively small Ra approximately 10(8) and large Pr modest rotation can enhance the heat transfer by up to 30%. At larger Ra there is less heat-transfer enhancement, and at small Pr less, similar 0.7 there is no hea...

The present investigation deals with the propagation of Rayleigh wave in an incompressible medium bonded between two half-spaces. Variation in elastic parameters of the layer is taken linear form. The solution for layer and half-space are obtained analytically. Frequency equation for Rayleigh waves has been obtained. It is observed that the heterogeneity and width of the incompressible medium h...

Outcomes of uniform as well non-uniform temperature profiles that is linear, parabolic, inverted Piecewise Linear Profile Heated from Below (PLHB), Cooled Above (PLCA) and Step Function (SF) profile on the onset Double Diffusive Magneto-Darcy-Rayleigh-Benard (DDMDRB) Convection in a two layer set up presence Local Thermal Non-Equilibrium with incompressible fluid horizontally surrounded by adia...

We obtain a general form of the multivariate Rayleigh and exponential probability density functions (p.d.f.s) when these are generated by corre lated Gaussian random variables. A general expression for the exponential characteristic function (c.f.) is also derived.

A bent function is called self-dual if it is equal to its dual. It is called anti-self-dual if it is equal to the complement of its dual. A spectral characterization in terms of the Rayleigh quotient of the Sylvester Hadamard matrix is derived. Bounds on the Rayleigh quotient are given for Boolean functions in an odd number of variables. An efficient search algorithm based on the spectrum of th...