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2010 Computation Directorate Annual Report (open access)

2010 Computation Directorate Annual Report

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Date: January 2011
Creator: Crawford, D. L.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
2010 Forest Carbon Workgroup: Final Report (open access)

2010 Forest Carbon Workgroup: Final Report

This document provides a detailed report and recommendations of the 2010 Forest Carbon Work group to the Director of the Department of Ecology and the Commissioner of Public Lands. The recommendations relate to the critical role Washington’s forest lands will play in addressing the challenge of climate change; appropriate responses to pressure for conversion of working forest lands to non-forest uses; and the role of ecosystem service markets, including carbon offset markets, and other incentive systems in bringing about desired results. The 2010 Work group included some members of a similar 2008 Work group and built on the results of that 2008 effort. The report appendix contains purpose statements by each participating interest, explaining its rationale for participation. In light of the 2010 Work group emphasis, this document focused on three topics: Forest carbon considerations in avoiding forest land use conversion; incentives to reward forest landowners for providing ecosystem services, including carbon storage and improvement of forest health; and features of forest carbon offset protocols and registries that are appropriate for use by forest offset project developers in Washington State.
Date: January 2011
Creator: Partridge, Craig; Boese, Jerry & Bernath, Stephen
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
36th Annual International Conference on Infrared Millimeter and Terahertz Waves (open access)

36th Annual International Conference on Infrared Millimeter and Terahertz Waves

The Major Topic List of the 2011 conference featured a category entitled “IR, millimeter-wave, and THz spectroscopy,” another entitled “Gyro- Oscillators and Amplifiers, Plasma Diagnostics,” and a third called “Free Electron Lasers and Synchrotron Radiation.” Topical areas of interest to meeting participants include millimeter-wave electronics, high-power sources, high-frequency communications systems, and terahertz sensing and imaging, all of which are prominent in the research portfolios of the DOE. The development and study of new materials, components, and systems for use in the IR, THz, and MMW regions of the spectrum are of significant interest as well. a series of technical sessions were organized on the following topics:  terahertz metamaterials and plasmonics;  imaging techniques and applications;  graphene spectroscopy;  waveguide concepts;  gyrotron science and technology;  ultrafast terahertz measurements; and  quantum cascade lasers.
Date: January 1, 2011
Creator: Mittleman, Daniel M.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
82nd Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Concurrent Resolution 3 (open access)

82nd Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Concurrent Resolution 3

Concurrent resolution introduced by the Texas Senate and House of Representatives relating to providing for procedures for the canvass of votes for the governor and lieutenant governor and the inauguration of the governor and lieutenant governor.
Date: January 2011
Creator: Texas. Legislature. Senate.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
82nd Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Concurrent Resolution 6 (open access)

82nd Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Concurrent Resolution 6

Concurrent resolution introduced by the Texas Senate and House of Representatives relating to granting the legislature permission to adjourn for more than three days during the period beginning on Thursday, January 13, 2011, and ending on Tuesday, January 18, 2011.
Date: January 2011
Creator: Texas. Legislature. Senate.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
82nd Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Concurrent Resolution 7 (open access)

82nd Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Concurrent Resolution 7

Concurrent resolution introduced by the Texas Senate and House of Representatives relating to granting the legislature permission to adjourn for more than three days during the period beginning on Wednesday, January 19, 2011, and ending on Monday, January 24, 2011.
Date: January 2011
Creator: Texas. Legislature. Senate.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
82nd Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Concurrent Resolution 8 (open access)

82nd Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Concurrent Resolution 8

Concurrent resolution introduced by the Texas Senate and House of Representatives relating to granting the legislature permission to adjourn for more than three days during the period beginning on Wednesday, January 26, 2011, and ending on Monday, January 31, 2011.
Date: January 2011
Creator: Texas. Legislature. Senate.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
Accelerating Battery Design Using Computer-Aided Engineering Tools: Preprint (open access)

Accelerating Battery Design Using Computer-Aided Engineering Tools: Preprint

Computer-aided engineering (CAE) is a proven pathway, especially in the automotive industry, to improve performance by resolving the relevant physics in complex systems, shortening the product development design cycle, thus reducing cost, and providing an efficient way to evaluate parameters for robust designs. Academic models include the relevant physics details, but neglect engineering complexities. Industry models include the relevant macroscopic geometry and system conditions, but simplify the fundamental physics too much. Most of the CAE battery tools for in-house use are custom model codes and require expert users. There is a need to make these battery modeling and design tools more accessible to end users such as battery developers, pack integrators, and vehicle makers. Developing integrated and physics-based CAE battery tools can reduce the design, build, test, break, re-design, re-build, and re-test cycle and help lower costs. NREL has been involved in developing various models to predict the thermal and electrochemical performance of large-format cells and has used in commercial three-dimensional finite-element analysis and computational fluid dynamics to study battery pack thermal issues. These NREL cell and pack design tools can be integrated to help support the automotive industry and to accelerate battery design.
Date: January 1, 2011
Creator: Pesaran, A.; Heon, G. H. & Smith, K.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Accelerating Innovation: How Nuclear Physics Benefits Us All (open access)

Accelerating Innovation: How Nuclear Physics Benefits Us All

From fighting cancer to assuring food is safe to protecting our borders, nuclear physics impacts the lives of people around the globe every day. In learning about the nucleus of the atom and the forces that govern it, scientists develop a depth of knowledge, techniques and remarkable research tools that can be used to develop a variety of often unexpected, practical applications. These applications include devices and technologies for medical diagnostics and therapy, energy production and exploration, safety and national security, and for the analysis of materials and environmental contaminants. This brochure by the Office of Nuclear Physics of the USDOE Office of Science discusses nuclear physics and ways in which its applications fuel our economic vitality, and make the world and our lives safer and healthier.
Date: January 1, 2011
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Accident source terms for light-water nuclear power plants using high-burnup or MOX fuel. (open access)

Accident source terms for light-water nuclear power plants using high-burnup or MOX fuel.

Representative accident source terms patterned after the NUREG-1465 Source Term have been developed for high burnup fuel in BWRs and PWRs and for MOX fuel in a PWR with an ice-condenser containment. These source terms have been derived using nonparametric order statistics to develop distributions for the timing of radionuclide release during four accident phases and for release fractions of nine chemical classes of radionuclides as calculated with the MELCOR 1.8.5 accident analysis computer code. The accident phases are those defined in the NUREG-1465 Source Term - gap release, in-vessel release, ex-vessel release, and late in-vessel release. Important differences among the accident source terms derived here and the NUREG-1465 Source Term are not attributable to either fuel burnup or use of MOX fuel. Rather, differences among the source terms are due predominantly to improved understanding of the physics of core meltdown accidents. Heat losses from the degrading reactor core prolong the process of in-vessel release of radionuclides. Improved understanding of the chemistries of tellurium and cesium under reactor accidents changes the predicted behavior characteristics of these radioactive elements relative to what was assumed in the derivation of the NUREG-1465 Source Term. An additional radionuclide chemical class has been defined to …
Date: January 1, 2011
Creator: Salay, Michael (U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, D.C.); Gauntt, Randall O.; Lee, Richard Y. (U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, D.C.); Powers, Dana Auburn & Leonard, Mark Thomas
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Accurate simulation of the electron cloud in the Fermilab Main Injector with VORPAL (open access)

Accurate simulation of the electron cloud in the Fermilab Main Injector with VORPAL

We present results from a precision simulation of the electron cloud (EC) in the Fermilab Main Injector using the code VORPAL. This is a fully 3d and self consistent treatment of the EC. Both distributions of electrons in 6D phase-space and E.M. field maps have been generated. This has been done for various configurations of the magnetic fields found around the machine have been studied. Plasma waves associated to the fluctuation density of the cloud have been analyzed. Our results are compared with those obtained with the POSINST code. The response of a Retarding Field Analyzer (RFA) to the EC has been simulated, as well as the more challenging microwave absorption experiment. Definite predictions of their exact response are difficult to obtain,mostly because of the uncertainties in the secondary emission yield and, in the case of the RFA, because of the sensitivity of the electron collection efficiency to unknown stray magnetic fields. Nonetheless, our simulations do provide guidance to the experimental program.
Date: January 1, 2011
Creator: Lebrun, Paul L. G.; Spentzouris, Panagiotis; Cary, John R.; Stoltz, Peter & Veitzer, Seth A.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Achievements and Lessons from Tevatron (open access)

Achievements and Lessons from Tevatron

For almost a quarter of a century, the Tevatron proton-antiproton collider was the centerpiece of the world's high energy physics program - beginning operation in December of 1985 until it was overtaken by LHC in 2011. The aim of the this unique scientific instrument was to explore the elementary particle physics reactions with center of mass collision energies of up to 1.96 TeV. The initial design luminosity of the Tevatron was 10{sup 30} cm{sup -2}s{sup -1}, however as a result of two decades of upgrades, the accelerator has been able to deliver 430 times higher luminosities to each of two high luminosity experiments, CDF and D0. Tevatron will be shut off September 30, 2011. The collider was arguably one of the most complex research instruments ever to reach the operation stage and is widely recognized for many technological breakthroughs and numerous physics discoveries. Below we briefly present the history of the Tevatron, major advances in accelerator physics, and technology implemented during the long quest for better and better performance. We also discuss some lessons learned from our experience.
Date: January 1, 2011
Creator: Shiltsev, V.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

Active Power Control Testing at the U.S. National Wind Technology Center (NWTC)

In order to keep the electricity grid stable and the lights on, the power system relies on certain responses from its generating fleet. This presentation evaluates the potential for wind turbines and wind power plants to provide these services and assist the grid during critical times.
Date: January 1, 2011
Creator: Ela, E.
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Additional Characterization of Min-K TE-1400 Thermal Insulation (open access)

Additional Characterization of Min-K TE-1400 Thermal Insulation

Min-K 1400TE (Thermal Ceramics, Augusta, Georgia) insulation material was further characterized at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) for use in structural applications under gradient temperature conditions in an inert environment. Original characterization of Min-K was undertaken from April 1997 to July 2008 to determine its high temperature compressive strength and stress relaxation behavior up to 900 C in helium along with the formulation of a general model for the mechanical behavior exhibited by Min-K under these conditions. The additional testing described in this report was undertaken from April 2009 to June 2010 in an effort to further evaluate the mechanical behavior of Min-K when subjected to a variety of conditions including alternative test temperatures and time scales than previously measured. The behavior of Min-K under changing environments (temperature and strain), lateral loads, and additional isothermal temperatures was therefore explored.
Date: January 1, 2011
Creator: Hemrick, James Gordon & King, James
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Advanced dexterous manipulation for IED defeat : report on the feasibility of using the ShadowHand for remote operations. (open access)

Advanced dexterous manipulation for IED defeat : report on the feasibility of using the ShadowHand for remote operations.

Improvised Explosive Device (IED) defeat (IEDD) operations can involve intricate operations that exceed the current capabilities of the grippers on board current bombsquad robots. The Shadow Dexterous Hand from the Shadow Robot Company or 'ShadowHand' for short (www.shadowrobot.com) is the first commercially available robot hand that realistically replicates the motion, degrees-of-freedom and dimensions of a human hand (Figure 1). In this study we evaluate the potential for the ShadowHand to perform potential IED defeat tasks on a mobile platform.
Date: January 1, 2011
Creator: Anderson, Robert J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Advocate, Volume 16, Issue 1, January-March 2011 (open access)

The Advocate, Volume 16, Issue 1, January-March 2011

Quarterly update providing information on environmental regulations for small businesses and local governments in Texas.
Date: January 2011
Creator: Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Aerial of Apogee Stadium Construction]

Aerial photograph of a portion of the University of North Texas campus including Apogee Stadium, Victory Hall, and Fouts Fields. Interstate 35 is visible bisecting the center of the image.
Date: January 2011
Creator: United States. Civil Air Patrol.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Aerial of Central UNT Campus]

Aerial photograph of a portion of the University of North Texas campus including Kerr Hall, the Business Leadership Building, Maple Hall, Willis Library, and the Hurley Administration Building.
Date: January 2011
Creator: United States. Civil Air Patrol.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Aerial of Discovery Park and Pond]

Aerial photograph of a portion of the University of North Texas campus including Discovery Park and its surrounding parking lots. A Denton suburb and a large pond are visible at the bottom of the photo.
Date: January 2011
Creator: United States. Civil Air Patrol.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Aerial of Fouts Field]

Aerial photograph of a portion of the University of North Texas campus including Fouts Field and the Coliseum.
Date: January 2011
Creator: United States. Civil Air Patrol.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Aerial of Fouts Field]

Aerial photograph of a portion of the University of North Texas campus including Fouts Field, the Apogee Stadium, and Victory Hall.
Date: January 2011
Creator: United States. Civil Air Patrol.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Aerial of Highland Garage and Kerr Hall]

Aerial photograph of a portion of the University of North Texas campus including an unfinished Highland Street Garage, Kerr residence hall, and the Business Leadership Building. Fouts Field can be seen in the background.
Date: January 2011
Creator: United States. Civil Air Patrol.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Aerial of Highland Street Garage Construction]

Aerial photograph of a portion of the University of North Texas campus including the partial construction of the Highland Street Garage, Wooten Hall, and the Union Circle Garage. This photograph captures the southeastern portion of UNT.
Date: January 2011
Creator: United States. Civil Air Patrol.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Aerial of Kerr Hall and the BLB]

Aerial photograph of a portion of the University of North Texas campus including Kerr Hall and the BLB (Business Leadership Building). Other notable buildings visible in the photo include Willis Library, the Hurley Administration Building, and the University Union.
Date: January 2011
Creator: United States. Civil Air Patrol.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library