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Technicolorful Supersymmetry (open access)

Technicolorful Supersymmetry

Technicolor achieves electroweak symmetry breaking (EWSB) in an elegant and natural way, while it suffers from severe model building difficulties. I propose to abandon its secondary goal to eliminate scalar bosons in exchange of solving numerous problems using supersymmetry. It helps to understand walking dynamics much better with certain exact results. In the particular model presented here, there is no light elementary Higgs boson and the EWSB is fully dynamical, hence explaining the hierarchy; There is no alignment problem and no light pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone bosons exist; The fermion masses are generated by a ultraviolet-complete renormalizable extended technicolor sector with techni-GIM mechanism and hence the sector is safe from flavor-changing-neutral-current constraints; The ''e{sup +}e{sup -}'' production of techni-states in the superconformal window is calculable; The electroweak precision observables are (un)fortunately not calculable.
Date: July 27, 2003
Creator: Murayama, Hitoshi
System: The UNT Digital Library
Numerical simulation of a premixed turbulent V-flame (open access)

Numerical simulation of a premixed turbulent V-flame

We present three-dimensional, time-dependent simulations of a full-size laboratory-scale rod-stabilized premixed turbulent V-flame. The computations use an adaptive projection method based on a low Mach number formulation that incorporates detailed chemical kinetics and transport. The simulations are performed without introducing models for turbulence or turbulence chemistry interaction. We outline the numerical procedure and experimental setup, and compare computed results to mean flame location and surface wrinkling statistics gathered from experiment.
Date: July 27, 2003
Creator: Bell, John B.; Day, Marc S.; Grcar, Joseph F.; Lijewski, Michael J.; Johnson, Matt R.; Cheng, Robert K. et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Analysis of carbon chemistry in numerical simulations of vortex flame interaction (open access)

Analysis of carbon chemistry in numerical simulations of vortex flame interaction

In this paper we discuss the application of a new diagnostic tool for analysis of flame simulations. This methodology is based on following specific chemical elements, e.g., carbon or nitrogen, as they move through the system. From this perspective an ''atom'' is a component of a molecule that is being transported through the simulation domain by advection and diffusion. Reactions cause the atom to shift from one species to another with the subsequent transport of the atom determined by the movement of the new species.
Date: July 27, 2003
Creator: Bell, John B.; Day, Marcus S.; Grcar, Joseph F. & Lijewski, Michael J.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Numerical simulations of shock-induced mixing and combustion (open access)

Numerical simulations of shock-induced mixing and combustion

In this paper we use numerical simulation to investigate shock-induced ignition and combustion of a hydrocarbon gas. The focus of this paper is on quantifying the effect of fidelity in the chemical kinetics on the overall solution. We model the system using the compressible Navier Stokes equations for a reacting mixture. These equations express conservation of species mass, momentum, total energy.
Date: July 27, 2003
Creator: Bell, John B.; Day, Marc S. & Kuhl, A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Thermo-Gas-Dynamic Model of Afterburning in Explosions (open access)

Thermo-Gas-Dynamic Model of Afterburning in Explosions

A theoretical model of afterburning in explosions created by turbulent mixing of the detonation products from fuel-rich charges with air is described. It contains three key elements: (i) a thermodynamic-equilibrium description of the fluids (fuel, air, and products), (ii) a multi-component gas-dynamic treatment of the flow field, and (iii) a sub-grid model of molecular processes of mixing, combustion and equilibration.
Date: July 27, 2003
Creator: Kuhl, A L; Ferguson, R E & Bell, J B
System: The UNT Digital Library
International Cooperation to Address the Radioactive Legacy in States of the Former Soviet Union (open access)

International Cooperation to Address the Radioactive Legacy in States of the Former Soviet Union

The end of the Cold War allows a comprehensive assessment of the nature and extent of the residual contamination derivative from the atomic defense and nuclear power enterprise in the former Soviet Union. The size of the problem is considerable; some 6.3 x 10{sup 7} TBq (6.4 x 10{sup 8} m{sup 3}) of radioactive waste from the Soviet Union weapons and power complex was produced throughout all stages of the nuclear fuel cycle. The resulting contamination occurs at sites throughout the former Soviet Union where nuclear fuels were mined, milled, enriched, fabricated, and used in defense and power reactors. In addition, liquid radioactive wastes from nuclear reprocessing have been discharged to lakes, rivers, reservoirs and other surface impoundments; military and civilian naval reactor effluents were released to sea as well as stabilized on land. Finally, nuclear testing residuals from atmospheric and underground nuclear tests at the Semipalatinsk and Novaya Zemlya test sites and peaceful nuclear tests conducted throughout the area of the former Soviet Union pose risks to human health and the environment. Through a program of international scientific exchange, cooperative approaches to address these threats provide former Soviet scientists with expertise and technologies developed in the United States, Europe, …
Date: July 27, 2003
Creator: Smith, D. K.; Knapp, R. B.; Rosenberg, N. D. & Tompson, A. F. B.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Experiments and Simulations of Penetration into Granite by an Aluminum Shaped Charge (open access)

Experiments and Simulations of Penetration into Granite by an Aluminum Shaped Charge

This paper describes experimental results and numerical simulations of jet penetration into granite from an aluminum lined shaped charge. Several penetration versus standoff experiments were conducted into an in-situ granite formation located in the Climax Ridge region of the Nevada Test Site. Simulations of the jet penetration were modeled with a two dimensional arbitrary lagrange eulerian hydrocode. The effects of variations in the granite flow stress, porosity, and EOS have been evaluated. The work described in this paper is a continuation of our studies on jet penetration and modeling into high strength concrete.
Date: July 27, 2003
Creator: Murphy, M. J.; Randers-Pehrson, G.; Kuklo, R. M.; Rambur, T. A.; Switzer, L. L. & Summes, M. A.
System: The UNT Digital Library