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Reconfigurable robots are at the forefront of robotics innovation due to their unmatched versatility and adaptability in addressing various tasks through collaborative operations. This paper explores the design and implementation of a novel…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Ollie Wiltshire , Seyed Amir Tafrishi

Design calculation and analysis have been performed for the brake disc along with the design calculations for the brake caliper for the system optimization, and design of experiments have been implemented for the brake disc in order to…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-03-14 Swapnil Kumar , Sundar V Atre

The formation of protoplanetary discs during the collapse of molecular dense cores is significantly influenced by angular momentum transport, notably by the magnetic torque. In turn, the evolution of the magnetic field is determined by…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-02-01 Patrick Hennebelle , Benoit Commercon , Gilles Chabrier , Pierre Marchand

We present direct numerical simulations of dynamo action in a forced Roberts flow. The behavior of the dynamo is followed as the mechanical Reynolds number is increased, starting from the laminar case until a turbulent regime is reached.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-26 P. D. Mininni , D. C. Montgomery

Adaptable, low-cost, coils designed by carefully selecting the arrangements and geometries of simple primitive units are used to generate magnetic fields for diverse applications. These extend from magnetic resonance and fundamental physics…

For more than 40 years the quest to understand how large-scale magnetic fields emerge from turbulent flows in rotating astrophysical systems, such as the Sun, has been a major focus of computational astrophysics research. Using a parameter…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-25 François Rincon

In a recent paper (Phys. Rev. Lett. 94 (2005), 184506; physics/0411050) it was shown that a simple mean-field dynamo model with a spherically symmetric helical turbulence parameter alpha can exhibit a number of features which are typical…

Geophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Frank Stefani , Gunter Gerbeth , Uwe Guenther , Mingtian Xu

Strongly magnetized accretion discs around black holes have attractive features that may explain enigmatic aspects of X-ray binary behaviour. The structure and evolution of these discs are governed by a dynamo-like mechanism, which channels…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-02-03 Greg Salvesen , Jacob B. Simon , Philip J. Armitage , Mitchell C. Begelman

In the framework of the project to design and test a collimation system prototype using bent channeling crystal for cleaning of the RHIC heavy ion beam halo, we have studied the optimal length and bending angle of a silicon (110) single…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 V. M. Biryukov , Yu. A. Chesnokov , V. I. Kotov , D. Trbojevic , A. Stevens

The friction drag reduction in a turbulent channel flow generated by surface-mounted rotating disc actuators is investigated numerically. The wall arrangement of the discs has a complex and unexpected effect on the flow. For low disc-tip…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-01-21 Daniel J. Wise , Claudia Alvarenga , Pierre Ricco

The changes of a turbulent channel flow subjected to oscillations of wall flush-mounted rigid discs are studied by means of direct numerical simulations. The Reynolds number is $R_\tau$=$180$, based on the friction velocity of the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-19 Daniel J. Wise , Pierre Ricco

We consider local, stratified, numerical models of isothermal accretion disks. The novel feature of our treatment is that radial extent L_x and azimuthal extent L_y satisfy H << L_x, L_y << R, where H is the scale height and R is the local…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 Xiaoyue Guan , Charles F. Gammie

In this paper we suggest the existence in the central regions of spiral galaxies of collisionless, scale-free, rigidly rotating, self-gravitating discs with spiral symmetry. Such discs must be truncated at a finite radius, and they must be…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2011-10-27 R. N. Henriksen

Global stationary configurations of both aligned and logarithmic spiral MHD perturbations are constructed analytically within an axisymmetric background ofrazor-thin scale-free gas disc, which is embedded in an axisymmetric gravitational…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Yue Wu , Yu-Qing Lou

Protostellar disks around young protostars exhibit diverse properties, with their radii ranging from less than ten to several hundred au. To investigate the mechanisms shaping this disk radius distribution, we compiled a sample of 27 Class…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-23 Hsi-Wei Yen , Yueh-Ning Lee

This paper describes a method for achieving continuous deterministic 360$^{\circ} $ magnetic moment rotations in single domain magnetoelastic discs, and examines the performance bounds for a mechanically lossless multiferroic bead-on-a-disc…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-02-27 John P. Domann , Cai Chen , Abdon E. Sepulveda , Rob N. Candler , Greg P. Carman

State of the art models of the ISM use adaptive mesh refinement to capture small scale structures, by refining on the fly those regions of the grid where density and pressure gradients occur, keeping at the same time the existing resolution…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. A. de Avillez , Dieter Breitschwerdt

We discuss recent progress in understanding the launching of outflows/jets from the disc-magnetosphere boundary of slowly and rapidly rotating magnetized stars. In most of the discussed models the interior of the disc is assumed to have a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-06-06 R. V. E. Lovelace , M. M. Romanova , P. Lii

Stars of sufficiently low mass are convective throughout their interiors, and so do not possess an internal boundary layer akin to the solar tachocline. Because that interface figures so prominently in many theories of the solar magnetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Matthew Browning

We numerically investigate the efficiency of a spherical Couette flow at generating a self-sustained magnetic field. No dynamo action occurs for axisymmetric flow while we always found a dynamo when non-axisymmetric hydrodynamical…

Geophysics · Physics 2020-07-17 Céline Guervilly , Philippe Cardin