Transverse plane

About: Transverse plane is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 17069 publications have been published within this topic receiving 194059 citations. The topic is also known as: axial plane.

Measurement of the transverse Spitzer resistivity during collisional magnetic reconnection

Abstract: Measurement of the transverse resistivity was carried out in a reconnecting current sheet where the mean free path for the Coulomb collision is smaller than the thickness of the sheet. In a collisional neutral sheet without a guide field, the transverse resistivity is directly related to the reconnection rate. A remarkable agreement is found between the measured resistivity and the classical value derived by Spitzer. In his calculation the transverse resistivity for the electrons is higher than the parallel resistivity by a factor of 1.96. The measured values have verified this theory to within 30% errors.

In-plane and out-of-plane transverse susceptibility in close-packed arrays of monodisperse Fe nanoparticles

Abstract: The transverse susceptibility (TS) of arrays of self-assembled Fe nanoparticles has been studied using a sensitive radio-frequency resonant technique. Symmetrically located broad peaks in the TS data are observed below the blocking temperature as the applied field is swept from positive to negative saturation. These peaks occur at the effective anisotropy fields $(\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}{H}_{K})$ with the peak width determined by the distribution in ${H}_{K}$ in the nanoparticle array system. These features are observed to be strongly affected by dipolar interactions as well as thermal relaxation. Systematically tracking the evolution of the TS curves across the superparamagnetic transition reveals distinct temperature ranges over which thermal activation and dipolar energy overcome the effective magnetic anisotropy energy. Hysteresis loops measured using a superconducting quantum interference device magnetometer indicate a smaller coercive field for in-plane field orientation compared to that for out-of-plane orientation. This is also reflected in the TS measurements. A comparison of the TS over a wide range in temperature and magnetic fields, applied in plane and out of plane, reveals the distinct influence of variation in dipolar interaction strengths for the two geometries.

Coupled-wave model for square-lattice two-dimensional photonic crystal with transverse-electric-like mode

Abstract: We propose a coupled-wave model for a square-lattice two-dimensional (2D) photonic crystal (PC) with a transverse electric mode. A set of coupled-wave equations is obtained from this model and it is shown that 2D optical coupling occurs between four light waves propagating in the Γ-X direction via higher-order waves propagating in the Γ-M direction. The expressions for the resonant mode frequencies derived from the coupled-wave equations describe the characteristics of experimental results for the band-edge frequencies of the 2D PC laser.

Experimental investigation of cross flow mixing in a randomly packed bed and streamwise vortex characteristics using particle image velocimetry and proper orthogonal decomposition analysis

Abstract: The study of flow and heat transfer through porous media or randomly packed beds is important as these configurations are widely used in many engineering applications, for example, heat energy storage, chemical catalytic reactors, and nuclear reactors. The flow mixing characteristics in a cross-flow plane of a facility with randomly packed spheres at an aspect ratio of 6.3 were experimentally investigated. The velocity fields at several regions of the cross-flow plane located in the vicinity of the wall and in the pores between spheres were obtained by applying the matched-index-of-refraction and time-resolved particle image velocimetry (TR-PIV) techniques for Reynolds numbers ranging from 700 to 1700. The TR-PIV results revealed various flow patterns in the transverse plane of the packed spheres, including swirling flow structures aligned with the axial flow direction, a strong bypass flow near the enclosure wall, and a circulation region created when the bypass flow ejected into a large spatial gap. When the Reynolds number was increased, the peaks of root-mean-square fluctuating velocities, urms′ and vrms′, were found to increase approximately at the same ratio as the increase in Reynolds number, and the magnitude of the Reynolds stress increased considerably. In addition, the characteristics of flow mixing in different flow regions were investigated via the two-point cross-correlation of fluctuating velocities. Using Taylor’s hypothesis, the vorticity iso-surfaces were constructed. Thus, constructed iso-surfaces showed that shear layers generated from the bypass flow gaps were stretched, broken into smaller flow structures, and then evolved as vortex pairs when entering the neighboring gaps. The results obtained by applying proper orthogonal decomposition (POD) analysis to the velocity fields showed that the statistically dominant flow structures had approximately the same size and shape as those depicted by Taylor’s hypothesis. Vortex characteristics, such as populations, spatial distributions, and strengths, for various spatial regions and Reynolds numbers were obtained by a combination of POD analysis and vortex identification.

Nanoparticle with a ferrimagnetic interlayer coupling in the presence of single-ion anisotropis

Abstract: The magnetic properties of a nanoparticle described by the transverse Ising model with single-ion anisotropis, which consists of a concentric spin-3/2 core and a hexagonal ring spin-5/2 shell coupled with a ferrimamagnetic interlayer coupling, are studied by the effective-field theory with self-spin correlations. Particular emphasis is given to the effects of the both the transverse field and the single-ion anisotropis on the longitudinal and transverse magnetizations, phase diagrams of the nanoparticle. We have found that, for appropriate values of the system parameters, one or two compensation points may be obtained in the present systems.