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Temperature dynamics in decaying isotropic turbulence with Joule heat production
No full textThis paper presents an extension of existing works dealing with the dynamics of a passive scalar in freely decaying isotropic turbulence, by accounting for a production mechanism of the passive scalar itself. The physically relevant case of the temperature dynamics in the presence of Joule heating via the dissipation of the turbulent kinetic energy is selected and analysed by theoretical and numerical means. In particular, the sensitivity of the temperature decay to the non-dimensional parameters Prandtl number (Pr) and Eckert number (Ec), the latter measuring the intensity of the internal energy production mechanism, is investigated. The time behaviour of the global quantities such as the temperature variance -2.t/ and its destruction rate "- .t/ is analysed, and a detailed analysis of the temperature variance spectrum E- .k/ is provided. In the case of a very strong heating mechanism, some important modifications of the temperature dynamics are observed. The time-decay-law exponents of the global physical quantities assume new values, which are governed only by features of the kinetic energy spectrum, while they depend on the shape of E- .k/ in the classical free-decay case. The temperature variance spectrum E- .k/ exhibits two new spectral ranges. One is a convective-production range such that E- .k/ / k1=3 is observed for a finite time at all values of Pr. In the case of very diffusive fluids with Pr - 1, a convective-diffusive-production range with E- .k/ / k7=3 is also detected. © 2013 Cambridge University Press
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Multigrid sequential data assimilation for the Large Eddy Simulation of a massively separated bluff-body flow
No full textThe potential of sequential Data Assimilation (DA) techniques to improve the numerical accuracy of Large Eddy Simulation (LES) performed on coarse grid is assessed. Specifically, this paper evaluates the performance of the Multigrid Ensemble Kalman Filter (MGEnKF) method, recently introduced by Moldovan, Lehnasch, Cordier and Meldi (Journal of Computational Physics, 2021). The international benchmark referred to as BARC (Benchmark of the Aerodynamics of a Rectangular 5:1 Cylinder) is chosen as test configuration, as it includes several complex flow dynamics encountered in turbulence studies. The results for the statistical moments of the velocity and pressure flow field show that the data-driven techniques employed are able to significantly improve the predictive features of the solver for reduced grid resolution. In addition, it was observed that, despite the sparse and asymmetric distribution of observation in the data-driven process, the DA augmented LES exhibits symmetric statistics and a significantly improved accuracy also far from the observation zone
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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