rayleigh in English

noun

family name; John William Strutt Rayleigh (1842-1919), English physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize for his discovery of the element argo

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1. This causes Rayleigh–Taylor instability.

2. The color was most likely caused by Rayleigh scattering.

3. For most engineering purposes, the Rayleigh number is large, somewhere around 106 to 108.

4. The Rayleigh waves used for this purpose are in the ultrasonic frequency range.

5. The effect of aspect ratio, inclination angle and Rayleigh number on heat transfer is studied.

6. Systems and methods for distributed acoustic sensing based on coherent Rayleigh scattering are disclosed herein.

7. This occurs because a Rayleigh wave of lower frequency has a relatively long wavelength.

8. The flame accelerates dramatically, in part due to the Rayleigh–Taylor instability and interactions with turbulence.

9. A-segregates are predicted to form when the Rayleigh number exceeds a certain critical value.

10. The strikingly simple analytic solutions might be useful for better understanding the mechanism of Rayleigh-Bénard flows.

11. The new algorithm is equivalent to the Rayleigh quotient iteration and its rate of convergence is cubic.

12. Love waves travel with a lower velocity than P- or S- waves, but faster than Rayleigh waves.

13. The second order optical nonlinearity of 7 hydroxyquinoline (7HQ) was investigation by using hyper Rayleigh scattering (HRS) method.

14. In 1918, Mandelstam theoretically predicted the fine structure splitting in Rayleigh scattering due to light scattering on thermal acoustic waves.

15. The problem is governed by the aspect ratioA, the Rayleigh numberRa, the anisotropy ratioR and the orientation angle θ of the permeability tensor.

16. In their experiments, the acoustic waves guided in slabs of polyurethane foam were of the Rayleigh type, which was more suitable for this purpose.

17. Einstein relates this to Rayleigh scattering, which is what happens when the fluctuation size is much smaller than the wavelength, and which explains why the sky is blue.

18. In this paper, a kind of wavelet packet division multiplexing(WPDM) is introduced, and its probability of error due to the effect of Rayleigh Fading is derived.

19. 27 The Rayleigh-Ritz method is used to calculate the critical load at which delamination buckling will occur for a symmetric cross-ply composite laminate containing a single delamination.

20. Adaptive channel filtration enables a filter to be adaptively optimized for both co-channel and adjacent channel rejection performance (e.g., even as conditions change in a Rayleigh-fading environment).