Critical conduction mode

Each of these possibilities has a name — CCM, DCM, BCM (boundary conduction mode, also called critical conduction mode), and so on. Which of these operating modes actually occurs depends on the specific circuit (i.e. the topology) and also the application conditions (how much output power we are demanding and what the input and output voltages are). 

Note that the ratio r is defined for CCM (continuous conduction mode) operation only. Its valid range is from 0 to 2. When r is 0, AI must be 0, and the inductor equation then implies a very large (infinite) inductance. Clearly, r = 0 is not a practical value If r equals 2, the converter is operating at the boundary of continuous and discontinuous conduction modes (boundary conduction mode or BCM ). See Figure 2-5. In this so-called boundary (or critical ) conduction mode, Iac = Idc by definition. Note that readers can refer back to Chapter 1, in which CCM, DCM, and BCM were all initially introduced and explained. 

Another way of reducing the reverse recovery current shoot-through is simply to ensure that the boost diode is carrying no forward current at the moment when the switch starts to turn ON. The diode then blocks reverse voltage instantly. In other words, running the Boost in DCM or BCM (boundary conduction mode, i.e., at the critical boundary) will produce higher peak currents, but smaller inductors (yes, if r is large, the size of any inductor typically reduces ), and perhaps much better efficiency too, because now, the turn-on crossover loss becomes zero. 

Once the performance of the interface bond was established by the previous delamination (durability) tests, contoured double cantilever beam (CDCB) specimens were designed to conduct mode-I fracture tests. In this study, bilayer CDCB specimens (see Fig. 6) were designed by the Rayleigh-Ritz method [8] and used for fracture toughness tests on bonded FRP wood interfaces under both dry and wet conditions. The critical strain energy release rate, G/c, which is a measure of the fracture toughness, is given as ... 

Since the measurements on RBC exhibit such beautiful quantitative agreement with theory one has concluded that the electrodynamic part of the basic equations needs improvement. This was the motivation for introducing the WEM (Section 13.2). The linear stability calculations for the conductive mode have been carried out within this model [48, 49] using the same approximations which led to the analytic threshold formulas within the SM [12-15]. It is found that there is an upward shift in the threshold, which may be quite small, and, more importantly, a Hopf bifurcation with critical frequency... 

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Generally, the occurrence of a specific mode is determined by droplet impact properties (size, velocity, temperature), surface properties (temperature, roughness, wetting), and their thermophysical properties (thermal conductivity, thermal capacity, density, surface tension, droplet viscosity). It appeared that the surface temperature and the impact Weber number are the most critical factors governing both the droplet breakup behavior and ensuing heat transfer. I335 412 415]... 

In the case K > fi, the usual diffusion determines the kinetics for any gel shapes. Here the deviation of the stress tensor is nearly equal to — K(V u)8ij since the shear stress is small, so that V u should be held at a constant at the boundary from the zero osmotic pressure condition. Because -u obeys the diffusion equation (4.18), the problem is trivially reduced to that of heat conduction under a constant boundary temperature. The slowest relaxation rate fi0 is hence n2D/R2 for spheres with radius R, 6D/R2 for cylinders with radius R (see the sentences below Eq. (6.49)), and n2D/L2 for disks with thickness L. However, in the case K < [i, the process is more intriguing, where the macroscopic critical mode slows down as exp(- Q0t) with Q0 oc K. 

In a similar way the contribution for all the different modes to the three transport coefficients can be calculated. Equations (58) and (61) are the classic mode coupling theory expressions that provide general expressions for the shear viscosity and thermal conductivity, respectively. Using these general expressions and the ideas of static scaling laws, Kadanoff and Swift have calculated the transport coefficients near the critical point. 

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