Ellipsoids continuous distribution

A similar acoustic technique was applied by Pickles and Bittleston (1983) to investigate blast produced by an elongated, or cigar-shaped, cloud. The cloud was modeled as an ellipsoid with an aspect ratio of 10. The explosion was simulated by a continuous distribution of volume sources along the main axis with a strength proportional to the local cross-sectional area of the ellipsoid. The blast produced by such a vapor cloud explosion was shown to be highly directional along the main axis. 

Figure 12.6 Calculated absorption spectra of aluminum spheres, randomly oriented ellipsoids (geometrical factors 0.01, 0.3, and 0.69), and a continuous distribution of ellipsoidal shapes (CDE). Below this is the real part of the Drude dielectric function.

Figure 12.14 Measured infrared extinction by crystalline quartz particles (dashed curves) compared with calculations for spheres (top) and a continuous distribution of ellipsoids (bottom).

Extinction calculations for aluminum spheres and a continuous distribution of ellipsoids (CDE) are compared in Fig. 12.6 the dielectric function was approximated by the Drude formula. The sum rule (12.32) implies that integrated absorption by an aluminum particle in air is nearly independent of its shape a change of shape merely shifts the resonance to another frequency between 0 and 15 eV, the region over which e for aluminum is negative. Thus, a distribution of shapes causes the surface plasmon band to be broadened, the... 

Figure 12.20 Extinction spectra calculated for small aluminum spheres and a continuous distribution of ellipsoids (CDE) in air (---) and in a medium with c = 2.3 (—). The circles show data...

Rayleigh theory may be extended to encompass ellipsoids (including spheres, discs, and needles), cubes, or a continuous distribution of ellipsoids. The average polarizability can be rewritten to include a geometric shape parameter, Lj... 

From the viewpoint of quantum mechanics, the polarization process cannot be continuous, but must involve a quantized transition from one state to another. Also, the transition must involve a change in the shape of the initial spherical charge distribution to an elongated shape (ellipsoidal). Thus an s-type wave function must become a p-type (or higher order) function. This requires an excitation energy call it A. Straightforward perturbation theory, applied to the Schroedinger aquation, then yields a simple expression for the polarizability (Atkins and Friedman, 1997) ... 

Important information is included in the anisotropic atomic displacement parameters for lithium, which determine the overall anisotropy of the thermal vibration by the shape of ellipsoid. Green ellipsoids shown in Figs. 14.11a, c and 13 represent the refined lithium vibration. The preferable direction of fhennal displacement is toward the face-shared vacant tetrahedra. The expected curved one-dimensional continuous chain of lithium atoms is drawn in Fig. 14.13 and is consistent with the computational prediction by Morgan et al. [22] and Islam et al. [23]. Such anisotropic thermal vibratiOTis of lithium were further supported by the Fourier synthesis of the model-independent nuclear distribution of lithium (see Fig. 14.14). 

Figure 2.9 (a) Distribution of mean diameters for mustard seeds from Figure 2.8. The seeds are modeled as ellipsoids, (b) Categorization of the shape (slightly prolate) of the seeds. ctj,cj2/0 3 are the sorted (small-to-large) principle diameters scaled by the mean diameter. (Continued)...

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