Engineering topics
Publications and source records attributed to Price, J. C..
The Somali current and the southwest monsoon are identified as arising from an ocean atmosphere instability which is associated with the low latitude variation of the Coriolis force. Data on the fall of isotherms, surface wind speed, ocean response to frictional force, and upwelling of cold water are discussed.
Satellite measurements of sea surface temperature must be corrected for atmospheric moisture, cloud contamination, reflected solar radiation and other sources of error. Procedures for reducing errors are discussed. It appears that routine accuracies of 1 C are possible, given low noise spectral measurements in the infrared.
Using the Chapman-Enskog procedure, equations are derived for near-equilibrium transport of plasma in a strong magnetic field. It is shown that these equations reduce properly to collision dominated equations and to collisionless Chew-Goldberger-Low (1956) equations in the respective limits. The results presented are more complete than those of Stringer and Connor (1971) and correct their erroneous partition of conducted thermal energy.
Guiding center equations for charged particle motion and statistical fluctuations of plasma in magnetic field, using Krylov-Bogoliubov transformation
Failure of rocket flown electron accelerator to create artificial aurora
Coupled kinetic equations for inhomogeneous systems treated as simultaneous equations in time, obtaining solutions by successive approximation
Coupled equations of various hierarchies as simultaneous equations in time
Fokker-Planck equation extended to derive collision term for small amplitude waves in uniform plasma
Valid kinetic equation for both stable and unstable plasmas