ICF靶丸内燃料的气液两相组分组成分析

 在质量守恒的基础上,运用拉乌尔定律和道尔顿分压定律,对以摩尔分数比为3∶3∶4比例充入到ICF靶丸内的氘气、氚气和氘化氚三元系的热核燃料,在工作温度为22,24,26,28和30 K下处于相平衡时气液两相的组分组成进行了分析讨论。结果显示:工作温度为22 K时,随着充气压强从1 MPa增大到5 MPa,液层中氘气的摩尔分数从0.251增大到0.290,氚气的摩尔分数从0.350减小到0.310;气泡中氘气的摩尔分数从0.322增大到0.365,氚气的摩尔分数从0.278减小到0.241。充气压强为5 MPa时,随着工作温度从22 K提高到30 K,液层中氘气摩尔分数从0.290减小到0.261,氚气的摩尔分数从0.309增大到0.341;气泡中氘气的摩尔分数从0.365减小到0.302,氚气的摩尔分数从0.241增大到0.298。     

Exciton emissions of CdS nanowire array fabricated on Cd foil by the solvothermal method

Nanowires have recently attracted more attention because of their low-dimensional structure, tunable optical and electrical properties for next-generation nanoscale optoelectronic devices. Cd S nanowire array, which is(002)-orientation growth and approximately perpendicular to Cd foil substrate, has been fabricated by the solvothermal method. In the temperature-dependent photoluminescence, from short wavelength to long wavelength, four peaks can be ascribed to the emissions from the bandgap, the transition from the holes being bound to the donors or the electrons being bound to the acceptors, the transition from Cd interstitials to Cd vacancies, and the transition from S vacancies to the valence band,respectively. In the photoluminescence of 10 K, the emission originated from the bandgap appears in the form of multiple peaks. Two stronger peaks and five weaker peaks can be observed. The energy differences of the adjacent peaks are close to 38 me V, which is ascribed to the LO phonon energy of Cd S. For the multiple peaks of bandgap emission, from low energy to high energy, the first, second, and third peaks are contributed to the third-order, second-order, and first-order phonon replica of the free exciton A, respectively;the fourth peak is originated from the free exciton A;the fifth peak is contributed to the first-order phonon replica of the excitons bound to neutral donors;the sixth and seventh peaks are originated from the excitons bound to neutral donors and the light polarization parallel to the c axis of hexagonal Cd S, respectively.     

Use of rigid-body motion for the investigation and estimation of the measurement errors related to digital image correlation technique

The aim of this work is to investigate the sources of errors related to digital image correlation (DIC) technique applied to strain measurements. The knowledge of such information is important before the measured kinematic fields can be exploited. After recalling the principle of DIC, some sources of errors related to this technique are listed. Both numerical and experimental tests, based on rigid-body motion, are proposed. These tests are simple and easy-to-implement. They permit to quickly assess the errors related to lighting, the optical lens (distortion), the CCD sensor, the out-of-plane displacement, the speckle pattern, the grid pitch, the size of the subset and the correlation algorithm. The errors sources that cannot be uncoupled were estimated by amplifying their contribution to the global error. The obtained results permit to address a classification of the error related to the used equipment. The paper ends by some suggestions proposed in order to minimize the errors.     

Deflagration to detonation transition in fast flames and tracking with chemical explosive mode analysis

In the context of vapour cloud explosion, the flame acceleration process can lead to conditions promoting deflagration to detonation transition (DDT), potentially leading to increased damages in accidental scenarios. This study focuses on this phenomenon by performing simulations of detonation reinitiation for fast flames in the Chapman–Jouguet deflagration regime. It is obtained experimentally by the attenuation of an incident detonation by an array of obstacles. A primary objective of the paper is to demonstrate the ability of the numerical model to reproduce the major experimental trends, namely the variation of the reinitiation propensity for different initial pressures and blockage ratios (BRs). Chemical explosive mode analysis (CEMA) is also adapted to the context of this study, in order to identify locally the propagation regime and to provide insights on the reinitiation mechanism. An a priori validation of the CEMA methodology is first performed on relevant canonical one-dimensional configurations. Subsequently, ensembles of five realizations are computed at different initial pressures and BRs and compared to experimental data. They are shown to reproduce the major observed trends in terms of detonation reinitiation length with respect to the operating conditions, with significant variability from one realization to another. In addition, the reinitiation mechanism is also found to be consistent with experimental observations and a previous numerical study of the same configuration. The CEMA methodology adapted to this context is able to identify locally the different propagation regimes, and to track the highly reactive zones that coherently couple with transverse pressure perturbations, leading to the formation of a strongly reacting kernel which eventually triggers the detonation reinitiation.     

Monte Carlo simulation of ion–material interactions in nuclear fusion devices

One of the key aspects regarding the technological development of nuclear fusion reactors is the understanding of the interaction between high-energy ions coming from the confined plasma and the materials that the plasma-facing components are made of. Among the multiple issues important to plasma–wall interactions in fusion devices, physical erosion and composition changes induced by energetic particle bombardment are considered critical due to possible material flaking, changes to surface roughness, impurity transport and the alteration of physicochemical properties of the near surface region due to phenomena such as redeposition or implantation. A Monte Carlo code named MATILDA (Modeling of Atomic Transport in Layered Dynamic Arrays) has been developed over the years to study phenomena related to ion beam bombardment such as erosion rate, composition changes, interphase mixing and material redeposition, which are relevant issues to plasma-aided manufacturing of microelectronics, components on object exposed to intense solar wind, fusion reactor technology and other important industrial fields. In the present work, the code is applied to study three cases of plasma material interactions relevant to fusion devices in order to highlight the code’s capabilities: (1) the Be redeposition process on the ITER divertor, (2) physical erosion enhancement in castellated surfaces and (3) damage to multilayer mirrors used on EUV diagnostics in fusion devices due to particle bombardment.     

Profile of Sira Ltd

Previously known as the British Scientific Instrument Research Association, Sira has continued, since its formation in 1918, to offer a service to both users and manufacturers of instruments that involves the application of new developments in optics to serve the needs of industry. The two operating divisions are able to provide multidisciplinary teams to work on a variety of different problems, including instrument evaluation and calibration, conference and course organisation, and the application of measurement science to solve new industrial problems. By way of example, two recent projects described include the use of the principle of thermoelasticity to display the distribution of stress on the surface of a structure subjected to periodic loading, and a TV-imaging technique that enables a surface flaw to be quantified objectively in relation to a standard.     

A model for the evaluation of systemic risk in stock markets

Systemic risk refers to the possibility of a collapse of an entire financial system or market, differing from the risk associated with any particular individual or a group pertaining to the system, which may include banks, government, brokers, and creditors. After the 2008 financial crisis, a significant amount of effort has been directed to the study of systemic risk and its consequences around the world. Although it is very difficult to predict when people begin to lose confidence in a financial system, it is possible to model the relationships among the stock markets of different countries and perform a Monte Carlo-type analysis to study the contagion effect. Because some larger and stronger markets influence smaller ones, a model inspired by a catalytic chemical model is proposed. In chemical reactions, reagents with higher concentrations tend to favor their conversion to products. In order to modulate the conversion process, catalyzers may be used. In this work, a mathematical modeling is proposed with bases on the catalytic chemical reaction model. More specifically, the Hang Seng and Dow Jones indices are assumed to dominate Ibovespa (the Brazilian Stock Market index), such that the indices of strong markets are taken as being analogous to the concentrations of the reagents and the indices of smaller markets as concentrations of products. The role of the catalyst is to model the degree of influence of one index on another. The actual data used to fit the model parameter consisted of the Hang Seng index, Dow Jones index, and Ibovespa, since 1993. “What if” analyses were carried out considering some intervention policies.     

应变Si1-xGex层中p型杂质电离常温和低温特性

本文采用解析的方法计算了应变Si1-xGex层中p型杂质电离度与Ge组分x、温度T以及掺杂浓度N的关系.发现常温时,在同一Ge组分下,随着掺杂浓度的升高,杂质的电离度的先变小,而后又迅速上升到1.在同一掺杂浓度下,轻掺杂时,杂质的电离度随Ge组分的增加先变大,而后几乎不变;重掺杂时,杂质电离能变为0后,杂质电离度为1.低温下,轻掺杂时,载流子低温冻析效应较为明显,杂质的电离度普遍较小,当掺杂浓度大于Mott转换点时,载流子冻析效应不再明显,电离率迅速上升到1.在同一Ge组分下,随着掺杂浓度的升高,杂质的电离度先变小,后变大,而后又迅速上升到1.在同一掺杂浓度下,轻掺杂时,杂质的电离度随Ge组分的增加变大;重掺杂时,杂质电离能变为0后,杂质电离度为1.     

矿山多源遥感图像像点位移测试系统设计

针对矿山地形的起伏变化影响对其进行分析研究的准确性,提出矿上多源遥感图像像点位移测试系统的设计方法。结合GPS定位原理,选取遥感图像上某一时刻点作为测试点,对拍摄得到的矿山图像和电子测试系统各触点之间的距离进行计算,进而得到测试点具体坐标位置,将其与测试点真实现场坐标相对比,实现矿山多源遥感图像像点位移的测试。通过实验证明,所设计的测试系统可以高精度实现对遥感图像像点位移的测试,有效减小了矿山地形变化带来的遥感图像研究误差。     

Simulating coupled dynamics of a rigid-flexible multibody system and compressible fluid

As a subsequent work of previous studies of authors, a new parallel computation approach is proposed to simulate the coupled dynamics of a rigid-flexible multibody system and compressible fluid. In this approach, the smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) method is used to model the compressible fluid, the natural coordinate formulation (NCF) and absolute nodal coordinate formulation (ANCF) are used to model the rigid and flexible bodies, respectively. In order to model the compressible fluid properly and efficiently via SPH method, three measures are taken as follows. The first is to use the Riemann solver to cope with the fluid compressibility, the second is to define virtual particles of SPH to model the dynamic interaction between the fluid and the multibody system, and the third is to impose the boundary conditions of periodical inflow and outflow to reduce the number of SPH particles involved in the computation process. Afterwards, a parallel computation strategy is proposed based on the graphics processing unit (GPU) to detect the neighboring SPH particles and to solve the dynamic equations of SPH particles in order to improve the computation efficiency. Meanwhile, the generalized-alpha algorithm is used to solve the dynamic equations of the multibody system. Finally, four case studies are given to validate the proposed parallel computation approach.     

First principles calculations of mechanical properties of 4,4'-bipyridine attached to Au nanowires

A first attempt is made to calculate the forces involved in the breaking of nanowires consisting of a molecule attached to nanosized metallic pieces. As a model system, we consider different Au nanowires connected by a 4,4(')-bipyridine or pyrazine molecule, for which density functional calculations were performed at different elongations. The geometry of the system was optimized for different forces applied. In all cases the calculated maximum forces were close to 1 nN, which is of the order of the experimental values, and smaller than the corresponding to the rupture of the Au-Au chain (1.5-1.6 nN). When 4,4(')-bipyridine is attached to Au monoatomic nanowire, the maximum force required to break the Au-Au bond may be lowered to values close to that obtain to break the Au-N bond, but when 4,4(')-bipyridine is attached to small Au clusters, the breaking of the nanowire takes place at the Au-N bond only.     

Limit of hanger linearity in suspension footbridge dynamics: A new section model

The mechanical behaviour of suspension bridges is characterised by nonlinearities due to the main cables geometric effects and to the inability of the hangers to sustain compressive loads. The nonlinear effects due to hanger slackening are expected to increase in suspension footbridges due to lightweight decks, that is, low dead to live load ratio, and to shallow plate-girder decks with very low flexural and torsional stiffness. In this paper a new section model is proposed to study the limit of hanger linearity in lightweight suspension footbridges. The model is inspired to a four degrees-of-freedom model already proposed in the literature, but is expressed with a new formalism that allows some interesting properties to be outlined. Specifically, the expression of a particular frequency, herein called relative antiresonance frequency, as a function of the model generalised properties is derived: if the system is loaded with a harmonic force having that frequency, the linear behaviour of the hangers is assured for every value of the force amplitude. The proposed section model is applied to a footbridge benchmark subject to the pedestrian harmonic load and results are compared with those obtained through a nonlinear dynamic analysis on a 3D Finite Element model of the bridge.     

Multistep processes in nuclear reactions

Recent applications of the theory of Feshbach, Kerman and Koonin to analyse multistep processes in nuclear reactions are described, and illustrated by detailed comparisons with a range of experimental data for neutron and proton reactions. The techniques used to distinguish between the multistep direct, multistep compound, compound and collective contributions to the cross-sections are described, and their effectiveness assessed. Particular attention is devoted to recent analyses that take into account the transitions from the multistep direct to the multistep compound chain and also to those that evaluate the collective contributions to the continuum region. The variation of the effective nucleonnucleon interaction with incident energy and target nucleus is studied, and the possibility of a parameter-free calculation is discussed. The extensions of the theory to include multiparticle emission from the direct chain and also to studies of alpha-particle emission are described.     

Higher-Order Interference in Extensions of Quantum Theory

Quantum interference, manifest in the two slit experiment, lies at the heart of several quantum computational speed-ups and provides a striking example of a quantum phenomenon with no classical counterpart. An intriguing feature of quantum interference arises in a variant of the standard two slit experiment, in which there are three, rather than two, slits. The interference pattern in this set-up can be written in terms of the two and one slit patterns obtained by blocking one, or more, of the slits. This is in stark contrast with the standard two slit experiment, where the interference pattern cannot be written as a sum of the one slit patterns. This was first noted by Rafael Sorkin, who raised the question of why quantum theory only exhibits irreducible interference in the two slit experiment. One approach to this problem is to compare the predictions of quantum theory to those of operationally-defined ‘foil’ theories, in the hope of determining whether theories that do exhibit higher-order interference suffer from pathological—or at least undesirable—features. In this paper two proposed extensions of quantum theory are considered: the theory of Density Cubes proposed by Daki?, Paterek and Brukner, which has been shown to exhibit irreducible interference in the three slit set-up, and the Quartic Quantum Theory of ?yczkowski. The theory of Density Cubes will be shown to provide an advantage over quantum theory in a certain computational task and to posses a well-defined mechanism which leads to the emergence of quantum theory—analogous to the emergence of classical physics from quantum theory via decoherence. Despite this, the axioms used to define Density Cubes will be shown to be insufficient to uniquely characterise the theory. In comparison, Quartic Quantum Theory is a well-defined theory and we demonstrate that it exhibits irreducible interference to all orders. This feature of ?yczkowski’s theory is argued not to be a genuine phenomenon, but to arise from an ambiguity in the current definition of higher-order interference in operationally-defined theories. Thus, to begin to understand why quantum theory is limited to a certain kind of interference, a new definition of higher-order interference is needed that is applicable to, and makes good operational sense in, arbitrary operationally-defined theories.     

An investigation and modelling of energy dissipation through sloshing in an egg-shaped shell

Sloshing absorbers work on a similar principle to that of tuned vibration absorbers. A sloshing absorber consists of a tank, partially filled with liquid. The absorber is attached to the structure to be controlled, and relies on the structure's motion to excite the liquid. Consequently, a sloshing wave is produced at the liquid free surface possessing energy dissipative qualities to suppress excessive vibrations of the structure.The hen's egg has evolved to dissipate vibration energy rapidly to protect its contents. An uncooked hen's egg's capability to rapidly dissipate potentially harmful energy, is due to sloshing of its contents. Hence, there may be lessons to learn from the natural design of an egg which could be employed in the engineered (artificial) design of a sloshing absorber.The primary objective of this work is to identify the physical events responsible for effective energy dissipation in an eggshell, at different fill levels. A secondary objective is to demonstrate the suitability of the Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) method for numerical predictions in such an unusually shaped shell. Through numerical predictions, the possibility of modifying the egg's design to further encourage dissipation patterns is explored briefly. Simple experiments are also presented to check the validity of the numerical predictions.     

基于风洞的设备健康管理与数据有效性判定平台研究

低速增压风洞是满足我国航空工业科技发展而建设的一座气动力重大基础试验设施。为了保障该设施的高效率和可靠地运行,以各机电设备、电气测控设备、机械装置为对象,根据其故障模式和故障特点选取合适的监测点,获取实时工作状态数据,再以数据为基础,进行状态监测、故障诊断、故障预测,实现预先性决策和针对性快速维修。基于OSA-CBM 体系构建的风洞健康管理系统,根据设备的运行状态,实现对试验数据的有效性进行实时判定,并实现了风洞装备由事后维修向视情维修转变;实现了装备从使用、维护、管理模式由分散式管理向集约式管理的转变;实现了装备系统故障诊、预测及判读从人工智能向机器智能的转变。     

Extinction Rates for Fluctuation-Induced Metastabilities: A Real-Space WKB Approach

The extinction of a single species due to demographic stochasticity is analyzed. The discrete nature of the individual agents and the Poissonian noise related to the birth-death processes result in local extinction of a metastable population, as the system hits the absorbing state. The Fokker-Planck formulation of that problem fails to capture the statistics of large deviations from the metastable state, while approximations appropriate close to the absorbing state become, in general, invalid as the population becomes large. To connect these two regimes, a real space WKB method based on the master equation is presented, and is shown to yield an excellent approximation for the decay rate and the extreme events statistics all the way down to the absorbing state. The details of the underlying microscopic process, smeared out in a mean field treatment, are shown to be crucial for an exact determination of the extinction exponent. This general scheme is shown to reproduce the known results in the field, to yield new corollaries and to fit quite precisely the numerical solutions. Moreover it allows for systematic improvement via a series expansion where the small parameter is the inverse of the number of individuals in the metastable state.     

Adaptive digital twins of combustion systems using sparse sensing strategies

This work proposes to implement a sparse sensing framework to build a hybrid numerical-experimental Digital Twin of a practical combustion system. The goal is to find the optimal sensor placement that minimizes the prediction error, and to predict the distribution of reacting scalars using few measurements. Three-dimensional CFD simulations with detailed chemistry were used to build the design space by varying the fuel composition (from pure methane to pure hydrogen), the equivalence ratio (from 0.7 to 1) and the air velocity. The Proper Orthogonal Decomposition (POD) was applied to the numerical data to find a tailored basis for dimensionality reduction. Then, the QR decomposition with column pivoting was applied to the tailored basis to find the optimal sensor placement. Finally, the model was employed to predict the three-dimensional temperature distribution in the unexplored part of the design space, using the experimental samples as input. The optimal placement of the sensors provides valuable information on the key locations and features, which can then be used in the design of reactor network models, for example. Also, the results show that the hybrid Digital Twin could predict an adjusted temperature distribution which reduces the error with the experimental measurements, when compared to the original CFD temperature distribution.     

Numeration as a Factor Relating the Quantum and Classical Mechanics of Ideal Gases

We show that the statistical approach to quantum mechanics allows to define a factor related to numeration theory in mathematical logic, and to apply this factor to the study of the nucleus of helium-5 and other light nuclei. In particular, the use of this hidden factor of numbering gives us, instead of the quantum picture of the Bohr orbits for small energies, the purely classical behavior of particles corresponding to the rotation of wave packets around the nucleus.