浮力对环形液池内热毛细对流的影响

为了了解浮力的影响,对水平温度梯度作用时环形液池内的热毛细对流进行了非稳态三维数值模拟,环形液池外壁被加热,半径为40 mm,内壁被冷却,半径为20 mm,液池深度为(1-17)mm,流体为0．65cSt的硅油,其Pτ数为6．7．模拟结果表明,当水平温度梯度较小时,流动为轴对称稳态流动,随着温度梯度的增加,流动将会失去其稳定性,在浅液池内,转化为热流体波,浮力对失稳后的流型无影响,但会使热流体波的振幅下降;在深液池内,在常重力条件下,转化成三维稳定流动,在微重力和小重力条件下,转化为三维振荡流动．     

短时微重力条件下燃料电池性能实验研究

开展了不同重力情况下燃料电池性能的实验研究.利用微重力落塔,对常重力和微重力条件下燃料电池发电时其内部的两相流动开展了可视化现场观测.对重力因素对燃料电池内部传质过程的影响进行了分析和讨论.实验结果表明:当电流密度较大时,在微重力环境中燃料电池性能较常重力环境中的有较明显下降.由于微重力条件下浮升力的消失导致气体不能及时从流道中排出,进而对直接甲醇燃料电池内的传质过程产生负面影响.     

质子交换膜燃料电池短时微重力性能实验研究

利用落塔开展了不同重力情况下质子交换膜燃料电池性能的实验研究.对常重力和微重力条件下质子交换膜燃料电池发电时其阴极蛇形流场内部的两相流动开展了可视化现场观测.对重力因素对质子交换膜燃料电池内部传质过程的影响进行了分析和讨论.实验结果表明:在常重力环境中,液态水堆积在竖置流道的底部,无法有效排出.聚集在流道内的液态水与反应气体在流道内形成气/液两相流动.在微重力环境中,液态水在气体推动力的作用下从流道的底部上升并沿流道向出口流动.聚集在流道内的液态水排除后,减小了反应气体(氧气)从流道向催化层的传递阻力,从而使质子交换膜燃料电池的性能得到提高.     

沉降对带电胶体粒子结晶过程的影响

采用密度匹配法(重水与水按一定比例混合),以及反射光谱法,研究了重力沉降作用对直径为98 nm的带电胶体粒子结晶过程的影响. 结果表明,重力沉降在晶体生长的初期提高了晶体生长速率,而后期降低了晶体生长速率,这是由于在晶体生长初期,沉降作用可使更多的粒子结合到晶体结构中,而当晶体尺寸进一步增加,其沉降速率也相应地增大,晶相与液相间的摩擦阻力导致一部分颗粒从胶体晶体上脱落. 总的来说,重力沉降在初期加剧了晶体的生长,后期阻碍了晶体的生长. 另外,在微重力环境下形成的胶体晶体比在重力环境下形成的胶体晶体更加完整紧密.     

硅熔体CZ结构浅池内热毛细对流转变滞后特性

为了了解水平温度梯度作用时Czochralski(CZ)结构浅池内硅熔体热毛细对流的转变滞后特性,利用有限差分法进行了非稳态三维数值模拟,坩埚外壁被加热,半径为50mm,晶体半径为15mm,液池深度为3mm,坩埚外壁与晶体生长界面温差变化范围为6-27K。模拟结果表明,当逐渐增加温差时,在△T=9K处,二维轴对称流动转变为三维稳态流动,在△T=20.6K处,三维稳态流动转变为三维振荡流动;当逐渐减小温差时,在△T=19.5K处,三维振荡流动才转变为三维稳态流动,因此,二次流动转变存在滞后,滞后温差约为1.1K。     

AlN晶体物理气相传输法生长坩埚的热场分析

采用物理气相传输法在钨制坩埚上制备AlN单晶.通过采用COMSOL软件中的固体传热和磁场模块,对AlN晶体生长的坩埚的热场进行仿真,同时针对不同的线圈直径以及不同的线圈位置对坩埚热场的影响进行模拟,提出了相应的处理方式.结果表明:当线圈直径增大,坩埚结晶区和升华区的温度在相同的加热时间下会增加,并且增加的温度存在峰值.当线圈的垂直位置发生变化的时候,结晶区和升华区的温度场也会发生变化,从上向下移动的过程中仍然存在温度的峰值,并且结晶区和升华区的温度关系会发生翻转,导致温度梯度阻碍晶体生长.在晶体生长过程中升华区和结晶区的温度关系依旧会发生翻转.但是通过线圈跟随籽晶表面生长层的变厚而同步移动,可以保持相对稳定的温度关系,维持晶体正常持续生长.     

垂直Bridgman多组元化合物晶体生长热质对流

在垂直Bridgman晶体生长装置中,熔体的热质对流是由于温度梯度和浓度梯度间的相互作用引起的,而温度梯度和浓度梯度由晶体热物性和生长炉结构所决定.由于温度梯度和浓度梯度的耦合作用,坩埚中熔体的流动结构形式多样,由流动引起的溶质分布也呈多种形式.本文以GeSi多组元化合物半导体晶体为对象,数值研究了垂直Bridgman晶体生长过程中的热质对流现象,分析了热Rayleigh数、GeSi晶体热物性,生长炉结构对热质对流和径向溶质分凝的影响规律.结果表明:在垂直Bridgman装置中,熔体的热质对流是由于生长炉热边界条件的不连续性和晶体熔-固两相热物性不匹配引起的;随着熔体流动强度的增加,径向溶质分凝出现两个极小点,所以单纯地抑制或加强熔体对流强度并不一定能改善径向溶质分凝现象.     

AlN晶体物理气相传输法生长坩埚的热场分析

采用物理气相传输法在钨制坩埚上制备AlN单晶．通过采用COMSOL软件中的固体传热和磁场模块,对AlN晶体生长的坩埚的热场进行仿真,同时针对不同的线圈直径以及不同的线圈位置对坩埚热场的影响进行模拟,提出了相应的处理方式．结果表明:当线圈直径增大,坩埚结晶区和升华区的温度在相同的加热时间下会增加,并且增加的温度存在峰值．当线圈的垂直位置发生变化的时候,结晶区和升华区的温度场也会发生变化,从上向下移动的过程中仍然存在温度的峰值,并且结晶区和升华区的温度关系会发生翻转,导致温度梯度阻碍晶体生长．在晶体生长过程中升华区和结晶区的温度关系依旧会发生翻转．但是通过线圈跟随籽晶表面生长层的变厚而同步移动,可以保持相对稳定的温度关系,维持晶体正常持续生长．     

重力水平对热毛细-浮力对流耗散结构的影响

为了了解重力水平对环形液池内热毛细-浮力对流耗散结构的影响,利用有限容积法进行了非稳态三维数值模拟,环形液池外壁被加热,内壁被冷却,流体为0．65cSt硅油,其Pr数为6．7。结果表明,在微重力条件下,流动为三维振荡流动;当重力水平增加到0．1go时,流动结构转化为沿周向运动的一组滚胞,其轴线与温度梯度方向一致;当重力...     

微重力下温差对液桥自由界面变形的影响

浮区法是一种无坩埚容器接触、生长高质量单晶的重要晶体生长技术。微重力环境下,热毛细对流成为熔体中的主要对流,因此,研究浮区法晶体生长中热毛细对流的不稳定性具有重要意义。本文利用VOF自由表面追踪模型来捕捉自由界面的运动,数值研究了微重力下动态自由界面液桥内热毛细对流特性及温差(△T)对自由界面变形的影响。结果显示,在较强的温差作用下,整个熔区出现三维不稳性的热毛细对流振荡,并且随着温差的增加,振荡强度增强,振荡波数也随之增加;自由界面呈现出冷、热壁面膨胀而中间收缩的"瓶颈"状分布。自由界面变形率随温差先增长较快,后增长较慢。     

深径比对邱克拉斯基结构内旋转驱动流动的影响

为了了解深径比对邱克拉斯基(Czochralski)结构内旋转驱动流动的影响,利用有限容积法进行了三维非稳态数值模拟。结果表明:随着液池深径比的增加,流动逐渐加强,当旋转速度超过某一临界值后,流动转变为三维非稳态振荡流动。随着液池深径比的增加,速度波振荡幅度增大,速度波波数和周向传播方向都随之改变;浅液池内坩埚旋转作用占主导地位,速度波传播方向与坩埚旋转方向相同,深液池内晶体旋转大于坩埚旋转对流动的影响,速度波传播方向和晶体旋转方向相同。     

磁场对水平温度梯度下双层流体热对流的影响

在水平温度梯度下,双层流体交界面的表面张力会出现梯度,驱动热毛细对流运动,造成热剪切层内的扰动.本文数值模拟了不同重力条件下,双层流体内的对流现象,得出了在微重力时,对流运动将引起热剪切层内强烈的扰动.为了减弱这种扰动,我们利用磁场对流体的运动进行控制.为此,又对微重力条件下,不同方向应用磁场下的热剪切层内扰动行为进行了数值研究,结果显示,磁场对热剪切层稳定性有促进作用,加入法向的应用磁场最为有效.     

微重力环境中的蜡烛火焰

对蜡烛火焰动态特征的分析表明,从正常重力状态过渡到微重力状态,火焰的空气动力学特征比质量和能量的传输特征的变化快。通过一台差分干涉仪首次测量得到了微重力环境中蜡烛火焰的温度。结果表明,微重力蜡烛火焰的温度小于正常重力蜡烛火焰的温度。微重力蜡烛火焰之所以呈蓝色是因为其温度小于烟黑生成的阈值温度1300K。但当环境氧浓度足够高时,火焰温度大于烟黑生成的阈值温度,火焰中明显有烟黑生成,颜色为亮黄色。     

不同重力下窄通道内薄材料表面的火焰传播

在常重力下模拟微重力燃烧对载人航天器的火灾安全具有重要意义.窄通道就是这样一种可以有效限制自然对流的模拟设施.但是,不同重力下火焰传播的相似性仍然是有待研究的问题.本文用实验和数值模拟的方法,比较了不同重力下有限空间内热薄材料表面的逆风传播火焰.不同重力下火焰形状和火焰传播速度的比较表明,1cm高的水平窄通道可以有效地限制自然对流,在常重力下用这种通道能够模拟微重力下相同几何尺寸的通道中的火焰传播.因此,在地面上首先利用水平窄通道,模拟相同环境中的微重力火焰传播,然后考虑通道尺寸变化对火焰传播的影响,有可能成为地面模拟其他尺寸的空间中的微重力燃烧的方法.     

A computational study of soot formation and flame structure of coflow laminar methane/air diffusion flames under microgravity and normal gravity

A numerical study is conducted of methane–air coflow diffusion flames at microgravity (μg) and normal gravity (1g), and comparisons are made with experimental data in the literature. The model employed uses a detailed gas phase chemical kinetic mechanism that includes PAH formation and growth, and is coupled to a sectional soot particle dynamics model. The model is able to accurately predict the trends observed experimentally with reduction of gravity without any tuning of the model for different flames. The microgravity sooting flames were found to have lower temperatures and higher volume fraction than their normal gravity counterparts. In the absence of gravity, the flame radii increase due to elimination of buoyance forces and reduction of flow velocity, which is consistent with experimental observations. Soot formation along the wings is seen to be surface growth dominated, while PAH condensation plays a more major role on centreline soot formation. Surface growth and PAH growth increase in microgravity primarily due to increases in the residence time inside the flame. The rate of increase of surface growth is more significant compared to PAH growth, which causes soot distribution to shift from the centreline of the flame to the wings in microgravity.     

High-speed video analysis of flame oscillations along a PMMA rod after stagnation region blowoff

During blowoff extinction of clear cast PMMA rods in concurrent axial flow for microgravity BASS-II experiments, a dynamic flame oscillation was observed after the flame was blown off of the stagnation point but briefly stabilized on the periphery of the rod. Complementary normal gravity experiments were conducted and flame oscillations were tracked using a high-speed color camera at 240 frames per second. The side-stabilized flame oscillated up and down the rod with increasing amplitude until the entire flame extinguished. In none of the BASS-II or normal gravity tests could the side-stabilized flames persist (Hopf subcritical bifurcation). Since the oscillations occurred even in microgravity, the mechanism does not depend on gravity. For the larger fuel radius tests, the flame developed asymmetric oscillation (pitchfork bifurcation). The oscillation time and the number of oscillations scale with the inverse square of the rod radius (～ Fourier no.) for the preheated microgravity rods. The average flame oscillation frequency is found to be linearly dependent on the mixed convective stretch rate (inverse of the flow time). The flame intensity varied in concert with its direction, either increasing or decreasing as the flame moved upstream or downstream, respectively. The oscillation frequency decreased as the amplitude increased and the flame slipped slightly farther down the rod with each oscillation. The flame speed increased with each subsequent oscillation, both flashing forward upstream and retreating downstream. The oscillations were found to closely follow a power law log-periodic dependence similar to those that describe systems approaching a critical point, such as diffusion-limited aggregation clusters, earthquakes, ruptures, and even stock market crashes. The net flame speeds varied linearly with ambient oxygen concentration, and linearly with the mixed convective stretch rate. Based on these observations, a mechanistic theory of the oscillations is described, and is consistent with the thermodiffusive instability.     

Gradient-driven fluctuations in microgravity

Equilibrium fluctuations of thermodynamic variables, such as density or concentration, are known to be small and typically occur at a molecular length scale. In contrast, theory predicts that non-equilibrium fluctuations grow very large both in amplitude and spatial size. On earth, the presence of gravity and buoyancy forces severely limits the development of the fluctuations. We will present the results of a 14-year long international collaboration on an experiment on non-equilibrium fluctuations in a single liquid and in a polymer solution under microgravity conditions. Non-equilibrium conditions are generated by applying a temperature gradient across millimetre-size liquid slabs. Phase modulations introduced by fluctuations are measured using a quantitative shadowgraph method, with the optical axis parallel to the temperature gradient. Thousands of images are analysed and their two-dimensional power spectra yield the fluctuation structure function S(q), once data are reduced accounting for the instrumental transfer function T(q). The mean-squared amplitude of the fluctuations exhibits an impressive power-law dependence at larger q and a crossover at low q showing that the fluctuation size is limited by the sample thickness. The shape of the structure function, its increase due to removing gravity, and its dependence on applied gradient are in reasonable agreement with available theoretical predictions.     

重力对扩散射流火焰动态特性的影响

本文探讨重力对扩散射流火焰动态特性的影响规律。结果表明,火焰闪烁现象是一种浮力诱导不稳定性,在浮力消失或反向重力场中,不存在这种不稳定性现象,闪烁频率与燃料射流速度无直接关系,但涡的大小随燃料射流速度的增大而增大。存在触发火焰闪烁的临界高度,闪烁频率与重力成平方根关系式。反向重力情况下,也存在浮力稳定型平面火焰,它反映了浮力与火焰的耦合作用。     

Numerical study of the effects of gravity on soot formation in laminar coflow methane/air diffusion flames under different air stream velocities

Numerical simulations of laminar coflow methane/air diffusion flames at atmospheric pressure and different gravity levels were conducted to gain a better understanding of the effects of gravity on soot formation by using relatively detailed gas-phase chemistry and complex thermal and transport properties coupled with a semi-empirical two-equation soot model. Thermal radiation was calculated using the discrete-ordinates method coupled with a non-grey model for the radiative properties of CO, CO₂, H₂O, and soot. Calculations were conducted for three coflow air velocities of 77.6, 30, and 5 cm/s to investigate how the coflowing air velocity affects the flame structure and soot formation at different levels of gravity. The coflow air velocity has a rather significant effect on the streamwise velocity and the fluid parcel residence time, especially at reduced gravity levels. The flame height and the visible flame height in general increase with decreasing the gravity level. The peak flame temperature decreases with decreasing either the coflow air stream velocity or the gravity level. The peak soot volume fraction of the flame at microgravity can either be greater or less than that of its normal gravity counterpart, depending on the coflow air velocity. At sufficiently high coflow air velocity, the peak soot volume fraction increases with decreasing the gravity level. When the coflow air velocity is low enough, soot formation is greatly suppressed at microgravity and extinguishment occurs in the upper portion of the flame with soot emission from the tip of the flame owing to incomplete oxidation. The numerical results provide further insights into the intimate coupling between flame size, residence time, thermal radiation, and soot formation at reduced gravity level. The importance of thermal radiation heat transfer and coflow air velocity to the flame structure and soot formation at microgravity is demonstrated for the first time.