单滴乳化燃料的微爆模型

本文分析了乳化燃料应用与机理研究的现状．在理论分析与实验研究的基础上，本文提出了一个新的分析单个乳化油滴微爆的理论模型-局部混合分阶段蒸发模型，反映了实际油滴内混合的过程，较好地解释了“冷滴”、“无水边界层”等实验现象，为进一步进行微爆的预报与分析影响微爆的因素打下了基础．     

单个飞秒激光作用下熔融石英的微爆阈值研究

对飞秒激光脉冲在透明介质中产生微爆的物理机制进行了研究,比较了长短激光脉冲的光击穿机制,基于Fokker-Planck方程建立了飞秒激光微爆模型,给出了飞秒激光脉冲在透明介质中产生微爆的阈值解析表达式.针对飞秒激光脉冲在熔石英介质中的微爆阈值进行了计算,得到的结果与实验结果基本相符.     

单次飞秒激光脉冲在玻璃内部产生多次微爆的研究

在入射能量不同的情况下，用近红外飞秒激光脉冲在重钡火石玻璃（ZBaF15）内部产生了色心和微爆，在熔融石英的内部产生了多次微爆现象.实验表明：入射能量较高时，色心的中间会产生微爆；在松聚焦条件下，一个飞秒激光脉冲在透明介质内会激发多次微爆.基于飞秒激光脉冲在透明介质内的自聚焦效应和自由电子等离子体的自散焦效应，理论分析了多次微爆产生的原因；也讨论了飞秒激光脉冲诱导玻璃折射率改变的机理.     

有机玻璃的几何形状对爆炸切割影响的研究

为了改善现有的航空弹射救生系统,提高飞行员安全逃生的成功率,提出了微爆索切割技术在航空穿盖弹射救生系统中的应用。采用非线性动力显式程序LS-DYNA3D,对有机玻璃平板元件、航空舱盖的微爆索切割过程进行了数值计算分析,得到了不同装药量下有机玻璃平板元件、航空舱盖的切割深度,对比了有机玻璃的几何形状对微爆索切割深度的影响。模拟结果表明:有机玻璃平板切割实验对航空舱盖切割实验具有一定的指导意义,研究结果也可为微爆索线性切割航空舱盖的实验设计提供依据。     

单元推进剂液滴在高温高压下的微爆现象观测

 利用挂滴装置和高速摄影系统研究了单元推进剂LP1846液滴在0.2～4.0 MPa、673～973 K工况下的微爆特性。观察到液滴在不同环境压力和温度下的3种微爆模式,即液滴在着火前的轻度破碎、液滴在燃烧时的部分破碎和全部爆碎,并给出了微爆过程的特征照片,定量测试了液滴微爆延迟期、微爆温度和微爆直径与环境压力、温度的关系。初步分析了液滴微爆机理,认为第一种微爆机理主要是水组分的过热,第二、三种微爆机理是液相化学反应。研究结果对控制LP1846燃烧稳定性和指导液体发射药火炮内弹道设计均有参考价值。     

二维磁流体力学程序MFCGⅢ计算结果与测试结果的对比分析

 根据磁场、流函数和感应电流的解析公式，研制了间接馈电爆磁压缩发生器充电和爆磁压缩过程计算程序MFCGⅢ。用MFCGⅢ计算了实验模型，其结果与测试结果符合较好。因此MFCGⅢ可对实验提供优化设计，并且可分析、解释MFCG实验中有关的物理问题。     

乳化液喷雾与微爆现象的激光全息实验研究

本文采用离轴高速多脉冲红宝石激光全息摄影仪研究高温高压环境中乳化液喷雾的雾化和蒸发过程,记录方式为象面全息方式,再现时分别采用激光和白光光源。实验发现:在适当的温度压力条件下,乳化液喷雾可以发生微爆现象,微爆呈团状,又称“团状微爆”,也称为“二次雾化”,微爆能量可以将众多的小液滴及液滴碎片抛出液束区,有效地改善液体与环境气体的混合过程,具有重要的理论意义和实用价值。     

一种纳米硅薄膜的传导机制

基于对实验和理论的分析，提出一种异质结量子点隧穿（HQD）模型，并导出了纳米硅薄膜电导率完整的表达式．其主要思想是，纳米硅薄膜中的微晶粒（几个纳米大小）具有量子点特征，在微晶粒与界面之间由于两者能隙的差异构成晶间势垒，这类似于多晶硅中经常使用的晶间势垒模型（GBT）．考虑到量子点中的单电子隧穿特征，认为纳米硅薄膜中的电传导是由微晶粒中电子弹道式输运与单电子越过势垒的隧穿构成的．这就是HQD模型的主要内容，理论结果与实验相符 关键词：     

螺线型爆磁压缩发生器的初始瞬态磁场分布

研究了螺线管型爆磁压缩发生器中金属套筒的一维磁扩散模型，分别导出了不同边界条件下的近似解析表达式，分析了瞬态磁场分布的特点，指出了经典趋肤深度计算公式的高频局限性，得出了能够同时反映高频与低频特性的磁场分布与相应趋肤深度的近似解析结果．     

串联战斗部前级聚能装药和隔爆结构设计与实验研究

 前级聚能装药侵彻技术和两级隔爆技术在串联战斗部的设计研究中占有重要地位。从理论分析、实验研究的手段出发，分析了前级装药的结构设计及前级装药爆炸对后级的影响，设计了两种药型罩结构的聚能装药侵彻混凝土靶实验，以及以多孔铝为隔爆体的隔爆防护实验。实验结果表明，设计的前级装药在混凝土靶上侵彻出了深度为8.2倍、孔径为0.4～0.6倍装药口径的孔洞；所采用的多孔铝隔爆结构有效地防护了二级弹体的破坏。实验效果比较理想。     

Microexplosion of an emulsion droplet during Leidenfrost burning

An experimental study has been made of the microexplosion of an emulsion droplet on a hot surface during Leidenfrost burning. Photographic observation is used to study how the emulsion droplet behaves and what happens inside the droplet and to measure the waiting time for the onset of microexplosion. Weibull analysis was used to obtain the distribution function of the waiting time for the onset of microexplosion and to derive the formula for the rate of microexplosion as a function of water volume and emulsion temperature. The base fuels employed were n-decane, n-dodecane, n-tetradecane, and n-hexadecane. The results show that the increase in emulsion temperature with lapse of time results in the agglomeration and coalescence of microdroplets of base fuel dispersed in the continuous phase of water inside the emulsion droplet, terminated by the complete separation of the two phases. At the end of the phase separation process, an opaque water droplet is formed in the central core and is enveloped by the transparent shell of base fuel. Preferential evaporation of the base fuel occurs after the phase separation. The volume of the base fuel decreases while the water volume remains constant. The onset of the microexplosion of an emulsion droplet burning on the hot surface is classified by the wearout type of the Weibull distribution. The waiting time for the onset of the microexplosion decreases with increases in the normal boiling point of base fuel, initial water content, ambient pressure, and test surface temperature. The rate of microexplosion increases with the lapse of time and with increased normal boiling point of the base fuel. The rate of microexplosion increases linearly with increasing water volume in the emulsion droplet and decreases exponentially with the inverse of emulsion temperature.     

Fusion-fission detonators for advanced fuels

A mechanism in which a quasi-spherical fast liner implodes on a Z-superpinch as a target is discussed. It is argued that if the target is a Pu-D-T cylinder the implosion can result in a fusion-fission microexplosion whose yield is of the order of 1 GJ. This ought to be sufficient to propagate nuclear reaction axially out into hard-to-ignite fuels such as DD, LiD. A reactor in which 10 GJ is liberated every 10 s is briefly mentioned.I am grateful to Dr. M. Srinivasan for criticism and bringing to my notice the work of authors unknown to myself and to Dr. B. Robouch for his generous help with numerical caiculations. I also wish to express my thanks to Prof. M. Haines and Prof. V. Nardi for several important suggestions.     

Determination of adhesive forces in multilayer materials using a laser adhesiometer

A laser adhesiometer is developed to determine the adhesive and cohesive forces in multilayer materials. The obtained experimental dependences are explained using the laser microexplosion model. The advantages of determining the adhesive and cohesive forces using the laser adhesiometer over other methods are grounded.     

Microexplosions in tellurite glasses

Femtosecond laser pulses were used to produce localized damage in the bulk and near the surface of baseline, Al₂O₃-doped and La₂O₃-doped sodium tellurite glasses. Single or multiple laser pulses were non-linearly absorbed in the focal volume by the glass, leading to permanent changes in the material in the focal volume. These changes were caused by an explosive expansion of the ionized material in the focal volume into the surrounding material, i.e. a microexplosion. The writing of simple structures (periodic array of voxels, as well as lines) was demonstrated. The regions of microexplosion and writing were subsequently characterized using scanning electron microscopy (SEM), energy-dispersive spectrometry (EDS) and atomic force microscopy (AFM). Fingerprints of microexplosions (concentric lines within the region and a concentric ring outside the region), due to the shock wave generated during microexplosions, were evident. In the case of the baseline glass, no chemistry change was observed within the region of the microexplosion. However, Al₂O₃-doped and La₂O₃-doped glasses showed depletion of the dopant from the edge to the center of the region of the microexplosions, indicating a chemistry gradient within the regions. Interrogation of the bulk- and laser-treated regions using micro-Raman spectroscopy revealed no structural change due to the microexplosions and writing within these glasses. Received: 27 December 2001 / Accepted: 9 July 2002 / Published online: 25 October 2002 RID="*" ID="*"Corresponding author. +1-509/376-3108, E-mail: sk.sundaram@pnl.gov     

Superposition of orbital angular momentum of photons by a combined computer-generated hologram fabricated in silica glass with femtosecond laser pulses

This paper introduces a novel method to realize the superposition of orbital angular momentum of photons by combined computer-generated hologram （CCGH） fabricated in silica glass with femtosecond laser pulses. Firstly, the two computer-generated holograms （CGH） of optical vortex were obtained and combined as a CCGH according to the design. Then the CCGH was directly written inside glass by femtosecond laser pulses induced microexplosion without any preor post-treatment of the material. The vortex beams with different vortex topological charges （including new topological charges） have been restructured using a collimated He-Ne laser beam incidence to the CCGH normally. A theoretical and experimental explanation has been presented for the generations of the new topological charges.     

Organized assembly from biosurfactants

The formation of higher order aggregates in aqueous media from naturally occurring surfactants (biosurfactants) and its mechanism have been studied. A liposome (vesicle), as a kind of artificial cell, is prepared according to a newly developed microencapsulation technique from phospholipids by mimicking the molecular structure of biomembranes. Secondly, the surface active properties of alkaline salts of spiculisporic acid depend on the kinds of alkali as its gegen ions; these have been studied for the purpose of a detailed understanding of vesicle formation of the alkylamine salts of spiculisporic acid in the binary system consisting of spiculisporates and water. Thirdly, the solution behavior of the ternary system of spiculisporates-oil-water is examined. Divalent cationic salts of spiculisporic acid formed oil-in-water (O/W) emulsion gels due to ionic-bonding network formation of spiculisporates around emulsified oil droplets and these are important for their gelling properties. These gelling systems may have potential to be O/W emulsion-type paints and safe fuels.     

Generating optical vortex with computer-generated hologram fabricated inside glass by femtosecond laser pulses

We introduce a novel method to generate the optical vortex with computer-generated hologram (CGH) fabricated inside glass by femtosecond laser pulses. The CGH was directly written inside glass by femtosecond laser pulses induced microexplosion without any pre- or post-treatment of the material. We also realized the restructured optical vortex beams of both the transmission and reflection pattern with high fidelity using a collimated He-Ne laser beam. The total diffractive efficiency of both the transmission and reflection pattern is about 4.79%.     

Direct optical fabrication of three-dimensional photonic crystals in a high refractive index LiNbO3 crystal

Direct optical fabrication of 3D photonic crystals in a high refractive index LiNbO3 crystal by using the femtosecond laser-induced microexplosion method is investigated. The focal distortion, caused by the refractive index mismatch-induced spherical aberration, can be significantly reduced by using a so-called threshold fabrication method. As a result, 3D fcc photonic crystals are fabricated by stacking quasi-spherical voids layer by layer. Photonic stopgaps with suppression rates of up to 30% in the transmission spectra are observed. The angle dependence of the stopgaps is also revealed.     

Combustion and microexplosion of collision-merged methanol/alkane droplets

The combustion characteristics of freely falling droplets, individually generated by the merging of colliding methanol and alkane droplets, were investigated and compared with those for pure methanol and alkanes. The merging of the nominally immiscible methanol and alkanes was manifested in an apparently adhesive, but unmixed, manner in all test conditions. An air bubble was found to be trapped at the colliding interfaces where they were “adhered,” with the trapping favored for head-on or near head-on collision orientations. The trapped air bubble ostensibly induced heterogeneous nucleation of the methanol, being facilitated by the relatively low limit of superheat of methanol. Consequently, the droplet exploded almost immediately upon ignition, leading to an extremely short overall lifetime. For collision orientations that were more off-centered, bubble trapping and thereby heterogeneous nucleation were not favored. However, delayed, albeit strong, microexplosion occurred through homogeneous nucleation of methanol at the contacting interface. The global burning rate was therefore again augmented. In general, microexplosion was facilitated for high-boiling-point alkanes such as hexadecane and tetradecane. The co-vaporization of methanol and alkane from their respective hemispherical segments constituting the adhered droplet also led to flame colors that were more bluish than yellowish, indicating the reduction of soot from alkane burning in the presence of methanol vapor. In light of the difficulty of forming stable methanol/oil emulsions, the potential of separate injection of oil and methanol in opposed jet arrangement, in direct-injection engines to facilitate collision, is suggested.