Vortex formation and annihilation in three textures of rotating superfluid 3He-A

Textures, textural transformation, and formation and annihilation of a single vortex were investigated in narrow cylinders with 100 microm radius in A-phase under rotation up to 6.28 rad/sec. Three textures were found, depending on the cooling conditions of the sample through the superfluid transition temperature T(c). We found the gyromagnetic effect of textures; that is, two textures (A or B) could be selected either by applying a magnetic field in parallel or anti-parallel to the rotation axis. The critical angular speed of a single vortex formation Omega(f) and that of annihilation Omega(a) for each texture were measured. The textural transformation in type A texture was induced by rotation. Both type A and B textures held macroscopic angular momentum along the rotation axis. We identified the texture for type A, B, and C as Mermin-Ho, radial disgyration, and a soliton type of defect along the axis, respectively.     

Cryogenic microjet source for orthotropic beams of ultralarge superfluid helium droplets

Liquid 4He at pressures P(0)=0.5-30 bars and temperatures T(0)=1.5-4.2 K is discharged into vacuum through two different 2 microm nozzles. The velocities of the beam of particles obey the Bernoulli equation down to 15 m/sec. With decreasing T0 and increasing P0 the velocity and angular distributions become exceedingly narrow with Deltav/v less or similar 1% and Deltatheta less or similar 1 mrad. Optical observations indicate that the beam consists of micron-sized droplets (N greater or similar 10(9) atoms). This new droplet source provides opportunities for novel experimental studies of superfluid behavior.     

Detection of pathogenic gram negative bacteria using infrared thermography

Detection of viable bacteria is of prime importance in all fields of microbiology and biotechnology. Conventional methods of enumerating bacteria are often time consuming and labor-intensive. All living organisms generate heat due to metabolic activities and hence, measurement of heat energy is a viable tool for detection and quantification of bacteria. In this article, we employ a non-contact and real time method – infrared thermography (IRT) for measurement of temperature variations in four clinically significant gram negative pathogenic bacteria, viz. Vibrio cholerae, Vibrio mimicus, Proteus mirabilis and Pseudomonas aeruginosa. We observe that, the energy content, defined as the ratio of heat generated by bacterial metabolic activities to the heat lost from the liquid medium to the surrounding, vary linearly with the bacterial concentration in all the four pathogenic bacteria. The amount of energy content observed in different species is attributed to their metabolisms and morphologies that affect the convection velocity and hence heat transport in the medium.     

Influence of water mist on propagation and suppression of laminar premixed flame

The combustion of premixed gas mixtures containing micro droplets of water was studied using one-dimensional approximation. The dependencies of the burning velocity and flammability limits on the initial conditions and on the properties of liquid droplets were analyzed. Effects of droplet size and concentration of added liquid were studied. It was demonstrated that the droplets with smaller diameters are more effective in reducing the flame velocity. For droplets vaporizing in the reaction zone, the burning velocity is independent of droplet size, and it depends only on the concentration of added liquid. With further increase of the droplet diameter the droplets are passing through the reaction zone with completion of vaporization in the combustion products. It was demonstrated that for droplets above a certain size there are two stable stationary modes of flame propagation with transition of hysteresis type. The critical conditions of the transition are due to the appearance of the temperature maximum at the flame front and the temperature gradient with heat losses from the reaction zone to the products, as a result of droplet vaporization passing through the reaction zone. The critical conditions are similar to the critical conditions of the classical flammability limits of flame with the thermal mechanism of flame propagation. The maximum decrease in the burning velocity and decrease in the combustion temperature at the critical turning point corresponds to predictions of the classical theories of flammability limits of Zel'dovich and Spalding. The stability analysis of stationary modes of flame propagation in the presence of water mist showed the lack of oscillatory processes in the frames of the assumed model.     

The development and evaluation of ultrasound for the treatment of bacterial suspensions. A study of frequency,power and sonication time on cultured Bacillus species

Some species of bacteria produce colonies and spores which agglomerate in spherical clusters (Bacillus subtilis) and this serves as a protection for the organisms inside against biocidal attack. Flocs of fine particles e.g. clay can entrap bacteria which can also protect them against the biocides. It is because of problems such as these that alternative methods of disinfecting water are under active investigation. One such method is the use of power ultrasound, either alone or in combination with other methods. Ultrasound is able to inactivate bacteria and deagglomerate bacterial clusters or flocs through a number of physical, mechanical and chemical effects arising from acoustic cavitation. The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of power ultrasound at different powers and frequencies on Bacillus subtilis. Viable plate count techniques were used as a measure of microbial activity. Results showed a significant increase in percent kill for Bacillus species with increasing duration of exposure and intensity of ultrasound in the low-kilohertz range (20 and 38 kHz). Results obtained at two higher frequencies (512 and 850 kHz) indicated a significant increase in bacteria count suggesting declumping. In assessing the bacterial kill with time under different sonication regimes three types of behaviour were characterized:

• High power ultrasound (lower frequencies) in low volumes of bacterial suspension results in a continuous reduction in bacterial cell numbers i.e. the kill rate predominates.

• High power ultrasound (lower frequencies) in larger volumes results in an initial rise in cell numbers suggesting declumping of the bacteria but this initial rise then falls as the declumping finishes and the kill rate becomes more important.

• Low intensity ultrasound (higher frequencies) gives an initial rise in cell numbers as a result of declumping. The kill rate is low and so there is no significant subsequent decrease in bacterial cell numbers.

     

CaO高温脱除氰化氢试验研究

本文在石英反应器内试验了高温脱除HCN反应机理,研究了CaO对氰化氢的脱除作用,探讨了温度、体积空速和氰化氢浓度对脱除氰化氢的影响.试验结果表明:当T<45℃,CaO促使HCN中的N元素转化到CaCN_2,当T>800℃,CaO促使HCN中的N元素全部转化为N_2;CaO在800℃时,只要体积空速小于12000 h~(-1),CaO对HCN均有接近100%的脱除效果;在体积空速10000 h~(-1)、温度800℃工况下,CaO对初始浓度范围127×10~(-6)-512×10~(-6)的HCN均有接近100%的脱除效果.     

Effect of gas temperature on critical velocity and deposition characteristics in kinetic spraying

This study evaluated the effects of particle temperature and substrate material on critical velocity and deposition efficiency in kinetic spraying. A wide range of process gas pressures and temperatures was used in this experiment to vary both particle velocity and temperature. A bronze (Cu-Sn alloy) feedstock was deposited onto aluminum, mild steel and bronze substrates. The experimental results showed that the critical velocity was strongly dependent on the combinations of particle/substrate and particle temperature. The decreasing critical velocity could be obtained at the same particle velocity, due to an increasing particle temperature. In our experiments, the critical velocity decreased by 50 m/s when the process gas temperature increased by 100 °C. When process conditions are optimized to have good bond strength and deposition efficiency, two critical velocities must be considered; one is that of the particle deposition onto the substrate (Vcr1) and the other is that of particle-particle bonding (Vcr2).     

Characteristics of laminar lifted flames in coflow jets with initial temperature variation

Characteristics of laminar lifted flames of propane highly diluted with nitrogen have been investigated by varying the initial temperature in coflow jets. The result showed that the lifted flame maintained the tribrachial structure up to the initial temperature of 900 K and the liftoff height decreased with initial temperature and dilution ratio. The overall behavior of liftoff heights correlated well with the jet velocity scaled by the stoichiometric laminar burning velocity, emphasizing the importance of the stoichiometric laminar burning velocity on the propagation speed of tribrachial flame. The exponent of the liftoff height with jet velocity in the relation of increased with initial fuel mole fraction, which has been attributed to the differential diffusion between propane and diluent nitrogen. Consequently, nitrogen concentration varied along the stoichiometric contour, which affected the propagation speed. Also, the exponent increased with initial temperature due to the sensitiveness of the propagation speed variation with nitrogen dilution on initial temperature. The liftoff conditions have been observed for the jet velocity even smaller than the stoichiometric laminar burning velocity at relatively low initial temperatures. This can be attributed to the effect of the buoyancy. Liftoff velocities accounting for the relative buoyancy effect were found to have a satisfactory correlation with regardless of initial temperatures and nitrogen dilution.     

Parameters of an erosion carbon plasma in the channel of a railgun

The working current dependences of the thermodynamic and electrophysical parameters of a free plasma piston moving with a near-maximal velocity in the channel of an electromagnetic rail launcher with graphite electrodes are obtained. The composition and weight of the plasma depend on the degree of electrode erosion due to discharge current passage (i = 40–80 kA). It is shown that the mean temperature of the plasma piston only slightly depends on the plasma mean pressure and plasma piston weight and increases with current by a near-power law. The measured values of the maximal velocity of the plasma piston front are compared with the calculated value of the sound velocity inside the piston. With the working current and cross-sectional area of the channel fixed, the initial gas density in the channel is found to influence the ratio of the piston maximal velocity to the sound velocity in the plasma. If the initial gas density is low (lower than some critical value), the maximal velocity of the plasma piston front exceeds the sound velocity in the plasma.     

温度梯度区域熔化作用下熔池迁移的元胞自动机模拟

本文采用耦合凝固和熔化效应的二维元胞自动机(cellular automaton, CA)模型,对温度梯度区域熔化(temperature gradient zone melting, TGZM)效应引起的熔池在固液两相区中的迁移现象进行模拟研究.模拟分析了抽拉速度、熔池初始位置、温度梯度和合金成分等因素对TGZM动力学的影响,并将模拟结果与解析模型的预测结果进行比较验证.通过模拟发现,在温度梯度作用下,熔池总是向着高温方向迁移;当抽拉速度低于或高于临界抽拉速度时,熔池朝向移动的液相线或固相线迁移;对于给定的抽拉速度,位于糊状区内临界位置以上的熔池会迁移进入液相,而位于临界位置以下的熔池会逐步靠近固相线.此外,温度梯度越高,合金成分越低,熔池的迁移速度越快.     

Soft acoustic modes in the two-dimensional spin system SrCu2(BO3)(2)

SrCu2(BO3)(2) is a two-dimensional dimerized quantum spin system which is close to a quantum critical point. The sound velocity for the longitudinal and transverse acoustic modes shows strong spin-lattice effects. The shear c(66) mode exhibits a pronounced softening of 4.5% as a function of temperature and softens more than 25% in fields up to 50 T. This huge effect occurs in the vicinity of the magnetization plateaus m/m(0) = 1/4 and 1/3. We can analyze quantitatively the temperature dependence of all measured elastic modes c(11), c(44), and c(66) with an exchange striction mechanism. The soft c(66) mode with B(2g) symmetry enables us to predict the possible symmetry of the condensed triplets in some plateaus.     

VES—CO2清洁泡沫压裂液携砂性能实验研究

在大型高压泡沫压裂液实验回路上,对VES—C02清洁泡沫压裂液的携砂性能进行了实验研究。分析了携砂泡沫压裂液流动时临界沉降速度的产生原因,并根据实验结果分析了温度、泡沫质量及支撑剂浓度对临界沉降流速的影响。临界沉降流速随温度的升高而增大,随泡沫质量和支撑剂体积浓度的增大而减小,研究发现当支撑剂浓度大于0．25时,开始出...     

Stationary collisionless shock waves in an initial plasma with high ion temperature

Stationary collisonless shock waves propagating perpendicularly to an initial magnetic field are produced by the fast-rising magnetic field \((\dot B = 7 \cdot 10^{10} G/sec)\) of a theta pinch (coil diameter 16 cm, coil length 60 cm). The initial plasma is produced by a fast theta pinch discharge (810 kHz). At filling pressures between 5 and 15 mtorr H₂ or D₂ the degree of ionization is about 50%. By choosing the filling pressure properly it is possible to trap a homogeneous magnetic field. The ions of this plasma have a temperature of a few 10 eV. This value is much higher than the electron temperature and results in a local plasmaβ between 0.3 and 5. In this initial plasma stationary collisionless shock waves with Mach numbers between 1.5 and 5 are observed. The snow-plough model is used to derive conditions for the stationary state, attainable Mach number, and velocity of the front which relate the external magnetic field and the parameters of the initial plasma. Strong collisionless dissipation can be demonstrated by measuring the profiles of magnetic field, density, and electron temperature of the shock waves. For the electrons this dissipation mechanism can be described by an effective collison frequency. This phenomenologically introduced frequency determines the width of the shock front at least for subcritical shock waves. It exceeds the classical electron-ion collision frequency by 1–2 orders of magnitude and is roughly equal to one-third of the ion plasma frequency. The ion temperature can be estimated from the steady state conservation relations. The ions are heated in the two degrees of freedom perpendicular to the magnetic field. For shock waves with Mach numbers below the critical one the ions seem to be heated merely adiabatically. In strong shock waves this heating is considerably exceeded, and for high Mach numbers it yields ion temperatures up to about 500 eV. Finally, semi-empirical formulas are derived to estimate the possible temperatures of electrons and ions behind the shock front.     

强激光加载铝材料动态损伤特性及其微介观结构观测

在神光-Ⅱ装置上利用强激光加载铝材料进行高应变率(高于106s-1)层裂实验,研究不同初始温度下高纯铝材料的动态损伤特性。采用任意反射面速度干涉仪测量样品自由面速度剖面,由自由面速度剖面计算纯铝样品层裂强度与屈服应力。结果表明:随着温度升高,材料层裂强度减小,屈服应力增大。对激光加载前后样品进行金相分析,观察不同初始温度下纯铝材料的微介观结构变化及其损伤特性。结果表明:随着温度升高,样品晶粒尺度缓慢增大,但在873K(近熔点)时晶粒尺度急剧增加;层裂面附近小孔洞数目较多,孔洞尺寸也较大,而远离层裂面处,孔洞数目相对较少,且尺寸也较小;材料的断裂方式随温度升高由沿晶断裂为主逐渐变为穿晶断裂为主。     

Simultaneous Rayleigh scattering and laser-induced CH fluorescence for reaction zone imaging in high-speed premixed hydrocarbon flames

4 /air flames where CH concentration is on the order of 1 ppm based on flamelet calculations. The present experimental conditions are also examined and shown to be suitable for quantitative measurements of CH radical based on the two-level model analysis. A linear relationship can be found between the measured CH signal intensity and the calculated CH concentration within a maximum 30% uncertainty range. The FWHM thickness of the CH profile in a stoichiometric laminar methane flame was shown to be less than 0.3 mm, which is the smallest ever achieved. Simultaneous image pairs of flame temperature and concentration of CH radicals from a premixed turbulent Bunsen flame at an exit velocity of 65 m/sec are obtained to demonstrate the system superiority of application on high-speed reacting flows. Received: 29 January 1996/Revised Version: 3 May 1996     

单晶铜中冲击波阵面结构的数值模拟研究

 用分子动力学方法模拟计算了在初始温度为0 K时单晶铜中的冲击波结构，相互作用势采用铜的嵌入原子势（EAM），模拟计算结果表明即使是在初始温度为0 K的FCC晶体中，冲击波波阵面后的区域也会向平衡态演化。局域分析表明冲击波阵面后区域的压力、粒子速度、应变和温度随时间逐步变化到稳定态，在所研究的冲击波强度（约262 GPa）下，波后区域的平均压力、粒子速度、应变均在约1 ps内逐渐上升并达到稳定值。动能温度在波阵面处始终为最大值，随着冲击波的传播，波后非零温度区域逐渐扩大，不同时刻的粒子速度分布函数说明波后区域逐渐向热力学平衡态演化，并最终达到热力学平衡，进一步的分析说明局域平衡是系统向平衡态演化的基本过程。     

Out-diffusion and precipitation of copper in silicon: An electrostatic model

Concentrations of mobile interstitial copper and precipitated copper in silicon were studied after a high temperature intentional contamination and quench to room temperature. It was found that below a critical contamination the copper predominantly diffuses out to the surface, while for higher initial copper concentrations it mainly precipitates in the bulk. The critical copper contamination equals the acceptor concentration plus 10(16) cm (-3). This behavior can be explained by the electrostatic interaction between the positively charged interstitial copper and the forming copper precipitates.     

交联氮气泡沫压裂液的携砂性能研究

在大型高压泡沫压裂液实验回路上,对交联氮气泡沫压裂液的携砂性能进行了实验研究.分析了携砂泡沫压裂液流动时临界携砂流速的产生原因,并根据实验结果分析了温度,压力、泡沫质量及支撑剂浓度对临界携砂流速的影响.临界携砂流速随温度的升高而增大,随压力、泡沫质量和支撑剂体积浓度的增大而减小,研究发现当支撑剂浓度大于0.17时,开始...     

An investigation of the dependence of ZnO film on the sensitivity of Love mode sensor in ZnO/quartz structure

Love mode acoustic devices are very promising as biosensors in liquid environments because of their high sensitivity. An experimental study of Love mode sensors based on ZnO/90 degrees rotated ST-cut quartz structure with different sputtering conditions to deposit ZnO films is presented. In order to achieve sensor with higher sensitivity, the effects of sputtering substrate temperatures to deposit ZnO films on the sensitivity of viscosity and conductivity were investigated. Phase velocity, sensitivity and temperature coefficient of frequency (TCF) of Love wave devices have been studied. The Love wave sensor has higher sensitivity as sputtering ZnO films on the unheated substrate than that of on the heated substrate. The maximum sensitivity up to -18.77 x 10(-8) m(2) s kg(-1) of ZnO film with thickness of 1.8 microm for a wavelength of 40 microm is much bigger than SiO(2)/quartz structure. In this research, we report ZnO/90 degrees rotated ST-cut quartz structure of Love wave sensors with high sensitivity of viscosity and conductivity in liquid circumstance and TCF of quartz is compensated by ZnO film.     

Solitons in a linear lattice with defects

Solitons are generated in an anharmonic linear lattice in which neighbouring atoms interact through a Morse potential by giving either a strong initial impulse or a large displacement to an end atom. Studies on the variation of the characteristic properties of the soliton with the strength of the initial pulse show that the velocity and the amplitude of the soliton increase with the strength of the initial impulse, but below a certain critical value for the initial impulse, only an oscillatory tail is generated. It is shown that when a defect is present in the lattice, a localised mode appears at the site of the defect and additional solitons travelling forward or even backwards, are generated. When two solitons collide at a defect region, they reemerge but leave a localised mode at the site of the defect. If an initial velocity is imparted to a particular particle, synchronously with the crossing of the particle by the soliton, a localised mode emerges at the site of the particle and additional solitons are also generated. When a soliton moves from a denser to a rarer medium, a strong localised pulse is created near the region of the density discontinuity and additional solitons appear; and further a weak oscillatory tail is left behind in the denser medium. On the other hand, if a soliton moves from a rarer to a denser medium, it is reflected back and a small localised mode is generated at the site of the density discontinuity. The variation of amplitude of the soliton with the velocity of propagation is also studied.