Influence of lubricant on the motion of a body in an electromagnetic railgun accelerator. I. Electric current distribution in the accelerated body and the rails

An investigation is made of the influence of a liquid conducting film inserted in the gap between the accelerated metal projectile and the rails in a railgun accelerator on the distribution of the current density and the magnetic induction in the rails and the projectile. The film is assumed to be fairly thin, so that the variation of the magnetic induction across the film can be neglected. The problem is considered in a plane geometry. Approximate expressions are derived for the thickness of the velocity skin layer as a function of the thickness and conductivity of the film. The equations for diffusion of the magnetic field in the rails and in the projectile are integrated numerically. It is shown that the presence of a liquid conducting film can significantly suppress the velocity skin effect. Nevertheless, even when fairly thick films of fairly high resistivity are used, the nonuniformity of the electric current density distribution in the projectile still remains very high for the magnetic Reynolds numbers of practical interest. Zh. Tekh. Fiz. 69, 103–111 (July 1999)     

Influence of self-heating on the step structures in the current-voltage characteristic of superconducting films

The current-induced transition between the normal and the superconducting state of Sn, In, and Pb films is investigated by varying the helium bath temperature, film thickness, mean free path, and an external magnetic field oriented parallel to the film surface. The experiments show that, farther fromT _c , heating effects play an important role. The heating of the films relative to the helium bath by the liberation of Joule heat in the resistive state and the influence of hotspot formation on the step structures in the current-voltage characteristics of the samples are established with a graphite thermometer. the temperature and the size of the hotspots are determined by the power dissipation, the surface heat transfer, and the heat conduction within the film.     

轨道炮速度趋肤效应的分析与仿真

 根据Maxwell方程推导出电磁场参数与速度之间的关系,建立了直角坐标下的电磁场和温度场扩散2维偏微分方程, 分析了固体电枢电磁轨道炮的速度趋肤效应。以矩形固体电枢为例,给出了边界条件和激励源函数。采用有限差分法对方程进行求解,并对数据进行了分析,得到轨道和电枢中磁感应强度、温度和电流密度的分布曲线。计算结果表明:电枢的运动使得电流密度集中在电枢和轨道交界面的尾部,使得该局部地区温度增加,进而引起电枢尾部的熔融与烧蚀。     

Thermophysical properties of liquid niobium

Abstract

A resistive pulse heating technique is used to make measurements of thermophysical properties of liquid niobium. Results are presented for volume, electrical resistivity, temperature, enthalpy, and sound velocity over a wide range.     

Influence of lubricant on the motion of a body in an electromagnetic railgun accelerator. II. Hydrodynamics of a conducting lubricant

The flow of a liquid conducting film in the gap between the rail and the metallic projectile (armature) in a railgun is considered. In contrast to the usual problems in the theory of the hydrodynamics of lubricants, the statement of the problem here takes into account such additional forces acting on the liquid as the ponderomotive force and the inertial force arising as a consequence of the accelerated motion of the armature. As a result, even in the case of a gap of constant width not only is the existence of flows with negative velocities possible, but also of flows with negative flow rates. An analytical solution of the problem is obtained with the convective terms neglected. The influence of the convective terms is estimated by integrating the lubrication equations numerically. Primary attention is devoted to a calculation of the lubricant flow rate, viscous dissipation in the liquid layer, and the pressure distribution along the gap. Calculations are performed for specific cases of linearly expanding and linearly narrowing gaps. Zh. Tekh. Fiz. 69, 109–116 (October 1999)     

Joule heating and viscous dissipation effects on MHD flow past a semi-infinite inclined plate with variable surface temperature

A numerical investigation is performed to study the MHD free convection flow past a semi-infinite inclined plate subjected to a variable surface temperature. The Joule heating and viscous dissipation effects are taken into account in the energy equation. The governing equations of the flow are transformed into a nondimensional form using suitable dimensionless quantities. A fully developed implicit finite-difference scheme of Crank-Nicolson type is engaged to solve the dimensionless governing equations, which is more accurate, fast convergent, and unconditionally stable. The effects of the MHD, inclination angle, power law, Grashof number, Prandtl number, Joule heating, and viscous dissipation effects are studied on the velocity, temperature, shear stress, and heat transfer coefficients during transient periods. It is observed that the MHD has retarding effects on velocity.     

Numerical Simulation of MHD Peristaltic Flow with Variable Electrical Conductivity and Joule Dissipation Using Generalized Differential Quadrature Method

In this paper, the MHD peristaltic flow inside wavy walls of an asymmetric channel is investigated, where the walls of the channel are moving with peristaltic wave velocity along the channel length. During this investigation,the electrical conductivity both in Lorentz force and Joule heating is taken to be temperature dependent. Also, the long wavelength and low Reynolds number assumptions are utilized to reduce the governing partial differential equations into a set of coupled nonlinear ordinary differential equations. The new set of obtained equations is then numerically solved using the generalized differential quadrature method(GDQM). This is the first attempt to solve the nonlinear equations arising in the peristaltic flows using this method in combination with the Newton-Raphson technique. Moreover, in order to check the accuracy of the proposed numerical method, our results are compared with the results of built-in Mathematica command NDSolve. Taking Joule heating and viscous dissipation into account, the effects of various parameters appearing in the problem are used to discuss the fluid flow characteristics and heat transfer in the electrically conducting fluids graphically. In presence of variable electrical conductivity, velocity and temperature profiles are highly decreasing in nature when the intensity of the electrical conductivity parameter is strengthened.     

Magnetoplasma Lamination due to Microwave Gyroresonant Heating

The hysteresis transitions between two temperature states of a collisional magnetoplasa due to Joule heating near by the electron gyroresonance are analysed. The propagation of intense extra-ordinary gyroresonant microwave across the magnetic field in a plasma is responsible for such jump-like thermic effects, the wave amplitudes being less than the “characteristic plasma field”. The transversal heat conductivity may lead to formation of spatially periodical temperature profiles in the hysteresis region of wave's intensity; the spatial periods of such profiles are much less than the Joule dissipation length of heating wave. The thermodiffusion, stimulated by temperature lamination, may form the spatial oscillations of magneto-plasma density across the magnetic field.     

Numerical analysis for peristalsis of Carreau–Yasuda nanofluid in an asymmetric channel with slip and Joule heating effects

This study investigates the peristaltic transport of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) Carreau–Yasuda nanofluid through an asymmetric channel. Viscous dissipation, Joule heating and Hall effects are also included in the analysis. Velocity, thermal and concentration slip conditions are considered. The problem is modeled subject to long wavelength and low Reynolds number assumptions. Resulting nonlinear equations are numerically solved. Impact of embedded parameters on the fluid velocity, temperature, concentration of nanoparticles and heat and mass transfer rates at the wall are examined. Graphical results show that an escalation in the strength of appliedmagnetic field and increase in the value of Hall parameter reduce the velocity of nanofluid. Brownian motion and thermophoresis effects increase the temperature of the nanofluid. The present study shows an excellent agreement with the previously available studies in the limiting case.     

高雷诺数下降液膜流动换热分析

本文分析了降液膜高雷诺数区域换热系数随液膜长度变化趋势,引出临界长度的概念。在较高雷诺数的湍流区,回流区的存在以及表面波的影响能有效地减少局部薄膜厚度并增加对流换热,流速的增加进一步强化换热,增加降膜整体传热系数。在高雷诺数区域,厚度形成的热阻超过回流的增强作用,而使换热削弱。液膜小于临界长度L换热系数随长度增长而增加,大于L换热系数随液膜增长而减小。     

Probing the local,electronic and magnetic structure of matter under extreme conditions of temperature and pressure

ABSTRACT

In this paper we present recent achievements in the field of investigation of the local, electronic and magnetic structure of the matter under extreme conditions of pressure and temperature. These results were obtained thanks to the coupling of a compact laser heating system to the energy-dispersive XAS technique available on the ID24 beamline at the ESRF synchrotron. The examples chosen concern the melting and the liquid structure of 3d metals and alloys under high pressures (HPs) and the observation of temperature-induced spin crossover in FeCO₃ at HP.     

High performance field emission and Nottingham effect observed from carbon nanotube yarn

Vertically aligned CNTs were synthesized on a four inch wafer, followed by the preparation of a CNT yarn. The yarn emitter was found to have an extremely high field enhancement factor, which was confirmed to have originated from multi-stage effect. In addition to superb field emission characteristics, the energy exchange during field emission, called Nottingham effect, was observed from the CNT yarn emitter. A CNT yarn was attached to the thermistor whose resistance depends on temperature. Then, the change of resistance was monitored during the field emission, which enabled us to calculate the energy exchange. It was found that the observed heating originated from both Nottingham and Joule heating. Nottingham heating was dominant at low current region while Joule heating became larger contribution at high current region. Very large Nottingham region of up to 33.35 mA was obtained, which is due presumably to the high performance field emission characteristics of a CNT yarn. This is believed to be an important observation for developing reliable field emission devices with suppressed Joule heating effect.     

Thermally Radiative Rotating Magneto-Nanofluid Flow over an Exponential Sheet with Heat Generation and Viscous Dissipation:A Comparative Study

This article examines a mathematical model to analyze the rotating flow of three-dimensional water based nanofluid over a convectively heated exponentially stretching sheet in the presence of transverse magnetic field with additional effects of thermal radiation,Joule heating and viscous dissipation.Silver(Ag),copper(Cu),copper oxide(Cu O),aluminum oxide(Al_2O_3)and titanium dioxide(Ti O_2)have been taken under consideration as the nanoparticles and water(H_2O)as the base fluid.Using suitable similarity transformations,the governing partial differential equations(PDEs)of the modeled problem are transformed to the ordinary differential equations(ODEs).These ODEs are then solved numerically by applying the shooting method.For the particular situation,the results are compared with the available literature.The effects of different nanoparticles on the temperature distribution are also discussed graphically and numerically.It is witnessed that the skin friction coefficient is maximum for silver based nanofluid.Also,the velocity profile is found to diminish for the increasing values of the magnetic parameter.     

Heat transfer enhancement on the upper surface of a horizontal heated plate in a pool by ion injection from a metallic point

The heat transfer characteristics of an electrohydrodynamically induced impinging liquid flow were studied in point-plane geometry. Points of four different metals were tested, varying the high voltage and the point-to-plane spacing. Heat transfer coefficients augmented more than 200%, with a negligible Joule dissipation. The Nusselt number on the stagnation point was successfully correlated to a dimensionless group, behaving similar to the Reynolds number in submerged jets.     

Roles of the magnetic field and electric current in thermally activated domain wall motion in a submicrometer magnetic strip with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy

We have experimentally studied micrometer-scale domain wall (DW) motion driven by a magnetic field and an electric current in a Co/Pt multilayer strip with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy. The thermal activation energy for DW motion, along with its scaling with the driving field and current, has been extracted directly from the temperature dependence of the DW velocity. The injection of DC current resulted in an enhancement of the DW velocity independent of the current polarity, but produced no measurable change in the activation energy barrier. Through this analysis, the observed current-induced DW velocity enhancement can be entirely and unambiguously attributed to Joule heating.     

Damping effect of an external uniform magnetic field on gas bubble vibration in a viscous conductive liquid

Dynamic and heat-transfer processes accompanying the free vibrations of a gas bubble immersed in a viscous conductive liquid exposed to a uniform magnetic field are considered. Solutions to a set of equations describing bubble relaxation are obtained by numerical methods. It is shown that the magnetic field causes the fast damping of the vibration due to Joule dissipation. At the stage of vibration, the energy dissipates mainly through the Joule mechanism. At the final stage, thermal dissipation prevails.     

Entropy generation in radiative motion of tangent hyperbolic nanofluid in presence of activation energy and nonlinear mixed convection

In this communication, an optimization of entropy generation is performed through thermodynamics second law. Tangent hyperbolic nanomaterial model is used which describes the important slip mechanism namely Brownian and thermophoresis diffusions. MHD fluid is considered. The novel binary chemical reaction model is implemented to characterize the impact of activation energy. Nonlinear mixed convection, dissipation and Joule heating are considered. Appropriate similarity transformations are implemented to get the required coupled ODEs system. The obtained system is tackled for series solutions by homotopy method. Graphs are constructed to analyze the impact of different flow parameters on entropy number, nanoparticle volume concentration, temperature and velocity fields. Total entropy generation rate is calculated via various flow variables. It is noticed from obtained results that entropy number depend up thermal irreversibility, viscous dissipation and Joule heating irreversibility and concentration irreversibility. Decreasing behavior of concentration is witnessed for higher estimations of chemical reaction variable. Entropy number is more for higher Hartmann number, Weissenberg number and chemical reaction variable while contrast behavior is noted for Bejan number.     

Metal-insulator transition in SrTiO(3-x) thin films induced by frozen-out carriers

We report optical, electrical and magnetotransport properties of oxygen deficient SrTiO(3) (SrTiO(3-x)) thin films fabricated by pulsed laser deposition technique. The oxygen vacancies (O(vac)) in the thin film are expected to be uniform. By comparing its electrical properties to those of bulk SrTiO(3-x), it was found that O(vac) in bulk SrTiO(3-x) is far from uniform over the whole material. The metal-insulator transition (MIT) observed in the SrTiO(3-x) film was found to be induced by the carrier freeze-out effect. The low temperature frozen state can be reexcited by Joule heating, electric and intriguingly magnetic field.     

Heating of electrons in superconductor in the resistive state due to electromagnetic radiation

The effect of heating electrons with respect to phonons in a thin superconducting film driven into the resistive state by the current and the external magnetic field has been observed and investigated. This effect caused by the electromagnetic radiation is manifested in the increased resistance of the film and is not selective over the frequency range from 10¹⁰ to 10¹⁵ Hz. That the effect is frequency independent under the conditions of strong electron scattering caused by static defects is explained by the decisive role of electron -electron collisions in forming the distribution function. The characteristic time of resistance change, obtained experimentally, corresponds to the relaxation time of the order parameter $\text{τ}{}_{\mathrm{\Delta }}$ near the superconducting transition and to the relaxation time of the nonelastic electron-phonon interaction $\text{τ}{}_{\mathrm{<mtext>eph</mtext>}}$ at lower temperatures and in lower magnetic fields.     

Thermal and carrier transport originating from photon recycling and non-radiative recombination in laser micromachining of GaAs thin films

Coupled thermal and carrier transports (electron/hole generation, recombination, diffusion and drifting) in laser photoetching of GaAs thin film is investigated. A new volumetric heating mechanism originating from SRH (Shockley–Read–Hall) non-radiative recombination and photon recycling is proposed and modeled based on recent experimental findings. Both volumetric SRH heating and Joule heating are found to be important in the carrier transport, as well as the etching process. SRH heating and Joule heating are primarily confined within the space-charge region, which is about 20 nm from the GaAs surface. The surface temperature rises rapidly as the laser intensity exceeds 10⁵ W/m². Below a laser intensity of 10⁵ W/m², the thermal effect is negligible. The etch rate is found to be dependent on the competition between photovoltaic and photothermal effects on surface potential. At high laser intensity, the etch rate is increased by more than 100%, due to SRH and Joule heating. Received: 24 January 2002 / Accepted: 11 April 2002 / Published online: 10 September 2002 RID="*" ID="*"Corresponding author. Fax: +1-310/206-2302, E-mail: xiang@seas.ucla.edu