Fabrication of two biomimetic superhydrophobic polymeric surfaces

Two biomimetic superhydrophobic polymeric surfaces were obtained by a simple approach under ambient atmosphere. Water and ethanol were used as the nonsolvents in the method of phase separation in different systems. The influences of various factors in the process were investigated. Both of the as-prepared films showed excellent superhydrophobicity, depending on the high contact angle and the low contact angle hysteresis. Moreover, the classic and a new modified Cassie-Baxter relation were used on the polystyrene and poly-α-methyl styrene films to confirm the superhydrophobic performance.     

射流影响下气固两相流动试验的定量分析

为了研究受限空间内的射流影响下的气固两相流动,本文采用数码颗粒图像测速仪（DpIV）系统测量颗粒分布,并开发了一套用于处理DPIV颗粒图片的算法,可用于准确地定量分析通道内的颗粒分布。使用该算法能够获得颗粒在拍摄平面内的二维相对浓度数据,定量分析该数据发现,在同样的流场条件下,射流对气流场和不同粒径颗粒的影响区域存在明...     

光捕获和光操控研究进展

光捕获和光操控是一种通过光镊、倏逝波、光泳或光热等对微纳尺度颗粒、生物大分子和细胞等微小物体进行非接触、无损伤捕获和操控的方法和技术.详细归纳和总结了国际上在光捕获和光操控方面的研究进展和最新动态,分析了其今后的研究发展方向.     

低振幅中心对称光折变暗和灰空间孤子的时间特性

为了研究中心对称光折变晶体中低振幅暗和灰空间孤子的时间特性,推导出了含时间参量的空间电荷场和光波的动态演化方程.采用数值方法,得到了中心对称光折变晶体中低振幅空间暗和灰孤子强度包络和强度半峰全宽的时间演化特性.结果表明,初始阶段形成的宽度较宽的孤子,其宽度随时间单调递减到一个最小值直至稳态孤子的形成;在相同的演化时间内...     

Half-metallic ferromagnetism in rocksalt and zinc-blende MS (M=Li, Na and K): A first-principles study

First-principles full-potential linearized augmented plane-wave method is used to investigate the electronic structure and magnetic properties of hypothetical zinc-blende and rocksalt LiS, NaS and KS. We find that all the compounds except rocksalt LiS exhibit half-metallic ferromagnetism with an integer magnetic moment of 1.00 μ_B per formula unit. The ferromagnetism results from the spin-polarization of p states of anion S. Total energies calculations indicate the rocksalt phase is lower in energy than the zinc-blende one. The total energy differences are about 0.38, 0.36 and 0.32 eV per formula unit for LiS, NaS and KS, respectively. Meanwhile, it is shown that rocksalt NaS and KS have the half-metallic gaps of 0.22 and 0.41 eV, respectively, and the half-metallic gaps are 0.03, 0.46 and 0.65 eV for zinc-blende LiS, NaS and KS, respectively. We also find the half-metallicity is robust against the lattice contraction up to 7% and 13% for rocksalt NaS and KS, respectively. Although rocksalt LiS is nonmagnetic and metallic at the equilibrium lattice constant, it shows half-metallic ferromagnetism when the lattice constant is larger than 5.40 Å.     

Decoherence-free subspaces of anyon states

In this paper, we propose decoherence-free subspaces (DFSs) of anyon states under two kinds of noises. The forms of collective dephasing and collective rotation noises are introduced. The invariance requirement under these noises give some restrictions of the winding number of anyons. We put forward a scheme to realize the DFS of anyon states in the Kitaev spin-lattice model, and give some discussion of general kinds of anyons.     

Existence and exponential convergence of almost periodic positive solution for Nicholson's blowflies discrete model with linear harvesting term

This paper deals with a discrete Nicholson's blowflies model with linear harvesting term. By using contraction mapping fixed point theorem, we obtain sufficient conditions for the existence of unique almost periodic positive solution. Moreover, we investigate exponential convergence of the almost periodic positive solution by Lyapunov functional. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Little’s law when the average waiting time is infinite

One version of Little’s law, written as $L = \lambda w$ , is a relation between averages along a sample path. There are two others in a stochastic setting; they readily extend to the case where the average waiting time $w$ is infinite. We investigate conditions for the sample-path version of this case to hold. Published proofs assume (our) Eq. (3) holds. It is only sufficient. We present examples of what may happen when (3) does not hold, including one that may be new where $w$ is infinite and $L$ is finite. We obtain a sufficient condition called “weakly FIFO” that is weaker than (3), and through truncation, a necessary and sufficient condition. We show that (3) is sufficient but not necessary for the departure rate to be equal to the arrival rate.     

A cell functional minimization scheme for domain decomposition method on non-orthogonal and non-matching meshes

We are interested in a robust and accurate domain decomposition algorithm with interface conditions of Robin type on non-matching multiblock grids using a cell functional minimization scheme, which has a good performance on non-orthogonal meshes. In order to treat the non-matching grids at the interface, we introduce the \(L^2\) projection operator to ensure weak continuity of the primary unknown and of the normal flux across the non-matching interface. Furthermore, we prove the wellposedness of local and global problems and obtain as well an error estimate of first order in a discrete \(H^{1}\) -norm only using the \(L^{2}\) projection operator on the non-matching interface, as done in the matching case. Numerical results are presented in confirmation of the theoretical results.