A dispersive regularization of the modulational instability of stratified gravity waves

We derive high-order corrections to a modulation theory for the propagation of internal gravity waves in a density-stratified fluid with coupling to the mean flow. The methodology we use allows for strong modulations of wavenumber and mean flow, extending previous approaches developed for the quasi-monochromatic regime. The wave mean flow modulation equations consist of a system of nonlinear conservation laws that may be hyperbolic, elliptic or of mixed type. We investigate the regularizing properties of the asymptotic correction terms in the case when the system becomes unstable and ill-posed due to a change of type (loss of hyperbolicity). A linear analysis reveals that the regularization by the added correction terms does so by introducing a short-wave cut-off of the unstable wavenumbers. We perform various numerical experiments that confirm the regularizing properties of the correction terms, and show that the growth of unstable modes is tempered by nonlinearity. We also find an excellent agreement between the solution of the corrected modulation system and the modulation variables extracted from the numerical solution of the nonlinear Boussinesq equations.     

永泰县城峰镇旗山小区后山滑坡现场应急调查及处置分析

2010年5月20日,受连续降雨影响,福建省永泰县城峰镇旗山小区后山发现有滑坡地质灾害隐患,后山中下部产生多条35~80m长拉裂缝,坡脚崩塌不断,潜在滑坡规模约8×10⁴m³,存在继续下滑的危险,情况十分危急,威胁坡脚居民2565人的生命和约5.38亿元财产。本文在对灾害现场进行详细地质调查的基础上,结合现场测绘、监测等手段,对该滑坡体的基本特征进行了较深入的调查研究,对滑坡发生及成灾原因进行了初步分析。结果表明,滑坡区地形条件及岩土体特征是滑坡发生的基本条件,连续降雨的饱水加载作用以及雨水沿节理裂隙结构面的下渗软化作用是诱发滑坡发生的直接原因。同时,根据滑坡险情特征,提出了应处置建议及应急卸载措施。最后,根据监测结果信息化指导应急卸载工作,确保了施工安全及受灾群众的生命财产安全。本次成功排险,对指导福建海沿地区地质灾害应急处置工作提供了科学依据。     

Turing pattern formation for reaction–convection–diffusion systems in fixed domains submitted to toroidal velocity fields

We have studied the effect of advection on reaction–diffusion equations by using toroidal velocity fields. Turing patterns formation in diffusion–advection–reaction problems was studied specifically, considering the Schnackenberg and glycolysis reaction kinetics models. Four cases were analyzed and solved numerically using finite elements. For glycolysis models, the advective effect modified the form of Turing patterns obtained with diffusion–reaction; whereas for Schnackenberg problems, the original patterns distorted themselves slightly, making them rotate in direction of the velocity field. We have also determined that the advective effect surpassed the diffusive one for high values of velocity and instability driven by diffusion was eliminated. On the other hand the advective effect is not considerable for very low values in the velocity field, and there was no modification in the original Turing pattern.     

HL-1装置等离子体特性的初步研究

HL-1装置在环向磁场2.3T下运行,获得135kA平衡稳定等离子体,平顶时间160ms。实验表明,环向磁场杂散分量约为纵场的万分之一,导体壳和平衡场基本上能保证等离子体的平衡。观察到的电子温度约500eV,平均电子密度2.8×10~(13)cm~(-3),能量约束时间10ms,有效电荷数小于3,最低稳定运行安全因子2.5,最长放电持续时间1040ms。在对MHD稳定性进行观察的基础上,确定了稳定运行区域;极限密度服从Murakami定标律。     

HL—1装置密度极限破裂分析

HL-1装置上观测到大量的密度极限破裂放电。其主要特性是破裂前偏离几何中心的磁面位移很小,中心区总是观测到锯齿现象,破裂后,其电流中断时间大于20ms。本文详细分析了出现在电流上升段,坪段及下降段密度极限破裂的特征。其中一类是由于辐射功率超过加热功率所确定的村上极限,没有观测到先兆振荡;另一类是由于约束变坏所确定的赫吉尔极限,可观测到驰豫几毫秒的先兆振荡,这类放电破裂后多数能恢复。该装置运行的最大村上参数是0.35×10~(20)m~(-2).T~(-1)。     

The unstable behavior of cellular premixed flames induced by intrinsic instability

The unstable behavior of cellular premixed flames induced by intrinsic instability is studied by two-dimensional unsteady calculations of reactive flows. In the present numerical simulation, the compressible Navier–Stokes equation including a one-step irreversible chemical reaction is employed. We consider two basic types of phenomena to account for the intrinsic instability of premixed flames, i.e., hydrodynamic and diffusive-thermal effects. The hydrodynamic effect is caused by the thermal expansion through the flame front; the diffusive-thermal effect is caused by the preferential diffusion of mass versus heat. A disturbance with several wavelength components is superimposed on a planar flame, and the formation of a cellular flame induced by hydrodynamic and diffusive-thermal effects is numerically simulated. After the cellular-flame formation, the combination and division of cells are observed. The behavior of cellular-flame fronts becomes more unstable when the Lewis number is lower than unity, since the diffusive-thermal effect has a great influence on the unstable behavior. The cell size changes with time, and its average is greater than the critical wavelength and becomes smaller by decreasing the Lewis number. The flame velocity of cellular flames depends strongly on the length of computational domain in the direction tangential to the flame front. As the length of computational domain increases, the flame velocity becomes larger. This is because the long-wavelength components of disturbances play an important role in the shape of cellular flames, i.e., in the flame-surface area.     

平面应变条件下孔洞化不稳定性问题研究

考虑平面应变条件下，由一类推广的幂次neo—Hookean材料组成的内部分布温度场的圆柱体在轴向和径向载荷作用下的孔洞化不稳定性问题，研究中发现当材料参数满足一定的条件时，存在着一个载荷临界值，当外加载荷大于该临界值时，圆柱体中心将出现一个圆柱形的孔洞，即发生了孔洞化不稳定性现象并详细讨论了温度和材料参数对孔洞化极限载荷的影响。     

On the instability of differential systems with varying delay

The unstable properties of the null solution of the nonautonomous delay system x′(t)=A(t)x(t)+B(t)x(t−r₁(t))+f(t,x(t),x(t−r₂(t))) are examined; the nonconstant delays r₁, r₂ are assumed to be continuous bounded functions. The case A=constant is reviewed, where a theorem, recalling the Perron instability theorem for ordinary differential equations, is obtained.     

Undulation instability in two-dimensional foams of magnetic fluid

Two-dimensional magnetic fluid foams are cellular structures whose framework is made of magnetic fluid. The features of these equilibrated patterns are driven by a control parameter: the amplitude of the applied magnetic field. When the latter is rapidly increased, an instability occurs: the walls between cells undulate. Such an instability has also been observed in other 2D cellular structures, which exist for instance in Langmuir monolayers or in magnetic garnets thin films. In this paper we give a theoretical analysis of this instability, the issues of which are shown to be well confirmed by experiments and numerical simulations. Received: 13 October 1997 / Received in final form: 28 January 1998 / Accepted: 9 March 1998     

A moving grid finite element method applied to a model biological pattern generator

Many problems in biology involve growth. In numerical simulations it can therefore be very convenient to employ a moving computational grid on a continuously deforming domain. In this paper we present a novel application of the moving grid finite element method to compute solutions of reaction–diffusion systems in two-dimensional continuously deforming Euclidean domains. A numerical software package has been developed as a result of this research that is capable of solving generalised Turing models for morphogenesis.