Flow regimes in wet conical spouted beds using glass bead mixtures

Using a high-viscosity Newtonian fluid, glycerol, an experimental investigation was carried out to evaluate the stable spouting regime in conical spouted beds using four particle mixtures： a reference （monoparticles）, a binary mixture, two ternary mixtures with flat and Gaussian distributions respectively. The mixtures were selected for particle diameters （dp） ranging from 1.09 to 4.98 mm and particle diameter ratios （dpL/dps） ranging from 1.98 to 4.0. Experimental data show that pressure fluctuation signals of the bed, as indicated by changes in their standard deviations, provide suitable information to identify the range of operational conditions for stable spouting. However, the analysis of skewness of curves of pressure fluctuation as a function of air velocity appears not sufficient to identify a particular flow regime. For glycerol in the spouting regime, the standard deviation is noted to increase with increasing glycerol concentration due to the growth of interparticle forces. The implications of these research findings on the drying of suspensions in conical spouted beds using glass bead mixtures are also discussed.     

Excited‐state deactivation channels via internal conversions in two position isomers of hydroxy‐methyl‐pyridine: a theoretical study

Two position isomers of hydroxy‐methyl‐pyridine (3‐hydroxy‐2‐methyl‐pyridine and 2‐hydroxy‐3‐methyl‐pyridine) were studied theoretically at the BLYP level of theory in order to find mechanisms explaining the excited‐state deactivations of isomers through ring puckering and “ethylene‐like” conical intersections. The study aims also to clarify the mechanisms of the ground‐state proton transfers. Three conical intersections S₀/S₁ for each isomer were found, which are accessible through the ¹ππ* excited states. In both isomers, there is a ¹ππ* excited‐state reaction path, which leads, in a completely barrierless manner, to the one of the conical intersections S₀/S₁. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Heat flux measurement over a cone in a shock tube flow

This paper is the part 2 of our previous thin film heat transfer measurements. In the first report we measured time variations of heat flux over a cylinder placed in a shock tube flow and compared experimental results with CFD results, Saito et al. (Shock Waves 14:327–333, 2004). We report a result of heat transfer measurements over an 86° apex angle cone surface impinged by a Ms = 2.38 shock wave in air with distributed thin film transfer gauges along cone surface and its comparison with results of numerical simulations. We performed double exposure holographic interferometric observation, and also from the heat transfer measurement and numerical simulation, confirmed the presence of delayed transition from regular to Mach reflection over the cone. The numerical estimation of delayed transition distance from the apex agreed very well with experimental one.      

N,N-二甲基硫代乙酰胺S3(ππ*)态的衰变动力学 (cited: 1)

采用共振拉曼光谱和完全活化空间自洽场方法研究了N,N-二甲基硫代乙酰胺在被激发至S₃(ππ^*)态后的衰减动力学. 指认了紫外吸收光谱和振动光谱. 获得了乙腈、甲醇和水溶剂中不同激发波长下的A带共振拉曼光谱,以探测Franck-Condon区域的结构动力学. 开展了CASSCF计算以确定低能单重激发态和锥形交叉点的电子激发能和优化几何结构. 通过共振拉曼强度分析和CASSCF计算获得了结构参数、A带结构动力学和S₃(ππ^*)态衰减机制. 提出了主要衰减通道为_3,FC(ππ^*)→S₃(ππ^*)/S₁(nπ^*)→_1(nπ^*).     

Explicit approximations of the indentation modulus of elastically orthotropic solids for conical indenters

The elastic problem of the contact between an axisymmetric indenter and a general anisotropic (21 independent elastic constants) half space has not been solved explicitly in closed form. Implicit methods to determine the indentation modulus originate from the work of Willis [J. Mech. Phys. Solids 14 (1966) 163]; and are now available for conical, parabolic and spherical indenters [Philos. Mag. A 81 (2001) 447; J. Mech. Phys. Solids 51 (2003) 1701]. The particular case of orthotropy has also been investigated [ASME J. Tribol. 115 (1193) 650, 125 (2003) 223]. This paper proposes an explicit solution for the indentation moduli of a transversely isotropic medium and a general orthotropic medium under rigid conical indentation in the three principal material symmetry directions. The half-space Green’s functions are interpolated from their exact extreme values, then integrated and finally simplified. The proposed closed form expressions are in very good agreement with the implicit solution schemes of [Philos. Mag. A 81 (2001) 447; J. Mech. Phys. Solids 51 (2003) 1701].     

On complete intersections with trivial canonical class

We prove birational boundedness results on complete intersections with trivial canonical class of base point free divisors in (some version of) Fano varieties. Our results imply in particular that Batyrev–Borisov toric construction produces only a bounded set of Hodge numbers in any given dimension, even as the codimension is allowed to grow.     

2-硫代嘧啶酮和2-硫代吡啶酮在B-吸收带中的动态结构

采用共振拉曼光谱学结合量子化学计算研究了2-硫代嘧啶酮(2TPM)和2-硫代吡啶酮(2TP)在B-带吸收时的动态结构. 在气相时, 2-巯基嘧啶(2MPM, 硫醇式)比2TPM(硫代酮式)更稳定, 能量差约为15.1 kJ·mol^-1, 而在水和乙腈溶液中, 2TPM比2MPM更稳定, 能量差分别为29.3和28.0 kJ·mol^-1. 气相及基电子态时,由B3LYP/6-311++G(d,p)计算水平获得的2TPM和2MPM之间发生质子转移异构化反应的过渡态能垒约为130 kJ·mol^-1. 2TPM三个吸收带分别被指认为π_H→π_L^*, π_H→π_L+1^*和π_H-1→π_L^*跃迁. 基于对2TPM在固体和溶液相傅里叶变换-拉曼(FT-Raman)和傅里叶变换-红外(FT-IR)光谱测量, 以及B3LYP/6-311++G(d,p)计算, 开展了2TPM在水和乙腈溶液中的B-带共振拉曼光谱的振动指认, 由此获得了2TPM的动态结构, 并与2TP的动态结构进行了比较. 2TPM和2TP动态结构的差异反映了ππ^*/πσ^*锥形交叉点结构的差异, 因此, 可被用于洞察光诱导的氢原子脱离-复合机制.