Numerical Simulation of Plasma Dynamics in a Nonuniform Magnetic Field

An efficient algorithm is proposed enabling numerical simulations of plasma dynamics in a nonuniform magnetic field. The present numerical data are in good agreement with experimental data obtained in a GOL-3 setup and with previous simulations. The experimentally observed effect of fast transfer of energy to ions is confirmed. __________ Translated from Prikladnaya Mekhanika i Tekhnicheskaya Fizika, Vol. 47, No. 1, pp. 35–45, January–February, 2006.     

Numerical approximation of a viscoelastic frictional contact problemApproximation numérique d'un problème viscoélastique de contact avec frottement

We consider a fully discrete scheme for a quasistatic frictional contact problem between a viscoelastic body and an obstacle. The contact is bilateral, the friction is modeled with Tresca's law and the behavior of the material is described with a viscoelastic constitutive law with long memory. We state an existence and uniqueness result for the discrete solution, followed by error estimate results. Then, we present numerical simulations in the study of a two-dimensional test example. To cite this article: Á. Rodríguez-Arós et al., C. R. Mecanique 334 (2006).     

采用NND方法计算三维喷管气流场

本文运用NND显式差分格式，计算了三维喷管气流场。气流场计算的基本方程为一般贴体坐标系下三维守恒型的欧拉方程。采用了时间分裂法和Steger-Warming矢通量分裂技术。在喷管内沿周向的每个由轴线和壁面构成的子午面上根据泊松方程生成贴体网格。本文运用三维程序计算了轴对称JPL喷管，同时与实验结果和前人采用轴对称二维程序所计算的结果做了对比。最后，本文还计算了三维矢量喷管，计算结果与现有的实验结果一致。通过轴对称JPL喷管和三维矢量喷管的计算考核，表明建立的算法和编写的计算程序是正确的。文中提出了采用子午面形式的贴体网格时奇性轴的处理方法。计算结果表明在喷管壁面处，马赫数与压强的计算结果与实验值吻合较好，而在喷管轴线处，只有当网格较密时，才能得出与实验结果接近的计算结果。     

Interaction of a shock wave with a loose dusty bulk layer

The interaction of a planar shock wave with a loose dusty bulk layer has been investigated both experimentally and numerically. Experiments were conducted in a shock tube. The incident shock wave velocity and particle diameters were measured with the use of pressure transducers and a Malvern particle sizer, respectively. The flow fields, induced by shock waves, of both gas and granular phase were visualized by means of shadowgraphs and pulsed X-ray radiography with trace particles added. In addition, a two-phase model for granular flow presented by Gidaspow is introduced and is extended to describe such a complex phenomenon. Based on the kinetic theory, such a two-phase model has the advantage of being able to clarify many physical concepts, like particulate viscosity, granular conductivity and solid pressure, and deduce the correlative constitutive equations of the solid phase. The AUSM scheme was employed for the numerical calculation. The flow field behind the shock wave was displayed numerically and agrees well with our corresponding experimental results.      

Multiple Observations for Secret-Key Binding with SRAM PUFs

We present a new Multiple-Observations (MO) helper data scheme for secret-key binding to an SRAM-PUF. This MO scheme binds a single key to multiple enrollment observations of the SRAM-PUF. Performance is improved in comparison to classic schemes which generate helper data based on a single enrollment observation. The performance increase can be explained by the fact that the reliabilities of the different SRAM cells are modeled (implicitly) in the helper data. We prove that the scheme achieves secret-key capacity for any number of enrollment observations, and, therefore, it is optimal. We evaluate performance of the scheme using Monte Carlo simulations, where an off-the-shelf LDPC code is used to implement the linear error-correcting code. Another scheme that models the reliabilities of the SRAM cells is the so-called Soft-Decision (SD) helper data scheme. The SD scheme considers the one-probabilities of the SRAM cells as an input, which in practice are not observable. We present a new strategy for the SD scheme that considers the binary SRAM-PUF observations as an input instead and show that the new strategy is optimal and achieves the same reconstruction performance as the MO scheme. Finally, we present a variation on the MO helper data scheme that updates the helper data sequentially after each successful reconstruction of the key. As a result, the error-correcting performance of the scheme is improved over time.     

Strategies to cure numerical shock instability in the HLLEM Riemann solver

The HLLEM scheme is a popular contact and shear preserving approximate Riemann solver that is known to be plagued by various forms of numerical shock instability. In this paper, we clarify that the shock instability exhibited by this scheme is primarily triggered by the spurious activation of the antidiffusive terms present in the first and third Riemann flux components on the transverse interfaces adjoining the shock front due to numerical perturbations. These erroneously activated terms are shown to counteract the favorable damping mechanism provided by its inherent HLL-type diffusive terms, causing an unphysical variation of the conserved quantity ρu both along and across the numerical shock. To prevent this, two distinct strategies are proposed termed as S elective W ave M odification and A nti D iffusion C ontrol. The former focuses on enhancing the quantity of the favorable HLL-type dissipation available on these critical flux components by carefully increasing the magnitudes of certain nonlinear wave speed estimates, while the latter focuses on directly controlling the magnitude of these critical antidiffusive terms. A linear perturbation analysis is performed to gauge the effectiveness of these cures and to estimate a von Neumann–type stability bounds on the CFL number associated with their use. Results from a variety of classic shock instability test cases show that the proposed strategies are able to provide excellent shock stable solutions even on grids that are highly elongated across the shock front without compromising the accuracy on inviscid contact or shear dominated viscous flows.     

改进的五阶WENO-Z+格式

WENO-ZWENO-Z$+\!$格式的性能提升依赖于新增项的作用,该项的作用是在WENO-Z格式的基础上进一步增大欠光滑子模板上的权重. 系数$\lambda$被设置用来调控该项的作用, 以避免负耗散. 本文指出了WENO-Z$+\!$格式的缺陷,其所采用$\lambda $的取值方式既不能充分发挥格式的潜力, 也未完全消除负耗散;提出$\lambda $的值应随当地流场数据变化,方能充分发挥新增项在降低数值耗散、提高分辨率上的潜力. 基于此,本文重新设计了$\lambda $的计算公式,该公式能自适应地调控新增项的作用: 只在欠光滑子模板上的权重容易过度增大的地方削弱该项的作用,以避免负耗散; 在其他地方则充分发挥新增项的作用,最大限度增大欠光滑子模板上的权重, 提高格式的分辨率.将使用该系数公式的新格式命名为WENO-Z++, 并对其数值性能进行了系统的研究.理论分析表明, 新格式在间断处具有基本无振荡(essentially non-oscillatory,ENO)特性和更低的数值耗散. 对近似色散关系(approximate dispersion relation,ADR)的研究表明,新格式有效地避免了因过度增大欠光滑子模板上的权重而带来的负耗散,其频谱特性也得到了显著提升.本文还推导了使新格式在极值点处也能保持最优阶的精度的参数设置.一系列求解Euler方程的数值试验表明,新格式的激波捕捉能力和对复杂流场结构的分辨率都显著优于原WENO-Z$+\!$格式.}     

一种提高极值点处收敛精度的三阶WENO-Z格式

为了提高三阶WENO-Z格式在极值点处的计算精度，通过理论推导给出三阶WENO格式满足收敛精度的充分条件。采用泰勒级数展开的方式，推导给出所构造格式非线性权重的计算公式，并综合权衡计算精度和计算稳定性确定所构造格式的参数。通过两个典型的精度测试，验证了改进格式在光滑流场极值点区域逼近三阶精度。进一步选用激波与熵波相互作用和Richtmyer-Meshkov不稳定性等经典算例，证实了本文提出的改进格式WENO-PZ3相较其他格式（WENO-JS3和WENO-Z3）不仅具有较高的精度，而且降低了格式的耗散，提高了对流场结构的分辨率。     

二维抛物型问题的Strang型交替分段区域分裂格式

给出求解二维抛物型方程的Strang型的交替分段区域分裂格式。交替分段思想可以将区域分为一些不重叠的子区域，Strang型算子分裂技巧通过将高维问题的求解分解为几个低维问题的求解来降低其求解的复杂度。方法是无条件稳定的，理论分析了截断误差。数值算例说明格式的有效性及时空的二阶精度.     

Approximant crystals of icosahedral Mg–(Ga,Al)–Zn alloys

The zero field cooled (ZFC) and field cooled (FC) low-field magnetic moment m of a dense frozen ferrofluid containing Fe₅₅Co₄₅ particles of size 4.6nm in hexane exhibits irreversibility at temperatures T?T _b≈ 30?K. FC in μ ₀ H ≤ 1?T gives rise to shifted minor hysteresis loops below T _b. At T _c≈ 10?K, sharp peaks of m ^ZFC and of the ac susceptibility χ ′, a kink of the thermoremanent magnetic moment m ^TRM, a sizeable reduction of the coercive field H _c, and the appearance of a spontaneous moment m ^SFM indicate a phase transition with near mean-field critical behaviour of both m ^SFM and χ ′ . These features are explained within a core-shell model of nanoparticles, whose strongly disordered shells gradually become blocked below T _b, while their soft ferromagnetic cores couple dipolarly and become superferromagnetic (SFM) below T _c.