FLOW STRUCTURE FORMATION AND EVOLUTION IN CIRCULATING GAS-FLUIDIZED BEDS

The occurrence of heterogeneous flow structures in gas-particle flows seriously affects the gas-solid contacting and transport processes in high-velocity gas-fluidized beds. Particles do not disperse uniformly in the flow but pass through the bed in a swarm of clusters. The so-called “core-annulus“ structure in the radial direction and “S“ shaped axial distribution of solids concentration characterize the typical flow structure in the system. A computational study, using the discrete particle approach based on molecular dynamics techniques, has been carried out to explore the mechanisms underlying formation of the clusters and the core-annulus structure. Based on energybudget analysis including work done by the drag force, kinetic energy, rotational energy, potential energy, and energy dissipation due to particle-particle and particle-wall collisions, the role of gas-solid interaction and inelastic collisions between the particles are elucidated. It is concluded that the competition between gas-solid interaction and particle-particle interaction determines the pattern formation in high-velocity gas-solid flows: if the gas-solid interaction (under elevated pressure) dominates, most of particle energy obtained by drag from the gas phase is partitioned such that particle potential energy is raised, leading to a uniform flow structure. Otherwise, a heterogeneous pattern exists, which could be induced by both particle -particle collisions and gas-solid interaction. Although both factors could cause the flow instability, the non-linear drag force is demonstrated to be the necessary condition to trigger heterogeneous flow structure formation. As gas velocity increases and goes beyond a critical value, the fluid-particle interaction suppresses particle collisional dissipation, and as a consequence a more homogeneous flow regime is formed.     

CONTROL OF POLYMER PARTICLE SIZE USING POROUS GLASS MEMBRANE EMULSIFICATION A REVIEW

1.IntroductionPolymerparticleshavebeenusedinvariousfields.Besidestraditionalapplicationssuchaspaint,ink,andpaperindustries,muchattentionhasinrecentyearsbeenpaidtofineapplications,e.g.,carrierforenzyme(Omietal.,1997),separationmedia(Okubo&Hatorri,1993;Inomataetal.,1995;Ugelstadetal.,1992)forprotein,DNAandcell,andcarrierfordruginDrugDeliverySystem(DDS)(Paulettietal.,1997;Russell-Jones,2000).Controlofpolymerparticlesizeisespeciallyimportantinsuchfineapplications.Forexample,whenporouspartic…     

DIFFERENTIAL-ALGEBRAIC APPROACH TO COUPLED PROBLEMS OF DYNAMIC THERMOELASTICITY

An efficient numerical approach for the general thermomechanical problems was developed and it was tested for a two-dimensional thermoelasticity problem. The main idea of our numerical method is based on the reduction procedure of the original system of PDEs describing coupled thermomechanical behavior to a system of Differential Algebraic Equations (DAEs) where the stress-strain relationships are treated as algebraic equations. The resulting system of DAEs was then solved with a Backward Differentiation Formula (BDF) using a fully implicit algorithm. The described procedure was explained in detail, and its effectiveness was demonstrated on the solution of a transient uncoupled thermoelastic problem, for which an analytical solution is known, as well as on a fully coupled problem in the two-dimensional case.     

ELASTIC EFFECT IN DYNAMIC RESPONSE OF PLASTIC CANTILEVER BEAMS TO IMPACT

A lumped masses-springs model is proposed to analyze the dynamicresponse of an elastic-plastic cantilever beam resulting from impact. The numericalresults are in good agreement with those by finite-element approaches. The simplifiedmodel can catch the most essential features of elastic-plastic response of beams; inparticular, it demonstrates the effect of elastic deformation on the distribution ofbending moment and energy dissipation, and provides valuable quatitative results.     

三维运动接触问题的广义Галин定理

本文给出了求解一类相当普遍的三维运动接触问题的分析解法,并且把仅仅对静态接触问题成立的 定理推广到动力学情形,作了严格证明。作为例子,对接触区为椭圆的情形给出了积分形式的解,并且作了数值计算,由这些结果可以看出运动压体速度的效应。     

TiC-Al_2O_3复合镀层和Al_2O_3/TiC叠镀层的摩擦磨损性能

本文报道沉积在不锈钢和以不锈钢为底材预镀TiC底层上的TiC-Al_2O_3和Al_2O_3/TiC镀层的磨损及动、静摩擦系数和硬度的测试结果。作者还将这些镀层与活化反应蒸镀(ARE)工艺沉积的TiC镀层在同样条件下进行了对比研究,发现TiC-Al_2O_3和Al_2O_3/TiC这两种镀层的磨损是磨粒磨损与粘着磨损的总和。与ARE法制取的TiC镀层的测量结果相比,本文报道的摩擦系数值较高。     

UPWIND LOCAL DIFFERENTIAL QUADRATURE METHOD FOR SOLVING COUPLED VISCOUS FLOW AND HEAT TRANSFER EQUATIONS

The differential quadrature method (DQM) has been applied successfully to solve numerically many problems in the fluid mechanics. But it is only limited to the flow problems in regular regions. At the same time, here is no upwind mechanism to deal with the convective property of the fluid flow in traditional DQ method. A local differential quadrature method owning upwind mechanism (ULDQM) was given to solve the coupled problem of incompressible viscous flow and heat transfer in an irregular region. For the problem of flow past a contraction channel whose boundary does not parallel to coordinate direction, the satisfactory numerical solutions were obtained by using ULDQM with a few grid points. The numerical results show that the ULDQM possesses advantages including well convergence, less computational workload and storage as compared with the low-order finite difference method.     

THE EQUATIONS OF MOTION OF A MECHANICAL SYSTEM IN MATRIX FORM

This work recommends methods of construction of equations of motion of mechanical systems in matrix form.The use of a matrix form allows one to write an equation of dynamics in compact form,convenient for the in vestigation of multidimensional mechanical systems with the help of computers.Use is made of different methods of constructing equations of motion,based on the basic laws of dynamics as well as on the principles of D‘Alambert-L(?)range,Hamilton-Ostrogradski and Gauss.     

MODAL SYNTHESIS METHOD FOR NORM COMPUTATION OF H∞ DECENTRALIZED CONTROL SYSTEMS (Ⅱ)

When using H ∞ techniques to design decentralized controllers for large systems,the whole system is divided into subsystems, which are analysed using H∞ control theory before being recombined. An analogy was established with substructural analysis in structural mechanics, in which H ∞ decentralized control theory corresponds to substructural modal synthesis theory so that the optimal H ∞ norm of the whole system corresponds to the fundamental vibration frequency of the whole structure. Hence, modal synthesis methodology and the extended Wittrick-Williams algorithm were transplanted from structural mechanics to compute the optimal H∞ norm of the control system. The orthogonality and the expansion theorem of eigenfunctions of the subsystems H∞ control are presented in part (Ⅰ)of the paper. The modal synthesis method for computation of the optimal H ∞ norm of decentralized control systems and numerical examples are presented in part (Ⅱ).     

THE THEORETICAL COST OF SEQUENTIAL AND PARALLEL ALGORITHMS FOR SOLVING LINEAR SYSTEMS OF EQUATIONS

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