Investigation on dynamics of double emulsion droplet in a uniform electric field

Phase field method based on Cahn–Hilliard free energy formulation is adopted for predicting the behavior of double emulsion droplet suspended in a continuous phase under the influence of a uniform electric field. The role played by the inner droplet on the electric-field-driven fluid flow, and also on deformation of the outer droplet is predicted by present numerical simulation. Three different kind of deformation type of outer and inner droplet (prolate–oblate, prolate–prolate and oblate–prolate) has been observed. With increase in the volume fraction of inner drop, transition in the deformation of outer drop from prolate to oblate occurs at lower value of fluid permittivity ratio.     

Deformation and instability of nematic drops in an external electric field

The behavior of nematic liquid-crystal drops freely suspended in an isotropic liquid polymer exposed to an external electric field was studied. A giant deformation was observed for the drop. As the field intensity increased, its equilibrium shape took the form of a prolate ellipsoid. The dependences of the shape and critical fields on the concentration of ions in the polymer liquid were established. A plausible theoretical explanation is suggested for the observed effect. The experimental dependence of drop size on the electric-field strength is analyzed, and the conditions for the loss of drop stability are determined.     

Spheres and prolate and oblate ellipsoids from an analytical solution of the spontaneous-curvature fluid-membrane model

An analytic solution for the Helfrich spontaneous curvature membrane model [H. Naito, M.Okuda, and Ou-Yang Zhong-Can, Phys. Rev. E 48, 2304 (1993); 54, 2816 (1996)], which has the conspicuous feature of representing a circular biconcave shape, is studied. Results show that the solution in fact describes a family of shapes, which can be classified as (i) a flat plane (trivial case), (ii) a sphere, (iii) a prolate ellipsoid, (iv) a capped cylinder, (v) an oblate ellipsoid, (vi) a circular biconcave shape, (vii) a self-intersecting inverted circular biconcave shape, and (viii) a self-intersecting nodoidlike cylinder. Among the closed shapes (ii)-(vii), a circular biconcave shape is the one with a minimum of local curvature energy.     

Some observations on the appearance of instability of a plane charged liquid surface

A dispersion relation is obtained for the capillary oscillations of a hemispherical protrusion (oblate or prolate) on the plane surface of a conducting liquid in a uniform electrostatic field parallel to the symmetry axis of the protrusion. For the fundamental mode of the capillary oscillations realized on the protrusion the critical dependence of the parameter characterizing its stability in an external electrostatic field is obtained as a function of the square of the eccentricity as the protrusion is drawn out from the an oblate to a prolate hemisphere. Such a change in shape lowers the threshold electric field for instability of the protrusion. Zh. Tekh. Fiz. 69, 15–22 (July 1999)     

The shape of a drop in a constant electric field

The variation of the shape of a drop immersed in an immiscible liquid under the action of an electric field is calculated. The charge is transferred both by ohmic current through the interface and by the convective component over the interface. A solution quadratic in the parameter that is the ratio of the electric pressure to the capillary pressure is analyzed. Conditions where the drop transforms into a spheroid that is prolate or oblate along the electric field vector are found. An experimental study of the drop deformation by electric forces is carried out.     

旋转对称椭球颗粒沿轴脉冲光声波波形的几何计算

针对旋转对称椭球颗粒脉冲光声波的产生,推导沿其对称轴方向的波形的解析表达式.结果表明,无论是长椭球还是扁椭球颗粒,沿轴波形相对于球形颗粒所产生的N形波都有一定的形变,并且在近场条件下显示出能反映椭球颗粒形状与大小的明显特征.因此通过对脉冲光声波的测量和分析,能对旋转对称椭球颗粒进行形貌判定.     

188Pb形变和形状共存的研究

用角动量投影壳模型研究了188Pb核素的形状共存. 实验数据经过计算结果的分析,指出188Pb的低能激发态存在着对应于不同内部粒子组态的球形基态、扁椭球和长椭球三种形状的共存;预言了质子h9/2两粒子-两空穴扁椭球带;指出长椭球带是两种多粒子-空穴激发组态的混杂,并导出了混合系数. 由这些系数,可以说明中子i13/2破对引起的顺排对长椭球带的影响是一个渐进过程;并指出了2+态的能量范围在804-880keV.     

Study on Deformation and Shape Coexistence for 188Pb

The deformation and shape coexistence in ¹⁸⁸Pb have been investigated in terms of the Projected Shell Model. Comparing the experimental data with the calculated results, it is shown that three shape configurations of sphere (Z=82 shell closure), oblate (two particle-two hole in proton h_9/2 orbital) and prolate (multi-particle-hole)coexist each other in the low-lying excited states and the prolate band exhibits a mixture between two kinds of multi-particle-hole configurations, which means that the neutron i_13/2 alignment happens gradually in this case. The mixing is discussed and the mixing coefficients are given. The oblate band structure is predicted and the 2⁺ prolate state is estimated to be in the energy range of 804—80keV.     

Macroscopic-microscopic theory of semi-spheroidal atomic cluster

The macroscopic-microscopic method is adapted to atomic clusters deposited on a surface. Analytical relationships for the deformation-dependent liquid drop model (LDM) energies of oblate and prolate semi-spheroidal atomic clusters have been obtained. A superdeformed prolate semi-spheroid is the most stable semi-spheroidal shape within LDM. It is also the shape with maximum degeneracy of quantum states of the semi-spheroidal harmonic oscillator used to compute the shell and pairing corrections. The microscopic corrections as well as total deformation energy show parabolic valley and ridges of the potential energy surfaces in the plane (deformation, number of atoms). The ground state and isomeric state deformation of clusters of various sizes depends on the interplay between the minima of LDM and shell correction energies.     

Nuclear deformations in the pairing-plus-quadrupole model (III). Static nuclear shapes in the rare-earth region

The potential energy of deformation (β, γ), is calculated with the pairing-plus-quadrupole model for nuclei with N=82–126, Z=50–82. There is a sudden onset of deformation in the N=86–90 region, and the static nuclear shape, the lowest minimum of the potential function, changes from spherical to prolate. The disappearance of deformation in the Z=74–80 region is more gradual, and the static shape changes from prolate to asymmetric to oblate to spherical. The energy of zero-point motion is calculated, and it is concluded that all the stable deformed shapes of the region are prolate. Proton and neutron energy gaps, intrinsic quadrupole moments, moments of inertia and gyromagnetic ratios of the doubly even nuclei of the rare-earth region are calculated and compared with the experimental data.     

Stability of a charged drop near a conductor wall

The effect of conductor boundaries on the deformation and stability of a charged drop is presented. The motivation for such a study is the occurrence of a charged conductor drop near a conductor wall in experiments (Millikan-like set-up in studies on Rayleigh break-up) and applications (such as electrospraying, ink-jet printing and ion mass spectroscopy). In the present work, analytical (linear stability analysis (LSA)) and numerical methods (boundary element method (BEM)) are used to understand the instability. Two kinds of boundaries are studied: a spherical, conducting, grounded enclosure (similar to a spherical capacitor) and a planar conducting wall. The LSA of a charged drop placed at the center of a spherical cavity shows that the Rayleigh critical charge (corresponding to the most unstable l = 2 Legendre mode) is reduced as the non-dimensional distance ?d = (b - a)/a decreases, where a and b are the radii of the drop and spherical cavity, respectively. The critical charge is independent of the assumptions of constant charge or constant potential conditions. The trans-critical bifurcation diagram, constructed using BEM, shows that the prolate shapes are subcritically unstable over a much wider range of charge as [Formula: see text] decreases. The study is then extended to the stability of a charged conductor drop near a flat conductor wall. Analytical theory for this case is difficult and the stability as well as the bifurcation diagram are constructed using BEM. Moreover, the induced charges in the conductor wall lead to attraction of the drop to the wall, thereby making it difficult to conduct a systematic analysis. The drop is therefore assumed to be held at its position by an external force such as the electric field. The case when the applied field is much smaller than the field due to inherent charge on the drop ((a(3)ρg)/(3ε(0)Ψ(2)) ? 1 is considered. The wall breaks the fore-aft symmetry in the problem, and equilibrium, predominantly prolate shapes corresponding to the legendre mode, l = 2 , are observed. The deformation increases with increasing charge on the drop. The breakup of the prolate equilibrium shapes is independent of the legendre modes of the initial perturbations. The prolate perturbations are subcritically unstable. Since the equilibrium prolate shapes cannot continuously exchange instability with equilibrium oblate shapes, an imperfect transcritical bifurcation is observed. A variety of highly deformed equilibrium oblate shapes are predicted by the BEM calculations.     

On oblate-prolate transition in the ground state rotational band of light mercury isotopes

The transition from an oblate to a prolate shape in the ground state band of even mass Hg isotopes and in the ground states of the chain of odd mass Hg isotopes are studied. The shape is found by minimizing the deformation energy which is calculated by means of Strutinsky's shell correction method. The rotational energy corresponds to the axialsymmetric rotator. The moment of inertia is calculated with the help of the cranking model. Pairing and hexadecupole deformation are included. The results are in good agreement with the available experimental data.     

Stability of charged metal clusters in the vicinity of an ionic charge

Stability of highly charged metal clusters in the electric field of an external ion is investigated with the classical liquid drop model. We study the optimum shape of the cluster which has a local minimum of the total energy, taking account of the effects of the surface charge polarization on the Coulomb energy and the cluster deformation on the surface energy. We find that the cluster deformation greatly affects the total energy of the system and that a cluster with a fissility larger than some critical value 0.7-0.8 can become unstable against deformation. We investigate the local competition between the Coulomb force and the surface tension at the cluster surface and show that the surface charge polarization which is induced by the external electric field significantly affects the shape of the cluster and its stability. Received 5 November 2002 / Received in final form 27 January 2003 Published online 11 March 2003 RID="a" ID="a"e-mail: hamada@konan-u.ac.jp     

On the Difference of High Spin Band Structure Between I and Ce Isotopes

It has been predicted that in nuclei with Z=52－56,there are many low-lying oblate and prolate rotational bands.Experimental investigation has been carrying out for the high spin band structure in serial I and Ce isotopes recently.It is found along with the prolate bands,there do exist oblate bands for proton h_11/2,g_7/2 and d_5/2,configurations in I.The band termination (non-collective oblate shape) was found in ^119,121I as well.All the prolate band structure was found in Ce.Further theoretical calculation was done with newly fitted Nilsson κ and μ parameters.Results show that the absolute values of shell energy and self-consistent pairing energy for oblate shape are always lager for I than for Ce.Besides,the band head oblateprolate energy difference is much in favor of oblate shape for I than for Ce.All these results are related to the existence of an oblate 54 gap in proton single particle diagram.     

Understanding Quantum Phase Transitions,edited by Lincoln Carr

The concept of the superdeformed shape is first introduced classically as the most stable configuration of a rapidly rotating deformable body and is then applied to nuclei. The shape of nuclei are determined by a competition between the collective energy of the core, to which classical considerations apply quite well, and the quantal energies of the valence nucleons, which may be evaluated by the Nilsson model. The result of this competition is that slowly rotating nuclei can be either oblate or prolate but rapidly rotating nuclei can have a superdeformed prolate shape, with a 2:1 ratio of axes particularly favoured.

The evidence for superdeformation in nuclei is described under four headings. Firstly, some light nuclei are superdeformed in their ground state or in an excited state. Secondly, some nuclei pass through a well defined superdeformed shape on the way to fission. Thirdly, studies of the excitation functions of elastic and inelastic scattering of identical heavy ions provide evidence of a nuclear molecule in a superdeformed shape. Finally, recent analyses of gamma rays from nuclei formed in a very high spin state by a heavy ion collision provide conclusive evidence for superdeformation.     

分散相颗粒几何因素对电流变液体反应时间的影响

瞬变的反应时间是电流变液体的一个重要参数．本文通过实验和理论分析，建立了考虑分散相颗粒几何因素的电流变反应时间模型根据此模型，长椭球状颗粒的电流变液体反应时间比等效球状颗粒的短，扁椭球状和片状颗粒的电流变液体反应时间比等效球状颗粒的长，而棒状颗粒的电流变液体反应时间则视ε_p/ε_f比值大小或快于或慢于等效球状颗粒的反应时间．且反应时间与分散相尺寸的关系是（１）随体积增大，各种形状颗粒的电流变液体反应时间均变短；（２）同体积下，随长径比增大，长椭球状颗粒的电流变液体反应时间变短，而扁椭球状颗粒和片状颗粒的电流变液体反应时间变长，棒状颗粒的电流变液体反应时间则视。ε_p/ε_f比值大小或增快或减慢．因此，要获得反应快的电流变液体，颗粒形状除选择球状外，还可在使雷诺数较小范围内，选择一定尺寸的长椭球状或棒状颗粒。 关键词：     

Dynamics of a dielectric droplet suspended in a magnetic fluid in electric and magnetic fields

The behavior of a microdrop of dielectric liquid suspended in a magnetic fluid and exposed to the action of electric and magnetic fields is studied experimentally. With increasing electric field, the deformation of droplets into oblate ellipsoid, toroid and curved toroid was observed. At the further increase in the electric field, the bursting of droplets was also revealed. The electrorotation of deformed droplets was observed and investigated. The influence of an additional magnetic field on the droplet dynamics was studied. The main features of the droplet dynamics were interpreted and theoretically examined.     

High Spin States and Shape Coexistence in 134Ce

high spin states in ¹³⁴Ce nucleus have been studied by using the heavy–ion induced reaction ¹²²Sn(¹⁶O,4n) carried out at china institute of atomic energy. the early level scheme has been extended with spin up to 22. however,our result is different from that in a recent publication,and the magnetic rotation bands reported there have not been confirmed. our observed level structures may be interpreted as shape coexistence. the 10+ state at the backbending with h_11/2 quasineutron configuration has an oblate deformation with an asymmetry parameter γ≈–60°(lund convention),and the 10+ isomer is a yrast trap of prolate deformation with γ≈–120°,whereas the other signature partner bands with h_11/2 and g_7/2 proton configuration probably have a prolate deformation with γ≈0°.     

Demagnetization factors of the general ellipsoid: An alternative to the Maxwell approach

A transparent, exhaustive, and self-contained method for the calculation of the demagnetization tensor of the uniformly magnetized ellipsoid is presented. The method is an alternative to the established Maxwell derivation and is based on a Fourier-space approach to the micromagnetics of magnetized bodies. The key to the success of the procedure lies in the convenient treatment of shape effects through the Fourier representation. The scaled form of the demagnetization factors which depends on two dimensionless aspect ratios is argued to be their natural integral representation. Amongst other advantages, it allows for the immediate implementation of symmetry arguments such that only one of the principal factors needs to be computed. The oblate and prolate ellipsoids of revolution are examined from the same general point of view. The demagnetization factors for these distinct types of spheroid are seen to be related by analytic continuation of well-known Gaussian hypergeometric functions.     

Study of the Superdeformed State of 196Pb in the Relativistic Mean Field Theory

Based on the constrained relativistic mean field (RMF) theory, the superdeformed states of ¹⁹⁶Pb are systematically investigated with four different interactions, TMA, PK1, NL3 and NL-SH. The potential surface, the quadruple deformation of ground and superdeformed states, and the excitation energies of superdeformed states are calculated. The results show that the shape of ¹⁹⁶Pb is oblate for the ground state with deformation β₂≈－0.15, and prolate for the superdeformed states with deformation β₂≈0.60. The calculated excitation energy and the depth of the potential well of the superdeformed state are approximately equal to 4.5MeV and 1.6MeV, respectively. These results are in good agreement with the current experimental data. It indicates that RMF theory can well describe the energy of the band head of superdeformed rotational band in ¹⁹⁶Pb.