Investigation on an RFID planar coil for a wireless communicative aortic stent

This paper presents an investigation on a potential biomedical RFID planar coil operating at 13.56 MHz for measuring the blood pressure level, mounted inside an abdominal aortic aneurysm. The results show that a wireless communication is achieved in a perimeter of 60 cm, while respecting the ISO 15693 standard for vicinity contactless cards. Measurement and electromagnetic simulation results show that the inductive coupling is deteriorating if the planar coil is in direct contact with water without correctly encapsulating this coil. An electric model is given for our proposed RFID planar coil immersed in water.     

A fast estimation of sonar cross section of acoustically large and complex underwater targets using a deterministic scattering center model

In this paper, a fast method is proposed to estimate the sonar cross section of acoustically large and complex underwater targets such as submarines and torpedoes. The proposed method is based on a deterministic scattering center model which constructs scattering center database by using a combining method of physical optics and geometric optics and then reconstructs sonar cross section patterns from that database with a polynomial interpolation with respect to the incident angle. The parametric studies to find appropriate intervals of the reference incident angle are systematically carried out for simple targets such as a flat square plate and an orthogonal dihedral. Moreover, to validate the proposed method, sonar cross sections of real-like targets such as a pressure hull and an idealized submarine are calculated. The comparisons show that the results by the proposed method are in good agreement with those by the direct calculation.     

Modal vibrations of a cylindrical radiator over an impedance plane

The problem of acoustic radiation from an infinite cylinder undergoing harmonic modal surface vibrations near a locally reacting planar boundary is considered. The formulation utilizes the appropriate wave field expansions, the classical method of images, and the translational addition theorem for cylindrical wave functions, along with a simple local surface reaction model involving a complex amplitude wave reflection coefficient applied to simulate the relevant boundary conditions for the given configuration. The analytical results are illustrated with a numerical example in which the cylindrical surface is immersed near a layer of fibrous material set on an impervious rigid wall. The numerical results reveal the important effects of interface local surface reaction and source position on the computed modal impedance component values and the radiated on-axis far-field pressure. The benchmark solution presented can lead to a better understanding of acoustic radiation from near-interface two-dimensional sources, which are commonly encountered problems in outdoor acoustics and noise control engineering. Eventually, it could be used to validate those found by numerical approximation techniques.     

高能超声制备碳纳米管增强AZ91D复合材料的声场模拟

建立了高能超声制备碳纳米管增强AZ91D复合材料的声场计算模型, 并采用有限元方法计算了20 kHz超声直接作用下AZ91D熔体的声场分布, 熔体声场呈辐射状分布, 距离声源越远, 声压幅值越低. 采用超声作用下单一气泡变化模型描述超声作用下AZ91D 熔体中的空化效应, 通过对Rayleigh-Plesset方程的求解, 得到了不同声压作用下气泡的变化规律, 获得了声压幅值与熔体空化效应的关系, 声压幅值越大, 气泡溃灭半径阈值越小, 熔体发生空化效应越容易. 计算了固定坩埚尺寸、不同超声探头没入熔体深度情况下的声场, 得到了超声探头最优没入深度为30 mm左右. 将声场计算结果以及AZ91D熔体中空化效应的发生规律进行综合分析, 得到了超声功率对有效空化区域的影响规律, 超声功率较大时, 有效空化区域体积随超声功率近似成线性增大. 最后, 通过甘油水溶液超声处理实验, 验证了模拟计算的准确性.     

Sound propagation in two-dimensional waveguide with circular wavefront

Sound propagation through a waveguide is generally modeled by the Webster horn equation which assumes a planar pressure wavefront. However, most of the sources are non-planar in nature. In this work, a 1-D model is derived for sound propagation through a 2-D waveguide with circular wavefront. The model is derived from the 2-D Helmholtz equation using the weighted residual method. The model assumes a uniform pressure across the angular coordinate at a given radial distance. A 2-D finite element model is used to validate the results for different waveguide geometries and it shows good agreement.     

Excitation of the Potential Relaxation Instability in a Weakly Magnetized Discharge Plasma by a Voltage Step

An instability is triggered in a weakly magnetized discharge plasma by the application of a positive voltage step to a planar collector immersed into the plasma column with its surface perpendicular to the magnetic field lines. Time developement of the plasma density after the application of the pulse is measured by a Langmuir probe. Radial and axial velocity of the plasma density perturbation are measured. Radial velocity is consistent with the increase of the plasma potential in the current channel. Axial velocity is very high. It is interpreted as phase velocity of radial quasiperiodic motion of the plasma in and out of the current channel. Response time of the collector current to the applied voltage step is measured versus different parameters. Experimental results are in agreement with a qualitative model presented in previous work [1] where the observed instability is modeled as a two dimensional potential relaxation instability (PRI). Minor improvements of the previous model are proposed. A rarefaction pulse that moves towards the collector is found as the initial stage of the instability.     

An immersed boundary-thermal lattice Boltzmann method using an equilibrium internal energy density approach for the simulation of flows with heat transfer

In present paper, a novel immersed boundary-thermal lattice Boltzmann method by the name of “an equilibrium internal energy density approach” is proposed to simulate the flows around bluff bodies with the heat transfer. The main idea is to combine the immersed boundary method (IBM) with the thermal lattice Boltzmann method (TLBM) based on the double population approach. The equilibrium internal energy density approach based on the equilibrium velocity approach [X. Shan, H. Chen, Lattice Boltzmann model for simulating flows with multiple phases and components, Phys. Rev. E 47 (1993) 1815] is used to combine IBM with TLBM. The idea of the equilibrium internal energy density approach is that the satisfaction of the energy balance between heat source on the immersed boundary point and the amount of change of the internal energy density according to time ensures the temperature boundary condition on the immersed boundary. The advantages of this approach are the simple concept, easy implementation and the utilization of original governing equation without modification. The simulation of natural convection in a square cavity with various body shapes for different Rayleigh numbers has been conducted to validate the capability and the accuracy of present method on solving heat transfer problems. Consequently, the present results are found to be in good agreement with those of previous studies.     

Combustion kinetic model development using surrogate model similarity method

An ideal combustion kinetic model needs to be validated by different experimental targets over a wide range of temperatures and pressures that represent operating conditions in real engines. However, conditions of laboratory experiments for model validation are often limited by the constraint of experimental techniques. In order to improve model predictions under certain conditions (for example, at a relatively higher pressure), it is often needed to use the experimental data obtained under other conditions. In this work, the surrogate model similarity (SMS) method is proposed to find the experimental conditions or targets for model optimisation under certain conditions where the experiments are hard to be conducted. The similarity coefficient is calculated by the cosine similarity between the characteristic coefficients (vectors) of the High Dimensional Model Representation (HDMR) models for different model predictions. A larger similarity coefficient represents a closer relationship between two model predictions. The experimental data with larger similarity coefficients could be more effective to model uncertainty reduction under the concerned conditions. To demonstrate this method, simulations were conducted for two selected combustion systems with hydrogen or methanol as the fuel. In addition to its strength in available experimental data selection for model optimization, this method can be used to screen out experimental targets with strong constraint effect beforehand, thus providing an effective way to maximise utilisation of experimental resources.     

Even Modes of a New Transmission Line Based on Semi–Open Dielectric Rode

An original transmission line based on a planar waveguide splitter with central dielectric filling is proposed. A rigorous electrodynamics model is presented for calculating propagation and attenuation parameters of even eigenmodes. The presence of the lowest quasi–H wave having low dissipation loses was detected in the spectrum of hybrid modes. Numerical experiments prove that new line is very promising for different millimeter wave applications, such as antennae and three-dimensional integrated circuits (TDIC).     

On locating low altitude moving targets using a planar acoustic sensor array

It is of engineering importance to locate low altitude moving targets with acoustic methods due to the blindness of the traditional radar detecting. In this paper, an algorithm for locating low altitude moving targets is put forward based on a five-element planar acoustic sensor array. The method is realized through estimations of the sensor-to-sensor time delays of the source signal generated by the low altitude moving target. The angle and range estimation performance of the proposed method are analyzed, respectively, both in theoretical and numerical sense.     

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采用流体动力学模型研究了离子与中性粒子的电荷交换碰撞效应对直流偏压鞘层厚度的影响。对于平板鞘层,结果表明随着碰撞参数的增大,鞘层厚度明显地变小。根据数值结果,给出了碰撞情况下的Child-Lang-muir定律的拟合式。研究了柱形和球形靶的靶半径对鞘层厚度的影响。     

A Sharp-Interface Immersed Boundary Method with Improved Mass Conservation and Reduced Spurious Pressure Oscillations

A method for reducing the spurious pressure oscillations observed when simulating moving boundary flow problems with sharp-interface immersed boundary methods (IBMs) is proposed. By first identifying the primary cause of these oscillations to be the violation of the geometric conservation law near the immersed boundary, we adopt a cut-cell based approach to strictly enforce geometric conservation. In order to limit the complexity associated with the cut-cell method, the cut-cell based discretization is limited only to the pressure Poisson and velocity correction equations in the fractional-step method and the small-cell problem tackled by introducing a virtual cell-merging technique. The method is shown to retain all the desirable properties of the original finite-difference based IBM while at the same time, reducing pressure oscillations for moving boundaries by roughly an order of magnitude.     

电弧增材成形中熔积层表面形貌对电弧形态影响的仿真

电弧增材成形常采用单道多层或多道搭接的熔积方式,不同的熔积方式下对应的熔积层表面形貌不同,从而影响电弧的形态及其传热传质过程.本文建立了纯氩保护电弧增材成形的电弧磁流体动力学三维数值模型,以及不同表面形貌的熔积层模型,并在保持阳极与阴极之间距离和熔积电流不变的条件下,通过模拟计算获得增材成形特有的单道和多道搭接熔积条件下的不同表面形貌对应的电弧形态以及相应的温度场、流场、电流密度、电磁力、电弧压力分布.数值模拟结果表明:平面基板上起弧情况下电弧中心具有较高的温度、速度、电流密度以及压强;单道多层熔积情况下熔积层数对电弧的各个参量影响较小;多道搭接熔积情况下电弧呈非对称分布,电弧中心温度较前两者低,电流密度、电磁力和电弧压强的分布偏向熔积层一侧.     

基于运动方向估计的管道滤波算法

管道滤波算法提出了从时域角度解决弱小目标检测问题的思路,对于红外强起伏天空背景中弱点目标的检测问题,管道内强噪音的干扰以及低信噪比的条件会导致检测概率降低的情况出现.本文提出了一种运动方向估计的管道滤波算法,分析了红外弱点目标的运动特性,依据弱点目标在相邻帧间位置具有连贯性的特征,建立了弱点目标的运动方向估计模型.在模型中利用弱点目标逐帧检测的先验位置信息,估计弱点目标的运动方向和轨迹,根据估计结果去除管道内噪音对弱点目标的干扰.仿真结果表明,该方法能够很好地抑制管道内噪音的影响,提高弱点目标的检测概率,增强弱点目标抗管道内噪音干扰的能力.     

Ultrasonic scattering cross sections of shell-encapsulated gas bubbles immersed in a viscoelastic liquid: first and second harmonics

The oscillations of gas bubbles, without shell, immersed in viscoelastic liquids and driven by an acoustic wave have been the subject of several investigations. They demonstrate that the viscosity coefficient and the spring constant of the liquid have significant influence on the scattering cross section of the gas bubble. For shell-encapsulated gas bubbles, the investigations have been concentrated to bubbles immersed in a pure viscous liquid. This present work computes the ultrasonic scattering cross section, first and second harmonics, of shell-encapsulated gas bubbles immersed in a viscoelastic liquid. The theoretical model of the bubble oscillation is based on the generalized Rayleigh-Plesset equation of motion of a spherical cavity immersed in a viscoelastic liquid represented by a three-parameter linear Oldroyd model. The scattering cross section is computed for Albunex type of bubble (shell thickness=15 nm, shell shear viscosity=1.77 Pas, shell modulus of rigidity=88.8 MPa) irradiated by a 3.5 MHz ultrasonic pressure wave with an amplitude of 30 kPa. The results demonstrate that encapsulated bubbles respond independently of the surrounding liquid being pure viscous or viscoelastic as long as the surrounding liquid shear viscosity is as low as 10(-3) Pas. Nevertheless, for higher shear viscosities, the bubble responds differently if the surrounding liquid is pure viscous or viscoelastic. In general, the scattering cross sections of first and second harmonics are larger for the viscoelastic liquid.     

基于复杂度的自适应门限弱小目标检测方法

针对红外弱小目标检测问题,提出了一种基于图像复杂度的自适应门限目标检测方法.讨论了天空中四类不同区域的图像信息熵.图像信息熵虽然较好地表达了图像的平均信息量,但对图像的突变点不敏感.将它改进得到图像方差加权信息熵,其较好地反映了图像的复杂度特征.将图像方差加权信息熵作为图像复杂度的定量描述,用两种特定的分析模板对图像复杂度进行分析.在目标区域中,两种分析模板得到的复杂度差异较大,而非目标区域的两种复杂度则基本没有差异.算法获取两种分析模板下的复杂度图像,再对两种复杂度图像做差,得到复杂度差值图像.对差值图像建立指数模型得到自适应分割门限完成目标检测.实验结果表明,该方法对低信杂比的红外云层背景弱小目标图像具有良好的检测效果.     

The transducer vibratory profile effects on the detection of the transient ultrasonic field scattered by a rigid point reflector

In this study a generalized approach, based on the impulse response technique, is developed to evaluate the transient ultrasonic field scattered by a rigid point reflector and detected by a planar circular transducer characterized by a non-uniform vibratory profile. For this purpose, several analytical functions are used to represent the non-uniform vibration amplitude of the transducer. All these functions have maximum amplitude at the transducer’s center and decrease monotonically away from axis. The amplitude variation of these functions has a direct effect on the shape of the average pressure detected by the transducer. Some numerical results are presented to illustrate the effects of a non-uniformly vibrating source on the detected transient pressure. The results show the relative importance of the edge wave modifications in the case of source having non-uniform vibration amplitude distribution.     

基于射线跟踪技术的浅海波导中目标回声计算

基于浅海波导中目标回声计算的射线声学方法,将数值模型推广到任意声速剖面的情况,发展了基于射线跟踪技术的浅海波导中复杂目标回声的数值计算方法。应用HAPRO声线模型跟踪计算本征声线,并结合板块元方法计算浅海波导中的目标声散射。算例比较了冬、夏两季典型声速剖面和细沙、黏土海底等不同浅海环境情况下的目标回声特性。计算表明,浅海波导中球体和横向放置的长圆柱体的等效目标强度ETS与自由空间中的目标强度TS很接近,声速剖面和海底底质对这类目标的ETS影响很小,传统意义上的声呐方程基本上成立。竖向放置的长度/波长比远大于1长圆柱以及benchmark潜艇等复杂形状目标的ETS与自由空间中的TS差别较大,传统的主动声呐方程存在较大误差。      

High resolution inverse synthetic aperture radar imaging of three-axis-stabilized space target by exploiting orbital and sparse priors

The development of inverse synthetic aperture radar(ISAR) imaging techniques is of notable significance for monitoring, tracking and identifying space targets in orbit. Usually, a well-focused ISAR image of a space target can be obtained in a deliberately selected imaging segment in which the target moves with only uniform planar rotation. However, in some imaging segments, the nonlinear range migration through resolution cells(MTRCs) and time-varying Doppler caused by the three-dimensional rotation of the target would degrade the ISAR imaging performance, and it is troublesome to realize accurate motion compensation with conventional methods. Especially in the case of low signal-to-noise ratio(SNR),the estimation of motion parameters is more difficult. In this paper, a novel algorithm for high-resolution ISAR imaging of a space target by using its precise ephemeris and orbital motion model is proposed. The innovative contributions are as follows. 1) The change of a scatterer projection position is described with the spatial-variant angles of imaging plane calculated based on the orbital motion model of the three-axis-stabilized space target. 2) A correction method of MTRC in slant-and cross-range dimensions for arbitrarily imaging segment is proposed. 3) Coarse compensation for translational motion using the precise ephemeris and the fine compensation for residual phase errors by using sparsity-driven autofocus method are introduced to achieve a high-resolution ISAR image. Simulation results confirm the effectiveness of the proposed method.     

新型平面集成光学相关器设计与分析

基于微光学与二元光学技术,设计了一种新型的平面折叠式光学相关器,将相关器中组成4f系统的傅里叶变换透镜、全息匹配滤波器、输入面和输出集成到一个平面器件上,与另一平面偏振反射镜构成一个反射型的平面光学系统.讨论了相关器的系统结构设计、系统参数的设计,给出了具体的设计模型,计算出其体积可减小至约12 cm3.利用菲涅耳衍射数值模拟方法对系统的图像识别过程进行了仿真,得到了良好的相关输出结果,证实平面集成光学相关器具有很好的识别性能.