VLF emissions from ionospheric/magnetospheric plasma

VLF emissions such as hiss, chorus, oscillating tones, hiss-triggered chorus and whistler triggered emissions have been observed at low latitude Indian stations. In this paper we present dynamic spectra of these emissions and discuss their various observed features. It is argued that most of the emissions are generated during Doppler shifted cyclotron resonance interaction between the whistler mode wave and counter streaming energetic electrons. Resonance energy of the participating electron and interaction length are evaluated to explain the generation mechanism of some of these emissions observed at Indian stations.     

Dynamics of the Magnetospheric Cyclotron ELF/VLF Maser in the Backward-Wave-Oscillator Regime. I. Basic Equations and Results in the Case of a Uniform Magnetic Field

We consider the nonlinear dynamics of absolute instability of whistler-mode waves in the Earth's magnetosphere in the presence of a step-like deformation in the distribution function of energetic electrons. Development of this instability, implying the transition of the magnetospheric cyclotron maser to the regime of a backward-wave oscillator (BWO), was proposed earlier as a generation mechanism of magnetospheric chorus emissions. We derive simplified nonlinear equations describing the dynamics of the magnetospheric BWO in the case of low efficiency of wave-particle interactions. Numerical simulations of these equations confirm qualitative similarity of the laboratory and magnetospheric BWOs and justify quantitative estimates of parameters of chorus emissions. __________ Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Radiofizika, Vol. 48, No. 9, pp. 719–729, September 2005.     

Dynamics of the magnetospheric cyclotron ELF/VLF maser in the backward-wave-oscillator regime. II. The influence of the magnetic-field inhomogeneity

We study the influence of the magnetic-field inhomogeneity on the nonlinear dynamics of the absolute instability of whistler-mode waves in the Earth’s magnetosphere in the presence of a step-like deformation in the distribution function of energetic electrons. Development of this instability, implying the transition of the magnetospheric cyclotron maser to the regime of a backward-wave oscillator (BWO), was proposed earlier as a generation mechanism of magnetospheric chorus emissions. We analyze the results of numerical simulations of the simplified nonlinear equations describing the magnetospheric-BWO dynamics in the case of low efficiency of wave-particle interactions. We found that the case of an inhomogeneous magnetic field where the system length is much greater than the length characterizing the linear stage of the BWO regime has important specific features compared with the case of a homogeneous medium. The main feature of the nonlinear wave dynamics in the magnetospheric BWO in an inhomogeneous magnetic field consists in the fact that for a sufficiently large excess over the generation threshold, a sequence of separate wave packets, i.e., discrete elements, is formed. The frequency within each packet varies in time, and these discrete elements are close in their properties to the chorus elements observed in the magnetosphere. The results of calculations confirm the quantitative estimates of parameters of chorus emissions, which were performed earlier on the basis of the BWO model. ^†Deceased Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Radiofizika, Vol. 51, No. 11, pp. 977–987, November 2008.     

The Parameterization Method of Discrete VLF Chorus Emissions

Radiophysics and Quantum Electronics - We present a method for automatic search and parameterization of discrete elements of very low-frequency (VLF) chorus emissions. The method is based on the...     

场向传播的内磁层哨声波对辐射带高能电子的共振扩散

基于高斯分布的哨声波谱密度分布、偶极子背景磁场模型以及建立在卫星观测数据基础上的半经验电子密度纬度分布模型,对于等离子体层顶以外区域(4≤L≤7),计算了准线性当地及弹跳平均电子共振扩散系数,并估算了与磁层哨声波回旋共振导致的辐射带电子损失及加速时间尺度.结果表明,波粒共振相互作用区域取决于电子能量、波谱分布、电子赤道抛射角以及当地电子密度及背景磁场.哨声波共振频率除了与以上5个参量有关外,还与地磁纬度有关.赤道哨声波主要影响较低能量辐射带电子的加速,中高纬度哨声波主要作用于较高能量辐射带电 关键词： 共振波粒相互作用 地球辐射带 哨声波 回旋共振加速及散射沉降     

Destabilization of deep-water risers by a heaving platform

Offshore gas and oil fields are being discovered and exploited nowadays in water depths of more than 2000 m. In order to convey the hydrocarbon to the sea level, a steel slender pipe is installed between wellhead at the sea bed and floating platform. If used in deep waters, these pipes are commonly referred to as deep-water risers. The heave (vertical motion) of a floating platform induces a fluctuation in time of the axial tension of the riser. A possible and undesirable phenomenon is the excitation of a transverse riser vibration caused by this fluctuation. Owing to this fluctuation, the governing equation of transverse motion of the riser is a nonlinear partial differential equation containing a time-dependent coefficient. As a first step, this equation is linearized around the straight equilibrium, and stability of this equilibrium is investigated using the Galerkin method and the Floquet theory. Then, the dynamic equilibrium is studied that the riser reaches if its straight equilibrium is unstable. This is done using a numerical time-domain technique. Two qualitatively different mechanisms of stability loss are distinguished, discussed and exemplified. The first is classical parametric resonance that occurs solely due to periodic time variation of the axial tension. The second mechanism occurs if the amplitude of vibration of the platform is large enough to change tension into compression in a segment of the riser for a part of the vibration cycle. It is shown that the second mechanism can cause dangerously large dynamic stresses in the riser.     

Observations of biological choruses in the Southern California Bight: A chorus at midfrequencies

This paper describes the characteristics of an underwater biological chorus recorded in the midfrequency band (1-10 kHz) in the Southern California Bight. The recordings were made in July, 2002 by a large-vertical-aperture, 131-element, 2D billboard array. The chorus, observed predominantly on two consecutive nights during the 8-day experiment, is composed of two bands of energy centered around 1.5 kHz and between 4 and 5 kHz. It causes a complete reversal in the vertical directional characteristics of the mid-frequency ambient sound field between day and nighttime periods; whereas the vertical structure during the day shows a notch in the horizontal direction with levels more than 10 dB below those at higher angles, the nighttime levels in the horizontal can exceed those at other vertical angles by more than 10 dB. These nighttime sounds also are strongly anisotropic in azimuth; they appear to come mainly from a popular Southern California fishing spot where the water depths exceed 75 m. Vertical beam-to-beam coherence squared estimates suggest the chorus source region exists on spatial scales greater than the multipath interference wavelengths of this environment. Individual sounds comprising the chorus, although difficult to separate from the background din, have a fluttering, rasping character.     

Bounce-Averaged Acceleration of Energetic Electrons by Whistler Mode Chorus in the Magnetosphere

We construct the bounce-averaged diffusion coefficients and study the bounce-averaged acceleration for energetic electrons in gyroresonance with whistler mode chorus. Numerical calculations have been performed for a band of chorus frequency distributed over a standard Gaussian spectrum specifically in the region near L = 4.5, where peaks of the electron phase space density occur. It is found that whistler mode chorus can efficiently accelerate electrons and can increase the phase space density at energies of about 1 MeV by more than one order of magnitude about one day, in agreement with the satellite observations during the recovery phase of magnetic storms.     

Generation of VLF emissions with the increasing and decreasing frequency in the magnetosperic cyclotron maser in the backward wave oscillator regime

We study the mechanisms of the formation of falling tones in the dynamic spectrum of whistler-mode waves generated by energetic electrons in the Earth’s magnetosphere when the backward-wave oscillator (BWO) regime is realized in the magnetospheric cyclotron maser. As was shown earlier, this regime allows one to explain many features of ELF/VLF chorus emissions in the magnetosphere, in particular, the generation of elements with discrete frequency spectrum, characterized by a large growth rate and a fast frequency drift. On the basis of numerical simulations of a simplified system of nonlinear equations describing the magnetospheric BWO dynamics under the assumption of small efficiency of wave-particle interactions we show that the falling tones are generated in the case where the generation region is shifted from the equatorial plane (geomagnetic-field minimum) upstream with respect to the motion of energetic electrons. In this case, the resonant electrons move towards the decreasing magnetic field in the process of generation; hence, their longitudinal velocity increases, which corresponds to a decrease in the cyclotron-resonance frequency. Two mechanisms of the shift of the generation region from the equator are considered, i.e., (i) an increase in the linear instability growth rate (e. g., due to an increase in the energetic-electron density), and (ii) persistence of the phase bunching of the particles coming back to the generation region due to the bounce oscillations. We show that both of these mechanisms can result in the formation of falling tones, but the properties of the generated emissions such as the frequency drift rate and characteristic time interval between the elements are different. The conditions of preserving the phase bunching due to the bounce oscillations are discussed. Probably, this mechanism can operate in the case where the length of the generation region along the magnetic field is close to the characteristic bounce-oscillation length of energetic electrons which is realized for a sufficiently high cold-plasma density in the generation region.     

集输管路上升管系统严重段塞流实验和理论模拟

严重段塞流的实验研究表明,在气泡进入上升管底部到运动至出口的过程中,上升管中气泡头部以下流型为弹状流型;当气泡头部流出上升管后,上升管中的流型可看作块状流型。根据实验结果,本文提出了采用漂移流模型简化计算上升管中两相流动、上游管道中气体膨胀满足质量守恒,同时考虑上升管内液体动量守恒的严重段塞流计算模型。计算值与测量值比较表明,模型可以正确预测出气体膨胀流动过程,气体流动时间不受入口气液流量的影响。模型可以准确计算出严重段塞流周期、液塞长度和倾斜管中液柱最大长度等参数。     

Spatial unmasking of birdsong in human listeners: energetic and informational factors

Spatial unmasking describes the improvement in the detection or identification of a target sound afforded by separating it spatially from simultaneous masking sounds. This effect has been studied extensively for speech intelligibility in the presence of interfering sounds. In the current study, listeners identified zebra finch song, which shares many acoustic properties with speech but lacks semantic and linguistic content. Three maskers with the same long-term spectral content but different short-term statistics were used: (1) chorus (combinations of unfamiliar zebra finch songs), (2) song-shaped noise (broadband noise with the average spectrum of chorus), and (3) chorus-modulated noise (song-shaped noise multiplied by the broadband envelope from a chorus masker). The amount of masking and spatial unmasking depended on the masker and there was evidence of release from both energetic and informational masking. Spatial unmasking was greatest for the statistically similar chorus masker. For the two noise maskers, there was less spatial unmasking and it was wholly accounted for by the relative target and masker levels at the acoustically better ear. The results share many features with analogous results using speech targets, suggesting that spatial separation aids in the segregation of complex natural sounds through mechanisms that are not specific to speech.     

水平-S型柔性立管系统中空气-水两相段塞流压力信号的特征分析

本文对水平-S型柔性立管中空气-水两相流进行了实验研究,着重对各种流型下的立管底部压力信号进行了特征分析,给出了立管底部压力的变化速率、振幅谱特性以及分布律规律.分析结果表明,从严重段塞流到稳态流型,立管底部压力变化速率变化更加剧烈且频繁;压力波动频率增大且周期性减弱,波动模式复杂;压力分布律峰值从较高压力区域移向较低...     

A Possible Population-Driven Phase Transition in Cicada Chorus

We investigate the collective synchronization of cicada chirping. Using both experimental and phenomeno- logical numerical techniques, here we show that the onset of a periodic two-state acoustic synchronous behavior in cicada chorus depends on a critical size of population Nc=21, above which a typical chorus state appears periodically with a 30 second-silence state in between, and further clarify its possibility concerning a new class of phase transition, which is unusually driven by population. This work has relevance to acoustic synchronization and to general physics of phase transition.     

气液混输管线与立管系统严重段塞流数值研究

针对气液混输管线与立管系统严重段塞流问题, 采用严重段塞流形成条件一致的等效原则, 发展了一种将三维管道系统等效为二维管道系统的计算流体力学(CFD)数值模拟方法. 以文献中某下倾管与立管组合系统为对象, 结合其实验工况, 对严重段塞流气液流动过程进行了数值模拟, 获得了其周期、压力波动幅值及喷发时间等关键参数的变化规律, 数值模拟与文献所述实验结果符合. 在此基础上, 建立了立管入口气液折算速度、立管含气率以及立管出口平均速度的理论模型, 获得了这些关键参数随时间的变化规律, 并给出了确定立管内气液流型变化的理论方法, 理论结果与CFD数值模拟结果一致. 建立的CFD方法大幅缩减了严重段塞流数值模拟所需的时间和资源, 推导的理论模型揭示了严重段塞流特性参数之间的关联, 可以对严重段塞流所引发的危害进行快速评估及预测,具有一定的工程应用价值.     

Self-to-other ratios measured in an opera chorus in performance

Four volunteer members of the chorus of Opera Australia, representing four different voice categories, wore binaural pairs of wireless microphones during a penultimate dress rehearsal on the Opera Theater stage of the Sydney Opera House. From the recordings, data were obtained on sound levels and on the self-to-other ratios (SORs). The sound levels were comparable to those found in loud music in chamber choir performance. The average SOR ranged from +10 to +15 dB. Compared to chamber choirs in other types of room, the SOR values were high. On a separate occasion, the stage support parameters ST1 (early reflections) and ST2 (late reflections) were measured over the whole stage area. ST1 was about -16 dB, which is typical for opera stages, and -20 dB for ST2, which is unusually low. It is concluded that the SOR in the opera chorus depends mostly on choir formation, which is highly variable, and that an opera chorus artist generally can hear his or her own voice very well, but little of the others and of the orchestra. This was confirmed by informal listening to the recordings.     

Simulation of Resonant Interaction between Energetic Electrons and Whistler-Mode Chorus in the Outer Radiation Belt

We construct a realistic model to evaluate the chorus wave-particle interaction in the outer radiation belt L = 4.5. This model incorporates a plasmatrough number density model, a field-aligned density model and a realistic wave power and frequency model. We solve the 2D bounce-averaged momentum-pitch-angle Fokker-Planck equation and show that the Whistler-mode chorus can be effective in the acceleration of electrons, and enhance the phase space density for energies of -1 MeV by a factor from 10 to 10^3 in about two days, consistent with the observation. We also demonstrate that ignorance of the electron number density variation along field line and magnetic local time in the previous work yields an overestimate of energetic electron phase space density by a factor 5-10 at large pitch-angle after two days, suggesting that a realistic plasma density model is very important to evaluate the evolution of energetic electrons in the outer radiation belt.     

基于模糊PID的海洋立管疲劳试验装置控制系统设计

海洋立管作为海洋油气开发的关键设备,在运行期间面临疲劳失效的风险,需要对立管进行疲劳试验。针对海洋立管共振弯曲疲劳试验法,提出基于 S7-300 PLC实现海洋立管共振弯曲疲劳试验装置控制系统的设计思想。采用黄金分割法,寻找确定试件共振频率点;同时,为保障系统能够在该共振频率点稳定运行,采用S7-300 PLC作为核心控制器,结合参数自调节模糊PID控制算法,设计完成疲劳试验装置中转速模糊PID控制器,实现对系统转速的精确控制,使得海洋立管疲劳试验装置控制系统在具有PLC控制灵活、可靠性高等特点的同时,大大提高了其自动化程度。     

Dynamic Evolution of Outer Radiation Belt Electrons due to Whistler-Mode Chorus

Following our preceding work, we perform a further study on dynamic evolution of energetic electrons in the outer radiation belt L=4.5 due to a band of whistler-mode chorus frequency distributed over a standard Gaussian spectrum. We solve the 2D bounce-averaged Fokker-Planek equation by allowing incorporation of cross diffusion rates. Numerical results show that whistler-mode chorus can be effective in acceleration of electrons at large pitch angles, and enhance the phase space density for energies of about 1 MeV by a factor of 10^2 or above in about one day, consistent with observation of significant enhancement in flux of energetic electrons during the recovery phase of a geomagnetic storm. Moreover, neglecting cross diffusion often leads to overestimates of the phase space density evolution at large pitch angle by a factor of 5-10 after one day, with larger errors at smaller pitch angle, suggesting that cross diffusion also plays an important role in wave-particle interaction.     

Excitation of chorus-like waves by temperature anisotropy in dipole research experiment (DREX): A numerical study

Due to their significant roles in the radiation belts dynamics, chorus waves are widely investigated in observations,experiments, and simulations. In this paper, numerical studies for the generation of chorus-like waves in a launching device,dipole research experiment(DREX), are carried out by a hybrid code. The DREX plasma is generated by electron cyclotron resonance(ECR), which leads to an intrinsic temperature anisotropy of energetic electrons. Thus the whistler instability can be excited in the device. We then investigate the effects of three parameters, i.e., the cold plasma density nc, the hot plasma density nh, and the parallel thermal velocity of energetic electrons, on the generation of chorus-like waves under the DREX design parameters. It is obtained that a larger temperature anisotropy is needed to excite chorus-like waves with a high nc with other parameters fixed. Then we fix the plasma density and parallel thermal velocity, while varying the hot plasma density. It is found that with the increase of nh, the spectrum of the generated waves changes from no chorus elements, to that with several chorus elements, and then further to broad-band hiss-like waves. Besides, different structures of choruslike waves, such as rising-tone and/or falling-tone structures, can be generated at different parallel thermal velocities in the DREX parameter range.     

提升管内稠密气粒两相流动大涡模拟

本文采用双流体模型,引入颗粒动力学理论,对提升管内的稠密气粒两相流动进行了大涡模拟。采用改进的分步投影法对滤波后的方程进行显式求解,小尺度量采用Smagorinsky亚格子模式模拟。模拟结果给出的颗粒相速度分布、浓度分布与实验值基本吻合,气固两相存在速度滑移。模拟结果合理预报出了提升管内的环-核流动结构。