Dynamics of laser-induced cavitation in liquid

This paper presents an analysis of the rate of bubble expansion and an estimate of maximum bubble diameter and bubble lifetime prior to collapse. Such data are needed for the optimization of system parameters for elemental analysis in water by laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS). Two techniques were used for this study: pump-probe beam deflection and high-speed photography. Plasma in the water bulk was generated by a focussed laser pulse with energy of 140 mJ and pulse duration of 10 ns, operating at the fundamental Nd:YAG laser wavelength (1064 nm). Reasonable agreement on the value of maximum bubble diameter was obtained between the photographic and probe beam deflection results. Reasonable agreement for the total duration of the oscillating cavitation bubble was also obtained for the two techniques, with a mean value of ∼800 μs. A comparison between empirical results and predictions based on the Rayleigh equation is also presented.     

Experimental study of critical thermal load during boiling of binary liquid mixtures

The critical thermal load q _cr is experimentally studied as a function of the composition of an aqueous solution of ethanol, isopropanol, n-butanol, isobutanol, and isoamyl alcohol during pool boiling of saturated and subcooled liquids at atmospheric pressure.     

液态金属In凝固过程中微观结构转变的模拟研究

采用分子动力学方法对液态金属In的快速凝固过程进行计算机模拟跟踪研究.运用HA键型指 数法和原子成团类型指数法分析了金属原子In的成键类型和形成的原子团簇结构.发现：与通常的液态金属(如Al)相反，随着温度的降低，二十面体及与二十面体相关的1 551 键越来越少；与四方体，六角密堆积相关的1421，1422和1431键数目总和变化很小；而与菱 面体相关的132l，1311，1301和1201的数目却随着温度的降低而显著增加，逐渐占据优势 .最后形成一种新型的以菱面体结构为主、夹杂着立方体(fcc，bcc) 关键词： 液态金属In 微结构转变 团簇结构 分子动力学 计算机模拟     

液氮流动沸腾换热研究综述

作为一种优良的低温冷却剂,液氮在航天、电子工业、超导磁体和超导电缆冷却及低温生物医疗等领域应用广泛。在这些应用中,准确预测液氮的流动沸腾换热特性对于系统设计和安全运行十分重要。该文主要介绍了液氮流动沸腾换热的特点,对已有的实验和数值模拟结果进行了归纳;并比较了四个液氮流动沸腾换热计算关联式的预测情况,以及关联式中干度、质量流量、热流密度和压力对换热系数的影响;指出了有待进一步研究的课题。     

Real-time icosahedral to fcc structure transition during CoPt nanoparticles formation

Nucleation and growth of supported CoPt nanoparticles were studied in situ and in real time by combined grazing incidence small-angle x-ray scattering (GISAXS) and grazing incidence x-ray diffraction (GIXD). GISAXS provides morphological features of nanoparticles as a function of size, shape and correlation distance between particles, while GIXD allows the determination of the atomic structure. We focus on the formation of ultrasmall CoPt nanoparticles, in the 1–4 nm size range at 500^○C. The structural analysis method based on the Debye equation is coupled with cluster model calculations performed by Monte Carlo simulations using a semi-empirical tight-binding potential to interpret diffraction spectra and structural transitions. Our results show that the cluster structure evolution during the growth is size-dependent and composition-dependent, yielding an icosahedral to fcc structure transition.     

Numerical analysis of heat-mass transfer mechanisms in gas-phase ignition of films of liquid condensed substances by a laser beam

A complex of interrelated processes of heat-mass transfer with phase transitions at the ignition of liquid condensed substance by a low-power laser beam is investigated. Mechanisms of the heat-mass transfer processes are analyzed. The scale of influence of the power and the lasing range radius of the laser beam on the ignition characteristics is found. Critical conditions that do not enable the ignition in a system of liquid condensed substance film-laser beam-gas-vapor mixture are determined.     

Liquids: Dynamics of liquid structure

The study of the liquid state is predominately an experimental subject so any useful definition of “dynamical structure” in liquids should be closely related to the types of experiments employed in these studies. Most studies of the liquid state have been carried out for fluids lying on or near the liquid-vapor coexistence curve, the line connecting the triple point (T.P.) and the critical point (C.P.). The shaded portion of Figure 1 indicates this region. The term dynamical structure suggests measurements on systems which are not in thermodynamic equilibrium. Even so, equilibrium properties are determined through the application of the fluctuation dissipation theorem. Before we present a heuristic definition of dynamical structure, let us first consider an example which illustrates this definition.     

In-situ recordings of the changes in the regimes of heat-mass exchange between sea and atmosphere at the shore

Using instrumental investigations at the Black Sea shore, new data on the change in the heat-mass exchange under upwelling are obtained for the first time; the interrelation between the regimes of heat-mass exchange with a difference in air and water temperatures near the interface is established. The increased values of total heat flow at the shore as compared with the same flows in the open sea are recorded. Original Russian Text ? Yu.Yu. Plaksina, V.N. Aksenov, Ye.G. Andreev, 2009, published in Vestnik Moskovskogo Universiteta. Fizika, 2009, No. 2, pp. 117–118.     

Investigation of transient processes at liquid boiling under nonstationary heat generation conditions

The paper presents results on experimentally investigated dynamics of boiling development and formation of film boiling zones under stepwise heat generation on a horizontally and vertically oriented cylindrical surface in a large volume of Freon-21. Experimental data on the expectation time and boiling temperature, the propagation velocity and structure of evaporation and boiling fronts for different heat flux density both in saturated liquid and in subcooling conditions are obtained. Results of experiments on investigating the nucleation forms under development of nonstationary heat release crisis caused by heat loading on the vertical heater immersed into the volume of liquid (water, ethanol) subcooled to saturation temperature are presented. A calculation ratio for determining the expectation time to the beginning of intense vaporization in water is proposed and compared with experimental data obtained on surfaces with different-size roughness. Peculiarities of evolution of evaporation fronts from incipient bubbles are investigated in the experiments with ethanol. Data on the evaporation front velocity as a function of wall overheating are obtained. The obtained experimental data on the propagation velocity of self-sustained evaporation fronts are compared with the known calculated data.     

Dynamics and measurement of cavitation bubble

Based on the introduction of international progress, our investigations on acoustic cavitation have been reported. Firstly we considered the cavity’s dynamics under the drive of the asymmetrical acoustic pressure. An aspheric dynamical model was proposed and a new stable and aspheric solution was found in numerical simulation of the theoretical framework of the aspheric model. Then, a dual Mie-scattering technique was developed to measure the cavity’s aspheric pulsation. A significant asynchronous pulsation signal between two Mie-scattering channels was caught in the case of large cavity driven by low acoustic pressure. As a direct deduction, we observed an evidence of cavity’s aspheric pulsation. Furthermore, we studied the dependency of the asynchronous pulsation signal on the various parameters, such as the amplitude and frequency of the driving acoustic pressure, and the surface tension, viscosity and gas concentration of the liquid. Finally, we introduced a new numeric imaging technique to measure the shapes of the periodic pulsation cavities. The time-resolution was in the order of 20 ns, one order of magnitude lower than that in the previous work, say, 200 ns.     

Heat transfer and crisis phenomena with intense boiling in the falling wave liquid films

Experimental data on heat transfer with intense evaporation in the falling films of liquid nitrogen were analysed. According to data generalization, heat transfer at evaporation becomes more intense under the precrisis modes at high heat fluxes for two studied boundary conditions on the heat-releasing surface: T _w ≈ const and q _w ≈ const. The relative contributions of conductive and convective components of heat transfer for different heat fluxes were estimated due to statistical treatment of the wave characteristics carried out by the capacitance probes for measurement of the local liquid film thickness. It was found out that heat transfer intensification is mainly caused by a drastic decrease in thermal resistance of the local zones with intensely evaporating residual layer between large waves. At that, the convective component of heat transfer related to wave perturbations on a free surface of a liquid film decreases significantly with a rise of heat fluxes. New data on pulsations of the local temperature of the heat-releasing surface were obtained at different points along the flow with the modes of “dry spot” formation. The work was financially supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (grant No. 03-02-04027-NNIO-a) and DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, project Nos. Re-463-37-1 and SFB-540).     

竖直微槽道内沸腾换热CHF实验研究

对于沸腾换热,一个主要的约束条件就是临界热流密度(Critical Heat Flux,简称CHF)。这个约束条件对沸腾换热量有一个最高值的限制。文中对矩形微槽道中的流动沸腾临界热流密度进行了实验研究。实验数据是在不同尺寸(0.15mm;0.4mm;1mm)微槽道中,在较大范围的面积质量流速和不同进口过冷度下,以去离子水为工质得到的。实验过程中发现,达到CHF时,靠近出口壁面温度会突然升高,此时传热效率迅速下降。实验数据分析结果表明:CHF随质量流量的增加而增加;进口过冷度对CHF没有明显影响;CHF随着出口干度的增加而降低。     

Dynamics of explosive boiling and third heat transfer crisis at subcooling on a vertical surface

Results of experimental studies on dynamics of explosive boiling and third heat transfer crisis under the conditions of liquid subcooling are presented for the vertical arrangement of the heat-transfer surface. Acetone was used in experiments at the pressure in the working volume from 20 to 46 kPa and subcooling from 0 to 20 K. The studied processes were recorded. Data on the velocity of evaporation front propagation at liquid subcooling were obtained. These data are compared with the results of calculations according to the models available in the literature. The effect of liquid subcooling on the regions of regime parameters corresponding to explosive boiling and third heat transfer crisis is studied.     

On the role of relaxation processes in the acoustic mechanism of supramolecular structure formation in nematic liquid crystals

We have for the first time developed and tested a model constructed on the basis of nonequilibrium hydrodynamics and postulating that the structural relaxation processes of a nematic liquid crystal (NLC) in wave fields are important for the formation of supramolecular structures in the form of a system of linear domains in a planar mesophase layer. Distortions in the macrostructure of an NLC layer in the field of longitudinal waves were observed in the frequency range of 0.9–18.9 MHz. The values of the spatial period of domains at the threshold of the effect and the threshold amplitudes of the vibrational speed were determined for 10–300-μm-thick layers in wave fields with different degrees of uniformity for the temperature range where the mesophase exists. The simulation results are compared to experimental data.     

Dynamics of processes occurring in laser ablation of metals in a liquid

We present the results of investigations undertaken to establish relationships between certain characteristics of the disintegration of metals in air and liquid under laser radiation and their thermophysical properties, as well as between the basic parameters of a gas cavity formed in a liquid and the energy of the laser ablation products of metals. Consideration is given to the possibilities of applying the dynamic properties of this cavity to control the time behavior of the radiation of solid-state lasers and to solve spectroanalytical problems. Institute of Molecular and Atomic Physics, Academy of Sciences of Belarus, 70, F. Skorina Ave, Minsk, 220072, Belarus. Translated from Zhurnal Prikladnoi Spektroskopii, Vol. 64, No. 5, pp. 668–673, September–October, 1997.     

Dynamics of nematic liquid crystal with quenched disorder in the random dilution and random field regimes

By means of specific heat spectroscopy, we have studied the dynamics of nematic 8CB nucleated, in the presence of random disorder, as the temperature is lowered across the isotropic to nematic phase transition such that the crossover region of random dilution to random field regimes of disorder strength is explored. We show, in terms of frequency dependence, hysteretic behavior, and aging effects, that the out-of-equilibrium properties of the nematic nucleated in the random disorder regime are strongly reminiscent of the bulk material while the one grown in the random field regime shows a glassy behavior with aging leading to slower dynamics. The aging effect has been explained in terms of strain relaxation in analogy with observations in other soft glassy colloidal systems.     

Thermodynamic modeling of processes that occur during zone melting with electrical and thermal transfer in the liquid zone

Theoretical modeling of crystallization during zone melting (ZM) in metallic systems is performed using the concepts of nonequilibrium thermodynamics. An equation that is more correct and convenient for practical discussion of experimental data is derived for calculating the impurity distribution coefficient in ZM. Allowing for electrical transfer, convective diffusion during operation, and the released Peltier heat, the results agree with the literature data for the Bi–Sn system.