A PIV study of a supersonic impinging jet

The characteristics of supersonic impinging jets are investigated using Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV). The purpose of the experiments is to understand the jet induced forces on STOVL aircraft while hovering close to the ground. For this purpose, a large diameter circular plate was attached at the nozzle exit. The oscillations of the impinging jet generated due to a feedback loop are captured in the PIV images. The instantaneous velocity field measurements are used to describe flow characteristics of the impinging jet. The important flow features such as oscillating shock waves, slipstream shear layers and large scale structures are captured clearly by the PIV. The presence of large scale structures in the impinging jet induced high entrainment velocity in the near hydrodynamic field, which resulted in lift plate suction pressures. A passive control device is used to interfere with the acoustic waves travelling in the ambient medium to suppress the feedback loop. As a consequence, the large scale vortical structures disappeared completely leading to a corresponding reduction in the entrainment.     

应用波分复用技术实现飞秒级超快动态过程的脉冲数字显微全息记录

采用波分复用方法实现飞秒级超快动态过程的脉冲数字显微全息记录和再现。在全息记录过程中,利用BBO倍频晶体对入射激光进行倍频,将基波和谐波分光,并经时间延迟后进入迈克耳孙干涉仪,从而可应用波分复用技术,先后在CCD的一帧图像上记录两张具有不同空间频率的子全息图。采用这种方法,实现了对单脉冲飞秒激光激发空气电离的超快动态过程的全息记录,并通过数字傅里叶变换和数字滤波的方法,分别再现出每张子全息图记录的波前,从而获得了具有飞秒时间分辨的空气等离子体形成和传播过程的动态振幅和相位图像,其单次曝光时间为50 fs,曝光时间间隔为400 fs,相应的曝光频率约为2.5×1012f/s。     

A new approach to a practical subwavelength resolving microscope

Superresolution depends on near-field capture and transfer of high spatial frequencies from the scattering object. These evanescent waves are transferred to a near-field image domain using a negative index material. Measuring images with subwavelength scale resolution in the near field by scanning is not practical and ignores inevitable object–lens–image coupling phenomena as well as the need to employ inverse scattering algorithms. An alternative approach based on compressive sampling permits the use of a single fixed detector. Traditionally, in such a system, an image-bearing wavefront is projected onto a series of patterns (= basis functions) and the transmitted light integrated by a lens onto a single-point detector. Image reconstruction is possible by weighting each basis function with its measured coefficient and summing, including basis functions representing evanescent waves. We employ a single fixed detector in the back focal plane of a negative index concave lens and basis functions realized by structured illumination from combinations of a set of discrete sources. We have investigated this as an approach to recover subwavelength scale details about a scattering object and report our results.     

不同表面结构特征圆柱导体的太赫兹散射特性

太赫兹频段下导体表面的细微结构、粗糙度等细节将对目标电磁散射行为产生影响。为衡量这一影响程度,以圆柱导体为例研究了太赫兹频段下目标表面不同结构特征的电磁散射现象及其在图像域的表现规律。利用高频电磁计算方法获得了表面分别为理想光滑、带刻痕和周期粗糙的三种圆柱多姿态角、多频点单站散射场;基于转台成像算法重建了小转角下目标的二维图像。从仿真结果可以看出：m量级的细节特征在太赫兹雷达图像上有着显著的表现,表明太赫兹雷达能够获取更加丰富和精细的目标信息,从而为目标探测识别提供新的特征和技术手段。     

不同表面结构特征圆柱导体的太赫兹散射特性

太赫兹频段下导体表面的细微结构、粗糙度等细节将对目标电磁散射行为产生影响。为衡量这一影响程度,以圆柱导体为例研究了太赫兹频段下目标表面不同结构特征的电磁散射现象及其在图像域的表现规律。利用高频电磁计算方法获得了表面分别为理想光滑、带刻痕和周期粗糙的三种圆柱多姿态角、多频点单站散射场;基于转台成像算法重建了小转角下目标的二维图像。从仿真结果可以看出:m量级的细节特征在太赫兹雷达图像上有着显著的表现,表明太赫兹雷达能够获取更加丰富和精细的目标信息,从而为目标探测识别提供新的特征和技术手段。     

Electromagnetic backscattering from freak waves in(1+1)-dimensional deep-water

To study the electromagnetic (EM) backscatter characteristics of freak waves at moderate incidence angles, we establish an EM backscattering model for freak waves in (1+1)-dimensional deep water. The nonlinear interaction between freak waves and Bragg short waves is considered to be the basic hydrodynamic spectra modulation mechanism in the model. Numerical results suggest that the EM backscattering intensities of freak waves are less than those from the background sea surface at moderate incidence angles. The normalised radar cross sections (NRCSs) from freak waves are highly polarisation dependent, even at low incidence angles, which is different from the situation for normal sea waves; moreover, the NRCS of freak waves is more polarisation dependent than the background sea surface. NRCS discrepancies between freak waves and the background sea surface with using horizontal transmitting horizomtal (HH) polarisation are larger than those with using vertical transmitting vertical (VV) polarisation, at moderate incident angles. NRCS discrepancies between freak waves and background sea surface decreases with the increase of incidence angle, in both HH and VV polarisation radars. As an application, in the synthetic-aperture radar (SAR) imaging of freak waves, we suggest that freak waves should have extremely low backscatter NRCSs for the freak wave facet with the strongest slope. Compared with the background sea surface, the freak waves should be darker in HH polarisation echo images than in VV echo images, in SAR images. Freak waves can be more easily detected from the background sea surface in HH polarisation images than in VV polarisation images. The possibility of detection of freak waves at low incidence angles is much higher than at high incidence angles.     

Intense Internal Waves and Their Manifestation in Interference Patterns of Received Signals on Oceanic Shelf

Processed data of SWARM-95 natural experiment on the New Jersey coast are reported. The experiment has been performed under conditions of perturbation of stationary path by intense internal waves, which led to horizontal refraction of acoustic waves. Separate source images, produced by direct and refracted acoustic fields, are obtained based on double Fourier transform of interference patterns. The interference patterns of the transfer functions of unperturbed waveguide and perturbation of the medium are recovered by filtering off the regions of source images in the spectrogram and applying double inverse Fourier transform to them.     

表面脉冲超声波沿曲面爬行的可视化研究

为了研究超声表面脉冲波在钢、铁等不透明曲面材料中的传播规律,我们采用和金属材料声速比较接近的光学玻璃作样品,利用研制的数字化动态光弹系统,分析了表面波和次表面波沿玻璃圆棒侧面传播时的行为,记录了不同时刻的横截面上的脉冲声场传播图像,求出了表面波和次表面波沿曲面爬行的传播速度。     

Laser-generated waves and wakes in rotating ion crystals

Locally excited plasma waves are generated in a Coulomb crystal by "pushing" with radiation pressure on a rotating cloud of laser-cooled 9Be+ ions. The waves form a stationary wake that is directly imaged through the dependence of the ion fluorescence on Doppler shifts, and theoretical calculations in a slab geometry are shown to accurately reproduce these images. The technique demonstrates a new method of exciting and studying waves in cold ion clouds.     

Reaction zones in highly unstable detonations

Experimental images of detonation fronts are made for several fuel-oxidizer mixtures, including hydrocarbon–air systems. Schlieren and planar laser induced fluorescence techniques are used to image both the shock configurations and the OH reaction front structure in a single experiment. The experiments are carried out in a narrow rectangular channel. The degree of instability of detonation fronts in different mixtures is evaluated by comparing calculated mixture parameters with the longitudinal neutral stability curve. The images reveal that the structure of the front increases dramatically in complexity as the mixture parameters move away from the neutral stability curve into the unstable region. Of the mixtures studied, nitrogen-diluted hydrocarbon mixtures are predicted to be the most unstable, and these show the greatest degree of wrinkling in the shock and OH fronts, with distortion occurring over a wide range of spatial scales. In the most unstable cases, separation of the shock and OH front occurs, and localized explosions in these regions are observed in a high-speed schlieren movie. This is in dramatic contrast to the weakly unstable waves that have smooth reaction fronts and quasi-steady reaction zones with no evidence of localized explosions. A key feature of highly unstable waves is very fine scale wrinkling of the OH and shock fronts, which is absent in the low-activation energy cases. This may be due to the superposition of cellular structures with a wide range of cell sizes. In contrast to soot foils, images of the OH front have a more stochastic appearance, and organized cellular structure is not as apparent.     

受禁锢的表面态电子波的驻波

在金属表面上把电子约束在纳米尺度的环形量子围栏中，导致电子波在围栏内形成同心圆状的驻波，本有无限高圆形对称散射势的分析方法模拟和分析了这种情况了受禁锢的表面态电子波的驻波，并介绍了实验上观察了电子驻波图象的方法。     

低马赫数射流混合层中的相干声源

通过二维射流混合层中相干时间尺度的测量,对声激励不稳定波增长过程及破碎点后的相干特性进行研究。实验结果表明,相干时间尺度在基波和第一亚谐波增长区较大,在破碎点后突然下降并在下游呈逐渐减小趋势。增加声激励强度可使不稳定波增长区的相干时间尺度增大,并对下游的流动结构有明显影响。     

Spatial fluctuations of the density of states in magnetic fields observed with scanning tunneling spectroscopy

Scanning tunneling spectroscopy images on n-InAs(110) exhibit a strong magnetic field dependent contrast on the 50 nm length scale, indicating fluctuations in the density of states of the sample. The contrast is correlated to previously observed Landau oscillations in dI/dV curves. Its origin is a spatial fluctuation of the Landau level energy of 3-4 meV caused by the inhomogeneous distribution of dopant atoms. Besides inducing large-scale fluctuations in the density of states, dopants preserve their ability to scatter electron waves. The resulting wave pattern is found to depend on the magnetic field. It is suggested that the dependence is guided by the condensation of the electronic states on Landau tubes.     

Geometric distortion correction for echo planar images using nonrigid registration with spatially varying scale

One method used to correct geometric and intensity distortions in echo planar images is to register them to undistorted images via nonrigid deformations. However, some areas in the echo planar images are more distorted than others, thus suggesting the use of deformations whose characteristics are adapted spatially. In this article, we incorporate into our previously developed registration algorithm a spatially varying scale mechanism, which adapts the local scale properties of the transformation by means of a scale map. To compute the scale map, a technique is proposed that relies on an estimate of the expected deformation field. This estimate is generated using knowledge of the physical processes that induce distortions in echo planar images. We evaluate the method of spatially varying scale on both simulated and real data. We find that, in comparison with our earlier method using fixed scale, our new method finds deformation fields that are smoother and finds them faster without sacrificing accuracy.     

Investigation of the structure of detonation waves in a non-premixed hydrogen–air rotating detonation engine using mid-infrared imaging

The structure of detonation waves propagating through the annular channel of an optically accessible non-premixed rotating detonation engine (RDE) are investigated using mid-infrared imaging. The RDE is operated on hydrogen–air mixtures for a range of air mass flow rates and equivalence ratios. Instantaneous images of the radiation intensity from water vapor are acquired using a mid-infrared camera and a band-pass filter (2.890?±?0.033?µm). The instantaneous mid-infrared images reveal the stochastic nature of the detonation wave structure, position and angle of oblique and reflected shock waves, presence of shear layer separating products from the previous and current cycles, and extent of mixing between the reactants and products in the reactant fill zone in front of the detonation wave. The images show negligible signal directly in front of the detonation waves suggesting that there is minimal mixing between the reactants and products from the previous cycle ahead of the detonation wave for most operating conditions. The mid-infrared images provide insights useful for improving fundamental understanding of the detonation structure in RDEs and benchmark data for evaluating modeling and simulation results of RDEs.     

A spinor equation of the pure electromagnetic field

In the early history of spinors it became evident that a single undotted covariant elementary spinor can represent a plane wave of light. Further study of that relation shows that plane electromagnetic waves satisfy the Weyl equation, in a way that indicates the correct spin angular momentum. On the subatomic scale the Weyl equation discloses more detail than the vector equations. The spinor and vector equations are equivalent when applied to plane waves, and more generally (in the absence of sources) on the large scale when the spinors are incoherent.     

Images of unstable Taylor-Sedov blast waves propagating through auniform gas

We present images from the first observation and measurements of an instability in Taylor-Sedov blast waves propagating through a uniform background gas. The instability occurs when the adiabatic index of the background gas is low. Images of the expanding blast waves are dark field shadowgraphs obtained using a frequency-doubled (527 nm) pulsed YAG laser and black and white photographic film. The film images are digitized, and image processing routines are used for analysis and presentation     

A whistler wave interaction with a density striation: a laboratoryinvestigation of an auroral process

In a laboratory experiment, whistler waves are launched toward a field-aligned density gradient. Characteristic scale length and frequency ratios were carefully scaled to reproduce situations found in the auroral ionosphere. The experiment clearly shows the direct conversion of whistler waves to largely electrostatic lower hybrid waves     

Resolution improvement of digital holographic images based on angular multiplexing with incoherent beams in orthogonal polarization states

We present a method to improve the resolution of digital holographic images based on angular multiplexing with incoherent beams from two orthogonal polarized components of natural light. Two incoherent subholograms are synchronously recorded by two pairs of incoherent object waves and reference waves with orthogonal polarization states, in which the object is illuminated by two incoherent beams from different directions. The increase in resolution is obtained through phase correction and superposition of two reconstructed object waves. Experimental results show that the resolution and quality of the reconstructed image can be effectively improved.