Identification and quantification of diethylene glycol contamination in glycerine raw material

Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) was successfully used for quantitative determination of diethylene glycol in glycerin raw material. In addition to the pure samples of both diethylene glycol and glycerin, nine binary mixtures of the two components with mixing ratios ranging from (70 to 98)%wt were created and studied as a training set. Glycerine showed, thereby, characteristic infrared bands at 1110, 992, 974, and 922?cm^?1 while those of diethylene glycol appear at 1085, 887, and 881?cm^?1. The quantitative determination of diethylene glycol in binary mixtures with glycerin was achieved upon using the absorbance difference between the 992?cm^?1 and the 881?cm^?1 as well as between 1110 and 1085?cm^?1 bands. With an average %error of 0.60 and 1.74, respectively and a limit of detection down to 0.85%, the created calibration curves from the training set were applied successfully to determine the composition of another eight binary mixtures of the two materials representing a validation set. The method was also applied to aqueous solutions of diethylene glycol and glycerin that contains (25 and 50)%wt water. Once more, training and validation sets of mixtures with different diethylene glycol and glycerin ratios at the two water percentages were prepared and measured. Again, successful determination of diethylene glycol in these aqueous solutions was achieved with an average %error of 0.92 and 0.47, respectively.     

Fluctuation dynamics and 1/f spectra characterizing the acoustic cavitation of liquids

The dynamics of acoustic cavitation in water and glycerin is studied experimentally. The power spectra and distribution functions of fluctuations are determined. In transient regimes, bubble structures in the form of fractal clusters are formed near the ultrasonic radiator. The power spectra have the form 1/f, and the distribution functions of local fluctuations differ from the Gaussian ones and exhibit the scale invariance property.     

Determination of orientation distribution function of anisotropic paramagnetic species by analysis of ESR spectra angular dependence

A method has been developed to determine orientation distribution function (ODF) of anisotropic paramagnetic species by analysis of the angular dependence of the ESR spectra. The method is based on computational spectra simulation. The ODF is represented as an expansion in terms of orthonormal functions. The expansion coefficients are determined through minimization of discrepancies between simulated spectra and experimental ones. By means of the suggested method we have determined the orientation distribution functions for radical probe 2,2,6,6-tetramethyl-4-ol-piperidinooxyl in 4-n-amyl-4'-cyanobiphenyl aligned by magnetic field and 2-septadecyl-2,3,4,5,5-pentamethylimidazolidine in polyethylene stretched films. In each case, thermal evolution of the ODF has been investigated.     

Medium-temperature phase-change materials thermal characterization by the T-History method and differential scanning calorimetry

This paper presents a thermal characterization of salt mixtures applying the T-History method (THM) and the differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) techniques. By using water as a standard substance, the original THM was developed to analyze materials with melting points under 100°C. This is the first research that proposes to replace water by glycerin to characterize medium-melting-temperature phase-change materials (PCMs) (140–220°C). Moreover, the DSC technique was used to validate and compare the results obtained with the THM for each mixture. For instance, the system compound of 40% KNO₃–60% NaNO₃ was studied, and the enthalpy of fusion determined by THM and DSC differs by 2.1% between each method. The results given by the two methods for all mixtures showed that both techniques are complementary and present satisfactory agreement with the specialized literature.     

甘油介质在同轴形成线中的击穿特性研究

针对甘油介质在形成线中的应用,总结了甘油作为储能介质已开展的相关研究工作,并在缩比的同轴电极试件中进行了电极表面、磁场、耐压极性、含气量等条件对甘油介质击穿特性影响的实验研究。搭建了基于晶闸管控制的空心脉冲变压器升压实验平台,设计了浸没于脉冲磁场中的同轴电极击穿试件,实验平台最大输出电压500 kV,上升时间26 s,最大磁场1 T,可通过控制晶闸管的先后触发使击穿过程发生于准稳衡磁场中,并制作了外形一致、表面不同的砂纸打磨、羊毛抛光、金属电镀和非金属电镀四种电极。实验结果表明:甘油的击穿是没有极性的;1 T量级磁场对甘油介质的击穿特性无影响;不同电极表面微观形貌差异较大,使甘油介质具有不同的击穿特性,说明甘油击穿在电极表面的过程具有较大影响;充分的排气能减少甘油中直径较大的气泡,减少概率性的低击穿场强,击穿后产生的大量微小气泡会整体降低甘油的击穿阈值,使甘油的平均击穿场强降低。     

Some comments on superfluid 3He placed in globally deformed aerogel

New experimental results focused on the behavior of the superfluid A-like phase placed in globally deformed aerogel environment are considered. We compare experimental data collected by using optically attested axially stretched silica aerogel, on the one hand, and “nematically ordered” aerogel consisting of nearly parallel Al₂O₃ · H₂O polymer strands, on the other. In the case of axially stretched silica aerogel the point of view was adopted according to which the orbital anisotropy axis l? is long-ranged. The experiments were carried out by pulsed NMR techniques in keeping the direction of an externally applied magnetic field normal to aerogel stretching axis. We have generalized the dipole-locked configuration for arbitrary angle of inclination of the magnetic field with respect to aerogel stretching axis. The experimental data collected in using “nematically ordered” aerogel cannot be reconciled with above-mentioned results.     

Experimental realization of a model glass former in 2D

We have studied binary two-dimensional (2D) mixtures of superparamagnetic colloidal particles interacting through magnetic dipole moments, which were induced by an external magnetic field B. By tuning B the effective system temperature could be widely adjusted. Time-dependent particle coordinates measured by video-microscopy provide radial pair-distribution functions, mean-square displacements as well as evidence for heterogeneous dynamics. Characteristic features of 3D glass formers are observed experimentally in 2D for the first time.     

Recent results on hyperpolarized<Superscript>3</Superscript>He−<Superscript>4</Superscript>He liquid mixtures

Laser optical pumping in low magnetic field provides very high nuclear polarizations in gaseous helium mixtures, and is used to prepare polarized liquid. Wall relaxation in glass cells is effiently reduced using cesium coatings, and bulk longitudinal relaxation times are measured. In highly magnetized samples, dipolar fields control the spin dynamics in anisotropic volumes and weak external magnetic field inhomogeneities. Long lived magnetostatic modes are observed by pulsed NMR. Detailed analysis of their frequency and damping gives information on magnetization density and spin diffusion coefficient in polarized mixtures. Experiments are performed above 0.2 K on mixtures with³He concentrations of order a few percents or larger. When phase separation occurs, the³He-rich phase retains a high polarization.     

Electrohydrodynamic peculiarities of corona discharge interaction with a liquid surface

This study was devoted to experimental investigations of a corona discharge over the surface of the following liquids: tap and distilled water, alcohol, glycerin, and mixtures of alcohol with water and glycerin. One of the electrodes was placed over the liquid surface, while another one was submerged in it. Three modes of discharge over the liquid surface were obtained, namely an ordinary corona, an intermediate mode, and an arc discharge mode. In these modes, a funnel-shaped deepening, jets, and scattered jets directed toward the upper electrode were observed on the liquid surface under the action of the discharge. A qualitative mode of funnel formation on the liquid surface under the influence of an ionic wind induced by a corona discharge was presented. The formation of jets and scattered jets was related to the development of Tonks-Frenkel and Rayleigh instabilities.     

Magnetic effects on the coalescence of Kelvin-Helmholtz vortices

We simulate the coalescence process of MHD-scale Kelvin-Helmholtz vortices with the electron inertial effects taken into account. Reconnection of highly stretched magnetic field lines within a rolled-up vortex destroys the vortex itself and the coalescence process, which is well known in ordinary fluid dynamics, is seen to be inhibited. When the magnetic field is initially antiparallel across the shear layer, on the other hand, multiple vortices are seen to coalesce continuously because another type of magnetic reconnection prevents the vortex decay. This type of reconnection at the hyperbolic point also changes the field line connectivity and thus leads to large-scale plasma mixing across the shear layer.     

Self-Focusing and Channeling of Wave Beams in a Nonuniform Magnetic Field under Conditions of Ionization Nonlinearity

We study experimentally the effect of ionization self-channeling of waves at the whistler frequencies in a nonuniform magnetic field. It is shown that the formed plasma nonuniformity localizes the radiation from a short high-frequency source inside a discharge channel stretched along an external magnetic field. We found a possibility to control the parameters of the formed plasma-wave channel as well as the dispersion characteristics and structure of wave fields in wide limits by varying the magnetic field in a specified spatial region. We propose a method for the formation of a plasma resonator and test this method in the laboratory experiment. The spatial plasma and field distributions in this resonator are similar to those along a geomagnetic field tube of the magnetospheric resonator. We reveal the plasma instability in such a resonator in the vicinity of the frequency of electron bounce oscillations between magnetic mirrors.     

A quantum pseudodot system with two-dimensional pseudoharmonic oscillator in external magnetic and Aharonov-Bohm fields

Using the Nikiforov–Uvarov (NU) method, the energy levels and the wave functions of an electron confined in a two-dimensional (2D) pseudoharmonic quantum dot are calculated under the influence of temperature and an external magnetic field inside dot and Aharonov–Bohm (AB) field inside a pseudodot. The exact solutions for energy eigenvalues and wave functions are computed as functions of the chemical potential parameters, applied magnetic field strength, AB flux field, magnetic quantum number and temperature. Analytical expression for the light interband absorption coefficient and absorption threshold frequency are found as functions of applied magnetic field and geometrical size of quantum pseudodot. The temperature dependence energy levels for GaAs semiconductor are also calculated.     

Effect of variation of dielectric constant on the magnetic field modulation of exciplex luminescence

The effect of variation of dielectric constant on the relative magnetic field effect in singlet luminescence has been studied using a typical exciplex system at a saturating field. The study indicates strong specificity in the perturbation of the magnetic field effect by alcoholic solvents. In contrast to alcohols where relative singlet magnetic field effect is of the order of 2% only, the magnetic field effect in non-alcoholic medium reaches as high as 9%. Moreover, dielectric constant variation in alcohols yields curves which are distinctly different from those in non-alcoholic media. It turns out that this dependence of magnetic field effect on dielectric constant is similar in all non-alcoholic solvent mixtures. An analytical study based on Hong and Noolandi’s solution of Smoluchowski equation has been made. Derived expressions can interpret experimental curves reasonably well.     

Interactions between vortex and magnetic rings at high kinetic and magnetic Reynolds numbers

Interactions between magnetic and vortex rings are studied over a wide interval of interaction parameter values ranging from negligible magnetic effects on vorticity structure, to very strong effects. The employed interaction parameter measures the strength of the Lorentz force in units of the inertial force. At small interaction parameters, the vortex ring shapes part of the magnetic ring into a dissipative, curved, magnetic sheet structure. At high interaction parameters, the Lorentz force acts as an agent of proliferation of vortex rings, since it generates two vortex rings adjacent to the original magnetic structure, one of which is pulled (together with the advected magnetic field) into the wake of the original vortex ring, while the other escapes, ready to interact with another magnetic ring. Once within the initial vortex ring wake, both magnetic and vorticity structures are stretched into spirals, whilst the Lorentz force continuously generates new, intense vorticity at high magnetic field sites.     

Reflection and refraction of an acoustic beam at the boundary between a fluid and a magnetoacoustic material near the orientational phase transition

Reflection and refraction of an acoustic beam at the boundary between a liquid and a magnetoacoustic material is considered in the region of the orientational phase transition of the material in magnetic field. For the boundary between water and hematite, the possibility of controlling the angles of refraction and the wave transformation amplitudes is numerically demonstrated. The longitudinal displacement and the splitting of an acoustic beam at the boundary between the aforementioned media are investigated as functions of the external magnetic field.     

Zur Theorie der Bewegung geladener Teilchen in richtungskonstanten Magnetfeldern exponentieller Zeitabhängigkeit. I. Allgemeine Theorie und Einschaltvorgang

The general solution of the equations of motion for a charged particle in a magnetic field is given for the following case: the spatially homogeneous magnetic field having a constant direction is a superposition of a field constant in time and one decreasing exponentially in time; taken into account is the influence of the electric field induced by the time dependent magnetic field and a friction force proportional to the particle velocity. The higher transcendental functions appearing in the exact solution are approximated in various ways in dependence on the values of the argument and parameters. The important case of a switching process without a friction force is investigated in detail. The higher transcendential functions can be approximated by simplier functions in such a way, that the solutions for the switching process, valid for all times, differ from the solutions in the case of a linear increasing magnetic field only by factors consisting of elementary functions. Approximated formulae of a very simple form are obtained for position, velocity, kinetic energy and magnetic moment of the particle. The particle orbits are classified and their dependence on the initial values and parameters of the magnetic fields is studied. A comparison between our results and a rectangular variation of the field shows that the latter is not a good approximation for a really exponential increasing field. Finally a detailed investigation shows that the electric field induced by the time dependent magnetic field has an important influence on the particle motion.     

Effect of weak magnetic fields on the properties of water and ice

We establish that a number of physical properties of water and ice are significantly changed by an alternating magnetic field of a certain frequency. The changes in the physical parameters of ice are several times stronger than the changes in the corresponding parameters of water. Heating water to 50°C destroys the magnetic effects. When the field is much weaker than the geomagnetic field, a change in water purity (bidistilled instead of distilled water) only broadens the extrema observed in the state dependences of water and ice on the frequency of the alternating magnetic field of constant amplitude. The magnitude and intensity of these extrema are unaffected by water purity. The effects of the geomagnetic field on the properties of ice and water are also discussed.Translated form Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Fizika, No. 5, pp. 13–17, May, 1988.     

Boosted cylindrical magnetized Kaluza–Klein wormhole

In this work, we consider a vacuum solution of Kaluza–Klein theory with cylindrical symmetry. We investigate the physical properties of the solution as viewed in four dimensional spacetime, which turns out to be a stationary, cylindrical wormhole supported by a scalar field and a magnetic field oriented along the wormhole. We then apply a boost to the five dimensional solution along the extra dimension, and perform the Kaluza–Klein reduction. As a result, we show that the new solution is still a wormhole with a radial electric field and a magnetic field stretched along the wormhole throat.     

Dynamics of critical fluctuations in a binary mixture of limited miscibility under a strong electric field

Experimental investigations of relaxation after switching off the strong electric field in a nitrobenzene-dodecane mixture are presented. Studies were conducted for mixtures of critical and noncritical concentrations using the time-resolved nonlinear dielectric effect. The decays obtained can be portrayed by means of the stretched exponential function with the value of the exponent in agreement with the dynamic droplet model predictions. It has been shown that experimental decays exhibit a universal scaling behavior. The relaxation time (scaling factor) shows a power behavior with the exponent y approximately 1.2 for the critical mixture and y-->1 for the noncritical one. These values are much smaller than theoretically predicted y=1.8-1.9. Based on the assumption that a strong electric field induces in the mixture a quasinematic structure with semiclassical critical properties, a quantitative explanation of this difference is proposed.     

Landau levels in graphene in the presence of emergent gravity

We consider graphene in the presence of external magnetic field and elastic deformations that cause emergent magnetic field. The total magnetic field results in the appearance of Landau levels in the spectrum of quasiparticles. In addition, the quasiparticles in graphene experience the emergent gravity. We consider the particular choice of elastic deformation, which gives constant emergent magnetic field and vanishing torsion. Emergent gravity may be considered as perturbation. We demonstrate that the corresponding first order approximation affects the energies of the Landau levels only through the constant renormalization of Fermi velocity. The degeneracy of each Landau level receives correction, which depends essentially on the geometry of the sample. There is the limiting case of the considered elastic deformation, that corresponds to the uniformly stretched graphene. In this case in the presence of the external magnetic field the degeneracies of the Landau levels remain unchanged.