Analysis of the electrostatic force on a dielectric particle with partial charge distribution

This paper presents the analysis of the electrostatic force acting on a charged dielectric particle on a grounded plane. The force has been determined by a numerical field calculation method to make clear the effect of particle dielectric constant and charge distribution on the particle surface. The charge is treated to be distributed in three ways: (a) uniformly over entire surface, (b) partially on the upper, or (c) on the lower part of a particle. The calculation results show that, if a particle with dielectric constant ?_p = 3 is partially charged on the lower part by a zenith angle π/2, π/4 and π/8, the force shall be higher by 0.7, 4.3 and 20 times, respectively, than that for a uniform charging with the same charge amount. On the other hand, the force becomes weaker when charge is on the upper part. The effect of the particle dielectric constant is found to be dependent on the charge distribution. With charge uniform on the entire surface or on the upper part, the force always increases with the dielectric constant. However, when surface charge is restricted to a small area at the lower part of the particle (θ_q < π/4), the force may decrease with increasing the dielectric constant.     

A full 3D numerical model of the industrial electrostatic coating process for moving targets

In this paper, a full three dimensional FLUENT numerical model of the electrostatic coating process as used in the automotive industry is presented and selected parametric studies on the numerical model have been conducted. The model incorporates a moving mesh capability in order to simulate movements of the target. The target follows piecewise linear motion and the entire area of the target has been coated in multiple passes. All the dominant mechanical and electrical phenomena were taken into account and cases with both neutral and charged particles were examined. It was confirmed that the transfer efficiency increases when the electrical forces are present in the model and that the coating uniformity improves with the movement of the target. The deposition pattern corresponds to the motion of the target and gradually builds up in a cumulative manner. Due to the aggregation effect associated with the target movement, the deposition uniformity is dramatically improved.     

3D numerical model of the electrostatic coating process with moving objects using a moving mesh

In this paper, a full three dimensional FLUENT numerical model of the electrostatic coating process with the embedded moving mesh capability and piecewise linear type target motion is presented. The model includes target geometries that do not exhibit symmetry. All the dominant mechanical and electrical phenomena are taken into account. Mechanical phenomena include shaping air effects, downdraft effects and the motion of the polydispersed particles. Electrical phenomena include the particle space charge distribution, corona discharge and the electrohydrodynamic flow effects. It was demonstrated that the numerical model can accurately mimic the type of the motion used in real world applications.     

Diffraction enhancement effect and new possibilities of measuring the electric charge of the neutron and its inertial-to-gravitational mass ratio

Diffraction enhancement of small effects affecting a neutron undergoing Laue diffraction at Bragg angles θ _B close to 90° is predicted and experimentally observed. The enhancement is due to the delay of the neutron inside the crystal during diffraction and is proportional to tan² θ _B. As a result, the diffraction enhancement factor may be as large as ～10⁸–10⁹. On this basis, a new method is proposed for searching for the electric charge of the neutron and for measuring the ratio of its inertial mass m _i to the gravitational mass m _G . It is shown that the accuracy of the neutron charge measurement can be improved by more than two orders of magnitude in relation to the present-day accuracy and that the ratio m _i /m _G can be measured to an precision of σ(m _i /m _G ) ～ 10^?6.     

光学材料亚表面缺陷处强激光电磁场分布的3维模拟

 利用时域有限差分法求解麦克斯韦旋度方程,研究了光学材料表面缺陷对入射激光场的调制作用,建立了亚表面缺陷的3维模型。以长方体表面缺陷为例,对缺陷附近的光场分布进行了3维数值计算,给出了电场强度3维分布图和缺陷不同尺寸时的最大电场强度。研究表明,相对于2维简化情况,3维表面缺陷对强激光电磁场的调制作用更加明显。     

Probability distribution of the ratio of consecutive level spacings in interacting particle systems

We study the probability distribution of the ratio of consecutive level spacings for embedded one- plus two-body random matrix ensembles with and without spin degree of freedom and for both fermion and boson systems. The agreement between the numerical results and the recently derived analytic form for the distribution and other related quantities is found to be close. This establishes that the statistics of quotients of successive spacings, which do not depend on unfolding, is useful tool in the analysis of local level fluctuations in many-particle systems.     

Analytical method for computing the electrostatic field distribution in the reflector of the time-of-flight mass spectrometer

The method of analytical calculation of a nonlinear electrostatic mirror of the time-of-flight mass spectrometer and the numerical method of computation of a nonlinear mirror are analyzed. We present the results of simulating of the devices with nonlinear focusing mirrors, which are calculated analytically and by the numerical method, and of the device with a linear reflectron. It is concluded on the basis of the results of simulation that the proposed analytical method for calculating a nonlinear electrostatic mirror of the time-of-flight mass spectrometer is much better than the existing numerical method.     

Stochastic motion of the untrapped particle in electrostatic mode

The stochastic energy diffusion of the untrapped particle in the electrostatic mode is investigated analytically.We find that the equilibrium electrostatic field of periodical structure plays the same role as the usual focusing magnetic field to lead the test particle to stochastic motion.The resonance overlapping criterion for the random state is given,and also the Fokker-Planck-Kolmogorov approach to diffusion is considered for our system.     

Numerical research on effect of overlap ratio on thermal-stress behaviors of the high-speed laser cladding coating

High-speed laser cladding technology, a kind of surface technology to improve the wear-resistance and corrosion-resistance of mechanical parts, has the characterizations of fast scan speed, high powder utilization rate, and high cladding efficiency. However, its thermal-stress evolution process is very complex, which has a great influence on the residual stress and deformation. In the paper, the numerical models for the high-speed laser cladding coatings with overlap ratios of 10%,30%, and 50% are developed to investigate the influence rules of overlap ratio on the thermal-stress evolution, as well as the residual stresses and deformations. Results show that the heat accumulation can reheat and preheat the adjacent track coating and substrate, resulting in stress release of the previous track coating and decreased longitudinal stress peak of the next track coating. With the overlap ratio increasing, the heat accumulation and the corresponding maximum residual stress position tend to locate in the center of the cladding coating, where the coating has a high crack susceptibility. For a small overlap ratio of 10%, there are abrupt stress changes from tensile stress to compressive stress at the lap joint, due to insufficient input energy in the position. Increasing the overlap ratio can alleviate the abrupt stress change and reduce the residual deformation but increase the average residual stress and enlarge the hardening depth. This study reveals the mechanism of thermal-stress evolution, and provides a theoretical basis for improving the coating quality.     

Effect of substrate curvature on thickness distribution of polydimethylsiloxane thin film in spin coating process

The polymer spin coating is critical in flexible electronic manufaction and micro-electro-mechanical system(MEMS)devices due to its simple operation, and uniformly coated layers. Some researchers focus on the effects of spin coating parameters such as wafer rotating speed, the viscosity of the coating liquid and solvent evaporation on final film thickness.In this work, the influence of substrate curvature on film thickness distribution is considered. A new parameter which represents the edge bead effect ratio(re) is proposed to investigate the influence factor of edge bead effect. Several operation parameters including the curvature of the substrate and the wafer-spin speed are taken into account to study the effects on the film thickness uniformity and edge-bead ratio. The morphologies and film thickness values of the spin-coated PDMS films under various substrate curvatures and coating speeds are measured with laser confocal microscopy. According to the results, both the convex and concave substrate will help to reduce the edge-bead effect significantly and thin film with better surface morphology can be obtained at high spin speed. Additionally, the relationship between the edge-bead ratio and the thin film thickness is like parabolic curve instead of linear dependence. This work may contribute to the mass production of flexible electronic devices.     

Three-dimensional numerical simulation of crown spike due to coupling effect between bubbles and free surface

The motion of gas bubbles beneath a free surface will lead to a spike of fluid on the free surface. The distance of the bubbles to the free surface is the key factor to different phenomena. When the inception distance varies in some range, crown phenomenon would happen after the impact of weak buoyancy bubbles, so this kind of spike is defined as crown spike in the present paper. Based on potential flow theory, a three-dimensional numerical model is established to simulate the motion of the free-surface spike generated by one bubble or a horizontal line of two in-phase bubbles. After the downward jet formed near the end of the collapse phase, the simulation of the free surface is performed to study the crown spike without regard to the toroidal bubble＇s effect. Calculations about the interaction between one bubble and free surface agree well with the experimental results conducted with a high-speed camera, and relative error is within 15%. Crown spike in both single- and two-bubble cases are simulated numerically. Different features and laws of the motion of crown spike, depending on the bubble-boundary distances and the inter-bubble distances, have been investigated.     

磁聚焦法测量电子荷质比实验中励磁电流测量方法的研究

根据电荷在电场、磁场中的运动特点,分析了磁聚焦法测量电子荷质比的原理;利用磁场叠加原理,从理论角度探讨了测量磁聚焦时励磁电流的方法,并对各种方法进行了比较;从实验角度对实验数据分析处理,指出了误差产生的主要原因之一,得出了测量磁聚焦时励磁电流值的新方法.     

Study on impact fusion at particle interfaces and its effect on coating microstructure in cold spraying

This paper deals with the impact melting phenomenon at the interfaces between the deposited particles in cold-sprayed coatings and its effect on coating microstructure and particle bonding mechanism. Al-12Si, Al2319, Ti, Ti-6Al-4V, Ni and NiCoCrAlTaY powders were selected as feedstocks, which have various thermal and mechanical properties. The analytical results showed that most of the used materials possibly experienced the local melting at the contact interfaces of particles under certain impact conditions. Low melting point, relatively high gas temperature and chemical reaction with the atmosphere are the main factors contributing to the impact fusion during cold spraying. The results also indicated that the local melting would benefit the formation of a metallurgical bonding between the deposited particles and enhance the coating cohesion.     

Exact calculation of the mass distribution in the collision process of32S on medium-weight nuclei

This work deals with the exact integration of a Fokker-Planck equation for the mass distribution in heavy ion collisions. The results are compared to those obtained in a previous calculation in which the distribution is approximated by its two lowest moments.     

The effect of damping and mass ratio on the stability of a tube bank

Experiments have been conducted in a wind tunnel on a parallel triangular tube array with a pitch ratio of 1·375. The aerodynamic component of damping was determined as a function of flow velocity. This damping was found to increase linearly with flow to about 50% of the stability threshold and then to decrease. Additionally, six different sets of tubes were tested to examine the effect of mass ratio on fluid-elastic stability. The results were compared with similar experiments in which damping alone was varied. It is seen that damping and mass ratio do not appear to be linearly dependent parameters which is contrary to the assumption used commonly in the stability analysis of tube banks. More importantly, however, the stability threshold is substantially less dependent on both damping and mass ratio than indicated by conventional theory.     

The effect of charge conservation on the distribution of spin near local moments in magnetized metals

The wavenumber-dependent magnetic susceptibility is calculated in an itinerant ferromagnet. Charge fluctuations are suppressed by the Coulomb potential. The result is shown to conserve charge. Specifically, the distribution of spin around an impurity is discussed and compared with other calculations which do not conserve charge.