Transition radiation at the boundary of a black body

Transition radiation from a charged particle intersecting the boundary with a black body has been examined. It has been shown that the radiation intensities for the cases when the relativistic particle enters the black body and leaves it are strongly different.     

用高亮度LED和简便数据处理方法测定椭圆偏振光的椭圆曲线

通过建立椭圆偏振光在β方向上的光振动大小与检偏器在β+90°方向时光电检测器所测光强之间的关系式,以高亮度LED为光源,可简便地测定椭圆偏振光的椭圆曲线.     

Fluctuation around horizon on a Schwarzschild black hole using the null geodesic method

Using the null geodesic method, Hawking radiation from the horizon of a Schwarzschild black hole is calculated. The thermodynamics can be built successfully on the horizon where the apparent horizon and event horizon are coincident with each other. When a relativistic perturbation is given to the horizon, the first law of thermodynamics can also be constructed at a new supersurface near the horizon successfully. The expressions of the characteristic position and temperature are consistent with the previous result while the thermodynamics was built on the event horizon in a Vaidya black hole. Therefore, the thermodynamics of a dynamical black hole should be constructed on the apparent horizon exactly, and the event horizon thermodynamics is just one of the perturbations near the apparent horizon.     

Complex calibration of a pressure gradient receiver using the reciprocity method procedure

Absolute complex free-field calibration of a pressure gradient receiver is considered. The calibration is carried out in a reflecting water tank using the reciprocity method procedure during radiation of continuous signals with linear free-field frequency modulation. To obtain the free-field frequency dependences, complex moving weighted averaging is used. It is shown that this method, developed for calibration of sound pressure receivers, allows effective recovery and measurement of the vector component of a direct acoustic wave in the presence of reflections. The method makes it possible to measure the modulus and phase angle of the complex sensitivity and reveal the insufficiencies of an experimental pressure gradient receiver.     

DNS of buoyancy-dominated turbulent flows on a bluff body using the immersed boundary method

A novel immersed boundary (IB) method has been developed for simulating multi-material heat transfer problem – a cylinder in a channel heated from below with mixed convection. The method is based on a second-order velocity/scalar reconstruction near the IB. A novel algorithm has been developed for the IB method to handle conjugate heat transfer. The fluid–solid interface is constructed as a collection of disjoint faces of control volumes associated to different material zones. Coupling conditions for the material zones have been developed such that continuity and conservation of the scalar flux are satisfied by a second-order interpolation. Predictions of the local Nusselt number on the cylinder surface show good agreement with the experimental data. The effect of the Boussinesq approximation on this problem was also investigated. Comparison with the variable density formulation suggests that, in spite of a small thermal expansion coefficient of water, the variable density formulation in a transitional flow with mixed convection is preferable.     

Optimal control of the motion of a helical body in a liquid using rotors

The motion controlled by the rotation of three internal rotors of a body with helical symmetry in an ideal liquid is considered. The problem is to select controls that ensure the displacement of the body with minimum effort. The optimality of particular solutions found earlier is studied.     

UV radiation source on the basis of a nonlinear crystal with tunable 90° phase-matching

The results of investigations on the production of UV radiation sources tuned at the expense of the change of 90° phase-matching are given. At the change of a UV wavelength the 90° phase-matching is tuned at the expense of the change of dye laser frequencies. This method of tuning has special prospects for the production of supermonochromatic UV radiation sources on the basis of cw single-frequency organic dye lasers.     

Nonparaxial method for computing the gradient field of a wavefront using moiré deflectometry

A nonparaxial method in moiré deflectometry to obtain the gradient field of a wavefront under test is proposed. This method uses only two deflectograms without any information about the phase object. As a result, director cosines of the gradient field are computed from moiré fringe deviations on both deflectograms without ambiguities. The method is proved by using a synthetic wavefront simulation.     

Active control by using optical sensors on the acoustic radiation from square plates

This study is reported of an optical approach to reduce the acoustic radiation from some uniformly square plates of different sizes. The content of this study includes the dynamical analysis of uniform plates, the theoretical consideration dealing with both the optical-error path and neural network control system, and the laboratory demonstration on the acoustic-radiation reduction from plates by using optical approach.Results of dynamical analysis on three different plates obviously reveal low odd-odd modes such as (1, 3) and (3, 3) mode must respond to the most acoustic radiation from plates. Laboratory demonstration claims that much more reduction of acoustic radiation from plates within greater frequency range can be reached when using an optical-error path to replace acoustic-error path. The corresponding experimental results obviously show that the greater control effectiveness on (3, 3) mode for smaller plate, single frequency, the greater effectiveness by 26 dB of acoustic radiation reduction for single point control than that for multi points control. Regarding to the double frequencies, the acoustic attenuation by 14.6 dB for compose of (3, 3) and (3, 4) in 60 cm plate are obtained.     

Solvent-localized NMR spectroscopy using the distant dipolar field: a method for NMR separations with a single gradient

Solvent-localized NMR (SOLO) is a new method which allows the separation of NMR spectra of substances dissolved in different solvents. It uses the selective HOMOGENIZED pulse sequence to produce a two-dimensional NMR spectrum resulting from intermolecular zero-quantum coherences in one distinct solvent. The detected signal is locally refocused by the action of the distant dipolar field, which is created by a frequency selective pulse only in regions containing the selected solvent. The prerequisites are that the different solvents have sufficiently different chemical shifts to be excited separately and that compartments with different solvents are spatially separated by more than the typical diffusion distance. Here, the method is demonstrated for the solvents water and DMSO on a length scale of 0.5 mm. Because signal in the spectra is refocused locally, SOLO is insensitive to variations in the magnetic field which may result from inhomogeneities or structures in the sample. This makes applications in strongly structured samples possible. SOLO is the first method that achieves localization of NMR signal with a single gradient pulse. Therefore, it can be used in conventional NMR spectrometers with one-axis gradient systems and lends itself to a wide range of applications including in vivo NMR.     

Modeling generalized stacking faults in Au using the tight-binding potential combined with a simulated annealing method

The tight-binding potential combined with a simulated annealing method is used to study the generalized stacking fault (GSF) structure and corresponding energy of gold. The potential is chosen to fit band structures and total energies from a set of first-principle calculations [Phys. Rev. B 54, 4519 (1996)]. It is found that the relaxed stacking fault energy (SFE) and unstable SFE are equal to 46 and 102 mJ/m², respectively, and are in good agreement with first principles calculations and experiment. In addition, the structure properties of the relaxed GSF of metal Au are also presented. Received 13 December 2001 Published online 9 July 2002     

Analysis of transport of collimated radiation in a participating media using the lattice Boltzmann method

Application of the lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) recently proposed by Asinari et al. [Asinari P, Mishra SC, Borchiellini R. A lattice Boltzmann formulation to the analysis of radiative heat transfer problems in a participating medium. Numer Heat Transfer B 2010; 57:126–146] is extended to the analysis of transport of collimated radiation in a planar participating medium. To deal with azimuthally symmetric radiation in planar medium, a new lattice structure for the LBM is used. The transport of the collimated component in the medium is analysed by two different, viz., flux splitting and direct approaches. For different angles of incidence of the collimated radiation, the LBM formulation is tested for the effects of the extinction coefficient, the anisotropy factor, and the boundary emissivities on heat flux and emissive power distributions. Results are compared with the benchmark results obtained using the finite volume method. Both the approaches in LBM provide accurate results.     

The structure of an Fe monolayer on the Ni (111) surface. A density-functional study using the generalized gradient approximation

Using a density-functional method that employs linear combinations of atomic orbitals as basis sets, nonlocal norm-conserving pseudopotentials and the generalized gradient approximation for exchange and correlation, we found that at 0 K the atoms of an Fe monolayer on the Ni (111) surface occupy hcp rather than fcc sites, in keeping with previous predictions made using the ab initio all-electron full-potential linearized augmented plane wave method with the local spin density approximation.     

The effect of a transverse density gradient on the interference fringe shape in the hook method

Application of the hook method to the study of inhomogenous objects with large density gradients perpendicular to the axis of observation is considered. The reasons causing hook distortion are explained by a graphical representation. An expression is given to determine the density gradient from the characteristic points in the interference fringes.