Simulation of a turbulent premixed open V-shaped flame using contour advection with surgery

Despite its capability of high spatial resolution, simulation of turbulent flows with traditional Lagrangian (front tracking) scheme is often discouraged by numerical instability caused by clustering of marker nodes and topological changes of fronts. Contour advection surgery (CAS), being a robust front tracking scheme, can limit the growth of front complexity during simulation without jeopardizing accuracy or efficiency. This allows it to open up an advantage over traditional front-tracking schemes. It has already been demonstrated that CAS, with incorporation of the reaction sheet model, can accurately simulate the propagation and advection of a turbulent premixed V-shaped flame. In this study, it is further tested with 10 values of vortex circulation. A range of upstream turbulence levels of 1.8–19.8% was obtained. Results indicate that upstream turbulence increase the average flame length, flame zone area and the overall burning rate. Flame surface density Σ was also estimated. Maximum values of Σ obtained lie in the range 0.1–1.4 mm⁻¹. Skewness towards the burnt region was observed in all profiles of Σ. Similar to results from laboratory experiments, it was found that Σ values decreases with upstream turbulence. From this study, the ability of CAS to cope with intense turbulence is demonstrated and a better quantitative understanding on the scheme has also been acquired.     

High-throughput concept for tailoring switchable mirrors

The optical properties, the switching kinetics and the lifetime of hydrogen switchable mirrors based on Mg-Ni alloys are determined with particular regard to the composition of the optically active metal-hydride layer in combination with the thickness of the catalytic capping layer. For this, a high-throughput experiment is introduced. The switching kinetics and the reversibility of switchable mirrors are strongly thickness dependent, though the details hinge on the fine structure of the clustered capping layer. Therefore, the kinetics is correlated with the surface structures of Pd on Mg_yNi_1−y as investigated by scanning tunneling microscopy. The results are explained by the so-called strong metal-support interaction (SMSI) state, characterized by a complete encapsulation of the capping layer clusters by oxidized species originating from the support. The SMSI-effect is less important with increasing Pd-layer thickness, and is suppressed by a good wetting of the Pd-clusters on the optically active film. This explains the critical thickness for the catalyzed hydrogen uptake observed in many switchable mirror systems. Moreover, the degradation of the kinetics during cycling is found to depend on the Pd-layer thickness and on the gas environment. Only films, covered with at least 15 nm Pd, show small degradation caused by the SMSI-effect. The SMSI-effect is partly reversible: after changing the gas environment from hydrogen to oxygen, the oxide on the Pd-clusters can be partly removed.     

Magic neutrino mass matrix and the Bjorken–Harrison–Scott parameterization

Observed neutrino mixing can be described by a tribimaximal MNS matrix. The resulting neutrino mass matrix in the basis of a diagonal charged lepton mass matrix is both 2–3 symmetric and magic. By a magic matrix, I mean one whose row sums and column sums are all identical. I study what happens if 2–3 symmetry is broken but the magic symmetry is kept intact. In that case, the mixing matrix is parameterized by a single complex parameter U_e3, in a form discussed recently by Bjorken, Harrison, and Scott.     

Application of ODMR to the study of DNA complexes of bisintercalating antibiotics and their biosynthesized derivatives

The DNA complexes of triostin A, echinomycin, and the monoquinoline (1QN) and bisquinoline (2QN) biosynthesized derivatives of echinomycin were investigated by optical detection of triplet-state magnetic resonance (ODMR) spectroscopy, with the quinoxaline and quinoline moieties of the DNA-binding peptides used as intrinsic probes. Plots of zero-field splitting (zfs)D parameter versus monitored wavelength revealed heterogeneity in the phosphorescence emission of echinomycin, triostin A, and 2QN ascribed to the occurrence of major and minor forms of the peptides in aqueous solution. ODMR results, in conjunction with findings from phosphorescence studies, indicate that the quinoxaline and quinoline chromophores of the major forms of the peptides are involved in aromatic stacking interactions in complexes with the natural DNAs fromMicrococcus lysodeikticus, Escherichia coli, and calf thymus as evidenced by red shifts in the phosphorescence 0,0 bands of the drugs, reductions in the phosphorescence lifetimes and zfsD andE parameters, and polarity reversal of the ODMR slow passage signals upon drug complexation. The reversal in ODMR signal polarity of echinomycin and 2QN is a consequence of changes in the triplet-state sublevel decay constants upon peptide binding to the natural DNAs. The extent of reduction of theD parameter for the major form of echinomycin, 2QN, and the quinoline moiety of 1QN upon complexation with polymeric DNAs was found to correlate with the binding affinities measured for these targets [1], but no correlation was found for the quinoxaline moiety of 1QN. Preliminary studies of triostin A-DNA complexes also revealed no correlation between the reduction in zfsD-value upon complexation and binding affinity, although the largest reductions inD-value among the peptides investigated in this report were exhibited by the poly(dG-dC)·poly(dG-dC) and natural DNA complexes of triostin A.     

Influence of Turbid Medium Parameters on Back Scattered Intensity and Pulsewidth of Picosecond Pulse

In this paper, we simulate a practical in vivo technique in which is produced influence of turbid medium parameters on backscattered intensity and pulsewidth of picosecond for turbid tissue surface of a semiinfinite medium by a small narrow linewidth laser beams. It is shown that the interaction of the ultra short pulse and the turbid tissue is very used as researching the optical parameters of the turbid medium.     

Grid‐free surface vorticity method applied to flow induced vibration of flexible cylinders

In order to study cross flow induced vibration of heat exchanger tube bundles, a new fluid–structure interaction model based on surface vorticity method is proposed. With this model, the vibration of a flexible cylinder is simulated at Re=2.67 × 10⁴, the computational results of the cylinder response, the fluid force, the vibration frequency, and the vorticity map are presented. The numerical results reproduce the amplitude‐limiting and non‐linear (lock‐in) characteristics of flow‐induced vibration. The maximum vibration amplitude as well as its corresponding lock‐in frequency is in good agreement with experimental results. The amplitude of vibration can be as high as 0.88D for the case investigated. As vibration amplitude increases, the amplitude of the lift force also increases. With enhancement of vibration amplitude, the vortex pattern in the near wake changes significantly. This fluid–structure interaction model is further applied to simulate flow‐induced vibration of two tandem cylinders and two side‐by‐side cylinders at similar Reynolds number. Promising and reasonable results and predictions are obtained. It is hopeful that with this relatively simple and computer time saving method, flow induced vibration of a large number of flexible tube bundles can be successfully simulated. Copyright © 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Improved estimation of a covariance matrix in an elliptically contoured matrix distribution

In this paper, the problem of estimating the covariance matrix of the elliptically contoured distribution (ECD) is considered. A new class of estimators which shrink the eigenvalues towards their arithmetic mean is proposed. It is shown that this new estimator dominates the unbiased estimator under the squared error loss function. Two special classes of ECD, namely, the multivariate-elliptical t distribution and the ε-contaminated normal distribution are considered. A simulation study is carried out and indicates that this new shrinkage estimator provides a substantial improvement in risk under most situations.     

电感耦合等离子体发射光谱法同时测定涂料中的Pb、Cd、Cr和Hg

研究了电感耦合等离子体发射光谱法测定涂料中的重金属Pb，Cd，Cr和Hg，确定了测定涂料中的重金属Pb，Cd，Cr和Hg的最佳条件。加标回收试验和实际样品测定结果表明，方法的回收率和精密度分别在99.5％-110．0％和0．95％-1．98％范围，该方法快速、准确、可靠，各元素的检出限能满足涂料安全标准，适用于涂料的日常检验。     

Some New uniform frames with block size four and index one or three

In this paper, some new uniform frames with block size four and index one or three are obtained. The known existence results for (4,1)‐frames and (4,3)‐frames are both improved to the extent that only a finite number of possible exceptions remain. © 2003 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.