多孔饱和矩形管中粘性随温度变化对熵产、热和流体流动的影响

研究了充填流体-饱和多孔介质的矩形管中,随温度变化的粘性对充分发展强迫对流的影响.采用Darcy流动模型并假设粘性-温度为倒线性关系.管壁视为均匀热通量,即Kays和Craw-ford称为的H边界条件.当流体粘性随温度升高而降低时,管壁的Nusselt数增大.求解速度和温度分布时,利用热力学第二定律求解了局部平均熵产率.根据Brinkman数、Péclet数、粘性变化数、无量纲管壁热通量和管道截面宽高比,给出了熵产率、Bejan数、传热不可逆性和流体流动不可逆性的表达式.这些表达式是该类问题参数研究的基础.可以看出,当管道截面宽高比的增大使熵产率减小时,方形管中流动产生的熵大于矩形管,这类似于Ratts和Raut研究的明流(clear flow)情况.     

Effects of temperature-dependent viscosity variation on entropy generation,heat and fluid flow through a porous-saturated duct of rectangular cross-section

Effect of temperature-dependent viscosity on fully developed forced convection in a duct of rectangular cross-section occupied by a fluid-saturated porous medium is investigated analytically. The Darcy flow model is applied and the viscosity-temperature relation is assumed to be an inverse-linear one. The case of uniform heat flux on the walls, i.e. the H boundary condition in the terminology of Kays and Crawford [12], is treated. For the case of a fluid whose viscosity decreases with temperature, it is found that the effect of the variation is to increase the Nusselt number for heated walls. Having found the velocity and the temperature distribution, the second law of thermodynamics is invoked to find the local and average entropy generation rate. Expressions for the entropy generation rate, the Bejan number, the heat transfer irreversibility, and the fluid flow irreversibility are presented in terms of the Brinkman number, the Peclet number, the viscosity variation number, the dimensionless wall heat flux, and the aspect ratio (width to height ratio). These expressions let a parametric study of the problem based on which it is observed that the entropy generated due to flow in a duct of square cross-section is more than those of rectangular counterparts while increasing the aspect ratio decreases the entropy generation rate similar to what previously reported for the clear flow case by Ratts and Raut [14].     

Experimental determination and prediction of methane hydrate stability in alcohols and electrolyte solutions

In petroleum exploration and production operations, gas hydrates pose serious flow assurance, economic and safety concerns. Thermodynamic inhibitors are widely used to reduce the risks associated with gas hydrate formation. In this communication, in order to establish the effects of salts and thermodynamic inhibitors on the locus of incipient hydrate–liquid water–vapour (H–L_W–V) curve, we report new experimental dissociation data for various quaternary systems, methane/water/thermodynamic inhibitor/salts for a pressure range of 6.89–29 MPa.     

Pore-Scale Numerical Experiment on the Effect of the Pertinent Parameters on Heat Flux Splitting at the Boundary of a Porous Medium

Pore-scale heat and fluid flow simulation through reconstructed porous media is presented with the aim of investigating the physics of heat flux splitting at the boundary of porous media. As such, the effects of the solid to fluid thermal conductivity ratio, porosity, pore-scale Reynolds number, Prandtl number and heat conduction within the solid matrix are investigated. The results of the present study for heat transfer coefficient and pressure drop are compared with available experimental data and good agreement was observed. The validated results are then used to investigate the validity of the existing volume-averaged models. It was observed that while results based on the volume-averaged models are reasonably close to current predictions for $\varepsilon \le 0.7$ , the discrepancy between the two becomes notable for higher porosities. While existing models rely exclusively on porosity and thermal conductivity ratio, our newly proposed correlations show the effects of Reynolds number on the heat split mechanism for high porosities. On the other hand, the Prandtl number, at least for the range of parameters studies here, is found to be less influential on the boundary heat split mechanism.     

Probing the origins of neutrino mass with supernova data

We study type II supernova signatures of neutrino mass generation via symmetry breaking at a scale in the range from keV to MeV. The scalar responsible for symmetry breaking is thermalized in the supernova core and restores the symmetry. The neutrinos from scalar decays have about half the average energy of thermal neutrinos. The Bose-Einstein distribution of the scalars can be established with a megaton water Cerenkov detector. The discovery of the bimodal neutrino flux is, however, well within the reach of the Super-Kamiokande detector, without a detailed knowledge of the supernova parameters.     

Synthesis of Quinoxalinophenazine Derivatives and Reaction of 3,12-Dimethylbenzo[a]quinoxalino-[2,3-c]phenazine with Mercury(Ⅱ) Bromide: Spectral and Structural Characterization

A new series of quinoxalinophenazine derivatives were synthesized in good yields by the reaction of 2,3-dibromonaphthalene-1,4-dione with different aryl-1,2-diamines in DMF as solvent at 120~130℃ or under reflux conditions. 3,12-dimethylbenzo[a]quinoxalino[2,3-c] phenazine with bidentate character reacts with mercury(II) bromide to give suitable crystals. All products were confirmed by IR, 1H and 13 C NMR, and the metal complex by single-crystal X-ray method. The crystal(C24H16Br2HgN4, Mr = 720.82) belongs to the triclinic system, space group P1 with a = 10.186(6), b = 10.421(6), c = 11.470(7) , α = 98.670(7), β = 95.069(7), γ = 109.831(7)o, V = 1119.4(12) 3, Z = 2, Dc = 2.139 Mg/m3, μ = 10.46 mm-1, F(000) = 676, R = 0.043 and wR = 0.115 for 3982 observed reflections with I 2σ(I).     

On the calculation of extended max and min operations between convex fuzzy sets of the real line

In this paper we will identify the sets of so-called sub- and pseudo-highest intersection points of convex fuzzy sets of the real line and will explore their properties. Based on the properties of these sets, an algorithm for calculating extended max and min operations between two or more convex fuzzy sets of the real line with general membership functions, not necessarily continuous, is proposed.     

Muon anomaly and dark parity violation

The muon anomalous magnetic moment exhibits a 3.6σ discrepancy between experiment and theory. One explanation requires the existence of a light vector boson, Z_{d} (the dark Z), with mass 10-500?MeV that couples weakly to the electromagnetic current through kinetic mixing. Support for such a solution also comes from astrophysics conjectures regarding the utility of a U(1)_{d} gauge symmetry in the dark matter sector. In that scenario, we show that mass mixing between the Z_{d} and ordinary Z boson introduces a new source of "dark" parity violation, which is potentially observable in atomic and polarized electron scattering experiments. Restrictive bounds on the mixing (m_{Z_{d}}/m_{Z})δ are found from existing atomic parity violation results, δ^{2}<2×10^{-5}. Combined with future planned and proposed polarized electron scattering experiments, a sensitivity of δ^{2}～10^{-6} is expected to be reached, thereby complementing direct searches for the Z_{d} boson.