Experimental investigation of the interaction of two flows on the axial fan hollow blades by flow visualization and hot-wire anemometry

Experimental investigation of the interaction of internal flow with external flow around hollow airfoil NACA series in a low-speed wind tunnel was conducted and is presented in the paper. The region near the trailing edge of the hollow airfoil was studied in detail and measurements of velocity and turbulence intensities were performed with hot-wire anemometry. Determination of flow structure on the hollow airfoil was performed with computer-aided visualization. It can be concluded from the measurement analysis that higher values of velocities, lower turbulence intensities and a significant decrease of circulation effects on the suction side of the hollow blade were achieved, due to the introduction of internal flow. The results obtained on the hollow airfoil were applied on the rotating axial fan. Influence of the internal flow of the hollow blade on the flow field of the axial fan was studied. With the introduction of the internal flow a reduction of circulation effects on the fan hollow blade was achieved. Aerodynamic characteristic of the axial fan reached higher degree of total pressure difference and normalized efficiency through the entire fan working conditions.     

Cover-Incomparability Graphs of Posets

Cover-incomparability graphs (C-I graphs, for short) are introduced, whose edge-set is the union of edge-sets of the incomparability and the cover graph of a poset. Posets whose C-I graphs are chordal (resp. distance-hereditary, Ptolemaic) are characterized in terms of forbidden isometric subposets, and a general approach for studying C-I graphs is proposed. Several open problems are also stated.     

Fredholm alternative and boundary value problems

This note presents a simple proof of A. Lasota's application of the nonlinear Fredholm alternative to the existence proofs of the boundary value problems involving ordinary differential equations. It then uses Lasota's result to get a stronger version of the theorem of Herzog and Lemmert on the Dirichlet boundary value problem for the second-order systems of ordinary differential equations.

     

Noise-induced spatial dynamics in the presence of memory loss

We study the spatial dynamics of noise-induced waves in two-dimensional excitable media in dependence on the duration of the artificially imposed refractory time that is introduced to each constitutive system unit after an excitation. Due to the introduction of refractory times, a randomly induced spatial wave is temporarily unable to transmit information to the opposite site of its propagation direction. Thus, once the wave leaves the absorbing boundaries of the spatial grid the system has little or no recollection, depending on the duration of the refractory time, of its existence. We show that even in the presence of such memory loss, self-organization of excitatory events leads to noise-induced spatial periodicity in the media. We present a simple analytical treatment of a two-unit system to capture and explain the essence of the observed phenomenon. Since refractory times are widespread in biological systems, our results provide interesting insights into functioning of real-life organisms at the cellular as well as tissue level.     

Susceptibility and magnetic shieldings of the BH molecule

Susceptibility and magnetic shieldings of both nuclei of BH are calculated by use of the finite perturbation method and gauge invariant gaussian basis sets. The results provide further evidence for the temperature independent paramagnetism of BH.     

Stable Crystalline Forms of Na Polysulfides: Experiment versus Ab Initio Computational Prediction

For the design of light‐metal–sulfur batteries and for the understanding of their performance, knowledge on the stable crystalline polysulfides is very important. We confronted experimental and ab initio crystal structure prediction studies on the stability of Na polysulfides. The selected evolutionary‐based structure‐prediction algorithm was able to quickly and correctly predict the thermodynamically stable crystalline forms of Na polysulfides with small unit cells. For Na polysulfides with large unit cells, the algorithm correctly proposed short unbranched polysulfide chains to be energetically favorite structural motifs, but could not find proper three‐dimensional structures in the limited number of generations. Experimentally, the polysulfides were studied by X‐ray diffraction and ²³Na solid‐state NMR spectroscopy. Complemented by calculations of the isotropic chemical shifts and quadrupolar coupling constants, NMR spectroscopy proved to be an excellent tool for the examination of Na polysulfides, because it allowed easy distinction and quantification of components in the samples.     

密相气力输送颗粒静电波动信号多尺度分析

在加压密相气力输送实验装置上获得了不同操作条件下煤粉颗粒静电波动信号,并用Hilbert-Huang变换、功率谱进行分析.结果表明:随着表观速度的增加,静电波动信号主峰值的频率增大;静电波动信号希尔伯特-黄变换(Hilbert-Huang)揭示了气固两相流静电信号的非线性和非平稳特征,随气固两相流颗粒相浓度降低和颗粒及...     

The synthesis, structure and physical properties of lanthanide(III) complexes with nicotinic acid

This article reports the synthesis of novel, rare-earth coordination complexes with nicotinic acid. Three compounds with the general formula Ln₂[(C₅H₄NCOO)₆(H₂O)₄] (Ln = Yb, 1; Ln = Gd, 2; Ln = Nd, 3) were prepared from relatively cheap and readily available reactants. Their compositions and structure were characterized by IR spectroscopy and single-crystal X-ray diffraction. The magnetic and thermogravimetric properties were also studied. The complexes consist of centrosymetric, dimeric molecules having all six nicotinato ligands coordinated with the central atom in the bidentate mode. The coordination environment of the Ln³⁺ for all three compounds is 8. Here we describe the crystal structure of Yb and Gd complexes with nicotinic acid.