Cooling-induced increase of methane cluster size investigated under a Coulomb explosion scheme

In this letter, we discuss the increase in the average cluster size by lowering the stagnation temperature of the methane （CH4） gas. The Coulomb explosion experiments are conducted to estimate the cluster size and the size distribution. The average CH4 cluster sizes Nay of 6 230 and 6 580 are acquired with the source conditions of 30 bars at 240 K and 60 bars at 296 K, respectively. Empirical estimation suggests a five-fold increase in the average size of the CH4 clusters at 240 K compared with that at room temperature under a backing pressure of 30 bars. A strong nonlinear Hagena parameter relation （Г^＊∝ T0^-3.3） for the CH4 clusters is revealed. The results may be favorable for the production of large-sized clusters by using gases at low temperature and high back pressures.     

厄尔尼诺和南方涛动海气耦合模型中参数估计的变分方法

提出一种基于变分原理估计厄尔尼诺和南方涛动海气耦合模型中未知参数的方法. 首先将所研究的非线性海气耦合动力方程引入到目标泛函中; 接着利用变分方法导出伴随方程和待辨识参数泛函梯度的公式; 然后设计了估计未知参数的算法.数值试验结果表明变分方法是一 种能有效估计海气耦合非线性系统未知参数的方法.     

Interactive Phenomena of a Rotating Arc and a Premixed CH4 Flame

The interactive phenomena between a rotating arc and a premixed methane/air flame have been investigated. The effects of the rotating arc on the flame were observed: both lean and rich flammability limit was extended with the rotating arc on. More interestingly, the opposite interactions, i.e., the effects of the flame on the rotating arc, were also observed: the arc length, angular speed, and electrical characteristics are affected by the flame. An analysis of the optical emission spectra showed that the rotating arc generates chemically active species such as excited N₂ molecules and O and H atoms. An analysis of the gas products indicated that the concentrations of the major gas products such as CO₂, CO, and H₂ were not significantly affected by the rotating arc, although the flammability limit are significantly extended. Unlike these major gas products, minor products like NO_x emissions increased by an order of magnitude in the presence of a rotating arc under certain air/fuel conditions.     

A 2.4-GHz dual-mode 0.18-/spl mu/m CMOS transceiver for Bluetooth and 802.11b

High-level integration of the Bluetooth and 802.11b WLAN radio systems in the 2.4-GHz ISM band is demonstrated in scaled CMOS. A dual-mode RF transceiver IC implements all transmit and receive functions including the low-noise amplifier (LNA), 0-dBm power amplifier, up/down mixers, synthesizers, channel filtering, and limiting/automatic gain control for both standards in a single chip without doubling the required silicon area to reduce the combined system cost. This is achieved by sharing the frequency up/down conversion circuits in the RF section and performing the required baseband channel filtering and gain functions with just one set of reconfigurable channel filter and amplifier for both modes. A chip implemented in 0.18-/spl mu/m CMOS occupies 4/spl times/4 mm/sup 2/ including pad and consumes 60 and 40 mA for RX and TX modes, respectively. The dual-mode receiver exhibits -80-dBm sensitivity at 0.1% BER in Bluetooth mode and at 12-dB SNR in WLAN mode.     

Fast Super‐Resolution Algorithm Based on Dictionary Size Reduction Using k‐Means Clustering

This paper proposes a computationally efficient learning‐based super‐resolution algorithm using k‐means clustering. Conventional learning‐based super‐resolution requires a huge dictionary for reliable performance, which brings about a tremendous memory cost as well as a burdensome matching computation. In order to overcome this problem, the proposed algorithm significantly reduces the size of the trained dictionary by properly clustering similar patches at the learning phase. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm provides superior visual quality to the conventional algorithms, while needing much less computational complexity.     

Fuzzy working state evaluating function and its algorithm for analogue circuits

The working state(WS) evaluation is a valuable task in the process of failure diagnosis in the analogue circuits. A fuzzy evaluating algorithm was proposed to quantify the working condition of analogue circuit regarded as fuzzy system. Several familiar WS evaluating functions based on fuzzy membership functions were also proposed to calculate the local working state indexes(WSI) of each node in an analogue circuit. The decision function combined with the WS evaluating functions is used to synthesize all the local WSI to the global WSI of the whole circuit. An example was presented to verify that the working status of the analogue circuits can be described by the new WS evaluating algorithm and the global WSI objectively and accurately.     

基于调频连续波信号的圆弧式合成孔径雷达成像方法

圆弧式合成孔径雷达是一种对特定地区持续监测的新模式雷达, 具有分辨率高, 观测范围广, 重访周期短等特点, 适合对特定地区的形变监测以及对塌方、滑坡等灾害的预警。针对圆弧式合成孔径雷达特殊的运动形式, 该文提出了一种新的用于调频连续波体制Arc-SAR成像的2维频域算法。首先推导了Arc-SAR的信号模型, 然后提出了在满足转动机械臂长远小于目标最短斜距的情况下使用2维频域算法来聚焦信号, 之后分析了算法误差。该算法可以在假设条件下对目标准确聚焦, 并具有计算速度快等优点。最后使用仿真和实测数据验证了算法的有效性。