Validation of a high-performance liquid chromatographic method for determination of isoflavonoids in soybeans. Study of the extraction procedure by experimental design

Summary An improved analytical method, reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatography on a narrow-bore C₁₈ column, has been developed for the simultaneous determination of genistein, daidzein, formononetin, and biochanin A. The method was validated in terms of detection limits, quantitation limits (LOQ), linearity, and precision.LOQ in the 0.04–0.1 μg mL⁻¹ range were calculated, enabling determination of these compounds of nutritional concern at trace levels. Good linearity was demonstrated over three orders of magnitude of concentration for each analyte (r ²=0.998–1.000). The intra-day repeatability was evaluated in terms ofRSD (%) at two concentration levels for each analyte (RSD (%) <1.8%). Good inter-day reproducibility of data was proved by performing homoscedasticity and ANOVA tests (P>0.05 at the 95% confidence level). The method was applied to the determination of genistein and daidzein in yellow soybeans, after optimization of the method for extraction of isoflavonoid aglycones from soybeans by experimental design, i.e. central composite design. Extraction recoveries up to 87±4% were obtained when the corresponding glycosidic forms (genistin and daidzin) were added to soybean samples.     

Analysis of Nitrogen and Steam Injection in a Porous Medium with Water

We formulate conservation laws governing steam and nitrogen injection in a one-dimensional porous medium containing water. Compressibility, heat conductivity and capillarity are neglected. We study the condensation front and shock waves arising in the flow. We find that there are four possible types of solutions for the initial and boundary conditions of interest. We describe a simple construction in the temperature saturation plane that determines the complete solution for the given conditions. Applications of the theory developed here are in clean up of soil contaminated with nonaqueous phase liquids. We show that a substantial cold gaseous zone develops in all solutions of practical interest, thus counteracting downward migration of the pollutant.     

利用三维网络模型研究滞留聚合物微观分布规律

再利用地下滞留聚合物是聚合物驱之后进一步提高原油采收率的新途径。基于油水两相流网络模拟模型,综合考虑聚合物渗流机理建立起聚合物驱微观模拟模型。用微观数值模拟手段研究了地下滞留聚合物分布规律及影响因素,为有效地开采聚合物驱后剩余油、合理利用滞留地下聚合物提供必要的依据。模拟结果表明,由于吸附和捕集作用将引起大量聚合物滞留在孔喉中,滞留聚合物占注入聚合物的61.7%。总体上看,大孔喉中聚合物滞留量较大,但滞留聚合物浓度较小。孔喉半径和形状因子为聚合物滞留的主要影响因素,孔喉滞留聚合物浓度与孔喉半径和形状因子平方根的乘积成反比。     

Strain recovery of model immiscible blends without compatibilizer

Strain recovery after the cessation of shear was studied in model immiscible blends composed of polyisobutylene drops (10–30% by weight) in a polydimethylsiloxane matrix. Blends of viscosity ratio (viscosity of the drops relative to the matrix viscosity) ranging from 0.3 to 1.7 were studied. Most of the strain recovery was attributable to interfacial tension, and could be well-described by just two parameters: the ultimate recovery and a single retardation time. Both these parameters were found to increase with the capillary number of the drops prior to cessation of shear. For blends that had reached steady shear conditions, the ultimate recovery decreased with increasing viscosity ratio, whereas the retardation time increased with increasing viscosity ratio. The retardation time was well-predicted, but the ultimate recovery was over-predicted by a linear viscoelastic model developed previously by Vinckier et al. (Rheol Acta 38:65–72, 1999).     

冲击加载下样品软回收过程中的侧向稀疏效应

通过数值模拟, 计算冲击加载下样品经历一维应变加载过程和侧向稀疏过程产生的塑性功, 给出试样内部从冲击加载开始到进入回收桶前全过程的应力随时间变化的历程。结果表明:侧向稀疏过程开始后,样品在径向汇聚波的作用下受循环拉、压载荷作用,拉压循环的振幅在中等冲击压力下达到最大。如果振幅超过了材料的层裂强度,样品中心将发生拉伸破坏不能完整回收。侧向稀疏与一维应变加载产生的塑性功之比随冲击速度的增加而减小。在冲击速度为某临界值时,侧向稀疏产生的塑性功与一维应变加载产生的塑性功相等。在一定的冲击速度下,采用低初始屈服应力的材料可减轻侧向稀疏效应。对理想塑性材料的理论分析表明,侧向稀疏与一维应变加载产生的塑性功之比随冲击速度与屈服强度比值的增大而减小,与数值模拟结果一致。     

改进的Z~2应力恢复过程与h型自适应有限元分析

建议了一种较为精确的边界应力求解方法，并用于改进Ｚｉｅｎｋｉｅｗｉｃｚ－Ｚｈｕ（Ｚ２）应力恢复过程。改进过程增加的计算量不大，但可有效地改善后验误差估计精度。ｈ型自适应有限元分析结果表明，改进过程更有利于最优网格寻求工作     

Prediction of 42CrMo steel flow stress at high temperature and strain rate

The compressive deformation behavior of 42CrMo steel was investigated at temperatures ranging from 850 to 1150 °C and strain rates from 0.01 to 50 s⁻¹ on Gleeble-1500 thermo-simulation machine. Based on the classical stress–dislocation relation and the kinematics of the dynamic recrystallization, the flow stress constitutive equations of the work hardening-dynamical recovery period and dynamical recrystallization period were established for 42CrMo steel, respectively. The stress–strain curves of 42CrMo steel predicted by the established models are in good agreement with experimental results when the strain rate is relatively low. So, the proposed deformation constitutive equations can be used to establish the hot formation processing parameters for 42CrMo steel.     

二维超声速混压式进气道的数值模拟

本文采用TVD格式求解二维可压非定常Euler方程组,对二维超声速混压式进气道进行了数值计算,首先模拟了后部压力对进气道的影响过程,当进气道的后部压力与入口压力的比值逐渐增加时,进气道内的正激波逐渐往前移动,当比值达到一个临界值,进气道将不起动.其次.通过对R52.1和R54.5两种进气道模型进行计算,对它们的总压恢复进行了对比.通过计算得到了喉道处曲线弧的曲率越大,进气道的总压损失越大,进气道也越难起动.     

Mathematical construction of a Reissner–Mindlin plate theory for composite laminates

A Reissner–Mindlin theory for composite laminates without invoking ad hoc kinematic assumptions is constructed using the variational-asymptotic method. Instead of assuming a priori the distribution of three-dimensional displacements in terms of two-dimensional plate displacements as what is usually done in typical plate theories, an exact intrinsic formulation has been achieved by introducing unknown three-dimensional warping functions. Then the variational-asymptotic method is applied to systematically decouple the original three-dimensional problem into a one-dimensional through-the-thickness analysis and a two-dimensional plate analysis. The resulting theory is an equivalent single-layer Reissner–Mindlin theory with an excellent accuracy comparable to that of higher-order, layer-wise theories. The present work is extended from the previous theory developed by the writer and his co-workers with several sizable contributions: (a) six more constants (33 in total) are introduced to allow maximum freedom to transform the asymptotically correct energy into a Reissner–Mindlin model; (b) the semi-definite programming technique is used to seek the optimum Reissner–Mindlin model. Furthermore, it is proved the first time that the recovered three-dimensional quantities exactly satisfy the continuity conditions on the interface between different layers and traction boundary conditions on the bottom and top surfaces. It is also shown that two of the equilibrium equations of three-dimensional elasticity can be satisfied asymptotically, and the third one can be satisfied approximately so that the difference between the Reissner–Mindlin model and the second-order asymptotical model can be minimized. Numerical examples are presented to compare with the exact solution as well as the classical lamination theory and the first-order shear-deformation theory, demonstrating that the present theory has an excellent agreement with the exact solution.     

Stabilizing effect of diffusion in enhanced oil recovery and three-layer Hele-Shaw flows with viscosity gradient

In the presence of diffusion, stability of three-layer Hele-Shaw flows which models enhanced oil recovery processes by polymer flooding is studied for the case of variable viscosity in the middle layer. This leads to the coupling of the momentum equation and the species advection-diffusion equation the hydrodynamic stability study of which is presented in this paper. Linear stability analysis of a potentially unstable three-layer rectilinear Hele-Shaw flow is used to examine the effects of species diffusion on the stability of the flow. Using a weak formulation of the disturbance equations, upper bounds on the growth rate of individual disturbances and on the maximal growth rate over all possible disturbances are found. Analytically, it is shown that a short-wave disturbance if unstable can be stabilized by mild diffusion of species, where as an unstable long-wave disturbance can always be stabilized by strong diffusion of species. Thus, an otherwise unstable three-layer Hele-Shaw flow can be completely stabilized by a large enough diffusion, i.e., by increasing enough the magnitude of the species diffusion coefficient. The magnitude of this diffusion coefficient required to completely stabilize the flow will depend on the magnitude of interfacial viscosity jumps and the viscosity gradient of the basic viscous profile of the middle layer.