Transient chaos in two coupled,dissipatively perturbed Hamiltonian Duffing oscillators

The dynamics of two coupled, dissipatively perturbed, near-integrable Hamiltonian, double-well Duffing oscillators has been studied. We give numerical and experimental (circuit implementation) evidence that in the case of small positive or negative damping there exist two different types of transient chaos. After the decay of the transient chaos in the neighborhood of chaotic saddle we observe the transient chaos in the neighborhood of unstable tori. We argue that our results are robust and they exist in the wide range of system parameters.     

Investigation of Intrachain Exciton Diffusion of MEH-PPV in Solution with Different Polarity

Femtosecond time-resolved transient grating technique was adopted to insight into the intra-chain exciton diffusion of MEH-PPV in solution with different polarity. Broadband white-light continuum was introduced as the probe to observe the transient absorption and the femtosecond time-resolved transient grating information simultaneously. The vibrational dephasing behaviors, single exciton relaxation, and population relaxation dynamics of MEH-PPV were systematically investigated. The result shows that the relaxation processes of the sample solution will be accelerated in the solvent with larger polarity.     

Reaction Kinetics between Thiobases and Singlet Oxygen Studied by Direct Detection of the 1O2 Luminescence Decay

Thiobase derivatives have received important investigations due to their wide usage as phototherapeutic agents and their potential carcinogenic side effects as immunosuppressants. The substitution of oxygen atom by the sulfur atom makes the ultraviolet absorption of thiobases redshifted and absorbs UVA light (>300 nm), resulting in unusual high quantum yield of triplet state to generate the singlet oxygen (¹O₂) through photosensitization. As a type of reactive oxygen species, ¹O₂ is highly reactive toward thiobases. Herein, we report the measurements of reaction rate constants between di erent thiobases and ¹O₂ in different solvents through the direct detection of ¹O₂ luminescence decay kinetics at 1270 nm. The rate constants of thiouracils with ¹O₂ are five times smaller than that of thioguanine with ¹O₂, which suggests that thiopurines are more reactive than thiopyrimidines and thus less suitable to be a photosensitive drug on the application of photodynamic therapy. Additionally, the rate constants of thiobases and ¹O₂ were found to be obviously influenced by the solvent polarity. With the increase of solvent polarity, the rate constants of thiobases and ¹O₂ decrease.     

Simulations of transient shock motion within a biological contoured-shock-tube system

This study is motivated by the author’s interest in developing needle-free powdered vaccine/drug delivery systems. One system configuration is called the Contoured Shock Tube (CST). Of great importance is the behaviour of a transonic gas flow with a strongly nonlinear starting process, which accelerates powdered vaccines in micro-form to a sufficient momentum to penetrate the outer layer of human skin or mucosal tissue. In this paper, an established Modified Implicit Flux Vector Splitting (MIFVS) solver for the Navier-Stokes equations is extended to numerically study these transient transonic gas flows. A low Reynolds number k-? turbulence model, with the compressibility effect considered, is integrated into the MIFVS solver to predict the turbulent structures and interactions with inherent shock systems. The MIFVS is first calibrated for NASA validation case, NPARC, and the resulting flow characteristic are compared with experimental date and simulations published. The MIFVS calculation with the modified k-? model shows the best agreement. Subsequently, the MIFVS is applied to model the transient gas flow within a biolistic CST prototype. Comparison with experimental pressure traces shows the MIFVS captures gas flow mechanics with more accuracy than calculations with a commercial code (Fluent). This illustrates that the MIFVS is well-suited to model the strongly nonlinear fluid dynamics associated with the CST biolistic particle delivery system.     

Intensity analysis methods for transient signals

Conventionally, the Fourier transform is applied for sound intensity analysis of stationary signals, but this method can be applied for analyzing non-stationary transient signals. Instead of the Fourier transform analysis, instantaneous spectrum analysis methods such as the Wigner-Ville distribution and the wavelet transform are proposed. By using the mathematical example as a transient signal, advantages and disadvantages of these methods including the short-time Fourier transform are compared. From calculation results, it is considered that the STFT method is the most suitable for the accurate measurement of sound intensity levels, but the WT method is also recommended from its higher resolution of transient signals.     

脉冲功率传输线磁绝缘的建立与特性分析

 分析了脉冲功率传输线建立磁绝缘的暂态过程,对暂态过程中传输线的击穿与磁绝缘关系、电子的分布规律及其与建立磁绝缘的关系进行了阐述。分析了磁绝缘传输线电极间的电子分布改变传输线工作阻抗值的现象,给出了传输线稳态工作阻抗的求解方法和用稳态工作阻抗计算传输线暂态工作阻抗的方法。研究了截面尺寸变化时传输线中电子的分布和电磁波传播的折反射情况。结果表明:传输线在建立磁绝缘的过程中损失电子是必然的,损失电子是建立磁绝缘的必要条件。截面半径沿轴向变化时,其工作特性与极间距的变化有关。极间距增大时,后半段的电子电流增大,使其工作阻抗增大并与前半段相等,因而在尺寸变化处不产生反射波。极间距减小时,由于后半段提前产生损失电子,因而尺寸变化处产生反射波。     

Energy dissipation and pressure decay during transients in viscoelastic pipes with an in-line valve

In this paper, the effect of a partially closed in-line valve, viscoelasticity, and unsteady friction on the transient behavior of a pressurized pipe is examined. Such an analysis is executed by considering global energy quantities evaluated by means of a one-dimensional numerical model calibrated on the basis of a huge amount of laboratory tests. In the numerical experiments, the effect of the initial conditions and in-line valve characteristics has been analyzed by considering different values of the initial Reynolds number, N₀, in-line valve head loss coefficient, χ, and location, δ. By introducing dimensionless quantities, exponential laws are shown to interpolate the time-history of maxima of both pressure and global energy quantities reliably with the related coefficients being a function of N₀, χ, and δ. Thus, the links between the decay of pressure peaks at single sections and the dissipation of the global kinetic and internal energy are established. Moreover, it is shown that a given decay of pressure peaks may derive from very different transients. This result has crucial implications to inverse transient analysis based on the evaluation of the pressure decay at a given section with particular attention to the uniqueness of the solution.     

Electrokinetic supercharging for highly efficient peptide preconcentration in capillary zone electrophoresis

Electrokinetic supercharging has been integrated in CZE for the development of a highly sensitive methodology for protein tryptic digest analysis. A careful choice of the experimental conditions led to sensitivity enhancement factors between 1000 and 10,000 whilst maintaining a satisfactory resolution. Peptides in the low nanomolar concentration range have been detected despite the use of the poorly sensitive UV absorbance detection mode. The buffer system used in this study is fully suitable for coupling CE to MS.