A novel method for the rapid determination of polyethoxylated tallow amine surfactants in water and sediment using large volume injection with high performance liquid chromatography and tandem mass spectrometry

Polyethoxylated tallow amine (POEA) surfactants have been used in many glyphosate-based herbicide formulations for agricultural, industrial and residential weed control. The potential for release of these compounds into the environment is of increasing concern due to their toxicity towards aquatic organisms. Current methods for analysis of POEA surfactants require significant time and effort to achieve limits of quantification that are often higher than the concentrations at which biological effects have been observed (as low as 2 ng mL⁻¹). We have developed a rapid and robust method for quantifying the POEA surfactant mixture MON 0818 at biologically relevant concentrations in fresh water, sea water and lake sediment using reversed phase high-performance liquid chromatography and electrospray ionization-tandem mass spectrometry. Water samples preserved by 1:1 v/v dilution with methanol are analyzed directly following centrifugation. Sediment samples undergo accelerated solvent extraction in aqueous methanol prior to analysis. Large volume (100 μL) sample injection and multiple reaction monitoring of a subset of the most abundant POEA homologs provide limits of quantification of 0.5 and 2.9 ng mL⁻¹ for MON 0818 in fresh water and sea water, respectively, and 2.5 ng g⁻¹ for total MON 0818 in lake sediment. Average recoveries of 93 and 75% were achieved for samples of water and sediment, respectively spiked with known amounts of MON 0818. Precision and accuracy for the analysis of water and sediment samples were within 10 and 16%, respectively based upon replicate analyses of calibration standards and representative samples. Results demonstrate the utility of the method for quantifying undegraded MON 0818 in water and sediment, although a more comprehensive method may be needed to identify and determine other POEA mixtures and degradation profiles that might occur in the environment.     

乙醇液滴撞击高温壁面蒸发过程的模拟预测研究北大核心CSCD

采用CLSVOF方法,引入描述壁面润湿特性的动态接触角,建立了乙醇液滴撞击高温壁面的数值模型,对乙醇液滴撞击高温壁面后的沸腾蒸发过程展开了研究,并与实验数据进行了对比验证.研究表明:在相同液滴温度下,壁面温度越高,亲水性越强,乙醇液滴的撞击速度越快,液滴的沸腾时间越早,蒸发完成所用时间也越短.在此研究基础上,基于机器学习算法,建立了液滴蒸发预测模型,对乙醇液滴撞击高温壁面后蒸发剩余量随时间的变化进行了预测研究,并通过将不同机器学习算法的预测结果与模拟结果对比,选出最优预测模型.     

基于Zynq的不规则物体体积测量系统的设计与实现

为解决工业生产中原始物料体积的快速、准确测量与分级问题,设计了一种以Zynq-7000可扩展处理平台为核心的基于机器视觉的不规则物体体积测量系统。该系统通过摄像头采集物料图像,结合ARM与FPGA技术,并使用Vivado开发软件在ZyBo开发平台中进行了软硬件协同设计,最终实现了不规则物体体积测量算法的硬件加速。实验结果表明该系统可以准确的计算出不规则物体的体积,并能够达到工业生产的实时性要求,这将有效地提升原始物料分级的准确性,提高企业的经济效益和社会效益。     

斯特林循环的理想和实际效率的讨论

套用大学物理热循环效率的计算公式于理想斯特林热机时,会出现原理上的差错,这是由斯特林热机的特殊设计造成.本文首先从热机效率的基本公式出发,阐述斯特林热机的工作原理,从中看到斯特林热机独特的设计原理使其效率的计算不同于基本公式的原因;其次给出实际斯特林热机工作时热损耗的来源分析;最后结合有关论文的结论,给出工质为范德瓦耳斯气体时的效率与体积比的关联.     

限位液滴瞬时失重自激振荡

为探索重力瞬变引起的约束液滴自激振荡机理, 本文利用落塔装置模拟短时微重力环境并借助高速CCD记录圆形限位基片上液滴整个过程的运动情况. 自激振荡是微重力下液滴形态的重整恢复过程, 边界的限位作用使得液滴在整个运动过程接触线钉扎不变, 具体可分为两个阶段: 首先是振荡的高低点位置高度渐进上升的液滴形态变化阶段, 与重力环境渐进变化有关; 而后是平衡位置附近的阻尼衰减振荡阶段, 此时振荡的频率恒定, 振幅衰减类似孤立黏性液滴的指数衰减过程. 对于第二阶段, 在高低点等位置处存在高度不变过程, 高度起伏变化时液滴振荡模式类似自由液滴二阶振荡, 高度不变时振荡模式类似自由液滴三阶振荡. 此外, 对于本实验体系的恒定接触面积的钉扎约束, 液滴的体积量不同时, 内驱振荡的阶段和模式不变, 但具体的振荡过程有所不同. 对于大体积液滴, 会在初始振荡的中间位置出现高度不变现象, 并且随振荡逐渐消失; 而小液滴中间位置则不存在此现象, 波形较一致; 第二阶段小体积液滴振幅衰减的阻尼率更大, 无量纲频率也更高.     

间断Galerkin有限元和有限体积混合计算方法研究

通过局部坐标变换而建立的非正交单元间断Galerkin(DG)有限元计算方法计算精度高， 但计算量大、内存需求大；而非结构网格有限体积方法虽然准确计算热流的问题目 前还没有完全解决，但其具有计算速度快和内存需求小的优点. 该研究是将有 限元和有限体积方法的优点结合，发展有限元和有限体积的混合方法. 在物面 附近黏性占主导作用的区域内采用有限元方法进行计算，在远离物面的区域采用快速的有限 体积方法进行计算，在有限元和有限体积方法结合处要保证通量守恒. 通过算例说明有 限元和有限体积混合方法既能保证黏性区域的热流计算精度和流场结构的分辨率，又能 降低内存需求和提高计算效率，使有限元方法应用于复杂外形(实际工程问题)的计 算成为可能.     

Numerical solution of a multidimensional sedimentation problem using finite volume-element methods

We are interested in the reliable simulation of the sedimentation of monodisperse suspensions under the influence of body forces. At the macroscopic level, the complex interaction between the immiscible fluid and the sedimentation of a compressible phase may be governed by the Navier–Stokes equations coupled to a nonlinear advection–diffusion–reaction equation for the local solids concentration. A versatile and effective finite volume element (FVE) scheme is proposed, whose formulation relies on a stabilized finite element (FE) method with continuous piecewise linear approximation for velocity, pressure and concentration. Some numerical simulations in two and three spatial dimensions illustrate the features of the present FVE method, suggesting their applicability in a wide range of problems.     

Convergence analysis of a DDFV scheme for a system describing miscible fluid flows in porous media

In this article, we prove the convergence of a discrete duality finite volume scheme for a system of partial differential equations describing miscible displacement in porous media. This system is made of two coupled equations: an anisotropic diffusion equation on the pressure and a convection‐diffusion‐dispersion equation on the concentration. We first establish some a priori estimates satisfied by the sequences of approximate solutions. Then, it yields the compactness of these sequences. Passing to the limit in the numerical scheme, we finally obtain that the limit of the sequence of approximate solutions is a weak solution to the problem under study. © 2014 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Numer Methods Partial Differential Eq 31: 723–760, 2015     

A fourth‐order Hermitian box‐scheme with fast solver for the Poisson problem in a cube

We present a fourth‐order Hermitian box‐scheme (HB‐scheme) for the Poisson problem in a cube. A single‐nonstaggered regular grid is used supporting the discrete unknowns u and . The scheme is fourth‐order accurate for u and in norm. The fast numerical resolution uses a matrix capacitance method, resulting in a computational complexity of . Numerical results are reported on several examples including nonseparable problems. The present scheme is the extension to the three‐dimensional case of the HB‐scheme presented in Abbas and Croisille [J Sci Comp 49 (2011), 239–267]. © 2013 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Numer Methods Partial Differential Eq 31: 609–629, 2015     

A memory‐efficient finite volume method for advection‐diffusion‐reaction systems with nonsmooth sources

We present a parallel matrix‐free implicit finite volume scheme for the solution of unsteady three‐dimensional advection‐diffusion‐reaction equations with smooth and Dirac‐Delta source terms. The scheme is formally second order in space and a Newton–Krylov method is employed for the appearing nonlinear systems in the implicit time integration. The matrix‐vector product required is hardcoded without any approximations, obtaining a matrix‐free method that needs little storage and is well‐suited for parallel implementation. We describe the matrix‐free implementation of the method in detail and give numerical evidence of its second‐order convergence in the presence of smooth source terms. For nonsmooth source terms, the convergence order drops to one half. Furthermore, we demonstrate the method's applicability for the long‐time simulation of calcium flow in heart cells and show its parallel scaling. © 2014 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Numer Methods Partial Differential Eq31: 143–167, 2015