Nusselt number correlations for heat transfer to small spheres in thermal plasma flows

Seven different equations predicting heat transfer rates to small spheres in plasma flows are examined considering argon and nitrogan as plasma gases from 300 to 21,000 K at 1 atm. For argon there is a general consensus up to 9000 K, beyond which wide deviations in behavior occur. For nitrogen, the seven correlations are in good agreement up to 4000 K, but show substantial deviations beyond this value. Comparisons with the sparsely available experimental data are made for argon from 300 to 17,000 K and for nitrogen up to 5500 K. Disagreement between the various correlations and experiment can exceed one order of magnitude.     

超稳定TO-8型压力传感器在气体导热系数测定实验中的应用

介绍了TO-8型压力传感器的性能及电源电路.以气体导热系数测定实验为例,用TO-8型压力传感器制成的测压装置代替旋转式麦氏真空计,利用可调针孔式放气阀对真空气压进行连续调节,实现了对测试系统真空度的实时监测.     

Elastic and Thermophysical Properties of Poly(Vinyl Chloride) and Chlorinated Polyethylene Blends

The results of experimental and theoretical investigations of elastic and thermophysical properties of poly(vinyl chloride) (PVC) and chlorinated polyethylene (CPE) blends are presented. Eight types of specimens with different ratios of weight contents of PVC and CPE (PVC/CPE = 100/0, 90/10, 80/20, 60/40, 40/60, 20/80, 10/90, and 0/100) were tested. The effect of blend composition on the elastic constants (tensile and shear modulus) is discussed. The data on the thermal conductivity, thermal diffusivity, and heat capacity of the blends investigated are also presented.     

Cluster growth in particle-conserving cellular automata

A class of simple two-dimensional cellular automata with particle conservation is proposed for easy simulations of interacting particle systems. The automata are defined by the exchange of states of neighboring cells, depending on the configurations around the cells. By attributing an energy to a configuration of cells, we can select significant rules from the huge number of possible rules and classify them into several groups, based on the analogy with a binary alloy. By numerical calculations, cluster growth is found in two kinds of phases which reveal gas-solid coexistence and liquid droplets. Normalized scaling functions are obtained, and dynamical scaling is examined.     

在SQUID心磁测量中基于奇异值分解和自适应滤波的噪声消除法

采用矩阵奇异值分解(singular value decomposition, SVD)的方法，对高温射频超导量子干涉仪(HTc rf-SQUID)采集到的单通道心磁信号进行处理.证明了对于近似周期性的心磁信号，在无参考噪声的情况下矩阵奇异值分解的方法与自适应窄带陷波相结合有较好的消除广谱噪声的效果. 关键词： 高温射频超导量子干涉仪 心磁信号 奇异值分解 噪声消除     

Assessment of thermal expansion coefficient of methylsilsesquioxane thin film

For the methylsilsesquioxane film whose optical birefringence is almost zero, it was recently reported that its vertical thermal expansion coefficient (CTE) was approximately one order of magnitude larger than the lateral CTE. Though the birefringence is not an absolute predictor of anisotropic behavior, the discrepancy in both the CTEs was so remarkable that it was essential to investigate whether the anisotropy was intrinsic property or not. If the effect of Poisson's ratio is considered in the calculation of the vertical CTE and when elastic modulus measured by surface acoustic wave spectroscopy is used in the assessment of the lateral CTE, both the CTEs are coincident with each other. Therefore, it can be concluded that the discrepancy in the CTEs can be attributed to a higher in‐plane polymer chain orientation but it can also arise from the misleadingly assumed modulus and Poisson's ratio. © 2006 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Polym Sci Part B: Polym Phys 44: 3109–3120, 2006     

Approximation of Matrices and a Family of Gander Methods for Polar Decomposition

Two matrix approximation problems are considered: approximation of a rectangular complex matrix by subunitary matrices with respect to unitarily invariant norms and a minimal rank approximation with respect to the spectral norm. A characterization of a subunitary approximant of a square matrix with respect to the Schatten norms, given by Maher, is extended to the case of rectangular matrices and arbitrary unitarily invariant norms. Iterative methods, based on the family of Gander methods and on Higham’s scaled method for polar decomposition of a matrix, are proposed for computing subunitary and minimal rank approximants. Properties of Gander methods are investigated in details. AMS subject classification (2000) 65F30, 15A18     

S—R分解定理的唯一性,存在性和客观性

对于连续体的一切物理可能的变形场，其变形梯度张量F可被分解为一个对称张量S和一个正交张量R的直和，这便是S-R分解定理．本文通过矩阵方法和张量方法证明了S-R分解定理的唯一性、存在性和客观性．     

用区域分解算法结合蒙特卡罗法求坦克温度场和红外辐射出射度

本文将区域分解算法和蒙特卡罗法相结合，求坦克温度场和红外辐射出射度．采用蒙特卡罗法计算辐射传递系数，可以考虑界面的复杂辐射特性，如：镜反射、各向异性发射、各向异性反射等；可直接考虑界面的复杂几何特性，如:相互遮挡、太阳入射方向上的投影面积等．引入辐射传递系数，分离了计算的难点，使得在时间域（计算步骤）上能把整个问题分解为若干个子问题并行处理、在空间域（计算区域）上将坦克分解为若干个子区域，缩小计算规模，并可使用多个处理器并行计算；同时减轻了蒙特卡罗法编程的难度，缩短了计算时间．     

The transition of spontaneous polymerization of acrylamide to “explosive” regime

Experimental results related to the transition of spontaneous polymerization of acrylamide complexes with metal nitrates to the “explosive” regime at room temperature are presented. It is suggested that the “explosion” has a thermal nature. Translated fromIzvestiya Akademii Nauk. Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 4, pp. 859–861, April, 1997.