并行冲击/侵彻有限元数值模拟技术

探讨了冲击/侵彻问题涉及到的非线性材料模型、接触搜索算法、接触力计算公式、破坏模式等理论和算法,介绍了基于集群并行计算机的有限元法并行化基本思路和方法。应用实例表明本文中提出的有限元计算格式和并行化方法能够有效求解冲击/侵彻问题。     

毛细微槽内的相变传热的实验研究

本文对矩形毛细微槽竖直板的相变传热特性进行了实验研究。结果表明毛细微槽对相变换热具有很大的促进作用。当壁面过热度较小时,相变换热形式主要是三相接触线附近的蒸发换热机制。而当过热度较大时,微槽内发生剧烈的沸腾。微槽内相变换热的临界热负荷有两种产生机理:其一是当微槽长度较大时微槽内由于流动阻力而产生的液体输运临界;另一机理是当微槽长度较小时的池内沸腾临界现象,亦即由动态微液层模型决定的临界机理。实验还得到了微槽强化传热的最佳优化尺寸。     

空气和氧气气氛下p-GaN/Ni/Au合金性质

研究了p-CaN上的Au／Ni双金属层在空气气氛和氧气气氛下合金对其欧姆接触性质的影响。使用同步辐射高强度X射线衍射观察到明显的NiO衍射峰。随着合金时间的增加,NiO和Au的结晶性均明显变好,NiO的衍射峰强度随合金时间的增加而增强,同时发现Au(111)沿CaN的(0001)面择优形成单晶。测得Ni／Au-p-CaN-Ni／Au串联电阻在合金后明显降低,表明接触性质改善与结晶性的提高有关。同时发现氧气下合金比空气下合金形成NiO更快,相应的串联电阻也更快地下降。     

Effect of Sonication Treatment and Maceration Time in the Extraction of Polysaccharide Compounds during Red Wine Vinification

The application of high-power ultrasounds (US) at 28 kHz to the crushed grapes and the use of different pomace contact times caused changes in the content and composition of monosaccharides and polysaccharides in the musts and wines. These differences were maintained from the moment of pressing (end of maceration) until the end of the alcoholic fermentation. The US increased the content of monosaccharides and polysaccharides in the musts by facilitating their extraction from the solid parts during maceration. The application of medium maceration time (3 days) to sonicated grapes led to an extraction of polysaccharides rich in arabinose and galactose, rhamnogalacturonan type II (RG-II) and mannoproteins (MP), similar to that observed in the control wines made with an extended maceration of 7 days (968.21 vs. 1029.45; 895.04 vs. 1700.50; 356.81 vs. 343.95, respectively). This fact was attributed to a higher extraction in the must during the sonication process and to an important release of pectic polysaccharides during the pressing of the sonicated pomace, which is reported here for the first time. Therefore, the US technology could be useful for increasing the polysaccharide content in the wines or for reducing the maceration time needed to achieve certain levels of wine polysaccharides.     

Kinetics of wetting of liquid on a solid surface

To consider a sessile drop on an ideal solid surface in equilibrium with a vapor phase, the classic Young equation was given. The derivation of the Young equation was based on both the mechanics and the energy knowledge. According to the constant volume of the liquid in the wetting process of the liquid on a smooth and homogeneous solid surface and the low energy law, Young equation was ob-tained through the mathematic method in this paper. The previous work indicated that the contact angle θ was a function...     

Theoretical modeling and experimental analysis of direct contact membrane distillation

A two-dimensional mathematical model was theoretically developed to predict the temperature polarization profile of direct contact membrane distillation (DCMD) processes. A concurrent flat-plate device was designed to verify the theoretical prediction of pure water productivity on saline water desalination. The numerical results from the temperature polarization profile were obtained using the finite difference technique to reduce the two-dimensional partial differential equations into an ordinary differential equations system. The resultant simultaneous linear equations system was solved with the fourth-order Runge-Kutta method. The results show theoretical prediction agreement with the measured values from the experimental runs. A combination of the Knudsen flow and Poiseuille flow models in the present mathematical formulation for membrane coefficient estimation was used to establish theoretical agreement. The influence of the inlet saline water temperature and volumetric flow rate on the pure water productivity as well as the hydraulic dissipated energy are also delineated.     

Low specific contact resistivity to graphene achieved by AuGe/Ni/Au and annealing process

Low metal-graphene contact resistance is important in making high-performance graphene devices.In this work,we demonstrate a lower specific contact resistivity of Au_(0.88)Ge_(0.12)/Ni/Au-graphene contact compared with Ti/Au and Ti/Pt/Au contacts.The rapid thermal annealing process was optimized to improve AuGe/Ni/Au contact resistance.Results reveal that both pre- and post-annealing processes are effective for reducing the contact resistance.The specific contact resistivity decreases from 2.5 × 10~(-4) to 7.8 × 10~(-5) Ω·cm~2 by pre-annealing at 300 ℃ for one hour,and continues to decrease to9.5 × 10~(-7) H·cm~2 after post-annealing at 490 ℃ for 60 seconds.These approaches provide reliable means of lowering contact resistance.     

Experimental validation of a differential variational inequality-based approach for handling friction and contact in vehicle/granular-terrain interaction

The observation motivating this contribution was a perceived lack of expeditious deformable terrain models that can match in mobility analysis studies the level of fidelity delivered by today’s vehicle models. Typically, the deformable terrain-tire interaction has been modeled using Finite Element Method (FEM), which continues to require prohibitively long analysis times owing to the complexity of soil behavior. Recent attempts to model deformable terrain have resorted to the use of the Discrete Element Method (DEM) to capture the soil’s complex interaction with a wheeled vehicle. We assess herein a DEM approach that employs a complementarity condition to enforce non-penetration between colliding rigid bodies that make up the deformable terrain. To this end, we consider three standard terramechanics experiments: direct shear, pressure-sinkage, and single-wheel tests. We report on the validation of the complementarity form of contact dynamics with friction, assess the potential of the DEM-based exploration of fundamental phenomena in terramechanics, and identify numerical solution challenges associated with solving large-scale, quadratic optimization problems with conic constraints.     

The coefficient of normal restitution for the Hertzian contact of two rough spheres colliding in a viscous fluid

We use previous theoretical results for the added mass, history and lubrication forces between two spheres colliding in a fluid with viscosity ν to investigate the effect of viscous dissipation on the coefficient of restitution during contact. We assume that the mechanical interaction is governed by Hertzian mechanical contact of small duration τ and that the minimum approach distance between particles is approximately equal to the height σ of surface micro-asperities. A non-dimensionalization of the equation of motion indicates that the contact dynamics is governed by two parameters – the ratio ϵ of the surface roughness σ and the sphere radius a, and a contact Stokes number defined as St_c = σ²/ντ. An asymptotic solution of the equation of motion in the limit of small ϵ/St_c is used to obtain an explicit expression for the coefficient of restitution during contact and the latter is compared with estimates based on numerical solutions of the non-linear equation of motion.     

Three-dimensional analytical elasticity solution for loaded functionally graded coated half-space

In the present paper, a three-dimensional problem of elasticity of normal and tangential loading of surface of the functionally graded coated half-space is considered. In case when Poisson's ratio is constant and the Young's modulus is a power or exponential function of the distance from the surface of the half-space, analytical solution using Fourier transform is obtained. Stress field due to Hertz contact pressure in an elliptical region are studied as a function of the parameter b/a (where a and b are axes of the contact ellipse) and coating thickness.