Heat and Mass Transfer in MHD Micropolar Flow Over a Vertical Moving Porous Plate in a Porous Medium

An analysis is presented for the problem of free convection with mass transfer flow for a micropolar fluid via a porous medium bounded by a semi-infinite vertical porous plate in the presence of a transverse magnetic field. The plate moves with constant velocity in the longitudinal direction, and the free stream velocity follows an exponentially small perturbation law. A uniform magnetic field acts perpendicularly to the porous surface in which absorbs the micropolar fluid with a suction velocity varying with time. Numerical results of velocity distribution of micropolar fluids are compared with the corresponding flow problems for a Newtonian fluid. Also, the results of the skin-friction coefficient, the couple stress coefficient, the rate of the heat and mass transfers at the wall are prepared with various values of fluid properties and flow conditions.     

The attractor of the scalar reaction diffusion equation is a smooth graph

For the scalar reaction diffusion equation with Dirichlet boundary conditions, it is proved that its maximal compact attractor is the graph of a C¹ function from a subset with nonempty interior of a subspace of the state space the dimension of which is equal to the maximal Morse index of the equilibria of the equation.     

全息干涉条纹图的计算机自动处理与识别

本文应用数字图象处理与识别技术在IBM-PC/AT微处理计算机图象处理系统上对复杂的全息干涉条纹图进行了自动分析,文中采用二维灰度值检测的方法获取条纹的准峰或谷值二值图形,然后通过细化得到条纹中心,提出了用记忆跟踪算法自动去除毛刺和噪声线段.在用光标进行人机对话标定零级条纹后,可自动识别出其它整数条纹级数.分数级条纹级数可在整数级条纹数据之间进行线性或非线性插值得到.最后给出了全息条纹图分析的实例.     

Observations of acoustically generated cavitation bubbles within typical fluids applied to a scroll expander lubrication system

An experimental study to evaluate the dynamic performance of three different types of cavitation bubbles is conducted. An ultrasonic transducer submerged into the working fluids of a scroll expander is utilised to produce cavitation bubbles and a high speed camera device is used to capture their behaviour. Three critical regions around the ultrasonic source, between the source and the solid boundary, and across the solid boundary were observed. Experimental results revealed that refrigerant bubbles sustain a continuous oscillatory movement, referenced as “wobbling effect”, without regularly collapsing. Analytical results indicate the influence of several factors such as surface tension/viscosity ratio, Reynolds number and Weber number which interpret that particular behaviour of the refrigerant bubbles. Within the refrigerant environment the bubbles obtain large Reynolds numbers and low Weber numbers. In contrast, within the lubricant and the water environment Weber number is significantly higher and Reynolds number substantially lower. The bubble radius and velocity alterations are accurately calculated during the cavitation process. Lubricant bubbles achieve the highest jet velocity while refrigerant bubbles having the lowest jet velocity are not considered as a destructive mean of cavitation for scroll expander systems.     

离心力和滑翔距离对于高超声速巡航飞行性能的影响

高超声速巡航飞行器(HCV)是21世纪国际空天技术竞争的焦点, 它的飞行性能可以用初始发射质量与广义有效载荷之比衡量. 文献[1]建立了该性能的耦合分析框架. 在这个框架下进一步考虑了离心力和滑翔距离两个重要因素的影响. 定量分析表明: 给定飞行距离, 对HCV飞行性能影响最大的是巡航速度, 其次是升阻比, 再次是巡航发动机比冲. 随着飞行距离的增加, 由于离心力和滑翔距离的计入, 火箭动力HCV的飞行性能大幅提高, 从近中程到远程均显著优于经典的最小能量弹道. 吸气式冲压发动机尽管比冲大幅优于火箭发动机, 但在巡航速度适用范围和飞行器升阻比方面, 均不及后者. 综合而言, 火箭动力HCV是现阶段非常有竞争力的选择.      

Control of the Lorenz chaos by the exact linearization

I.Introduction.,Recentlycontrollingchaoshasdrawnmuchattentionfromthecommunitiesofphysics,mechanicsandangineeringl'~'].Mostofthecontrolapproacheswereoriginallyproposedbyexperimentalortheoreticalphysicistsandmathematicians,andnoconventional'controlengineeringstrategiesareemployed.Herethestatespaceexactlinearizationmethodinthenonlinearcontrolsystemdisignl'lisutilizedtocontrolchaos,andatypicalchaoticdynamicalsystem,theLorenzsysteml'l,treatedasanexample.TheresearchconcerningcontrolofchaosintheLor…     

Order and Pattern Formation in Psychotherapy

In an empirical analysis of the dynamics of psychotherapy processes, concepts and tools from self-organization theory are applied. Our focus is on pattern formation in the therapy system, i.e. the system constituted by the interaction dynamics of therapist and patient. The hypothesis of pattern formation explored is based on data sets of 28 psychotherapy courses (10 behavioral, 3 client-centered, 9 heuristic, 6 schema-oriented; 40 to 90 weekly sessions). Patients' and therapists' therapy session records are analyzed (33 variables addressing various aspects of the therapeutic relationship, of progress within and outside the therapy setting). Multivariate methods are implemented to test the key hypothesis of self-organization theory, namely the reduction of degrees of freedom of a system. Consistent with this hypothesis, a significant reduction of degrees of freedom is found when the initial and final sessions of the therapies are compared. Correspondingly, Landsberg order increased significantly in the course of therapies. Given these findings, the explorative question of how this self-organizing property relates to therapy outcome is investigated. We find a significant positive association with various outcome measures, such as: therapist's and client's evaluations of success (direct change measures), feelings of guilt, anxiety, social potence, depression (pre-post effect sizes), and others. These results suggest that order is related to therapy outcome. In our interpretation, order is a dynamical attribute of the therapeutic alliance to be considered as a promising therapy process variable.     

Computation of buoyancy-driven flow in an eccentric centrifugal annulus with a non-orthogonal collocated finite volume algorithm

A computational study is performed on two-dimensional mixed convection in an annulus between a horizontal outer cylinder and a heated, rotating, eccentric inner cylinder. The computation has been done using a non-orthogonal grid and a fully collocated finite volume procedure. Solutions are iterated to convergence through a pressure correction scheme and the convection is treated by Van Leer's MUSCL scheme. The numerical procedure adopted here can easily eliminate the ‘Numerical leakage’ phenomenon of the mixed convection problem whereby strong buoyancy and centrifugal effects are encountered in the case of a highly eccentric annulus. Numerical results have been obtained for Rayleigh number Ra ranging from 7×10³ to 10⁷, Reynolds number Re from 0 to 1200 and Prandtl number Pr from 0.01 to 7. The mixed rotation parameter σ (=Ra/PrRe²) varies from ∞ (pure natural convection) to 0.01 with various eccentricities ε. The computational results are in good agreement with previous works which show that the mixed convection heat transfer characteristics in the annulus are significantly affected by σ and ε. The results indicate that the mean Nusselt number Nu increases with increasing Ra or Pr but decreases with increasing Re. In the case of a highly eccentric annulus the conduction effect becomes predominant in the throat gap. Hence the crucial phenomenon on whereby Nu first decreases and then increases can be found with increasing eccentricity. © 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Computations of wall distances by solving a transport equation

Computations of wall distances still play a key role in modern turbulence modeling. Motivated by the expense involved in the computation, an approach solving partial differential equations is considered. An Euler-like transport equation is proposed based on the Eikonal equation. Thus, the efficient algorithms and code components developed for solving transport equations such as Euler and Navier-Stokes equations can be reused. This article provides a detailed implementation of the transport equation in the Cartesian coordinates based on the code of computational fluid dynamics for missiles (MICFD) of Beihang University. The transport equation is robust and rapidly convergent by the implicit lower-upper symmetric Gauss-Seidel (LUSGS) time advancement and upwind spatial discretization. Geometric derivatives must also be upwind determined to ensure accuracy. Special treatments on initial and boundary conditions are discussed. This distance solving approach is successfully applied on several complex geometries with 1-1 blocking or overset grids.     

Exploring human rhythmic gait movement in the role of cerebral cortex signal

The rhythmic movement is a spontaneous behavior due to the central pattern generator(CPG).At present,the CPG model only shows the spontaneous behavior,butdoes not refer to the instruction regulation role of the cerebral cortex.In this paper,a modified model based on the Matsuoka neural oscillator theory is presented to better show the regulation role of the cerebral cortex signal to the CPG neuronal network.The complex interaction between the in put signal and other parameters in the CPG networkis establish...