Isotopic composition in precipitation and groundwater in the northern mountainous region of the Central Valley of Costa Rica

The linkage between precipitation and recharge is still poorly understood in the Central America region. This study focuses on stable isotopic composition in precipitation and groundwater in the northern mountainous region of the Central Valley of Costa Rica. During the dry season, rainfall samples corresponded to enriched events with high deuterium excess. By mid-May, the Intertropical Convergence Zone poses over Costa Rica resulting in a depletion of ¹⁸O/¹⁶O and ²H/H ratios. A parsimonious four-variable regression model (r^2?=?0.52) was able to predict daily δ¹⁸O in precipitation. Air mass back trajectories indicated a combination of Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean sources, which is clearly depicted in groundwater isoscape. Aquifers relying on Pacific-originated recharge exhibited a more depleted pattern, whereas recharge areas relying on Caribbean parental moisture showed an enrichment trend. These results can be used to enhance modelling efforts in Central America where scarcity of long-term data limits water resources management plans.     

炸药装药密度对慢速烤燃响应特性的影响

为研究炸药装药密度对烤燃响应剧烈程度的影响,采用以RDX为主的高能炸药压制7种密度水 平的试样,采用长径比为1.26的烤燃弹,以(10.2)℃/min的升温速率作了慢速燃实验。实验结果表明, 当装药密度为理论最大密度的94%时出现压力胀裂,装药密度为理论最大密度的70%时产生爆燃,而在理论 最大密度的80%左右时出现燃烧转爆轰现象,响应最剧烈。     

Numerical simulation of ground water flow via a new approach to the local radial point interpolation meshless method

A novel approach to local radial point interpolation meshless (LRPIM) method is introduced to investigate the influence of leakage on tidal response in a coastal leaky confined aquifer system, based on a local weighted residual method with the Heaviside step function as the weighting function over a local sub-domain. The present approach is a truly meshless method based only on a number of randomly located nodes. In this approach, neither global background integration mesh nor domain integration is needed. Radial basis functions (RBFs) interpolation is employed in shape function and its derivatives construction for evaluating the local weak form integrals. Due to satisfaction of kronecker delta property in RBF interpolation, no special treatment is needed to impose the essential boundary conditions. In order to obtain the optimum parameters, shape parameters of multiquadrics (MQ)-RBF are tuned and studied. The leakage has a significant impact on the tidal behaviour of the confined aquifer. The numerical results of this research indicate that both tidal amplitude of groundwater head in the aquifer and the distance over which the aquifer can be disturbed by the tide are considerably reduced by leakage. The novelty of the approach is the use of a local Heaviside weight function in the LRPIM which does not need local domain integration and only integrations on the boundary of the local domains are needed. Therefore, in this research a new local Heaviside weight function has been proposed. Numerical results are presented and compared with the results of analytical solution. It is observed that the obtained results agreed very well with the results of analytical solution. The numerical results show that the use of a local Heaviside weight function in the LRPIM is highly accurate, fast and robust. It is also noticed that this novel meshless approach using MQ radial basis is very stable.     

水体中痕量挥发性有机物单体碳同位素组成分析

将固相微萃取(SPME)技术与冷阱富集系统相结合,对水体中痕量挥发性有机物进行了单体碳同位素分析,方法检测限较常规SPME提高了一个数量级。在优化的条件下,对20 μg/L的三氯乙烯/四氯乙烯和10 μg/L的苯/甲苯水溶液进行了单体碳同位素分析,相比于纯溶剂(液相)碳同位素值,顶空(气相)同位素分析误差不超过0.5‰,而样本标准偏差为0.3‰。对某受四氯乙烯污染的北京地下水进行了同位素测定,近污染源点(B408)与远污染源点(B230)四氯乙烯的碳同位素值(δ13C)分别为 -37.8‰和-34.45‰     

Attack Vulnerability of Network with Duplication-Divergence Mechanism

We study the attack vulnerability of network with duplication-divergence mechanism. Numerical results have shown that the duplication-divergence network with larger retention probability a is more robust against target attack relatively. Furthermore, duplication-divergence network is broken down more quickly than its counterpart BA network under target attack. Such result is consistent with the fact of WWW and Internet networks under target attack. So duplication-divergence model is a more realistic one for us to investigate the characteristics of the world wide web in future. We also observe that the exponent γ of degree distribution and average degree are important parameters of networks, reflecting the performance of networks under target attack. Our results are helpful to the research on the security of network.     

A mixed finite element/finite volume approach for solving biodegradation transport in groundwater

A numerical model for the simulation of flow and transport of organic compounds undergoing bacterial oxygen- and nitrate-based respiration is presented. General assumptions regarding microbial population, bacteria metabolism and effects of oxygen, nitrogen and nutrient concentration on organic substrate rate of consumption are briefly described. The numerical solution techniques for solving both the flow and the transport are presented. The saturated flow equation is discretized using a high-order mixed finite element scheme, which provides a highly accurate estimation of the velocity field. The transport equation for a sorbing porous medium is approximated using a finite volume scheme enclosing an upwind TVD shock-capturing technique for capturing concentration-unsteady steep fronts. The performance and capabilities of the present approach in a bio-remediation context are assessed by considering a set of test problems. The reliability of the numerical results concerning solution accuracy and the computational efficiency in terms of cost and memory requirements are also estimated. © 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

地下水流并行有限层方法及同伦反演研究

根据有限层求解格式存在的解耦性,实现了地下水三维流问题的高效并行化计算。在此基础上,结合非线性同伦方法,提出了地下水参数反演分析的并行同伦算法,利用MATLAB编译了相应的正反演计算程序。与已有解析解和有限差分解的对比以及数值算例,验证了并行化正反演方法及程序的正确性,探讨了并行算法的计算效率。研究表明,并行方法可以有效提高计算速度,较串行方法具有明显优势,同时同伦反演方法具有大范围收敛的特点,不依赖于参数值的初始选取。     

用改进的遗传算法和高斯牛顿法联合反演三维地下水流模型参数

遗传算法在处理非线性优化问题时具有较好的全局搜索性能,但在局部搜索时搜索效率不高,解的精度亦不高,高斯牛顿法在处理非线性优化问题时的性质正好和遗传算法相反,利用遗传算法和高斯牛顿法的优点,用改进的遗传算法和高斯牛顿法联合反演地下水数值模型参数.首先用遗传算法求出地下水模型参数的初值,然后利用这组初值用高斯牛顿法进行数值模型参数的反演,并以一非均质各向同性三维承压非稳定流理想模型为例,结合有限元法讨论了用遗传算法和高斯牛顿法联合反演地下水数值模型参数的过程.计算结果表明,联合参数反演方法,具有收敛速度快、解的精度高的特点,在地下水渗流和水资源评价等领域可广泛应用.     

Nanoscale Iron Particles for Environmental Remediation: An Overview

Nanoscale iron particles represent a new generation of environmental remediation technologies that could provide cost-effective solutions to some of the most challenging environmental cleanup problems. Nanoscale iron particles have large surface areas and high surface reactivity. Equally important, they provide enormous flexibility for in situ applications. Research has shown that nanoscale iron particles are very effective for the transformation and detoxification of a wide variety of common environmental contaminants, such as chlorinated organic solvents, organochlorine pesticides, and PCBs. Modified iron nanoparticles, such as catalyzed and supported nanoparticles have been synthesized to further enhance the speed and efficiency of remediation. In this paper, recent developments in both laboratory and pilot studies are assessed, including: (1) synthesis of nanoscale iron particles (10–100nm, >99.5% Fe) from common precursors such as Fe(II) and Fe(III); (2) reactivity of the nanoparticles towards contaminants in soil and water over extended periods of time (e.g., weeks); (3) field tests validating the injection of nanoparticles into aquifer, and (4) in situ reactions of the nanoparticles in the subsurface.     

图的孤立断裂度

连通图G的孤立断裂度isc(G)=max{i(G-S)-|S|:S∈C(G)},其中i(G-S)是G-S中的孤立点数,C(G)是G的点割集.本文研究了孤立断裂度和图的其它一些参数的关系.讨论了孤立断裂度取特殊值的一些图,证明了圈、连通二部图、连通二部图的联图以及树和圈的补图的孤立断裂度都达到最小.给出了具有给定阶数和最大度的村的最大、最小孤立断裂度.