Methane dissolution inside bulk or porous-medium-confined water at near-hydrate equilibrium conditions

In this study, we perform a series of mass-balance-type calculations, in order to estimate the minimum volume of liquid water required to dissolve completely a single methane gas bubble, located inside different types of domains that are near or under hydrate equilibrium pressure/temperature conditions. We examine the case of methane bubble dissolution in the bulk, along with the cases of methane bubble dissolution within simple/regular networks of pores, where all pores have the same size. In our calculations, we consider experimental values for the equilibrium solubilities of methane in water, along the hydrate-forming line, as well as, values obtained from predictive tools that are based on different thermodynamic models. The effect of aqueous NaCl solutions on the results is also investigated. As a result of the relatively low solubility of methane in water, large volumes of water are required for complete dissolution of a methane bubble.     

工质对微通道沸腾液膜瞬态变化的影响

本文采用去离子水和无水乙醇两种工质,利用微通道流动沸腾同步测量实验系统,研究了液膜厚度的瞬态变化规律,实验发现流动沸腾形成的初始液膜厚度在毛细数Ca很宽的范围内都遵循Taylor流动原理;液膜形成后,在蒸发和蒸汽流动携带的耦合作用下,厚度迅速减薄直至蒸干;由于水的汽液黏度比小,速度梯度小,剪切作用带来的液膜厚度减少量小,且水的汽化潜热大,吸收相同热量时蒸发量小,导致水的液膜厚度变化斜率较小,通过理论分析提出了沸腾液膜厚度变化的计算模型,计算结果与实验结果的误差小于20%。     

氩气感应耦合等离子体速度与温度数值模拟

为了获得用于研究再入飞行器热防护系统的感应耦合等离子体风洞流场数据,基于流场、电磁场和化学场的多场耦合建立了非平衡态感应耦合等离子体数值模型。利用该模型对不同入口质量流率和不同工作压力下的感应耦合等离子体进行了数值模拟,得到了相应工作参数下感应耦合等离子体温度与速度的分布特性。计算结果表明:等离子体中心线上的速度随着入口质量流率的增大而增大,而随着工作压力的增大而减小;同时,等离子体中心线上的温度随着入口质量流率的增大而减小,而随着压力的增大先减小后增大。这些结果可为感应耦合等离子体风洞优化设计及其工业应用提供理论指导。     

开式单喷嘴喷雾冷却均匀性实验研究

针对高热流密度激光介质高效散热与均匀冷却技术需求,设计并搭建了以去离子水为冷却工质的开式单喷嘴喷雾冷却实验平台,实验研究获得了不同热流密度（16～110 W/cm²）、不同冷却工质流量（200～300 mL/min）以及不同喷雾高度（15～25 mm）下单相喷雾冷却换热系数及其冷却均匀性效果。结果表明：该实验工况下,不同热流密度条件下喷雾高度及工质流量对于单相喷雾冷却换热效率及温度均匀性影响显著;喷雾高度15 mm、工质流量200 mL/min时获得最大对流换热系数为5.93 W/（cm²·K）;喷雾高度15 mm、工质流量250 mL/min时面积20 mm×20 mm的热源表面温度均匀性最佳可优于0.6 ℃。     

两组份复合材料光学非线性性质的临界行为

对两组份非线性复合材料的光学非线性性质的临界行为进行了研究。考虑第一组份为非线性材料,其电流、电压间服从I=g1V x1V^β关系;而第二组份为线性材料,电流、电压间满足I—g2V,其中g1,x1是第一组份的线性电导和光学非线性极化率,g2是第二组份的线性电导,β是第一组份材料的光学非线性指数。分别采用了有效介质近似和相对电阻涨落的标度理论两种方法计算了系统有效响应的临界指数随光学非线性指数及维数的变化规律。用不同的方法得到系统的有效线性电导g和有效光学非线性极化率xe(β)的临界指数M(β)和N(β)的结论也不同。有效介质近似得到M(β)=1和N(β)=(β 1)/2,即M(β)与β和d都无关,而N(β)只与有β关而与d无关;而相对电阻涨落标度理论方法得到的M(β)和N(β)与β和d都有关。     

Hydromagnetic parametric resonance instability of two superposed conducting fluids in porous medium

Rayleigh–Taylor instability of a heavy fluid supported by a lighter one through porous medium, in the presence of a uniform, horizontal and oscillating magnetic field is studied. The fluids are taken as viscous (obeying Darcy's law), uniform, incompressible, and infinitely conducting. The amplitude of the oscillating part of the field is taken to be small compared with its steady part. The dispersion relation is obtained in the form of a third-order differential equation, with time as the independent variable and with periodic coefficients, for the vertical displacement of the surface of separation of the two fluids from its equilibrium position. The oscillatory magnetic field of frequency ω$\omega$ and steady part _H0$H_0$ has a stabilizing influence on a mode of disturbance which is unstable in a steady magnetic field of strength _H0$H_0$. It is found that the oscillatory magnetic field and porosity of the porous medium have stabilizing effects, while the medium permeability has a destabilizing influence on the considered system. For a constant value of any of these physical parameters, the system has been found to be unstable (for small wavenumbers) as well as stable afterwards after a definite wavenumber value. The marginal stability case of parametric resonance holds when _M1=_M2=0$M_1=M_2=0$ (and hence m=0$m=0$), in which the characteristic exponents, and the corresponding solutions for u$u$ break down, is also investigated in detail. It is found, to order ?$?$, that the effect of an oscillating magnetic field has no stabilizing influence on a disturbance which is marginally stable in the steady magnetic field; while to order ?²${?}^2$, and when the magnetic field oscillates, a resonance between this mode of disturbances and the oscillating field leads to instability when _ρ2>_ρ1${\rho }_2>{\rho }_1$. It is found also, in this resonant case, that all the constant or varied physical parameters, mentioned above, have destabilizing influences on the considered system. Finally, the other two resonance points appear in non-porous media (i.e., when m=±iω$m=\pm \mathrm{i}\omega$ and m=±2iω$m=\pm 2\mathrm{i}\omega$), are disappeared here due to the presence of the porous medium.     

Comparative Study on Large and Small Signal Theory for Intensity Modulation Response of Semiconductor Lasers Including Higher-Order Dispersion Terms

In this article, the comparison of large signal theory and small signal theory has been done with dispersive propagation of optical signal with IMDD (Intensity Modulation Direct Detection) systems for semiconductor lasers with higher-order dispersion terms. The expressions for an exact large signal theory and small signal theory including higher-order dispersion terms for propagation of an optical wave with sinusoidal amplitude and frequency modulation in a dispersive fiber have been derived. It is observed that small signal theory is more sensitive compared to large signal theory in terms of intensity modulation/direct detection systems. Also, it is reported that for large signal analysis the higher-order effects of dispersion can be ignored, whereas for small signal theory, the higher-order effects can be ignored for lower modulation frequencies only. The variation in the transfer function for various values of modulation indices are greater for small signal analysis than for large signal analysis. Also, as the intensity modulation index is increased, there is a decrease in the value of transfer function. The large signal model approximates the small signal model for lower values of the intensity modulation index.     

Chiral dynamics of baryon resonances and hadrons in a nuclear medium

In these lectures I make an introduction to chiral unitary theory applied to the meson-baryon interaction and show how several well-known resonances are dynamically generated, and others are predicted. Two very recent experiments are analyzed, one of them showing the existence of two Λ(1405) states and the other one providing support for the Λ(1520) resonance as a quasi-bound state of Σ(1385)π. The use of chiral Lagrangians to account for the hadronic interaction at the elementary level introduces a new approach to deal with the modification of meson and baryon properties in a nuclear medium. Examples of it for $\bar K$ andø modification in the nuclear medium are presented     

Interactions between kinetic and radiative processes inside moving absorbing fluids

The aim of this paper is to present several features of the couplings occurring between radiative transfer and the kinetics of a moving dielectric. After determining how the velocity field affects the apparent thermo-optical properties of matter, the energy transport problem is investigated in instationary regime and the general form of transient radiative transfer equation inside a moving medium is built. Then, the model is applied to the particular case of turbulent flows: a system of two equations for mean and fluctuating radiative energies is presented, and the resolution of this system is finally carried out.     

Analysis of combined conduction and radiation heat transfer in presence of participating medium by the development of hybrid method

The current study addresses the mathematical modeling aspects of coupled conductive and radiative heat transfer in the presence of absorbing, emitting and isotropic scattering gray medium within two-dimensional square enclosure. A blended method where the concepts of modified differential approximation employed by combining discrete ordinate method and spherical harmonics method, has been developed for modeling the radiative transport equation. The gray participating medium is bounded by isothermal walls of two-dimensional enclosure which are considered to be opaque, diffuse and gray. The effect of various influencing parameters i.e., radiation-conduction parameter, surface emissivity, single scattering albedo and optical thickness has been illustrated. The adaptability of the present method has also been addressed.