Lattice gas simulations of two-dimensional liquid foams

Liquid foam is a dense random packing of gas bubbles in a small amount of immiscible liquid containing surfactants. The liquid within the Plateau borders, although small in volume, causes considerable difficulties to investigations of the physical properties of foams, and the situation becomes even more complicated if the flow of the liquid through the foam is considered too. Here we propose a fresh approach to tackling these issues by introducing a discrete two-dimensional hybrid lattice gas model of liquid foams. While lattice gas models have been used to model two-phase liquids in the past, their application to the study of liquid foams is novel and proves promising. We represent bubble surfaces by a finite number of nodes, and model the surrounding liquid as a lattice gas (with a finite number of liquid particles). The gas in the bubbles is treated as an ideal gas at constant temperature. The model is tested by choosing an arbitrarily shaped bubble that evolves into a circular shape in agreement with Laplaces law. The model is then employed to simulate periodic ordered and disordered dry and wet foams. Since our model is specifically designed to handle wet foams up to a critical liquid fraction of 0.16 (void fraction of random packing of disks), we are able to compute the variation in coordination number (average number of neighbours of a bubble) over the whole range of liquid fractions, and we find it to be a linear function of the shear modulus.This paper was presented at the first Annual European Rheology Conference (AERC) held in Guimarães, Portugal, 11–13 September 2003.     

New type of spherical pore Al alloy foam with low porosity and high strength

The Ultra Light Metal Structure with variouskinds of pores (open, close) realizes the lightness andmultifunction of structural material. The functionsinclude lightness (ρ < 1), high specific strength, highenergy absorption, sound insulation, heat insulationand electromagnetism shield. It is one of the hotspotsin material research nowadays[1— . The requirements 6]of high speed movement and high technology make Alalloy foam, which has higher specific st…     

微生物驱油数学模型

根据微生物生长动力学,建立了微生物生长、基质消耗和代谢产物生成方程。在考虑菌体、基质、产物扩散和吸附的基础上,用物质平衡方法建立了菌体、基质和产物的运移方程。以多孔介质的毛细管模型为基础,建立了由于微生物吸附引起的孔隙度和渗透率变化方程。考虑到微生物作用对流体性质的影响,建立了油、水粘度和油、气、水管力方程。根据黑油模型建立了三维、三相、多组分基质与产物的微生物驱油数学模型。计算结果表明,所建模型能较好地计算出微生物生长曲线、代谢曲线、基质消耗曲线和微生物运移浓度曲线,与实验值有较好的一致性。这些模型综合考虑了微生物的生化特性、微生物作用对岩石、流体性质的影响以及油、气、水的渗流规律,是一个比较完整的微生物驱油数学模型。     

X－ray reflectivity investigation of the foam bilayer film formed by hexaethylene glycol dodecyl ether

When the thickness of soap foam film varies in adefinite region, color changes of a soap bubble will be observed due to the interference of light. Black soap films are the final stages of thinning of soap films due to the drainage of water in the absence of evaporation and are generally formed from solutions of an ionic surfactant in the presence of salt. After a bubble is formed, in the beginning the soap film is relatively thick and it appearswhite; then the film thins gradually and finally …     

Quantum-Gravitational Diffusion and Stochastic Fluctuations in the Velocity of Light

We argue that quantum-gravitational fluctuations in the space-time background give the vacuum non-trivial optical properties that include diffusion and consequent uncertainties in the arrival times of photons, causing stochastic fluctuations in the velocity of light in vacuo. Our proposal is motivated within a Liouville string formulation of quantum gravity that also suggests a frequency-dependent refractive index of the particle vacuum. We construct an explicit realization by treating photon propagation through quantum excitations of D-brane fluctuations in the space-time foam. These are described by higher-genus string effects, that lead to stochastic fluctuations in couplings, and hence in the velocity of light. We discuss the possibilities of constraining or measuring photon diffusion in vacuo via -ray observations of distant astrophysical sources.     

不同烷基季铵盐对膨润土絮凝性的影响

以四乙基溴化铵((Et)4NB)、一种二价季铵盐(MD膜驱剂)、十二烷基三甲基溴化铵(DTAB)和十六烷基三甲基溴化铵(CTAB)为改性溶剂,考察改性膨润土的分散、絮凝作用和层间含水量,对膨润土用X射线衍射(XRD)、傅立叶红外(FT-IR)和分光光度计等分析表征.结果表明,烷基季铵盐已进入膨润土晶层之间,使膨润土层间含水量降低,而MD膜驱剂改性膨润土含水量最小.烷基季铵盐在高浓度下对膨润土都有一定的絮凝性,膨润土的沉降体积随季铵盐浓度增大出现一个极大值.与(Et)4NB,DTAB和CTAB相比,MD膜驱剂在较低浓度下对膨润土就有较好的絮凝性.膨润土在MD膜驱剂或DTAB溶液中沉降平衡时间较(Et)4NB或CTAB的短.     

卫星遥感资料在潮间带地形和漫滩计算中的应用

提出了利用卫星遥感资料计算潮间带地形和漫滩的方法：选取一组不同潮位的卫星遥感图像，提取潮间带遥感淹水线，由遥感淹水线和数值模式结合推算潮间带地形，将推算的地形用于海水漫滩计算，并用遥感淹水线检验漫滩计算结果.利用该方法，由Landsat 卫星图像提取了我国湛江港潮间带淹水线信息，计算了湛江港潮间带地形和漫滩.     

A conservative unstructured scheme for rapidly varied flows

This article introduces a new semi‐implicit, staggered finite volume scheme on unstructured meshes for the modelling of rapidly varied shallow water flows. Rapidly varied flows occur in the inundation of dry land during flooding situations. They typically involve bores and hydraulic jumps after obstacles such as road banks. Near such sudden flow transitions, the grid resolution is often low compared with the gradients of the bathymetry. Locally the hydrostatic pressure assumption may become invalid. In these situations, it is crucial to apply the correct conservation properties to obtain accurate results. An important feature of this scheme is therefore its ability to conserve momentum locally or, by choice, preserve constant energy head along a streamline. This is achieved using a special interpolation method and control volumes for momentum. The efficiency of inundation calculations with locally very high velocities, and in the case of unstructured meshes locally very small grid distances, is severely hampered by the Courant condition. This article provides a solution in the form of a locally implicit time integration for the advective terms that allows for an explicit calculation in most of the domain, while maintaining unconditional stability by implicit calculations only where necessary. The complex geometry of flooded urban areas asks for the flexibility of unstructured meshes. The efficient calculation of the pressure gradient in this, and other semi‐implicit staggered schemes, requires, however, an orthogonality condition to be put on the grid. In this article a simple method is introduced to generate unstructured hybrid meshes that fulfil this requirement. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

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