双组元姿控发动机反流特性的DSMC模拟

为准确获得双组元姿控发动机的羽流及其反流特性,采用直接模拟蒙特卡罗(DSMC)方法结合可变软球(VSS)模型数值模拟以N2O4/MMH为推进剂的真空羽流。喷口参数由喷管流动的DSMC法计算得到。与文献比较表明本文计算程序可信。模拟结果表明,分子质量越小的气体越容易进入反流区;本文的计算条件下,在偏离X轴正向116°~140°范围内,组分数密度和质量流率以及温度均出现了最大值。     

Fast polarisation-insensitive optical shutter supported by backflow in dichroic dye-doped dual-frequency liquid crystal

This paper describes a novel implementation of a dual-frequency liquid crystal optical shutter of the guest–host type. The transmissive state of the filter is obtained by applying a low-frequency electric field that brings the dichroic dye in a homeotropic orientation. The light-absorbing state is realised by a twisted planar configuration for which the absorption is quasi-independent of the polarisation. Switching between the two states occurs in about 1 ms and the devices show no scattering for wavelengths inside or outside the absorption band of the dichroic dye. Simulations and experiments reveal how a twisted state is obtained through the backflow phenomenon.     

An integrated plastic microchip for enhancing electrophoretic separation using tunable pressure-driven backflows

Microfluidic CE (MCE) is an effective solution for rapid and sensitive determination of multiple analytes. Herein, a dynamic coated cyclic olefin copolymer microchip was developed having an on-chip micropump for fluid velocity adjusting in electrophoretic separations. This micropump was fabricated by constructing a polyacrylamide gel membrane at one channel terminal. Once applying electric field across the membrane, a pressure-driven flow generated automatically to balance the electroosmotic flow (EOF) mismatch at the channel-membrane interface. The influence of gel precursor concentration and operating voltages on the fluid velocity was carefully evaluated. Moreover, the highly integration of injection, separation, and pumping units of the MCE system minimized the dead volume and provides satisfied column efficiency. Experiments showed that by adjusting of pumping voltage reduced the fluid velocity by a factor of 6, resulting six- and threefold resolving power enhancements of rhodamine dye mixture and amino acid mixture, respectively. Furthermore, the developed MCE method was applied for rhodamines and amino acids quantitation in food and cosmetics, with standard addition recoveries of 87.3–106.9% and 89.9–117.4%, respectively. These results were also confirmed by standard HPLC method, revealing the application potential in fast and onsite analysis of complex samples.     

Fast-switching effect using viscous chiral-nematic materials

We report on chiral-nematic mixtures containing viscous chiral dopants, composed of rigid rod-like chiral molecules, in order to solve the problem of backflow in the middle layers of the liquid crystal cells. During the study, the viscoelastic properties of the liquid crystal compositions have been optimised, as well as the helical twisting power of the chiral compounds, the anchoring energy and the pre-tilt angle of alignment materials, the ratio between the cell gap and the helical pitch (d/P₀). After optimisation, we prepared test cells with low operating voltage – from 1.5 till 5.0 V, fast response time (τ_on + τ_off) – less than 1 ms, wide operating temperature range from ?40°C till +100°C, and good thermal stability. It should be noted that the response time of the new electro-optical mode does not strongly depend on the cell gap, which is in contrast to other known operating modes. We have achieved rather linear than quadratic dependence of the response time when changing the thickness of the cell.     

反常扩散:定向通过一个势能鞍点

考虑一个处于非Ohmic环境下的系统定向通过一个倒谐振子势鞍点的输运过程,给出了通过几率的解析式。结果表明在欠扩散情况下,时间有关的通过几率出现一个很强的超前峰和回流,这可能有助于理解重核熔合系统的激发函数随质心能量的慢增长机制。Directional transport of a particle in a non-Ohmic environment passing over the saddle point of a potential is considered and the analytical expression of the passing probability is obtained. Our results has shown that both overshooting and backflow are observed in the case of subdiffusion. This is a possible for understanding slow increasing of the fusion probability with the center-of-mass energy.     

离子发动机交换电荷离子返流的粒子模拟

 建立了离子发动机羽流的物理模型,采用粒子网格对羽流中的交换电荷离子的分布进行了模拟,电场方程使用完全近似格式的代数多重网格方法求解。利用计算设备统一架构技术开发出一套基于图形处理器的3维并行粒子模拟程序。计算结果表明,交换电荷离子在径向扩张型电势结构下会向束流区外运动,一部分交换离子在电场力作用下会向发动机上游运动,从而形成返流。发动机上游区域的交换电荷数密度与束流等离子体数密度相比降低了3~4个数量级。通过降低电子温度可有效降低返流电流。     

离子推力器羽流特性的粒子模拟

采用粒子网格单元和蒙特卡罗碰撞方法,建立了离子推力器羽流场的2维轴对称模型,对其特性进行了数值模拟,并将模拟结果与实验测量数据进行了对比分析。研究结果表明:数值模拟结果与实验测量值基本一致,模型可以很好地评估离子推力器的羽流特性;返流区离子数密度达到1014m-3量级,会对航天器表面产生污染;背压对束流区域外电荷交换离子影响较为显著,不可忽略。     

Computational fluid dynamics simulation and redesign of a screw conveyor reactor

National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) designed a shrinking-bed reactor to maintain a constant bulk packing density of cellulosic biomass. The high solid-to-liquid ratio in the pretreatment process allows a high sugar yield and avoids the need to flush large volumes of solution through the reactor. To scale up the shrinking-bed reactor, NREL investigated a pilot-scale screw conveyor reactor in which an interrupted flight between screws was employed to mimic the “shrinking-bed” effect. In the experiments with the screw conveyor reactor, overmixing and uneven flow occurred. These phenomena produce negative effects on biomass hydrolysis. The flow behavior inside the reactor was analyzed to allow redesign of the screw to achieve adequate mixing and even flow. In the present study, computational fluid dynamics (CFD) was utilized to simulate the fluid flow in the porous media, and a new screw design was proposed. CFD analysis performed on the redesigned reactor indicated that an even flow pattern was achieved.     

Dielectric spectroscopy of an antiferroelectric liquid crystal showing an antiferroelectric–ferrielectric transition

We report the dielectric relaxation behaviour in the antiferroelectric SmC_A* and ferrielectric SmC_γ* phases of the antiferroelectric liquid crystal 4-[5-(4-octloxyphenyl)-2-pyrimidinyl]phenyl 4,4,4-trifluoro-3-(methoxyphenyl)butanoate which shows an antiferroelectric transition at around 88±0.1°C. In the SmC_A* phase, two dielectric relaxation modes have been found, namely the usual antiferroelectric Goldstone mode and another arising from molecular rotation around its short axis. In the SmC_γ* phase, one dielectric relaxation mode has been observed due to the ferrielectric Goldstone mode. Dielectric increments and relaxation frequencies of the antiferroelectric and ferrielectric phases are estimated from the fits of the Cole–Cole function of the dielectric spectrum. The dependence of the bias field in the ferrielectric phase is also discussed.     

基于液晶引流效应的上板游离态液晶盒数值计算研究

以小分子液晶Leslie-Ericksen理论为基础,建立液晶盒上基片游离状态的计算模型,在给出边界初始条件的基础上,运用二阶Runge-Kutta(龙格-库塔)法与中心差分法对方程组进行时空离散,通过MATLAB编写计算程序,调整计算参数得出液晶盒厚度、液晶盒两端所施加电场参数对液晶引流的影响.结果表明:液晶指向矢的大小随液晶盒上下基板所施加电场的交变而交变,并引起液晶引流速度大小交变;随着液晶盒厚度的增加,液晶盒上基片在一个周期内移动的位移也在增加;液晶盒两端所施加电场的占空比基本上不影响液晶盒上基片速度的大小,对液晶盒上基片速度最大值出现的时间点影响很大;通过与实验数据相对比,液晶盒上基片位移数值大小在同一个数量级,运动轨迹比较吻合.