Particle-size segregation in dense granular avalanches

Particles of differing sizes are notoriously prone to segregate, which is a chronic problem in the manufacture of a wide variety of products that are used by billions of people worldwide every day. Segregation is the single most important factor in product non-uniformity, which can lead to significant handling problems as well as complete batches being discarded at huge financial loss. It is generally regarded that the most important mechanism for segregation is the combination of kinetic sieving and squeeze expulsion in shallow granular avalanches. These free-surface flows are more common than one might expect, often forming part of more complicated flows in drums, heaps and silos, where there is mass exchange with underlying regions of static or slowly moving grains. The combination of segregation and solid–fluid granular phase transitions creates incredibly complicated and beautiful patterns in the resulting deposits, but a full understanding of such effects lies beyond our capabilities at present. This paper reviews recent advances in our ability to model the basic segregation processes in a single avalanche (without mass exchange) and the subtle feedback effects that they can have on the bulk flow. This is particularly important for geophysical applications, where segregation can spontaneously self-channelize and lubricate the flow, significantly enhancing the run-out of debris-flows, pyroclastic flows, rock-falls and snow-slab avalanches.     

Mixing is an aggregation processLe mélange est un processus d'agrégation

With the aid of several demonstration experiments, it is shown how a stirred scalar mixture relaxes towards uniformity through an aggregation process. The elementary bricks are stretched sheets whose rates of diffusive smoothing and coalescence build up the overall mixture concentration distribution. The cases studied, in particular, include mixtures in two and three dimensions, with different stirring protocols, which all lead to a family of concentration distributions stable by self-convolution. To cite this article: E. Villermaux, J. Duplat, C. R. Mecanique 331 (2003).     

模拟微重力条件下C离子辐射对小鼠生殖器官的影响

探究模拟微重力条件下不同剂量C离子辐射对雄性动物生殖器官的急性影响, 以期了解空间环境辐射所致机体生殖系统的损伤。采用小鼠尾部悬吊模型地面模拟微重力状态1周后, 利用重离子加速器提供的C离子辐照处理, 检测了生殖器官脏器系数及精子密度、组织形态变化、DNA损伤以及细胞凋亡各项指标。结果表明, 微重力和C离子辐射均能引起睾丸损伤, 且1 Gy单纯辐照组中损伤最为严重。此外发现, 模拟微重力能够在一定程度上降低辐射诱导的损伤, 其内在机制有待于进一步的研究。In this paper it was investigated that the effect of modeled microgravity on the acute injury induced by low doses of carbon ions in the male reproductive organs of mice, assessing the risk associated with the space environments. In our study, outbred Kunming mice were stimulated in microgravity by tail suspension, and then were irradiated with the low doses of carbon ions diliuered by HIRFL, and measured the testis and epididymis coefficient, sperm number of epididymis, histological alterations, DNA strand breaks and cell apoptosis. The results demonstrated that carbon ions and stimulated microgravity could induce the damage in the present study. Moreover, most serious injury all occurred in the irradiation group. In addition, it was also found that the damage of the carbon ion irradiation combined microgravity group were lower than those of the irradiation group, while the related mechanism needs the further investigation.     

燃烧器配风对W型火焰锅炉炉内空气动力场影响的实验研究

针对珞瑛厂引进法国Stein公司360MW的W型火焰锅炉进行了冷态模化研究，采用热线风速仪对炉内流场进行测试，研究了燃烧器配风（改变各次风动量流率比）对炉空气动力场的影响规律，并对所得结果进行了比较与分析。研究表明，燃烧器各次风的合理配比对W型火焰锅炉燃烧工况的组织是非常重要的。     

Robust airfoil optimization based on improved particle swarm optimization method

A robust airfoil optimization platform is constructed based on the modified particle swarm optimization method (i.e., the second-order oscillating particle swarm method), which consists of an efficient optimization algorithm, a precise aerodynamic analysis program, a high accuracy surrogate model, and a classical airfoil parametric method. There are two improvements for the modified particle swarm method compared with the standard particle swarm method. First, the particle velocity is represented by the combination of the particle position and the variation of position, which makes the particle swarm algorithm a second-order precision method with respect to the particle position. Second, for the sake of adding diversity to the swarm and enlarging the parameter searching domain to improve the global convergence performance of the algorithm, an oscillating term is introduced to the update formula of the particle velocity. At last, taking two airfoils as examples, the aerodynamic shapes are optimized on this optimization platform. It is shown from the optimization results that the aerodynamic characteristic of the airfoils is greatly improved in a broad design range.     

Clustering of rare earths in GeAs sulfide glass

Clustering of rare-earth dopants in GeAs sulfide glasses was studied by fluorescence spectroscopy of Pr-doped glasses and by EPR measurements of Gd-doped samples. The linewidth of the g  2 resonance of Gd³⁺, as well as the relative intensity of emission from the ¹D₂ level of Pr³⁺, was used as a relative measure of rare-earth clustering. Rare earths were found to have low solubility in uncodoped GeAs sulfide glasses, which also displayed poor fluorescence efficiency due to severe clustering. Codoping such glasses with Ga greatly enhanced rare-earth solubility and dispersal, particularly for Ga:rare earth ratios ≥ 10:1, as evidenced by the narrower EPR resonances and more intense luminescence of Gd- and Pr-doped glasses, respectively. In, P and Sn were also observed to ‘decluster’ rare earths, although less efficiently than Ga, whereas codoping with I was found to have no effect on clustering. These phenomena are explained by a structural model in which (1) rare-earth dopants and codopants are spatially associated and (2) rare-earth dispersal is accomplished by a statistical distribution of codopants in tetrahedral network sites.     

二价金属离子对磷脂聚集体的影响

通过浊度分析和激光光散射光谱研究了二价金属离子（Ca2＋、Cu2＋和Mn2＋）对蛋黄卵磷脂(EYPC)聚集态的影响.结果表明，自由的二价金属离子对EYPC囊泡有破坏作用,并使EYPC囊泡发生相转变,形成胶束;而与牛磺胆酸钠(TC)结合的二价金属离子使EYPC囊泡半径减小,但不破坏EYPC囊泡.     

高密度钢纤维混凝土疲劳裂纹扩展的分形描述

在对局部高密度钢纤维混凝土疲劳裂纹扩展规律的研究中发现,裂纹并非是由一条主裂纹循序渐进地发展,而是随着循环次数的增加,呈多条短裂纹陆续出现,弥散式发展的趋势;纤维掺量越大,临近破坏前试表面裂纹越密集、弯曲、本阐述了用分形语言描述表面裂纹演化的必要性并且探讨了描述方法,借助分形语言对试验结果分析后发现,纤维混凝土裂纹失稳扩展前的临界分维值Dc随着纤维掺量的增加而增加。     

机械抽样在林业伐区蓄积量调查中的应用

本文叙述了过去林业伐区木材蓄积量调查的一般概况。在学生生产实习中采用了机械抽样方法进行木材蓄积量调查，结果表明，该方法缩短调查时间，降低生产成本，效果较好