颗粒气体的团簇行为

颗粒体系由于粒子间非弹性碰撞和摩擦等内秉的能量耗散特性,由宏观粒子形成的颗粒气体体系经常会有局部凝聚现象,这是颗粒气体体系与分子气体体系的最大区别之一。理解和预测这一现象的发生将有助于人们对远离平衡态体系的复杂现象(如有序结构、斑图和团簇形成)的认知。这种局部凝聚现象可以类比于分子气体中亚稳分解形成的液滴,将气液相分离用于解释和寻求局部凝聚现象的模型得到了分子动力学模拟的校验。但是实验的校验却由于宏观粒子运动受重力作用的影响难以在实验室中实现。实践十号卫星为我们提供了长时稳定微重力条件,使得实验观察成为可能,有望获得团簇形成及颗粒冷却行为等颗粒动力学重要实验结果。     

不同重力下窄通道内薄材料表面的火焰传播

在常重力下模拟微重力燃烧对载人航天器的火灾安全具有重要意义.窄通道就是这样一种可以有效限制自然对流的模拟设施.但是,不同重力下火焰传播的相似性仍然是有待研究的问题.本文用实验和数值模拟的方法,比较了不同重力下有限空间内热薄材料表面的逆风传播火焰.不同重力下火焰形状和火焰传播速度的比较表明,1cm高的水平窄通道可以有效地限制自然对流,在常重力下用这种通道能够模拟微重力下相同几何尺寸的通道中的火焰传播.因此,在地面上首先利用水平窄通道,模拟相同环境中的微重力火焰传播,然后考虑通道尺寸变化对火焰传播的影响,有可能成为地面模拟其他尺寸的空间中的微重力燃烧的方法.     

Stability of Antimicrobial Drug Molecules in Different Gravitational and Radiation Conditions in View of Applications during Outer Space Missions

The evolution of different antimicrobial drugs in terrestrial, microgravity and hypergravity conditions is presented within this review, in connection with their implementation during human space exploration. Drug stability is of utmost importance for applications in outer space. Instabilities may be radiation-induced or micro-/hypergravity produced. The antimicrobial agents used in space may have diminished effects not only due to the microgravity-induced weakened immune response of astronauts, but also due to the gravity and radiation-altered pathogens. In this context, the paper provides schemes and procedures to find reliable ways of fighting multiple drug resistance acquired by microorganisms. It shows that the role of multipurpose medicines modified at the molecular scale by optical methods in long-term space missions should be considered in more detail. Solutions to maintain drug stability, even in extreme environmental conditions, are also discussed, such as those that would be encountered during long-duration space exploratory missions. While the microgravity conditions may not be avoided in space, the suggested approaches deal with the radiation-induced modifications in humans, bacteria and medicines onboard, which may be fought by novel pharmaceutical formulation strategies along with radioprotective packaging and storage.     

Analytical predictions of shapes of laminar diffusion flames in microgravity and earth gravity

Flame shape is an important observed characteristic of flames that can be used to scale flame properties such as heat release rates and radiation. Flame shape is affected by fuel type, oxygen levels in the oxidiser, inverse burning and gravity. The objective of this study is to understand the effect of high oxygen concentrations, inverse burning, and gravity on the predictions of flame shapes. Flame shapes are obtained from recent analytical models and compared with experimental data for a number of inverse and normal ethane flame configurations with varying oxygen concentrations in the oxidiser and under earth gravity and microgravity conditions. The Roper flame shape model was extended to predict the complete flame shapes of laminar gas jet normal and inverse diffusion flames on round burners. The Spalding model was extended to inverse diffusion flames. The results show that the extended Roper model results in reasonable predictions for all microgravity and earth gravity flames except for enhanced oxygen normal diffusion flames under earth gravity conditions. The results also show trends towards cooler flames in microgravity that are in line with past experimental observations. Some key characteristics of the predicted flame shapes and parameters needed to describe the flame shape using the extended Roper model are discussed.     

微重力环境下Marangoni对流的有限元数值模拟

本文以悬浮区为背景研究液桥中气液交界面上由表面张力所驱动的流体对流。我们采用有限元方法对轴对称、定常运动方程,能量方程,自由面切向、法向应力平衡条件迭代求解,首次考虑了边界形状的影响,得到了自洽的流区位形和流场、温度场、表面压强分布。一般说来,流区自由面呈弯月形。结果表明,只要表面张力数 C_a<1,静态平衡的流区位形就是动态情况的良好近似。本文还分析了C_a数及G_r 数对流区位形的影响,得到了不同 M_a 数及散热条件下的温度场和流函数分布。     

微重力条件下材料气相生长研究进展

本文概述了近二十多年来国外空间气相生长晶体材料及薄膜材料研究工作的进展状况．着重介绍了国外空间气相生长研究的历史过程、研究的主要内容及所采取的研究手段,详细地总结了关于空间气相生长的主要飞行结果,并对国外如何进行数值模拟和实验室模拟等地面准备工作做了较充分的描述．     

Stability of Crystal Growth Face and Dissolution Face in Crystallization from Solution under Microgravity

The stability of the shapes of crystal growth face and dissolution face in a two-dimensional mathematical model of crystal growth from solution under microgravity is studied.It is proved that the stable shapes of crystal growth face and dissolution face do exist,which are suitably shaped curves with their upper parts inclined backward properly.The stable shapes of crystal growth faces and dissolution faces are calculated for various values of parameters,Ra,Pr and Sc.It is shown that the stronger the convection relative to the diffusion in solution is,the more backward the upper parts of the stable crystal growth face and dissolution face are inclined.The orientation and the shape of dissolution face hardly affect the stable shape of crystal growth face and vice versa.     

不同重力环境下辐射加热材料表面着火特性分析

研究外界辐射加热下，不同重力环境中热薄燃料的着火特性．探讨了重力、环境氧浓度、环境压力及外界辐射强度对着火的影响．结果表明，随着重力的变化，存在不同的着火机制．在微重力和在高的环境氧浓度中，材料的着火延迟时间变短．压力减小，着火延迟时间增大．随着辐射强度的增大，着火延迟时间变小．     

热毛细对流的液桥几何位形及浮力效应

本文讨论重力对不同高度、直径比液桥的热毛细对流的影响。当液桥高度、直径比增大时,液桥中的等流函数线呈双涡结构,这种流动图样并不必然与热毛细振荡流相联系。在地面热毛细对流实验中模拟空间微重力情况,液桥高度需小于1.5mm。在微重力环境中,液桥内的流场和温度分布介于地面相同参数液桥的上部加热和下部加热两种结果之间。因此,可以用地面实验结果估计空间液桥的对流和热输运情况。     

Mathematical study of the small oscillations of an incompressible and inviscid liquid under zero gravity in a container of revolution with elastic bottom and anchored edge

In this paper, the Authors study the small oscillations of an inviscid liquid under zero gravity in a container of revolution with elastic bottom, considered as a membrane or a plate, and anchored edge. They obtain the equations of the displacements of the free surface and the bottom and they reduce these equations to a functional equation in a suitable Hilbert space. By using the methods of Functional Analysis the Authors prove the existence of the small oscillations. Research partially supported by GNFM, MURST (Italy).