Development of thermal simulation system for heavy section ductile iron solidification

A new reliable thermal simulation system for studying solidification of heavy section ductile iron has been developed using computer feedback control and artificial intelligent methods. Results of idle test indicate that the temperature in the system responses exactly to the inputted control data and the temperature control error is less than ±0.5%. It is convenient to simulate solidification of heavy section ductile iron using this new system. Results of thermal simulation experiments show that the differences in nodularity and number of graphite nodule per unit area in the thermal simulation specimen and the actual heavy section block is less than 5% and 10%, respectively.

Numerical performance assessment of double-shell targets for Z-pinch dynamic hohlraum

A Z-pinch dynamic hohlraum can create the high-temperature radiation field required by indirect-drive inertial confinement fusion.A dynamic hohlraum with peak radiation temperature over 300 eV can be obtained with a>50 MA Z-pinch driver according to the scaling law of dynamic hohlraum radiation temperature vs drive current.Based on a uniform 300 eV radiation temperature profile with a width of 10 ns,three double-shell capsules with radii of 2,2.5,and 3 mm are proposed,and the corresponding fusion yields from a one-dimensional calculation are 28.8,56.1,and 101.6 MJ.The implosion dynamics of the 2.5 mm-radius capsule is investigated in detail.At ignition,the areal density of the fuel is about 0.53 g/cm^(2),the fuel pressure is about 80 Gbar,and the central ion temperature is about 4.5 keV,according to the one-dimensional simulation.A two-dimensional simulation indicates that the double-shell capsule can implode nearly spherically when driven by the radiation field of a Z-pinch dynamic hohlraum.The sensitivities of the fusion performance to the radiation temperature profiles and to deviations in the capsule parameter are investigated through one-dimensional simulation,and it is found that the capsule fusion yields are rather stable in a quite large parameter space.A one-dimensional simulation of a capsule embedded in 50 mg/cm^(3)CH foam indicates that the capsule performance does not change greatly in the mimicked environment of a Z-pinch dynamic hohlraum.The double-shell capsules designed here are also applicable to laser indirect-drive inertial fusion,if a laser facility can produce a uniform 300 eV radiation field and sustain it for about 10 ns.

A negative deviation from Porod’s law in SAXS of organo—MSU—X

Small-angle X-ray scattering(SAXS)using synchrotron radiation as X-ray source has been employed to charactcizc the microscopic structrure of organo-modified mesoporous molecular sieves(organo-MSU-X)prepared by a one-pot template-directed synthesis.It is shown that the SAXS profile is hardly constant with Porod’s law showing a negative slope,i.e.,negative deviation.This suggests that there is diffuse interfacial layer located between the pores and the matrix.This suggests that the organic groups remain covalently linked to the matrix,as indicated by ^29SiCP MAS NMR and FT-IR.The average thickness of the interfacial layer was found to be about 1nm for each of the three samples with different kinds and the same amounts(20? of organic groups.This kind of material has also been proved to possess both surface and mass fractal structure of the amophous porous silica materials.2001 Elsevier Science B.V.All rights reserved.

A Novel Micro-porous Polymer Electrolyte Comprising SnO_2 Nanorods and P(MMA-AN)

1 Results Micro-porous polymer electrolytes(MPEs), which almost obtained by the conventional methods of phase inversion process or immersion precipitation method, have significant advantages such as high ionic conductivity and excellent mechanical properties[1].In our work, micro-porous structure is obtained by adding SnO2 nanorods usually used as gas senor materials into the polymer matrix, which proves a new way to prepare MPEs.SnO2 nanorods were synthesized by microemulsion hydrothermal method[2]. Th...

Investigation of negative-parity states in ^(16)C via deuteron inelastic scattering

Two low-lying unbound states in ^(16)C are investigated by deuteron inelastic scattering in inverse kinematics.Besides the 2^(-) state at 5.45 MeV previously measured in a 1n knockout reaction,a new resonant state at 6.89 MeV is observed for the first time.The inelastic scattering angular distributions of these two states are well reproduced by the distorted-wave Born approximation(DWBA)calculation with an l=1 excitation.In addition,the spinparities of the unbound states are discussed and tentatively assigned based on shell model calculations using the modified YSOX interaction.