Variations in Surface Urban Heat Island and Urban Cool Island Intensity:A Review Across Major Climate Zones

The climate has an impact on the urban thermal environment,and the magnitude of the surface urban heat island(SUHI)and urban cool island(UCI)vary across the world’s climatic zones.This literature review investigated:1)the variations in the SUHI and UCI intensity under different climatic backgrounds,and 2)the effect of vegetation types,landscape composition,urban configuration,and water bodies on the SUHI.The SUHI had a higher intensity in tropical(Af(tropical rainy climate,Köppen climate classification),Am(tropical monsoon climate),subtropical(Cfa,subtropical humid climate),and humid continental(Dwa,semi-humid and semi-arid monsoon climate)climate zones.The magnitude of the UCI was low compared to the SUHI across the climate zones.The cool and dry Mediterranean(Cfb,temperate marine climate;Csb,temperate mediterranean climate;Cfa)and tropical climate(Af)areas had a higher cooling intensity.For cities with a desert climate(BWh,tropical desert climate),a reverse pattern was found.The difference in the SUHI in the night-time was greater than in the daytime for most cities across the climate zones.The extent of green space cooling was related to city size,the adjacent impervious surface,and the local climate.Additionally,the composition of urban landscape elements was more significant than their configuration for sustaining the urban thermal environment.Finally,we identified future research gaps for possible solutions in the context of sustainable urbanization in different climate zones.

Finite element analysis of welding distortion control by trailing intense cooling

A new moving or dynamic thermal tensioning technique-welding with trailing intense cooling was numerically simulated by finite element method(FEM)and experimentally investigated.The simulation results indicate that trailing intense cooling can increase significantly the longitudinal tensile plastic strain within the weld and its adjacent zone during cooling stage,which can partially or completely counterbalance the longitudinal compressive plastic strain formed in the heating stage and the solidification shrinkage formed in the cooling stage.Therefore the longitudinal shrinkage remaining in the weld and the adjacent zone is greatly reduced,which means that the residual stresses in the weldments are kept in a lower value and the residual distortion can be mitigated effectively.Meanwhile a series of parametric studies were conducted to demonstrate the influences of several key parameters such as cooling distance, cooling power and cooling width on the effectiveness of distortion control.Experimental results also verify the effectiveness of this distortion control technique and the reliability of the numerical simulation.

Tuning the velocity and flux of a low-velocity intense source of cold atomic beam

We investigate experimentally and numerically the quantitative dependence of characteristics of a low-velocity intensity source（LVIS） of atomic beam on light parameters, especially the polarization of cooling laser along the atomic beam axis（pushing beam）. By changing the polarization of the pushing beam, the longitudinal mean velocity of a rubidium atomic beam can be tuned continuously from 10 to 20 m/s and the flux can range from 3 × 10^-8 to 1 × 10^-9 atoms/s, corresponding to the maximum sensitivity of the velocity with respect to the polarization angle of 20（m/s）/rad and the mean sensitivity of flux of 1.2 × 10^-9（atoms/s）/rad. The mechanism is explained with a Monte-Carlo based numerical simulation method, which shows a qualitative agreement with the experimental result. This is also a demonstration of a method enabling the fast and continuous modulation of a low-velocity intense source of cold atomic beam on the velocity or flux,which can be used in many fields, like the development of a cold atomic beam interferometer and atom lithography.

Surface microstructure control of microalloyed steel during slab casting

Lots of work has been done to investigate slab surface microstructure evolution during continuous casting in order to improve hot ductility and avoid transverse cracks.The slab surface microstructure after continuous casting was characterized by optical microscopy,and the precipitation behavior was investigated by transmission electron microscopy.At the same time,the mechanical properties of the slabs were measured using a Gleeble 1500 Dthermal simulator and the transformation temperatures were examined by means of a thermal dilatometer.The experimental results show that homogeneous microstructure without film-like ferrites and chain-like precipitates at grain boundary can be obtained through surface intensive cooling and transverse cracks do not occur on the slab surface.For the experimental steel,fine ferrite can form at slab surface when the water flow rate is larger than 1560L/min at vertical section.As the distance to surface increases,microstructure turned to ferrite and pearlite.Moreover,nano-size carbonitrides precipitated in the ferrite grain and the size was larger at the junction of the dislocations.The mechanical experiment results show that the hot ductility of the sample deformed at 650°C was better than that of the sample deformed at 750°C.The reason is that filmlike ferrite formed at the grain boundary in the sample deformed at 750°C.Thus,the slab must be cooled quickly below Ar3 to prevent the occurrence of film-like ferrite and transverse cracks on the slab surface during casting.