Micro Extrusion of Ultrafine Grained Titanium Prepared by ECAP

Micro compression and micro extrusion experiments of ultrafine grained titanium cylindrical specimens in diameters of 4, 2, and 1 mm prepared by equal channel angular pressing（ECAP） were conducted on the micro plastic forming test machine. The effects of specimen size, grain size, deformation temperature and extrusion speed on the flow stress and forming properties of the ultrafine grained pure titanium were investigated. The flow stress of ultrafine grained pure titanium specimen decreases with decreasing specimen size. The yield limit of pure titanium with refined grain prepared by ECAP is significantly greater than that of coarse grained specimen. Also the research results show that the flow stress of specimen increases with decreasing deformation temperature and with the increase of the strain rate, and the ultrafine grained pure titanium possesses good micro forming properties at deformation temperature of 300 ℃.

Precision Synthesis of a Long-Chain Silane Coupling Agent Using Micro Flow Reactors and Its Application in Dentistry

In dentistry, a wide range of materials is available for restorative treatment;a typical product of such restorative materials mainly consists of radically polymerizable monomer(s) and inorganic filler(s) (for added physical strength), as well as a surface modifier (e.g. silane coupling agent) for improved affinity between monomer and filler. It is favorable to use an optimal surface modifier depending on the respective restorative materials. However, commercially available surface modifiers, which are synthesized by the ton, are not always suited for what is required for properties of the many different dental restorative materials. As a potential solution to such a problem, we focused on the latest technology, “micro flow reactors” that enabled an on-demand low-volume synthesis of many types of surface modifiers. Using micro reaction fields of such flow reactors, we synthesized a novel long-chain silane coupling agent. Compared to the control system synthesized using a conventional reaction flask, the novel system enabled significant reduction in reaction time without inducing any major side reactions. A dental composite resin that was treated with the novel coupling agent exhibited higher toughness, suggesting that such a silane coupling agent was an effective surface modifier.

Experimental and numerical studies of micro PEM fuel cell

A single micro proton exchange membrane fuel cell （PEMFC） has been produced using Micro-electromechanical systems （MEMS） technology with the active area of 2.5 cm 2 and channel depth of about 500 μ m.A theoretical analysis is performed in this study for a novel MEMS-based design of a micro PEMFC.The model consists of the conservation equations of mass,momentum,species and electric current in a fully integrated finite-volume solver using the CFD-ACE＋ commercial code.The polarization curves of simulation are well correlated with experimental data.Three-dimensional simulations are carried out to treat prediction and analysis of micro PEMFC temperature,current density and water distributions in two different fuel flow rates （15 cm 3 /min and 40 cm 3 /min）.Simulation results show that temperature distribution within the micro PEMFC is affected by water distribution in the membrane and indicate that low and uniform temperature distribution in the membrane at low fuel flow rates leads to increased membrane water distribution and obtains superior micro PEMFC current density distribution under 0.4 V operating voltage.Model predictions are well within those known for experimental mechanism phenomena.

A 2-Dimensional Micro Flow Sensor with Wide Range Flow Sensing Properties

A new silicon micro flow sensor with multiple temperature sensing elements was proposed and numerically simulated in considering wide range flow measuring properties.The micro flow sensor has three pairs of temperature sensing elements with a central heater compared with typical sensor which has only a temperature sensing element on each side of a central heater.A numerical analysis of the micro flow sensor by Finite Difference Formulation for Heat Transfer Equation was performed.The nearest pair of temperature sensor showed very good linear sensitivity between 0 to 0.4m/s flow and saturated from 0.75m/s flow.However the furthest pair of temperature sensor showed some flow sensitivity even though the flow rate of 2.0m/s.Thus,this suggested new micro flow meter with multiple temperature sensing elements could be used as a thermal mass flow sensor which has accuracy sensitivity for very wide flow range.

Capillary Micro-Flow Through a Fiber Bundle(Ⅰ)

The present work considered the capillary micro-flow through a fiber bundle.The resin heights in the fiber bundle as a function of time were used to determine the experimental values of capillary pressure and the permeability by the nonlinear regression fitting method.The fitting curves showed a good agreement with experiments.However,these values of capillary pressure from short-time experiments were much lower than the theoretical results from the Yang-Laplace Equation.More accurate capillary pressure was predicted from the presented long-run experiment.

Flexible micro flow sensor for micro aerial vehicles

This article summarizes our studies on micro flow sensors fabricated on a flexible polyimide circuit board by a low-cost hybrid process of thin-film deposition and circuit printing. The micro flow sensor has merits of flexibility, structural simplicity, easy integrability with circuits, and good sensing performance. The sensor, which adheres to an object surface, can detect the surface flow around the object. In our study, we install the fabricated micro flow sensors on micro aerial vehicles （MAVs） to detect the surface flow variation around the aircraft wing and deduce the aerodynamic parameters of the MAVs in flight. Wind tunnel experiments using the sensors integrated with the MAVs are also conducted.

Chemical Interpretation on the Multi-Stage Oxidation of Diethyl Ether

Multi-stage ignition and/or double NTC(negative temperature coefficient)behavior resulted from the low-temperature oxidation of ether compounds are still not clearly explained.We have investigated the oxidation mechanism of a stoichiometric DEE(diethyl ether)/air mixture by using a micro flow reactor with a controlled temperature profile to see the detail of low-temperature weak flame structure.The simulation was also performed to understand the chemical kinetics mechanism of observed weak flame structure.Chemiluminescence measurement showed separated weak flame in the temperature range of 600 K-800 K.The simulation also qualitatively reproduced this separated weak flame,and showed four peak of heat release.From the reaction flow analysis,it was found that(1)O-O bond scission reaction of keto-hydroperoxide produced by DEE,(2)O-O bond scission reaction of CH3O2H,CH3CO3H,and C2H5O2H,(3)O-O bond scission reaction of H2O2,and(4)H+O2=O+OH are key chain branching reactions to explain the multi-stage oxidation.

Analytical Solution for the Lattice Boltzmann Model Beyond Naviers-Stokes

To understand lattice Boltzmann model capability for capturing nonequilibrium effects,the model with first-order expansion of the equilibrium distribution function is analytically investigated.In particular,the velocity profile of Couette flows is exactly obtained for the D2Q9 model,which shows retaining the first order expansion can capture rarefaction effects in the incompressible limit.Meanwhile,it clearly demonstrates that the D2Q9 model is not able to reflect flow characteristics in the Knudsen layer.

Interference-Based Optical Measurement of Fluidic Flow in a Hollow-Core Fiber

In this study, we present speed and displacement measurements of micro-fluid in a hollow-core optical fiber, where an optical interference signal is created by two guided beams reflected at a fixed facet and a moving fluid end. By counting the number of intensity oscillations of the signal, the movement of the fluid end is successfully traced with high accuracy. Furthermore, we could detect the change in curvature diameters of the fluid end depending on the flow direction by monitoring the visibility of the interference signal.

High-Order Unified Gas-kinetic Scheme

In this paper,we present a high-order unified gas-kinetic scheme(UGKS)using the weighted essentially non-oscillatory with adaptive-order(WENO-AO)method for spatial reconstruction and the two-stage fourth-order scheme for time evolution.Since the UGKS updates both the macroscopic flow variables and microscopic distribution function,and provides an adaptive flux function by combining the equilibrium and non-equilibrium parts,it is possible to take separate treatment of the equilibrium and non-equilibrium calculation in the UGKS for the development of highorder scheme.Considering the fact that high-order techniques are commonly applied in the continuum flow simulation with complex structures,and that the rarefied flow structure is usually smooth in the physical space,we apply the high-order techniques in the equilibrium part of the UGKS for the capturing of macroscopic flow evolution,and retain the calculation of distribution function as a second-order method,so that a balance of computational cost and numerical accuracy could be well achieved.The HUGKS has been validated by several numerical test cases,including sine-wave accuracy test,Sod-shock tube,Couette,oscillating Couette,lid-driven cavity and oscillating cavity flow.It is shown that the current method preserves the multiscale property of the original UGKS and obtains accurate solutions in the near continuum regimes.