Chickpea （Cicer arietinum L.） is an important cool season food legumes with indeterminate growth habit. The crop is valued for its nutritive seeds and used as animal feed in many developing countries. ...Chickpea （Cicer arietinum L.） is an important cool season food legumes with indeterminate growth habit. The crop is valued for its nutritive seeds and used as animal feed in many developing countries. The productivity of the crop is constrained by several abiotic stresses, among which drought stress is one of the key determinants of crop performance aaccounting for 40-50% yield reduction globally. The present study was conducted to screen, evaluate and select chickpea genotypes possessing high yield potential under drought stress condition at ASALs （arid and semi-arid lands） of Kenya. The experiment was conducted at Chemeron dry land and Eco-tourism Research station, Egerton University and Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Institute （KALRO）, Pekerra, Marigat, Baringo County. The genotypes were planted in RCBD （randomized complete block design） in three replicates at a spacing of 30 cm × 10 cm, giving a plant density of approximately 25 plants/m2. Combined analysis of variance revealed existence of highly significant differences among the tested genotypes for most of the agronomic traits. Overall, the highest grain yield was obtained from ICCV 92944 （1,173 kg/ha）, ICCV 92318 （1,103 kg/ha） and CAVIR （975 kg/ha）, ICCV 92318 （967 kg/ha）, ICCV 00108 （956 kg/ha） and ICC 4958 （921 kg/ha）： possibly due to its comparatively higher drought （and heat） tolerance, and hence could be used as sources of drought tolerance in further breeding programs. This study was carried out in few drought tolerant sites and further more sites need to be evaluated in addition to other drought and heat screening and optimization of protocols, facilities and analytical approaches to identify better genotypes that respond appropriately to climate change.展开更多
The influences due to several AVIs （airfoil-vortex interactions） are studied by using a two-dimensional CFD （computational fluid dynamics） method. The primary goal of this effort is to assess the variation of vort...The influences due to several AVIs （airfoil-vortex interactions） are studied by using a two-dimensional CFD （computational fluid dynamics） method. The primary goal of this effort is to assess the variation of vortex center location and vortex circulation associated with sequential AVI toward an improvement of the hybrid method of CFD and prescribed wake model, which closely relates to predicting the BVI （blade-vortex interaction） noise radiated from a helicopter rotor. The representative of sequential AVI is performed by single vortex and two airfoils. Investigations with respect to vortex center location and vortex circulation after AVIs have been made by varying the miss-distance, which is the vertical distance between the airfoil leading edge and the vortex center. Correlations between miss-distance and vorticity field show that there exists complicated vortex wake flow with several vortices newly induced in 1st AVI. The pressure fluctuation amplitude clarifies that the intensity in 2nd AV1 is significantly low compared to the intensity in 1st AVI due to the influence of vortex dissipation. Simulations turned out to modify the vortex center location represented by the hybrid method using an offset value for a streamwise direction and to dissipate the vortex circulation for improving the accuracy of BVI noise prediction.展开更多
In this paper, a study of a three-dimensional(3D) self-propelled bionic flying bird in a viscous flow is carried out. This bionic bird is propelled and lifted through flapping and rotating wings, and better flying can...In this paper, a study of a three-dimensional(3D) self-propelled bionic flying bird in a viscous flow is carried out. This bionic bird is propelled and lifted through flapping and rotating wings, and better flying can be achieved by adjusting the flapping and rotation motion of wings. In this study, we found that the bird can fly faster forward and upward with appropriate center of rotation and oscillation without more energy consumption and have perfect flight performance at a certain angle of attack by adjusting the center of oscillation. The study utilizes a 3D computational fluid dynamics package which constitutes combined immersed boundary method and the volume of fluid method. In addition, it includes adaptive multigrid finite volume method and control strategy of swimming and flying.展开更多
The system energy of H atom occupying different positions in Cr2O3 crystal lattice is calculated by adopting the first-principles calculation method based on density functional theory in this paper. The results indica...The system energy of H atom occupying different positions in Cr2O3 crystal lattice is calculated by adopting the first-principles calculation method based on density functional theory in this paper. The results indicate that the most stable position of H atom in Cr2O3 crystal lattice locates at the bilateral positions of the center of the unoccupied O octahedral interstice. The reason resulting in this situation is analyzed by comparing the change of Cr2O3 lattice distortion and density of states in Cr2O3_H system when H atom locates at different positions in octahedral interstice. The diffusion activation energy of H atom is 0.73 eV,which is determined by seeking the diffusion path and transition state of H atom in Cr2O3 crystal lattice. The effective attempt frequency of H atom in Cr2O3 crystal lattice is also calculated by using molecular dynamics. Combining with diffusion activation energy data,the diffusion coefficient of H atom in Cr2O3 crystal is determined.展开更多
文摘Chickpea （Cicer arietinum L.） is an important cool season food legumes with indeterminate growth habit. The crop is valued for its nutritive seeds and used as animal feed in many developing countries. The productivity of the crop is constrained by several abiotic stresses, among which drought stress is one of the key determinants of crop performance aaccounting for 40-50% yield reduction globally. The present study was conducted to screen, evaluate and select chickpea genotypes possessing high yield potential under drought stress condition at ASALs （arid and semi-arid lands） of Kenya. The experiment was conducted at Chemeron dry land and Eco-tourism Research station, Egerton University and Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Institute （KALRO）, Pekerra, Marigat, Baringo County. The genotypes were planted in RCBD （randomized complete block design） in three replicates at a spacing of 30 cm × 10 cm, giving a plant density of approximately 25 plants/m2. Combined analysis of variance revealed existence of highly significant differences among the tested genotypes for most of the agronomic traits. Overall, the highest grain yield was obtained from ICCV 92944 （1,173 kg/ha）, ICCV 92318 （1,103 kg/ha） and CAVIR （975 kg/ha）, ICCV 92318 （967 kg/ha）, ICCV 00108 （956 kg/ha） and ICC 4958 （921 kg/ha）： possibly due to its comparatively higher drought （and heat） tolerance, and hence could be used as sources of drought tolerance in further breeding programs. This study was carried out in few drought tolerant sites and further more sites need to be evaluated in addition to other drought and heat screening and optimization of protocols, facilities and analytical approaches to identify better genotypes that respond appropriately to climate change.
文摘The influences due to several AVIs （airfoil-vortex interactions） are studied by using a two-dimensional CFD （computational fluid dynamics） method. The primary goal of this effort is to assess the variation of vortex center location and vortex circulation associated with sequential AVI toward an improvement of the hybrid method of CFD and prescribed wake model, which closely relates to predicting the BVI （blade-vortex interaction） noise radiated from a helicopter rotor. The representative of sequential AVI is performed by single vortex and two airfoils. Investigations with respect to vortex center location and vortex circulation after AVIs have been made by varying the miss-distance, which is the vertical distance between the airfoil leading edge and the vortex center. Correlations between miss-distance and vorticity field show that there exists complicated vortex wake flow with several vortices newly induced in 1st AVI. The pressure fluctuation amplitude clarifies that the intensity in 2nd AV1 is significantly low compared to the intensity in 1st AVI due to the influence of vortex dissipation. Simulations turned out to modify the vortex center location represented by the hybrid method using an offset value for a streamwise direction and to dissipate the vortex circulation for improving the accuracy of BVI noise prediction.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.11372068)the National Key Basic Research and Development Program of China(Grant No.2014CB744104)
文摘In this paper, a study of a three-dimensional(3D) self-propelled bionic flying bird in a viscous flow is carried out. This bionic bird is propelled and lifted through flapping and rotating wings, and better flying can be achieved by adjusting the flapping and rotation motion of wings. In this study, we found that the bird can fly faster forward and upward with appropriate center of rotation and oscillation without more energy consumption and have perfect flight performance at a certain angle of attack by adjusting the center of oscillation. The study utilizes a 3D computational fluid dynamics package which constitutes combined immersed boundary method and the volume of fluid method. In addition, it includes adaptive multigrid finite volume method and control strategy of swimming and flying.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos.50771104,50871122)
文摘The system energy of H atom occupying different positions in Cr2O3 crystal lattice is calculated by adopting the first-principles calculation method based on density functional theory in this paper. The results indicate that the most stable position of H atom in Cr2O3 crystal lattice locates at the bilateral positions of the center of the unoccupied O octahedral interstice. The reason resulting in this situation is analyzed by comparing the change of Cr2O3 lattice distortion and density of states in Cr2O3_H system when H atom locates at different positions in octahedral interstice. The diffusion activation energy of H atom is 0.73 eV,which is determined by seeking the diffusion path and transition state of H atom in Cr2O3 crystal lattice. The effective attempt frequency of H atom in Cr2O3 crystal lattice is also calculated by using molecular dynamics. Combining with diffusion activation energy data,the diffusion coefficient of H atom in Cr2O3 crystal is determined.
