Numerical simulations were performed on flow and heat transfer performances of heat exchangers having six helical baffles of different baffle shapes and assembly configurations, i.e., two trisection baffle schemes, tw...Numerical simulations were performed on flow and heat transfer performances of heat exchangers having six helical baffles of different baffle shapes and assembly configurations, i.e., two trisection baffle schemes, two quadrant baffle schemes, and two continuous helical baffle schemes. The temperature contour or the pressure contour and velocity contour plots with superimposed velocity vectors on meridian, transverse and unfolded concentric hexagonal slices are presented to obtain a full angular view. For the six helix baffled heat exchangers,the different patterns of the single vortex secondary flow and the shortcut leakage flow were depicted as well as the heat transfer properties were compared. The results show that the optimum scheme among the six configurations is a circumferential overlap trisection helix baffled heat exchanger with a baffle incline angle of 20°(20°TCO) scheme with an anti-shortcut baffle structure, which exhibits the second highest pressure dropΔpo, the highest overall heat transfer coefficient K, shell-side heat transfer coefficient hoand shell-side average comprehensive index ho/Δpo.展开更多
The index of casualties is introduced for the trapped that is still alive after a destructive earthquake to indicate his (her) injury degree. In order to describe the injury-developing process controlled by three fact...The index of casualties is introduced for the trapped that is still alive after a destructive earthquake to indicate his (her) injury degree. In order to describe the injury-developing process controlled by three factors: the initial injury degree, the trap surroundings and the physique of the cornered, a function SFC (State-Function of Casualties) can be naturally constructed. Through parameter analysis from eight pieces of figures, it can be found that the trapped with weaker physique and worse initial injury degree and in more adverse trap surroundings deserves sooner rescue.展开更多
Integrated with an improved architectural vulnerability factor （AVF） computing model, a new architectural level soft error reliability analysis framework, SS-SERA （soft error reliability analysis based on SimpleSca...Integrated with an improved architectural vulnerability factor （AVF） computing model, a new architectural level soft error reliability analysis framework, SS-SERA （soft error reliability analysis based on SimpleScalar）, was developed. SS-SERA was used to estimate the AVFs for various on-chip structures accurately. Experimental results show that the AVFs of issue queue （IQ）, register update units （RUU）, load store queue （LSQ） and functional unit （FU） are 38.11%, 22.17%, 23.05% and 24.43%, respectively. For address-based structures, i.e., levell data cache （LID）, DTLB, level2 unified cache （L2U）, levell instruction cache （LII） and ITLB, AVFs of their data arrays are 22.86%, 27.57%, 14.80%, 8.25% and 12.58%, lower than their tag arrays＇ AVFs which are 30.01%, 28.89%, 17.69%, 10.26% and 13.84%, respectively. Furthermore, using the AVF values obtained with SS-SERA, a qualitative and quantitative analysis of the AVF variation and predictability was performed for the structures studied. Experimental results show that the AVF exhibits significant variations across different structures and workloads, and is influenced by multiple microarchitectural metrics and their interactions. Besides, AVFs of SPEC2K floating point programs exhibit better predictability than SPEC2K integer programs.展开更多
A new type of highly nonlinear photonic bandgap fiber with modified honeycomb lattice is brought forward. Based on full-vector plane-wave method, the structure of bandgaps and the distributions of fundamental mode fie...A new type of highly nonlinear photonic bandgap fiber with modified honeycomb lattice is brought forward. Based on full-vector plane-wave method, the structure of bandgaps and the distributions of fundamental mode field are analyzed. Then its nonlinear coefficient is calculated, and the effect of each structural pa- rameter on the nonlinear coefficient is discussed. At last, considering many factors synthetically, we make some optimization design of the structural parameters. It can be concluded that this new type of photonic bandgap fiber can gain the nonlinear coefficient of 30 W^-1 km^-1.展开更多
Effects of Zn/P ratio on the structures and properties of glasses with the general composition of （80-x）ZnO-20Fe2O3-xP2O5 （x=40, 45, 50, 55, 60） （molar fraction, %） were investigated. Glass structure was measure...Effects of Zn/P ratio on the structures and properties of glasses with the general composition of （80-x）ZnO-20Fe2O3-xP2O5 （x=40, 45, 50, 55, 60） （molar fraction, %） were investigated. Glass structure was measured by infrared absorption spectrum. Glass density （/9） was measured by the Archimedes method. Coefficients of thermal expansion （a） and characterization temperature were obtained by a dilatometer. Water durability of each glass was estimated from the dissolution rate （DR）in water at 90 ℃ for 24 h. With increasing Zn/P ratio, water durability of zinc-iron phosphate glasses increases dramatically without large increase in the characterization temperature. （80-x）ZnO-20Fe2O3-xP2O5 glasses with 0.3≤Zn/P≤0.5 are suit for low-to-mid temperature sealing application for substrates with a〈8.0× 10^-6℃^-1.展开更多
In the present article, we study the electrical resistivity ρ, the thermoelectric power （TEP） α, thermal conductivity σ, Knight-Shifts and temperature coefficient of the Knight-Shifts of the liquid Si and Ge usin...In the present article, we study the electrical resistivity ρ, the thermoelectric power （TEP） α, thermal conductivity σ, Knight-Shifts and temperature coefficient of the Knight-Shifts of the liquid Si and Ge using the well known model potential for the first time. The structure factor used in the present work is derived from the Percus-Yevick （PY） theory. Various local field correction functions are used to study the screening influence. The present results of resistivity are found in qualitative agreement with available experimental and theoretical whenever exists.展开更多
Flower-like Bi2Te3 nanostructures were successfully synthesised for the first time by a simple magnetron technique or D.C. sputtering method. The phase and morphology of the products were characterized by X-ray diffra...Flower-like Bi2Te3 nanostructures were successfully synthesised for the first time by a simple magnetron technique or D.C. sputtering method. The phase and morphology of the products were characterized by X-ray diffraction （XRD）, manning electron microscope （SEM） and atomic force microscope （AFM）. It was found that the as-deposited Bi2Te3 has a well re-crystallized Rhombohedral phase and consisted of a wealth of flower-like structure, also the thermo-electric properties of Bi2Te3 were examined and we find that the Seebeck coefficient is 136.6μ volt/K.展开更多
Smart distribution grid needs data communication systems as a support to complete their important functions. The smart distribution grid of the data and information are increasingly adopting internet protocol and Ethe...Smart distribution grid needs data communication systems as a support to complete their important functions. The smart distribution grid of the data and information are increasingly adopting internet protocol and Ethernet technology. The IP addresses are more and more important for the smart distribution grid equipment. The current IPv4 protocol occupies a dominant position; therefore, the challenges of the evolution to IPv6 and network security are faced by data communication systems of the smart distribution grid. The importance of data communications network and its main bearer of business were described. The data communications network from IPv4 to IPv6 evolution of the five processes and four stages of the transition were analyzed. The smart distribution grid data communications network security and types of their offensive and defensive were discussed. And the data communications network security architecture was established. It covers three dimensions, the security level, the communications network security engineering and the communications network security management. The security architecture safeguards the evolution to IPv6 for the smart distribution grid data communication systems.展开更多
In the last two decades, the damage detection for civil engineering structures has been widely treated as a modal analysis problem and most of the currently available vibration-based system identification approaches a...In the last two decades, the damage detection for civil engineering structures has been widely treated as a modal analysis problem and most of the currently available vibration-based system identification approaches are based on modal parameters, namely the natural frequencies, mode shapes and damping ratios, and/or their derivations, which are suitable for linear systems. Nonlinearity is generic in engineering structures. For example, the initiation and development of cracks in civil engineering structures as typical structural damages are nonlinear process. One of the major challenges in damage detection, early warning and damage prognosis is to obtain reasonably accurate identification of nonlinear performance such as hysteresis which is the direct indicator of damage initiation and development under dynamic excitations. In this study, a general data-based identification approach for hysteretic performance in form of nonlinear restoring force using structural dynamic responses and complete and incomplete excitation measurement time series was proposed and validated with a 4-story frame structure equipped with smart devices of magneto-theological （MR） damper to simulate nonlinear performance. Firstly, as an optimization method, the least-squares technique was employed to identify the system matrices of an equivalent linear system of the nonlinear structure model basing on the exci- tation force and the corresponding vibration measurements with impact test when complete and incomplete excitations; and secondly, the nonlinear restoring force of the structure was identified and compared with the test measurements fi- nally. Results show that the proposed data-based approach is capable of identifying the nonlinear behavior of engineering structures and can be employed to evaluate the damage initiation and development of different structure under dynamic loads.展开更多
Communication bandwidth and network topology are two important factors that affect performance of distributed consensus in multi-agent systems.The available works about quantized average consensus assume that the adja...Communication bandwidth and network topology are two important factors that affect performance of distributed consensus in multi-agent systems.The available works about quantized average consensus assume that the adjacency matrices associated with the digraphs are doubly stochastic,which amounts to that the digital networks are balanced.However,this assumption may be unrealistic in practice.In this paper,without assuming double stochasticity,the authors revisit an existing quantized average consensus protocol with the logarithmic quantization scheme,and investigate the quantized consensus problem in general directed digital networks that are strongly connected but not necessarily balanced.The authors first derive an achievable upper bound of the quantization precision parameter to design suitable logarithmic quantizer,and this bound explicitly depends on network topology.Subsequently,by means of the matrix transformation and the Lyapunov techniques,the authors provide a testable condition under which the weighted average consensus can be achieved with the proposed quantized protocol.展开更多
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(50976022,51276035)the Provincial Science and Technology Innovation and Transformation of Achievements of Special Fund Project of Jiangsu Province(BY2011155)
文摘Numerical simulations were performed on flow and heat transfer performances of heat exchangers having six helical baffles of different baffle shapes and assembly configurations, i.e., two trisection baffle schemes, two quadrant baffle schemes, and two continuous helical baffle schemes. The temperature contour or the pressure contour and velocity contour plots with superimposed velocity vectors on meridian, transverse and unfolded concentric hexagonal slices are presented to obtain a full angular view. For the six helix baffled heat exchangers,the different patterns of the single vortex secondary flow and the shortcut leakage flow were depicted as well as the heat transfer properties were compared. The results show that the optimum scheme among the six configurations is a circumferential overlap trisection helix baffled heat exchanger with a baffle incline angle of 20°(20°TCO) scheme with an anti-shortcut baffle structure, which exhibits the second highest pressure dropΔpo, the highest overall heat transfer coefficient K, shell-side heat transfer coefficient hoand shell-side average comprehensive index ho/Δpo.
文摘The index of casualties is introduced for the trapped that is still alive after a destructive earthquake to indicate his (her) injury degree. In order to describe the injury-developing process controlled by three factors: the initial injury degree, the trap surroundings and the physique of the cornered, a function SFC (State-Function of Casualties) can be naturally constructed. Through parameter analysis from eight pieces of figures, it can be found that the trapped with weaker physique and worse initial injury degree and in more adverse trap surroundings deserves sooner rescue.
基金Projects(60970036,60873016,61170045)supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of ChinaProjects(2009AA01Z102,2009AA01Z124)supported by the National High Technology Development Program of China
文摘Integrated with an improved architectural vulnerability factor （AVF） computing model, a new architectural level soft error reliability analysis framework, SS-SERA （soft error reliability analysis based on SimpleScalar）, was developed. SS-SERA was used to estimate the AVFs for various on-chip structures accurately. Experimental results show that the AVFs of issue queue （IQ）, register update units （RUU）, load store queue （LSQ） and functional unit （FU） are 38.11%, 22.17%, 23.05% and 24.43%, respectively. For address-based structures, i.e., levell data cache （LID）, DTLB, level2 unified cache （L2U）, levell instruction cache （LII） and ITLB, AVFs of their data arrays are 22.86%, 27.57%, 14.80%, 8.25% and 12.58%, lower than their tag arrays＇ AVFs which are 30.01%, 28.89%, 17.69%, 10.26% and 13.84%, respectively. Furthermore, using the AVF values obtained with SS-SERA, a qualitative and quantitative analysis of the AVF variation and predictability was performed for the structures studied. Experimental results show that the AVF exhibits significant variations across different structures and workloads, and is influenced by multiple microarchitectural metrics and their interactions. Besides, AVFs of SPEC2K floating point programs exhibit better predictability than SPEC2K integer programs.
基金Supported by the National 863 Project of China (2004AA31G200) .
文摘A new type of highly nonlinear photonic bandgap fiber with modified honeycomb lattice is brought forward. Based on full-vector plane-wave method, the structure of bandgaps and the distributions of fundamental mode field are analyzed. Then its nonlinear coefficient is calculated, and the effect of each structural pa- rameter on the nonlinear coefficient is discussed. At last, considering many factors synthetically, we make some optimization design of the structural parameters. It can be concluded that this new type of photonic bandgap fiber can gain the nonlinear coefficient of 30 W^-1 km^-1.
基金Project(7602110340) supported by the Postdoctoral Science Foundation of Central South University, ChinaProject(721500277)supported by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities of China
文摘Effects of Zn/P ratio on the structures and properties of glasses with the general composition of （80-x）ZnO-20Fe2O3-xP2O5 （x=40, 45, 50, 55, 60） （molar fraction, %） were investigated. Glass structure was measured by infrared absorption spectrum. Glass density （/9） was measured by the Archimedes method. Coefficients of thermal expansion （a） and characterization temperature were obtained by a dilatometer. Water durability of each glass was estimated from the dissolution rate （DR）in water at 90 ℃ for 24 h. With increasing Zn/P ratio, water durability of zinc-iron phosphate glasses increases dramatically without large increase in the characterization temperature. （80-x）ZnO-20Fe2O3-xP2O5 glasses with 0.3≤Zn/P≤0.5 are suit for low-to-mid temperature sealing application for substrates with a〈8.0× 10^-6℃^-1.
文摘In the present article, we study the electrical resistivity ρ, the thermoelectric power （TEP） α, thermal conductivity σ, Knight-Shifts and temperature coefficient of the Knight-Shifts of the liquid Si and Ge using the well known model potential for the first time. The structure factor used in the present work is derived from the Percus-Yevick （PY） theory. Various local field correction functions are used to study the screening influence. The present results of resistivity are found in qualitative agreement with available experimental and theoretical whenever exists.
文摘Flower-like Bi2Te3 nanostructures were successfully synthesised for the first time by a simple magnetron technique or D.C. sputtering method. The phase and morphology of the products were characterized by X-ray diffraction （XRD）, manning electron microscope （SEM） and atomic force microscope （AFM）. It was found that the as-deposited Bi2Te3 has a well re-crystallized Rhombohedral phase and consisted of a wealth of flower-like structure, also the thermo-electric properties of Bi2Te3 were examined and we find that the Seebeck coefficient is 136.6μ volt/K.
文摘Smart distribution grid needs data communication systems as a support to complete their important functions. The smart distribution grid of the data and information are increasingly adopting internet protocol and Ethernet technology. The IP addresses are more and more important for the smart distribution grid equipment. The current IPv4 protocol occupies a dominant position; therefore, the challenges of the evolution to IPv6 and network security are faced by data communication systems of the smart distribution grid. The importance of data communications network and its main bearer of business were described. The data communications network from IPv4 to IPv6 evolution of the five processes and four stages of the transition were analyzed. The smart distribution grid data communications network security and types of their offensive and defensive were discussed. And the data communications network security architecture was established. It covers three dimensions, the security level, the communications network security engineering and the communications network security management. The security architecture safeguards the evolution to IPv6 for the smart distribution grid data communication systems.
基金The authors gratefully acknowledge the support provided through the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) under grant No. 50608031the Hunan Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China under grant No.08JJ1009the Key Project of Chinese Ministry of Education (No. 108102)
文摘In the last two decades, the damage detection for civil engineering structures has been widely treated as a modal analysis problem and most of the currently available vibration-based system identification approaches are based on modal parameters, namely the natural frequencies, mode shapes and damping ratios, and/or their derivations, which are suitable for linear systems. Nonlinearity is generic in engineering structures. For example, the initiation and development of cracks in civil engineering structures as typical structural damages are nonlinear process. One of the major challenges in damage detection, early warning and damage prognosis is to obtain reasonably accurate identification of nonlinear performance such as hysteresis which is the direct indicator of damage initiation and development under dynamic excitations. In this study, a general data-based identification approach for hysteretic performance in form of nonlinear restoring force using structural dynamic responses and complete and incomplete excitation measurement time series was proposed and validated with a 4-story frame structure equipped with smart devices of magneto-theological （MR） damper to simulate nonlinear performance. Firstly, as an optimization method, the least-squares technique was employed to identify the system matrices of an equivalent linear system of the nonlinear structure model basing on the exci- tation force and the corresponding vibration measurements with impact test when complete and incomplete excitations; and secondly, the nonlinear restoring force of the structure was identified and compared with the test measurements fi- nally. Results show that the proposed data-based approach is capable of identifying the nonlinear behavior of engineering structures and can be employed to evaluate the damage initiation and development of different structure under dynamic loads.
基金supported by the Major State Basic Research Development Program of China(973 Program)under Grant No.2010CB731400the Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos.61074125,61073102,61170059,61170172,61272153Anhui Provincial Natural Science Foundation under Grant No.090412251
文摘Communication bandwidth and network topology are two important factors that affect performance of distributed consensus in multi-agent systems.The available works about quantized average consensus assume that the adjacency matrices associated with the digraphs are doubly stochastic,which amounts to that the digital networks are balanced.However,this assumption may be unrealistic in practice.In this paper,without assuming double stochasticity,the authors revisit an existing quantized average consensus protocol with the logarithmic quantization scheme,and investigate the quantized consensus problem in general directed digital networks that are strongly connected but not necessarily balanced.The authors first derive an achievable upper bound of the quantization precision parameter to design suitable logarithmic quantizer,and this bound explicitly depends on network topology.Subsequently,by means of the matrix transformation and the Lyapunov techniques,the authors provide a testable condition under which the weighted average consensus can be achieved with the proposed quantized protocol.
