锥形微通道内液滴自输运特性及力学驱动机制研究

针对液体在微通道内的自输运特性,采用数值仿真与能量解析相结合的方法研究了液滴在锥形微通道内的自输运特性及力学驱动机制,得到微通道的锥形角、液滴与微通道内壁的接触角及微通道的润湿性对液滴自输运特性的影响关系.分析表明,微通道的锥形角、液滴与微通道内壁的接触角均能影响液滴的自输运方向及驱动力大小.对于亲水性微通道,微通道的锥形角、液滴与微通道内壁的接触角其作用效果呈现整体形态;对于疏水性微通道,微通道的锥形角、液滴与微通道内壁的接触角其作用效果呈现局域形态.这可为研究液体在微通道内的自输运机理及界面内液体细观流动机制奠定理论基础.

复合梯度楔形表面上液滴自输运特性的数值研究

目的提高表面液滴的自输运速率。方法在表面引入润湿梯度和楔形形状,基于VOF模型(流体体积模型)对表面液滴运动进行数值研究,并建立一种适用于润湿梯度和楔形图案联合的模型,分析润湿梯度和楔形角度对液滴位移的影响。结果润湿梯度越大,液滴受不平衡的表面张力越大,液滴移动速度越快。润湿梯度为15(°)/mm表面上液滴的平均速度比10、5(°)/mm润湿梯度的表面分别快42.3%和130%。楔角越大,加速阶段的液滴移动速度越快,但会越早失去驱动力而停止移动,而楔角越小,液滴移动位移越大。液滴在40°楔角表面最先停止运动,在20°楔角表面位移比30°和40°楔角表面分别远10.3%和32.3%。联合润湿梯度和楔形图案后,15(°)/mm表面上的液滴在20°、30°、40°和20°楔角表面上的液滴在15、10(°)/mm下均能运动到计算模型出口,且15(°)/mm、40°楔角表面液滴的平均速度达到292 mm/s,比单一梯度表面增长37.7%,比单一楔形图案表面(20°)增长175.5%。结论通过调节润湿梯度和楔形角度,可有效控制液滴移动速度。联合润湿梯度和楔形图案的复合梯度楔形表面能同时减小润湿性范围瓶颈和楔形形状制约,提高表面液滴的移动速度和距离。研究结果将有助于设计高效的液滴输运功能表面,并可将其扩展到冷凝装置、微流体装置和药物检测等领域。

斜锥表面液滴的定向流动特性

目的研究液滴在斜锥表面的定向流动特性,揭示液滴在斜锥表面的定向输运机理。方法以斜锥表面液滴运动行为为研究对象,通过数值模拟技术提取液滴动力学参数,探讨不同斜锥结构参数对液滴自输运行为的影响。结果液体内部速度的不均匀分布导致液滴内部产生速度涡旋,在泰勒毛细升力的作用下,斜锥间隙产生了涡量较大的速度主涡旋,液滴内部产生了涡量较小的速度次涡旋。在液滴定向输运过程中,2种涡旋的旋转方向与液滴的输运方向保持一致。液滴自输运过程伴随着表面能、动能的相互转化。在铺展收缩阶段,液滴的形变量较大,固–液接触面积和液滴的表面能先增大再减小,液滴运动速度却先减小再增大。在稳定输运阶段,液滴的表面能和速度基本保持不变。泰勒毛细升力和斜锥间隙中的不平衡毛细力驱使液体不断填充斜锥间隙。液滴在斜锥表面受到不平衡的钉扎阻力,使得液滴左侧更易脱钉,保证整个液滴向右无损输运。结论可为揭示液滴在斜锥表面的流动特性和自输运机理提供理论支持,指导研制以斜锥结构为仿生原型的机械功能表面。

Negative Differential Resistance and Spin-Filtering Effects in Zigzag Graphene Nanoribbons with Nitrogen-Vacancy Defects

We explore the electronic and transport properties of zigzag graphene nanoribbons （GNRs） with nitrogen-vacancy defects by performing fully self-consistent spin-polarized density functional theory calculations combined with non-equilibrium Green＇s function technique. We observe robust negative di erential resistance （NDR） effect in all examined molecular junctions. Through analyzing the calculated electronic structures and the bias-dependent transmission coefficients, we find that the narrow density of states of electrodes and the bias-dependent effective coupling between the central molecular orbitals and the electrode subbands are responsible for the observed NDR phenomenon. In addition, the obvious di erence of the transmission spectra of two spin channels is observed in some bias ranges, which leads to the near perfect spin-filtering effect. These theoretical findings imply that GNRs with nitrogenvacancy defects hold great potential for building molecular devices.

Electronic Transport Properties of Spin-Crossover Magnet Fe（Ⅱ）-N4S2 Complexes

Spin-crossover （SCO） magnets can act as one of the most possible building blocks in molec- ular spintronics due to their magnetic bistability between the high-spin （HS） and low-spin （LS） states. Here, the electronic structures and transport properties through SCO magnet Fe（II）-N4S2 complexes sandwiched between gold electrodes are explored by performing exten- sive density functional theory calculations combined with non-equilibrium Green＇s function formalism. The optimized Fe-N and Fe-S distances and predicted magnetic moment of the SCO magnet Fe（II）-N4S2 complexes agree well with the experimental results. The reversed spin transition between the HS and LS states can be realized by visible light irradiation according to the estimated SCO energy barriers. Based on the obtained transport results, we observe nearly perfect spin-filtering effect in this SCO magnet Fe（II）-N4S2 junction with the HS state, and the corresponding current under small bias voltage is mainly contributed by the spin-down electrons, which is obviously larger than that of the LS case. Clearly, these theoretical findings suggest that SCO magnet Fe（II）-N4S2 complexes hold potential applications in molecular spintronies.

Flow variability along a vegetated natural stream under various sediment transport rates

The influence of vegetation and sediment on flow characteristics in open channels cannot be neglected. To study the flow variability under the effects of the instream natural vegetation and sediment supply, experiments were conducted with varied water and sediment supply in a movable bed of a river prototype. The instantaneous threedimensional velocities near two types of vegetation patches(the shrub and the weed) and along the centerline of the main channel with vegetation belts were measured using a 3-D side-looking acoustic Doppler velocimetry. The experimental results show that both the instream vegetation and sediment supply strongly affect the flow and turbulence characteristics. In the case of vegetation patches, both the shrub and weed have a considerable influence on the distribution of the streamwise velocity and turbulence intensity of their surrounding water. The streamwise velocity distribution followed as J-shape and linear shape around the weed and shrub under different experimental conditions. The turbulence intensity was large at the top of the weed and shrub;the shrub had its greatest influence on the downstream water flow. In the case of vegetation belts,the streamwise velocity along the centerline of the main channel exhibited an S-shape, J-shape and linear shape at different locations under varied water,vegetation structures and riverbed configurations.The turbulence intensity along the centerline of the main channel ranged from 0.0 to 0.1. The upstream turbulence intensity was affected considerably by a sediment supply, while the downstream turbulence intensity changed with the varied vegetation characteristics and riverbed topography. The second flow coefficient M-value increased longitudinally and was almost positive along the centerline of the main channel, implying that the rotational direction of the secondary current cell was clockwise.

Modeling vertical heat transport in the wave affected surface layer of the ocean

In considering the vertical heat boundary approximation for the free surface applied. However, due to the existence of the transport problems in the upper ocean, the flat upper and the horizontal homogenous hypothesis are usually wave motion, the application of this approximation may result in some errors to the solar irradiation since it decays quickly in respect to the actual thickness of the water layer below the surface; on the other hand, due to the fluctuation of the water layer depth, it is improper to neglect the effects of the horizontal advection and turbulent diffusion since they also contribute to the vertical heat transport. A new model is constructed in this study to reflect these effects. The corresponding numerical simulations show that the wave motion may remarkably accelerate the vertical heat transferring process and the variation of the temperature in the wave affected layer appears in an oscillating manner.

Paste-like self-flowing transportation backfilling technology based on coal gangue

A paste-like self-flowing pipeline transportation backfilling technology with coal gangue as aggregate is proposed to remove the potential damage caused by coal gangue piles. As well, the difficult problems of recovering high quality safety coal pillars and deep mining of the Suncun Coal Mine （SCM）, Xinwen Coal Group, Shandong are resolved. The physical-chemical properties of coal gangue, optimized proportion of materials, backfilling system and craft in the SCM were studied in the laboratory and then an industrial test was carried out on high quality coal pillars under a town. The results show that finely crushed kaolinized and fresh gangue with granularity less than 5 mm can be used as aggregate with fly ash to replace part of the cement and a composite water reducer as an additive, accounting for 1.0%-1.5% of the total amount of cement and fly ash. The recommended proportion is l（cement）：4（fly ash）： 15（coal gangue）, with a mass fraction of 72%-75%, rheoiogical paste-like properties and a strength of more than 0.7 MPa at 7 d. The sequence of adding cement, fly ash, water reducer and then coal gangue ensures that the suspended state of the slurry, reducing the wear and jam of pipelines. The working face is advancing continuously by the alternating craft of building block walls with coal gangue and backfilling mined-out gobs with paste-like slurry. The recovery rate is as high as 90% with a backfilling cost of 36.9 YuarffL good utilization of coal gangue and no subsidence on the surface. This technology provides a good theoretical basis and application experience for coal mines, cement backfilling with paste-like slurry.

Spin-Polarized Transport Through a Quantum Dot Coupled to Ferromagnetic Leads： Kondo Correlation Effect

We investigate the linear and nonlinear transport through a single level quantum dot connected to two ferromagnetic leads in Kondo regime, using the slave-boson mean-field approach for finite on-site Coulomb repulsion. We find that for antiparallel alignment of the spin orientations in the leads, a single zero-bias Kondo peak always appears in the voltage-dependent differential conductance with peak height going down to zero as the polarization grows to P = 1.For parallel configuration, with increasing polarization from zero, the Kondo peak descends and greatly widens with the appearance of shoulders, and finally splits into two peaks on both sides of the bias voltage around P ～ 0.7 until disappearing at even larger polarization strength. At any spin orientation angle θ, the linear conductance generally drops with growing polarization strength. For a given finite polarization, the minimum linear conductance always appears at θ = π.

Spin-Polarized Transport through a Quantum Dot Coupled to Ferromagnetic Leads and a Mesoscopic Ring

Using an equation of motion technique, we investigate the spin-polarized transport through a quantum dot coupled to ferromagnetic leads and a mesoseopie ring by the Anderson Hamiltonian. We analyze the transmission probability of this system in both the equilibrium and nonequilibrium cases, and our results reveal that the transport properties show some noticeable characteristics depending upon the spin-polarized strength p, the magnetic flux Ф and the number of lattice sites NR in the mesoseopic ring. These effects might have some potential applications in spintronics.

Transport Through a Precessing Spin Coupled to Noncollinearly Polarized Ferromagnetic Leads

The quantum electronic transport through a precessing magnetic spin coupled to noncollinearly polarized ferromagnetic leads （F-MS-F） has been studied in this paper. The nonequilibrium Green function approach is used to calculate local density of states （LDOS） and current in the presence of external bias. The characters of LDOS and the electronic current are obtained. The tunneling current is investigated for different precessing angle and different configurations of the magnetization of the leads. The investigation revea/s that when the precessing angle takes θ 〈 π /2 and negative bias is applied, the resonant tunneling current appears, otherwise, it appears when positive bias is applied. When the leads are totally polarized and the precessing angel takes O, the tunneling current changes with the configuration of two leads; and it becomes zero when the two leads are antiparallel.

Wave-Vector and Temperature-Dependent Electron Transport in a Magnetic Nanostructure Modulated by Bias

We theoretically investigate the wave-vector and temperature-dependent electron transport in a magneticnanostructure modulated by an applied bias.The large spin-polarization can be achieved in such a device,and the degreeof spin-polarization strongly depends on the transverse wave-vector and the temperature.These interesting propertiesmay be helpful to spin-polarize electrons into semiconductors,and this device may be used as a spin filter.

Data Reconstruction in Internet Traffic Matrix

Traffic matrix is an abstract representation of the traffic volume flowing between sets of source and destination pairs.It is a key input parameter of network operations management,planning,provisioning and traffic engineering.Traffic matrix is also important in the context of OpenFlow-based networks.Because even good measurement systems can suffer from errors and data collection systems can fail,missing values are common.Existing matrix completion methods do not consider traffic exhibit characteristics and only provide a finite precision.To address this problem,this paper proposes a novel approach based on compressive sensing and traffic self-similarity to reconstruct the missing traffic flow data.Firstly,we analyze the realworld traffic matrix,which all exhibit lowrank structure,temporal smoothness feature and spatial self-similarity.Then,we propose Self-Similarity and Temporal Compressive Sensing(SSTCS) algorithm to reconstruct the missing traffic data.The extensive experiments with the real-world traffic matrix show that our proposed SSTCS can significantly reduce data reconstruction errors and achieve satisfactory accuracy comparing with the existing solutions.Typically SSTCS can successfully reconstruct the traffic matrix with less than 32%errors when as much as98%of the data is missing.

Spin Transport in a Rashba Ring-Quantum Dot System Pumped by Microwave Fields

We report a theoretical study on producing electrically spin-polarized current in the Rashba ring with parallel double dots embedded, which are subject to two time-dependent microwave fields. By means of the Keldysh Green＇s function method, we present an analytic result of the pumped current at adiabatic limit and demonstrate that the interplay between the quantum pumping effect and spin-dependent quantum interference can lead to an arbitrarily controllable spin-polarized current in the device. The magnitude and direction of the charge and spin current can be effectively modulated by system parameters such as the pumping phase difference, Rashba precession phase, and the dynamic phase difference of electron traveling in two arms of ring; moreover, the spin-polarization degree of the charge current can also be tuned in the range [-∞, ＋∞]. Our findings may shed light on the all-electric way to produce the controllable spin-polarized charge current in the field of spintronics.

Pedestrianisation and Parking Policy as a Solution towards Green Transport Plan： A Case Study of Zagreb

Strategy of development trends in this moment and at this stage of the traffic comes from understanding the possibilities of the implementation of measures to raise the quality of movement and life in the city. It also includes planning and implementation of targeted interventions in the transport network or facilities. Mobility is a complex process in the area, starting from the departure from the apartment, using various means of transportation, a number of activities in different goals until to return to the location of the apartment. It thus requires extensive transport infrastructure in the form of walkways, bicycle paths, street and railway network. At the same time, reshaping of public transport facilities is needed in which the pedestrian, biker and green concept shall be the main elements of the new spatial conditions. Pedestrian zones development in the city means to create pedestrian areas and green islands in all the places in the city where possible. This process is essential for the transformation of public spaces, in particular, transport corridors. To accomplish the concept of the green transport plan, the need for change in the parking policy is emphasized. This should be an integral part of the city planning and should go hand in hand with the traffic policy.

Effect of Force Adaptation in Mechanics

Discovery of effect of force adaptation in mechanics is presented. The discovery is based on use of the mobile closed mechanical contour for force transfer from the mechanism input link to an output link, According to discovery the motion transfer can be carried out by Assur structural group in the form of the mobile closed contour, and the output link is the link with one degree of freedom. The received mechanical system includes an input link, an output link and the closed contour placed between them as fourth class Assur structural group. The kinematic chain has two degrees of freedom. However the closed contour imposes an additional constraint on relative motion of its links. The carried out discovery allows providing the variable transfer ratio only due to the variable external load. Mechanical properties of the closed contour allow providing the required transfer ratio independently, smart and automatically.

Novel Synthesis Method of Nonst0ichiometric Na2-xlrO3 Crystal Structure, Transport and Magnetic Properties

Transition metal oxides with 4d or 5d metals are of great interest due to the competing interactions, of the Coulomb repulsion and the itineracy of the d-electrons, opening a possibility of building new quantum ground states. Particularly the 5d metal oxides containing Iridium have received significant attention within the last years, due to their unexpected physical properties, caused by a strong spin orbit coupling observed in It（IV）. A prominent example is the Mott-insulator Sr2IrO4. Another member of this family, the honeycomb lattice compound Na2IrO3, also being a Mott-insulator having, most probably, a Kitaev spin liquid ground state. By deintercalating sodium from Na2IrO3, the authors were able to synthesize a new honeycomb lattice compound with more than 50% reduced sodium content. The reduction of the sodium content in this layered compound leads to a change of the oxidation state of iridium from ＋ IV to ＋ V/＋ VI and a symmetry change from C2/c to P-3. This goes along with significant changes of the physical properties. Besides the vanishing magnetic ordering at 15 K, also the transport properties changes and instead insulating semiconducting properties are observed.

Conductance Oscillations in Spin Field-Effect Transistors

Ballistic spin transport in spin field-effect transistors is studied by taking into account the Rashba spinorbit coupling, interracial scattering, and band mismatch. It is shown that the spin conductance oscillation with the semiconductor channel length is a superimposition of the Rashba spin precession and spin interference oscillations. They have different oscillation periods π/κR and π/κ with κR the Rashba wavevector and κ the Fermi wavevector of the semiconductor channel, and play different parts of slow and rapid oscillations, depending upon the relative magnitude of π/κR and π/κ. Only at κ = κR does the spin conductance exhibit oscillations of a single period. Two types of different behaviors of the tunnelling magnetoresistance are discussed.

Carbon-based spintronics

Carbon-based spintronics refers mainly to the spin injection and transport in carbon materials including carbon nanotubes,graphene,fullerene,and organic materials.In the last decade,extraordinary development has been achieved for carbon-based spintronics,and the spin transport has been studied in both local and nonlocal spin valve devices.A series of theoretical and experimental studies have been done to reveal the spin relaxation mechanisms and spin transport properties in carbon materials,mostly for graphene and carbon nanotubes.In this article,we provide a brief review on spin injection and transport in graphene,carbon nanotubes,fullerene and organic thin films.

Recent advances in spin transport in organic semiconductors

The spin relaxation time is long in organic semiconductors because of the weak spin-orbit and hyperfine interactions,leading to intensive study on spin transport in organic semiconductors.The rapid progress towards utilizing spin degree of freedom in organic electronic devices is occurring.While the spin injection,transport and detection in organic semiconductors are demonstrated,the fundamental physics of these phenomena remains unclear.This paper highlights recent progress that has been made,focusing primarily on present experimental work.