Microfluidic assisted 90%loading CL-20 spherical particles:Enhancing self-sustaining combustion performance

The performance of the chemical fuel determines the altitude,range and longevity of spacecraft in air and space exploration.Promising alternatives(e.g.,hypergolic ionic liquids or high-energy composites)with high-energy density,heat of formation and fast initial rate are considered as potential chemical fuels.As the high-energy density material,hexanitrohexaazaisowurtzitane(CL-20)often serves as secondary explosive with poor self-propagating combustion behaviors.Herein,90%loading CL-20 microspheres with uniform particle sizes are precisely prepared by microfluid method,which exhibit unique hierarchical structure.The morphology,thermal behaviors,as well as combustion performance were further investigated.The results demonstrated that as-prepared spherical particles exhibit prominent thermal compatibility,and the enhanced self-sustaining combustion performance.This work provides an efficient method achieving the uniform high-energy density particles with excellent self-sustaining combustion performance.

Self-sustained Oscillation Pulsed Air Blowing System for Energy Saving

Currently, many studies have been made for years on dimensions of pneumatic nozzle, which influence the flow characteristic of blowing system. For the purpose of outputting the same blowing force, the supply pressure could be reduced by decreasing the ratio of length to diameter of nozzle. The friction between high speed air and pipe wall would be reduced if the nozzle is designed to be converging shape comparing with straight shape. But the volume flow and pressure, discussed in these studies, do not describe energy loss of the blowing system directly. Pneumatic power is an innovative principle to estimate pneumatic system’s energy consumption directly. Based on the above principle, a pulse blowing method is put forward for saving energy. A flow experiment is carried out, in which the high speed air flows from the pulse blowing system and continuous blowing system respectively to a plate with grease on top. Supply pressure and the volume of air used for removing the grease are measured to calculate energy consumption. From the experiment result, the pulse blowing system performs to conserve energy comparing with the continuous blowing system. The frequency and duty ratio of pulse flow influence the blowing characteristic. The pulse blowing system performs to be the most efficient at the specified frequency and duty ratio. Then a pneumatic self-oscillated method based on air operated valve is put forward to generate pulse flow. A simulation is made about dynamic modeling the air operated valve and calculating the motion of the valve core and output pressure. The simulation result verifies the system to be able to generate pulse flow, and predicts the key parameters of the frequency and duty ratio measured by experiment well. Finally, on the basis of simplifying and solution of the pulse blowing system’s mathematic model, the relationship between system’s frequency duty ratio and the dimensions of components is simply described with four algebraic equations. The system could be designed with specified frequency and duty ratio according to the four equations. This study provides theoretical basis for designing energy-saving air blowing system.

Self-sustained target waves in excitable media with only a long-range link

In this paper we investigate spatiotemporal pattern formation in excitable media with only a long-range link. Besides the trivial solutions of spiral patterns, we find the asymptotic self-sustained target waves in the autonomous tissues. The wave source supporting this kind of new pattern is the oscillatory one-dimensional Winfree-loop self- organized under the presence of a long-range link, which is explored by the dominant phase-advanced driving method. Based on this understanding we can effectively regulate the oscillations of excitable media by suitably arranging the long-range link, including construction of self-sustained target waves with controllable period and wave length, or manipulation of system states between different patterns.

Supersonic boundary layer transition induced by self-sustaining dual jets

To promote high-speed boundary layer transition,this paper proposes an active self-sustaining dual jets(SDJ)actuator utilizing the energy of supersonic mainflow.Employing the nanoparticle-based planar laser scattering(NPLS),supersonic flat-plate boundary layer transition induced by SDJ is experimentally investigated in an Ma-2.95 low-turbulence wind tunnel.Streamwise and spanwise NPLS images are obtained to analyze fine flow structures of the whole transition process.The results reveal the transition control mechanisms that on the one hand,the jet-induced shear layer produces unstable Kelvin–Helmholtz instabilities in the wake flow,on the other hand,the jets also generates an adverse pressure gradient in the boundary layer and induce unstable streak structures,which gradually break down into turbulence downstream.The paper provides a new method for transition control of high-speed boundary layer,and have prospect both in theory and engineering application.

Impact of exterior electron emission on the self-sustaining margin of hollow cathode discharge

Hollow cathode researches used to focus on the inner cavity or downstream plume,however,rarely on the gap between the throttling orifice plate and the keeper plate(T-K gap),which was found to impact the self-sustaining margin of hollow cathode discharge in this paper.Near the lower margin,the main power deposition and electron emission and ionization regions would migrate from inner cavity and downstream plume to the T-K gap,in which case,the source and destination of each m A current therein matter for the self-sustaining capability.Changing the metal surfaces in the T-K gap with emissive materials proved effective in lowering the lower margin by supplementing auxiliary thermionic emission,compensating electron loss on cold absorbing walls and suppressing discharge oscillations.By doing so,the lower margin of a 4 A hollow cathode was lowered from 1 to 0.1-0.2 A,enabling it to couple with low power Hall thruster without extra keeper current.

On the Energy Self-Sustainability of IoT via Distributed Compressed Sensing

This paper advocates the use of the distributed compressed sensing(DCS)paradigm to deploy energy harvesting(EH)Internet of Thing(IoT)devices for energy self-sustainability.We consider networks with signal/energy models that capture the fact that both the collected signals and the harvested energy of different devices can exhibit correlation.We provide theoretical analysis on the performance of both the classical compressive sensing(CS)approach and the proposed distributed CS(DCS)-based approach to data acquisition for EH IoT.Moreover,we perform an in-depth comparison of the proposed DCSbased approach against the distributed source coding(DSC)system.These performance characterizations and comparisons embody the effect of various system phenomena and parameters including signal correlation,EH correlation,network size,and energy availability level.Our results unveil that,the proposed approach offers significant increase in data gathering capability with respect to the CS-based approach,and offers a substantial reduction of the mean-squared error distortion with respect to the DSC system.

Low energy consumption depth control method of self-sustaining intelligent buoy

Aiming at the contradiction between the depth control accuracy and the energy consumption of the self-sustaining intelligent buoy,a low energy consumption depth control method based on historical array for real-time geostrophic oceanography(Argo)data is proposed.As known from the buoy kinematic model,the volume of the external oil sac only depends on the density and temperature of seawater at hovering depth.Hence,we use historical Argo data to extract the fitting curves of density and temperature,and obtain the relationship between the hovering depth and the volume of the external oil sac.Genetic algorithm is used to carry out the optimal energy consumption motion planning for the depth control process,and the specific motion strategy of depth control process is obtained.Compared with dual closed-loop fuzzy PID control method and radial basis function(RBF)-PID method,the proposed method reduces energy consumption to 1/50 with the same accuracy.Finally,a hardware-in-the-loop simulation system was used to verify this method.When the error caused by fitting curves is not considered,the average error is 2.62 m,the energy consumption is 3.214×10^(4)J,and the error of energy consumption is only 0.65%.It shows the effectiveness and reliability of the method as well as the advantages of comprehensively considering the accuracy and energy consumption.

A Possible Minimum Toy Model with Negative Differential Capacitance for Self-sustained Current Oscillation

We generalize a simple model for superlattices to include the effect of differential capacitance. It is shown that the model always has a stable steady-state solution （SSS） if all differential capacitances are positive. On the other hand, when negative differential capacitance is included, the model can have no stable SSS and be in a self-sustained current oscillation behavior. Therefore, we find a possible minimum toy model with both negative differential resistance and negative differential capacitance which can include the phenomena of both self-sustained current oscillation and I-V oscillation of stable SSSs.

Dominant phase-advanced driving analysis of self-sustained oscillations in biological networks

Oscillatory behaviors can be ubiquitously observed in various systems. Biological rhythms are significant in governing living activities of all units. The emergence of biological rhythms is the consequence of large numbers of units. In this paper we discuss several important examples of sustained oscillations in biological media, where the unit composed in the system does not possess the oscillation behavior. The dominant phase-advanced driving method is applied to study the skeletons and oscillatory organizing motifs in excitable networks and gene regulatory networks.

Numerical Simulation of Flow over an Open Cavity with Self-Sustained Oscillation Mode Switching

Numerical simulations are used to investigate the self-sustained oscillating flows past an open cavity. The two-dimensional incompressible Navier-Stokes equations are solved directly by using the finite difference method for cavities with an upstream laminar boundary layer. A series of simulations are performed for a variety of cavity length-to-depth ratio. The results show the switching among some flow modes including non-oscillation mode, shear layer mode and wake mode. The variation of the Strouhal number is in favorable agreement with available experimental data. The results of flow fields in the cavity reveal the relationship between the cavity shear layer oscillation modes and recirculating vortices in the cavity.

Numerical study on waste polyethylene pyrolysis driven by self-sustaining smoldering

Polyethylene is the type of waste plastic that accounts for the most significant proportion of municipal solid waste.Waste polyethylene can be valorized via pyrolysis and produce value-added oil,gas,and char.On the other hand,self-sustaining smoldering is an emerging technical means to deal with sand/soil contaminated by organic matter.The high-temperature heat generated by smoldering can be used as a heat source for pyrolyzing waste polyethylene.Therefore,this study investigates numerically the pyrolysis of waste polyethylene driven by self-sustaining smoldering.A novel 4-step lumped kinetic model is proposed for simulating the pyrolysis of waste polyethylene.The results indicate that the operating parameters can determine the pyrolysis product yields by regulating the pyrolysis temperature and the volatile residence time.Note that higher temperatures and longer residence times favor the generation of shorter-chain pyrolysis products because of the intensified volatiles’secondary cracking.It can be concluded that a high interface-wall heat transfer coefficient(400 W m^(-2)K^(-1)),a low PE content(0.20),a high char concentration(2.4%),and a moderate air velocity(0.040 m s^(-1))are beneficial to oil yield.To some extent,this study may broaden the boundaries for the application of self-sustained smoldering-driven pyrolysis.

Self-Sustaining of Critical Park Microgrids Integrating Mobile Emergency Generators Subjective to Major Outage

In the event of a major power outage,critical park microgrids(PMGs)could be self-sustaining if mobile emergency generators(MEGs)are stationed to share energy.However,the need for privacy protection and the value of flexible power support on minute-time scales have not been given enough attention.To address the problem,this paper proposes a new self-sustaining strategy for critical PMGs integrating MEGs.First,to promote the cooperation between PMG and MEG,a bi-level benefit distribution mechanism is designed,where the participants'multiple roles and contributions are identified,and good behaviors are also awarded.Additionally,to increase the alliance benefits,three loss coordination modes are presented to guide the power exchange at the minute level between the MEG and PMG,considering the volatility of renewable generation and load.On this basis,a multi-time scale power-energy scheduling strategy is formulated via the alternating direction method of multipliers(ADMM)to coordinate the PMG and MEG.Finally,a dimensionality reduction technology is designed to equivalently simplify the optimization problem to facilitate the adaptive-step-based ADMM solution.Simulation studies indicate that the proposed strategy achieves the self-sustaining of PMGs integrating MEGs while increasing the economy by no less than 3.1%.

Self-sustained catalytic combustion of CO enhanced by micro fluidized bed: stability operation, fluidization state and CFD simulation

A micro fluidized bed reactor was used to study the self-sustaining catalytic combustion of carbon monoxide(CO).The Cu_(1−x)Ce_(x)O_(y) catalyst,as well as the pure CuO and CeO_(2),are used to investigate the contributing mechanism of different active sites including dispersed CuO and Cu–Ce solid solutions.The ignition temperature(Ti)of CO over these catalysts at a flow rate of 2000 mL/min followed the order:74℃(Cu_(0.5)Ce_(0.5)O_(y))<75℃(Cu_(0.25)Ce_(0.75)O_(y))<84℃(Cu_(0.75)Ce_(0.25)O_(y))<105℃(CuO)<500℃(CeO_(2)).Furthermore,the lean combustion limits(equivalence ratioϕ)over these catalysts under the flow rates of 750–3000 mL/min(through fixed,bubbling,and fluidized bed)were also measured,which are Cu_(0.5)Ce_(0.5)O_(y)<Cu_(0.25)Ce_(0.75)Oy<Cu_(0.75)Ce_(0.25)O_(y)<CuO<CeO_(2).The fluidized bed was simulated using the Eulerian two-fluid model(TFM)coupled with a diffusion/kinetic-limited reaction model to evaluate the influence of operation conditions on the self-sustained combustion of CO.The predicted maximum temperature agreed with the experimental measurements,demonstrating the validity of the kinetic model and simulation parameters.The results of catalytic combustion with increasing CO concentrations suggest that the catalytic combustion reaction could co-exist with the flamed combustion.When a high concentration of CO is used,a blue-purple flame caused by CO combustion appears in the upper part of the fluidized bed,indicating that the range of CO-containing exhaust gas purification could be expanded to a larger range using the fluidized-bed catalytic combustion technique.

Trailing-edge shock loss control with self-sustaining synthetic jet in a supersonic compressor cascade

To effectively reduce the loss of strong shock wave at the trailing edge of the supersonic cascade under high backpressure,a shock wave control method based on self-sustaining synthetic jet was proposed.The self-sustaining synthetic jet was applied on the pressure side of the blade with the blow slot and the bleed slot arranged upstream and downstream of the trailing-edge shock,respectively.The flow control mechanism and effects of parameters were investigated by numerical simulation.The results show that the self-sustaining synthetic jet forms an oblique shock wave in the cascade passage which slows down and pressurizes the airflow,and the expansion wave downstream of the blow slot weakens the shock strength which can effectively change the Mach reflection to regular reflection and thus weaken the shock loss.And the suction effect can reduce loss near blade surface.Compared with the baseline cascade,the self-sustaining jet actuator can reduce flow losses by 6.73%with proper location design and vibration of diaphragm.

我国聚变堆氚增殖循环技术最新研究进展与展望

氚增殖循环(也称外循环)是实现聚变堆氚燃料自持的关键。氚增殖循环由增殖剂产氚、提氚、氢同位素分离、氚分析检测等多个单元组成,各单元之间相互关联,缺一不可。依托国家重点研发计划“CFETR增殖包层氚提取与测量工程技术”项目,近期在多个氚增殖技术研究中取得了新进展。主要包括:在中国绵阳堆上在线演示了增殖包层百居里级在线产氚与提氚;开展了1∶1规模的增殖包层氚提取与氢同位素分离氢氘模拟实验,动态提取效率达99.1%,停堆提取效率达99.95%,氢同位素分离浓缩倍数达104倍,回收效率达99.26%;开展了基于水精馏的含氚水处理中试试验,贫化大于2 000倍,浓缩大于20倍。基于此,对未来聚变堆的氚工厂设计和建设进行了展望。

微尺度下场致发射对电晕放电的影响机理

场致离子化微电晕器件基于一维纳米材料的电场增强效应,可产生大气压非平衡微等离子体,适用于气体检测以及生物医疗等领域,具有响应快、低功耗等特点。但微尺度下的电晕放电属于局部自持的低能放电,其场致发射的作用及影响机制尚不清晰。因此文章基于流体-化学混合模型框架,融合F-N发射模型,建立了常温常压N2-O2混合气体的二维微电晕放电模型。通过与无场致发射放电模型对比,探索不同间距下场致发射对放电动态过程的影响,发现针-板间距减至15μm时,两种模型放电过程差异很小,表明放电以二次电子发射机制为主导,当间距减至10μm时,两种模型的放电强度相差近1倍,场致发射的作用及影响不可忽略;通过进一步对电子密度分布、空间电场分布、电流密度等参量进行动态分析,发现场致发射、空间碰撞电离反应和离子轰击二次电子发射之间存在链锁影响规律。

我国政府债务的跨周期平衡治理——兼论政府债务短期逆周期调控与长期可持续性研究

文章构建了政府债务对经济增长作用机制的理论框架,以经济波动为内生条件变量构建Self-Exciting IVAR模型,实证检验了政府债务在经济周期不同阶段下对经济增长的非对称效应。研究发现,经济衰退期政府债务对经济增长的冲击效应在短期内大于经济扩张期,中长期政府债务的经济增长效应在经济扩张期强于衰退期,经济衰退期可以适度扩大政府债务规模,提高其短期逆周期调控效应,经济扩张期应稳定政府债务杠杆保持其长期可持续性;进一步分析发现政府债务能够有效刺激投资、消费,进而拉动经济增长。文章为抵御经济下行压力,有效实施政府债务逆周期调控并保持其长期可持续性,实现逆周期与跨周期调控有效组合提供理论参考与经验证据。

中国地方的拉弗曲线——契税税率自主下调与城市财政能力

为何在财政重压下,一些地方反而利用自由裁量权下调了契税这一重要地方税的基准税率?本文研究发现,下调契税税率非但没有削弱地方财政能力,反而对其有提升效应,尤其是在三线及以下、投资投机性需求旺盛、房租收入比高的城市。对住房减税的拉弗效应优于对土地及其他房屋,全部标的物一起减税的效果最佳。在机制上,下调契税税率能够产生“放水养鱼”效应,助力楼市“保交付”、“促需求”、“去库存”和经济“稳增长”;但也会产生税费替代效应,增加超额非税收入并导致更高的非税依赖度;由于地方是主动而非被动减税,因此其不会像在中央减税时那样为抵御冲击而加大税收努力或“节流”支出。进一步分析表明,下调契税税率有助于降低税收不确定性、举债规模,且对土地财政的影响保持中性,能够有效保障地方财政可持续。

正癸烷/空气旋转爆轰波形成与传播数值模拟

针对气液两相旋转爆轰波形成与传播问题,本文以液态正癸烷为燃料,采用欧拉-拉格朗日方法,通过三维数值模拟给出了两相旋转爆轰波的形成演变特点和自持传播机理。研究结果表明:在起爆阶段,通过调控初始燃料分布能够获得强度不同的爆轰波和压力波;在对撞阶段,爆轰波与压力波共发生4次对撞,由于缺乏燃料供给,压力波逐渐衰减并消失,爆轰波以单波模态传播;在稳定传播阶段,未燃燃料在三叉点处聚集形成未反应气流区并诱导产生局部爆炸。未反应气流区的周期性出现和局部爆炸是两相爆轰波自持传播的重要影响因素。

宽禁带半导体器件开关振荡研究综述

宽禁带半导体器件具有高频、高效率、高功率密度等优点。然而,低寄生电容、低阈值电压和快速开关等特性也使它们更容易受到开关振荡的影响。该文综述开关振荡的类型、产生机理、敏感参数以及抑制方法。首先,依据波形特征将振荡分为阻尼振荡及自持振荡两类;其次,建立开关振荡分析模型,包括器件模型和开关电路模型,依托该模型研究两种振荡的机理、敏感参数以及各敏感参数对振荡特性的影响规律;再次,分析两类开关振荡的差异性和关联性;最后,总结抑制开关振荡的主要方法,并对各种方法的优缺点进行比较分析。对前人研究成果进行总结和延伸,期望帮助研究人员更好地将宽禁带器件应用于高频高功率变换工况。