Dynamic propagation velocity of a positive streamer in a 3 m air gap under lightning impulse voltage

Streamers represent an important stage in the initiation of gap discharge. In this work, we used an eight-frame intensified charge-coupled device camera to capture the streamer development process when a lightning impulse voltage of 95%–100% U50% was applied in a 3 m rod–plate gap and the streamer velocity was analyzed. Analysis of the observations shows that streamer velocity can be defined by three stages: rapid velocity decline(stage 1), rapid velocity rise(stage 2)and slow velocity decline(stage 3). The effects of electrode shape, applied voltage and gap breakdown or withstanding on streamer velocity were analyzed. The electrode with a larger radius of curvature will result in a higher initial velocity, and a higher voltage amplitude will cause the streamer to propagate faster at stage 3. Gap withstanding or breakdown has no obvious effect on streamer velocity. In addition, the experimental results are compared with previous results and the statistical characteristics of the primary streamer discharge are discussed.

Comparative studies on the hot corrosion behavior of air plasma spray and high velocity oxygen fuel coated Co-based L605 superalloys in a gas turbine environment

An improvement in the corrosion resistance of alloys at elevated temperature is a factor for their potential use in gas turbines. In this study, Co Ni Cr Al Y has been coated on the L605 alloy using air plasma spray(APS) and high-velocity oxygen fuel(HVOF) coating techniques to enhance its corrosion resistance. Hot corrosion studies were conducted on uncoated and coated samples in a molten salt environment at 850°C under cyclic conditions. Thermogravimetric analysis was used to determine the corrosion kinetics. The samples were subjected to scanning electron microscopy, energy-dispersive spectroscopy, and X-ray diffraction for further investigation. In coated samples, the formation of Al2O3 and Cr2O3 in the coating acts as a diffusion barrier that could resists the inward movement of the corrosive species present in the molten salt. Coated samples showed very less spallation, lower weight gain, less porosity, and internal oxidation as compared to uncoated sample.HVOF-coated sample showed greater corrosion resistance and inferred that this is the best technique under these conditions.

Effect of Air Velocity on Thermal Comfort under Thermal Environment Ramp Changing

Set points of the indoor air temperature and relative humidity in short-term staying location were studied. In this condition, the thermal reaction of human body varied with the ramp changes of the environmental thermal parameters.The change rules of about 60 subjects′ thermal reaction to the ramp change of environment were surveyed, and the effect of air movement on the thermal reaction during transient condition was considered by using a questionnaire. With the experimental results and research findings under stable condition, a way to set environmental parameters of short-time staying location was recommended.

Study of measurements of air velocity transducer deriving average air velocity of roadway based on one-dimensional linear regression

One-dimensional linear regression equation between measured value of air velocity transducer and the average air velocity was established by experimental data. The effect is to be evaluated. Through judging the parameters, one-dimensional linear equation established is valid. Regression equation can approximately put the measurements of air velocity transducer into the value of average air velocity. The distribution of air velocity field is simulated using Comsol in the conditions of the same length of roadway, the same air velocity and different sections.

Effect of Drying Air Velocity on Drying Kinetics of Tomato Slices in a Forced-Convective Solar Tunnel Dryer

The objective of this work is to analyse the extent to which a change in the drying air velocity may affect the drying kinetics of tomato in a forced-convective solar tunnel dryer. 2 m?s?1 (V1) and 3 m?s?1 (V2) air speeds were applied in similar drying air temperature and humidity conditions. Main drying constants calculated included the drying rate, the drying time and the effective water diffusivity based on the derivative form of the Fick’s second law of diffusion. Henderson and Pabis Model and Page Model were used to describe the drying kinetics of tomato. We found that solar drying of tomato occurred in both constant and falling-rate phases. The Page Model appeared to give a better description of tomato drying in a forced-convective solar tunnel dryer. At t = 800 min, the drying rate was approximately 0.0023 kg of water/kg dry matter when drying air velocity was at 2 m/s. At the same moment, the drying rate was higher than 0.0032 kg of water/kg dry matter when the drying air velocity was 3 m/s. As per the effective water diffusivity, its values changed from 2.918E?09 m2?s?1 to 3.921E?09 m2?s?1 when drying air velocity was at 2 and 3 m?s?1 respectively, which is equivalent to a 25% increase. The experimentations were conducted in Niamey, on the 1st and 5th of January 2019 for V2 and V1 respectively. For both two experiments, the starting time was 9:30 local time.

Study on fault source diagnosis technology and air velocity trans- ducers placement for underground

The current mine safety monitoring system used can only get the air volume change of roadway placed air velocity transducers, as this change is caused by this roadway, or for other roadway, and fault source has one point or more, which be- longs to the problem of fault source diagnosis for ventilation system. Ventilation system fault can be attributed to the variation of air resistance of branch in the entire network. If the changes of air resistance for each branch in ventilation system are ana- lyzed, then it is impossible to place air velocity transducers in every branch. Therefore, the problem of the minimum quantities and location for placing air velocity transducers should be mainly studied. The relationship of air resistance and air volume variation of matrix method has been proposed, which can reflect the variation relationship between the air volume of the branch and air resistance of the relevant branches. Fault roadway range library of ventilation network built to determine fault roadway range will cause air velocity to exceed the limit. Minimum and full coverage of distribution method has been proposed, and the concept of branch coverage degree and impact roadway range library has also been brought forword to get the macro-distribution of air velocity transducers.

AIR VELOCITY SENSOR

During the last twenty years there has been rapid progress in the use of automation in a wide range of industries,as well as in military, scientific application. However, the progress in the application of automatic control is often hindered by the lack of accurate, reliable measuring apparatus. An economic thermal couple air flow sensor with better linearity (accuracy is ±5% of full scale) has been successfully made at Trolex Ltd. Many other existing sensors fail in the application of industries because of non-linearity.

Liquid mean velocity and turbulence in a horizontal air-water bubbly flow

The liquid phase turbulent structure of an air-water bubbly horizontal flow in a circular pipe has been investigated experimentally. Three-dimensional measurements were implemented with two "X" type probes oriented in different planes, and local liquid-phase velocities and turbulent stresses were simultaneously obtained. Systematic measurements were conducted covering a range of local void fraction from 0 to 11.7%. The important experiment results and parametric trends are summarized and discussed.

Non-Contact Velocity Measurement of Japanese Cedar Columns Using Air-Coupled Ultrasonics

The ultrasonic wave velocities of Japanese cedar columns were measured using a non-contact method. An air-coupled ultrasonic wave was propagated through the axial and lateral directions of wood. The velocities in the axial direction (VL) showed the minimum values around the pith. The averaged VL increased from 3600 m/s towards the outside of measurement area and attained the maximum values (=4010 m/s). The velocities in the lateral direction (VRT ) showed no tendency among measurement points. The averaged VRT was 1450 m/s. The velocities obtained using the non-contact method showed a significant positive relationship with those obtained using the contact method. The averaged ratio of VL to VRT was measured to be approximately 2.2 to 2.8. These ratios were in agreement with those from a contact method. These findings suggest that it is possible to measure the velocity in Japanese cedar columns with the non-contact method by using air-coupled ultrasonics.

New Weapon of Tomorrow’s Battlefield Driven by Hypersonic Velocity

Speed is the new stealth and earlier this week America’s top nuclear commander described a grim scenario for U.S.forces facing off against hypersonic weapons.“We do not have any defense that could deny the employment of such a weapon against us,”Air Force Gen.John Hyten,commander of U.S.Strategic Command,told the Senate Armed Services Committee on Tuesday March 20,2018.Russian and Chinese are aggressively developing new weapons that travel at Mach 5 or higher,which is at least five times faster than speed of sound(hypersonic).These weapons travel in excess of 3,600 miles per hour(1 mile per second)and currently,no military possesses a credible defense.Finding,tracking and intercepting something that fast is unprecedented.Given that Russia and China have invested heavily in advanced defensive technologies that now hold most of our traditional forms of power projection at risk,this is a significant advantage—it is one that would impose major costs upon a defending nation.Recently,according to the director of the Army’s Rapid Capabilities and Critical Technologies Office(ARCCTO),The Army will field a battery of truck-borne hypersonic missiles in 2023,with a contract award in August,the service’s new three-star Program Executive Officer said.The service will also field a battery of 50-kilowatt lasers on Stryker armored vehicles by 2021,he said.A program to put a 100-plus-kilowatt laser on a heavy truck,however,is under review and may be combined with Air Force and/or Navy efforts to reach comparable power levels,Lt.Gen.Neil Thurgood told reporters in his interview.In this white paper we are suggesting a new technology as a counter-measure against such an adversary measure and threat that is aggressively being pursued by these two nations,Russia and China both tactically and strategically.We also briefly discuss possible physics and science of aerodynamics involved with these vehicles traveling between range of 5 Mach and higher,where we discuss current status and future direction driven by phenomena of plasma aerodynamics thorough possibly,weakly ionized gases(WIG)program that was started by the former Soviet Republics under AJAX Vehicle and that was direct understanding of the role of plasmas in the performance of this vehicle.

A calculation method for low dynamic vehicle velocity based on fusion of optical flow and feature point matching

Aming at the problem of the low accuracy of low dynamic vehicle velocity under the environment of uneven distribution of light intensity,an improved adaptive Kalman filter method for the velocity error estimate by the fusion of optical flow tracking and scale mvaiant feature transform(SIFT)is proposed.The algorithm introduces anonlinear fuzzy membership function and the filter residual for the noise covariance matrix in the adaptive adjustment process.In the process of calculating the velocity of the vehicle,the tracking and matching of the inter-frame displacement a d the vehicle velocity calculation a e carried out by using the optical fow tracing and the SIF'T methods,respectively.Meanwhile,the velocity difference between theoutputs of thesetwo methods is used as the observation of the improved adaptive Kalman filter.Finally,the velocity calculated by the optical fow method is corrected by using the velocity error estimate of the output of the modified adaptive Kalman filter.The results of semi-physical experiments show that the maximum velocityeror of the fusion algorithm is decreased by29%than that of the optical fow method,and the computation time is reduced by80%compared with the SIFT method.

A 3D analytical model for vortex velocity field based on spiral streamline pattern

Vortices that develop over intakes are a hazardous hydraulic phenomenon.In this study, a 3D model was developed to study the flow field in air-core vortices.This model is based on the spiral pattern of streamlines and the analytical solution of the momentum and continuity equations for deriving the three components of velocity.The model provides equations for free surface profiles and 3D patterns of the streamlines.Moreover, a new relationship was suggested for calculating effective viscosity and its distribution across the vortex flow field.The performance of the proposed analytical model was compared with existing experimental data and the results of previous analytical models.The outcomes indicated that the proposed model could predict characteristics of the vortex flow with good accuracy.

热风加热沥青路面冲击射流共轭传热特性

为提高热风加热沥青路面的就地再生加热效果,基于热风冲击射流对流换热和沥青路面内部导热的共轭传热过程,建立了热风加热沥青路面的冲击射流共轭传热理论模型,选取有限容积法得到了共轭传热模型的通用离散方程,采用压力-速度耦合半隐式算法(semi-implicit method for pressure linked equations,SIMPLE)获得了整个求解域内温度场分布,选取平均热流密度和平均换热系数反映沥青路面加热效果,通过正交试验研究了热风出口速度和热风出口温度对路面加热效果的影响程度。仿真和试验结果表明:理论计算与实验温度场分布趋势吻合度高,两者平均误差为8.4%;平均热流密度和平均换热系数在加热初期均从最大值急剧下降,而后下降幅度逐渐减小趋于平衡,两者的仿真计算与实验结果趋势相同,平均误差分别为6.4%和7.8%;热风出口速度和热风出口温度对平均热流密度均有显著影响,热风出口速度对平均换热系数有显著影响,热风出口温度对平均换热系数的影响相较于平均热流密度指标表现为不显著。研究结果为后续沥青路面就地热再生热风加热温度控制和加热器设计提供了理论依据。

塑性磨料气射流仿真与试验研究

塑性磨料气射流加工(PAJM)是一种先进的减材加工技术,是采用热固性塑性磨料代替传统硬磨料而发展的新型技术,该技术可有效去除表面涂层,且不损伤基材。基材无损主要是通过控制塑性磨料对基材的冲蚀应力,使得塑性磨料的冲蚀应力小于基材纤维的极限强度或纤维与树脂的结合强度。本研究采用有限元仿真和试验相结合的方法,对颗粒速度进行理论分析、计算流体动力学仿真模拟和试验研究,研究不同气体压力下的颗粒速度,计算结果与试验数据吻合较好。结果表明,随着磨料颗粒离开喷嘴,在距离喷嘴出口6.2 dN内(dN为喷嘴内径),颗粒速度增加;相反,距离喷嘴出口6.2 dN外,颗粒速度逐渐减小。当磨料粒径由20~30目变为40~50目时,最大颗粒速度由164.365 m/s增加到228.402 m/s。随着磨料粒径的减小,颗粒速度增加,且发散角增加。相比而言,数值模型能更好的预测塑性磨料的颗粒速度和分布。该研究突出了控制颗粒粒径和支座距离对射流场颗粒速度和发散角的影响。为控制颗粒对基材的冲蚀应力,避免基材损伤提供理论参考。

隧道防火门分流对端部临界送风风速的影响

在单洞双线轨道交通隧道发生火灾时,人员从火源上游防火门疏散,防火门的分流作用将影响端部送风风速。采用理论计算与数值模拟相结合的方法探究其影响关系,首先通过理论分析推导出了端部临界送风风速公式;随后,利用PyroSim软件建立了全尺寸模型,并针对不同数量防火门、火源热释放速率、隧道高度的分流情况进行了研究。结果表明:在相同火源热释放速率下,防火门的分流流速随着防火门开启数量的增多而减少;相同位置防火门的分流流速随火源热释放速率的增大呈指数增长的关系;防火门总分流量随防火门开启数量与热释放速率的0.3次方之积呈线性增长的关系,而受隧道高度的影响较小;结合理论推导,建立了端部临界送风风速的数学模型。研究结果为隧道火灾情况下的人员疏散和通风设计提供了科学依据。

空气过滤棉荷尘阻力特性的实验研究

为研究复合式空气过滤棉的阻力特性,选择3层复合空气过滤棉作为主要研究对象,通过实验系统地研究荷尘速率对其阻力变化的影响,并与过滤纸进行对比。研究结果表明:在相同过滤风速下,荷尘质量浓度越低,过滤棉阻力上升速度越快;过滤棉等级越低,荷尘质量浓度对其阻力增长影响越大,归一化阻力随单位面积荷尘质量的增长越快;过滤风速对过滤棉归一化阻力的增长有影响,过滤风速越大,归一化阻力增长越缓慢,但对效率较高的过滤棉影响不大。相同荷尘条件下,相较于过滤纸,过滤棉的归一化阻力上升更慢;基于实验归纳得到3层复合空气过滤棉的阻力增长特性方程。研究结果可为其使用寿命预测提供参考。

融冰沿气槽结构超疏水斜面下滑的解析数值分析

文章提出了融冰沿气槽结构超疏水表面顺向下滑过程的物理几何模型.对融冰层液膜微剪切流进行分析,利用超疏水壁面“黏-滑”边界条件建立了微剪切流场的双Fourier级数方程,求得解析数值解,在此基础上研究了融冰层液膜微剪切流的速度分布及冰层下滑速度与超疏水表面气槽占比(a)、斜面倾角(α)以及融冰层液膜厚度(δ)之间的定量规律.研究结果表明,融冰层越薄或空气槽占比越大,融冰层微剪切流场偏离平板剪切流越显著;三相接触线处滑移速度梯度发生突变并达到峰值;a,α与δ的增大均会导致冰层超滑速度非线性增加,融冰层厚度增大到1之后超滑速度趋于渐近解析解函数.基于所取的参数值,a=0.95,δ=0.2以及a=0.9,δ=0.1时,由超疏水壁面结构导致的冰层下滑速度增量相对于总下滑速度的占比超过60%,此时冰层下滑速度主要来自超滑速度的贡献.文章的研究为当前超疏水除冰应用中的相关流体物理过程提供了参考.

汽车空调风道性能定量评价与结构优化

针对汽车空调风道压力损失大、出口风速不均匀、常用的CFD优化仿真方法存在因网格重复划分和几何模型重修而导致的效率低下问题,提出一种速度均匀性系数的定量评价方法,并在气流分离严重的管道位置创建了网格变形参数,形成了基于Isight的Sculptor网格变形和STAR-CCM+技术的集成优化方法,实现了空调风道的自动优化。对比分析结果表明:采用出风口速度均匀性系数和自动优化技术,在各出风口出风量不变的前提下,风道压力损失降低了26%~34%,出风口速度均匀性系数提高了16%~33%,优化效率大幅提升。

地下立交互通匝道集中排烟效果研究

针对两端连接主隧道的互通匝道火灾烟气控制问题,依托南京建宁西路曲线A匝道工程,借助数值模拟软件FDS,研究HRR为30 MW下纵向诱导风速、排烟口尺寸及火源位置对顶部集中排烟效果的影响。结果表明:火源位于匝道中部,诱导风速为1.0 m/s时恰好保证烟气不发生“跨区蔓延”,诱导风速为1.5 m/s、排烟量为150 m^(3)/s时,控烟效果更好;匝道内烟气蔓延范围随排烟口尺寸增大而减小,当排烟口长宽比为4、面积为6 m^(2)时,匝道内烟气控制效果较好,系统整体排烟效率大于98%;排烟口长宽比不变时,拱顶最高温度随排烟口面积增大而降低;排烟口面积不变时,拱顶最高温度随排烟口长宽比增大而升高。火源位于匝道上游或下游时,排烟风量至少需增大至210 m^(3)/s,诱导风速需作针对性优化。

半U形隧道火灾补气速度和最高烟气温升的机器学习预测

半U形隧道是考虑火灾发生在水下隧道变坡点前而简化得到的隧道结构,通过理论推导很难建立有关烟气运动参数预测模型。因此,借助于FDS数值模拟和机器学习对320组火灾工况进行模拟分析和机器学习预测。结果表明:纵向风速的增大对于空气补充速度会有一定的抑制效果,BP神经网络在测试集和训练集上的预测效果较其他机器学习模型更为精确,决定系数R~2能够达到0.99;通过Shap值对影响隧道内空气补充速度的特征因素按重要性从高到低排序依次为高度效应、热效应、风效应;最高烟气温升受风速影响,坡高小则温升随风速减小剧烈,坡高大时风速影响不显著,并且相较于其他机器学习方法,BP神经网络和理论计算均能准确预测烟气最高温升,R~2均大于0.9。研究结合数值模拟与机器学习,为高效预测隧道火灾动力学行为及通风排烟系统优化设计提供了新方法。