Adaptive Extended Isogeometric Analysis for Steady-State Heat Transfer in Heterogeneous Media

Steady-state heat transfer problems in heterogeneous solid are simulated by developing an adaptive extended isogeometric analysis(XIGA)method based on locally refined non-uniforms rational B-splines(LR NURBS).In the XIGA,the LR NURBS,which have a simple local refinement algorithm and good description ability for complex geometries,are employed to represent the geometry and discretize the field variables;and some special enrichment functions are introduced into the approximation of temperature field,thus the computational mesh is independent of the material interfaces,which are described with the level setmethod.Similar to the approximation of temperature field,a temperature gradient recovery technique for heterogeneous media is proposed,and based on the Zienkiewicz–Zhu recovery technique a posteriori error estimator is defined to automatically identify the locally refined regions.The convergence and performance properties of the developed method are verified by using three numerical examples.The numerical results show that(1)The convergence speed of the adaptive local refinement is faster than that of the uniform global refinement;(2)The convergence rate of the high-order basis functions is faster than that of the low-order basis functions;and(3)The existing inclusions change the local distributions of the temperature,and the extreme values of the temperature gradients take place around the inclusion interfaces.

Investigation of energy transfer from pyrromethene dye to cresyl violet 670 in ethanol

In this paper, radiative and nonradiative energy transfer from laser dye pyrromethene 567 （PM567） and pyrromethene 580 （PM580） as donors to cresyl violet 670 （CV670） as acceptor in ethanol are investigated by using the steady-state emission measurement and the second harmonic generation （532 nm, ～ 13 ns） of a Q-switched Nd：YAG laser as the pumping source. The fluorescence intensity of the acceptor is improved due to the introduction of the donors, and the largest enhancement is obtained to be 128% in the PM567：CV670 dye mixture system. Energy transfer parameters, including the radiative and nonradiative energy transfer rate constants （KR and KNR）, critical distance （R0）, and half quenching concentration （[A]1/2） are investigated using the Stern–Volmer plots, and the acceptor concentration dependencies of radiative and nonradiative transfer efficiencies are also obtained. The values of KR for PM567：CV670 and PM580：CV670 systems are 2032.0×109 L·mol-1·s-1 and 2790.4×109 L·mol-1·s-1, respectively, and the values of corresponding KNR are 3.3×109 L·mol-1·s-1 and 4.2×109 L·mol-1·s-1, respectively. The results indicate that the dominant mechanism responsible for the energy transfer in the dye mixture systems is of the radiative type.

Numerical Study on Heat Transfer Characteristics of Heated/Cooled Rods Having a Composite Board in between: Effect of Thermal Vias

By placing a sample between a heated and a cooled rod, a thermal conductivity of the sample can be evaluated easily with the assumption of a one-dimensional heat flow. However, a three-dimensional constriction/spreading heat flow may occur inside the rods when the sample is a composite having different thermal conductivities. In order to investigate the thermal resistance due to the constriction/spreading heat flow, the three-dimensional numerical analyses were conducted on the heat transfer characteristics of the rods. In the present analyses, a polymer-based composite board having thermal vias was sandwiched between the rods. From the numerical results, it was confirmed that the constriction/spreading resistance of the rods was strongly affected by the thermal conductivity of the rods as well as the number and size of the thermal vias. A simple equation was also proposed to evaluate the constriction/spreading resistance of the rods. Fairly good agreements were obtained between the numerical results and the calculated ones by the simple equation. Moreover, the discussion was also made on an effective thermal conductivity of the composite board evaluated with the heated and the cooled rod.

Photophysical Property of Photoactive Molecules with Multibranched Push-Pull Structures

The structure-property characteristics of a series of newly synthesized intramolecular charge- transfer （ICT） compounds, single-branch monomer with triphenylmethane as electron donor and 2,1,3-benzothiadiazole as acceptor, the corresponding two-branch dimer and three- branch trimer, have been investigated by means of steady-state and femtosecond time- resolved stimulated emission fluorescence depletion （FS TR-SEP FD） techniques in different polar solvents. The TD-DFT calculations are further performed to explain the observed ICT properties. The interpretation of the experimental results is based on the comparative studies of the series of compounds which have increased amount of identical branch moiety. The similarity of the absorption and fluorescence spectra as well as strong solvent-dependence of the spectral properties for the three compounds reveal that the excited state of the dimer and trimer are nearly the same with that of the monomer, which may localize on one branch. It is found that polar excited state emerged through multidimensional intramolecular charge transfer from the donating moiety to the acceptor upon excitation, and quickly relaxed to one branch before emission. Even so, the red-shift in the absorption and emission spectra and decreased fluorescence radiative lifetime with respect to their monomer counterpart still suggest some extent delocalization of excited state in the dimer and trimer upon excitation. The similar behavior of their excited ICT state is demonstrated by FS TR-SEP FD measurements, and shows that the trimer has the largest charge-separate extent in all studied three samples. Finally, steady-state excitation anisotropy measurements has further been carried out to estimate the nature of the optical excitation and the mechanism of energy redistribution among the branches, where no plateau through the ICT band suggests the intramolecular excitation transfer process between the branches in dimer and trimer.

Study on Thermal Insulation Performance of Cross-Laminated Bamboo Wall

In recent years,bamboo,as a green building material,has attracted more and more attention worldwide.Inspired by the investigation of cross-laminated timber in structural systems,a new engineered cross-laminated bamboo(CLB)consisting of the cross lamination of bamboo scrimber plates is proposed in this paper.To evaluate its potential in structural applications,the thermal insulation performances of the CLB walls and CLB walls with the EPS foam plate were studied and evaluated by the temperature-controlled box-heat flow meter method.Test results indicated that the thermal insulation performance improved with the increase of thickness,but different wall configurations had little effect on the thermal insulation performance under the same thickness of the CLB wall.The thermal insulation performance of EPS-CLB composite wall was much better than that of CLB wall.In addition,a relatively acceptable accuracy of the theoretical calculations was proved.Finally,the influence of different locations of the EPS foam plate on heat transfer coefficient can be neglected as it was studied based on the validated numerical models.

Cross-Target Transfer Algorithm Based on the Volterra Model of SSVEP-BCI

In general, a large amount of training data can effectively improve the classification performance of the Steady-State Visually Evoked Potential(SSVEP)-based Brain-Computer Interface(BCI) system. However, it will prolong the training time and considerably restrict the practicality of the system. This study proposed a SSVEP nonlinear signal model based on the Volterra filter, which could reconstruct stable reference signals using relatively small number of training targets by transfer learning, thereby reducing the training cost of SSVEP-BCI. Moreover,this study designed a transfer-extended Canonical Correlation Analysis(t-eCCA) method based on the model to achieve cross-target transfer. As a result, in a single-target SSVEP experiment with 16 stimulus frequencies,t-eCCA obtained an average accuracy of 86.96%˙12.87% across 12 subjects using only half of the calibration time,which exhibited no significant difference from the representative training classification algorithms, namely, extended canonical correlation analysis(88.32%±13.97%) and task-related component analysis(88.92%±14.44%), and was significantly higher than that of the classic non-training algorithms, namely, Canonical Correlation Analysis(CCA) as well as filter-bank CCA. Results showed that the proposed cross-target transfer algorithm t-eCCA could fully utilize the information about the targets and its stimulus frequencies and effectively reduce the training time of SSVEP-BCI.