The general equations of secondary instability with respect to three-dimensional subharmonic disturbances are derived and applied to Blasius boundary layer in the present paper.The theoretical results of evolution and...The general equations of secondary instability with respect to three-dimensional subharmonic disturbances are derived and applied to Blasius boundary layer in the present paper.The theoretical results of evolution and spatial distribution of subharmonic disturbances are compared with experimental data.The re- suits show the important role of the process of route to transition in low-disturbance environments,and indi- cate that spatial mode is more rational than temporal mode.展开更多
Precise information about the temporal mode of optical states is crucial for optimizing their interaction efficiency between themselves and/or with matter in various quantum communication devices.Here we propose and e...Precise information about the temporal mode of optical states is crucial for optimizing their interaction efficiency between themselves and/or with matter in various quantum communication devices.Here we propose and experimentally demonstrate a method of determining both the real and imaginary components of a single photon’s temporal density matrix by measuring the autocorrelation function of the photocurrent from a balanced homodyne detector at multiple local oscillator frequencies.We test our method on single photons heralded from biphotons generated via four-wave mixing in an atomic vapor and obtain excellent agreement with theoretical predictions for several settings.展开更多
The critical transition Reynolds number is the lowest value at which the turbulent flow can hold in real flows.The determination of the critical transition Reynolds number not only is a scientific problem,but also is ...The critical transition Reynolds number is the lowest value at which the turbulent flow can hold in real flows.The determination of the critical transition Reynolds number not only is a scientific problem,but also is important for some engineering problems.However,there is no available theoretical method to search the critical value.For the hypersonic boundary layer with significant importance for engineering problems,there is no available experimental method to search the critical value so far.Consequently,it is imperative to take numerical method to search it.In this paper,direct numerical simulations(DNS)method is employed to determine the critical transition Reynolds number for the incompressible flat-plate boundary layer.Firstly,under the assumption of parallel flow,the temporal mode DNS is performed to determine the critical value as Re_(xpcr)=43767,which is quite close to the numerical results of other people.Secondly,under the condition of nonparallel flow,the spatial mode DNS is performed to determine the critical transition Reynolds number as Re_(xcr)=3×10^(5),which is well consistent with the experimental results.In principle,the proposed method in this paper can be extended to the supersonic/hypersonic boundary layer,and that problem will be discussed in the subsequent papers.展开更多
基金Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China
文摘The general equations of secondary instability with respect to three-dimensional subharmonic disturbances are derived and applied to Blasius boundary layer in the present paper.The theoretical results of evolution and spatial distribution of subharmonic disturbances are compared with experimental data.The re- suits show the important role of the process of route to transition in low-disturbance environments,and indi- cate that spatial mode is more rational than temporal mode.
基金The project is supported by NSERC and CIFAR.AL is a CIFAR FellowZQ is supported by the China Scholarship Council
文摘Precise information about the temporal mode of optical states is crucial for optimizing their interaction efficiency between themselves and/or with matter in various quantum communication devices.Here we propose and experimentally demonstrate a method of determining both the real and imaginary components of a single photon’s temporal density matrix by measuring the autocorrelation function of the photocurrent from a balanced homodyne detector at multiple local oscillator frequencies.We test our method on single photons heralded from biphotons generated via four-wave mixing in an atomic vapor and obtain excellent agreement with theoretical predictions for several settings.
基金supported by grants from the National Key Research and Development Program of China(Grant No.2016YFA0401200)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.12072230,11672204,91952301,and 11732011).
文摘The critical transition Reynolds number is the lowest value at which the turbulent flow can hold in real flows.The determination of the critical transition Reynolds number not only is a scientific problem,but also is important for some engineering problems.However,there is no available theoretical method to search the critical value.For the hypersonic boundary layer with significant importance for engineering problems,there is no available experimental method to search the critical value so far.Consequently,it is imperative to take numerical method to search it.In this paper,direct numerical simulations(DNS)method is employed to determine the critical transition Reynolds number for the incompressible flat-plate boundary layer.Firstly,under the assumption of parallel flow,the temporal mode DNS is performed to determine the critical value as Re_(xpcr)=43767,which is quite close to the numerical results of other people.Secondly,under the condition of nonparallel flow,the spatial mode DNS is performed to determine the critical transition Reynolds number as Re_(xcr)=3×10^(5),which is well consistent with the experimental results.In principle,the proposed method in this paper can be extended to the supersonic/hypersonic boundary layer,and that problem will be discussed in the subsequent papers.
