不同重力条件下单气泡池沸腾现象的数值研究

对不同重力条件下常压饱和水中单气泡池沸腾现象的气泡生长过程及传热特性进行了数值模拟. 采用简化的润滑流模型计算生长气泡底部微液膜的贡献, 而其他宏观区域的气液两相介质则用连续界面模型统一处理. 气液界面形状和加热面上接触线的运动分别采用Level Set方法和固定的表观接触角来近似刻画. 计算结果表明, 气泡生长过程中, 当量直径近似与生长时间的1/3～1/2次方成正比, 重力对相关趋势的影响不大, 但强烈影响着气泡脱落直径和生长时间, 其中脱落直径反比于重力的1/3次方, 生长时间反比于重力的4/5次方. 在固定的核化点数密度条件下, 加热面平均热流密度近似与壁面过热度的3/2次方成正比, 该趋势并不随重力的减弱而改变.      

挡板对液体推进剂晃动力的影响

研究了全尺度重力探测卫星－Ｂ贮箱对于安装档板和不安装挡板情形下液体推进剂晃动的液体动力特性。结果显示,以重力瞬变加速度和重力梯度加速度为作用力的轨道加速度使液体推进剂产生了晃动,安装挡板使晃动幅度减小。由于推进剂在贮箱中上下运动的同时伴随着左右运动而产生了作用于贮箱上的力,通过液体推进剂与贮箱壁面的应力关系计算了作用在贮箱上的力。计算模拟结果显示,挡板产生的阻尼在减少流体晃恸 的同时也减少了流体作     

Finite time non-singular sliding mode control for spinning tether system with prescribed performance under artificial gravity mission

In this paper, the spinning tether system (STS) is applied to produce the artificial gravity overload with a proposed spin-up scheme in elliptical transfer orbits. To improve the comfort of the astronauts during spinning, the combined control scheme with tension and thrust is designed for spin-up. Then, based on the novel performance function and sliding mode technology, a finite time prescribed performance controller is proposed to track angular velocity for the desired artificial gravity overload. Compared with the existing works, the tracking error is controlled within the preset transient performance and converged to the origin within finite time even in the presence of unknown external disturbance. The stability of closed-loop tracking system is proved by Lyapunov theorem. Finally, the numerical simulations are given to demonstrate the effectiveness and robustness of the proposed controllers in the artificial gravity mission.     

微重力量值对气液两相流相分布及液相湍流统计量影响的数值研究

气液两相流在空间领域具有广阔的应用前景, 深入理解微重力量值(微重力大小)对相分布和液相湍流的影响十分必要. 采用欧拉elax-elax拉格朗日双向耦合模型深入研究了不同微重力量值对相分布和液相湍流的影响. 液相速度场通过直接数值模拟求解, 气泡的运动轨迹由牛顿运动方程跟踪. 研究表明, 气泡分布和液相湍流与微重力量值均具有直接联系. 在低微重力量值下, 气泡近似均匀分布在槽道内, 且对液相湍流统计量几乎没有影响; 然而当微重力量值较高时, 大量气泡聚集在壁面附近, 液相湍流由于气泡的注入受到极大调制.      

孤立气泡生长过程的短时微重力落塔实验研究

利用中国科学院国家微重力实验室北京落塔提供的3.6s微重力时间开展了短时微重力条件下的池沸腾实验研究, 分析了微重力条件下孤立的单个气泡生长过程特征. 实验中采用掺杂磷的N型光滑硅片作为加热面(加热片尺寸10mm×10mm×0.5mm), 以含气率0.0046 (气液摩尔分数比)的FC-72作为工质, 利用恒流源对加热片通电加热. 通过对实验观测到的单个气泡生长图像及相应传热数据分析可知, 经典传热机制控制的气泡生长模型可以描述其早期特征. 相关模型中经验参数的拟合结果在文献报道的数值范围内, 表明重力对气泡生长早期影响较小, 但较大的气泡尺寸可以提供更准确的数值结果.      

Marangoni effects under electric fields

An electric field when applied across liquid-liquid interface was found to cause, due to different susceptibilities of the two phases, what the authors would term as Marangoni “type” of instabilities, that resulted in the generation of bubbles/drops and caused the movement of the interface countering gravity. Thus “mixing” of the two phases would occur and in systems involving mass transfer, enhanced rates of transfer could be expected.Equations for the bubble formation involving parameters such as electrostatic pressure, surface tension, gravity force have been derived.In the case of non-gravitational or weak-gravitational fields such as obtainable in space, the separation of two liquids one below the other, as obtaining on the earth, exhibiting an interface may well nearly be impossible. Under such conditions recourse may have to be taken to super-imposition of other fields as a tool for obtaining the necessary contacting/separation. The dynamics of bubble formation etc. under these contexts are theoretically analysed.     

Farming in space: environmental and biophysical concerns.

The colonization of space will depend on our ability to routinely provide for the metabolic needs (oxygen, water, and food) of a crew with minimal re-supply from Earth. On Earth, these functions are facilitated by the cultivation of plant crops, thus it is important to develop plant-based food production systems to sustain the presence of mankind in space. Farming practices on earth have evolved for thousands of years to meet both the demands of an ever-increasing population and the availability of scarce resources, and now these practices must adapt to accommodate the effects of global warming. Similar challenges are expected when earth-based agricultural practices are adapted for space-based agriculture. A key variable in space is gravity; planets (e.g. Mars, 1/3 g) and moons (e.g. Earth's moon, 1/6 g) differ from spacecraft orbiting the Earth (e.g. Space stations) or orbital transfer vehicles that are subject to microgravity. The movement of heat, water vapor, CO2 and O2 between plant surfaces and their environment is also affected by gravity. In microgravity, these processes may also be affected by reduced mass transport and thicker boundary layers around plant organs caused by the absence of buoyancy dependent convective transport. Future space farmers will have to adapt their practices to accommodate microgravity, high and low extremes in ambient temperatures, reduced atmospheric pressures, atmospheres containing high volatile organic carbon contents, and elevated to super-elevated CO2 concentrations. Farming in space must also be carried out within power-, volume-, and mass-limited life support systems and must share resources with manned crews. Improved lighting and sensor technologies will have to be developed and tested for use in space. These developments should also help make crop production in terrestrial controlled environments (plant growth chambers and greenhouses) more efficient and, therefore, make these alternative agricultural systems more economically feasible food production systems.     

航天器对接六维试验台内装式重力平衡技术

为试验台主动对接环的重力平衡,研究了一种响应速度快、平衡力精度高,装在对接机构内部,适应高、低温环境的内装式重力平衡装置.介绍了有关技术:主动环实现三轴转动的球铰吊装机构;能够高速度、高精度地提供重力平衡力,并能实现自动随主动环上、下运动的智能型重力平衡技术;保证平衡器随主动环随动的轮轨式二维平动技术,经轻量化设计,其摩擦阻力和惯性阻力很小,并对轮/轨式方案进行了试验,当量摩擦系数仅为0.004 17.预计所研究装置的响应时间小于10 ms,各向失重模拟误差一般为1%~2%.      

Influence of gravity on the circadian timing system.

The circadian timing system (CTS) is responsible for daily temporal coordination of physiological and behavioral functions both internally and with the external environment. Experiments in altered gravitational environments have revealed changes in circadian rhythms of species ranging from fungi to primates. The altered gravitational environments examined included both the microgravity environment of spaceflight and hyperdynamic environments produced by centrifugation. Acute exposure to altered gravitational environments changed homeostatic parameters such as body temperature. These changes were time of day dependent. Exposure to gravitational alterations of relatively short duration produced changes in both the homeostatic level and the amplitude of circadian rhythms. Chronic exposure to a non-earth level of gravity resulted in changes in the period of the expressed rhythms as well as in the phase relationships between the rhythms and between the rhythms and the external environment. In addition, alterations in gravity appeared to act as a time cue for the CTS. Altered gravity also affected the sensitivity of the pacemaker to other aspects of the environment (i.e., light) and to shifts of time cues. Taken together, these studies lead to the conclusion that the CTS is indeed sensitive to gravity and its alterations. This finding has implications for both basic biology and space medicine.     

Marangoni convection when the surface tension increases with the temperature in normal and low gravity conditions

Thermocapillary convection has been studied in n-heptanol aqueous solutions whose surface tension is increasing with the temperature.

The fluid was confined in a parallelipipedic enclosure and a thermal gradient was imposed parallel to the free liquid/gas interface. The motions induced by the thermocapillary forces have been studied under low gravity conditions during Texus sounding rocket experiments and during the Spacelab D1 mission.

The combined thermocapillary and buoyancy convection have been extensively studied during ground based experiments.

The influence of the aspect ratio and of the alcohol concentration were investigated. Detailed velocity field was determined at the steady state under normal gravity conditions by Laser Doppler Anemometry (LDA).

The aspect ratio was of 0.3 and the temperatures imposed to the lateral sides of the cell were respectively 45°C and 60°C. With these experimental conditions, two superposed contrarotative cells were observed with rapid motions in the surface from the cold to the hot side. This convective pattern was also observed during the normal and high gravity periods of parabolic flights but during the low gravity period of the parabola the motions stopped everywhere in the fluid even in the surface and reappeared immediatly at the pull out of the parabola.     

垂直旋转圆盘边缘液体形态

为了解重力对旋转圆盘表面液体流动的影响,利用高速摄影,对垂直旋转圆盘边缘液体形态进行了试验研究。结果表明,与水平旋转圆盘边缘液体分为直接液滴、液柱和液膜3种形态不同,垂直旋转圆盘边缘液体分为液柱、液膜和柱膜纠缠3种形态。垂直旋转圆盘底部与顶部液体形态并不一致。底部未出现液膜形态,当流量不大于24 g/s时,为液柱形态;当流量大于等于30 g/s时,为柱膜纠缠形态。当流量为12~21 g/s、转速为1 000~2 100 r/min,顶部出现液膜形态;当流量小于12 g/s时,顶部为液柱形态;当流量大于12 g/s时,液柱形态消失,由柱膜纠缠形态取代。由于重力影响,垂直旋转圆盘边缘液体形态变化程度远大于水平旋转圆盘;在流量大到一定程度后,圆盘底部形成液柱形态需要的转速会大大增加。      

Mapping the earth's magnetic and gravity fields from space: Current status and future prospects

Orbital potential field measurements are sensitive to regional variations in earth density and magnetization that occur over scales of a few hundred kilometers or greater. Global field models currently available are able to distinguish gravity variations of ±5 milligal over distances of ～1,000 km and magnetic variations of ±6 gamma over distances of ～300 km at the earth's surface. Regional variations in field strength have been detected in orbital measurements that are not apparent in higher resolution, low altitude surveys. NASA is presently studying a spacecraft mission known as GRAVSAT/MAGSAT, which would be the first satellite mission to perform a simultaneous survey of the earth's gravity and magnetic fields at low orbital altitudes. GRAVSAT/MAGSAT has been proposed for launch during the latter nineteen-eighties, and it would measure gravity field strength to an accuracy of 1 milligal and magnetic field strength to an accuracy of 2 gamma (scalar)/5 gamma (vector components) over a distance of roughly 100 km. Even greater improvements in the accuracy and spatial resolution of orbital surveys are anticipated during the nineteen-nineties with the development of potential field gradiometers and a tethered satellite system that can be deployed from the Space Shuttle to altitudes of 120 km above the earth's surface.     

重力对单气泡生长特性的影响

采用VOF (Volume of Fluid)多相流模型, 通过用户自定义函数UDF (User Defined Function)实现相变过程中质量和能量的输运, 对微重力条件下尺寸为10mm × 10mm × 25mm的矩形通道的池沸腾现象进行数值模拟, 得到了微重力及常重力作用下单个气泡生长特性的差异. 模拟结果表明, 微重力条件下气泡周围的流线与温度场的分布有显著差异; 由于表面张力作用, 微重力下的气泡脱离特性与常重力下不同; 在微重力条件下, 气泡直径的变化比较复杂, 并与重力加速度的大小有关; Marangoni流对微重力下的流动影响很大, 使换热系数波动, 而且波动的幅度随重力加速度的减小而增大.      

基于流动沸腾气泡脱落行为的重力无关性分析

在流动沸腾现象中，气液两相密度差异导致重力对流动和传热性能产生很大影响，因此重力效应研究对于流动沸腾的航天应用具有重要意义.在对Bower-Klausner-Sathyanarayan重力无关准则（BKS准则）分析的基础上，提出其判据存在理论缺陷，不能正确反映重力效应.采用与BKS准则相同的气泡脱落模型，但忽略气泡沿加热管壁的滑动效应，重新计算常重力条件下不同流动方向起始沸腾阶段单气泡的脱落尺寸，归纳得到一个新的基于Fr（Froude数）的重力无关准则.该准则与实验结果符合更好，且与主导作用力准则基本相符.      

Production and evolution of millisecond X-ray and radio pulsars

Observations using the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) have discovered dozens of accreting neutron stars with millisecond spin periods in low-mass binary star systems. Eighteen are millisecond X-ray pulsars powered by accretion or nuclear burning or both. These stars have magnetic fields strong enough for them to become millisecond rotation-powered (radio) pulsars when accretion ceases. Few, if any, accretion- or rotation-powered pulsars have spin rates higher than 750 Hz. There is strong evidence that the spin-up of some accreting neutron stars is limited by magnetic spin-equilibrium whereas the spin-up of others is halted when accretion ends. Further study will show whether the spin rates of some accretion- or rotation-powered pulsars are or were limited by emission of gravitational radiation.     

基于气浮的卫星挠性旋转帆板物理仿真系统设计

挠性附件运动时产生的弹性振动是影响空间飞行器指向精度和控制性能的主要原因.因此,在地面对控制系统抑制振动的性能进行验证具有重要意义.由于太阳帆板低频且长度较大,在地面构建大范围运动的空间微重力环境,耗资及难度极大.本文提出一种基于等效主轴惯量与挠性频率的卫星挠性旋转帆板挠性模拟器,基于气浮法设计了低摩擦与微重力环境的物理仿真系统,并建立了模拟器的动力学模型,等效模拟了卫星挠性旋转帆板的振动特性,降低了卫星挠性旋转帆板地面微重力运动环境模拟的难度,实现了对其控制算法抑制振动性能的有效及高经济性测试.仿真结果表明,模拟器可以通过简单操作实现参数的平滑改变以模拟不同参数及结构的卫星挠性旋转帆板,且具有与真实太阳帆板一致的振动特性,满足测试要求.      

Clinostation influence on regeneration of cell wall in Solanum tuberosum L. protoplasts.

Regeneration of cell walls in protoplasts was investigated using light- and electronmicroscopic methods. The protoplasts were isolated from mesophyll of Solanum tuberosum leaves and were cultivated on the horizontal low rotating clinostat (2 rpm) and in control for 10 days. Using a fluorescent method (with Calcofluor white) it was demonstrated that changes in vector gravity results in a regeneration inhibition of cell wall. With electron-microscopical and electro-cytochemical methods (staining with alcianum blue) dynamics of the regeneration of cell walls in protoplasts was studied; carbohydrate matrix of cell walls is deposited at the earliest stages of this process. The influence of microgravity on the cell wall regeneration is discussed in higher plants.     

Regional gravity field model in Pakistan area from the combination of CHAMP,GRACE and ground data using least squares collocation: A case study

This study describes a methodology of recovery of the Earth’s gravity field from CHAMP and GRACE satellites data in Pakistan using least squares collocation (LSC) based downward continuation technique. The CHAMP height anomalies and GRACE gravity disturbances derived from the observed satellite data have been used in combination solution using LSC with observed gravity values at the Earth surface. The combined covariance functions of height anomalies and/or gravity disturbances at satellite altitudes and observed gravity anomalies at Earth surface have been used as the basis for combination and downward continuation solution. The variance of predicted gravity anomalies from GRACE gravity disturbances is relatively lower than the corresponding results of gravity anomalies from CHAMP height anomalies. This fact may be attributed partly to the amplification of noise and partly to the unstable inverse transformation process of height anomalies to gravity anomalies. The impact of data error variance has been studied in the context of smoothing and noise reduction in the final solution of downward continuation using least squares collocation. The raising of data error suppresses the noise and as a result a smooth final solution is obtained. The prediction results appear to be dependent on the quality of data and goodness of combined covariance function, which are fairly comparable for the CHAMP and GRACE data. The recovered gravity field from satellite data appears to contribute mainly to medium and long wavelength parts of total gravity field spectrum. Due to flexibility of data handling in least squares collocation, this procedure is applicable to any observable of gravity field being at different altitudes and with different data spacing.     

Calcium signaling in plant cells in altered gravity.

Changes in the intracellular Ca2+ concentration in altered gravity (microgravity and clinostating) evidence that Ca2+ signaling can play a fundamental role in biological effects of microgravity. Calcium as a second messenger is known to play a crucial role in stimulus-response coupling for many plant cellular signaling pathways. Its messenger functions are realized by transient changes in the cytosolic ion concentration induced by a variety of internal and external stimuli such as light, hormones, temperature, anoxia, salinity, and gravity. Although the first data on the changes in the calcium balance in plant cells under the influence of altered gravity have appeared in 80th, a review highlighting the performed research and the possible significance of such Ca2+ changes in the structural and metabolic rearrangements of plant cells in altered gravity is still lacking. In this paper, an attempt was made to summarize the available experimental results and to consider some hypotheses in this field of research. It is proposed to distinguish between cell gravisensing and cell graviperception; the former is related to cell structure and metabolism stability in the gravitational field and their changes in microgravity (cells not specialized to gravity perception), the latter is related to active use of a gravitational stimulus by cells presumebly specialized to gravity perception for realization of normal space orientation, growth, and vital activity (gravitropism, gravitaxis) in plants. The main experimental data concerning both redistribution of free Ca2+ ions in plant cell organelles and the cell wall, and an increase in the intracellular Ca2+ concentration under the influence of altered gravity are presented. Based on the gravitational decompensation hypothesis, the consequence of events occurring in gravisensing cells not specialized to gravity perception under altered gravity are considered in the following order: changes in the cytoplasmic membrane surface tension --> alterations in the physicochemical properties of the membrane --> changes in membrane permeability, --> ion transport, membrane-bound enzyme activity, etc. --> metabolism rearrangements --> physiological responses. An analysis of data available on biological effects of altered gravity at the cellular level allows one to conclude that microgravity environment appears to affect cytoskeleton, carbohydrate and lipid metabolism, cell wall biogenesis via changes in enzyme activity and protein expression, with involvement of regulatory Ca2+ messenger system. Changes in Ca2+ influx/efflux and possible pathways of Ca2+ signaling in plant cell biochemical regulation in altered gravity are discussed.     

On the information contents and regularisation of lunar gravity field solutions

Till the present day the recovery of the lunar gravity field from satellite tracking data depends in a crucial way on the level and method of regularisation. With Earth-based tracking only, the spatial data coverage is limited to only slightly more than 50% and the inverse problem remains severely ill-posed. The development of global gravity models suitable for precise orbit modeling as well as geophysical studies therefore requires a significant level of regularisation, limiting the solution power over the far-side where no gravity information is available. Unconstrained solutions, within the framework of global harmonic base functions, are only possible for very low degrees (< 10). Any significant change to this situation is only to be expected when global satellite-to-satellite tracking data of high quality becomes available early in the next decade. Yet, a rigorous analysis of the impact of the chosen method and level of regularisation is lacking. Most gravity models employ a Kaula-type signal smoothness constraint of 15 × 10⁻⁵ /l², which allows a good overall data fit as well as a smooth field over the far-side. Furthermore, a geographical type of constraint has been suggested, where surface accelerations have been introduced in areas of no data coverage. Modern numerical methods, on the other hand, offer direct tools and search mechanisms for the optimal level of regularisation. This paper presents a study of Tikhonov-type regularisation of lunar gravity solutions, with emphasis on the so-called L-curve and quasi-optimality methods for regularisation parameter estimation. Furthermore, new quality measures of lunar gravity solutions are presented, which account for the bias introduced by the regularisation.