The characteristics of sharp (small-scale) boundaries of solar wind plasma and magnetic field structures

We investigate properties of large (>20%) and sharp (<10 min) solar wind ion flux changes using INTERBALL-1 and WIND plasma and magnetic field measurements from 1996 to 1999. These ion flux changes are the boundaries of small-scale and middle-scale solar wind structures. We describe the behavior of the solar wind velocity, temperature and interplanetary magnetic field (IMF) during these sudden flux changes. Many of the largest ion flux changes occur during periods when the solar wind velocity is nearly constant, so these are mainly plasma density changes. The IMF magnitude and direction changes at these events can be either large or small. For about 55% of the ion flux changes, the sum of the thermal and magnetic pressure are in balance across the boundary. In many of the other cases, the thermal pressure change is significantly more than the magnetic pressure change. We also attempted to classify the types of discontinuities observed.     

Acceleration of interplanetary pick-up ions and anomalous cosmic rays

It may not be doubted anymore that anomalous cosmic rays (ACRs) are produced in the heliosphere from interplanetary pick-up ions through their acceleration at the solar wind termination shock. However, there is no general agreement in the community of heliospheric researchers concerning the mechanism of injection of the pick-up ions into the shock acceleration. We discuss here three possible ways for pick-up ions to be involved into the acceleration process at the termination shock: (1) preacceleration of pick-up ions in the whole region from the Sun up to the termination shock by solar wind turbulences and interplanetary shock waves, (2) local preacceleration of pick-up ions in a vicinity of the termination shock by shock surfing, and (3) formation of high-velocity tails in pick-up ion spectra consisting of secondary pick-up ions which are produced in the supersonic solar wind due to ionization of energetic neutral atoms entering from the inner heliosheath.     

大飞机缝翼滑轨影响研究

通过数值模拟和风洞实验两种手段研究了大飞机缝翼滑轨对飞机气动性能的影响.分析了缝翼滑轨对缝道和机翼表面流动分布的影响,获得了缝翼滑轨参数对飞机气动性能的影响规律.数值模拟结果表明:缝翼滑轨对缝道内的流动形成了阻塞,改变了机翼表面的流动形态,减小了机翼附面层流动速度,降低了飞机的失速性能.实验结果表明:通过减小滑轨宽度、减少滑轨数量、采用圆形截面滑轨和滑轨外弯等能够有效降低滑轨影响,改善飞机失速性能;滑轨参数对小尺度模型实验结果的影响尤为显著.研究结果为3m量级和8m量级风洞缝翼滑轨模型设计提供了参考.     

鸭式布局飞机矢量喷流对地面效应影响的风洞试验

针对单发鸭式布局飞机，通过低速风洞试验，研究了矢量喷流对飞机地面效应的影响特性。研究结果表明：发动机喷流使得飞机的地面效应增强，升力系数增加，降低飞机起飞/降落时的飞行速度，缩短起降距离，从而改善飞机起降性能。发动机喷管上/下偏转时，矢量喷流对飞机上下表面气流诱导不对称，均使地面效应阻力系数增量减小。在此基础上，基于数值模拟结果对喷流与地面效应的相互作用机理进行了分析。     

高超声速圆锥边界层失稳条纹结构实验研究

边界层转捩的准确预测是高超声速飞行面临的关键气动问题之一。为研究高超声速边界层失稳和转捩机理,以前缘半径1.6mm、半锥角7°的圆锥模型为研究对象,在FD-07高超声速风洞中采用红外热图技术开展边界层转捩实验测量。通过与工程计算结果对比,确认模型表面边界层流态。实验结果表明:有迎角条件下,模型表面中后段出现条纹结构,条纹结构的起始位置随着周向角的增加而向上游移动;随着迎角的增加,条纹起始位置向上游移动,条纹强度差异和条纹与模型中心线的夹角越来越大。实验获得的条纹结构与不同频率扰动波相互作用直接数值模拟获得的条纹结构现象一致。通过对比分析,认为边界层内不同频率扰动波相互作用是产生条纹结构的一种机制。     

Sunspot activity and cosmic ray modulation at 1 a.u. for 1900–2013

The descent of sunspot cycle 23 to an unprecedented minimum of long duration in 2006–2009 led to a prolonged galactic cosmic ray (GCR) recovery to the highest level observed in the instrumental era for a variety of energetic charged particle species on Earth, over a wide range of rigidities. The remarkable GCR increase measured by several ground-based, balloon-borne, and detectors on a satellite is described and discussed. It is accompanied by a decrease in solar wind velocity and interplanetary magnetic field at 1 a.u., reaching the lowest values since measurements of the solar wind began in October 1963; the solar polar field strength (μT) measured at the Wilcox Solar Observatory (WSO) is also significantly reduced compared to prior cycles since the start of the program in 1976, the polar field in the northern hemisphere reversed in June 2012 and again in February 2014, that in the southern hemisphere reversed in July 2013. If updates of WSO data confirm the second reversal in northern solar hemisphere, it would pose a serious challenge to the Dynamo Theory. The long-term change in solar behavior may have begun in 1992, perhaps earlier. The physical underpinnings of these solar changes need to be understood and their effect on GCR modulation processes clarified. The study discusses the recent phenomena in the context of GCR modulation since 1900. These happenings affected our empirical predictions for the key parameters for the next two sunspot cycles (they may be progressively less active than sunspot cycle 24) but it enhanced support for our prediction that solar activity is descending into a Dalton-like grand minimum in the middle of the twentyfirst century, reducing the frequency of the coronal mass ejections; they determine the space weather affecting the quality of life on Earth, radiation dose for hardware and human activities in space as well as the frequency of large Forbush decreases at 1 a.u.     

Effects on winter circulation of short and long term solar wind changes

Indices of the North Atlantic Oscillation and the Arctic Oscillation show correlations on the day-to-day timescale with the solar wind speed (SWS). Minima in the indices were found on days of SWS minima during years of high stratospheric aerosol loading. The spatial distribution of surface pressure changes during 1963–2011 with day-to-day changes in SWS shows a pattern resembling the NAO. Such a pattern was noted for year-to-year variations by Boberg and Lundstedt (2002), who compared NAO variations with the geo-effective solar wind electric field (the monthly average SWS multiplied by the average southward component, i.e., negative Bz component, of the interplanetary magnetic field). The spatial distribution of the correlations of geopotential height changes in the troposphere and stratosphere with the SWS; the geo-effective electric field (SWS∗Bz); and the solar 10.7 cm flux suggests that solar wind inputs connected to the troposphere via the global electric circuit, together with solar ultraviolet irradiance acting on the stratosphere, affect regional atmospheric dynamics.     

Ф3．2m风洞活动地板系统研制

目前在风洞中通常采用固定地板和活动地板两种模拟方法开展飞行器地面效应研究，确定地面效应影响量大小。采用固定地板模拟地面时，由于存在地板边界层，不能真实模拟飞机近地飞行状况。采用活动地板模拟地面时，由于活动带运行速度和方向与来流一致，在活动地板表面不存在边界层，可以真实模拟飞机近地飞行状况，提高地面效应试验数据的精准度。介绍了Ф3．2m风洞活动地板系统的研制情况，对活动地板系统的组成、结构形式、主要技术指标等作了简要介绍。YF-16模型试验结果表明：Ф3．2m风洞活动地板试验系统的性能指标达到了设计要求，活动带最大运行速度为60m／s；活动地板和固定地板两种模拟方法获得的地面效应试验结果存在较大差别，差别大小随地板高度和飞机姿态角变化而变化。     

高速风洞模型支撑方式研究

为了合理选择模型支撑形式,在高速风洞进行了直支杆与Z 支杆两种支撑形式的支架干扰研究试验。结果发现,支架对模型带来不可忽略的干扰量,两种支撑形式对升力、阻力与力矩的干扰量随迎角基本上呈线性变化;直支杆由于距离模型较近,对模型尾部带来较大的影响。而Z 支杆对模型尾部影响较小,在全机与无尾两种状态下的干扰量较为相近。     

2m量级高速风洞强迫振动动导数试验技术研究

为满足大型运输机、先进战斗机、推进与机体一体化布局等现代高性能飞行器动导数风洞试验研究的需求,基于小振幅强迫振动动导数试验原理,在中国空气动力研究与发展中心2 m 量级高速风洞(FL-26和 FL-28)建立了一套俯仰、滚转及偏航的三通道动导数试验技术。在试验系统研制过程中,首先采用强度高、刚性好的航空轻质铝材和复合材料解决了亚跨超声速条件下大尺度试验模型研制问题;其次,结合动力学和运动学仿真分析手段,实现并优化了大载荷试验装置传动机构设计以及α、β耦合双转轴支撑结构设计的难题;最后,在测控系统研制部分,通过电机选取、电磁干扰屏蔽、滤波器设计等技术手段进一步提高了测试系统的精度。试验系统设计技术指标Ma=0.4~4.25,迎角α=-35°~35°,侧滑角β=-15°~15°,传动机构法向承载载荷≤10000 N。SDM 标模的验证试验结果表明,直接阻尼导数与文献值一致性较好,重复性试验数据误差基本控制在10%以内。目前,该项试验技术已经成功应用于某大型飞机模型的动导数风洞试验。