Thick galactic cosmic radiation shielding using atmospheric data

NASA is concerned with protecting astronauts from the effects of galactic cosmic radiation and has expended substantial effort in the development of computer models to predict the shielding obtained from various materials. However, these models were only developed for shields up to about 120 g/cm² in mass thickness and have predicted that shields of this mass thickness are insufficient to provide adequate protection for extended deep space flights. Consequently, effort is underway to extend the range of these models to thicker shields and experimental data is required to help confirm the resulting code. In this paper empirically obtained effective dose measurements from aircraft flights in the atmosphere are used to obtain the radiation shielding function of the Earth's atmosphere, a very thick, i.e. high mass, shield. Obtaining this result required solving an inverse problem and the method for solving it is presented. The results are shown to be in agreement with current code in the ranges where they overlap. These results are then checked and used to predict the radiation dosage under thick shields such as planetary regolith and the atmosphere of Venus.     

Space Life Science of China in 2013

In the past two years, space life science research in China is characterized by a wide area of basic researches for providing foundation for the future China Space Station. The effect of microgravity and radiation was further studied from physiology phenomena to the level of bio-molecule mechanisms. Chinese space life science is maturing in a new era of comprehensive development. Here, we review and summarize researches on space life sciences which were contributed by Chinese scientists.      

航空发动机表面发射率测量技术研究

测试发动机放热率的核心技术是在运行过程中获得发动机的表面发射率。介绍了航空发动机表面发射率的测量技术,阐述了应用前置反射器辐射温度计和动态红外数字成像仪测量固体表面发射率的原理和方法,提出了航空发动机表面发射率测量中应注意的事项,对几种发动机常用的材料分别采用上述2种方法进行了测量,试验结果表明了2种测量方法的可行性。     

用Tam-Ganesan湍流模型研究排气系统红外辐射特性

通过三维流场、介质的质量浓度场与辐射场耦合求解方法,计算了1台有中心锥的轴对称喷管的空腔-喷流组合红外辐射特性.利用专门为自由剪切流动发展的Tam-Ganesan湍流模型,有效提高排气系统红外辐射模拟精度.采用有限体积法(FVM)结合窄带模型(NBM)计算了排气系统在3~5μm波段的辐射传输问题,并考虑大气衰减作用.对比了采用标准 k - ε 模型和Tam-Ganesan模型对排气系统核心区长度的影响,以及由此引起的排气系统红外辐射特性的变化.通过与试验数据对比证明了该结果的准确性,结果表明选择合适的湍流模型对计算排气系统红外辐射特性有重要的意义.      

基于红外传感器智能车的设计与实现

目的结合飞思卡尔全国智能车大赛,介绍一种基于红外反射式光电传感器路径识别的智能车控制系统;方法利用10路红外光电传感器构成光电传感器阵列采集路面信息,采用霍尔式速度传感器采集小车速度信息;结果单片机获得路径信息和车速信息后,用以控制智能车的舵机转向,同时对电机进行调速,实现智能车沿着既定的跑道自主运行;结论试验证明,系统能够较好地满足智能车对路径识别和稳定性的要求,具备一定的抗干扰能力,能够快速平稳地自动寻迹行驶。     

飞机整体油箱三维瞬态温度场分析

介绍了飞机整体油箱三维瞬态温度场分析方法。利用MSC.Patran/Nastran thermal 2001软件,建立了飞机整体油箱三维瞬态温度场分析有限元模型。模拟了发动机表面与油箱底部的面—面辐射,油箱顶部对外部空间的热辐射,以及进气道冷空气与油箱底部之间对流换热等多种复杂边界条件。在软件不具备单元死活功能的条件下,成功模拟了飞行过程中燃油的消耗。本文的研究结果对飞行器油箱部件的热分析具有一定借鉴意义。     

Relativistic electron fluxes and dose rate variations during April–May 2010 geomagnetic disturbances in the R3DR data on ISS

Space radiation has been monitored successfully using the Radiation Risks Radiometer-Dosimeter (R3D) installed at the ESA EXPOSE-R (R3DR) facility outside of the Russian Zvezda module of the International Space Station (ISS) between March 2009 and January 2011. R3DR is a Liulin type spectrometer–dosimeter with a single Si PIN detector 2 cm² of area and 0.3 mm thick. The R3DR instrument accumulated about 2 million measurements of the absorbed dose rate and flux of 10 s resolution. The total external and internal shielding before the detector of R3DR device is 0.41 g cm⁻². The calculated stopping energy of normally incident particles to the detector is 0.78 MeV for electrons and 15.8 MeV for protons. After the Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) at 09:54 UTC on 3 April 2010, a shock was observed at the ACE spacecraft at 0756 UTC on 5 April, which led to a sudden impulse on Earth at 08:26 UTC. Nevertheless, while the magnetic substorms on 5 and 6 of April were moderate; the second largest in history of GOES fluence of electrons with energy >2 MeV was measured. The R3DR data show a relatively small amount of relativistic electrons on 5 April. The maximum dose rate of 2323 μGy day⁻¹ was reached on 7 April; by 9 April, a dose of 6600 μGy was accumulated. By the end of the period on 7 May 2010 a total dose of 11,587 μGy was absorbed. Our data were compared with AE-8 MIN, CRESS and ESA-SEE1 models using SPENVIS and with similar observations on American, Japanese and Russian satellites.     

Soybean cultivar selection for Bioregenerative Life Support Systems (BLSSs) – Hydroponic cultivation

Four soybean cultivars (‘Atlantic’, ‘Cresir’, ‘Pr91m10’ and ‘Regir’), selected through a theoretical procedure as suitable for cultivation in BLSS, were evaluated in terms of growth and production. Germination percentage and Mean Germination Time (MGT) were measured. Plants were cultivated in a growth chamber equipped with a recirculating hydroponic system (Nutrient Film Technique). Cultivation was performed under controlled environmental conditions (12 h photoperiod, light intensity 350 μmol m⁻² s⁻¹, temperature regime 26/20 °C light/dark, relative humidity 65–75%). Fertigation was performed with a standard Hoagland solution, modified for soybean specific requirements, and EC and pH were kept at 2.0 dS m⁻¹ and 5.5 respectively.     

涡扇发动机排气系统中心锥气膜冷却结构的气动和红外辐射特性实验

以降低涡扇发动机排气系统红外辐射为目的,针对某型涡扇排气系统构建1/3缩比模型,采用实验的方法比较了中心锥有/无冷却的排气系统喷流温度场和红外辐射场,验证了中心锥冷却结构能够大幅度降低涡扇发动机排气系统尾向红外辐射强度.研究结果表明:中心锥表面在外涵气体冷却下温度降低,同时尾焰核心温度也降低.当涵道比为0.3时,在0°~10°范围内,气膜冷却中心锥体排气系统红外辐射降低24%~32%;在20°~90°范围内,红外辐射强度降低0.8%~2.1%.当涵道比增加到0.8时,0°方向的红外辐射强度降低60%;20°~90°范围内的红外辐射强度降低了33%~51%.      

氢氧火箭发动机羽烟紫外辐射参数反演研究

针对氢氧火箭发动机羽烟紫外辐射特性参数分析,提出一种基于紫外CCD(change coupled device)相机采集的单幅辐射图像,同时反演羽烟内紫外辐射源项和吸收系数的方法.该方法将羽烟简化为发射-吸收轴对称介质,通过对辐射图像数据进行Able变换得到三维介质内辐射强度分布,利用最小二乘法将反演问题转化为使计算得到的与Abel变换得到的辐射强度误差最小的最优化问题,然后利用共轭梯度法求解该最优化问题.通过在求解正问题得到的准确值的基础上添加随机噪声,模拟辐射图像数据,分析了测量误差对算法反演精度的影响.结果表明:该算法对测量误差不敏感,能够准确的重建羽烟内的辐射源项和吸收系数分布.