Evaluation and improvement of coastal GNSS reflectometry sea level variations from existing GNSS stations in Taiwan

Global sea level rise due to an increasingly warmer climate has begun to induce hazards, adversely affecting the lives and properties of people residing in low-lying coastal regions and islands. Therefore, it is important to monitor and understand variations in coastal sea level covering offshore regions. Signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) data of Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) have been successfully used to robustly derive sea level heights (SLHs). In Taiwan, there are a number of continuously operating GNSS stations, not originally installed for sea level monitoring. They were established in harbors or near coastal regions for monitoring land motion. This study utilizes existing SNR data from three GNSS stations (Kaohsiung, Suao, and TaiCOAST) in Taiwan to compute SLHs with two methods, namely, Lomb–Scargle Periodogram (LSP)-only, and LSP aided with tidal harmonic analysis developed in this study. The results of both methods are compared with co-located or nearby tide gauge records. Due to the poor quality of SNR data, the worst accuracy of SLHs derived from traditional LSP-only method exceeds 1?m at the TaiCOAST station. With our procedure, the standard deviations (STDs) of difference between GNSS-derived SLHs and tide gauge records in Kaohsiung and Suao stations decreased to 10?cm and the results show excellent agreement with tide gauge derived relative sea level records, with STD of differences of 7?cm and correlation coefficient of 0.96. In addition, the absolute GNSS-R sea level trend in Kaohsiung during 2006–2011 agrees well with that derived from satellite altimetry. We conclude that the coastal GNSS stations in Taiwan have the potential of monitoring absolute coastal sea level change accurately when our proposed methodology is used.     

面向集中力扩散的回转曲面加筋拓扑优化方法

为了提高航天器回转曲面加筋型连接结构的集中力扩散效率,需要开展回转曲面加筋集中力扩散结构设计。传统放射肋设计方法普遍依赖设计经验、难以满足集中力高效扩散需求。因此,提出一种面向集中力扩散的回转曲面加筋拓扑优化方法。第1步,建立了一种基于各向异性过滤技术的集中力扩散拓扑优化方法,保证拓扑优化结果满足回转曲面加筋制造工艺要求;第2步,提出了一种基于网格变形技术的拓扑优化结果智能重构方法,可高效准确地对回转曲面加筋拓扑优化结果进行模型自动重构。基于所提出方法,以卫星平台对接环这种典型的回转曲面加筋壳为对象开展算例研究,并将优化结果与传统放射肋设计结果进行对比。结果表明,所提出的优化方法可得到加筋构型清晰、满足回转曲面加筋制造工艺要求的优化结果,且具有集中力扩散效率高、网格质量依赖性低、拓扑特征重构高效等优点。     

Validate the IRI2007 model by the COSMIC slant TEC data during the extremely solar minimum of 2008

During 2008, the solar activity is extremely low. The satellite observations show that the ionospheric height and electron density is much lower than the predictions by the international reference ionosphere (IRI) model. In this paper, we compared the slant total electron content (TEC) observed by the COSMIC satellites during 2008 with the IRI model results. It is found that the IRI model with IRI2001 and IRI2001 Cor. topside options will always overestimate the electron density in both lower and higher altitudes. But the rest two topside options (NeQuick, and TTS) tend to overestimate the electron density in the F layer and underestimate it in the topside altitudes. The switch altitude between overestimation and underestimation and the latitude-local time distribution of the model deviation depend on the topside option. The current investigation might be useful for the model improvement as well as data assimilation work based on the IRI model and the LEO TEC data.     

车载小型天线座结构设计及分析

本文介绍了一种野外车载小型天线座,用于导弹发射时天线跟踪目标导弹,可以提供天线接收搜索导弹目标时两个转动方向的转角和跟踪位置,同时用有限元分析软件对天线座壳体进行了静力分析。具有体积小,重量轻,精度可靠等特点。     

Lightning Related Transient Luminous Events at High Altitude in the Earth’s Atmosphere: Phenomenology, Mechanisms and Effects

This paper presents a literature survey on the recent developments related to experimental and modeling studies of transient luminous events (TLEs) in the middle atmosphere termed elves, sprites and jets that are produced in association with thunderstorm activity at tropospheric altitudes. The primary emphasis is placed on publications that appeared in refereed literature starting from year 2008 and up to the present date. The survey covers general phenomenology of TLEs and their relationships to characteristics of individual thunderstorms and lightning, physical mechanisms and modeling of TLEs, past, present and future orbital observations of TLEs, and their chemical, energetic and electric effects on local and global scales.     

变截面加筋板尺寸-布局一体化设计

为了提高加筋板结构的开口补强效率,文中提出了一种新型变截面加筋构型。通过丰富加筋结构层级,有效抑制了开口引发的失稳变形扩展,从而提高了结构的承载能力。在优化设计中,为了合理缩减设计变量的数目,文章采用函数变量来分别描述加筋层级与布局的变化规律。进而基于代理模型,实现了尺寸-布局一体化设计。最后,与等尺寸、等布局优化方法及等布局、尺寸余弦分布的优化方法的结果进行对比,凸显了文中所提出的一体化设计方法的简洁与有效。     

利用交变旋转磁场去除叶片气膜孔毛刺的试验研究

对航空发动机叶片采用电火花打出气膜冷却孔后产生的毛刺,用传统的加工方法难以去除,利用交变旋转电磁场带动微细磁针旋转与气膜冷却孔发生碰撞可有效去除叶片气膜冷却孔的毛刺。从理论上分析了磁力研磨法的工作原理、磁力研磨过程中磁针的运动方式以及影响磁力研磨加工效率的因素,并对气膜冷却孔进行磁力研磨抛光试验;采用3D超景深显微镜观察叶片气膜冷却孔研磨前后表面微观形貌的变化。试验结果表明:利用磁力研磨法可以有效去除叶片气膜冷却孔的毛刺,使表面形貌得到改善,满足工件的使用要求。     

A new power collection architecture for future spacecraft

The generalized tree-like transmission line network system having n layers in total with m-to-1 branch connection at each joint (T-TLNS-n-m) is proposed to replace the traditional series-parallel combined dc networks to automatically accumulate identically distributed power cells into the large amount of useful power for the spacecrafts. The proposed system has the attractive features of simple structure, easy construction and maintenance, and low cost, because two kinds of parts, ac current sources and m-to-1 transmission line (TL) branch connection parts, are used in the whole system. A method of implementing ac current cells having high output impedance is proposed to improve the power collection efficiency of the whole network system. Simulated results show that that low-pass nominal /spl pi/- or T-circuit with high characteristic impedance, which is used for the voltage source to current source converter in the current cell, improves the efficiency of the voltage inverter, filters out the harmonics, and increases the output impedance of the whole current cell.     

热交换对喷气发动机过渡过程影响分析

给出一种用于估算气流与零部件间热交换对过渡过程影响的方法。利用该方法计算了某双轴涡扇发动机在加速过程中各主要零部件与气流间的热交换随加速时间的变化，各部件热交换对推力响应的影响；计算和分析了该发动机在相同供油规律下“冷”和“热”两种加速过程，估算了典型部件换热面积和质量对加速性的影响。计算结果的分析表明：高温部件与气流的热交换对喷气发动机的过渡过程有不容忽视的影响；相同供油规律下由于热交换使“冷”和“热”加速过程的差异十分显著，“冷”加速过程允许采用补偿供油改善加速性；零部件换热面积和质量的估算精度对加速性有一定的影响，但不显著。