The Effects of Transverse Magnetic Field and Density Variations on the Particle Energy Spectra in a Reconnecting 3D Current Sheet

Electron and proton acceleration by a super-Dreicer electric field is further investigated in a non-neutral reconnecting current sheet (RCS) with a variable plasma density. The tangential B _z and transverse magnetic field components B _x are assumed to vary with the distances x and z from the X nullpoint linearly and exponentially, respectively; the longitudinal component (a ‘guiding field’) is accepted constant. Particles are found to gain a bulk of their energy in a thin region close to the X nullpoint where the RCS density increases with z exponentially with the index λ and the tangential magnetic field B _x also increases with z exponentially with the index α. For the RCS with a constant density (λ = 0), the variations of the tangential magnetic field lead to particle power-law energy spectra with the spectral indices γ₁ being dependent on the exponent α as: for protons and for electrons in a strong guiding field (β > 10⁻²) and for electrons in a moderate or weak guiding field (β > 10⁻⁴). For the RCS with an exponential density increase in the vicinity of the X nullpoint (λ≥ 0) there is a further increase of the resulting spectral indices γ that depends on the density exponent index λ as for protons and for electrons in weaker guiding fields and as for electrons in stronger guiding fields. These dependencies can explain a wide variety (1.5–10) of particle spectral indices observed in solar flares by the variations of a magnetic field topology and physical conditions in a reconnecting region. This can be used as a diagnostic tool for the investigation of the RCS dynamics from the accelerated particle spectra found from hard X-ray and microwave emission.     

IMF Direction Derived from Cycloid-Like Ion Distributions Observed by Mars Express

Although the Mars Express (MEX) does not carry a magnetometer, it is in principle possible to derive the interplanetary magnetic field (IMF) orientation from the three dimensional velocity distribution of pick-up ions measured by the Ion Mass Analyser (IMA) on board MEX because pick-up ions' orbits, in velocity phase space, are expected to gyrate around the IMF when the IMF is relatively uniform on a scale larger than the proton gyroradius. During bow shock outbound crossings, MEX often observed cycloid distributions (two dimensional partial ring distributions in velocity phase space) of protons in a narrow channel of the IMA detector (only one azimuth for many polar angles). We show two such examples. Three different methods are used to derive the IMF orientation from the observed cycloid distributions. One method is intuitive (intuitive method), while the others derive the minimum variance direction of the velocity vectors for the observed ring ions. These velocity vectors are selected either manually (manual method) or automatically using simple filters (automatic method). While the intuitive method and the manual method provide similar IMF orientations by which the observed cycloid distribution is well arranged into a partial circle (representing gyration) and constant parallel velocity, the automatic method failed to arrange the data to the degree of the manual method, yielding about a 30° offset in the estimated IMF direction. The uncertainty of the derived IMF orientation is strongly affected by the instrument resolution. The source population for these ring distributions is most likely newly ionized hydrogen atoms, which are picked up by the solar wind.     

微重力火箭设计中减旋方案等问题

讨论了一种微重力火箭总体设计中减旋方案，飞行载荷，气动加热与壁温计算等几个关键问题。结合该火箭的具体特点，提出了一种简单实用的被动式减旋措施，即，安装反旋尾翼及辅助减旋机构，并分析了减旋与动稳定性的关系。对超高音速火箭的飞行载荷和气动热进行了分析计算。     

复合材料缠绕后置处理方法研究

利用芯模表面的离散落纱点,依据空间几何和微分几何理论,针对纤维缠绕过程提出纤维缠绕出纱点轨迹的网格后置处理方法。该方法首先通过纤维缠绕轨迹的落纱点,以及缠绕过程中等悬纱长约束条件来求取出纱点,然后通过计算相邻出纱点的各坐标差得到机床运动轨迹,最后分别通过对三通管和组合回转体的缠绕成型实验,来验证该网格后置处理方法在处理非回转体和回转体缠绕出纱点轨迹的可行性和准确性。     

旋转条件下固体发动机燃烧室内流场数值模拟

采用贴体坐标和ＳＩＭＰＬＥ法，对某一大型固体发动机在旋转条件下的内流场进行了数值模拟。不同燃烧时刻的计算结果表明，旋转对固体发动机燃烧室内流场结构的影响随着燃烧肉厚的退移而显著增强；前封头开口区域存在中烈的切向涡，将严重影响该区的防防护。