The effect of vibrations on heterogeneous fluids: Some studies in weightlessness

Under weightlessness, the effect of harmonic vibrations can easily induce average motions in fluids with density inhomogeneities. We will consider more particularly pure fluids near their gas–liquid critical point, where the temperature variation of all important parameters (e.g. interfacial tension, density difference) follows universal, scaling laws. We will thus study, below the critical point, the ordering of the gas–liquid interfaces (at equilibrium and during the phase separation) and, above the critical point, some thermovibrational instabilities. These studies have been performed in the Russian MIR station and in the MiniTexus and Maxus rockets of ESA and under magnetic compensation of gravity on earth.     

The effect of vibrations on heterogeneous fluids: Some studies in weightlessness

Under weightlessness, the effect of harmonic vibrations can easily induce average motions in fluids with density inhomogeneities. We will consider more particularly pure fluids near their gas–liquid critical point, where the temperature variation of all important parameters (e.g. interfacial tension, density difference) follows universal, scaling laws. We will thus study, below the critical point, the ordering of the gas–liquid interfaces (at equilibrium and during the phase separation) and, above the critical point, some thermovibrational instabilities. These studies have been performed in the Russian MIR station and in the MiniTexus and Maxus rockets of ESA and under magnetic compensation of gravity on earth.     

Gravitational Sensitivity of Melts at the Growth of InSb:Te Crystals by the Bridgman and Floating Zone Methods under the Conditions of Microgravity

The comparative analysis of the results of space and ground-based experiments IMET RAS on the growth of InSb:Te crystals by the Bridgman method and floating zone method (FZM) is made for the purpose of studying the influence of microgravity on the growth, structure, and properties of grown crystals, and thus the gravity sensitivity of InSb melt is demonstrated. It is shown that, under microgravity conditions, the Bridgman method makes it possible to grow InSb:Te crystals without contact with the ampoule walls, which provides for the single crystal structure, the absence of striations, and a low dislocation density. For the first time, InSb:Te monocrystals were grown with the FZM under microgravity. The anomalous behavior of the impurity core (facet effect) in these crystals correlates with the changed magnitude and direction of the quasi-stationary (residual) microaccelerations.     

一种新的GPS单频单历元定姿算法研究

将全球卫星定位系统(GPS)单历元的L1波段的载波相位和码相位观测方程进行组合求解整周模糊度的浮点解。基于对浮点解与固定解间关系的分析,提出了一种将低精度浮点解映射到固定解的方法,降低了最小二乘降相关平差(LAMBDA)算法对高精度浮点解的依赖性,避免了多个历元求解高精度浮点解,实现了单频、单历元的整周模糊度估计。实际数据测试结果表明:算法的成功率大于95%,能有效地实时解算动态姿态。     

Submicron magnetite grains and carbon compounds in Martian meteorite ALH84001: inorganic, abiotic formation by shock and thermal metamorphism

Purported biogenic features of the ALH84001 Martian meteorite (the carbonate globules, their submicron magnetite grains, and organic matter) have reasonable inorganic origins, and a comprehensive hypothesis is offered here. The carbonate globules were deposited from hydrothermal water, without biological mediation. Thereafter, ALH84001 was affected by an impact shock event, which raised its temperature nearly instantaneously to 500-700K, and induced iron-rich carbonate in the globules to decompose to magnetite and other minerals. The rapidity of the temperature increase caused magnetite grains to nucleate in abundance; hence individual crystals were very small. Nucleation and growth of magnetite crystals were fastest along edges and faces of the precursor carbonate grains, forcing the magnetite grains to be platy or elongated, including the "truncated hexa-octahedra" shape. ALH84001 had formed at some depth within Mars where the lithostatic pressure was significantly above that of Mars' surface. Also, because the rock was at depth, the impact heat dissipated slowly. During this interval, magnetite crystals approached chemical equilibria with surrounding minerals and gas. Their composition, nearly pure Fe(3)O(4), reflects those of equilibria; elements that substitute into magnetite are either absent from iron-rich carbonate (e.g., Ti, Al, Cr), or partitioned into other minerals during magnetite formation (Mg, Mn). Many microstructural imperfections in the magnetite grains would have annealed out as the rock cooled. In this post-shock thermal regime, carbon-bearing gas from the decomposition of iron carbonates reacted with water in the rock (or from its surroundings) to produce organic matter via Fischer-Tropschlike reactions. Formation of such organic compounds like polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons would have been catalyzed by the magnetite (formation of graphite, the thermochemically stable phase, would be kinetically hindered).     

空间目标三维重构误差分析与相机参数设计方法

针对空间目标三维重构任务中的相机参数设计问题,提出一套由目标重构精度反演观测相机参数及观测方案的方法。通过梳理三维重构误差传播机理,将误差传播归结为相机内参数影响特征点齐次坐标和齐次坐标影响重构精度两个过程,给出了三维重构误差计算方法。基于误差下限分析计算结果,给出了观测距离、拍照间隔与相机姿态指向等任务参数的设计原则,建立了由重构精度反演相机焦距和像素尺寸的方法,形成一套以重构精度为核心指标的观测方案和相机参数设计方法。针对模拟空间目标的仿真试验校验了重构误差估算算法及相机参数和观测方案设计方法的有效性。     

Chemi-acoustic instability structure in irreversibly reacting systems

A basic understanding of the structure of the interactions between chemical and acoustic instabilities and the effects derived therefrom is sought for a medium undergoing one-step irreversible chemical reaction. Detailed examination of the acoustic-chemical system after the completion of the reaction shows the distinct presence of the chemical, acoustic, and mixed modes of instability. The chemical mode appears as a stationary yet spatially inhomogeneous entropy distribution, even though the medium initially (before reaction) is homogeneous throughout. The acoustic mode appears as a composite of both right- and left-travelling pressure or velocity waves, even though the initial acoustic wave is only right-travelling. The left-travelling wave is generated due to partial reflection or scattering as the right-travelling wave propagates in a spatially inhomogenous medium during the chemical reaction and is sustained even after the reaction is completed. The mixed modes of density and temperature fluctuations apparently retain to some degree the characteristics of both the acoustic and the chemical modes and may, under certain conditions, be dominated by either one of the modes of behavior. This is determined largely by the parameter Ω, the ratio of chemical to acoustic time scales.During reaction, it is found that the observed complicated behavior can be interpreted fruitfully in terms of the mode concept developed for the post-reaction behavior. It is observed that the temporal development of the physical fluctuating variables is dependent upon spatial position (the effect being stronger as Ω is reduced). Further, it is found that at specific values of Ω, the following effects are maximized: (a) acoustic amplification; (b) wave reflection; (c) reaction evolution enhancement.The energy contained in the fluctuations is found to be composed of an acoustic and a chemical part. The latter dominates during reaction. However, after reaction, the chemical part exactly balances any change in the acoustic part which occurs during reaction, thus resulting in no net change in the fluctuation energy. The chemical part seems to represent the loss (or gain) of mean thermal energy which was diverted by chemi-acoustic interactions into the increased (or decreased) acoustic energy of the system.     

Investigation of thermosolutally caused convection during Bridgman-growth of BiSbTe3-mixed crystals at normal and reduced gravity

BiSbTe₃-mixed crystals have been grown at normal and reduced gravity (during the MIR'97-mission) using a Bridgman-configuration of the TITUS facility. The distribution of the components in the melt, and so the homogeneity of the growing crystal, is strongly influenced by the flow in the melt even in the case of weak convection. The flow configuration in the melt especially in front of the solid-liquid phase boundary can be investigated by means of a segregation analysis of the system components and an additional Pb-dopant. The BiSbTe₃-system is because of its hydro-dynamic properties a typical representative of semiconductor melts (low Prandtl number, high Schmidt number) but there are also some special properties relating to the segregationally caused enrichment of the lighter tellurium at the phase boundary and the resulting solutal destabilities. Experimental experiences from segregation analysis have shown that the mass transport in the melt at normal gravity is mainly influenced by convective mixing determined by thermally and solutally caused buoyancy forces. Numerical simulations have been performed for the real experimentally used configurations. These simulations have shown that a strong coupling of thermal and solutal effects exists and have given axial as well as radial segregation profiles being in excellent agreement with the experimental results for the vertical normal gravity grown crystals. For micro gravity conditions a reduction of the flow velocity of more than two orders of magnitude (depending on the micro gravity level and the direction of the residual acceleration) resulting in diffusion controlled component segregation has been predicted.The results of the two micro gravity grown crystals, especially the axial and radial segregation profiles as a sensitive indicator for the flow configuration in front of the phase boundary will be given and discussed in the paper. They will be compared with the results of numerical simulations of the melt flow for the real processing parameters measured during the TITUS growth processes and with experimental as well as numerical results for vertical normal gravity grown reference Samples.     

高超声速飞行器前缘缝隙流动数值模拟研究

通过分析高超声速飞行器前缘防热瓦结构,建立了一种开缝前缘的简化模型。针对这一模型的流场通过求解三维可压缩Navier Stokes方程进行了数值模拟。研究了缝隙诱导形成的三维旋涡的空间分布特征和旋涡运动对物面气动加热的影响规律。模型圆弧段缝隙肩部倒圆区因存在较强的三维效应形成“常规”高热流区,而缝隙内主旋涡再附致使侧壁上存在一个“非常规”高热流区;模型平直段展向流动诱导缝隙上方出现较强的旋涡运动,同时流动在缝隙倒圆区形成分离涡并于缝隙侧壁面再附,受这些旋涡运动的影响,缝隙肩部倒圆区转变为局部热流低值区,缝隙侧壁上存在局部热流高值区。     

Investigation of thermosolutally caused convection during -growth of BiSbTe3-mixed crystals at normal and reduced gravity

BiSbTe₃-mixed crystals have been grown at normal and reduced gravity (during the MIR'97-mission) using a -configuration of the TITUS facility. The distribution of the components in the melt, and so the homogeneity of the growing crystal, is strongly influenced by the flow in the melt even in the case of weak convection. The flow configuration in the melt especially in front of the solid-liquid phase boundary can be investigated by means of a segregation analysis of the system components and an additional Pb-dopant. The BiSbTe₃-system is because of its hydro-dynamic properties a typical representative of semiconductor melts (low number, high number) but there are also some special properties relating to the segregationally caused enrichment of the lighter tellurium at the phase boundary and the resulting solutal destabilities. Experimental experiences from segregation analysis have shown that the mass transport in the melt at normal gravity is mainly influenced by convective mixing determined by thermally and solutally caused buoyancy forces. Numerical simulations have been performed for the real experimentally used configurations. These simulations have shown that a strong coupling of thermal and solutal effects exists and have given axial as well as radial segregation profiles being in excellent agreement with the experimental results for the vertical normal gravity grown crystals. For micro gravity conditions a reduction of the flow velocity of more than two orders of magnitude (depending on the micro gravity level and the direction of the residual acceleration) resulting in diffusion controlled component segregation has been predicted.The results of the two micro gravity grown crystals, especially the axial and radial segregation profiles as a sensitive indicator for the flow configuration in front of the phase boundary will be given and discussed in the paper. They will be compared with the results of numerical simulations of the melt flow for the real processing parameters measured during the TITUS growth processes and with experimental as well as numerical results for vertical normal gravity grown reference Samples.     

基于神经网络的不确定性空间机器人自适应控制方法研究

提出了一种针对自由漂浮状态的空间机器人模型不确定性的神经网络自适应控制 方法。通过RBF神经网络逼近模型的非线性函数和不确定性上界,无需预先估计系统的不 确 定性程度和外部干扰,提出的自适应控制律保证了权值的有界性,解决了神经网络权值的UU B（Unknown Upper Bound）问题,即未知上界有界问题,完成了笛卡尔空间内空间机器人轨 迹规划任务。证明了所提出的控制方法的稳定性,仿真结果表明控制方法避免了对空间 机器人动力学模型的参数线性化要求降低了计算量,能够满足实际任务中的实时性要求。
     

密封舱内漂浮小球运动规律的数值模拟研究

“天宫二号”空间实验室开展了首次人机协同在轨维修技术试验,机械臂操作终端抓取漂浮小球试验为在轨试验任务之一。为研究漂浮小球与机械臂操作终端运动特性之间的匹配性,文章建立了在轨微重力环境下小球运动的物理模型与数学模型,采用动网格方法对不同小球的运动特性进行数值模拟,得到小球的运动规律,由此确定小球的设计参数范围,作为机械臂操作终端系统方案设计的依据。最终,数值模拟结果与“天宫二号”空间实验室在轨试验数据的对比初步验证了该计算结果的正确性。     

Monopropellant droplet decomposition for large activation energies

The quasi-steady decomposition of a monopropellant droplet in a quiescent atmosphere is analyzed, in the limit of large activation energy, for a gas phase decomposition reaction of the Arrhenius type.An analytical relation is obtained for the pre-exponential rate constant, or the Damköhler number, as a function of the droplet vaporization rate. The curve giving the vaporization rate in terms of the Damköhler number has, for low values of the temperature at infinity, an S shaped form which exhibits ignition-extinction characteristics.With increasing values of the droplet vaporization rate above the pure vaporization value we pass from a nearly frozen regime, under which ignition conditions occur due to the large temperature sensitivity of the reaction rate, to a complete decomposition regime, in which practically all the fuel is decomposed in a thin reactive-diffusion zone, separated from the droplet surface by a transport region of lower temperature. For sufficiently large Damköhler numbers, the thin reaction zone is located close to the droplet surface, so that the flame structure becomes planar: a linear relation between the droplet radius and time is obtained in this case. The non planar effects are responsible for the extinction of the flame at low Damköhler numbers and ambient temperatures below the adiabatic flame temperature. For sufficiently low values of the ambient temperature, an intermediate regime exists in which the enhancement of the vaporization rate is due only to the fraction of the vaporized fuel decomposed at a thin reaction zone, not far from the droplet, where the temperature reaches its maximum value; the remaining fuel is decomposed very far from the droplet.     

A numerical study of the charge diameter effect on unsteady detonation

A numerical study for the unsteady detonation of an unconfined tetryl charge of small diameter, which is assumed to be homogeneous, was performed by using the two-dimensional Lagrangian hydrodynamic computer code, 2 DL, with the first order Arrhenius equation of reaction rate. Becker-Kistiakowsky-Wilson (BKW) and Kihara-Hikita (KH) equations of state have been applied to the detonation products.In the case of BKW, it is shown that the rarefaction waves propagating inward from the lateral surface make the reaction rate slow and give a curvature to the front. Then after an induction time, a strong initiation occurs in the reaction zone near the lateral surface and higher pressure zone moves to the axis. This higher pressure accelerates the detonation propagation near the lateral surface and the curvature of detonation front is reduced. Then, the reaction at the lateral surface again begins to decay by the rarefaction waves. Such a sequence of process is repeated periodically.The possibility of the occurrence of the strong initiation depends on the pressure and temperature in the shocked zone near the surface. In a small diameter charge, the delayed explosion becomes weaker near the surface, while its frequency increases. No shock interaction occurs because the direction of the particle flow is always divergent.In the case of KH equation of state, the temperature of detonation is higher than that obtained by BKW and the behaviour of instability becomes rather different from the previous result, i.e. in the axis the pressure oscillates repeating the overdriven and underdriven detonation similar with the case of BKW.     

Influence of Microaccelerations on the Impurity Distribution in the InSb:Te Crystals Grown in Orbital Flights by the Method of Floating Zone Melting

The periodicity of the structure of impurity heterogeneities in the longitudinal section of an indium antimonide monocrystal doped by tellurium (InSb:Te) is investigated. The monocrystal was grown by the method of floating zone melting onboard the Foton-3 satellite. It is shown that the frequencies of harmonic components of heterogeneities converted into the time region coincide with frequencies of microaccelerations in the range 0–0.005 Hz arising onboard the Foton satellites. This fact confirms the hypothesis stated previously that residual microaccelerations onboard the satellite were the cause of occurrence of indicated periodicities.     

突扩燃烧室低频燃烧不稳定主动控制的大涡模拟仿真

采用大涡模拟结合多步化学反应模型开展了突扩燃烧室低频燃烧不稳定的主动开环控制方法研究.针对突扩面形成的大尺度旋涡脱落和运动是形成低频燃烧不稳定的主要原因,提出了在突扩截面上放置窄缝进行小流量空气喷射和燃气吸出的方法进行燃烧不稳定的开环主动控制.通过大涡模拟仿真表明,这两种方式都能够比较有效地干扰突扩面上大尺度旋涡的形成...     

X-ray, γ-ray and neutron detector development for future space instrumentation

An overview of the material developments currently being pursued by the European Space Agency (ESA) with respect to X-ray, γ-ray and neutron detection media is given. The benefits underlying the selection of specific materials are discussed. In the X-ray regime the basic microphysics behind degraded spectral performance caused by the polarization effect and Te inclusions, have been investigated. We have found that both effects degrade the spectra by producing a localised distortion of the electric field. The underlying cause for the distortion does however differ. For the γ-ray regime, a low-noise equivalent scintillator to LaBr₃ has been developed in the form of CeBr₃. Three inch crystals with a FWHM energy resolution of 4.4% at 662 keV have successfully been produced. For neutron detection, a boron compound based solid state neutron detector has been developed that is sensitive to neutrons, alpha particles and 60 keV X-rays. The measured detection efficiency in detection for thermal neutrons was found to be in the order of a few per cent.     

Nonlinear aeroelastic analysis of high-aspect-ratio wings in low subsonic flow

In this study, aeroelastic characteristics of high-aspect-ratio wing models with structural nonlinearities in quasi-steady aerodynamics flows are investigated. The studied wing model is a cantilever wing with double bending and torsional vibrations and with large deflection ability in accordance with Hodges–Dowell wing model. This wing model is valid for long, straight and thin homogeneous isotropic beams. The aerodynamics model is based on quasi-steady aerodynamic which is valid for aerodynamic flows without wake, viscosity and compressibility effects. The effect of different parameters such as mass ratios and stiffness ratios on flutter and divergence velocities and limit cycle oscillation amplitudes are carefully studied.