Simple solutions for hyperbolic and related position fixes

Navigation fixed from range differences to three stations and an additional piece of information are investigated. It is shown that if the additional information is the navigator altitude, or the range difference to a fourth station, the computation of the navigation fix is reduced to finding the roots of a quadratic. If the additional information is the range to another station, or that the navigator is on the Earth ellipsoid, the fix can be obtained by solving a quartic. By emphasizing the underlying geometric interpretations, these fixes and their simple solutions are made clear. The derivations also show that the same solution algorithms are applicable if the basic navigation measurements are range sums instead of range differences     

CELSS nutrition system utilizing snails

At the 40th IAF Congress in Malaga, a nutrition system for a lunar base CELSS was presented. A lunar base with a total of eight crew members was envisaged. In this paper, four species of plants--rice, soybean, lettuce and strawberry--were introduced to the system. These plants were sufficient to satisfy fundamental nutritional needs of the crew members. The supply of nutrition from plants and the human nutritional requirements could almost be balanced. Our study revealed that the necessary plant cultivation area per crew member would be nearly 40 m3 in the lunar base. The sources of nutrition considered in the study were energy, sugar, fat, amino acids, inorganic salt and vitamins; however, calcium, vitamin B2, vitamin A and sodium were found to be lacking. Therefore, a subsystem to supply these elements is of considerable value. In this paper, we report on a study for breeding snails and utilizing meat as food. Nutrients supplied from snails are shown to compensate for the above mentioned lacking elements. We evaluate the snail breeder and the associated food supply system as a subsystem of closed ecological life support system.     

Spatial orientation during locomotion [correction of locomation] following space flight

To investigate changes in spatial orientation ability and walking performance following space flight, 7 astronaut subjects were asked pre- and post-flight to perform a goal directed locomotion paradigm which consisted of walking a triangular path with and without vision. This new paradigm, involving inputs from different sensory systems, allows quantification of several critical parameters, like orientation performance, walking velocities and postural stability, in a natural walking task. The paper presented here mainly focusses on spatial orientation performance quantified by the errors in walking the previously seen path without vision. Errors in length and reaching the corners did not change significantly from pre- to post-flight, while absolute angular errors slightly increased post-flight. The significant decrease in walking velocity and a change in head-trunk coordination while walking around the corners of the path observed post-flight may suggest that during re-adaptation to gravity the mechanisms which are necessary to perform the task have to be re-accomplished.     

Learning from living in space

The current state of space life sciences knowledge and research is described. Findings about the health of astronauts in space are reviewed and a plea is made by some former astronauts to increase the amount of research being conducted. Longitudinal studies of the long term effects of space travel, especially radiation exposure, are being conducted and have yet to show any ill effects. Current research focuses are discussed, including Neurolab, an upcoming shuttle mission devoted to neurological and vestibular research. Experiment and spacecraft hardware is discussed, as are future directions in research. Partnership with Russian space life sciences investigators is also underway.     

壁压法在非矩形风洞中的应用

 解决大攻角洞壁干扰修正的壁压法,是利用一定数量固定位置和形状的线源和线涡来模拟风洞内模型的堵塞效应和升力效应。矩形风洞实验段边界对绕模型流动的影响,可用两个方向有限层的镜像线源和线涡来代替,并利用在风洞上下壁和侧壁上测压点处测量所得     

用非线性模型分析气动液阀的启动特性

对气动液阀的启动过程建立了非线性数学模型,分析了尺寸参数和推进剂进、出口压力对该阀的启动特性的影响。计算结果表明：在保证必要的工作寿命的前提下,适当地增大控制腔气孔的直径或增大靠近控制腔的活塞端面直径,降低推进剂进口和出口的压力有利于提高该阀的响应能力。     

Robust space-time adaptive processing for airborne radar in nonhomogeneous clutter environments

Space-time adaptive processing (STAP) holds tremendous potential for the new generation airborne surveillance radar, in which the phased array antennas and pulse Doppler processing mode are adopted. A new STAP approach using the multiple-beam and multiple Doppler channels is presented here for airborne phased array radar. The approach with space-time multiple-beam (STMB) architecture is robust to array errors and has very low system degrees of freedom (DOFs). Hence, it has low sample support requirement and it is very suitable for the practical planar phased array radar under nonhomogeneous clutter environments. Meanwhile, a new nonhomogeneous detector (NHD) based on the correlation dimension (CD) is also proposed here, which is used as an effective method to screen tracing data prior to detection processing. It can further improve the performance of the STAP approach in the severely nonhomogeneous clutter environments. Therefore, a scheme that incorporates the correlation dimension nonhomogeneity detector (CD-NHD) with the STMB is recommended, which we term CD-NHD-STMB. The experimental simulation results indicate that: 1) the STMB processor is robust to array element error and has high performance under nonhomogeneous clutter environments; 2) the CD-NHD is also effective on the nonhomogeneous clutter. As a result, the CD-NHD-STMB scheme is robust to array element error and nonhomogeneous clutter, and therefore available for airborne phased array radar applications.     

单刻线样板检定装置测量不确定度分析

分析了单刻线样板检定装置的测量不确定度，并分析了用该检定装置检定的单刻线样板的不确定度。     

民用飞机初始备件计划研究及系统软件实现

国内民用航空制造业如今正在加速发展，而相应的备件工程与波音、空客都还是有一定的差距。结合ARJ21飞机项目研究了民用飞机初始备件计划模型，并在此基础上开发了备件计划软件系统，完成了初始备件计划工作的计算机化。     

旋转环形截面弯管内流场结构及换热特性

环形截面弯管围绕其中心轴旋转时，同时受到科氏力和离心力作用，弯管内的对流换热更为复杂，本文对旋转环形截面弯管内的流动特性和温度分布进行了数值分析。结果表明：旋转环形截面弯管内的换热特性主要由Dn数，F数（科氏力和离心力之比),Pr数，和δ值（内外径之比）决定；文中给出并分析了在不同δ下流场结构与摩擦系数比随F数的变化特性和随Dn数的变化规律，并给出了在不同δ和Pr数情况下，温度场和管道Nu数随F数和Dn数的变化规律。