Deterministic pion and muon transport in Earth’s atmosphere

An accurate understanding of the physical interactions and transport of space radiation is important for safe and efficient space operations. Secondary particles produced by primary particle interactions with intervening materials are an important contribution to radiation risk. Pions are copiously produced in the nuclear interactions typical of space radiations and can therefore be an important contribution to radiation exposure. Charged pions decay almost exclusively to muons. As a consequence, muons must also be considered in space radiation exposure studies. In this work, the NASA space radiation transport code HZETRN has been extended to include the transport of charged pions and muons. The relevant transport equation, solution method, and implemented cross sections are reviewed. Muon production in the Earth’s upper atmosphere is then investigated, and comparisons with recent balloon flight measurements of differential muon flux are presented. Muon production from the updated version of HZETRN is found to match the experimental data well.     

Numerical simulations of the radiance from the comet 46P/Wirtanen in the various configurations of the measurements during “Rosetta” mission

The work we present deals with the spectrometric measurements of VIRTIS instrument of the Comet P/Wirtanen planned for the Rosetta mission. This spectrometer can monitor (VIRTIS M channel: 0.250μm – 0.980μm; Δκ=20cm⁻¹; 0.980 – 5.0 μm; Δκ = 5cm⁻¹; VIRTIS H channel: 2.0 μm – 5.0 μm; Δκ=2cm⁻¹) the nucleus and the coma in order to provide a general picture of coma's composition, the production of gas and dust, the relationship of coma production to surface composition and the structure and variation of mineralogy of the nucleus surface. During the mission the observation conditions of the spectroscopic investigation change due to different relative positions spacecraft/comet, and to the different illumination conditions of the surface at various distances of the comet to the Sun. The nucleus surface is continuously modified by the ice sublimation accompanied by gas and dust emission. Consequently the surface also its spectrophotometric properties changes and their monitoring can give a new insight. The important role of simulations is to predict the results of measurements in various experimental condition what, in the future, can help in interpretation of the measured data.

In this paper the first results of our simulation the radiance from the comet in the 0.25–5.0μm spectral range at two distances from the Sun (1AU and 3AU) are shown. The distance between the Rosetta orbiter and the nucleus surface as well as the sun zenith angles are taken into account according to the Rosetta mission phases. In fact the surface and coma properties vary along the comet orbit, and should be taken into account in our calculations. The optical parameters of the dust on the surface (e.g. reflectance) and in the coma (e.g. Q_ext) were calculated from optical constants of possible comet analogues. The thermodynamic parameters of the comet are taken from the models of comet evolution. Through this kind of modelling it is possible to identify the surface characteristics in spectra of the radiation from the surface of nucleus transmitted through the coma loaded with dust and gases.

Even if the “Rosetta mission” is postponed, with the consequence of a target change, we think that our idea and the method used for the simulations can be useful also for the new Rosetta target - the comet 67P/Churyumov Gerasimenko.     

混压式进气道与弹体一体化流场数值模拟

基于Favre平均的N－S方程和B／L代数湍流模型,采用Jameson格式和矩阵人工粘性,对X布局的混压式超声速进气道与弹体的一体化流场进行了数值模拟,研究了解决了数值计算中的附面层抽吸及混压式进气 启动问题,得出了进气道内外流场的马赫数分布和速度分布,讨论了绕弹体非均匀来流条件下,进气道的位置,附面层抽吸及攻角对进气道性能的影响和进气道外型形状对弹性气动力的影响,结果表明,对混压式进气道必须进行附面层抽吸,进气道的位置对进气道的性能有很大的影响,进气道的外型型面对弹体的气动性能有一定的影响。     

歼击机高度分层试飞验证

针对采用气动补偿空速系统以改善测高系统精度的现代飞机 ,简要介绍了高度分层的要求 ;阐述了引起飞机空速系统位置误差的主要误差源并进行了分析 ;给出了通过 GPS速度法对歼击机高度分层试飞验证结果 ,并对试飞结果进行了分析和讨论 ;结果表明 ,所得到的试飞数据可为飞机气动补偿空速系统设计和高度分层试飞方法研究提供重要依据。     

硅氧氮陶瓷的先驱体法合成及性能的研究

用 Si Cl4为原料 ,通过水解和氨解的方法 ,制备了不同含氮量的硅氧氮先驱体。先驱体通过脱氨基原位聚合 ,再经过无机化转变成为成分均匀的硅氧氮粉体 ,用所得粉体热压烧结制备了硅氧氮材料。测试分析结果表明 ,氮的引入使氧化硅的析晶温度提高了 1 5 0℃ ;适量析晶显著提高材料的力学性能 ;烧结温度为 1 4 0 0℃时 ,氮的质量分数为 2 4 .3%材料的强度和韧性最大 ,分别达到 1 5 6 MPa和 1 .8MPa· m1 / 2 ,比 Si O2 基体的强度和韧性提高了 4 .5 8倍和 2 .2 5倍。     

Solar flares as sources of energetic particles

In this paper a review is presented of the present status of our knowledge of solar flare phenomena with special emphasis on the production of suprathermal particles and their solar effects. Of these energetic particles electrons play an important role since they produce the X-ray and radiobursts observed during many flares. Also, during their slowing down to thermal energies they contribute to the heating of localized regions in the solar atmosphere, through energy exchange with the ambient electrons. Observable radiations of energetic protons, and other nuclei, are produced through nuclear interactions leading to the emissions of gamma-ray lines. Detectable fluxes of these gamma-ray lines are produced only in the most powerful flares. Also the nuclei that enter into deeper layers of the solar atmosphere transfer most of their kinetic energy to the ambient plasma.     

空间细胞机器人面向桁架在轨攀爬步态分析

面向空间在轨装配维修过程中的攀爬移动问题,基于空间细胞机器人(CSR)理念,提出连接细胞、转动细胞、末端执行细胞三种基本细胞单元。利用图论和拓扑学原理,在关联矩阵的基础上进行改进得到一种细胞迁移矩阵,直观准确地表达细胞机器人任意构型,以及不同节点之间的组织迁移过程。考虑桁架应用环境和细胞机器人自身的特点,划分出三种广义双杆攀爬工况,能够覆盖所有桁架攀爬任务需求。利用基于旋量理论的指数积公式进行不失一般性运动学分析。基于一致性、重复性以及无干涉原则,针对每种攀爬工况提出相应的攀爬步态,进行数值仿真分析,对比不同步态细胞机器人的关节力矩、能耗以及末端轨迹所占据工作空间等参数。仿真结果对空间机器人在轨攀爬路径规划以及控制方式的研究具有重要理论意义和工程价值。     

Intelligent UUVs: Some issues on ROV dynamic positioning

Intelligent unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs) fall under two main group categories: the remotely operated vehicles (ROVs), which are characterized by remote operation and presence of a tether cable; and the autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs), which are characterized by their autonomous behavior and absence of a tether cable. One fundamental issue of the UUV design is the dynamic position control system. This system plays a crucial role together with the sensor architecture in the degree of system autonomy that can be achieved. This paper is concerned with a few issues when dynamically positioning remotely operated underwater vehicles (ROVs). By restricting the operating regime of ROVs to slow velocity requirements the paper investigates the implementation of a few decentralized control strategies and compare their performance measures, which are assessed by simulating a nonlinear ROV system model for each control strategy. Issues concerning input tracking, disturbance rejection, and plant variations are discussed. The evaluations consider the use of linear PID feedback and feedforward variants, and a robust nonlinear control strategies applied to a full order, fully coupled, and nonlinear vehicle model. These evaluations consider a vehicle undertaking standard mission activities where the tether cable dynamics, with load estimates obtained from a lumped mass cable model, and the vehicle actuator system are present. The paper shows that much of the performance deterioration may be attributed mainly due to cable inertia. The authors also verify that the nonlinear robust control strategy does not necessarily allow for better performance over the linear feedback control strategies implemented when vehicle motions are confined to slow velocity profiles. These and other partial results will aid the design of the control system for an underwater vehicle currently under construction     

Who is who in Algol-land ? - Part II -

In part I (De Greve and Packet) we have investigated the occurrence of reversed phases of mass-transfer during Case A evolution in close binaries. If the initial period of a system is shorter than 1–2 days (Early Case A) the reversed phase starts before core hydrogen exhaustion of the gainer (part I). This type of evolution is characterized by at least two phases of slow mass-transfer. We have computed the evolution of four Early Case A systems with initial masses of the loser equal to 3 Mo and 5 Mo. These four systems start mass-exchange when Xc of the primary has decreased to 0.525 (75% of its initial value). They all experience two phases of slow mass-transfer. We find that both phases have about the same duration for all systems. The mass ratios are clearly distinct, being closer to unity during the first phase. In the Hertzsprung-Russell, mass-radius and mass-luminosity diagrams both components remain close to the main-sequence band during slow mass-transfer. Evolution as an Algol is ended when both components overflow their outer critical surface after a second reversal of the mass-transfer. Observed Algol systems evolving in Early Case A are scarce. A search thruogh the catalogue by Giuricin et al. gives us the following candidates: X Tri, SX Aur and V Pup. Based on their mass ratios, SX Aur can tentatively be assigned to the first phase of slow mass transfer and X Tri to the second phase. For V Pup (which is more massive) this choice can not be made with certainty.     

翼面结构/颤振主动控制律一体化设计

在气动弹性领域内对结构 /控制一体化设计作了初步的探索与研究。针对采用加速度传感器的气动伺服弹性模型 ,建立了在拉普拉斯域中颤振速度对结构设计变量及控制设计变量的解析导数表达式。同时也建立了奇异值对结构设计变量的解析导数表达式。对一矩形机翼以输出反馈的形式进行了结构 /控制一体化设计。目标函数为结构重量最轻 ,满足闭环系统颤振速度和以奇异值为基础的鲁棒稳定性指标约束 ,取得了较好的计算结果