New Insights on Geomagnetic Storms from Model Simulations Using Multi-Spacecraft Data

The forecast of the terrestrial ring current as a major contributor to the stormtime Dst index and a predictor of geomagnetic storms is of central interest to ‘space weather’ programs. We thus discuss the dynamical coupling of the solar wind to the Earth's magnetosphere during several geomagnetic storms using our ring current-atmosphere interactions model and coordinated space-borne data sets. Our model calculates the temporal and spatial evolution of H⁺, O⁺, and He⁺ ion distribution functions considering time-dependent inflow from the magnetotail, adiabatic drifts, and outflow from the dayside magnetopause. Losses due to charge exchange, Coulomb collisions, and scattering by EMIC waves are included as well. As initial and boundary conditions we use complementary data sets from spacecraft located at key regions in the inner magnetosphere, Polar and the geosynchronous LANL satellites. We present recent model simulations of the stormtime ring current energization due to the enhanced large-scale convection electric field, which show the transition from an asymmetric to a symmetric ring current during the storm and challenge the standard theories of (a) substorm-driven, and (b) symmetric ring current. Near minimum Dst there is a factor of ∼ 10 variation in the intensity of the dominant ring current ion specie with magnetic local time, its energy density reaching maximum in the premidnight to postmidnight region. We find that the O⁺ content of the ring current increases after interplanetary shocks and reaches largest values near Dst minimum; ∼ 60% of the total ring current energy was carried by O⁺ during the main phase of the 15 July 2000 storm. The effects of magnetospheric convection and losses due to collisions and wave-particle interactions on the global ring current energy balance are calculated during different storm phases and intercompared. This revised version was published online in August 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

流量测量所需管流条件的试验研究

速度法测量气体流量,其前提条件是被测面的管流为充分发展、对称分布的典型管流。通过90°弯头管流试验研究分析,得出弯头下游不同距离截面上的管流分布情况,为90°弯头下游选择典型管流的测量位置提供了可靠的依据。     

Solar Influences on Dynamical Coupling Between the Stratosphere and Troposphere

We use a simplified atmospheric general circulation model (AGCM) to investigate the response of the lower atmosphere to thermal perturbations in the lower stratosphere. The results show that generic heating of the lower stratosphere tends to weaken the sub-tropical jets and the tropospheric mean meridional circulations. The positions of the jets, and the extent of the Hadley cells, respond to the distribution of the stratospheric heating, with low latitude heating displacing them poleward, and uniform heating displacing them equatorward. The patterns of response to the low latitude heating are similar to those found to be associated with solar variability in previous observational data analysis, and to the effects of varying solar UV radiation in sophisticated AGCMs. In order to investigate the chain of causality involved in converting the stratospheric thermal forcing to a tropospheric climate signal we conduct an experiment which uses an ensemble of model spin-ups to analyse the time development of the response to an applied stratospheric perturbation. We find that the initial effect of the change in static stability at the tropopause is to reduce the eddy momentum flux convergence in this region. This is followed by a vertical transfer of the momentum forcing anomaly by an anomalous mean circulation to the surface, where it is partly balanced by surface stress anomalies. The unbalanced part drives the evolution of the vertically integrated zonal flow. We conclude that solar heating of the stratosphere may produce changes in the circulation of the troposphere even without any direct forcing below the tropopause. We suggest that the impact of the stratospheric changes on wave propagation is key to the mechanisms involved.     

Commonalities Between Ionosphere and Chromosphere

Three types of processes, occurring in the weakly ionized plasmas of the Earth’s ionosphere as well as in the solar chromosphere, are being compared with each other. The main objective is to elaborate on the differences introduced primarily by the grossly different magnitudes of the densities, both with respect to the neutral and, even more so, to the plasma constituents. This leads to great differences in the momentum coupling from the plasma to the neutral component and becomes clear when considering the direct electric current component transverse to the magnetic field, called “Pedersen current”; in the ionosphere, which has no quasi-static counterpart in the chromosphere. The three classes of processes are related to the dynamical response of the two plasmas to energy influx from below and from above. In the first two cases, the energy is carried by waves. The third class concerns plasma erosion or ablation in the two respective regions in reaction to the injection of high Poynting and/or energetic particle fluxes.     

耦合电感对多路输出电源输出纹波的影响

输出电液脉动是多路输出电源的一个重要性能指标，而耦合电感又是影响多路输出电源输出电流动的关键部件，因此需要研究耦合电感对输出电路脉动的影响，本文以两路输出电源为例，深入分析了耦合电感对输出电流脉动的影响，首先相入简单有效的数学模型，在此基础上给出了耦合电感匝比关系的一般选取原则。然后进一步分析了耦合电感各参数对输出电流脉动的影响，并提出新的调整输出纹波的方法，实验结果验证了所提方法的有效性。     

静止侧压力系数及其试验方法

静止侧压力系数是岩土工程中一个非常重要的参数，本文分析和讨论静止侧压力定义及其试验方法以及相关试验设备，以便引起广大学者关注静止侧压力系数确定法及其选取等方面的研究。     

一种二自由度球形五杆并联机构的运动学分析

应用螺旋理论分析一种二自由度球形五杆并联机构的运动螺旋及其反螺旋，在此基础上分析了其自由度。建立其位置正、反解方程，并进行验证。应用螺旋理论建立了其一阶影响系数矩阵。     

弹性飞行器动态耦合和控制综合研究

研究弹性飞行器的动态耦合问题，首先导出了非定常气动力作用下的弹性飞行器的纵向运动方程。就简化的非定常气动力数学模型提出了分析气动弹性飞行器稳定性的影响方法，而后对弹性飞行器的动态耦合特性提出了定性的分析方法。并从有效抑制飞行器的弹性振动角度，研究了主动反馈控制、操纵面及陀螺位置的合适选择的协同设计问题。     

孔板倒角对平衡型低温流量计工作性能影响的数值分析

平衡型低温流量计可用于低温推进剂的加注、分配、输送等环节,其孔板结构特征是影响流量计性能的关键因素。为了研究孔板倒角对平衡型低温流量计流出系数、压力损失系数和稳定性的影响,建立了基于Mixture多相流模型、Schnerr-Sauer空化模型和Realizable k-ε湍流模型的CFD数值模型,并结合文献中的水翼空化实验和多孔板流动实验的结果验证了模型的可靠性。模拟计算结果显示,开设前倒角会增大多孔板的流出系数,减小压力损失系数,但会增大流量计测量时的不稳定性;在一定的计算工况下,45°的前倒角使流出系数由0.674增大到0.907,适当开设前倒角可以有效提高流量计的工作性能。而开设后倒角对流量计性能的影响较小。用于流体流量的双向测量时,可对多孔板的前后端均开设45°的倒角。     

齿轮分扭传动的均载行为机理及参数匹配分析

为提高分扭传动系统的均载特性,通过构建误差、载荷的分析图,剖析了影响均载性能的机理;考虑支撑刚度、扭转刚度以及齿轮副的时变啮合刚度,采用集中质量法建立了传动系统的动力学模型。通过龙格库塔法求解传动系统动力学模型,计算了传动系统的均载系数;运用正交试验法获得了齿侧间隙、中心距误差对均载特性的影响规律和权重。研究结果表明:齿侧间隙具有相关性,其取值应满足一定的规则;中心距误差无相关性,并车级中心距误差对均载和动载荷系数的影响权重较大。因此,为提高分扭传动构型的均载特性,齿侧间隙、中心距误差需采用参数匹配的设计方法。