低中等雷诺数超声速轴对称射流气动声场

采用线性抛物化稳定性方程(LPSE)方法对低、中等雷诺数条件下的超声速轴对称射流进行了研究。结果表明:射流中不稳定波的增长特性决定了声辐射的特性。在低雷诺数条件下,不稳定波的频率范围较窄,且由于不稳定波的增长区间较长,因此声辐射的范围较宽,声源不集中,声辐射的方向角不明确。在中雷诺数条件下,不稳定波的频率范围较宽,且由于不稳定波的增长区间较短,因此声辐射的范围较窄,声源集中,声辐射的方向角较明确;且随着斯特劳哈尔数增加,声辐射的方向角增加。在低雷诺数条件下,射流基本流的法向速度对射流气动声场的影响较弱,而在中等雷诺数条件下,其对射流的气动声场影响较强。      

基于CE/SE法的翼型流场激波捕捉计算

在二维四边形结构网格下,针对时空守恒元和解元(CE/SE, space-time Conservation Element and Solution Element)方法捕捉激波需要双倍空间网格点的问题,重新对守恒元和解元进行了定义,计算点同时包含单元中心和网格节点,并推导得到了新的CE/SE方法的计算公式.以此为基础,结合非敏感克朗数(CNIS, Courant Number Insensitive Scheme)计算格式和当地时间步长方法,对激波翼型流场进行数值模拟,并与原方法及AGARD报告进行对比.结果表明,对原CE/SE方法的改进是有效的,可明显提高激波分辨能力,并且激波前后无明显的数值震荡发生,新方法适合应用于翼型流场中捕捉激波.     

用GAO-YONG湍流模式对翼型跨音粘流的数值模拟

应用GAO-YONG可压缩湍流模式,数值模拟了NACA0012,RAE2822翼型的定常跨音速粘流算例.对流项采用三阶ROE格式,扩散项采用二阶中心格式,用多步Runge-Kutta显式时间推进法求解空间离散后的控制方程.计算结果很好地预测了翼型表面的压力系数的分布、激波的位置、马赫数等值线的分布等情况,并且对翼型表面激波与边界层相互干扰以及层流向湍流的转捩问题进行了分析计算.计算结果与实验值符合很好,表明GAO-YONG可压缩湍流模式应用合适的计算方法能够高精度模拟翼型跨音粘性流动问题,并且基于GAO-YONG可压缩湍流模式各向异性湍流粘性的机理,提供了一种预测转捩起始位置的判别方法.      

大功率高频无线电波对赤道E区双流不稳定性的影响--PIC静电粒子模拟研究

地面入射的大功率高频无线电波（泵波）和电离层等离子体之间的参数相互作用,能够引起静电波的激发,在一定条件下,产生不稳定性.本文用PIC静电粒子模拟方法,研究泵波与赤道电离层E区等离子体的相互作用.研究结果表明,泵波能够控制双流不稳定性的发生,在不同条件下,泵波对双流不稳定性起着稳定与不稳作用,模拟结果定性地与理论研究结果相符合,这为我们对不规则体产生的地面人工控制提供了依据.     

Recent Developments in Magnetospheric Diagnostics Using ULF Waves

One of the most ubiquitous indicators of the state and topology of the magnetosphere are ultra-low frequency (ULF) waves. These may be continuously and inexpensively monitored from the ground using networks of magnetometers. The most robust measurable quantity provided by magnetometer networks is signal phase and this paper emphasizes the usefulness of this parameter in a variety of ULF wave diagnostic processes ranging from equatorial to high latitudes. This revised version was published online in August 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

Alfvén wave heating

This review discusses Alfvén wave heating in non-uniform plasmas as a possible means for explaining the heating of the solar corona. It focusses on recent analytical results that enable us to understand the basic physics of Alfvén wave heating and help us with the interpretation of results of numerical simulations. First we consider the singular wave solutions that are found in linear ideal MHD at the resonant magnetic surface where the frequency of the wave equals the local Alfvén frequency. Next, we use linear resistive MHD for describing the waves in the dissipative region and explain how dissipation modifies the singular solutions found in linear ideal MHD.     

Equilibration Processes in the Warm-Hot Intergalactic Medium

The Warm-Hot Intergalactic Medium (WHIM) is thought to contribute about 40–50% to the baryonic budget at the present evolution stage of the universe. The observed large scale structure is likely to be due to gravitational growth of density fluctuations in the post-inflation era. The evolving cosmic web is governed by non-linear gravitational growth of the initially weak density fluctuations in the dark energy dominated cosmology. Non-linear structure formation, accretion and merging processes, star forming and AGN activity produce gas shocks in the WHIM. Shock waves are converting a fraction of the gravitation power to thermal and non-thermal emission of baryonic/leptonic matter. They provide the most likely way to power the luminous matter in the WHIM. The plasma shocks in the WHIM are expected to be collisionless. Collisionless shocks produce a highly non-equilibrium state with anisotropic temperatures and a large differences in ion and electron temperatures. We discuss the ion and electron heating by the collisionless shocks and then review the plasma processes responsible for the Coulomb equilibration and collisional ionisation equilibrium of oxygen ions in the WHIM. MHD-turbulence produced by the strong collisionless shocks could provide a sizeable non-thermal contribution to the observed Doppler parameter of the UV line spectra of the WHIM.