Validation of University of New Brunswick Ionospheric Modeling Technique with ionosonde TEC estimation over South Africa

For more than a decade, ionospheric research over South Africa has been carried out using data from ionosondes geographically located at Madimbo (28.38°S, 30.88°E), Grahamstown (33.32°S, 26.50°E), and Louisvale (28.51°S, 21.24°E). The objective has been modelling the bottomside ionospheric characteristics using neural networks. The use of Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) data is described as a new technique to monitor the dynamics and variations of the ionosphere over South Africa, with possible future application in high frequency radio communication. For this task, the University of New Brunswick Ionospheric Modelling Technique (UNB-IMT) was applied to compute midday (10:00 UT) GNSS-derived total electron content (GTEC). GTEC values were computed using GNSS data for stations located near ionosondes for the years 2002 and 2005 near solar maximum and minimum, respectively. The GTEC was compared with the midday ionosonde-derived TEC (ITEC) measurements to validate the UNB-IMT results. It was found that the variation trends of GTEC and ITEC over all stations are in good agreement and show a pronounced seasonal variation for the period near solar maximum, with maximum values (∼80 TECU) around autumn and spring equinoxes, and minimum values (∼22 TECU) around winter and summer. Furthermore, the residual ΔTEC = GTEC − ITEC was computed. It was evident that ΔTEC, which is believed to correspond to plasmaspheric electron content, showed a pronounced seasonal variation with maximum values (∼20 TECU) around equinoxes and minimum (∼5 TECU) around winter near solar maximum. The equivalent ionospheric and total slab thicknesses were also computed and comprehensively discussed. The results verified the use of UNB-IMT as one of the tools for future ionospheric TEC research over South Africa.     

新型电子传感器在微裂纹检测中的应用

讨论了金属材料疲劳微裂纹与外逸电子发射的关系,提出了检测微裂纹的新型外逸电子传感器的设计方案,介绍了传感器电子控制电路与IBMPC/XT机的接口电路。实验结果表明,控制电路与接口电路设计合理,传感器测量精度较高、工作可靠。该传感器的研究和设计,可为金属材料微裂纹的无损检测开拓一条新的研究途径。     

NNSS卫星测量参数求解TEC

论述了应用色散多普勒技术,在求解测站上空大面积TEC的方法中,卫星相对测站径向速度变化对电离层产生的微分多普勒频移的影响,找到了比较好的修正方法,并对若干测量计算结果进行了由定性到定量分析,绘出了测站上空任一点TEC的日变化曲线。      

太阳风中的Alfven波耗散与电子和质子温度分布问题

根据动力论Alfven波耗散机制,详细计算了动力论Alfven波衰减的能量分配给质子和电子的比率.初步解释了高速太阳风中质子温度比电子温度高的事实,定性说明了r＜10R_s时电子快速冷却的原因.      

磁层压缩ULF湍流对电子的加速

在准线性理论下,磁层压缩 ULF(超低频)湍流可以通过“渡越时间加速”机制使电子增加能量．典型的压缩 ULF 湍流的频率为2—15mHz,被加速的源电子为同步轨道附近的背景电子(E＜30keV)和亚暴注入电子(30—300 keV)．当发生波粒共振时,低能电子数减少,而高能尾部分的相对论(E≥1 MeV)电子数增加,这说明电子得到了压缩湍流的有效加速,且亚暴注入的电子数越多,其加速产生的相对论电子数也越多．在亚暴注入率ε=0.5的情况下,这种加速机制只要约12h 就可以造成同步轨道附近相对论电子数量的显著增加．     

航空发动机机匣电子束焊接变形模拟分析与优化

为了对焊接变形进行预测与控制,建立了焊接接头的弹塑性有限元模型,并对电子束热源模型进行了校核,获得了接头焊接位置的塑性应变区域大小;建立了风扇叶片机匣3D壳单元有限元模型,并采用固有应变法对机匣焊接变形进行了模拟计算,获取了焊接过程的变形分布,通过实测机匣变形量并与仿真结果进行对标,验证了模型的准确性;通过对风扇叶片机匣焊接顺序以及焊接熔池宽度等工艺参数的优化,获得了控制风扇叶片机匣焊后变形的最优方案。结果表明:模拟与实测的平均变形误差仅10.3%,基于固有应变法的中心面3D壳单元有限元模型适用于大型复杂薄壁件的电子束焊接变形预测,该方法已得到应用;风扇叶片机匣焊接熔池宽度的优化能够有效控制焊后变形,焊缝上熔池宽度降低为2.7 mm,焊后平均径向变形量降低30%,能够明显降低机匣径向收缩变形,焊接顺序的优化对变形控制效果较差。      

Variation of ionospheric total electron content at crest of equatorial anomaly in China from 1997 to 2004

The periodic variation of TEC data at Xiamen station (geographic coordinate: 24.4°N, 118.1°E; geomagnetic coordinate: 13.2°N, 187.4°E) at crest of equatorial anomaly in China from 1997 to 2004 is analyzed. The characteristic of TEC association with solar activity and geomagnetic activity are also analyzed. The method of continuous wavelet, cross wavelet and wavelet coherence transform methods have been used. Analysis results show that long-term variations of TEC at Xiamen station are mainly controlled by the variations of solar activities. Several remarkable components including 128–256 days, 256–512 days and 512–1024 days exist in TEC variations. The TEC data at Xiamen station is in anti-phase with geomagnetic Dst index in semiannual time-scale, but this response only exists during high solar activity. Diurnal variation of TEC is studied for different seasons. Some features like the semiannual anomaly and winter anomaly in TEC have been reported.     

微波在液体火箭发动机真空羽流中的衰减

为研究液体火箭发动机真空羽流对微波的衰减作用,以某双组元液体火箭发动机为对象,使用热力计算程序对燃烧室内的电子数密度进行了计算,使用冻 结假设和有限化学反应速率假设两种情况对喷管内带电粒子的电离和再结合过程进行了模拟,并对羽流中带电粒子数密度和5~30GHz微波穿过羽流的衰减量进行了估算.研究结果显示:该发动机燃烧室和喷管出口的电子数密度量级分别为 1013~1014cm-3和1010~1011cm-3,K,Na等碱金属为主要电子释放剂,Cl-,OH-等基团为主要电子吸收剂;低频微波在羽流中衰减更严重,5GHz微波的衰减可达4.5dB;微波斜穿羽流的衰减通常大于横穿情况.      

S781白漆电子辐照后光学性能退化的恢复与保护

为了深入认识和抑制航天器材料空间辐照损伤在地面环境中的恢复,在模拟的空间环境下对S781白漆进行了90keV电子辐照试验。研究了电子辐照后,试样分别在真空环境下、真空室注入空气后和空气中储存几小时后辐照诱发的光谱反射系数和太阳吸收比的变化。结果表明,S781白漆光学性能退化的恢复主要发生于与空气接触的数分钟内。此外,液氮环境对S781白漆的电子辐照损伤和光学性能退化具有保护作用。液氮的保护机制不仅在于它抑制了氧在材料表面的化学吸附,还在于它对辐照诱发缺陷的冻析效应。     

Near real-time modeling of global ionospheric vertical total electron content using hourly IGS data

The International GNSS Service (IGS) has been providing reliable Global Ionospheric Maps (GIMs) since 1998. The Ionosphere Associate Analysis Centers (IAACs) model the global ionospheric Total Electron Content (TEC) and generate the daily GIM products within the context of the IGS. However, the rapid and final daily GIM products have a latency of at least one day and one week or so, respectively. This limits the value of GIM products in real-time GNSS applications. We propose and develop an approach for near real-time modeling of global ionospheric TEC by using the hourly IGS data. We perform an experiment in a real operating environment to generate near real-time GIM (named BUHG) products for more than two years. Final daily GIM products, Precise Point Positioning (PPP) based VTEC resources, and JASON-3 Vertical TEC (VTEC) measurements are collected for testing the performance of BUHG. The results show that the performance of BUHG is very close to that of the daily GIM products. Also, there is good agreement between BUHG and PPP-derived VTEC as well as with JASON-3 VTEC. It is possible that BUHG would be further improved with an increase in available hourly GNSS data.