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.     

准稳定三波结构的研究

对超声速流中准稳定三波结构进行了研究，该结构中主激波以一定的速度D沿超声速流运动，它不但引起相应的反射激波运动而且会使激波后气流中的一系列气动力参数发生变化，包括总压、总焓和熵等。本研究给出了这些量与入射激波强度之间的关系。在一定的速度D的情况下，给出了三波结构的力学相容性条件是可以被破坏的。     

一种求解气动双曲方程的高精度差分格式DEM

本文建立了一种基于解本身及共导数所满足的微分方程之上的差分格式DEM(Double Equation Method)。这种差分格式不仅精度高,而且有效地消除了双曲方程高阶差分解中常出现的振荡现象。     

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。     

混沌型传感器(英文)

创造性地利用混沌的初值敏感性,提出了混沌型传感器的概念和结构,证明了将符号动力学的基本理论用于测量领域是可行的.然后,用开关电容实现了混沌型传感器的理论模型,并给出了基本的实验结果.该传感器具有灵敏度和分辨率高、结构简单,直接输出数字量的特点,开 创了混沌应用的新领域,同时也为探索新型传感器结构提供了一条可能的途径.     

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。     

关于旋涡定义的思考

针对旋涡定义这个长期未解决的难题,在分析历史上提出的几种思路的基础上,本文提出:定义旋涡的总目标,应当体现其管状运动形态,并与其作为流体运动肌腱的动力学功能有机结合;该定义应能以统一的方式覆盖经典涡动力学业已成熟的结果,并且指引对湍流中复杂涡状结构及其相互作用的识别。据此,本文根据涡量场演化的已知规律,提出了旋涡的一个动力学定义,作为继续深化讨论的参考。同时提出,人们针对湍流结构研究构造的各种涡判据,虽然对湍流涡状结构的可视化起了重要作用,但因其难以遵循管式涡量场的因果演化而无法取代完备的涡定义。相比之下,近十年来形成的涡量面理论,有望在未来发展中使旋涡的定义和检验问题回归涡量动力学的自然规律。     

激光武器发射转塔尺寸对飞机作战效能的影响

机载激光武器可以主动防御来袭导弹,大幅提升作战飞机的生存能力。为了具备更远的打击距离,激 光武器需要尽可能大的发射镜直径,但几何尺寸较大的发射转塔会对飞机的气动和隐身性能产生不利影响,降低飞机的战场生存能力。利用计算流体力学和物理光学法,分析发射转塔直径对飞机的气动性能和隐身性能 的影响,并采用基于agent的作战仿真方法研究发射转塔直径对飞机在突防作战中作战效能的影响。结果表 明:飞行速度随着发射转塔直径的增大有小幅度降低,降低幅度在2%以内;30、50和70cm 的发射转塔直径分别导致飞机的头向 RCS64%、173%和282%的增加;对于作战效能而言,激光武器发射转塔的尺寸并非越大越 好,相对于无防御措施的无人机执行突防任务,50cm的发射转塔直径可以提高77.2%的任务成功率,是三种 方案中最高的。