Emergence of a Habitable Planet

We address the first several hundred million years of Earth’s history. The Moon-forming impact left Earth enveloped in a hot silicate atmosphere that cooled and condensed over ∼1,000 yrs. As it cooled the Earth degassed its volatiles into the atmosphere. It took another ∼2 Myrs for the magma ocean to freeze at the surface. The cooling rate was determined by atmospheric thermal blanketing. Tidal heating by the new Moon was a major energy source to the magma ocean. After the mantle solidified geothermal heat became climatologically insignificant, which allowed the steam atmosphere to condense, and left behind a ∼100 bar, ∼500 K CO₂ atmosphere. Thereafter cooling was governed by how quickly CO₂ was removed from the atmosphere. If subduction were efficient this could have taken as little as 10 million years. In this case the faint young Sun suggests that a lifeless Earth should have been cold and its oceans white with ice. But if carbonate subduction were inefficient the CO₂ would have mostly stayed in the atmosphere, which would have kept the surface near ∼500 K for many tens of millions of years. Hydrous minerals are harder to subduct than carbonates and there is a good chance that the Hadean mantle was dry. Hadean heat flow was locally high enough to ensure that any ice cover would have been thin (<5 m) in places. Moreover hundreds or thousands of asteroid impacts would have been big enough to melt the ice triggering brief impact summers. We suggest that plate tectonics as it works now was inadequate to handle typical Hadean heat flows of 0.2–0.5 W/m². In its place we hypothesize a convecting mantle capped by a ∼100 km deep basaltic mush that was relatively permeable to heat flow. Recycling and distillation of hydrous basalts produced granitic rocks very early, which is consistent with preserved >4 Ga detrital zircons. If carbonates in oceanic crust subducted as quickly as they formed, Earth could have been habitable as early as 10–20 Myrs after the Moon-forming impact.     

Generating requirements for complex embedded systems using State Analysis

It has become clear that spacecraft system complexity is reaching a threshold where customary methods of control are no longer affordable or sufficiently reliable. At the heart of this problem are the conventional approaches to systems and software engineering based on subsystem-level functional decomposition, which fail to scale in the tangled web of interactions typically encountered in complex spacecraft designs. Furthermore, there is a fundamental gap between the requirements on software specified by systems engineers and the implementation of these requirements by software engineers. Software engineers must perform the translation of requirements into software code, hoping to accurately capture the systems engineer's understanding of the system behavior, which is not always explicitly specified. This gap opens up the possibility for misinterpretation of the systems engineer's intent, potentially leading to software errors. This problem is addressed by a systems engineering methodology called State Analysis, which provides a process for capturing system and software requirements in the form of explicit models. This paper describes how requirements for complex aerospace systems can be developed using State Analysis, using representative spacecraft examples.     

南极长城站电离层变化的数值模拟

南极长城站夏季电离层日变化具有Weddell海异常现象．本文利用一个一维时变理论模式，对长城站夏季电离层f0F2和hm日变化进行了数值模拟.我们讨论了中性风和顶部输运通量对f0F2和hm的影响，认为模拟计算得到的f0F2值比实测值要大的一个主要原因是国际参考电离层给出的上边界值偏大.文章最后介绍了一个获得实际的f0F2和hm的方法.     

Evaluating a multiple-hypothesis multitarget tracking algorithm

The performance evaluation of multiple-hypothesis, multitarget tracking algorithm is presented. We are primarily interested in target-detection/track-initiation capabilities as measures of performance. Through Monte Carlo simulations, a multiple-hypothesis tracking algorithm was evaluated in terms of 1) probability of establishing a track from target returns and 2) false track density. A radar was chosen as the sensor, and a general multiple-hypothesis, multitarget tracking algorithm was used in the Monte Carlo simulations. The simulation results predict the probability of establishing a track from returns of a target as well as the false track density per scan volume per unit time. The effects of the target radar cross section and the radar power, measured through the mean signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) were studied, as were the effects of detection threshold and track quality threshold. Computational requirements were also investigated     

《论语》的伦理思想与现代企业家素质

现代管理在不断完善其制度的同时，逐渐引入了伦理学的理念。由于掌握知识的主体是人，制度的制定与实施的主体也是人，这就使管理与伦理的结合成为一种必然。现代管理学的完善也就诉诸于它的价值取向——制度和伦理。说到中国的伦理管理，就要从那部被称为“东方的圣经”的《论语》入手，探寻儒家传统伦理思想中的管理思想，以期对现代企业有所助益。     

Modeling novel methodologies for unmanned aerial systems–Applications to the UAS-S4 Ehecatl and the UAS-S45 Bálaam

The rising demand for Unmanned Aerial Systems(UASs) to perform tasks in hostile environments has emphasized the need for their simulation models for the preliminary evaluations of their missions. The efficiency of the UAS model is directly related to its capacity to estimate its flight dynamics with minimum computational resources. The literature describes several techniques to estimate accurate aircraft flight dynamics. Most of them are based on system identification. This paper presents an alternative methodology to obtain complete model of the S4 and S45 unmanned aerial systems. The UAS-S4 and the UAS-S45 models were divided into four sub-models, each corresponding to a specific discipline: aerodynamics, propulsion, mass and inertia, and actuator. The‘‘aerodynamic" sub-model was built using the Fderivatives in-house code, which is an improvement of the classical DATCOM procedure. The ‘‘propulsion" sub-model was obtained by coupling a two-stroke engine model based on the ideal Otto cycle and a Blade Element Theory(BET) analysis of the propeller. The ‘‘mass and the inertia" sub-model was designed utilizing the Raymer and DATCOM methodologies. A sub-model of an actuator using servomotor characteristics was employed to complete the model. The total model was then checked by validation of each submodel with numerical and experimental data. The results indicate that the obtained model was accurate and could be used to design a flight simulator.     

单星定向技术研究

提出了一种仅利用一颗地球静止轨道卫星完成定向的新方法,并利用北斗双星定位系统进行了定向试验.试验结果表明,对于0.827 m长基线,单星定向精度可达0.07°,从而说明利用一颗地球静止轨道卫星进行定向在原理上是正确的,方法是可行的.      

CO2脉冲激光与气体相互作用实验

实验研究采用波长为10.6μm的CO2脉冲激光器,N2,He,CO2等三种纯净气体及上述气体的相互混合气作为推进工质时,通过实验舱内的冲击摆装置对抛物形光船获得的冲量耦合系数Cm进行了测量。实验发现气体工质的获得的冲量耦合系数Cm随气压增高而增大,通常气体工质的分子量越大,冲量耦合系数Cm越大;在低气压条件下,分子量较大的气体所占的比例越高,混合气获得的冲量耦合系数Cm越高;在高气压条件下,混合气体工质获得的冲量耦合系数与混合气体的种类及比例密切相关。     

涡轴发动机涡轮级间支承结构设计关键技术

高效、稳定的涡轮级间支承结构需要先进的设计技术予以支持。考虑涡轮级间支承结构处于高温、多种载荷的工作环境,以及先进涡轴发动机的设计需求,提出了结构设计的基本原则,如小热应力和热变形低,隔振性能良好,极限状态下的安全性好。在此基础上,对几种典型的涡轴发动机涡轮级间支承结构进行了分析与对比,确定了结构多功能、结构变刚度质量分布、连接稳定性和结构与动力学一体化等设计是先进级间支承结构设计的关键技术与发展方向。     

世界各国低碳发展的态度分析

近年来,低碳理念在全球范围内广泛传播,低碳发展成为世界各国关注的焦点.发达国家站在保护全球生态环境的道德制高点上,积极倡导和推动全球低碳发展.发展中国家在坚持继续遵守相关公约和“共同但有区别的责任”原则基础上,谋求适度的低碳发展.中国本着对人类、对未来高度负责的态度,积极响应低碳发展理念.低碳发展不仅是应对气候变化的需要,更是实现社会、经济、环境和谐发展的需要.