Effect of plate aspect ratio on the recovery of deuterium from water-isotope mixture in flat-plate thermal diffusion columns with transverse sampling streams

The optimal plate aspect ratios for the best recovery of deuterium from water-isotope mixture in flat-plate thermal diffusion columns with transverse sampling streams have been determined. The maximum recovery and maximum production rate are achieved without changing the total expenditure, while the design with minimum plate surface area results in minimizing the total expense.     

Using airborne laser scanning to monitor tree migration in the boreal-alpine transition zone

The boreal tree line is expected to advance upwards into the mountains and northwards into the tundra due to global warming. The major objective of this study was to find out if it is possible to use high-resolution airborne laser scanner data to detect very small trees — the pioneers that are pushing the tree line up into the mountains and out onto the tundra. The study was conducted in a sub-alpine/alpine environment in southeast Norway. A total of 342 small trees of Norway spruce, Scots pine, and downy birch with tree heights ranging from 0.11 to 5.20 m were precisely georeferenced and measured in field. Laser data were collected with a pulse density of 7.7 m^− 2. Three different terrain models were used to process the airborne laser point cloud in order to assess the effects of different pre-processing parameters on small tree detection. Greater than 91% of all trees > 1 m tall registered positive laser height values regardless of terrain model. For smaller trees (< 1 m), positive height values were found in 5-73% of the cases, depending on the terrain model considered. For this group of trees, the highest rate of trees with positive height values was found for spruce. The more smoothed the terrain model was, the larger the portion of the trees that had positive laser height values. The accuracy of tree height derived from the laser data indicated a systematic underestimation of true tree height by 0.40 to 1.01 m. The standard deviation for the differences between laser-derived and field-measured tree heights was 0.11-0.73 m. Commission errors, i.e., the detection of terrain objects — rocks, hummocks — as trees, increased significantly as terrain smoothing increased. Thus, if no classification of objects into classes like small trees and terrain objects is possible, many non-tree objects with a positive height value cannot be separated from those actually being trees. In a monitoring context, i.e., repeated measurements over time, we argue that most other objects like terrain structures, rocks, and hummocks will remain stable over time while the trees will change as they grow and new trees are established. Thus, this study indicates that, given a high laser pulse density and a certain density of newly established trees, it would be possible to detect a sufficient portion of newly established trees over a 10 years period to claim that tree migration is taking place.     

A calibration method for the energy-integrating function in photovoltaic system monitoring

Solar radiation has an irregularly varying factor due to a basic day and night cycle and climatic conditions. For such conditions a data sampling interval is important to ensure the accuracy of energy monitoring in a photovoltaic system. While treating a system monitoring equipment as a black box. the author has developed the method of calibrating an energy-integrating function. At first for various input waveforms, the relationship between sampling intervals and quasi-integration outputs have been examined by trapezoidal rule. In the numerical simulation the phases of the sampling clock also are considered Then it is concluded that a sampling interval can be inspected through outside observation only by using a rectangular single pulse. By applying the pulse to the energy-integrating process, two kinds of integrated outputs can be obtained for different sampling phases. The calculated difference between both outputs can uniquely give the sampling interval being inspected. Conditions to ensure measuring accuracy are discussed and the validity of this method has been demonstrated experimentally. Practical calibrating procedures also are proposed for the integrating function of PV system monitoring.     

集成电路测试系统中波形数字化仪的校准研究

文章介绍了波形数字化仪的原理、结构、工作方式及特点,并针对其校准技术进行了深入的研究。通过多功能校准源、示波器及测试系统数字模块实现波形数字化仪模块的精确校准,解决了波形数字化仪模块的校准问题。校准结果表明,该校准装置及校准方法能够满足集成电路测试系统任意波形发生器的校准要求。     

可控的高度规整三角网格生成算法

本文提出了一种新的用户可控的高度规整三角网格生成算法.通过在网格表面上构造3个标量场,利用其等值线相交生成高度规整的三角网格.算法借助N-对称方向场来指导生成网格的边方向,在网格表面指定密度场来控制采样密度,同时还提供了特征对齐和对带边界模型的处理能力.所有的控制需求都被纳入标量场求解框架中统一优化.实验表明,本文的方法能够满足多种用户控制需求,生成高度规整的三角网格.     

邻域自适应的三维点云滤波算法

针对现有的点云滤波算法存在的精度丢失和收缩的不足,提出邻域自适应选择的算法,有效地改善了点云滤波中丢失精度的问题.算法首先针对原始点和均值点滤波出现的收缩问题,提出混合增采样策略.其次采用邻域自适应选择保持特征部分的滤波精度.最后定义每个采样点以对应的似然函数,并按照其梯度方向进行迭代,通过最大似然估计得到最优滤波结果.实验部分表明,本文三维点云滤波算法对点云滤波精度的保持具有更好的效果.适用于工业生产与检测领域的三维扫描.     

基于FPGA的Σ-ΔADC转换器的设计和实现

针对瞬时采样方法只适合变频器模拟量比较平滑且采样频率较高的场合和平均值采样法要求采样频率高、运算速度快的问题,设计了一种基于FPGA的Σ-ΔADC转换器,介绍了Σ-ΔADC转换器的结构原理和Sinc3滤波器的设计。该转换器将Σ-Δ调制器和FPGA有效结合,既提高了采样精度,也提高了模拟信号传输的抗干扰能力及检测装置耐压的能力。实验验证了该转换器的正确性。     

GemstoneFire: adaptive dispersive ray tracing of polyhedrons

Synthesizing realistic images of gemstones requires techniques beyond the scope of normal ray tracing. The fire of such highly refractive objects is what makes gemstones attractive, and also imposes very high computational overhead to perform time consuming dispersive ray tracing. Gemstones are usually cut in polyhdrons as for example, a brillant cut. After a detailed analysis of the nature of dispersive ray tracing of polyhedral objects, we propose here a new method of using three simple rays adaptively to model the ray spreading caused by dispersive refraction. It is shown that the proposed method reduces the computational complexity to an order close to that of normal ray tracing.     

Accurate Receptor-Ligand Binding Free Energies from Fast QM Conformational Chemical Space Sampling

Small molecule receptor-binding is dominated by weak, non-covalent interactions such as van-der-Waals hydrogen bonding or electrostatics. Calculating these non-covalent ligand-receptor interactions is a challenge to computational means in terms of accuracy and efficacy since the ligand may bind in a number of thermally accessible conformations. The conformational rotamer ensemble sampling tool (CREST) uses an iterative scheme to efficiently sample the conformational space and calculates energies using the semi-empirical ‘Geometry, Frequency, Noncovalent, eXtended Tight Binding’ (GFN2-xTB) method. This combined approach is applied to blind predictions of the modes and free energies of binding for a set of 10 drug molecule ligands to the cucurbit[n]urils CB[8] receptor from the recent ‘Statistical Assessment of the Modeling of Proteins and Ligands’ (SAMPL) challenge including morphine, hydromorphine, cocaine, fentanyl, and ketamine. For each system, the conformational space was sufficiently sampled for the free ligand and the ligand-receptor complexes using the quantum chemical Hamiltonian. A multitude of structures makes up the final conformer-rotamer ensemble, for which then free energies of binding are calculated. For those large and complex molecules, the results are in good agreement with experimental values with a mean error of 3 kcal/mol. The GFN2-xTB energies of binding are validated by advanced density functional theory calculations and found to be in good agreement. The efficacy of the automated QM sampling workflow allows the extension towards other complex molecular interaction scenarios.     

一种联合采样的神经网络光场

相比传统的光场绘制技术,神经网络光场(NeRF)方法可使用神经网络拟合场景的光线采样,将隐式编码输入图片的光场,合成新视图. 针对NeRF方法训练时间长,绘制视图慢的问题,提出了一种基于联合采样的NeRF方法,通过使粗糙网络和细腻网络共享均匀采样结果的方法,减少了不必要的光线采样,从而加快了网络训练和视图合成的速度. 实验结果表明,在取得近似视图合成质量的情况下,与NeRF方法相比,所提方法的训练时间减少了20%,视图合成的效率提高了25%.