Numerical Study of Finite Element Method Based Solutions for Propagation of Wetting Fronts in Unsaturated Soil

The accurate prediction of the propagation of a wetting front in an unsaturated soil subjected to surficial infiltration is of practical importance to many geotechnical and geoenvironmental problems. The finite element method is the most common solution technique as the hydraulic soil properties are highly nonlinear. Two important issues are often found to create difficulties in such analyses. First, numerical oscillations are usually observed in the calculated pore pressures at the wetting front. Second, when a reasonable mesh size and time step are used, the elevation of the wetting front may be seriously overpredicted. This paper is focused on the second issue. The under-relaxation (UR) technique used in the iterative process within each time step is found to have a serious impact on rate of convergence with refinement in mesh size and time step. Two different techniques are typically used; the first evaluates the hydraulic conductivity using an average of heads calculated from the preceding time node and the most recent iteration of the current time node (UR1), and the second evaluates the hydraulic conductivity using the average of heads calculated from the two most recent iterations of the current time nodes (UR2). The study shows that UR1, which is adopted in programs such as SEEP/W, ensures that the solution converges rapidly to a stable solution within a time step, but may converge to the wrong wetting front at a given elapsed time unless a sufficiently refined mesh is used. UR2 converges much more slowly within a time step, but the error in the wetting front is smaller than that generated by UR1.     

CCD型束流截面探测器

CCD型束流截面探测器的主要特点是使用电荷耦合器件做传感器,用束流同步光中的可见光成份做为信号源。该探测器同时具有模拟量和数字量两种输出,工作周期短,速度高,不影响束团粒子寿命,在电子储存环物理运行中,是一种有效的探测设备。     

InAs／InP_（0．7）Sb_（0．3）热电子晶体管的f_T及f_（max）

用电荷控制及热电子弹道运动模型计算ＩｎＡｓ／ＩｎＰ０．７Ｓｂ０．３热电子晶体管的截止频率ｆＴ及最高振荡频率ｆｍａｘ。结果表明，ｆＴ、ｆｍａｘ分别达到２８０ＧＨｚ及６００ＧＨｚ。并指出，通过生长ＧａＳｂ中间层，ＩｎＡｓ／ＩｎＰ０．７Ｓｂ０．３ＨＥＴ可在ＧａＡｓ衬底上实现单片集成。     

对流扩散方程的离散技术及数值实验

本文研究了对流扩散方程的离散技术,并进行了大量数值实验。研究表明,scharfetter—Gummel的广义形式可以良好地消除内部的非物理振荡,且对边界层生成振荡的传播有抑制作用,但不能有效地消除边界层振荡。     

Burned area forecasting using past burned area records and Southern Oscillation Index for tropical Africa (1981-1999)

An 18-year time series of monthly NOAA-AVHRR Pathfinder Land burned area was analyzed for the region of tropical Africa, from July 1981 to June 1999. The transition period between NOAA-11 and NOAA-14 platforms from July 1993 to June 1995 was not included due to missing and outlier data. Stability of the time series was addressed for the input variables in the burned area algorithm, reflectance and temperature channels.A Seasonal AutoRegressive Integrated Moving-Average (SARIMA) model was developed for forecasting potential burned area. The SARIMA model identified an autoregressive regular term with 1-month lag and an autoregressive 12-month seasonal term with one season (12 months) component. A cross-correlation between Southern Oscillation Index (SOI) and burned area was statistically significant predictor variable in a time series with 20-month lag. Results show that the SARIMA model with this predictor improved both, fitting and forecasting, residual variance, by 4.1% and 5.6%, respectively, thereby, demonstrating potential relationship between SOI and burned area for the study region. Forecasting was estimated by considering only the first 16 years of the monthly burned area in the time series, from July 1981 to June 1997. The prediction for the following 24 months (from July 1997 to June 1999) was within the 95% confidence level indicating that the forecast was a valid characterization of the modeled process.     

结晶器液压振动技术在梅山高效连铸中的应用

为了得到较好的铸坯表面质量,满足生产高附加值、高技术含量的钢种要求,梅山炼钢厂在2#高效连铸机上引进了国际上较先进的结晶器液压振动技术,具体介绍了该结晶器液压振动技术的基本参数和实际应用。     

Cable-direct-driven-robot (CDDR) with a 3-link passive serial support

Cable-direct-driven-robots (CDDRs) provided with a passive serial support represent an interesting and rising evolution of planar cable robots. The paper is devoted to present and analyze a novel CDDR robot. The robot consists in a fully actuated CDDR supported against loading normal to the motion plane with a 3-link passive planar serial manipulator. This hybrid structure combines positive features of both parallel and serial architectures, and prevents out-of-plane movements without the necessity for the robot to be supported on the motion plane. The adoption of a 3-link serial manipulator ensures a greater workspace area compared with similar structures that adopt a smaller number of links, and improves specific characteristics of their dynamics. Nevertheless undesired oscillations may occur since the serial manipulator is underconstrained. For this reason damping elements are inserted in the structure. Simulation examples are presented to demonstrate the novel CDDR concept and its dynamics. In addition, a strategy to select proper values of damping coefficients is presented.     

北太平洋涛动研究

北太平洋涛动是北半球大气中一个显著的、南北向跷跷板式的低频振荡,其演变不仅直接影响北太平洋附近地区的天气和气候,甚至对整个北半球的环流异常、持续以及气候突变都有重要影响.文章综述了北太平洋涛动的时间演变特征、区域变化特征、常用计算方法、北太平洋涛动指数的定义以及它们对天气气候的影响,阐述了需要进一步解决的一些问题,指出了目前关于NPO的研究尚处于初级阶段,对NPO的研究还可以借鉴其他涛动中较为成熟的研究方式和方法.     

一类二阶半线性时滞微分方程的振动准则

建立一类二阶半线性时滞微分方程的几个振动准则.利用一个新的方法,得到所有解振动的一些充分条件,新的结论改善和推广了一些相关文献的振动准则,给出的例子用来阐明新的结论.