Statistische Beschreibung der Tropfengrößenverteilung bei stationären Zerstäubungsprozessen

The dispersion of spray drops within a two-phase-flow is signified by an deformable phase interface where material properties suddenly change. The process of atomisation could previously only be modelled for standard applications simultaneously coupled with substantial simulations. In this case the process of atomisation is not coupled to the direct numerical simulation (DNS) of the interaction between two liquids. The approach of disintegration is modelled by statistics, describing the probability of generating liquid droplets. Therefore consideration of potential time and length for an intact liquid core are supposed from standard applications [1, 2]. Using this way of describing atomisation is utilised in a CFD-Code and then compared with PDA-measurements to control the process capability of this implementation.

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Zusammenfassung  Zweiphasenströmungen zeichnen sich durch eine bewegliche und deformierbare Phasengrenze aus. An dieser Phasengrenze ändern sich die Stoffeigenschaften sprunghaft. Die Erfassung und Beschreibung dieser Grenzflächeneigenschaften ist sehr aufwendig, so dass die numerische Modellierung von Zerstäubungsprozessen bisher nur für exemplarische Einzelfälle eingesetzt wird. Bei dieser Simulation von Zerstäubungsprozessen ist ein hoher Rechenaufwand gegeben. Der Vorgang des Strahlzerfalls lässt sich, wie im Folgenden dargestellt, mittels Zerfallswahrscheinlichkeiten abbilden. Aerodynamische Grenzflächenbetrachtungen fließen bei dieser Betrachtungsweise nicht in das Modell ein. Bei der Verwendung von Zerfallswahrscheinlichkeiten werden Annahmen zu Länge und Zeit der intakten Strahllänge der flüssigen Phase getroffen, die sich aus ähnlichen technischen Fragestellungen in direkten numerischen Simulationen (DNS) ableiten lassen [1,2]. Durch Anwendung von statistisch erzeugten Tropfenspektren in einem Strömungscode und durch Messung mittels Phasen-Doppler-Anemometrie erfolgt die Überprüfung der Aussagefähigkeit des statistischen Modells.

     

Self-Consistent Quantum Mechanical Monte Carlo MOSFET Device Simulation

We have developed a self-consistent quantum mechanical Monte Carlo device simulator that takes electron transport in quantized states into consideration. Two-dimensional quantized states in MOSFET channels are constructed from one-dimensional solutions of the Schrödinger equation at different positions along the channel, and the Schrödinger and Poisson equations are solved self-consistently in terms of electron concentration and electrostatic potential distribution. The channel electron concentration, velocity and drain currents are calculated with the one particle Monte Carlo approach incorporating the intra-valley acoustic phonon and inter-valley phonon scattering mechanisms. This simulator was applied to a 70 nm n-MOSFET transistor, and we found that current mostly flows through the lowest subband and transport is quasi-ballistic near the source junction. To quantitatively estimate the performance of advanced devices, we have developed an inversion carrier transport simulator based on a full-band model. Our simulation method enables us to evaluate device characteristics and analyze the transport properties of ultra-small MOSFETs.     

On the Precision in Estimating the Location of Edges and Corners

Recently, in Rohr [13], we analyzed the systematiclocalization errors introduced by local operators for detectinggrey-value corners. These errors are inherently due to thedifferential structure of the operators and, in general, areenlarged by discretization and noise effects. Here, we take thestatistical point of view to analyze the localization errorscaused by noisy data. We consider a continuous image model thatrepresents the blur as well as noise introduced by an imagingsystem. In general, the systematic intensity variations arenonlinear functions of the location parameters. For this modelwe derive analytic results stating lower bounds for the locationuncertainty of image features. The lower bounds are evaluatedfor explicit edge and corner models. We show that the precisionof localization in general depends on the noise level, on thesize of the observation window, on the width of the intensitytransitions, as well as on other parameters describing thesystematic intensity variations. We also point out that theuncertainty lower bounds in localizing these image features canin principle be attained by fitting parametric models directlyto the image intensities. To give an impression of theachievable accuracy numerical examples are presented.     

欧洲和德国的钢铁工业的环保现状和发展(一)

欧洲钢铁工业的环境保护已经达到了很高的水平.20世纪60年代初,保护环境一般认为只是局限于限制工业对人们的影响.现在,尤其是在罗马协议(Club of Rome)的努力之下,环保的范围从节约资源延伸到整个自然环境的保护,而后产生了目前应用中的工业过程和产品生产周期.整体来说,保护环境的所有途径都被视为是未来平衡发展的先决条件. 欧盟环境保护技术的情况可以德国为例,更准确地说是杜伊斯堡的蒂森克虏伯钢厂(ThyssenKrupp Stahl AG),其粗钢产量约占德国总产量的35%. 钢铁工业环境保护的重点仍然是维护空气质量,在此目的下,进行除尘处理.由烟囱处取样获得目前的除尘水平来看,今后的除尘主要是控制粉尘扩散和减少细小微粒的排放. 钢铁工业环境保护的关键策略就是循环利用,它能起到与环境协调一致的作用,能够解决相关工艺中需要的大量的原料问题.德国的蒂森克虏伯钢厂(ThyssenKrupp Stahl AG)现在炉渣的综合回收率水平已接近95%,其中冶金渣的回收利用率尤为突出.在德国,高炉渣利用率达到了100%,同时炼钢渣的利用率也超过了90%,每吨粗钢的耗水量也控制在100 m3的范围内.大量的努力不仅保证了有效的回收和再生利用工序,而且冷却水的利用也保证了新水的补充率降低到每吨粗钢15m3左右. 污染控制除与主要环境即空气、水和土壤有关外,已扩展到回收过程再利用的水平,更多地重点渐渐地放到相关产品的环境保护.产品和原料却日益受到生产商和消费者的重点检验,有点与环境协调性标准相反.组织机构的环境保护手段包括环境管理系统的认可、生态平衡、政府部门的自愿协议以及提高公众的信息、教育水平. 欧洲的钢铁工业,当然也包括德国,都已经意识到环境保护的重要性同工业研究与开发的重要性处于同等地位.一个典型的例子就是超薄板汽车用钢项目,这个与产品相关的研究引入了35家合作厂商共同研究一个比目前传统的汽车车身更结实、更轻的项目.欧洲钢铁厂家的联合合作已经成功研究出应用于烧结厂的减少二恶英(dioxin)排放物的吸收工艺.用褐煤焦尘作为吸附剂,已能够平均减少排放物大约70%.很可能2003年在杜伊斯堡的ThyssenKrupp Stahl AG将被授权建全世界最先进的焦化厂.在这个项目过程中研究出的主要部分成果,例如低尘低烟煤湿熄法和减少PAH排放物的单室压力控制系统,会恰当地应用于新的工厂.另一个主要进步是ThyssenKrupp Stahl AG研制的Hamborn OxiCup竖炉,它有湿法冶炼和排除含铁残渣的功能.此技术预计成为回收利用铁水和钢产品中产生的粉尘和泥浆这一难题的解决方案. 德国的局势尤其显示出环境法规的落实正开始对经济发展和劳动力市场起到不利影响.盛行的经济技术条件需要合法的体制治理环境保护的合理化.将来任何进一步的措施都要考虑这一事实,既要获得可持续发展,又要考虑到经济发展和社会需求.     

Unipolar Depression, Life Context Vulnerabilities, and Drinking to Cope.

This study followed baseline samples of 424 unipolar depressed patients and 424 community controls across 10 years to investigate the association between depression and alcohol-related coping and to examine how life context vulnerabilities underlie the risk for depressed individuals to rely on drinking to cope. Findings supported all hypotheses. Depressed patients engaged in more drinking to cope than did community controls. Within individuals, more negative life events and less family support were associated with more drinking to cope across the 4 observations. Depressed patients experienced more negative life events and less family support than did community controls. These underlying life context vulnerabilities explained the relationship between depressed patient status and drinking to cope. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Hydrogen oxidation on gold electrode in sulphuric acid solution

The aim of this work is to study the electrochemical oxidation of Hydrogen on gold electrodes in sulphuric acid solution and to compare the results with those obtained in a similar study in perchloric acid solution. In both electrolytes, the reaction is irreversible because the atomic H, which appears as reaction intermediate, diffuses inside of the metal. The reactive is introduced in two ways: by electrolysis at a cathodic potential during different times and by saturating the solution with the gaseous reactive. During the cathodic electrolysis the different crystalline planes of the surface reconstruct and this feature has an influence on the reaction kinetics. The catalytic influence of the incipient hydrous gold oxide on the H electrooxidation is also shown. The presence of sulphate and perchlorate ions leads to unlike voltamperometric profiles in the double layer charging potential region. A gold compound is formed during the metal treatment and an attempt has been done to identify it with FTIR.