Numerical investigation of the structure of a silicon six-wafer micro-combustor under the effect of hydrogen/air ratio

Research reports indicate that sufficiently high equivalence ratio of the hydrogen/air mixture leads to the upstream burning in the recirculation jacket, possibly damaging the micro- combustor due to the high wall temperature. This work investigates the influences of the equivalence ratio of the mixture on the structure of a micro-combustor device. Numerical simulation approaches focused on the structural design of the micro-combustor with the flame burning in the recirculation jacket. Combustion characteristics of the combustor were first analyzed based on 2D computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), and then thermo-mechanical analysis on the combustor was carried out by means of 3D Finite Element Analysis (FEA) method. The results showed that the most dangerous locations where the critical failure could possibly occur lay at the burning areas in the recirculation jacket due to the poor bonding, the high temperature and the residual stress. The results of this study can be used for the design and improvement of the micro-combustors.     

窄安全密度窗口地层钻井起下钻井底压力瞬态波动规律

窄安全密度窗口地层压力敏感,钻井起下钻作业引起井底压力波动,易诱发溢流、井漏等井下复杂。
文章以一维瞬态流动模型,考虑井筒液－固两相介质,建立了起下钻井底压力瞬态波动理论模型,并通过数值模拟
研究了影响钻井起下钻井底压力瞬态波动的主要因素。研究表明,起下钻速度、井深、钻井液密度、起下钻深度是
影响井底压力波动的主要因素。起下钻速度、钻井液密度越大,井深越深,起下钻深度越深,起下钻作业引起的井
底压力波动越剧烈,压力波峰值滞后越严重。起下钻作业时,尤其在起钻的早期和下钻后期,应尽量降低起下钻速
度,以降低井底压力波动,保障井底压力处在安全密度窗口之内。     

Characteristics of crack patterns controlling the retained strength of ceramics after thermal shock

The physical mechanisms that determine the retained strength of ceramics after thermal shock are studied by measuring experimentally and statistically the density and depth of cracks produced in the interior of the ceramics. The analysis indicates that the key factor controlling the retained strength is the maximum depth of cracks rather than the density of cracks in the ceramics. The result presented here forms a basis to further understand the thermal shock behavior of ceramics.     

Differential-phase surface plasmon resonance biosensor

In this paper, a novel differential-phase-sensitive surface plasmon resonance biosensor (DP-SPRB) is proposed and developed, in which a two-frequency laser is integrated with a differential amplifier in order to analytically convert the phase modulation into amplitude modulation. With the use of the conventional envelope detection technique, the differential phase is precisely decoded in real time in terms of the demodulated amplitude. In order to verify high detection sensitivity of the DP-SPRB, a sucrose-water solution and glycerin-water solution at low concentrations were both tested, and the experimental results confirm that the detection sensitivity on wt % concentration of the sucrose solution is 0.00001%. Moreover, the real-time monitoring mouse IgG/antimouse IgG interaction shows the minimum concentration of mouse IgG to be at 10 fg/mL. To our knowledge, this is the highest sensitivity ever measured by a surface plasmon resonance biosensor. However, because of the limited dynamic range of DP-SPRB, it can only apply to biomolecule interactions at extremely low concentration.