Improvement of inverse heat conduction solution using Laplace transformation: Method of partial division of time

Any solution for an inverse heat conduction problem makes the estimation of surface temperature and surface heat flux worsen in the case where these values behave like a triangular shape change with time. In order to compensate for this defect, Monde and colleagues, who succeeded in obtaining analytical inverse solutions using the Laplace transform technique, introduce a new idea where these changes over the entire measurement time can be split into several parts depending on the behavior. Therefore, an approximate equation to trace the measured temperature change can be derived, resulting in good estimation of surface temperature and surface heat flux even in the case of the triangular shape change and sharp change. © 2003 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Heat Trans Asian Res, 32(7): 630–638, 2003; Published online in Wiley InterScience ( www.interscience.wiley.com ). DOI 10.1002/htj.10117     

Observations of high temperature impinging-jet boiling phenomena

A high-speed video camera and microphone were used to capture the flow behavior and boiling sound of a free-surface water jet impinging on a high temperature surface during quench cooling. It was found that depending on the superheat of the surface considerably different flow patterns appeared. For cases where the initial surface temperature was above about 300 °C an almost explosive pattern appeared. This was in contrast to slightly lower temperatures where a liquid sheet flow structure was apparent. The change in phenomena was accompanied by a sudden change in the boiling sound and an increase in the heat transfer rate.     

Effect of Non-Equilibrium Condensation of Moist Air on Flow Field in Ludwieg Tube

The time-dependent behavior of non-equilibrium condensation of moist air through a Ludwieg tube with a diaphragm downstream is investigated by using a computational fluid dynamics work. The two-dimensional, compressible, Navier-Stokes equations, fully coupled with the condensate droplet growth equations, are numerically solved by a third-order MUSCL type TVD finite-difference scheme with a second-order fractional time step. Baldwin-Lomax turbulence model is employed to close the governing equations. The present computations represent the experimental flows well. The results obtained show that for an initial relative humidity over 40 %, the periodic excursions of the condensation shock occurs in the Ludwieg tube, and the frequency increases with the initial relative humidity. It is also found that total pressure loss due to non-equilibrium condensation in the Ludwieg tube should not be ignored even for a very low initial relative humidity. Furthermore, the variations of condensation properties are also di     

Analytical approach with Laplace transform to the inverse problem of one‐dimensional heat conduction transfer: Application to second and third boundary conditions

An analytical method using Laplace transformation has been developed for one‐dimensional heat conduction. This method succeeded in explicitly deriving the analytical solution by which the surface temperature for the first kind of boundary condition can be well predicted. The analytical solutions for the surface temperature and heat flux are applied to the second and third of the boundary conditions. These solutions are also found to estimate the corresponding surface conditions with a high degree of accuracy when the surface conditions smoothly change. On the other hand, when these conditions erratically change such as the first derivative of temperature with time, the accuracy of the estimation becomes slightly less than that for a smooth condition. This trend in the estimation is similar irrespective of any kind of boundary condition. © 2002 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Heat Trans Asian Res, 32(1): 29–41, 2003; Published online in Wiley InterScience ( www.interscience.wiley.com ). DOI 10.1002/htj.10069     

Correlation between resistivity and oxygen vacancy of hydrogen-doped indium tin oxide thin films

Thin films of indium tin oxide (ITO) sputter-deposited by dc-plasma containing deuterium on glass substrate without any heat treatments exhibited gradual lowering in electrical resistivity with increasing the deuterium content [D₂] in plasma gas by 1% and then demonstrated a jump in resistivity by further increase of [D₂] than 1%. X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy revealed that hydroxyl-bonded oxygen in ITO grew continuingly with [D₂]. Deuterium positioned at the interstitial site increased almost quantitatively with increasing [D₂]. Rutherford backscattering spectroscopy showed gradual reduction in the oxygen content of ITO with increasing [D₂] by 1% and then demonstrated an abrupt increase of the oxygen content with the increase of [D₂] than 1%. The films with [D₂] < 1% were oxygen deficient, but those with [D₂] > 1% were excess of oxygen. The most oxygen deficient film of [D₂] = 1% was the most conductive. Behavior in the resistivity with [D₂] looks parallel to that in the oxygen content. A lower resistivity of the films corresponded well to oxygen vacancy rather than hydrogen interstitial.     

Synthesis and photoluminescence of bright water-soluble CdSe/ZnS quantum dots overcoated by hybrid organic shell

Photoluminescence properties from water soluble CdSe/ZnS QDs encapsulated with hybrid trioctylphosphine-poly(acrylamide-co-acrylic acid)-ethanolamine (TOPO-PSMA-EA) shell have been investigated. It was found that PL efficiency of CdSe/ZnS QDs in water was increased 5–30% after introducing PSMA-EA polymers to encapsulate CdSe/ZnS-TOPO QDs. Higher PSMA concentrations were found to enhance the PL efficiency of QDs up to 1.8 folds, which is ascribed to a better packing and passivation of the TOPO-PSMA-EA shell over the QDs. Time-resolved photoluminescence suggested that the mean lifetime of photoexcited carriers in the water-soluble CdSe/ZnS-TOPO-PSMA-EA QDs elongated 2–17 ns compared with that of uncoated samples, indicating that PL quenching defects were effectively removed for CdSe/ZnS QDs with hybrid TOPO-PSMA-EA shell.     

Lack of a docking mechanism for neurotransmitter release in the aganglionic segment of bowel in patients with Hirschsprung''s disease

To evaluate the patterns of drug resistance of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Taiwan, a total of 1,091 isolates collected from patients from January 1996 through December 1996 were tested for drug susceptibility using the absolute concentration method at the Taiwan Provincial Chronic Disease Control Bureau. The overall drug rate of resistance to at least one drug was 35.5%. Among the 249 isolates from patients who had never been treated for tuberculosis, 16.1% were resistant to one or more drugs; 1.6% were resistant to at least isoniazid and rifampin. Of 200 patients with prior antituberculosis treatment, 67.0% had isolates resistant to one or more drugs and 46.0% had isolates resistant to at least isoniazid and rifampin. We conclude that drug-resistant M. tuberculosis is an important issue in tuberculosis treatment in Taiwan, especially when dealing with patients with a prior history of antituberculosis treatment. More aggressive interventions, such as directly observed therapy, short-course, are needed to improve the cure rate of pulmonary tuberculosis and to decrease resistance rates.     

Anionic polymerization of methyl methacrylate in the presence of chromium carbonyl [Cr(CO)6]

Summary The presence of Cr(CO)₆ in nBuLi-initiated anionic polymerization of methyl methacrylates (MMA) was found to effectively enhance stereoselectivity of the polymerization in toluene at 0°C. nBuLi/Cr(CO)₆ afforded an isotactic PMMA with 86 % of mm triad, and the polymers obtained with nBuLi/Cr(CO)₆/tBuOK were rich in heterotactic structures (mr = ca. 54%). In both cases, the selectivity was improved in ca. 10% compared to those of the polymerization conducted under the similar conditions without Cr(CO)₆. Received: 20 January 2003/Revised version: 21 April 2003/Accepted: 21 April 2003 Correspondence to Eiji Ihara     

Thermodynamics of oxygen behaviour in cobalt-nickel alloys

In this study the concentration and chemical potential of oxygen in liquid Co-Ni alloys equilibrated with cobalt-nickel aluminate spinel solid solutions and alumina have been determined at 1773, 1823 and 1873K as a function of nickel concentration. The oxygen content of the melt has been measured by suction sampling and inert gas fusion analysis. The corresponding oxygen potential has been determined with the following solid state cell: Mo, Mo+MoO₂ | (MgO)ZrO₂ | (Co, Ni) melt + AI₂O₃ + (Co, Ni)O·(1+x)Al₂O₃, Mo. The effect of nickel on the activity coefficient of oxygen in Co-Ni alloys has been determined. The results for the activity coefficient have been modelled with Wagner's interaction parameters and also the more recent exponential method of St. Pierre et al. at the three temperatures.