基于遥感的长沙市城市热岛效应时空分析

利用TM/ETM+数据,以长沙市为例,反演了地表温度,并针对不同时相的遥感数据,利用城市热岛强度来反映热岛效应强弱的变化。结果表明,长沙市的热岛空间分布与城市建成区的轮廓相吻合。城市热岛的范围随着城市建设、新建开发区以及道路交通网的发展不断增大,且在东南方向为主要增长方向。根据热岛强度鉴别并提取了强热岛区与正常区,发现长沙市强热岛区的面积已经从1993年的13.18km2扩大至2008年的68.16km2。最后,对长沙市热岛未来的发展趋势进行了预测。     

Solar or surplus heat-driven actuators using metal hydride alloys

A metal hydride (MH) actuator provides mechanical work by applying the hydrogen pressure transition that originates from the reversible reaction of the MH alloy as it absorbs and desorbs hydrogen gas. The MH actuators that have been reported employ a Peltier element or an electrical heating resistance wire as a heat source. This paper describes the design of an MH actuator that is driven by low-quality heat sources, such as solar heat or surplus heat. A certain composition of a LaNi₅-based alloy that produces desorbing and absorbing reactions through a low-temperature difference is specified. This alloy composition can provide a large amount of hydrogen desorption using solar heat or surplus heated water and a large amount of hydrogen absorption by natural air cooling in an adequate reaction time. To improve the moving speed and to control the performance, a reciprocating air compressor that applies this solar or surplus heat-driven MH actuator is proposed. These findings support the efficacy of an MH actuator operating without electric or fossil fuel energy consumption.     

基于数据挖掘的供热用户分析与决策

对某供热公司累积的大量供热用户收费数据进行分析,通过构建数据仓库和利用数据概化方法建立供热用户数据挖掘模型,使用频繁项集方法产生关联规则,利用决策树算法得出交费时间特征,从而得出不同区域和类型用户的习惯交费时间段。对该数据挖掘模型进行评价,提出的4项收费决策建议在实际应用中取得良好效果。     

异步电机反馈线性化二阶滑模定子磁链观测器设计

为了提高异步电机定子磁链的观测精度,提出了基于反馈线性化的二阶滑模磁链观测方法,设计了定子磁链观测器,并应用到异步电机直接转矩控制中.为更准确的观测磁链,选取转子磁链为系统输出,运用微分几何理论将异步电机系统的输入/输出线性化,得到以转子磁链为输出的异步电机反馈线性化模型.在此基础上设计基于Super-twisting算法的二阶滑模转子磁链观测器,实现对转子磁链的准确估算,并对所设计的观测器进行稳定性分析.然后再利用转子磁链与定子磁链的关系,估算出定子磁链.将该观测器用于异步电机直接转矩控制中,达到了很好的控制效果.仿真与实验结果验证了该方法的可行性和有效性.     

Thermal and cardiovascular strain imposed by motorcycle protective clothing under Australian summer conditions

Motorcycle protective clothing can be uncomfortably hot during summer, and this experiment was designed to evaluate the physiological significance of that burden. Twelve males participated in four, 90-min trials (cycling 30 W) across three environments (25, 30, 35 °C [all 40% relative humidity]). Clothing was modified between full and minimal injury protection. Both ensembles were tested at 25 °C, with only the more protective ensemble investigated at 30 and 35 °C. At 35 °C, auditory canal temperature rose at 0.02 °C min^?1 (SD 0.005), deviating from all other trials (p < 0.05). The thresholds for moderate (>38.5 °C) and profound hyperthermia (>40.0 °C) were predicted to occur within 105 min (SD 20.6) and 180 min (SD 33.0), respectively. Profound hyperthermia might eventuate in ~10 h at 30 °C, but should not occur at 25 °C. These outcomes demonstrate a need to enhance the heat dissipation capabilities of motorcycle clothing designed for summer use in hot climates, but without compromising impact protection.

Practitioner’s Summary:

Motorcycle protective clothing can be uncomfortably hot during summer. This experiment was designed to evaluate the physiological significance of this burden across climatic states. In the heat, moderate (>38.5 °C) and profound hyperthermia (>40.0 °C) were predicted to occur within 105 and 180 min, respectively.     

认知无线电网络信道选择机制

认知无线电网络通过动态频谱接入来提高无线频谱资源利用率,而节点目标信道选择的优劣直接决定了频谱接入性能的好坏. 本文首先综合考虑信道增益和空闲时间两种因素,设计以实现最大化系统容量的目标信道选择机制,然后引入信道热度概念,提出一种多属性决策信道选择机制. 仿真结果表明,多属性决策信道选择机制在系统吞吐量和频谱利用率性能上都有明显的提高.     

Fast computation of minimal elementary decompositions of metabolic flux vectors

The concept of elementary flux vector is valuable in a number of applications of metabolic engineering. For instance, in metabolic flux analysis, each admissible flux vector can be expressed as a non-negative linear combination of a small number of elementary flux vectors. However a critical issue concerns the total number of elementary flux vectors which may be huge because it combinatorially increases with the size of the metabolic network. In this paper we present a fast algorithm that randomly computes a decomposition of admissible flux vectors in a minimal number of elementary flux vectors without explicitly enumerating all of them.     

A Newton-like finite element scheme for compressible gas flows

Semi-implicit and Newton-like finite element methods are developed for the stationary compressible Euler equations. The Galerkin discretization of the inviscid fluxes is potentially oscillatory and unstable. To suppress numerical oscillations, the spatial discretization is performed by a high-resolution finite element scheme based on algebraic flux correction. A multidimensional limiter of TVD type is employed. An important goal is the efficient computation of stationary solutions in a wide range of Mach numbers, which is a challenging task due to oscillatory correction factors associated with TVD-type flux limiters. A semi-implicit scheme is derived by a time-lagged linearization of the nonlinear residual, and a Newton-like method is obtained in the limit of infinite CFL numbers. Special emphasis is laid on the numerical treatment of weakly imposed characteristic boundary conditions. Numerical evidence for unconditional stability is presented. It is shown that the proposed approach offers higher accuracy and better convergence behavior than algorithms in which the boundary conditions are implemented in a strong sense.     

Laminar convection in the annulus of a double-pipe with triangular fins

A steady and laminar convective flow has been numerically simulated in the fully-developed annular region of a finned double-pipe subjected to the constant heat flux boundary condition imposed at the inner-pipe wall. Finite element method has been employed in this study. Friction factor and Nusselt number have been studied as flow characteristics against variations in the ratio of radii of the inner and the outer pipes, the fin height, the fin half angle and the number of fins. The results show significant enhancement in the heat transfer rate in both the cases when sufficient pumping power is available and when it is not. The minimum and maximum increase in the product of friction factor and Reynolds number relative to the finless geometry is more than one time and more than 40 times respectively while gain in the relative value of Nusselt number lies in the range 1–177. This provides an evidence of more than four times enhancement in the heat transfer coefficient relative to that in the pressure loss as a result of extended fin surfaces.