土坝溃决跌坎水流水动力特性数值模拟

黏性土坝漫顶溃决涉及多学科交叉,过程极其复杂,尽管国内外大量物理模型试验成果表明其溃决多以“跌坎式”溯源冲蚀为主要特征,然而对该冲蚀发展形式下的水流-坝体微观作用机制尚不清晰。水流作为漫顶溃决的冲刷主动力,对坝体溃决发展起着主导性作用,采用RNG k-ε紊流模型和VOF自由液面捕捉技术针对黏性土坝漫顶溃决代表性水流结构——溃决跌坎水流开展了三维数值模拟研究,对跌坎水流的水流结构、流态、水力特性指标等进行了细致分析,揭示了不同工况下坝体跌坎上的剪切应力、流速分布规律,进而从水动力学的角度对坝面进行受力分析,初步推断了黏性土坝漫顶溃决过程中各级跌坎的主要合并方式为“台阶水平面刷深下切”。研究成果为进一步掌握黏性土坝漫顶溃决发展演变机理提供了理论基础。     

高水头船闸一字闸门水动力特性数值模拟

针对某山区高水头船闸30 m淹没水深下一字闸门的水动力特性进行研究,借助FLUENT软件提供的Realizable k-ε紊流模型对门体启闭过程非恒定流场进行动态模拟,通过建立由二维平面混合网格纵向拉伸成的三维棱柱体网格,结合2.5D重构和弹性光顺动网格法,在降低网格数量、提高计算效率的同时,实现一字闸门启闭全过程三维流场模拟。引入VOF法对自由水面迭代求解,得到一字闸门启闭过程门前后水位差及动水阻力矩变化规律,将计算结果与模型试验进行比较,两者吻合较好。模拟计算发现:门底间隙对闸门运行整个阶段动水阻力矩均有影响,动水阻力矩峰值随门底间隙增大而变小。     

Local‐scale Benefits of River Connectivity Restoration Planning Beyond Jurisdictional Boundaries

Conservation planning aims to optimize outcomes for select species or ecosystems by directing resources toward high‐return sites. The possibility that local benefits might be increased by directing resources beyond the focal area is rarely considered. We present a case study of restoring river connectivity for migratory fish of the Great Lakes Basin by removing dams and road crossings within municipal jurisdictions versus their broader watersheds. We found that greater river connectivity could often be achieved by considering both intra‐jurisdictional and extra‐jurisdictional barriers. Focusing on jurisdictional barriers alone generally forfeited <20% (median = 0%) of habitat gains for those who value solely habitat gains within the jurisdiction, but >75% (median = 100%) for planners who value larger‐scale habitat gains. Similarly, cost savings tended to be between ?50% and +50%, but in some cases were very negative. Our study underscores the local‐scale benefits of broadening restoration investments, especially for decision makers of the Great Lakes Basin and contributes to a discussion of appropriate and efficient scales of conservation planning. Copyright © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

微孔介质塔板流体力学和传质性能的研究

开发出一种新型微孔介质塔板—泡沫镍塔板 ,并在一个 5 0 0× 5 0 0mm2 有机玻璃方塔内用空气—水系统测定了其流体力学性能指标—塔板压降等 ,用二氧化碳解吸实验测定了塔板效率 ,研究了它们随空塔动能因子、堰高和液流强度变化的规律。实验结果表明 ,此种塔板虽然压降稍大 ,但传质效率很高且没有漏液 ,可用于工业生产中。     

Free energy barrier for compact chains escaping from a small sphere

In this paper, the process of compact polymer chains escaping from a small sphere to a large one in the view of thermodynamics is investigated in detail based on the pruned-enriched-Rosenbluth method (PERM), which is quite efficient for the three-dimensional polymers on the simple-cubic lattice. In our simulation, three representative states of a polymer chain during the escaping process are studied, and some statistical properties of the chain size and the chain shape, such as mean-square radius of gyration per bond 〈S²〉/N and the shape factor 〈δ^∗〉 are investigated. Our aim is to illuminate how the size and shape of the compact chains change during the escaping process. The changes of 〈S²〉/N and 〈δ^∗〉 are not monotone and it is due to the fact that the chain should stretch itself in the escaping process. In the meantime, some thermodynamic properties are also calculated here. The hole is designed to be small enough to allow only one monomer at a time and it thus reduces the number of allowed chain conformations and breaks contacts between monomers at the beginning of the process. Additionally, we discuss the free energy barrier per bond H₂ − H₁ = ΔH of a compact chain, and here H₂ is the maximum free energy per bond during the process and H₁ is the minimum one when the compact chain is within the small sphere. Averaging free energy barrier over chain length N is convenient for the comparison with different chain lengths. ΔH as a function of chain length N and radius r₁ of the small sphere is also studied and our result shows that ΔH for longer chains is lower means that it is relatively easier for each bond in longer chains to surmount the free energy barrier to escape. Some discussions about the self-avoiding walk (SAW) and swollen chains are also made for the comparison, and our results also show that the restriction of the small sphere on the SAW and the swollen chains is more effective because of their relatively looser intrinsic structure.     

Polar and Non-Polar Solvent Permeation Resistance of Blow-Molded Bottles of Polyethylene/Blends of Modified Polyamide and Polyamide 6 Clay Nanocomposite

Investigations on white spirit and acetone permeation resistance of modified polyamide and nylon 6 clay (MPANYC) blends and their corresponding polyethylene/MPANYC bottles were reported in this study. The white spirit and acetone permeation resistance of MPANYC sheets improve consistently with increasing NYC contents present in MPANYC resins after blending nylon 6 clay (NYC) in modified polyamide (MPA) resins. However, the order of barrier improvement of the PE/MPANYC and PE/NYC bottle specimens is not corresponding to the order of barrier improvement of the MPANYC and/or NYC barrier resins added in PE. The blow-molded PE/NYC bottle specimen exhibits similarly worse white spirit and acetone solvent permeation resistance as the PE bottle specimen, wherein no clearly formed NYC laminas but only dispersed NYC droplets or agglomerates were found on the fracture surfaces of the PE/NYC bottles. However, after blending optimum compositions of MPANYC in PE, the PE/MPANYC bottles with demarcated MPANYC laminas exhibit significantly better white spirit and acetone permeation resistance than the PE/MPA bottle, wherein the white spirit and acetone permeation rates of the PE/MPA₈NYC₁ bottle are about 1.3 and 1.4 times slower than those of the PE/MPA bottle, respectively. In order to understand these interesting barrier properties of PE/MPANYC and PE/NYC bottles, rheological, thermal, wide angle X-ray diffraction and morphological properties of the base MPANYC and NYC resins and their corresponding morphology present in the blow-molded bottles were investigated.     

Flood Inundation Modelling for Mid‐Lower Brisbane Estuary

This study utilizes a two‐dimensional hydrodynamic model to calibrate and validate an inundation model for the Brisbane River estuary in Queensland, Australia. The bathymetry data used in the hydraulic model are derived from one arc second (1 s) shuttle radar topography mission digital elevation model, and the two‐dimensional hydraulic model is parameterized using the generated bathymetry with four open boundaries with water level observations and roughness coefficients. The calibration performance is evaluated by comparing the simulated results with the digitized records during the January 2013 flood event (a low magnitude event) at three gauging stations. The calibrated model is validated with water level data and available discharge data during the January 2011 flood (a large magnitude event) at four gauging stations located along the Brisbane River. Different performance indices are applied to demonstrate that the developed model performs well during calibration and validation. A sensitivity analysis is presented to assess the influence of riverbed elevation changes on the model because the main uncertainty of the model is the bathymetry data. The proposed model with the shuttle radar topography mission digital elevation model‐derived riverbed elevation for the Brisbane estuary is able to predict the flood inundation extent at an accuracy of 66.9% which is higher than or comparable with the accuracies of the existing studies. However, it is expected that the accuracy will increase if some improved bathymetry data become available in the future. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Effect of water on the oxygen barrier properties of poly(ethylene terephthalate) and polylactide films

The aim of this work was to study the variations in the oxygen diffusion, solubility, and permeability coefficients of polylactide (PLA) films at different temperatures (5, 23, and 40°C) and water activities (0–0.9). The results were compared with the oxygen diffusion, solubility, and permeability coefficients obtained for poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET) films under the same experimental conditions. The water sorption isotherm for PLA films was also determined. Diffusion coefficients were determined with the half‐sorption time method. Also, a consistency test for continuous‐flow permeability experimental data was run to obtain the diffusion coefficient with the lowest experimental error and to confirm that oxygen underwent Fickian diffusion in the PLA films. The permeability coefficients were obtained from steady‐state permeability experiments. The results indicated that the PLA films absorbed very low amounts of water, and no significant variation of the absorbed water with the temperature was found. The oxygen permeability coefficients obtained for PLA films (2–12 × 10^?18 kg m/m² s Pa) were higher than those obtained for PET films (1–6 × 10^?19 kg m/m² s Pa) at different temperatures and water activities. Moreover, the permeability coefficients for PLA and PET films did not change significantly with changes in the water activity at temperatures lower than 23°C. © 2004 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Appl Polym Sci 92: 1790–1803, 2004     

Microstructure and thermal cycling behavior of thermal barrier coating on near-α titanium alloy

Two kinds of thermal barrier coatings (TBCs), consisting of NiCoCrAlY bond coats (BCs) deposited by electron beam-physical vapor deposition (EB-PVD) and high velocity oxy-fuel (HVOF) thermal spraying, respectively, and top 8 wt%Y₂O₃–ZrO₂ (8YSZ) ceramic layers deposited by EB-PVD were prepared on near-α titanium alloys. The field emission scanning electronic microscopy and microhardness indentation are used to study the microstructure and microhardness. Different failure features including cracking patterns and the delamination degree of these two TBCs are discussed according to the thermal cycling tests in the atmosphere. It is found that the morphology of the two BCs deposited by different methods (EB-PVD and HVOF) determines the microstructure and microhardness of their corresponding top 8YSZ layers. The BC prepared by EB-PVD is dense and homogeneous, which leads to a dense and hard 8YSZ with clustered slim columnar grains. The BC prepared by HVOF, however, is porous and inhomogeneous in microstructure and, as a result, the top ceramic layer is loose with low microhardness and clustered coarse columnar grains.     

防范路由劫持的协同监测方法

路由劫持是当前Internet域间路由系统（BGP）所面临的最严重的安全威胁之一,但目前仍缺乏有效的防护手段.将自治系统（autonomous system,简称AS）基于BGP路由信息自我发现路由劫持的概率定义为对路由劫持的免疫能力,对该免疫能力进行了建模,并给出了AS自我免疫的充分条件和必要条件以及该免疫能力的上界.实验结果发现,80%以上的AS对路由劫持完全没有免疫能力,仅不超过0.26%的AS具有大于85%的免疫能力.对AS免疫过程的进一步分析,揭示了造成AS免疫能力低下的提供商栅栏现象——提供商优先选择客户路由,从而阻止了劫持路由向被劫持者的传播.为了克服提供商栅栏,提高AS的免疫能力,设计了协同监测机制,并提出了一种计算复杂度较低的启发式协同邻居选取策略.该机制无需修改BGP协议,可增量部署.实验结果表明,仅与25个自治系统进行协同,就可以将对路由劫持的免疫能力提高到高于95%的水平.