有限电导率的等离子体柱在径向外力作用下的不稳定性问题

从磁流体力学方程出发,討論了处于定态的等离子体柱的不稳定性問題。在等离子体是不可压縮的、电导率是有限的并且等离子体受到径向外力的作用等假定下,导出了相应的色散关系。針对Curzon等人的实驗数据进行的計算表明,磁粘性v_m对不稳定性增长率ω的影响很小,可以略去不計。Green和Niblett曾經提出过一个公式,这个公式夸大了v_m对ω的影响,得出的結果与实驗不符,所以是不对的。

基于压力波的人体脉搏波传播速度无创检测研究

脉搏波传播速度的变化往往是血管弹性程度发生变化的最早体征,因此脉搏波速度的检测对动脉硬化等疾病的诊断有较高的参考价值,其检测精度主要取决于波速参考点的提取算法.在分析实际采集的脉搏压力波信号特征的基础上,对波峰、波足等特征点进行了识别,并提出了一种根据脉搏波前沿内斜率最大值点的个数和位置确定惟一波速参考点的新算法.临床实验证明,新方法能够有效地提取脉搏波速度,有助于动脉血管弹性程度的辅助诊断.

微尺度气体流动

了解微尺度气体流动特点是微机电系统设计和优化的基础。有关的研究可以上溯到20世纪初Knudsen的平面槽道流动质量流量的测量和Millikan的小球阻力系数的测量，实验结果揭示了稀薄气体效应即尺度效应对气体运动的重要影响。由于流动特征长度很小，微尺度气流经常处到滑流区甚至过渡领域，流动的相似参数为Knudsen数和Mach数。因此可以考虑利用相似准则，通过增大几何尺寸、减小压力的途径，解决微机电系统实验观测遇到的困难。为解决直接模拟Monte Carlo方法分析微机电系统中低速稀薄气流遇到的统计涨落困难，我们提出了信息保存法（IP），该方法能够有效克服统计散布，并已成功用于多种微尺度气流。

气/液两相流动中的声速

国家自然科学基金

折线裂纹和两相材料界面的相互作用

利用螺位错基本解建立了和界面相交的折线裂纹的Cauchy型积分方程．根据奇异积分方程理论，得出了确定折线裂纹和界面交点处的奇性应力指数的特征方程，以及交点处各角形域内的奇性应力．利用所得的交点处的奇性应力定义了折线裂纹和界面交点处的应力强度因子．对所得积分方程进行数值求解，可得裂纹端点以及裂纹和界面交点处的应力强度因子．

Pressure Drop Studies of Gas-Liquid Bubbly Flow in Vertical Upward Pipeline

This paper describes the experimental and theoretical studies of gas-liquid bubbly flow in vertical upward pipeline carried out at Institute of Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Bubbly flow in a vertical pipe with a 3 m long and 5 cm inner diameter plexiglass pipe was experimentally investigated, and studies carried out on the relationship between superficial velocities of the liquid and gas phases and pressure gradient is described. The developed drift-flux model applied to gas-liquid bubbly flow is presented, and the results are compared against the experimental data measured by ours in air/water vertical pipes.

El pejerrey de la laguna del Monte (Guaminí) en 1927-1928.

Entre las lagunas bonaerenses con pesca abundante del pejerrey, la de del Monte, en Guaminí, logró fama por su rendimiento extraordinario en determinados años, para luego decaer casi desapareciendo como fuente pesquera. En 1927 el gobierno provincial denunció el hecho de que "el pejerrey casi no crecía". Por esta causa, en ese año realicé estudios con tendencia a un planeamiento ecológico del problema pesquero y que repetí en 1928 cuando, según los pescadores, las condiciones de pesca eran más favorables. El hecho principal resultante es que, si bien el pejerrey de esa laguna no crecía más de 23 o 24 cm de longitud total, sus escamas exhibían 3 y 4 anillos, lo que indica otros tantos años de edad. Para esa edad, en otras lagunas el pejerrey es mucho más grande.

Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture, State of California, May 1939

Includes Exotic Mollusca in California, by G. Dallas Hanna p.298-321.(PDF contains 57 pages.)

Mercury in Florida Bay fish: spatial distribution of elevated concentrations and possible linkages to Everglades restoration

Health advisories are now posted in northern Florida Bay, adjacent to the Everglades, warning of high mercury concentrations in some species of gamefish. Highest concentrations of mercury in both forage fish and gamefish have been measured in the northeastern corner of Florida Bay, adjacent to the dominant freshwater inflows from the Everglades. Thirty percent of spotted seatrout (Cynoscion nebulosus Cuvier, 1830) analyzed exceeded Florida’s no consumption level of 1.5 μg g−1 mercury in this area. We hypothesized that freshwater draining the Everglades served as the major source of methylmercury entering the food web supporting gamefish. A lack of correlation between mercury concentrations and salinity did not support this hypothesis, although enhanced bioavailability of methylmercury is possible as freshwater is diluted with estuarine water. Stable isotopes of carbon, nitrogen, and sulfur were measured in fish to elucidate the shared pathways of methylmercury and nutrient elements through the food web. These data support a benthic source of both methylmercury and nutrient elements to gamefish within the eastern bay, as opposed to a dominant watershed source. Ecological characteristics of the eastern bay, including active redox cycling in near-surface sediments without excessive sulfide production are hypothesized to promote methylmercury formation and bioaccumulation in the benthos. Methylmercury may then accumulate in gamefish through a food web supported by benthic microalgae, detritus, pink shrimp (Farfantepenaeus duorarum Burkenroad, 1939), and other epibenthic feeders. Uncertainty remains as to the relative importance of watershed imports of methylmercury from the Everglades and in situ production in the bay, an uncertainty that needs resolution if the effects of Everglades restoration on mercury levels in fish are to be modeled and managed.

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Eguíluz, Federico; Merino, Raquel; Olsen, Vickie; Pajares, Eterio; Santamaría, José Miguel (eds.)