分类: 信息科学与系统科学 >> 信息科学与系统科学基础学科 分类: 物理学 >> 电磁学、光学、声学、传热、经典力学和流体动力学 分类: 天文学 >> 天文学 提交时间: 2024-05-22
摘要: The electromagnetic fields of point sources with time varying charges moving in the vacuum are derived using the Liénard-Wiechert potentials. The properties of the propagation velocities and the Doppler effect are discussed based on their far fields. The results show that the velocity of the electromagnetic waves and the velocity of the sources cannot be added like vectors; the velocity of electromagnetic waves of moving sources are anisotropic in the vacuum; the transverse Doppler shift is intrinsically included in the fields of the moving sources and is not a pure relativity effect caused by time dilation. Since the fields are rigorous solutions of the Maxwell’s equations, the findings can help us to abort the long-standing misinterpretations concerning about the classic mechanics and the classic electromagnetic theory. Although it may violate the theory of the special relativity, we show mathematically that, when the sources move faster than the light in the vacuum, the electromagnetic barriers and the electromagnetic shock waves can be clearly predicted using the exact solutions. Since they cannot be detected by observers in the region outside their shock wave zones, an intuitive and reasonable hypothesis can be made that the superluminal sources may be considered as a kind of electromagnetic blackholes.
分类: 核科学技术 >> 辐射物理与技术 提交时间: 2024-05-08
摘要: Accurate and efficient online parameter identification and state estimation are crucial for leveraging Digital Twin simulations to optimize the operation of near-carbon-free nuclear energy systems. In previous studies, we developed a reactor operation digital twin (RODT). However, non-differentiabilities and discontinuities arise when employing machine-learning-based surrogate forward models, challenging traditional gradient-based in verse methods and their variants. This study investigated deterministic and metaheuristic algorithms and developed hybrid algorithms to address these issues. An efficient modular RODT software framework that incorpo rates these methods into its post-evaluation module is presented for comprehensive comparison. The methods were rigorously assessed based on convergence profiles, stability with respect to noise, and computational performance. The numerical results show that the hybrid KNNLHS algorithm excels in real-time online applications, balancing accuracy and efficiency with a prediction error rate of only 1% and processing times of less than 0.1 s. Contrastingly, algorithms such as FSA, DE, and ADE, although slightly slower (approximately 1 s), demonstrated higher accuracy with a 0.3% relative L2 error, which advances RODT methodologies to harness machine learning and system modeling for improved reactor monitoring, systematic diagnosis of off-normal events, and lifetime management strategies. The developed modular software and novel optimization methods presented offer pathways to realize the full potential of RODT for transforming energy engineering practices.
分类: 信息科学与系统科学 >> 信息科学与系统科学基础学科 分类: 物理学 >> 电磁学、光学、声学、传热、经典力学和流体动力学 分类: 电子与通信技术 >> 光电子学与激光技术 分类: 物理学 >> 地球物理学、天文学和天体物理学 分类: 物理学 >> 基本粒子与场物理学 提交时间: 2024-04-08
摘要: The Einstein’s theory of special relativity is based on his two postulates. The first is that the laws of physics are the same in all inertial reference frames. The second is that the velocity of light in the vacuum is the same in all inertial frames. The theory of special relativity is considered to be supported by a large number of experiments. This paper revisits the two postulates according to the new interpretations to the exact solutions of moving sources in the laboratory frame. The exact solutions are obtained using the classic Maxwell’s theory, which clearly show that the propagation velocity of the electromagnetic waves of moving sources in the vacuum is not isotropic; the propagation velocity of the electromagnetic waves and the moving velocity of the sources cannot be added like vectors; the transverse Doppler effect is intrinsically included in the fields of the moving sources. The electromagnetic sources are subject to the Newtonian mechanics, while the electromagnetic fields are subject to the Maxwell’s theory. We argue that since their behaviors are quite different, it is not a best choice to try to bind them together and force them to undergo the same coordinate transformations as a whole, like that in the Lorentz transformations. Furthermore, the Maxwell’s theory does not impose any limitations on the velocity of the electromagnetic waves. To assume that all objects cannot move faster than the light in the vacuum need more examinations. We have carefully checked the main experiment results that were considered as supporting the special relativity. Unfortunately, we found that the experimental results may have been misinterpreted. We here propose a Galilean-Newtonian-Maxwellian relativity, which can give the same or even better explanations to those experimental results.
分类: 物理学 >> 核物理学 提交时间: 2023-10-06
摘要: Micro mobile heat pipe-cooled nuclear power plants are promising candidates for distributed energy resource power generators and can be flexibly deployed in remote places to meet increasing electric power demands. However, previous steady-state simulations and experiments have deviated significantly from actual micronuclear system operations. Hence, a transient analysis is required for performance optimization and safety assessment. In this study, a hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) approach was used to investigate the dynamic behavior of scaled-down heat pipe-cooled systems. The real-time features of the HIL architecture were interpreted and validated, and an optimal time step of 500 ms was selected for the thermal transient. The power transient was modeled using point kinetic equations, and a scaled-down thermHeal prototype was set up to avoid modeling unpredictable heat transfer behaviors and feeding temperature samples into the main program running on a desktop PC. A series of dynamic test results showed significant power and temperature oscillations during the transient process, owing to the inconsistency of the rapid nuclear reaction rate and large thermal inertia. The proposed HIL approach is stable and effective for further studying of the dynamic characteristics and control optimization of solid-state small nuclear-powered systems at an early prototyping stage.
分类: 核科学技术 >> 裂变堆工程技术 提交时间: 2023-06-06
摘要: The lightweight shielding design of small reactors is a research hotspot. Based on a small helium-xenon-cooled solid reactor, the effects of thickness and number of shielding layers on the radiation dose are first studied. It is found that when photons are shielded first and the number of shielding layers is odd, the radiation dose can be significantly reduced. To reduce the weight of the shielding body, the relative thickness of the shielding layers is optimized by the genetic algorithm. The optimized scheme can reduce the radiation dose by up to 57% and helps reduce the weight by 11.84%. To determine the total thickness of shielding layers and avoid the local optimal solution, a formula that gives the relationship between the total thickness and the radiation dose is established through large-scale calculations, which has an error of 0.8%~7.45% compared with the Monte Carlo method. A semi-empirical and semi-quantitative lightweight shielding design algorithm is proposed to integrate the above works, and a code SDIC1.0 is developed to achieve the optimized lightweight shielding design for small reactors. It has been verified that the error between SDIC1.0 and Monte Carlo code RMC is about 10%, and the time has increased by 6.3 times.
分类: 核科学技术 >> 裂变堆工程技术 提交时间: 2023-05-31
摘要: 本文提出了一种超钚同位素辐照生产过程的快速诊断方法,实现了Pu-238、Cm-242、Cm-244和Cf-252的产量提升。
分类: 交通运输工程 >> 船舶、舰船工程 提交时间: 2018-03-30
摘要: The hydroelastic behavior of very large floating structures (VLFSs) is investigated based on the proposed multi-modules beam theory (MBT). To carry out the analysis, the VLFS is first divided into multiple sub-modules that are connected through their gravity center by a spatial beam with specific stiffness. The external force exerted on the sub-modules includes the wave hydrodynamic force as well as the beam bending force due to the relative displacements of different sub-modules. The wave hydrodynamic force is computed based on three-dimensional incompressible velocity potential theory, and the boundary element method with the free surface Green function as the integral kernel is adopted to numerically find the solution. The beam bending force is expressed in the form of a stiffness matrix. The coupled motion equation is established according to the continuous conditions of the displacement and force. The motion response defined at the gravity center of the sub-modules is solved by the multi-body hydrodynamic control equations, then both the displacement and the structure bending moment of the VLFS are determined from the stiffness matrix equations. To account for the moving point mass effects, the proposed method is extended to the time domain based on impulse response function (IRF) theory. The accuracy of the proposed method is verified by comparison with existing results. Detailed results through the displacement and bending moment of the VLFS are provided to show the influence of the number of the sub-modules, and the influence of the moving point mass.