• Optimization designs of artificial facilities in deserts based on computational simulation

    分类: 地球科学 >> 地理学 提交时间: 2021-04-22 合作期刊: 《干旱区科学》

    摘要: Sediment transport of sand particles by wind is one of the main processes leading to desertification in arid regions, which severely impairs the ability of mankind to produce and live by drifting sand into settlements. Optimization designs of artificial facilities have lately attracted extensive interest for human settlement systems in deserts because of their acceptable protection effect, convenience of implementation, and low material cost. However, the complexity of a settlement system poses challenges concerning finding suitable materials, artificial facilities, and optimization designs for sand deposition protection. In an effort to overcome these challenges, we propose a settlement system built with brick, solar panel, and building arrays to meet the basic needs of human settlements in arid regions while preventing wind-sand disasters. The wind flow and movement characteristics of sand particles in the brick, panel, and building arrays were calculated using computational fluid dynamics and discrete phase model. The performance of three types of arrays in wind-sand flow in terms of decreasing the wind velocity and sand-particle invasion distance was evaluated. The results show that the wind velocity near the surface and the sand invasion distance were significantly decreased in the space between the brick arrays through properly selected vertical size and interspaces, indicating that the brick arrays have an impressive sand fixing and blocking performance; their effective protection distance was 3–4 m. The building arrays increased the near-surface wind velocity among buildings, resulting in less deposition of sand particles. The solar panel arrays were similar to the building arrays in most cases, but the deposition of sand particles on solar panels exerted a negative effect on energy utilization efficiency. Therefore, taking the optimal configuration of the settlement system into consideration, this study concludes that (1) brick arrays, which were proven effective in preventing sand particles, must be arranged in an upwind area; (2) solar panel arrays could accelerate the wind flow, so they are best to be arranged at the place where sand particles deposited easily; and (3) building arrays present a better arrangement in downwind areas.

  • An acquisition system of digital nuclear signal processing for the algorithm development

    分类: 核科学技术 >> 核探测技术与核电子学 提交时间: 2023-06-18 合作期刊: 《Nuclear Science and Techniques》

    摘要: A principle and method of constructing the digital acquisition system is presented in this work, which is convenient for the study on the theories and algorithms of digital nuclear signal processing. The hardware system of the digital acquisition system consists of front-end controller, waveform digitizer and PC workstation, on which the software system has been developed based on Visual C++ under Windows environment. The alterable-frequency sampling (AFS) algorithm and the alterable-frequency trapezoidal filter (AFTF) algorithm have also been studied in the real-time environment, along with a digital nuclear spectrum acquisition system being set up based on the new algorithms and the -ray spectra of 241Am being shown. A useful experimental platform could be provided by this work for the successive work such as the development of global digitized nuclear measurement system and the study of digital nuclear signal processing.