Unsteady free convection flow past an infinite plate with constant suction and heat sources

An analysis of a two-dimensional unsteady free convective flow of an incompressible viscous fluid past an infinite vertical porous plate has been carried out under the following conditions: (i) constant suction, (ii) the plate temperature oscillating in time about a constant non-zero mean, (iii) presence of the temperature-dependent sources in the fluid. Approximate solutions have been derived for the mean velocity and temperature fields, the transient velocity and temperature fields, the amplitude and the phase of the skin-friction and the rate of heat transfer. It is shown that an increase inS (the source-strength), leads to an increase in the value of |B| (the amplitude of the skin-friction) and |Q| (the amplitude of the rate of heat transfer), in case of air, but in case of water |B| and |Q| decrease.     

Flow of elasto-viscous fluid past an accelerated porous plate

The flow problem of an elasto-viscous liquid (Walter-B type) due to impulsively accelerated motion of an infinite porous plate is considered. The effect of suction and flow parameters is analysed. It is found that at a fixed time the fluid velocity and skin friction at any point decrease with the increase in suction and fluid elastic parameters.     

Free convection and mass transfer effects on the oscillatory flow past an infinite moving vertical isothermal plate with constant suction and heat sources

An analysis of the two-dimensional flow of an incompressible, viscous binary fluid past an infinite, porous, vertical plate is presented under the following conditions: (i) the suction velocity is constant; (ii) the free stream oscillates in time about a constant mean; (iii) the plate moves in the upward direction in its own plane; (iv) the temperature of the plate is constant; (v) there are heat generation (absorption) in the fluid.Approximate solutions for the coupled non-linear equations are obtained for the velocity, temperature and their related quantities and the influence of the various parameters entering into the problem is discussed.     

Tip-tilt wavefront corrector for large-sized CCD cameras

A tip-tilt wavefront (image displacement) corrector has been designed and fabricated to increase the efficiency of direct imaging with large-sized CCD cameras. A plane-parallel glass plate tilting in two mutually perpendicular directions at an angle large enough to compensate for an image displacement of±16″ on a telescope with F ≈ 20 m forms the basis of the device. The device allows up to ≈20 corrections per second to be made when a ～14^m reference star is used. We investigate the effects of aberrations introduced by the plate on the image quality. We present the results of test observations with the corrector performed on the 1.25-m ZTE telescope at the Crimean Station of the Sternberg Astronomical Institute and the 1.5-m AZT-22 telescope at the Maidanak Observatory, where test images with 1-h exposures that completely realized atmospheric seeing were obtained.     

天文底片保存和我国天文底片数字化的建议

阐述了国际上天文照相底片数字化工作的进展:底片的保存、底片数字化的意义和相关技术。扼要地介绍了国际虚拟天文台的情况及其与底片数字化的关系。分析了我国天文底片资料的保存现状,并提出了底片数字化建议:成立由各天文台专家组成的全国底片数字化协调小组,建立各单位保存底片的信息库、改进底片的保存条件、有步骤地对有价值底片上的全部目标进行扫描,以便将其与现代高精度的观测资料相结合,开展有意义的课题研究。     

Effects of capillary reflection in the performance of the collimator of the Large Area Detector on board LOFT

The Large Observatory For X-ray Timing (LOFT) is one of the candidate missions selected by the European Space Agency for an initial assessment phase in the Cosmic Vision programme. It is proposed for the M3 launch slot and has broad scientific goals related to fast timing of astrophysical X-ray sources. LOFT will carry the Large Area Detector (LAD), as one of the two core science instruments, necessary to achieve the challenging objectives of the project. LAD is a collimated detector working in the energy range 2-50 keV with an effective area of approximately 10 m ²at 8 keV. The instrument comprises an array of modules located on deployable panels. Lead-glass microchannel plate (MCP) collimators are located in front of the large-area Silicon Drift Detectors (SDD) to reduce the background contamination from off-axis resolved point sources and from the diffuse X-ray background. The inner walls of the microchannel plate pores reflect grazing incidence X-ray photons with a probability that depends on energy. In this paper, we present a study performed with an ad-hoc simulator of the effects of this capillary reflectivity on the overall instrument performance. The reflectivity is derived from a limited set of laboratory measurements, used to constrain the model. The measurements were taken using a prototype collimator whose thickness is similar to that adopted in the current baseline design proposed for the LAD. We find that the experimentally measured level of reflectivity of the pore inner walls enhances the off-axis transmission at low energies, producing an almost flat-top response. The resulting background increase due to the diffuse cosmic X-ray emission and sources within the field of view does not degrade the instrument sensitivity.     

Free convection effects on oscillatory hydromagnetic boundary layer flow

Unsteady flow of an incompressible, viscous, electrically conducting fluid past an infinite porous plate has been analysed under the following assumptions: (i) suction velocity oscillates in time about a constant mean, (ii) the free-stream velocity oscillates in time about a constant mean, (iii) the plate temperature is constant, (iv) the difference between the temperature of the plate and the free-stream is moderately large causing the free-convection currents, (v) a uniform transverse magnetic field is applied, (vi) the magnetic Reynolds number is very small and hence the induced magnetic field is neglected. Approximate solutions to the coupled non-linear equations governing the flow are derived for the transient velocity, the transient temperature, the amplitude and the phase of the skin-friction and the rate of heat transfer. During the course of analysis the effects of ±G (Grashof number),P (Prandtl number),M (magnetic field parameter),A (suction parameter) and ω (frequency) are discussed.     

Unsteady hydromagnetic rotating flow near an oscillating plate

The three-dimensional flow of a viscous incompressible electrically conducting fluid near an infinite plate (or wall) of non-conductor, which is oscillating harmonically in a uniform rotating medium, is studied in the presence of a uniform magnetic field. The impressed uniform magnetic field is perpendicular to the plate and the induced magnetic field is considered. Exact solution of this problem is obtained for the velocity and magnetic fields. Neglecting the induced magnetic field we readily obtain the results of all the previous investigations. The effects of the rotation and the magnetic field are comparable with one another and are discussed for the whole problem. Also, the drag and the lateral stress on the plate are discussed.     

Unsteady MHD free-convection oscillatory flow on a porous plate in a rotating medium

Unsteady free-convection oscillatory flow on a porous plate near an infinite vertical plate in a rotating medium in the presence of a constant transverse magnetic field is investigated under an oscillatory forcing effect on the plate. An exact solution of the problem is determined by using the Laplace transform method. The thermal influence on the skin friction at the plate is determined, and the structure of the thermal waves is presented.     

Semi-automated extraction of digital objective prism spectra

We describe a method for the extraction of spectra from high-dispersion objective prism plates. Our method is a catalogue-driven plate solution approach, making use of the right ascension and declination coordinates for the target objects. In contrast to existing methods of photographic plate reduction, we digitize the entire plate and extract spectra off-line. This approach has the advantages that it can be applied to CCD objective prism images and spectra can be re-extracted (or additional spectra extracted) without having to re-scan the plate. After a brief initial interactive period, the subsequent reduction procedure is completely automatic, resulting in fully reduced, wavelength-justified spectra. We also discuss a method of removing stellar continua using a combination of non-linear filtering algorithms.   The method described is used to extract over 12 000 spectra from a set of 92 objective prism plates. These spectra are used in an associated project to develop automated spectral classifiers based on neural networks.     

HABIT PLANES OF PLATELIKE SCHREIBERSITE IN HEXAHEDRITES*

We have measured the habit planes of plate rhabdites [(Fe, Ni)₃P] with respect to the parent kamacite phase (α, Fe-Ni) in eight hexahedrites. This was accomplished using x-ray diffraction plus two-surface trace analysis. Results show that plate rhabdites form on either {001} or {122} planes in the parent kamacite. The meteorite Uwet exhibits a {112} habit plane which is possibly an anomaly due to the occurrence of a large shock event during rhabdite nucleation (～ 550–650 °C).     

Hydromagnetic flow past a continuously moving semi-infinite plate for large suction

The similarity solution for hydromagnetic flow of an incompressible viscous electrically conducting fluid past a continuously moving semi-infinite porous plate in the presence of a magnetic field has been obtained for the case of small magnetic Reynolds number. The perturbation method has been used to solve the similarity equations at large suction. The resulting equations have been solved by analytical method. The effect of the magnetic parameter is to increase the skin-friction coefficient while it has no significant effect on the Nusselt number.     

MHD oscillatory flow through porous medium

In this work we present the effects of temperature-dependent heat source on hydromagnetic free-convection flow (set up due to temperature as well as species concentration) of an electrically-conducting incompressible viscous fluid past a steady moving vertical porous plate through high porous medium when the free stream oscillates in magnitude. The flow is subjected to a constant suction through the porous plate. As the mean steady flow has been presented gy Gholizadeh (1990), only the solution for the transient velocity profiles, transient temperature profiles, the skin-friction (steady+unsteady), and rate of heat transfer are presented in this work.     

Numerical treatment of the unsteady hydromagnetic thermal boundary layer problem

This paper presents a suitable numerical method for the treatment of the unsteady hydromagnetic thermal boundary layer problem for flows past an infinite porous flat plate, the motion of which is governed by a general time-dependent law, under the influence of a transverse externally set magnetic field. The normal velocity of suction/injection at the plate is also assumed to be time-dependent. The results obtained on the basis of numerical approximations seem to compare favourably with earlier results (Pandeet al., 1976; Tokis, 1978). Analytical approximations are given for the cases of a plate (i) generally accelerated and (ii) harmonically oscillating. The direct numerical treatment is obviously advantageous since it allows, handling of cases where the known methods for analytical approximations are not applicable. This problem is closely related to the motions and heat transfer occurring locally on the surfaces of stars.     

Stokes problem for infinite vertical plate with constant heat flux

An exact solution for the Stokes problem for an infinite vertical plate has been derived on taking into account the constant heat flux at the plate. It has been observed that the velocity of the fluid increases with increasingt (time) orG (the Grashof number).     

Numerical solution of MHD free-convection flow in the Stokes problem by the Crank-Nicolson method

A numerical solution of magnetohydrodynamic free-convection flow, in the Stokes' problem, for a porous vertical plate, is obtained, when Prandtl numberP is not equal to one. The magnetic lines of force are assumed to be fixed relative to the plate which is started moving impulsively in its own plane (I.S.P.) or it is uniformly accelerated (U.A.P.). The solution is obtained by the Crank-Nicolson method, which is an implicit second-order method, forP=0.71 (air) andP=7 (water). The obtained results are shown on figures and tables.     

The Potsdam plates of the Carte du Ciel project: I. Present inventory and plate catalogue

We present an inventory ofthe Carte du Ciel (CdC) plates stored in the Astrophysical Institute Potsdam. The Potsdam CdC zone (+32° to +39°) was divided into 1232 areas and about 2200 plates from the first and second epochs were obtained within the framework of the CdC project. At present, only 977 plates (45% of all) are stored in AIP, the others got lost during the Second World War. The plates for the first epoch measurements had been obtained during the period 1893 May– 1900 February. The plates for the second epoch (1913 August–1924 February) can be separated into two time intervals according to the observer and the observing method used: from 1913 August till 1914 July, and from 1916 February to 1924 February. The present work aims to provide online access to the plate information, given in the plate catalogue and is the first step to online access to the plate images digitized with flatbed scanners.     

Unsteady magnetohydrodynamic free-convection flows in a rotating fluid

The three-dimensional free-convection flow near an infinite vertical plate moving in a rotating fluid in the presence of a transverse magnetic field is studied in the case when the plate temperature undergoes a thermal transient. An exact solution has been obtained by defining a complex velocity with the help of the Laplace-transform technique, when the plate is moving with a velocity which is an arbitrary function of time. Three special cases of physical interest are also discussed.     

A class of exact solutions of the unsteady magnetohydrodynamic free-convection flows

The unsteady free-convection flow of an electrically-conducting fluid near a moving vertical plate of infinite extent is investigated in the presence of uniform transverse magnetic field fixed to the fluid or to the plate. Exact solution of this problem is obtained with the aid of the Laplace transform technique, when the plate is moving with a velocity which is an arbitrary functiuon of time. The solution is exemplified for three particular cases of physical interest; the non-magnetic case is also discussed.     

Unsteady magnetohydrodynamic flows in a rotating elasto-viscous fluid

The unsteady flow of an incompressible electrically-conducting and elasto-viscous fluid (Walter's liquidB), filling the semi-infinite space, in contact with an infinite non-conducting plate, in a rotating medium and in the presence of a transverse magnetic field is investigated. An arbitrary time-dependent forcing effect on the motion of the plate is considered and the plate and fluid rotate uniformly as a rigid body. The solution of the problem is obtained with the help of the Laplace transform technique and the analytical expressions for the velocity field as well as for the skin-friction are given.