中国科学院地理研究所三十年(1953——1983)科研工作的回顾

本文对地理研究所三十年的科研工作进行了回顾。其中对科研工作的发展按四个时期作了简要分析。重点介绍了为生产和建设服务的工作,扼要总结了地理学基础理论研究方面的工作,最后阐述了实验技术的发展与新技术的应用。     

The birthplaces of active regions and X-ray bright points

A comparison of soft X-ray pictures of the Sun (S-054 experiment of Skylab) with K-line spectroheliograms (Mount Wilson) shows that the X-ray bright points tend to emerge randomly throughout the Ca network pattern. However, all those bright points that developed into active regions emerged at the boundaries of network cells. This suggests that the magnetic flux of active regions comes from greater depths in the convection zone than the shallow flux that gives rise to the random emergence of bright points.Also Physics Department, C-011, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, Calif., U.S.A.     

On hypoelasticity and plasticity approaches to constitutive modelling of inelastic behaviour of soils

A comparative discussion of constitutive rate equations generated by using the hypoelasticity and plasticity theories is presented. If is shown that these two approaches are equivalent for the loading process but differ essentially in defining the unloading (or reverse loading) paths. The multisurface plasticity formulation proves to be more convenient in incorporating memory rules of particular loading events, whereas loading-unloading criteria used in hypoelasticity may result in an unrealistic prediction of material response for some loading paths, and in particular, for cyclic loading. The violation of the continuity condition between loading–unloading domains in proposed constitutive relations^3,4 limits their applicability to some particular classes of loading paths.     

On the stability of a slow deflagration front at the surface of a degenerate star

On the surface of a degerate star, a slow nuclear combustion process with a wake of escaping matter can exist. The evolution of this process has been studied by solving the nonadiabatic, time-dependent hydrodynamic equations. It has been found that this flow is almost stationary and is stable against small spherical symmetric perturbations.     

What should be observed on the sun

Three problems are emphasized in particular: the preflare magnetic field configuration, velocity fields, and the nature of acceleration processes in flares. It is concluded that what we need most urgently are high-resolution hard X-ray, soft X-ray, and EUV-pictures, coronal spectra, and magnetograms with high resolution both in space and time. A space-shuttle equipped with instrumentation of this kind would contribute significantly to our knowledge of the flare process.     

Imperfect fluid Friedmannian cosmology

The bulk viscosity is introduced into the frame of ordinary Friedmannian cosmology (under highly idealized assumption of the constant coefficient of bulk viscosity). Explicit solutions are given for the viscous flat universe filled with the dust-substratum and for the viscous radiative universe. The problem, how does the introduction of viscosity affect the appearance of singularity, is briefly discussed.