Chaotic ray behaviour in regional seismology

Rays propagating through strongly laterally varying media exhibit chaotic behaviour. This means that initially close rays diverge exponentially, rather than according to a power law. This chaotic behaviour is especially pronounced if the medium contains laterally varying interfaces. By studying simple 2-D and 3-D versions of models with laterally varying interfaces, the importance of chaotic ray behaviour is determined. A model of the Moho below Germany produces sharp variations with epicentral distance of the number of arrivals. In addition, the number of caustics grows dramatically: up to 1200 caustics are present between a distance of 0 and 800 km. Using the theory of Hamiltonian systems, a more in-depth study of the chaotic character of the ray equations is obtained. It is found that for realistic heterogeneous models most of the relevant rays will exhibit chaotic behaviour. The degree of chaos is quantified in terms of predictability horizons. Beyond the predictability horizons ray tracing cannot be carried out accurately. For the models under consideration, the length from the source to the predictability horizon has an order of magnitude of 1000 km. The chaotic behaviour of the rays makes it necessary to use extensions of asymptotic ray theory, such as Maslov theory, to compute seismic waveforms. It is shown that pseudo-caustics, an important obstacle in computing Maslov synthetics, are a generic feature of the 2-D laterally varying models that are studied. Eventually, the use of asymptotic methods is restricted because of the inaccuracy in the computation of the ray paths.     

Lyapunov exponent and dimension of the strange attractor of elastic frictional system

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CFD approach to roll damping of ship with bilge keel with experimental validation

The most common method of reducing roll motion of ship-shaped floating systems is the use of bilge keel which act as damping elements. The estimation of the damping introduced by bilge keel is still largely based on empirical methods. The present work adopts the CFD approach to the estimation of roll damping, both without and with bilge keel and validates the results with experiments conducted in a wave flume. Specifically, free oscillation tests are conducted at model scale to obtain roll damping, both by experiments and CFD simulation and reasonably good comparisons are obtained. The experiments also include PIV study of the flow field and attempt has been made to correlate the measured flow field with that obtained by CFD. The CFD methodology has the potential to determine rationally the size and orientation of bilge keels in design with reasonably accurate estimate of the additional roll damping that it provides to ship's roll motion.     

健康人与心脏病人心电信号混沌特性比较研究

Lyapunov指数是混沌理论的重要参数之一,对分析心电信号特性有重要意义。分别计算健康人和3种心脏病人心电信号的Lyapunov指数,并首次采用室上病变病人作为样本进行研究。对比发现健康人与各类心脏病人的Lyapunov指数之间存在显著差别。同时在重构相空间过程中采用1种同时估计延迟时间τ和嵌入维数m的新方法,并与自相关函数法的计算结果进行对比,在二维相空间重构图上进行验证。结果表明这种方法优于自相关函数法。     

电厂温排水中余氯浓度预测

利用有限元分步杂交方法,对胶州湾海域潮流场进行了数值模拟。考虑余氯在水体中的化学反应,利用前人大量实验成果选取余氯衰减系数,建立胶州湾余氯的二维输运-扩散模型,并将此模型应用于青岛市黄岛发电厂三期温排水工程,预测了温排水中余氯的浓度分布及影响范围,为电厂冷却水排放口邻近水域的生态环境保护提供依据。     

Comment on “Comparative study of beta-decay data for eight nuclides measured at the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt” [Astropart. Phys. 59 (2014) 47–58]

We would like to comment on a recent paper by Sturrock et al. (2014) in which the authors analyze decay data acquired by an ionization chamber in our institute. They interpret the variations in the data as solar-driven changes in the decay rates of the radionuclides under study. In brief we would like to discuss and elucidate the properties and the origin of the data used by the authors and explain why these data are not a sound basis for claiming evidence for new physics.     

Model simulations of the annual cycle of the landfast ice thickness in the East Siberian Sea

The annual cycle of the thickness and temperature of landfast sea ice in the East Siberian Sea has been examined using a one-dimensional thermodynamic model. The model was calibrated for the year Augus...     

基于粗糙度的月表虹湾地区地形地貌解译

行星表面粗糙度是表面侵蚀、沉降和隆升等作用在行星表面留下的记录,对其进行的定量分析可以精确地反映其表面地质构造过程.对月球的虹湾地区选取水平方向的12条剖面进行了粗糙度各参数(均方根高程、均方根偏差、均方根坡度、Hurst指数)的计算,结果表明:①在1 km的剖面长度上,虹湾地区均方根高程的平均值在3 m左右;在0.2...     

Cosmogenic production as a background in searching for rare physics processes

We revisit calculations of the cosmogenic production rates for several long-lived isotopes that are potential sources of background in searching for rare physics processes such as the detection of dark matter and neutrinoless double-beta decay. Using updated cosmic-ray neutron flux measurements, we use TALYS 1.0 to investigate the cosmogenic activation of stable isotopes of several detector targets and find that the cosmogenic isotopes produced inside the target materials and cryostat can result in large backgrounds for dark matter searches and neutrinoless double-beta decay. We use previously published low-background HPGe data to constrain the production of ³H on the surface and the upper limit is consistent with our calculation. We note that cosmogenic production of several isotopes in various targets can generate potential backgrounds for dark matter detection and neutrinoless double-beta decay with a massive detector, thus great care should be taken to limit and/or deal with the cosmogenic activation of the targets.