Regeneration of sand waves after dredging

Sand waves are large bed waves on the seabed, being a few metres high and lying hundreds of metres apart. In some cases, these sand waves occur in navigation channels. If these sand waves reduce the water depth to an unacceptable level and hinder navigation, they need to be dredged. It has been observed in the Bisanseto Channel in Japan that the sand waves tend to regain their shape after dredging. In this paper, we address modelling of this regeneration of sand waves, aiming to predict this process. For this purpose, we combine a very simple, yet effective, amplitude-evolution model based on the Landau equation, with measurements in the Bisanseto Channel. The model parameters are tuned to the measured data using a genetic algorithm, a stochastic optimization routine. The results are good. The tuned model accurately reproduces the measured growth of the sand waves. The differences between the measured weave heights and the model results are smaller than the measurement noise. Furthermore, the resulting parameters are surprisingly consistent, given the large variations in the sediment characteristics, the water depth and the flow field. This approach was tested on its predictive capacity using a synthetic test case. The model was tuned based on constructed predredging data and the amplitude evolution as measured for over 2 years. After tuning, the predictions were accurate for about 10 years. Thus, it is shown that the approach could be a useful tool in the optimization of dredging strategies in case of dredging of sand waves.     

The upper limit of magnetic field strength in dense stellar hadronic matter

It is shown that in strongly magnetized neutron stars, there exist upper limits of magnetic field strength, beyond which the self energies for both neutron and proton components of neutron star matter become complex in nature. As a consequence they decay within the strong interaction time scale. However, in the ultra-strong magnetic field case, when the zeroth Landau level is only occupied by protons, the system again becomes stable against strong decay.      

哈代-兰道不等式的推广

借助于推广的Ｈｏｌｄｅｒ不等式，作者将哈代－兰道不等式进一步推广，其结果含离散型和连续型的不等式。     

关于动力Alfven波的色散与朗道阻尼

根据完全动力论理论,证明了可由简化漂移动力论方程求得动力Ａｌｆｖｅｎ波色散方程,即横向用磁流体力学方程,纵向用Ｖｌａｓｏｖ方程,在初级近似下由此推导出适合于日冕和太阳风的色散关系和Ｌａｎｄａｕ阻尼,得到在性质上与ＭＨＤ　Ａｌｆｖｅｎ波完全不同的动力Ａｌｆｖｅｎ波,太阳风中Ａｌｆｖｅｎ湍流很容易由动力Ａｌｆｖｅｎ波演化而来。提出由动力Ａｌｆｒｅｎ波构筑太阳风高速流模型将更符合观测结果。     

低纬大气Kelvin波和Rossby波的非线性相互作用

利用多重尺度摄动法,对低纬大气Kelvin波和Rossby波的波包演变进行了分析,得到两波的非线性相互作用方程为耦合的非线性复系数Landau方程组。数值计算表明两波相遇将使波振幅变化,波宽变窄;两波非线性相互作用可能是低纬强烈天气突然爆发的原因之一。     

Molecular dynamics study of the α–β transition in quartz: elastic properties, finite size effects, and hysteresis in the local structure

The α–β transition in quartz is investigated by molecular dynamics simulations in the constant stress ensemble. Based on a frequently used two-body interaction potential for silica, it is found that anomalies in the elastic constants are at least in semiquantitative agreement with experiment despite the fact that no anomaly in the c/a ratio is observed in the simulations. A finite-size scaling analysis shows that first-order Landau theory is applicable to the employed model potential surface. This statement also applies to the susceptibility below the transition temperature T _tr, which has not yet been measured experimentally. Examination of the local order near T _tr reveals that the deformation of SiO₄ tetrahedral units is equally large in the β phase as in the α phase. However, large hysteresis effects can be observed in the local structure for distances r > 4 Å. The results are in agreement with the picture of a first-order displacive phase transformation which is driven by the motion of deformed tetrahedral SiO₄ units. Yet, the fast oscillations of oxygen atoms are around (time-dependent) positions that do not correspond to the ideal oxygen positions in β-quartz. The averaged configurations resemble the ideal structure only if averaged over at least a few nanoseconds.     

Effect of strong magnetic field on cosmic quark-hadron phase transition and baryon inhomogeneity

The effect of intense magnetic field on the cosmic quark-hadron phase transition and also on the baryon number inhomogeneity has been investigated using phenomenological MIT bag model for the quark sector. For the sake of simplicity an ideal gas equation of state has been considered for the hadronic phase.     

兰道班江铁矿成矿地质特征及矿床成因

通过对马来西亚吉兰丹州兰道班江铁矿地质特征的研究,认为成矿热液来源于中酸性花岗闪长岩体,地层为碳酸盐类,二者发生接触交代作用形成矽卡岩型铁及多金属矿床。