This paper numerically studies the aerodynamic performance of a bird-like bionic flapping wing.The geometry and kinematics are designed based on a seagull wing,in which flapping,folding,swaying,and twisting are consid...This paper numerically studies the aerodynamic performance of a bird-like bionic flapping wing.The geometry and kinematics are designed based on a seagull wing,in which flapping,folding,swaying,and twisting are considered.An in-house unsteady flow solver based on hybrid moving grids.is adopted for unsteady flow simulations.We focus on two main issues in this study,i.e.,the influence of the proportion of down-stroke and the effect of span-wise twisting.Numerical results show that the proportion of downstroke is closely related to the efficiency of the flapping process.The preferable proportion is about 0.7 by using the present geometry and kinematic model,which is very close to the observed data.Another finding is that the drag and the power consumption can be greatly reduced by the proper span-wise twisting.Two cases with different reduced frequencies are simulated and compared with each other.The numerical results show that the power consumption reduces by more than 20%,and the drag coefficient reduces by more than 60% through a proper twisting motion for both cases.The flow mechanism is mainly due to controlling of unsteady flow separation by adjusting the local effective angle of attack.These conclusions will be helpful for the high-performance micro air vehicle (MAV) design.展开更多
Nanostructured aluminum recently delivers a variety of new applications of the earth-abundant Al resource due to the unique properties,but its controllable synthesis remains very challenging with harsh conditions and ...Nanostructured aluminum recently delivers a variety of new applications of the earth-abundant Al resource due to the unique properties,but its controllable synthesis remains very challenging with harsh conditions and spontaneously flammable precursors.Herein,a surface group directed method is developed to efficiently achieve low-temperature synthesis and selfassembly of zero-dimensional(0D)Al nanocrystals over one-dimensional(1D)carbon fibers(Al@CFs)through non-flammable AlCl3 reduction at 70°C.Theoretical calculations unveil surface‒OLi groups of carbon fibers exert efficient binding effect to AlCl3,which guides intimate adsorption and in-situ self-assembly of the generated Al nanocrystals.The distinctive 0D-over-1D Al@CFs provides long 1D conductive networks for electron transfer,ultrafine 0D Al nanocrystals for fast lithiation and excellent buffering effect for volume change,thus exhibiting high structure stability and superior lithium storage performance.This work paves the way for mild and controllable synthesis of Al-based nanomaterials for new high-value applications.展开更多
Nanostructured metal phosphides are very attractive materials in energy storage and conversion,but their applications are severely limited by complicated preparation steps,harsh conditions and large excess of highly t...Nanostructured metal phosphides are very attractive materials in energy storage and conversion,but their applications are severely limited by complicated preparation steps,harsh conditions and large excess of highly toxic phosphorus source.Here we develop a highly efficient one-step method to synthesize Sn_(4)P_(3)nanostructure based on simultaneous reduction of SnCl_(4)and PCl_(3)on mechanically activated Na surface and in situ phosphorization.The low-toxic PCl3 displays a very high phosphorizing efficiency(100%).Furthermore,this simple method is powerful to control phosphide size.Ultrafine Sn_(4)P_(3)nanocrystals(<5 nm)supported on carbon sheets(Sn_(4)P_(3)/C)are obtained,which is due to the unique bottom-up surface-limited reaction.As the anode material for sodium/lithium ion batteries(SIBs/LIBs),the Sn_(4)P_(3)/C shows profound sodiation/lithiation extents,good phase-conversion reversibility,excellent rate performance and long cycling stability,retaining high capacities of 420 mAh/g for SIBs and 760 mAh/g for LIBs even after 400 cycles at 1.0 A/g.Combining simple and efficient preparation,low-toxic and high-efficiency phosphorus source and good control of nanosize,this method is very promising for low-cost and scalable preparation of high-performance Sn_(4)P_(3)anode.展开更多
Nano Research volume 13,pages1659–1667(2020)Cite this article 232 Accesses 3 Citations Metrics details Abstract 2D MXenes are highly attractive for achieving ultrafast and stable lithium/sodium storage due to their g...Nano Research volume 13,pages1659–1667(2020)Cite this article 232 Accesses 3 Citations Metrics details Abstract 2D MXenes are highly attractive for achieving ultrafast and stable lithium/sodium storage due to their good electric conductivity and abundant redox active sites.While,effective strategies for scalable preparation of oligolayered MXenes are still under exploration.Herein,oligolayered Ti3C2Tx MXene is successfully obtained after conventional synthesis of multilayered Ti3C2 and subsequent delamination process via an organic solvent of tetramethyl-ammonium hydroxide(TMAOH).Comprehensive electrochemical study reveals that surface-controlled redox reaction dominated the charge storage behavior of oligolayered Ti3C2Tx with fast reaction kinetics.Impressively,the obtained oligolayered Ti3C2Tx exhibits excellent lithium/sodium storage performance,featured for a high specific capacity of 330 mAhg^−1 at 1.0 Ag^−1 after 800 cycles for lithium storage and 280 mAhg^−1 at 0.5 Ag^−1 after 500 cycles for sodium storage.Such impressive performance will advance the development of oligolayered Ti3C2Tx based materials for lithium/sodium storage and even broaden their application into energy storage.展开更多
A CFD-based Numerical Virtual Flight(NVF)simulator is presented,which integrates an unsteady flow solver on moving hybrid grids,a Rigid-Body Dynamics(RBD)solver and a module of the Flight Control System(FCS).A techni...A CFD-based Numerical Virtual Flight(NVF)simulator is presented,which integrates an unsteady flow solver on moving hybrid grids,a Rigid-Body Dynamics(RBD)solver and a module of the Flight Control System(FCS).A technique of dynamic hybrid grids is developed to control the active control surfaces with body morphing,with a technique of parallel unstructured dynamic overlapping grids generating proper moving grids over the deflecting control surfaces(e.g.the afterbody rudders of a missile).For the flow/kinematic coupled problems,the 6 Degree-Of-Freedom(DOF)equations are solved by an explicit or implicit method coupled with the URANS CFD solver.The module of the control law is explicitly coupled into the NVF simulator and then improved by the simulation of the pitching maneuver process of a maneuverable missile model.A nonlinear dynamic inversion method is then implemented to design the control law for the pitching process of the maneuverable missile model.Simulations and analysis of the pitching maneuver process are carried out by the NVF simulator to improve the flight control law.Higher control response performance is obtained by adjusting the gain factors and adding an integrator into the control loop.展开更多
We report a simple method of preparing a high performance, Sn-based anode material for lithium ion batteries （LIBs）. Adding H2O2 to an aqueous solution containing Sn2＋ and aniline results in simultaneous polymeriza...We report a simple method of preparing a high performance, Sn-based anode material for lithium ion batteries （LIBs）. Adding H2O2 to an aqueous solution containing Sn2＋ and aniline results in simultaneous polymerization of aniline and oxidation of Sn2＋ to SnO2, leading to a homogeneous composite of polyaniline and SnO2. Hydrogen thermal reduction of the above composite yields N-doped carbon with hierarchical porosity and homogeneously distributed, ultrafine Sn particles. The nanocomposite exhibits excellent performance as an anode material for lithium ion batteries, showing a high reversible specific capacity of 788 mAh·g^-1 at a current density of 100 mA·g^-1 after 300 cycles and very good stability up to 5,000 mA·g^-1. The simple preparation method combined with the good electro- chemical performance is highly promising to promote the application of Sn based anode materials.展开更多
Based on the author’s previous research, a novel hybrid grid generation technique is developed by introducing an Artificial Neural Network(ANN) approach for realistic viscous flow simulations. An initial hybrid grid ...Based on the author’s previous research, a novel hybrid grid generation technique is developed by introducing an Artificial Neural Network(ANN) approach for realistic viscous flow simulations. An initial hybrid grid over a typical geometry with anisotropic quadrilaterals in the boundary layer and isotropic triangles in the off-body region is generated by the classical mesh generation method to train two ANNs on how to predict the advancing direction of the new point and to control the grid size. After inputting the initial discretized fronts, the ANN-based Advancing Layer Method(ALM) is adopted to generate the anisotropic quadrilaterals in boundary layers. When the high aspect ratio of the anisotropic grid reaches a specified value, the ANN-based Advancing Front Method(AFM) is adopted to generate isotropic triangles in the off-body computational domain.The initial isotropic triangles are smoothed to further improve the grid quality. Three typical cases are tested and compared with experimental data to validate the effectiveness of grids generated by the ANN-based hybrid grid generation method. The experimental results show that the two ANNs can predict the advancing direction and the grid size very well, and improve the adaptability of the isotropic/anisotropic hybrid grid generation for viscous flow simulations.展开更多
An efficient MPI/OpenMP hybrid parallel Radial Basis Function (RBF) strategy for both continuous and discontinuous large-scale mesh deformation is proposed to reduce the computational cost and memory consumption.Unlik...An efficient MPI/OpenMP hybrid parallel Radial Basis Function (RBF) strategy for both continuous and discontinuous large-scale mesh deformation is proposed to reduce the computational cost and memory consumption.Unlike the conventional parallel methods in which all processors use the same surface displacement and implement the same operation,the present method employs different surface points sets and influence radius for each volume point movement,accompanied with efficient geometry searching strategy.The deformed surface points,also called Control Points (CPs),are stored in each processor.The displacement of spatial points is interpolated by using only 20-50 nearest control points,and the local influence radius is set to 5-20 times the maximum displacement of control points.To shorten the searching time for the nearest control point clouds,an Alternating Digital Tree (ADT) algorithm for 3D complex geometry is designed based on an iterative bisection technique.Besides,an MPI/OpenMP hybrid parallel approach is developed to reduce the memory cost in each High-Performance Computing (HPC) node for large-scale applications.Three 3D cases,including the ONERA-M6 wing and a commercial transport airplane standard model with up to 2.5 billion hybrid elements,are used to test the present mesh deformation method.The robustness and high parallel efficiency are demonstrated by a wing deflection case with a maximum bending angle of 450 and more than 80% parallel efficiency with 1024 MPI processors.In addition,the availability for both continuous and discontinuous surface deformation is verified by interpolating the projecting displacement with opposite directions surface points to the spatial points.展开更多
Magnesium hydride （MgH2） is a high-capacity anode material for lithium ion batteries, which suffers from poor cycling stability. In this stud）~ we describe a thermal plasma-based approach to prepare homogeneous MgH...Magnesium hydride （MgH2） is a high-capacity anode material for lithium ion batteries, which suffers from poor cycling stability. In this stud）~ we describe a thermal plasma-based approach to prepare homogeneous MgH2/C nanocomposites with very high cycling stability. In this process, magnesium evaporation is coupled with carbon generation from the plasma decomposition of acetylene, leading to a homogeneous Mg/C nanocomposite, which can be easily converted to MgH2/C by hydrogenation. The MgH2/C nanocomposite achieves a high reversible capacity of up to 620 mAh·g^-1 after 1,000 cycles with an ultralow decay rate of only 0.0036% per cycle, which represents a significantly improved performance compared to previous results.展开更多
基金Project supported by the National Key Research and Development Program(No.2016YFB0200700)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.11532016 and 11672324)
文摘This paper numerically studies the aerodynamic performance of a bird-like bionic flapping wing.The geometry and kinematics are designed based on a seagull wing,in which flapping,folding,swaying,and twisting are considered.An in-house unsteady flow solver based on hybrid moving grids.is adopted for unsteady flow simulations.We focus on two main issues in this study,i.e.,the influence of the proportion of down-stroke and the effect of span-wise twisting.Numerical results show that the proportion of downstroke is closely related to the efficiency of the flapping process.The preferable proportion is about 0.7 by using the present geometry and kinematic model,which is very close to the observed data.Another finding is that the drag and the power consumption can be greatly reduced by the proper span-wise twisting.Two cases with different reduced frequencies are simulated and compared with each other.The numerical results show that the power consumption reduces by more than 20%,and the drag coefficient reduces by more than 60% through a proper twisting motion for both cases.The flow mechanism is mainly due to controlling of unsteady flow separation by adjusting the local effective angle of attack.These conclusions will be helpful for the high-performance micro air vehicle (MAV) design.
基金The authors acknowledge the financial support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.22101065 and 51972075)the Natural Science Foundation of Heilongjiang Province(No.YQ2021B001)+1 种基金the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation(No.2020M681075)the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities.
文摘Nanostructured aluminum recently delivers a variety of new applications of the earth-abundant Al resource due to the unique properties,but its controllable synthesis remains very challenging with harsh conditions and spontaneously flammable precursors.Herein,a surface group directed method is developed to efficiently achieve low-temperature synthesis and selfassembly of zero-dimensional(0D)Al nanocrystals over one-dimensional(1D)carbon fibers(Al@CFs)through non-flammable AlCl3 reduction at 70°C.Theoretical calculations unveil surface‒OLi groups of carbon fibers exert efficient binding effect to AlCl3,which guides intimate adsorption and in-situ self-assembly of the generated Al nanocrystals.The distinctive 0D-over-1D Al@CFs provides long 1D conductive networks for electron transfer,ultrafine 0D Al nanocrystals for fast lithiation and excellent buffering effect for volume change,thus exhibiting high structure stability and superior lithium storage performance.This work paves the way for mild and controllable synthesis of Al-based nanomaterials for new high-value applications.
基金support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.51972075 and 51772059)the Natural Science Foundation of Heilongjiang Province(No.ZD2019E004)the Fundamental Research funds for the Central Universities.
文摘Nanostructured metal phosphides are very attractive materials in energy storage and conversion,but their applications are severely limited by complicated preparation steps,harsh conditions and large excess of highly toxic phosphorus source.Here we develop a highly efficient one-step method to synthesize Sn_(4)P_(3)nanostructure based on simultaneous reduction of SnCl_(4)and PCl_(3)on mechanically activated Na surface and in situ phosphorization.The low-toxic PCl3 displays a very high phosphorizing efficiency(100%).Furthermore,this simple method is powerful to control phosphide size.Ultrafine Sn_(4)P_(3)nanocrystals(<5 nm)supported on carbon sheets(Sn_(4)P_(3)/C)are obtained,which is due to the unique bottom-up surface-limited reaction.As the anode material for sodium/lithium ion batteries(SIBs/LIBs),the Sn_(4)P_(3)/C shows profound sodiation/lithiation extents,good phase-conversion reversibility,excellent rate performance and long cycling stability,retaining high capacities of 420 mAh/g for SIBs and 760 mAh/g for LIBs even after 400 cycles at 1.0 A/g.Combining simple and efficient preparation,low-toxic and high-efficiency phosphorus source and good control of nanosize,this method is very promising for low-cost and scalable preparation of high-performance Sn_(4)P_(3)anode.
基金This work was supported by Science Research Initiation Fund of Central South University(No.202045012)Key Research and Development Program of Jiangxi Province(No.20181ACE50013)+1 种基金Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities of Central South University(No.2019zzts708)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.61705152).
文摘Nano Research volume 13,pages1659–1667(2020)Cite this article 232 Accesses 3 Citations Metrics details Abstract 2D MXenes are highly attractive for achieving ultrafast and stable lithium/sodium storage due to their good electric conductivity and abundant redox active sites.While,effective strategies for scalable preparation of oligolayered MXenes are still under exploration.Herein,oligolayered Ti3C2Tx MXene is successfully obtained after conventional synthesis of multilayered Ti3C2 and subsequent delamination process via an organic solvent of tetramethyl-ammonium hydroxide(TMAOH).Comprehensive electrochemical study reveals that surface-controlled redox reaction dominated the charge storage behavior of oligolayered Ti3C2Tx with fast reaction kinetics.Impressively,the obtained oligolayered Ti3C2Tx exhibits excellent lithium/sodium storage performance,featured for a high specific capacity of 330 mAhg^−1 at 1.0 Ag^−1 after 800 cycles for lithium storage and 280 mAhg^−1 at 0.5 Ag^−1 after 500 cycles for sodium storage.Such impressive performance will advance the development of oligolayered Ti3C2Tx based materials for lithium/sodium storage and even broaden their application into energy storage.
基金supported partially by National Key Research and Development Program (No. 2016YFB0200701)National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 11532016 and 11672324)
文摘A CFD-based Numerical Virtual Flight(NVF)simulator is presented,which integrates an unsteady flow solver on moving hybrid grids,a Rigid-Body Dynamics(RBD)solver and a module of the Flight Control System(FCS).A technique of dynamic hybrid grids is developed to control the active control surfaces with body morphing,with a technique of parallel unstructured dynamic overlapping grids generating proper moving grids over the deflecting control surfaces(e.g.the afterbody rudders of a missile).For the flow/kinematic coupled problems,the 6 Degree-Of-Freedom(DOF)equations are solved by an explicit or implicit method coupled with the URANS CFD solver.The module of the control law is explicitly coupled into the NVF simulator and then improved by the simulation of the pitching maneuver process of a maneuverable missile model.A nonlinear dynamic inversion method is then implemented to design the control law for the pitching process of the maneuverable missile model.Simulations and analysis of the pitching maneuver process are carried out by the NVF simulator to improve the flight control law.Higher control response performance is obtained by adjusting the gain factors and adding an integrator into the control loop.
文摘We report a simple method of preparing a high performance, Sn-based anode material for lithium ion batteries （LIBs）. Adding H2O2 to an aqueous solution containing Sn2＋ and aniline results in simultaneous polymerization of aniline and oxidation of Sn2＋ to SnO2, leading to a homogeneous composite of polyaniline and SnO2. Hydrogen thermal reduction of the above composite yields N-doped carbon with hierarchical porosity and homogeneously distributed, ultrafine Sn particles. The nanocomposite exhibits excellent performance as an anode material for lithium ion batteries, showing a high reversible specific capacity of 788 mAh·g^-1 at a current density of 100 mA·g^-1 after 300 cycles and very good stability up to 5,000 mA·g^-1. The simple preparation method combined with the good electro- chemical performance is highly promising to promote the application of Sn based anode materials.
基金supported by the National Key Re-search and Development Program of China(No.2016YFB0200701)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.11532016 and 11672324)the National Key Project(No.GJXM92579)。
文摘Based on the author’s previous research, a novel hybrid grid generation technique is developed by introducing an Artificial Neural Network(ANN) approach for realistic viscous flow simulations. An initial hybrid grid over a typical geometry with anisotropic quadrilaterals in the boundary layer and isotropic triangles in the off-body region is generated by the classical mesh generation method to train two ANNs on how to predict the advancing direction of the new point and to control the grid size. After inputting the initial discretized fronts, the ANN-based Advancing Layer Method(ALM) is adopted to generate the anisotropic quadrilaterals in boundary layers. When the high aspect ratio of the anisotropic grid reaches a specified value, the ANN-based Advancing Front Method(AFM) is adopted to generate isotropic triangles in the off-body computational domain.The initial isotropic triangles are smoothed to further improve the grid quality. Three typical cases are tested and compared with experimental data to validate the effectiveness of grids generated by the ANN-based hybrid grid generation method. The experimental results show that the two ANNs can predict the advancing direction and the grid size very well, and improve the adaptability of the isotropic/anisotropic hybrid grid generation for viscous flow simulations.
基金supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China (No.2016YFB0200701)the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 11532016 and 91530325)
文摘An efficient MPI/OpenMP hybrid parallel Radial Basis Function (RBF) strategy for both continuous and discontinuous large-scale mesh deformation is proposed to reduce the computational cost and memory consumption.Unlike the conventional parallel methods in which all processors use the same surface displacement and implement the same operation,the present method employs different surface points sets and influence radius for each volume point movement,accompanied with efficient geometry searching strategy.The deformed surface points,also called Control Points (CPs),are stored in each processor.The displacement of spatial points is interpolated by using only 20-50 nearest control points,and the local influence radius is set to 5-20 times the maximum displacement of control points.To shorten the searching time for the nearest control point clouds,an Alternating Digital Tree (ADT) algorithm for 3D complex geometry is designed based on an iterative bisection technique.Besides,an MPI/OpenMP hybrid parallel approach is developed to reduce the memory cost in each High-Performance Computing (HPC) node for large-scale applications.Three 3D cases,including the ONERA-M6 wing and a commercial transport airplane standard model with up to 2.5 billion hybrid elements,are used to test the present mesh deformation method.The robustness and high parallel efficiency are demonstrated by a wing deflection case with a maximum bending angle of 450 and more than 80% parallel efficiency with 1024 MPI processors.In addition,the availability for both continuous and discontinuous surface deformation is verified by interpolating the projecting displacement with opposite directions surface points to the spatial points.
基金This study is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China （Nos. U1607126, 51431001 and 21771006）.
文摘Magnesium hydride （MgH2） is a high-capacity anode material for lithium ion batteries, which suffers from poor cycling stability. In this stud）~ we describe a thermal plasma-based approach to prepare homogeneous MgH2/C nanocomposites with very high cycling stability. In this process, magnesium evaporation is coupled with carbon generation from the plasma decomposition of acetylene, leading to a homogeneous Mg/C nanocomposite, which can be easily converted to MgH2/C by hydrogenation. The MgH2/C nanocomposite achieves a high reversible capacity of up to 620 mAh·g^-1 after 1,000 cycles with an ultralow decay rate of only 0.0036% per cycle, which represents a significantly improved performance compared to previous results.
