Impulse irradiation of layered medium by the open end of circular waveguide
The radiation of impulse signal from the open end of a circular waveguide is considered by analytical and direct numerical methods. The radiation of short pulse from the aperture is considered by calculation of special time form of field by means of modal basis method that permits to transform the nonstationary three-dimensional electrodynamic problem into the problem for one-dimensional evolutionary equations by means of the construction of modal basis for electromagnetic field with arbitrary time dependence. The method is applied to solve the problem of pulse evolution for positive and negative time with the use of Laplace transform by construction of operator of propagation. The approach is employed to form the short pulse on aperture of circular waveguide for irradiation of layered medium with losses.
Transient radiation from the open end of circular waveguide
The transient radiation from the open end of a circular waveguide is considered by simple analytical and direct numerical methods. The radiation of short pulse from the aperture is provided by calculation of special time form of field by means of modal basis method that permits to solve the problem of pulse evolution for positive and negative time with the use of Laplace transform. The radiation of the short pulse is calculated in Kirchhoff approximation and simulated by FDTD method. The frequency characteristics of the radiated field are considered.
Fluid to liquid membrane energy exchanger for simultaneous liquid desiccant regeneration and desalination applications–Theoretical and experimental analyses
Abstract In this paper, a thermal model developed for assessing the performance of the fluid to liquid membrane energy exchanger based liquid desiccant regenerator is presented. The model was validated with the experimental data and found accurate. Using the experimental inlet conditions reported in the literature for the structured packing chamber, the performance of the fluid to liquid membrane energy exchanger based liquid desiccant regenerator was theoretically predicted choosing water and air as working fluids and Lithium Chloride as a liquid desiccant. Further, studied the influence of inlet parameters such as working fluid and desiccant inlet temperature’s, hot liquid desiccant to cold working fluid ratio and desiccant concentration on vapour absorption rate. From this analysis, it is observed that membrane based liquid desiccant regenerator using water as a working fluid is best suitable for converting the weak desiccant into strong desiccant and for generating the pure water simultaneously (co-generation process). An experimental investigation was carried out for assessing the energy exchange process across the membrane based liquid desiccant regenerator using water as a working fluid. From the experimental analysis, it was found that desiccant temperature has a significant impact on the energy exchange process. The pressure drop across the membrane based liquid desiccant regenerator was also measured at different desiccant flow rates and concentration.