Wei-Hua Cai

• Doctor of Engineering
• Professor (Full) at Northeast Electric Power University

The sliding reflector control system is utilized for core power level regulation through neutron leakage, offering a simpler structure in comparison to the control drum and control rod systems, thus minimizing the mass of the space reactor. This paper presents a conceptual design of a small – scale homogeneous lithium-cooled space fast reactor base...

In order to ensure the structural safety of liquefied natural gas (LNG) aluminum plate-fin heat exchangers, a model is established to simulate the thermal–structural stress characteristics of head structures based on thermal-elasticity theory and finite element method of thermal–structural coupling. The results show that the area with the lowest te...

Objective Our study aimed to investigate the association between obesity status change and hypertension onset based on a longitudinal community-based cohort study in north China. Design and method A total of 2618 individuals free of hypertension at baseline were collected from the longitudinal cohort study from 2011 to 2019. The correlation betwee...

Snoring is a common condition in the general population, and the management of snoring requires a better understanding of its mechanism through a fluid-structure interaction (FSI) perspective. Despite the recent popularity of numerical FSI techniques, outstanding challenges are accurately predicting airway deformation and its vibration during snori...

The uvula flapping is one of the most distinctive features of snoring and is critical in affecting airway aerodynamics and vibrations. This study aimed to elucidate the mechanism of pharyngeal vibration and pressure fluctuation due to uvula flapping employing fluid–structure interaction simulations. The followings are the methodology part: we const...

Low-grade waste heat recovery has significant importance to energy saving and emission reduction. Due to the lack of cost-effective heat recovery technology, a lot of low-grade heat is wasted. In this paper, performances of 3D-printed flat-plate PHPs and computerized numerical control (CNC) machined flat-plate PHPs without and with thermoelectric g...

Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) has the potential for use as a clinical tool to predict the aerodynamics and respiratory function in the upper airway (UA) of children; however, careful selection of validated computational models is necessary. This study constructed a 3D model of the pediatric UA based on cone beam computed tomography (CBCT) imag...

Printed circuit heat exchanger (PCHE) is receiving wide attention as a new kind of compact heat exchanger. It is considered as a promising vaporizer in floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) vessels due to its compactness and high efficiency. In this paper, the numerical model with two Zigzag mini-channels was built. The cross section was a semicirc...

Dissolution-driven convection of low solubility fluids separated by a free interface in a porous medium is analyzed via two-dimensional numerical simulations and scaling considerations. Towards this end, we employ a low solubility Darcy-Cahn-Hilliard model with a Helmholtz free energy. The momentum equations are solved in the stream function-vortic...

ACTA CHIMICA SINICA 基于苯并[b]萘并[1,2-d]噻吩的可见光驱动光环化荧光 turn-on 型二 芳基乙烯的合成与性能研究 赵杰 a 王治文 a 李华清 b 艾琦 * ,a 蔡培庆 a 司俊杰 a 姚鑫 a 胡晓光 * ,b 刘祖刚 * ,a (a 中国计量大学 光学与电子科技学院 浙江，杭州 310000) (b 郑州大学 材料科学与工程学院 河南，郑州 450001) 摘要 可见光驱动光环化的荧光 turn-on 型二芳基乙烯分子开关是超分辨显微成像的理想材料,但目前关于该类 型分子的报道仍较少。本文合成了一种基于苯并[b]萘并[1,2-d]噻吩(BNTP)的 405nm 可见光驱动光环化的荧光 turn-on 型二芳基乙烯分子 BNTP-BTTO4，同时系统研究...

Pulsating heat pipe (PHP), as an efficient heat transfer component, can be used for waste heat recovery and electronic cooling. The influences of typical ocean motions, such as inclination and swing, on thermal performances of PHPs are inevitable for practical offshore applications. In this study, surfactant-free functionalized multi-walled carbon...

Partial differential equations (PDEs) that describe many physical phenomena are discovered or derived based on professional knowledge or empirical observations. However, the rapid development of machine learning technology interests us to discover the PDEs with a data-driven approach based on neural networks. We introduce the convolution neural net...

Printed circuit heat exchanger (PCHE) is a compact plate heat exchanger that etches microchannels on plates by chemical etching method and exploits bonding force between the atoms to achieve diffusion bonding. It has the promising application in the fields of floating liquefied natural gas, nuclear reactor, hydrogen energy, etc. The influence of st...

We aimed to establish a discriminative gene-expression-based classifier to predict survival outcomes of T-cell lymphoblastic lymphoma (T-LBL) patients. After exploring global gene-expression profiles of progressive (n = 22) vs. progression-free (n = 28) T-LBL patients, 43 differentially expressed mRNAs were identified. Then an eleven-gene-based cla...

To improve the performance of a high-pressure refueling liquid oxy-kerosene engine, the influence of drag-reducing additive on the heat transfer characteristics in the supercritical flow of kerosene in a microchannel for regenerative cooling is explored. The finite-volume CFD numerical simulation method is applied using the RNG k-ε turbulence model...

We propose a deep learning method to learn the minimal representations of fluid flows. It uses the deep variational autoencoder (VAE) to decouple the independent representations for fluid flows. We apply this method to several simple flows and show that the network successfully identifies the independent and interpretable representations. It shows...

Background Adenoid hypertrophy among orthodontic patients may be detected in lateral cephalograms. The study investigates the aerodynamic characteristics within the upper airway (UA) by means of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulation. Furthermore, airflow features are compared between subgroups according to the adenoidal nasopharyngeal (AN)...

Global demands for sustainable energy are rising rapidly due to the ever-increasing energy crisis. Efficient energy management is one of the feasible methods to solve the existing energy crisis, and has attracted extensive attention. Pulsating heat pipe (PHP), as a potential thermal management system, has broad application prospects due to its simp...

The effects of high hydrostatic pressure (HHP) processing at 200 MPa, 400 MPa, and 600 MPa on the proximate composition, inactivation of bacteria, and color of the red claw crayfish Cherax quadricarinatus were evaluated. High hydrostatic pressure processing resulted in complete shelling and a significant decrease in the moisture content (P < 0.05),...

Background: The lateral cephalogram is a common imaging diagnostic test for adenoid hypertrophy (AH) in clinics. The study aims to investigate the aerodynamic characteristics within the upper airway (UA) by employing a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulation. Furthermore, airflow features are compared between subgroups according to the adenoi...

Increasing temperature is proposed to improve the performance of Rotational Supercavitating Evaporator (RSCE, a novel supercavitation-based desalination device). In order to investigate the temperature effect on the hydrodynamic characteristics of RSCE, visualization experiments are conducted on cavitating flows at different water temperatures (25–...

Background The effect of rapid maxillary expansion (RME) on the upper airway (UA) has been studied earlier but without a consistent conclusion. This study aims to evaluate the outcome of RME on the UA function in terms of aerodynamic characteristics by applying a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulation. Methods This retrospective cohort stud...

The existing solar heating system has high cost and a poor economy and is difficult to popularize because it needs a large area of solar collector and a volume of storage tank. Although many researchers attempted to optimize the system, it still could not reduce the initial cost significantly. To solve this problem, this paper presented a novel hea...

An unprecedented number of new cancer targets are in development, and most are being developed in combination therapies. Early oncology development is strategically challenged in choosing the best combinations to move forward to late stage development. The most common early endpoints to be assessed in such decision-making include objective response...

The existing reflector not requiring solar tracking used in solar flat-plate collector is mainly plate-type structure. This kind of structure is simple, but it is not the optimal one. To solve this problem, the new polyline-type and parabolic-type reflectors not requiring solar tracking were proposed for solar flat-plate collectors in this paper. A...

For two-phase refrigerant flow, the maldistribution at the entrance of plate-fin heat exchangers (PFHEs) is a severe issue which tends to make the thermal performance of heat exchangers worse. Especially when PFHEs are applied in the field of liquefied natural gas (LNG), the non-uniformity restricts the natural gas liquefaction efficiency of PFHEs....

Background: The effect of rapid maxillary expansion (RME) on the upper airway (UA) has been studied earlier but without a consistent conclusion. This study aims to evaluate the outcome of RME on the upper airway function in terms of airflow resistance by applying a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulation. Methods: This retrospective cohort st...

In order to explore tube-side heat transfer characteristics in the spiral wound heat exchange (SWHE) used in liquid natural gas (LNG) plants, the study on zeotropic hydrocarbon mixtures condensation heat transfer in a helical pipe is proposed. Firstly, based on two-fluid model and thermal phase change model, a numerical method coupling with empiric...

In order to ensure the safe operation of buried natural gas pipeline (BNGP) under landslide debris flow (LDF), a model is established to investigate the strain characteristic of BNGP. The influence of longitudinal LDF morphology is analyzed for the elliptic deformation rate, tensile and compression strain of BNGP. The results show that the influenc...

Reduced-order model (ROM) based on proper orthogonal decomposition (POD) has been widely used in different fields, such as optimization design and flow control, etc., which needs to get calculation results quickly. Most of present studies about POD-ROM focus on the Newtonian fluid flows, whereas, few studies are related with viscoelastic fluid flow...

In order to enhance the heat transfer performance and decrease the refrigerant charge of R290 in condensers, this paper numerically studied the condensation and refrigerant charge of R290 in minichannels (not the entire system) with different diameters to analyze the effect of diameter on them. The VOF multiphase flow model and SST k−ω turbulence m...

In the present study, we use direct numerical simulation to investigate the density-driven convection in a two-dimensional anisotropic heterogeneous porous media associated with significant laminated formation. At first, the heterogeneous porous media are randomly generated to represent laminated structure, in which the horizontal correlation lengt...

As an ideal pollution-free refrigerant, R290 has been acceleratingly widely used. It is important to enhance the heat transfer performance and decrease the refrigerant charge of R290 in heat exchangers for its flammable and explosive properties. For this purpose, the research on condensation flow and refrigerant charge of R290 in a minichannel with...

Pulsating heat pipe (PHP), a passive two-phase heat transfer device, has excellent application prospects in electronic cooling, renewable energy systems, heat recovery devices, etc. An experimental study was conducted to investigate the heat transfer performance of PHP with hybrid working fluids, i.e., ethanol-water mixtures (20, 30, 40, 50 and 75...

The boiler-room of a large-scale thermal power plant belongs to super-high industrial building. The heat is concentrated in the upper part of the workshop. In the northern cold region, the wasted heat at the top of the boiler-room can be sent to the main plant-floor by the reversal of the roof-fans. The heat which dissipates from internal equipment...

This paper investigates the influence of non-uniform corrosion in the transversal direction of the steel reinforcement on the cracking propagation of the concrete cover. An analytical model is proposed for the prediction of the corrosion-induced cracking performance. Both the thick cylinder theory of the concrete and the effect of transversal non-u...

A broadband generalized sidelobe canceler (Broadband-GSC) application for near-field beamforming is proposed. This approach is implemented in the wavelet domain. Broadband-GSC provides a set of complex, adapted apodization weights for each wavelet subband. The proposed method constrains interference and noise signal to improve the lateral resolutio...

In this paper, copper benzene-1,3,5-tricarboxylate (CuBTC) was incorporated into polyethylenglyol (PEG) to prepare a mixed matrix membrane (MMM) for pervaporation desulfurization. The characterization results showed that the prepared CuBTC particles had an ideal octahedral shape and micropores. The Cu2+ in CuBTC interacts with thiophene via π-compl...

Ultra-Wideband (UWB) systems are widely used in low-power, high-speed, high-security short-range wireless communication systems throughout digital homes and offices. In the RF front-end of a UWB system, bandpass filters (BPFs) are used to put through the passband signals and reject the stopband signals. Most UWB BPFs are designed with dielectric ma...

Three-dimensional reconstruction and semantic understandings have attracted extensive attention in recent years. However, current reconstruction techniques mainly target large-scale scenes, such as an indoor environment or automatic self-driving cars. There are few studies on small-scale and high-precision scene reconstruction for manipulator opera...

The effects of psychosocial and dietary interventions on risk of cognitive impairment is not known. The aim of this study was to estimate the 10-year risks of cognitive impairment under hypothetical interventions of psychosocial factors and dietary intake among Chinese older adults. A sample of 7377 respondents aged 65 and over was drawn from the l...

In the trend of global warming and urbanization, frequent extreme weather influences the life of citizens seriously. Shanghai, as a typical mega-city in China that has been successful in urbanization, suffers seriously from the urban heat island (UHI) effect. The research concentrates on the spatial and temporal pattern of surface UHI and land use....

Near-infrared (NIR) spectral sensors can deliver the spectral response of light absorbed by materials. Data analysis technology based on NIR sensors has been a useful tool for quality identification. In this paper, an improved deep convolutional neural network (CNN) with batch normalization and MSRA (Microsoft Research Asia) initialization is propo...

Cucumber is one of the most important vegetables in the world. The C2H2 zinc finger protein (C2H2-ZFP) family plays an important role in the growth development and abiotic stress responses of plants. However, there have been no systematic studies on cucumber. In this study, we performed a genome-wide study of C2H2-ZFP genes and analyzed their chrom...

Cadmium (Cd) is a toxic heavy metal element. It is relatively easily absorbed by plants and enters the food chain, resulting in human exposure to Cd. Italian ryegrass (Lolium multiflorum Lam.), an important forage cultivated widely in temperate regions worldwide, has the potential to be used in phytoremediation. However, genes regulating Cd translo...

We investigated the genetic diversity of the population of captive forest musk deer (Moschus berezovskii) in Barkam Musk Deer Breeding Centre using twelve microsatellite markers, and then analyzed the change in genetic structure of successive generation groups from the population. The data provide a new understanding for the evaluation and usage of...

To elucidate the mechanism of anti-ferroptosis and examine structural optimization in natural phenolics, cellular and chemical assays were performed with 2′-hydroxy chalcone butein and dihydroflavone (S)-butin. C11-BODIPY staining and flow cytometric assays suggest that butein more effectively inhibits ferroptosis in erastin-treated bone marrow-der...

In this study, a flame-retardant additive with 9,10-dihydro-9-oxa-10-phosphaphenanthrene-10-oxide (DOPO) groups denoted DSD was successfully synthesized from DOPO, 4,4′-diaminodiphenyl sulfone (DDS), and salicylaldehyde. The chemical structure of DSD was characterized by FTIR–ATR, NMR, and elemental analysis. DSD was used as an amine curing agent,...

To explore the drag-reducing characteristics of turbulent channel flows with surfactant additive at relatively high Reynolds number from the perspectives of energy spectrum and multi-scale resolution, the two-dimensional fluctuation velocity fields of turbulent channel flows with/without surfactant additive at Reynolds number of Reτ = 590 obtained...

The extracellular matrix (ECM) is a highly dynamic structural network and plays an essential role in cell behavior and regulation during metabolic homeostasis and obesity progression. Abnormal ECM remodeling impairs adipocyte plasticity required for diverse cellular functions. Collagen XV (ColXV) is a proteoglycan localized to the outermost layer o...

Good management of companies in the energy industry is critical to the world’s sustainable development as they are the guarantor of social lives and the cornerstone of economic development. This study tries to figure out how to improve the management of energy companies from the angle of new media use. It is widely known that the emergence of new m...

The cross-coupling effect between the induction coils of a multiple-receiver wireless power transfer (MRWPT) system severely weakens its overall performance. In this paper, a time-sharing control strategy for MRWPT systems is proposed to reduce the cross-coupling between receiver coils. An active-bridge rectifier is introduced to the receivers to r...

This paper focuses on the dynamic responses of a metro train–bridge system under train-braking. Experiments were performed on the elevated Metro Line 21 of Guangzhou (China). A continuous, three-span, rigid-frame bridge (42 m + 65 m + 42 m) and a standard B-type metro train were selected. The acceleration signals were measured at the center-points...

Cr(VI) contamination has posed great threat to both the ecosystem and human health for its carcinogenic and mutagenic nature. A highly effective adsorbent for the removal of Cr(VI) was prepared and its adsorption mechanism was thoroughly discussed in this study. In detail, magnetic BiFeO3 and kenaf biochar were loaded on cross-linked chitosan to ob...

The Hucunnan porphyry- and skarn-type Cu–Mo deposit is located in the south of the central Shizishan ore field of the Tongling ore-cluster region. The intrusive Hucunnan granodiorite, outcropping in this deposit, has adakitic geochemical features, and its magma is proposed to have originated from partial melting of the oceanic crust mixed with mant...

As a result of the large-scale trend of offshore wind turbines, wind shear and turbulent wind conditions cause significant fluctuations of the wind turbine’s torque and thrust, which significantly affect the service life of the wind turbine gearbox and the power output stability. The use of a trailing-edge flap is proposed as a supplement to the pi...

This study aimed to investigate netizens’ food safety knowledge, attitudes and behavior, status, and their demand for science popularization by WeMedia. Firstly, participants were recruited by WeMedia, including WeChat, Microblog, and QQ. Then, a web-based survey was conducted using a self-designed questionnaire, which comprised 29 items about the...

Feed efficiency is an economically important trait controlled by multiple genes in pigs. The small intestine is the main organ of digestion and nutrient absorption. To explore the biological processes by which small intestine proteomics affects feed efficiency (FE), we investigated the small intestinal tissue proteomes of high-FE and low-FE pigs by...

Field observations show that less than one percent of dissociation water can be produced during gas hydrate production, resulting from spontaneous water imbibition into matrix pores. What’s more, the hydrate sediments are easily dispersed in water, and it is difficult to carry out spontaneous imbibition experiments. At present, there is little rese...

Forsythiae Fructus (FF) is a widely used folk medicine in China, Japan, and Korea. The distribution of bioactive constituents throughout the fruit segments has rarely been addressed, although mounting evidence suggests that plant secondary metabolites are synthesized and distributed regularly. The phytochemical profiles of three segments of FF (per...

Viruses are key biogeochemical engines in the regulation of the dynamics of phytoplankton. However, there has been little research on viral communities in relation to algal blooms. Using the virMine tool, we analyzed viral information from metagenomic data of field dinoflagellate (Gymnodinium catenatum) blooms at different stages. Species identific...

The growing demand for lightweight, renewable, and excellent thermal insulation materials has fueled a search for high performance biomass materials with good mechanical compressibility and ultralow thermal conductivity. We propose a fabrication method for making a lightweight, anisotropic, and compressible wood aerogel with aligned cellulose fiber...