Laminar natural convection with a pair of hot and cold tube in a closed cubic cavity is carried out. This configuration can be founded in performance of nuclear power plant containment passive residual heat removal system. The basic government aquations are sloved by means of finite volume method. The effect of Ra number (103–106), shape of tube and spatial position on local and mean heat transfer characteristics is studied. It is found that the Nu number increased when raising Ra number. The Nu number is higher when the shapes are circle and triangle. In adddition, it is founded that the heat transfer has a better effect when the cold tube locates above the hot tube among the five spatial positions. The results provides theoretical basis for performance of nuclear power plant containment passive residual heat removal system.

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Acoustic emission (AE) can be used to observe the process of coal fracture propagation. Based on a press and acoustic-emission platform, the damage and acoustic-emission characteristics of anthracite with different loading rates, water amounts and sizes were studied. The results show that there is less acoustic emission in the initial compression stage of coal; acoustic emission is more active in the transition from elastic deformation to plastic deformation, which is manifested in the following aspects: the faster the loading rate, the higher is the number of acoustic-emission events; the peak count of acoustic emissions of a saturated-coal sample is significantly lower than that of a natural-coal sample. Coal samples and large coal samples emit even more sounds. Based on the normalization of acoustic-emission counts, the relationship between damage variables and stress-strain is studied, and it is characterized by an initial slow increase, followed by a rapid increase; however, different factors have a great influence on the damage-characteristic curve. The research results have a certain guiding significance for the coal and rock disaster prediction.