A multi-channel Tunable Diode Laser Absorption Spectroscopy (TDLAS) system was designed and constructed for flow parameters diagnostics in a scramjet combustor. Two fiber coupled distributed feedback (DFB) lasers with narrow line width were used to probe two H 2 O absorption features (7185.597cm (combined)) by using direct absorption Time-Division-Multiplexing (TDM) strategy at a 4-kHz repetition rate. Laser light was split into five beams and transmitted across the test region. Two motorized precision translation stages were used to move the collimators during the test, so that the three beams located near the cavity and at the exit of the combustor can scan the cross sections respectively. Flow parameters could be obtained simultaneous which included average temperature, water vapor concentration and velocity at the entrance of the combustor, the distribution of temperature, water vapor concentration at a cross section near the cavity, the distribution of temperature, water vapor concentration and velocity at the exit cross section of the combustor. The parameters of the flow entering and exiting the combustor could be used to evaluate the performance of the direct-connected scramjet facility and the combustion efficiency of the combustor. The parameters at the cross section in the combustor could also be used to analysis combustion characteristics in the combustor.

The thermodynamic compensation law describing an empirical linear relationship between activation enthalpy and activation entropy has seldom been validated for amorphous solids. Here molecular dynamics simulations reveal a well-defined enthalpy-entropy compensation rule in a metallic glass (MG) over a wide temperature and stress range, spanning the glass transition induced by temperature and/or stress. Experiments on other MGs reproduce this law, suggesting that it applies universally to amorphous solids, so we extend it from crystals to amorphous solids. In the glassy state, the compensation temperature is found to agree with the thermal glass transition temperature T g ; whereas in the supercooled liquid region, the compensation temperature matches ∼ 1.4T g , at which the diffusion kinetics start to feel the roughness of the free-energy surface.