Self-oscillations that cause the destruction of intermolecular bonds in the water coolant of a nuclear power plant

The digital acoustic model of a nuclear reactor (DAMNR) is presented as an auto-oscillatory system belonging to a special class of nonlinear dissipative systems capable of generating undamped oscillations. It is established that a water-water power reactor with a turbulent flow of a coolant is an open system of high complexity with a large number of elements, the connections between which are not predetermined, but probabilistic. Elements of the coolant circuit with negative dissipation (negative friction) are identified. It is shown that they self-organize chaotic turbulent pulsations and vortices into ordered wave oscillations, the frequency of which is determined by the Thomson (Kelvin) formula. In radio engineering circuits, an electronic self-oscillating generator with transformer feedback has similar properties. The presence of negative resistance in nonlinear dynamical systems leads to self-organization of chaotic turbulent perturbations and generation of self-oscillations in the form of acoustic standing waves (ASW). On the basis of theoretical and experimental data, the reliability of a previously unknown property of a reactor with connected pipelines - the ability to generate several ASW simultaneously-was confirmed. The use of DAMNR in the design and operation of nuclear power plants allows to identify the sources of ASW occurring in the coolant, the conditions for their occurrence and frequency.

Аdaptive broadband low-noise RF amplifier

Adaptive broadband low-noise radio frequency amplifiers (ABLNRFA) are widely used in the construction of systems for protecting radio receiving paths from nonlinear damage in a non-stationary electromagnetic environment (EME). One of the promising focus areas on the creation of ABLNRFA is the development of devices in the class of circuits with switched networks. The creation of such devices has certain features, since, along with the need to ensure a low noise figure and digital control of the regulation characteristic, it is required to provide high linearity and a large dynamic range (DR) of the device. This paper presents the results of the logical-heuristic synthesis of ABLNRFA with an adaptively adjustable transducer gain, which changes due to switching of transformer feedback circuits. In order to check the functional and technical characteristics of the synthesized ABLNRFA and optimize its parameters, a model was developed and studied in the ADS environment. The proposed ABLNRFA technical solution provides a discrete (23, 14, 10 and 5 dB) wideband change in the transmission coefficient, while the DR for third-order intermodulation in terms of a 1 MHz band is 83, 92, 98 and 104 dB, respectively. A step change in the transducer gain in the circuit of the lossless feedback circuit developed by ABLNRFA avoids the accumulation of additional noise in the structure and provides a low-noise figure that does not exceed 1 dB. The technical characteristics of ABLNRFA allow one to adaptively increase the overload capacity of the radio receiving path with a proportional expansion of its DR in the conditions of non-stationary EME, and thus increase the efficiency of the level protection system against nonlinear damage to the receiving paths of radio communication, radar and radio navigation.