Real-time, accurate and reliable monitoring of marine environmental information plays a crucial role in marine disaster warning and prediction, disaster prevention and reduction, marine resource development, and ensuring marine safety. In recent years, with the continuous development and upgrading of global navigation satellite systems (GNSS), the detection of atmospheric and marine environmental information based on GNSS navigation signals has become a new method and a hot research topic in the marine environmental monitoring technology. This method has been widely applied to domains such as marine meteorological monitoring and numerical forecasting. This article systematically reviews the current research status of the GNSS technology in marine environmental monitoring, including effective wave height, wind speed, rainfall intensity, water vapor and tide level monitoring. Furthermore, this paper systematically summarizes new technologies and methods and looks forward to provide reference for the future research in related fields.
Network pharmacology, which is highly consistent with the holistic and systematic perspectives of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) with its multiple components and targets, has rapidly developed in the modernization of TCM. Experimental verification is one of the key contents of network pharmacology research. The zebrafish model has a complete system of drug metabolism, as well as a complex in vivo environment and target and pathway regulation mechanisms. Experiments that utilize this model have the advantages of low drug dosage, high throughput, and short cycle time. In recent years, the research mode that combines network pharmacology prediction with experimental validation using the zebrafish model has been widely applied to elucidate the effective substances and mechanisms of action of TCM. This study reviews the progress and development trends in the comprehensive application of network pharmacology and zebrafish modeling, aiming to provide a reference for their application in elucidating the modern scientific implications of the efficacy of TCM.
Flash evaporation refers to the abrupt vaporization of liquid when it undergoes a sudden pressure drop. It has broad application prospects in the field of waste heat recovery in energy-intensive industries. Motivated by the lack of research on internal flow and phase-change phenomena inside the nozzle in a waste heat power generation system, in this work, we conduct numerical research on the internal flashing in a typical nozzle with two S-shaped internal vanes. The mathematical description of this problem is given by coupling the Volume of Fluent model and the pressure-driven phase-change model, and a numerical solution is obtained using CFD software. Results show that the fluid starts to rotate and accelerate when it flows through the S-shaped vanes. Downstream the vanes, the rotation speed is low in the middle and high near the wall. After that, the fluid accelerates and ejects through the contraction section of the nozzle. Pressure drop downstream the vanes leads to flash evaporation inside the nozzle, and fluid leaves the nozzle as a liquid-vapor mixture. In addition, a modified nozzle structure is proposed from the perspectives of improving atomization, reducing fouling, and enlarging passage area. The proposed structure can promote the complete and rapid progress of spray flash evaporation and help to further improve the efficiency of the waste heat power generation system.
The complex mechanisms of action of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), which are characterized by multilevels and multisystems, have always been a crucial scientific problem in modern research. With the integration of computer technology, systems biology, multidirectional pharmacology, and other disciplines, network pharmacology has formed a core technical system based on network targets, which has established component-target-disease molecular networks and shown great application potential in the modern research of TCM. We reviewed the network construction and analysis technology of network pharmacology, recent research progress in elucidating TCM's pharmacological mechanism of action, and the potential for further development of network pharmacology to provide useful reference for conducting in-depth interpretation of the scientific connotation of TCM.