Chinese Academy of Sciences

Xiaofei Gao

Lei Yang

Cheng Zhang

Yuan Tian

Sheng Zhang

Ji Qi

Jianrong Zhang

Yangyang Yang

Ping Lin

The present disclosure provides a solar heat absorber including: an inlet through which a heat collecting medium enters the solar heat absorber; a passage member configured to be fluidly connected with the inlet such that the heat collecting medium enters the passage member through the inlet; and a collection member configured to be fluidly connected with the passage member such that the heat collecting medium enters the collection member through the passage member. In the solar heat absorber according to the present disclosure, the ceramic particles are used as the heat collecting medium. In addition, the present disclosure also provides a solar heat collecting system including the solar heat absorber, and a solar power generation system including the solar heat collecting system.

Solar heat absorber, solar heat collecting system and solar power generation system with ceramic particles

The present invention provides a GPU-based particle flow simulation system and method which includes generating particle information based on particle modeling information inputted from a client terminal, and generating geometric solid information; receiving the particle information and the geometric solid information, determining which GPUs of which computation nodes are to be used based on the number of the particles and the number of idle GPUs in each of the computation nodes; determining which particles are to be processed in which GPUs of which computation nodes based on the determined number of GPUs and a space distribution of the particles, and performing allocation according to the determination result; stimulating particle flow by computing in parallel in the plurality of GPUs a force applied to each particle due to particle collision and thus an acceleration; and presenting a stimulation result. The embodiments of the present invention can implement a virtual experimental simulation of high-density particles, and improve computation efficiency while reducing power consumption.

Particle flow simulation system and method

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Xiaofei Gao