The Red Era, the Opening University Speech

Chapter 354 Second Generation Supercomputer Test!!

After Li Mu finished speaking, he took out a thick stack of information that he had prepared long ago from his briefcase and said, "Here are some of my ideas for optimizing the design of the Z-5 engine unit. I'll give you some reference."

See the information.

Chen Jiaxun, Qi Zhikun and others were all stunned where they were.

"Wait, shouldn't we discuss this first?" A thought popped up in their minds at the same time, which seemed quite absurd.

In the past, when conducting research, everyone basically held meetings to discuss, come up with ideas, then slowly verify them, and finally draw conclusions on whether they are feasible.

Why do they seem to have nothing to do here?

Qi Zhikun moved his lips as if he wanted to ask a question, but Chen Jiaxun stopped him in time, signaling him with his eyes to take a look first.

Maybe this was a solution that Li Mu and his team had discussed long ago and came up with.

"Everyone, read it first. I will explain it to you while you read it." Li Mu looked at everyone who was gradually immersed in the information and reminded them softly.

The voice just fell.

All the experts and professors from the Institute of Aeronautics took out a portable notebook from their pockets and looked at Li Mu intently.

Qi Zhikun saw that even Wang Shicun was holding a notebook in his hand.

He was even more surprised, thinking to himself, "That shouldn't be the case. Do we need to take notes during a meeting? Is the content difficult to understand?"

Just when he was feeling extremely puzzled.

Li Mu on the stage had already pulled over a blackboard and started explaining:
"The engine group of the Z-5 uses a five-cylinder engine. Its ignition sequence and piston movement may cause torque imbalance, resulting in rocking motion."

"The Xuanniao-1 engine overcomes the shortcomings of the Z-5 engine in all aspects, while also showing higher performance in terms of power and fuel efficiency."

"And it also has an auxiliary power unit that can be used as a starting engine and ground auxiliary power..."

He first analyzed in detail the advantages and disadvantages of the Z-5 engine and the Xuanniao-1 engine.

Of course, the focus is definitely on the latter.

To put the Xuanniao-1 engine into the Z-5 and adapt it to it, the research of Qi Zhikun and others is indispensable.

As for Li Mu himself, he had already said that he would not take the lead.

……

Qi Zhikun, who was in the audience, was already deeply attracted by Li Mu's story.

Many of the problems that he had previously found incomprehensible suddenly became clear to him after listening to this "class".

He was also amazed by some detailed structural optimizations in the design of the Z-5 helicopter.

The finalization of a helicopter means that it is almost impeccable in every aspect.

However, Li Mu was able to find the problem, which shows his powerful ability.

When Qi Zhikun was shocked.

Li Mu has almost reached the end:
"The hybrid rotor structure consists of steel tubular beams and a wooden frame covered with plywood and fabric."

"This structure has deficiencies in both materials and workmanship, which will affect the overall performance and reliability of the helicopter."

"Perhaps we can also try to optimize the design from this aspect..."

He did not limit the scope of the optimized design to the engine unit of the Z-5.

After all, in his opinion, this helicopter still has a lot of room for improvement.

Rather than asking the people at Hefei Manufacturing to invest time and energy in upgrading it later, it would be better for him to solve it at the same time.

However, this really made Qi Zhikun and Chen Jiaxun a little confused.

I came to Kyoto with the intention of optimizing their engine and then leaving.

Why hasn’t it started yet? It seems like the helicopter is about to be optimized!

……

In the conference room.

There was silence.

The experts and professors from the School of Aeronautics were digesting the ideas that Li Mu had just given, and they were writing and marking them from time to time.

Qi Zhikun and others felt a little embarrassed.

Although it is impossible that I have no impression of what I just heard.

However, my brain had just taken in too much information, and for a moment I was not sure whether I had remembered it correctly.

In the end, Qi Zhikun still gritted his teeth and said, "Advisor Li, please repeat it again. I don't think I understand some of the things you said."

"Of course. It's just a piece of cake." Li Mu smiled, asked the other party about what he didn't understand, and then began to explain it again.

He certainly knows his own explanations, and they contain a lot of valuable information.

But there is no other way. It is better to provide reference materials in advance than to have him come forward and solve them one by one when problems cannot be solved during research later.

Then he would probably be exhausted to death.

The meeting lasted until 12 o'clock in the evening.

Li Mu made design optimization suggestions for the rotor, tail rotor, landing gear, hydraulic system, electrical system and auxiliary equipment.

Ideas were given to change the steel-beam wooden rotor to a metal rotor, the tail rotor to fiberglass, the fuel tank to a thin-walled soft fuel tank, etc.

Of course, this is just a brief discussion, just to give Qi Zhikun and others a direction to think about, and I won’t provide too many details.

But these contents were enough for the latter few to say that they benefited a lot.

Originally, everyone wanted to work late into the night to finalize the optimization design project plan for the Z-5 helicopter as quickly as possible.

But in the end, they were stopped by Tang Yanjie with a sullen face, and all were sent to sleep.

……

Came to the dormitory of the Aviation College.

This time, Li Mu doesn't have to compete with Wang Shicun.

After he stayed there twice, Tang Yanjie prepared a room specifically for him.

After a quick wash.

Sitting at the desk, Li Mu began to organize his research plan.

After the success of the Xuanniao-1 engine, it was only a matter of time before the helicopter came out.

Although mechatronics is difficult, it is not unsolvable. The only problem is that the output will definitely not be high.

"The optimization design project of the Z-5 shouldn't have too many problems. Perhaps our main focus next should be on the wind tunnel." Li Mu thought secretly in his heart.

But on second thought, Yu Hongru is doing a pretty good job now.

He can help develop one or two new technologies to speed up the process, but there is no need to focus his main energy on it.

After all, without him, the JF-8 shock wave wind tunnel would not have been developed in 68.

Now with supercomputers and computers, this time should be shortened by 2 to 3 years.

"By the way, we can also build a high-altitude platform!" Li Mu looked at the optimized design plan of the Z-5 engine in front of him, and suddenly slapped his head and thought of a very critical technology.

High altitude platform, also known as aircraft engine high altitude simulation test platform.

It can simulate various flight conditions within the entire flight envelope of the aircraft on the ground and test the engine and components.

In the defense industry, its position is very important.

"Moreover, this technology is almost blank in the country, and we urgently need someone to make a breakthrough." The more Li Mu thought about it, the more feasible it seemed.

The aerial platform was invented in 58 and is considered a fairly advanced technology.

Xia State once planned to build a high-altitude platform to keep up with the pace of the times.

However, not long after getting started, Big Brother withdrew its aid and the research and development fell into difficulties.

It was not until 95 that the construction of Xia Kingdom’s first aerial platform was completed.

"But it is a huge system project with high technical difficulty, many types of equipment, large investment consumption, and extremely demanding technical indicators. I don't know if it is appropriate to do it at this time." Li Mu hesitated again.

The aerial platform is good, but the investment is really huge. Even if he has the information, it is hard to say whether he can make it without one or two years.

Moreover, this thing is a money-burning monster. Once it is started, it consumes extremely high power and consumes a lot of electricity and water.

For example, a large city with a population of 300 million consumes about the same amount of electricity when the air conditioner is turned on in the summer or when the heating is turned on in the coldest winter.

The total daily water consumption of a city with a population of 500 million is equivalent to its water consumption, and the water consumed is pure water that must be highly purified.

Of course, this is data from later generations, and current consumption may not be so high.

But it can’t go much lower.

Besides, Xia State is really poor!
"Forget it, I'll give you the plan and let the higher-ups decide." Li Mu put aside his concerns and decided to leave the issue to their superiors to judge.

In his opinion, although Xia Kingdom will have frictions of varying degrees with its neighboring countries in the next few decades, it will generally be peaceful.

Investing a lot of manpower, material and financial resources to build an aerial platform is not worth the cost.

Without further hesitation, Li Mu quickly began to copy the information.

……

Next three days.

Through constant meetings, the design optimization issues of the Z-5 were basically resolved.

And it's not just the engine,

The rotor, tail rotor, landing gear...it can be said that the entire Z-5 has been optimized.

Of course, many parts cannot be implemented immediately.

After all, even if there is a technological breakthrough, it will still be difficult to carry out industrial production.

After seeing that there was no big problem.

Li Mu did not stay long and soon left the Aviation Academy.

……

On the bus back to Kyoto city.

Chen Jiaxun sat in the car, looking a little reserved.

Li Mu has been busy with research these days and has not had much time to meet him.

But the latter was very patient and did not show any impatience from beginning to end.

Even now when they met, she didn't rush to speak, but just looked at him with a eager expression.

This trick may not work well against some old experts and professors.

But it is very useful against Li Mu.

After all, he was young, and it was a bit unbearable for him to be looked at like this by someone who was a dozen years older than him.

"There's no problem in sending people over there, but Director Chen, after I teach you, the people will have to come back, so it's best not to make it public." Li Mu thought for a while and said.

It’s not that the institute can’t spare some manpower.

But it is better to keep this loophole for now and not make too many of them, otherwise everyone will come to ask for help, and the few people in the institute will be divided up soon.

Seeing Li Mu nod in agreement, Chen Jiaxun was overjoyed and said, "Great, thank you, Consultant Li. If you have the opportunity to visit Sansheng in the future, please come to the Hefei Manufacturing Plant and let me treat you well!"

He had a very tormented time during his time at the Aviation Academy.

This time he had to ask for a lot of favors and make a lot of promises to get the opportunity to come to Kyoto.

If you can't bring anyone back, you'll be in big trouble.

"There's nothing to thank me for. When the batch of software engineering education pilot students comes out this year, you will be able to be assigned some people by then. But I'm afraid you still need some time to give them some time to grow." Li Mu waved his hand.

At the end, he let out a small sigh.

To be honest, these 500 students are actually a bit unlucky.

Normal education and training usually starts from 4 years.

However, the construction of national software engineering is in urgent need of talent and it is impossible to leave such a long window period.

Therefore, we had to speed up the process and squeeze in half a year to complete what we were supposed to learn in four years.

As a result, even if they can learn all the book knowledge about software engineering in a short period of time, they will have no time to put it into practice.

"After all, it's the first batch." Chen Jiaxun nodded and said with emotion.

A training cycle that is too short may indeed affect the final level of ability.

But he doesn't think that these 500 people are less powerful or precious.

Looking across the country, there are so many places and units where it is impossible to get the money even if you try.

……

After discussing things.

Li Mu dropped Chen Jiaxun off at Kyoto Railway Station and left with the latter thanking him profusely.

Go home.

Before I had time to rest for a moment, I received a call from the Semiconductor Research Institute.

"Everything is ready. Many important leaders will attend the test. Li Mu, come here quickly." Wu Youxiang tried hard to control his excitement.

But I couldn't suppress the joy in my heart.

After hearing his words, Li Mu immediately understood - the test of the second-generation supercomputer was already prepared.

He suppressed his excitement and immediately said, "Okay, I'll be there right away."

After saying that, he immediately hung up the phone and set off for the Semiconductor Research Institute.

……

Around 9pm.

In the past, at the Semiconductor Research Institute, the lights in each laboratory building would light up one by one every evening.

Usually it won't go out until 12 o'clock.

However, today, it is rare that only a few laboratories have lights on.

When Li Mu drove in, he almost thought he had come to the wrong place.

Fortunately, the next moment, Wu Youxiang came to meet him.

I saw Li Mu get off the car and look around with a puzzled look in his eyes.

He smiled and explained:
"In order to meet the power supply needs of the second-generation supercomputer test, all unnecessary electricity use in the institute has been stopped."

"Moreover, in the next half month, many areas in Kyoto will implement planned electricity consumption to ensure power supply."

"No more talking, let's go in quickly, don't let the leaders wait anxiously, Leader Qin Yun is here today, we must not let them down."

As he said that, he took Li Mu's hand and walked towards the supercomputer testing laboratory.

……

Come to the computer room.

As soon as he came in, Li Mu saw Qin Yun and Guo Mo.

He hurriedly said, "Hello, leaders."

"Haha, no need to be so polite, come and sit down." Qin Yun turned around and waved with a smile, asking him to sit on his left.

Li Mu took two steps forward and said, "I'd better not sit down. I'll go and watch over it, in case there are any problems with the test."

Although he believed very much in Wang Shoujue's ability.

But if I don’t do it myself, I always feel a little unsafe.

"This serious attitude deserves recognition, but we should also give young people more opportunities to perform." Qin Yun couldn't help but smile.

(End of this chapter)