Seasonal Characteristics and Interannual Variability of Monthly Scale Low-Frequency Oscillation in a Low-Order Global Spectral Model

Analysis is done of five-year low-pass filtered data by a five-layer low-order global spectral model, indicating that although any non-seasonal external forcing is not considered in the model atmosphere,monthly-scale anomaly takes place which is of remarkable seasonality and interannual variability.Analysis also shows that for the same seasonal external forcing the model atmosphere can exhibit two climatic states,similar in the departure pattern but opposite in sign, indicating that the anomaly is but the manifestation of the adverse states, which supports the theory of multi-equilibria proposed by Charney and Devore(1979) once again.Finally, the source for the low-frequency oscillation of the global atmosphere is found to be the convective heat source / sink inside the tropical atmosphere as discussed before in our study.Therefore, the key approach to the exploration of atmospheric steady low-frequency oscillation and the associated climatic effect lies in the examination of the distribution of convective heat sources / sinks and the variation in the tropical atmosphere.

Vibrations of tandem cold rolling mill: coupled excitation of rolling force and variable stiffness of fault-free back-up roll bearing

Vibration issues of a five-stand tandem cold rolling mill were found in the steel production practice,and the experimental observation and numerical analysis indicated that the vibrations were related to the back-up roll bearing.The results were validated by replacing the back-up roll bearing with the new bearing resulting in 30%decline in vibration amplitude.Models describing the four-row cylindrical roller bearing and the vertical system of the cold rolling mill including the bearing were established.Moreover,the mechanisms of periodic excitation and amplified vibrations of fault-free bearing were explained theoretically,along with the analysis of bifurcation behaviors of the motion states of the roller bearing and rolling mill system.It is found that the energy transmitted between vibrations with different frequencies if multiple excitation frequencies in the rolling mill system were close.

A High Resolution Low Dissipation Hybrid Scheme for Compressible Flows

In this paper, an efficient hybrid shock capturing scheme is proposed to obtain accurate results both in the smooth region and around discontinuities for compressible flows. The hybrid algorithm is based on a fifth-order weighted essentially non-oscillatory （WENO） scheme in the finite volume form to solve the smooth part of the flow field, which is coupled with a characteristic-based monotone upstream-centered scheme for conservation laws （MUSCL） to capture discontinuities. The hybrid scheme is intended to combine high resolution of MUSCL scheme and low dissipation of WENO scheme. The two ingredients in this hybrid scheme are switched with an indicator. Three typical indicators are chosen and compared. MUSCL and WENO are both shock capturing schemes making the choice of the indicator parameter less crucial. Several test cases are carried out to investigate hybrid scheme with different indicators in terms of accuracy and efficiency. Numerical results demonstrate that the hybrid scheme in the present work performs well in a broad range of problems.