A variational method is developed to retrieve winds in the first step and then thermodynamic fields in the second step from Doppler radar observations. In the first step, wind fields are retrieved at two time levels: ...A variational method is developed to retrieve winds in the first step and then thermodynamic fields in the second step from Doppler radar observations. In the first step, wind fields are retrieved at two time levels: the beginning and ending times of the data assimilation period, simultaneously from two successive volume scans by using the weak form constraints provided by the mass continuity and vorticity equations. As the retrieved wind fields are expressed by Legendre polynomial expansions at the beginning and ending times, the time tendency term in the vorticity equation can be conveniently formulated, and the retrieved winds can be compared with the radar observed radial winds in the cost function at the precise time and position of each radar beam. In the second step, the perturbation pressure and temperature fields at the middle time are then derived from the retrieved wind fields and the velocity time tendency by using the weak form constraints provided by the three momentum equations. The merits of the new method are demonstrated by numerical experiments with simulated radar observations and compared with the traditional least squares methods which consider neither the precise observation times and positions nor the velocity time tendency. The new method is also applied to real radar data for a heavy rainfall event during the 2001 Meiyu season in China.展开更多
This paper addresses joint wind-wave induced dynamic responses of a semi-type offshore floating wind turbine(OFWT) under normal states and fault event conditions. The analysis in this paper is conducted in time doma...This paper addresses joint wind-wave induced dynamic responses of a semi-type offshore floating wind turbine(OFWT) under normal states and fault event conditions. The analysis in this paper is conducted in time domain, using an aero-hydro-servo-elastic simulation code-FAST. Owing to the unique viscous features of the reference system, the original viscous damping model implemented in FAST is replaced with a quadratic one to gain an accurate capture of viscous effects. Simulation cases involve free-decay motion in still water, steady motions in the presence of regular waves and wind as well as dynamic response in operational sea states with and without wind. Simulations also include the cases for transient responses induced by fast blade pitching after emergency shutdown. The features of platform motions, local structural loads and a typical mooring line tension force under a variety of excitations are obtained and investigated.展开更多
We present a comparison of changes in large and sharp solar wind dynamic pressure, observed by several spacecraft, with fast disturbances in the magnetospheric magnetic field, measured by the geosynchronous satellites...We present a comparison of changes in large and sharp solar wind dynamic pressure, observed by several spacecraft, with fast disturbances in the magnetospheric magnetic field, measured by the geosynchronous satellites. More than 260 changes in solar wind pressure during the period 1996-2003 are selected for this study. Large statistics show that an increase (a decrease) in dynamic pressure always results in an increase (a decrease) in the magnitude of geosynchronous magnetic field. The amplitude of response to the geomagnetic field strongly depends on the location of observer relative to the noon meridian, the value of pressure before disturbance, and the change in amplitude of pressure.展开更多
The complexity of the loads acting on the offshore wind turbines (OWl's) structures and the significance of investigation on structure dynamics are explained. Test results obtained from a scaled wind turbine model ...The complexity of the loads acting on the offshore wind turbines (OWl's) structures and the significance of investigation on structure dynamics are explained. Test results obtained from a scaled wind turbine model are also summarized. The model is supported on monopile, subjected to different types of dynamic loading using an innovative out of balance mass system to apply cyclic/dynamic loads. The test results show the natural frequency of the wind turbine structure increases with the number of cycles, but with a reduced rate of increase with the accumulation of soil strain level. The change is found to be dependent on the shear strain level in the soil next to the pile which matches with the expectations from the element tests of the soil. The test results were plotted in a non-dimensional manner in order to be scaled to predict the orototvoe conseouences usin~ element tests of a soil usin~ resonant column aoDararus.展开更多
The state-of-art Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) codes FLUENT is applied in a fine-scale simulation of the wind field over a complex terrain. Several numerical tests are performed to validate the capability of FL...The state-of-art Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) codes FLUENT is applied in a fine-scale simulation of the wind field over a complex terrain. Several numerical tests are performed to validate the capability of FLUENT on describing the wind field details over a complex terrain. The results of the numerical tests show that FLUENT can simulate the wind field over extremely complex terrain, which cannot be simulated by mesoscale models. The reason why FLUENT can cope with extremely complex terrain, which can not be coped with by mesoscale models, relies on some particular techniques adopted by FLUENT, such as computer-aided design (CAD) technique, unstructured grid technique and finite volume method. Compared with mesoscale models, FLUENT can describe terrain in much more accurate details and can provide wind simulation results with higher resolution and more accuracy.展开更多
In the current research for parachute flow field nowadays,the size of parachutes in previous research are so large compared with their carriers that the effects of the carriers wake flow to parachute are always neglec...In the current research for parachute flow field nowadays,the size of parachutes in previous research are so large compared with their carriers that the effects of the carriers wake flow to parachute are always neglected.Different from such large parachutes,the parachute size in this paper is on the same magnitude with the carrier,thus,the carrier can obviously affect the parachute flow field.In this paper,flow field characteristics of small parachute for projectile decelerating are researched through two approaches,namely,computational fluid dynamics(CFD) simulation and wind tunnel tests.Three parachutes with various sizes are chosen for study.Firstly,the CFD simulation of flow field around these parachutes is carried out,and then the CFD simulation of parachute-projectile systems is executed.According to the simulation results,the phenomenon is observed that in the simulations of parachutes there are two vortex-rings at the wind shadow of parachutes,however,in the second simulations of parachute-projectile systems,two additional vortex-rings emerge inside the parachutes.Due to these two inner vortex-rings,the pressure inside parachutes decreases.As a result,the drag of parachute in simulation of parachute-projectile systems is about 20% smaller compared with the prior one.In order to verify the numerical results of CFD simulations,wind tunnel tests are employed.In terms of the data of the wind tunnel tests,the CFD simulation for flow field characteristics is reasonable and feasible.The results of both CFD simulation and wind tunnel tests demonstrated the influence of projectile wake flow to parachute drag can not be neglected if the parachute size is on the same magnitude with projectile.The influence to parachute drag from the ratio of projectile diameter to parachute diameter is also analyzed both in CFD simulations and wind tunnel tests.The approach combined CFD simulation and wind tunnel tests proposed can be used to guide the design of such parachute whose size is on the same magnitude with carrier.展开更多
An example of post-noon ionospheric absorption observed by the imaging riometers at Ny-Alesund / Danmarkshavn in the arctic region and Zhongshan Station in Antarctic is presented. The post-noon absorption observed sim...An example of post-noon ionospheric absorption observed by the imaging riometers at Ny-Alesund / Danmarkshavn in the arctic region and Zhongshan Station in Antarctic is presented. The post-noon absorption observed simultaneously between the hemispherical stations was a spike-type with weak intensity (<1 dB) during the high solar wind dynamic pressure. The absorption spikes might be caused by precipitation of highrenergy electrons (30 - 300 keV) in the closed dayside magnetosphere. It should be noted that the precipitation region of the absorption spike associated with the steep pressure increase (~ 13 nPa) was localized and shifted equatorward.展开更多
Background:Baseline levels of tree mortality can,over time,contribute to high snag densities and high levels of deadwood(down woody debris)if fire is infrequent and decomposition is slow.Deadwood can be important for ...Background:Baseline levels of tree mortality can,over time,contribute to high snag densities and high levels of deadwood(down woody debris)if fire is infrequent and decomposition is slow.Deadwood can be important for tree recruitment,and it plays a major role in terrestrial carbon cycling,but deadwood is rarely examined in a spatially explicit context.Methods:Between 2011 and 2019,we annually tracked all trees and snags≥1 cm in diameter and mapped all pieces of deadwood≥10 cm diameter and≥1 m in length in 25.6 ha of Tsuga heterophylla/Pseudotsuga menziesii forest.We analyzed the amount,biomass,and spatial distribution of deadwood,and we assessed how various causes of mortality that contributed uniquely to deadwood creation.Results:Compared to aboveground woody live biomass of 481 Mg ha^(−1)(from trees≥10 cm diameter),snag biomass was 74 Mg ha^(−1) and deadwood biomass was 109 Mg ha^(−1)(from boles≥10 cm diameter).Biomass from large-diameter trees(≥60 cm)accounted for 85%,88%,and 58%,of trees,snags,and deadwood,respectively.Total aboveground woody live and dead biomass was 668 Mg ha^(−1).The annual production of downed wood(≥10 cm diameter)from tree boles averaged 4 Mg ha^(−1) yr^(−1).Woody debris was spatially heterogeneous,varying more than two orders of magnitude from 4 to 587 Mg ha^(−1) at the scale of 20 m×20 m quadrats.Almost all causes of deadwood creation varied in importance between large-diameter trees and small-diameter trees.Biomass of standing stems and deadwood had weak inverse distributions,reflecting the long period of time required for trees to reach large diameters following antecedent tree mortalities and the centennial scale time required for deadwood decomposition.Conclusion:Old-growth forests contain large stores of biomass in living trees,as well as in snag and deadwood biomass pools that are stable long after tree death.Ignoring biomass(or carbon)in deadwood pools can lead to substantial underestimations of sequestration and stability.展开更多
文摘A variational method is developed to retrieve winds in the first step and then thermodynamic fields in the second step from Doppler radar observations. In the first step, wind fields are retrieved at two time levels: the beginning and ending times of the data assimilation period, simultaneously from two successive volume scans by using the weak form constraints provided by the mass continuity and vorticity equations. As the retrieved wind fields are expressed by Legendre polynomial expansions at the beginning and ending times, the time tendency term in the vorticity equation can be conveniently formulated, and the retrieved winds can be compared with the radar observed radial winds in the cost function at the precise time and position of each radar beam. In the second step, the perturbation pressure and temperature fields at the middle time are then derived from the retrieved wind fields and the velocity time tendency by using the weak form constraints provided by the three momentum equations. The merits of the new method are demonstrated by numerical experiments with simulated radar observations and compared with the traditional least squares methods which consider neither the precise observation times and positions nor the velocity time tendency. The new method is also applied to real radar data for a heavy rainfall event during the 2001 Meiyu season in China.
基金financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.51239007)
文摘This paper addresses joint wind-wave induced dynamic responses of a semi-type offshore floating wind turbine(OFWT) under normal states and fault event conditions. The analysis in this paper is conducted in time domain, using an aero-hydro-servo-elastic simulation code-FAST. Owing to the unique viscous features of the reference system, the original viscous damping model implemented in FAST is replaced with a quadratic one to gain an accurate capture of viscous effects. Simulation cases involve free-decay motion in still water, steady motions in the presence of regular waves and wind as well as dynamic response in operational sea states with and without wind. Simulations also include the cases for transient responses induced by fast blade pitching after emergency shutdown. The features of platform motions, local structural loads and a typical mooring line tension force under a variety of excitations are obtained and investigated.
基金Project supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Researches (Grant Nos 04-02-16152 and 04-02-39004), the International Association for the Promotion of Co-operation with Scientists from the New Independent States of the Former Soviet Union (Grant Nos 03-51-3738 and MK-2267.2004.2) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grand Nos 40325010 and 40574069).
文摘We present a comparison of changes in large and sharp solar wind dynamic pressure, observed by several spacecraft, with fast disturbances in the magnetospheric magnetic field, measured by the geosynchronous satellites. More than 260 changes in solar wind pressure during the period 1996-2003 are selected for this study. Large statistics show that an increase (a decrease) in dynamic pressure always results in an increase (a decrease) in the magnitude of geosynchronous magnetic field. The amplitude of response to the geomagnetic field strongly depends on the location of observer relative to the noon meridian, the value of pressure before disturbance, and the change in amplitude of pressure.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(51109184,51209183,and 51325901)
文摘The complexity of the loads acting on the offshore wind turbines (OWl's) structures and the significance of investigation on structure dynamics are explained. Test results obtained from a scaled wind turbine model are also summarized. The model is supported on monopile, subjected to different types of dynamic loading using an innovative out of balance mass system to apply cyclic/dynamic loads. The test results show the natural frequency of the wind turbine structure increases with the number of cycles, but with a reduced rate of increase with the accumulation of soil strain level. The change is found to be dependent on the shear strain level in the soil next to the pile which matches with the expectations from the element tests of the soil. The test results were plotted in a non-dimensional manner in order to be scaled to predict the orototvoe conseouences usin~ element tests of a soil usin~ resonant column aoDararus.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(40805004, 40705039 and 90715031)the "Mini-projecton detailed survey and evaluation of wind energy resources"supported by National Climate Center of Chinese Meteoro-logical Administration (CWERA2010002)
文摘The state-of-art Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) codes FLUENT is applied in a fine-scale simulation of the wind field over a complex terrain. Several numerical tests are performed to validate the capability of FLUENT on describing the wind field details over a complex terrain. The results of the numerical tests show that FLUENT can simulate the wind field over extremely complex terrain, which cannot be simulated by mesoscale models. The reason why FLUENT can cope with extremely complex terrain, which can not be coped with by mesoscale models, relies on some particular techniques adopted by FLUENT, such as computer-aided design (CAD) technique, unstructured grid technique and finite volume method. Compared with mesoscale models, FLUENT can describe terrain in much more accurate details and can provide wind simulation results with higher resolution and more accuracy.
文摘In the current research for parachute flow field nowadays,the size of parachutes in previous research are so large compared with their carriers that the effects of the carriers wake flow to parachute are always neglected.Different from such large parachutes,the parachute size in this paper is on the same magnitude with the carrier,thus,the carrier can obviously affect the parachute flow field.In this paper,flow field characteristics of small parachute for projectile decelerating are researched through two approaches,namely,computational fluid dynamics(CFD) simulation and wind tunnel tests.Three parachutes with various sizes are chosen for study.Firstly,the CFD simulation of flow field around these parachutes is carried out,and then the CFD simulation of parachute-projectile systems is executed.According to the simulation results,the phenomenon is observed that in the simulations of parachutes there are two vortex-rings at the wind shadow of parachutes,however,in the second simulations of parachute-projectile systems,two additional vortex-rings emerge inside the parachutes.Due to these two inner vortex-rings,the pressure inside parachutes decreases.As a result,the drag of parachute in simulation of parachute-projectile systems is about 20% smaller compared with the prior one.In order to verify the numerical results of CFD simulations,wind tunnel tests are employed.In terms of the data of the wind tunnel tests,the CFD simulation for flow field characteristics is reasonable and feasible.The results of both CFD simulation and wind tunnel tests demonstrated the influence of projectile wake flow to parachute drag can not be neglected if the parachute size is on the same magnitude with projectile.The influence to parachute drag from the ratio of projectile diameter to parachute diameter is also analyzed both in CFD simulations and wind tunnel tests.The approach combined CFD simulation and wind tunnel tests proposed can be used to guide the design of such parachute whose size is on the same magnitude with carrier.
文摘An example of post-noon ionospheric absorption observed by the imaging riometers at Ny-Alesund / Danmarkshavn in the arctic region and Zhongshan Station in Antarctic is presented. The post-noon absorption observed simultaneously between the hemispherical stations was a spike-type with weak intensity (<1 dB) during the high solar wind dynamic pressure. The absorption spikes might be caused by precipitation of highrenergy electrons (30 - 300 keV) in the closed dayside magnetosphere. It should be noted that the precipitation region of the absorption spike associated with the steep pressure increase (~ 13 nPa) was localized and shifted equatorward.
基金Funding was received from the Utah Agricultural Experiment Station(projects 1153,1398,and 1423 to JAL)the National Science Foundation(DEB#1542681 to JAL and colleagues)the Smithsonian Institution ForestGEO.Research was performed under a 5-year permit(2016–2020)from the USDA Forest Service Pacific Northwest Research Station.
文摘Background:Baseline levels of tree mortality can,over time,contribute to high snag densities and high levels of deadwood(down woody debris)if fire is infrequent and decomposition is slow.Deadwood can be important for tree recruitment,and it plays a major role in terrestrial carbon cycling,but deadwood is rarely examined in a spatially explicit context.Methods:Between 2011 and 2019,we annually tracked all trees and snags≥1 cm in diameter and mapped all pieces of deadwood≥10 cm diameter and≥1 m in length in 25.6 ha of Tsuga heterophylla/Pseudotsuga menziesii forest.We analyzed the amount,biomass,and spatial distribution of deadwood,and we assessed how various causes of mortality that contributed uniquely to deadwood creation.Results:Compared to aboveground woody live biomass of 481 Mg ha^(−1)(from trees≥10 cm diameter),snag biomass was 74 Mg ha^(−1) and deadwood biomass was 109 Mg ha^(−1)(from boles≥10 cm diameter).Biomass from large-diameter trees(≥60 cm)accounted for 85%,88%,and 58%,of trees,snags,and deadwood,respectively.Total aboveground woody live and dead biomass was 668 Mg ha^(−1).The annual production of downed wood(≥10 cm diameter)from tree boles averaged 4 Mg ha^(−1) yr^(−1).Woody debris was spatially heterogeneous,varying more than two orders of magnitude from 4 to 587 Mg ha^(−1) at the scale of 20 m×20 m quadrats.Almost all causes of deadwood creation varied in importance between large-diameter trees and small-diameter trees.Biomass of standing stems and deadwood had weak inverse distributions,reflecting the long period of time required for trees to reach large diameters following antecedent tree mortalities and the centennial scale time required for deadwood decomposition.Conclusion:Old-growth forests contain large stores of biomass in living trees,as well as in snag and deadwood biomass pools that are stable long after tree death.Ignoring biomass(or carbon)in deadwood pools can lead to substantial underestimations of sequestration and stability.