How Do Water Filled Traffic Barriers Shake a Suspension Bridge?

The present study stems from the realization that the general problem relating to the analysis of wind-induced vibrations in suspension bridges still requires significant attention.Sidewalk railings,overhaul tracks,and deflectors are known to largely affect such dynamics.Here,the influence of a row of water-filled traffic barriers on the response of a sample suspension bridge is investigated numerically.It is shown that the existence of water barriers causes flow separation and non-negligible vortices with respect to the condition with no water barriers.The vortex shedding frequency at the far end is around 41.30 Hz,relatively close to the real vibration frequency.It is also shown how different incoming angles of attack can change the flow field around the bridge cross-section and the vortex detachment frequency.

THE FREE BENDING VIBRATION OF CYLINDRICAL TANK PARTIALLY FILLED WITH-LIQUID AND SUBMERGED IN WATER

This paper studies the free bending vibration of cylindrical tank partially filled with liquid and submerged in water. The depths of liquid and water may be completely arbitrary. The exact calculating formulae of mode shape functions and inherent frequencies are deduced. The results can be gained by means of computer. The analysis shows that the effect of liquid and water on vibration of cylindrical tank is respectively equivalent to a generalized distributive mass attached to the tank.

MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS OF FILLED AND EMPTY CAGE-LIKE WATER CLUSTERS IN LIQUID WATER AND THEIR SIGNIFICANCE TO GAS HYDRATE FORMATION MECHANISMS

Molecular dynamics simulations are performed to observe the evolutions of 512 and 51262 cage-like water clusters filled with or without a methane molecule immersed in bulk liquid water at 250 K and 230 K. The lifetimes of these clusters are calculated according to their Lindemann index δ (t) using the criteria of δ≥0.07. For both the filled and empty clusters, we find the dynamics of bulk water determines the lifetimes of cage-like water clusters, and that the lifetime of 512 62 cage-like cluster is the same as that of 512 cage-like cluster. Although the methane molecule indeed makes the filled cage-like cluster more stable than the empty one, the empty cage-like cluster still has chance to be long-lived compared with the filled clusters. These observations support the labile cluster hypothesis on the formation mechanisms of gas hydrates.

Assessing soil nitrous oxide emission as affected by phosphorus and nitrogen addition under two moisture levels

Agricultural soils are deficient of phosphorus （P） worldwide. Phosphatic fertilizers are therefore applied to agricultural soils to improve the fertility and to increase the crop yield. However, the effect of phosphorus application on soil N2O emissions has rarety been studied. Therefore, we conducted a laboratory study to investigate the effects P addition on soil N2O emissions from P deficient alluvial soil under two levels of nitrogen （N） fertilizer and soil moisture. Treatments were arranged as follows： P （0 and 20 mg P kg-1） was applied to soil under two moisture levels of 60 and 90% water filled pore space （WFPS）. Each P and moisture treatment was further treated with two levels of N fertilizer （0 and 200 mg N kg-1 as urea）. Soil variables including mineral nitrogen （NH4＋-N and NO3--N）, available P, dissolved organic carbon （DOC）, and soil N2O emissions were measured throughout the study period of 50 days. Results showed that addition of P increased N2O emis- sions either under 60% WFPS or 90% WFPS conditions. Higher N2O emissions were observed under 90% WFPS when compared to 60% WFPS. Application of N fertilizer also enhanced N2O emissions and the highest emissions were 141 μg N2O kg-1 h-1 in P＋N treatment under 90% WFPS. The results of the present study suggest that P application markedly increases soil N2O emissions under both low and high soil moisture levels, and either with or without N fertilizer application.

A Simplified Power Adaptation Scheme for Wireless Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access

Orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) is a promising access technology based on multiple carrier transmission. In this paper, we develop a power and bits allocation scheme for multiuser OFDMA to minimize the system margin according to channel state information (CSI). Compared with other OFDM methods, our scheme has higher system capacity and better BER performance.

INFLUENCE OF FILLING WATER ON AIR CONCENTRATION

The filling water inside the cavity below an aerator occurs for the flow of low Froude number or the small bottom slope of a spillway. The aerator may cease to protect against cavitation damages, and may even act as a generator of cavitation if it is fully filled by water. The experiments were conducted to investigate the influences of the geometric parameters, and then the filling water on the air concentration. The results show that the filling water, or the net cavity length, is closely related to the plunging jet length for a given aerator, and the air concentration at some section is proportional to the ratio Ln/Lj at a fixed Lj for different geometric parameters of aerators. Secondly, at the same ratio of Ln / Lj, the aerator with a larger height or a larger angle of ramp, or a larger bottom slope, would have a larger plunging jet length, and then a larger net cavity length based on the ratio of Ln / Lj. As a result, the large space of cavity, or the high air concentration of the flow could be obtained although the filling water increases also based on the fact that Lf = Lj - Ln. It is the space of the cavity that is the dominant factor to affect the air concentration of the flow.

Cavity filling water control below aerator devices

With the rapid development of high dam projects within China, the dragon-drop-tail spillway tunnel is introduced and widely used. In view of the high water head and the large flow velocity on the dragon-drop-tail section, aerator devices are usually placed for the cavitation damage control. For the device placed in its initial position, it is a serious concern to design a suitable flow regime of the cavity and to control the cavity filling water due to the large flow depth and the low Froude number through this aerator. In this study, the relationships between the geometries of the aerator device and the jet impact angle of the lower trajectory of the flow are theoretically analyzed with/without a local slope. Nine test cases with different geometries are designed, the effectiveness of the filling water control is experimentally investigated under different operation conditions, and two criteria of the local slope design are proposed. It is concluded that the cavity flow regime and the filling water can be improved if a small impact angle and some suitable geometries of the local slope are designed.

FLOW REGIMES BELOW AERATORS FOR DISCHARGE TUNNELS

The flow regimes below an aerator influence directly the air entrainment and the cavitation damage control. Based on the theoretical considerations, the experiments of the aerator for a discharge tunnel were conducted, and the relationships between the flow regime and hydraulic and geometric parameters were investigated. The results showed that, there are two kinds of threshold values for the flow regime conversions. One is Fr1-2 standing for the conversion from the fully filled cavity to the partially filled cavity, and the other is Fr2-3 which shows the change from the partially filled cavity to the net air cavity. Two empirical expressions were obtained for the conversions of the flow regimes, which can be used in the designs of the aerators.

Joint beamforming and scheduling in the downlink of cognitive radio networks

Cognitive radio has been recently proposed as a promising technology to improve the spectrum utilization. In this paper, we consider a system where a licensed radio spectrum is shared by a primary network and a secondary network. Based on the subspace theory, a novel low-complexity algorithm for secondary user selection has been proposed. On the basis of the scheduling scheme, we jointly consider transmit beamforming, scheduling and power allocation, and subsequently present a complete set of solution for secondary network downlink. Simulation results has shown that our proposed scheme not only can limit the introduced interference at primary users within the tolerable range, but also can achieve high sum-rate throughput of secondary network, simultaneously. Furthermore, as is proved by simulation results, our scheme is very robust due to the fact that only a little tolerable performance drop is introduced when simple but nonoptimal equal power allocation is adopted.