Evolution Mechanism of a Severe Squall Line Triggered by the Coupling of a Sea Breeze Front and a Gust Front

In the present study, a severe squall line(SL) was analyzed by using intensive observational surface data and radar monitoring products. In this process, mesoscale convergence lines, such as the sea breeze front(SBF), gust front and dry line, served as the main triggering and strengthening factors. The transition from convection triggering to the formation of the initial shape was mainly affected by the convergence line of the SBF, which combined with thermal convection to form the main parts of the SL. In the later stage, the convergence line of the gust front merged with other convergence lines to form a series of strong convective cells. The SBF had good indicative significance in terms of severe convective weather warnings. The suitable conditions of heat, water vapor and vertical wind shear on the Shandong Peninsula were beneficial to the maintenance of the SL. Before SL occurrence, tropopause folding strengthened, which consequently enhanced the baroclinic property in the middle and upper troposphere. The high sensible heat flux at the surface easily produced a positive potential vorticity anomaly in the low layer, resulting in convective instability, which was conducive to the maintenance of these processes. In the system, when precipitation particles passed through the unsaturated air layer, they underwent strong evaporation, melting or sublimation, and the cooling effect formed negative buoyancy, which accelerated the sinking of the air and promoted the sustained development of the surface gale. Together with the development of lowlevel mesocyclones, the air pressure decreased rapidly, which was conducive to gale initiation.

Adaptive Wind Gust and Associated Gust-factor Model for the Gust-producing Weather over the Northern South China Sea

Wind gusts are common environmental hazards that can damage buildings,bridges,aircraft,and cruise ships and interrupt electric power distribution,air traffic,waterway transport and port operations.Accurately predicting peak wind gusts in numerical models is essential for saving lives and preventing economic losses.This study investigates the climatology of peak wind gusts and their associated gust factors(GFs)using observations in the coastal and open ocean of the northern South China Sea(NSCS),where severe gust-producing weather occurs throughout the year.The stratified climatology demonstrates that the peak wind gust and GF vary with seasons and particularly with weather types.Based on the inversely proportional relationship between the GF and mean wind speed(MWS),a variety of GF models are constructed through least squares regression analysis.Peak gust speed(PGS)forecasts are obtained through the GF models by multiplying the GFs by observed wind speeds rather than forecasted wind speeds.The errors are thus entirely due to the representation of the GF models.The GF models are improved with weather-adaptive GFs,as evaluated by the stratified MWS.Nevertheless,these weather-adaptive GF models show negative bias for predicting stronger PGSs due to insufficient data representation of the extreme wind gusts.The evaluation of the above models provides insight into maximizing the performance of GF models.This study further proposes a stratified process for forecasting peak wind gusts for routine operations.

Atypical Occlusion Process Caused by the Merger of a Sea-breeze Front and Gust Front

An atypical occlusion process that occurred in North China on 14 July 2011 is studied based on both observations and a real-data Weather Research and Forecasting （WRF） model simulation. The results show that this atypical occlusion process was significantly different from the traditional, synoptic-scale occlusion process that occurs within extratropical cyclones. It was caused by the merger of two cold-type mesoscale fronts. One of the fronts developed from the gust front of convective storms, while the other was a sea-breeze front. As the two fronts moved towards each other, the warm air between them was squeezed and separated from the surface. An atypical occluded front was formed when the two fronts merged, with the warm air forced aloft. This kind of occlusion is termed a ＂merger＂ process, different from the well-known ＂catch-up＂ and ＂wrap-up＂ processes. Moreover, local convection was found to be enhanced during the merger process, with severe convective weather produced in the merger area.

Characteristics of daily extreme wind gusts on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, China

Severe wind is a major natural hazard and a main driver of deserdficadon on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. Generally, studies of Qinghai-Tibet Plateau＇s wind climatology focus on mean wind speeds and its gust speeds have been seldom investigated. Here, we used observed daily maximum gust speeds from a 95- station network over a 5-year period （2008-2012） to analyze the characteristics of extreme wind speeds and directions by fitting Weibull and Gumbel distributions. The results indicated the spatial distribution of extreme wind speeds and their direction on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is highly variable, with its western portion prone to greater mean speeds of extreme wind gusts than its eastern portion. Maximum extreme wind speeds of 30.9, 33.0, and 32.2 m/s were recorded at three stations along the Qinghai Tibet Railway. Severe winds occurred mostly from November to April, caused primarily by the westerly jet stream. Terrain greatly enhances the wind speeds. Our spatial analysis of wind speed data showed that the wind speeds increased exponentially with an increasing altitude. We also assessed the local wind hazard by calculating the return periods of maximum wind gusts from the observational data based on the statistical extreme value distributions of these wind speeds. Further attention should be given to those stations where the yearly maximum daily extreme wind speed increased at a rate greater than that of mean value of daily extreme wind speeds. Severe extreme wind events in these regions of the plateau are likely to become more frequent. Consequently, building structural designers working in these areas should use updated extreme wind data rather than relying on past data alone.

A simulation-based study on longitudinal gust response of flexible flapping wings

Winged animals such as insects are capable of flying and surviving in an unsteady and unpredictable aerial environment.They generate and control aerodynamic forces by flapping their flexible wings.While the dynamic shape changes of their flapping wings are known to enhance the efficiency of their flight,they can also affect the stability of a flapping wing flyer under unpredictable disturbances by responding to the sudden changes of aerodynamic forces on the wing.In order to test the hypothesis,the gust response of flexible flapping wings is investigated numerically with a specific focus on the passive maintenance of aerodynamic forces by the wing flexibility.The computational model is based on a dynamic flight simulator that can incorporate the realistic morphology,the kinematics,the structural dynamics,the aerodynamics and the fluid-structure interactions of a hovering hawkmoth.The longitudinal gusts are imposed against the tethered model of a hovering hawkmoth with flexible flapping wings.It is found that the aerodynamic forces on the flapping wings are affected by the gust,because of the increase or decrease in relative wingtip velocity or kinematic angle of attack.The passive shape change of flexible wings can,however,reduce the changes in the magnitude and direction of aerodynamic forces by the gusts from various directions,except for the downward gust.Such adaptive response of the flexible structure to stabilise the attitude can be classified into the mechanical feedback,which works passively with minimal delay,and is of great importance to the design of bio-inspired flapping wings for micro-air vehicles.

Gustiness and Coherent Structure of Strong Winds and Their Role in Dust Emission and Entrainment

After the passage of a cold front, spring in northern China, the outbreak of strong wind is often accompanied by dust emissions. Through analyses of data in the atmospheric boundary layer during a typical case, it is revealed there are rather regular gust wave packets superimposed on the basic strong wind flow. The gust-wind wave packets have a period equal to around 3 6 rains and possess coherent structure. As the vertical transport of momentum is decomposed into separate parts by （a） basic flow, （b） gust-wind, and （c） turbulence, they are all in a downwards direction at the lower levels of the atmospheric boundary layer during strong wind periods. However, （a） is the largest, while （b） and （c） are comparable. All these are very different from the case of normal weather. Besides, the friction velocity at the ground surface is also much larger than that of normal weather and should be corrected by taking the contributions of the basic flow and gust-wind into account.The strong basic flow with descending motion is very favorable for soil erosion and sand/dust emissions, but suppresses the entrainment of dust particles by keeping them within the bottom levels of the atmospheric boundary layer. Owing to the coherent structure of gust-wind, dust particles can effectively overcome the systematic descending air motion and penetrate into the middle and upper levels of the atmospheric boundary layer, and then propagate further and diffuse into the troposphere where ascending air motion prevails.

Near ground wind characteristics during typhoon Meari:Turbulence intensities, gust factors, and peak factors

Wind data were collected during the 2011 typhoon Meari at heights of 10, 20, 30, and 40 m above the ground using a 40 m high anemometer tower in the coastal area near Shanghai Pudong International Airport. Wind speeds and directions, turbulence intensities, gust factors, and peaks were analyzed using the time records of wind speed. The results show that turbulence intensity components in longitudinal, lateral, and vertical directions decrease with mean wind speed, regardless of elevations, and the turbulence intensities are in a linear relationship with mean wind speeds. The ratios of three turbulence intensity components(i.e. Iu, Iv, Iw) at heights of 10, 20 and 40 m were calculated and equal to be 1:0.88:0.50, 1:0.84:0.57, and 1:0.9:0.49, respectively. In addition, the gust factors in three directions exhibit a reduction with increasing mean wind speed. The peak factors at different heights show a similar trend and slightly decrease with mean wind speed; average peak factors for all 10-min data from Typhoon Meari are 2.43, 2.48, and 2.47, respectively.

Operational Safety Assessment of a High-Speed Train Exposed to the Strong Gust Wind

The operational safety characteristics of trains exposed to a strong wind have caused great concern in recent years.In the present paper,the effect of the strong gust wind on a high-speed train is investigated.A typical gust wind model for any wind angle,named“Chinese hat gust wind model”,was first constructed,and an algorithm for computing the aerodynamic loads was elaborated accordingly.A vehicle system dynamic model was then set up in order to investigate the vehicle system dynamic characteristics.The assessment of the operational safety has been conducted by means of characteristic wind curves(CWC).As some of the parameters of the wind-train system were difficult to measure,we also investigated the impact of the uncertain system parameters on the CWC.Results indicate that,the descending order of the operational safety index of the vehicle for each wind angle is 90°-60°-120°-30°-150°,and the worst condition for the operational safety occurs when the wind angle reaches around 90°.According to our findings,the gust factor and aerodynamic side force coefficient have great impact on the critical wind speed.Thus,these two parameters require special attention when considering the operational safety of a railway vehicle subjected to strong gust wind.

Modeling Technique of the Aircraft Unsteady Aerodynamics Due to the Travelling Gust

The main equations for computing the unsteady aerodynamics of the aircraft undergoing the travelling gust are derived.Research and simulation on a specific example aircraft are performed,the results indicate that the modeling technique of the aircraft unsteady aerodynamics is correct,and it can meet the requirements due to the head⁃on and tail⁃on travelling gusts.

Intelligent feedforward gust alleviation based on neural network

This paper proposes a neural network-based intelligent feedforward gust alleviation framework,which includes a neural network identification model and a neural network controller.A neural network training dataset is formed by collecting flight data and the gust data encountered during the aircraft flight.A neural network identification model is first trained to accurately predict the aircraft’s output.Then,based on the output of the identification model and the collected flight data,the parameters of the time-delay neural network controller are obtained through a learning process.The simulation results show that the designed intelligent controller has good gust alleviation effects for both continuous turbulence excitation and discrete gust excitation.For example,when the aircraft is 40000 kg and the flight speed is 0.81Ma,the controller achieves a 67.82%reduction in wingtip acceleration and a 35.90%reduction in center of mass acceleration under continuous turbulence excitation.When considering the measurement uncertainties,such as noise existing in the collected data,the trained controller can still achieve an acceptable gust alleviation effect.Finally,considering a flight in which the aircraft mass is constantly changing,the intelligent controller,which continuously learns from new flight data,maintains a good gust alleviation effect throughout the flight.

Gust response of an elasto-flexible morphing wing using fluid–structure interaction simulations

Small and micro unmanned aircraft are the focus of scientific interest due to their wide range of applications.They often operate in a highly unstable flight environment where the application of new morphing wing technologies offers the opportunity to improve flight characteristics.The investigated concept comprises port and starboard adjustable wings,and an adaptive elastoflexible membrane serves as the lifting surface.The focus is on the benefits of the deforming membrane during the impact of a one-minus-cosine type gust.At a low Reynolds number of Re=264000,the morphing wing model is investigated numerically by unsteady fluid-structure interaction simulations.First,the numerical results are validated by experimental data from force and moment,flow field,and deformation measurements.Second,with the rigid wing as the baseline,the flexible case is investigated,focusing on the advantages of the elastic membrane.For all configurations studied,the maximum amplitude of the lift coefficient under gust load shows good agreement between the experimental and numerical results.During the decay of the gust,they differ more the higher the aspect ratio of the wing.When considering the flow field,the main differences are due to the separation behavior on the upper side of the wing.The flow reattaches earlier in the experiments than in the simulations,which explains the higher lift values observed in the former.Only at one intermediate configuration does the lift amplitude of the rigid configuration exceeds that of the flexible by about 12%,with the elastic membrane resulting in a smaller and more uniform peak load,which is also evident in the wing loading and hence in the root bending moment.

Wing Modulation and Aerodynamics of Hoverflies in Gust Perturbations

Flapping-Wing Micro-Air Vehicles are likely to suffer from airflow perturbations.They can mimic the wing modulation of insects in airflow perturbations.However,our knowledge of wing modulation of insects to airflow perturbations remains limited.Here,we subjected hoverflies to headwind and lateral gust perturbations and filmed their wing motions.Then,computational fluid dynamics was employed to estimate the effects of hoverflies’wing kinematic modulations.We also clipped off the antennae of hoverflies to test whether the wing kinematic modulations were different.Results show that hoverflies increase the mean positional angle and modulate the deviation angle to make the wing tip paths of upstroke and downstroke close to compensate for the pitch moment perturbations in the headwind gust.Hoverflies employ asymmetric responses in positional angle in the lateral gust.The stroke amplitude of the left(right)wing increases(decreases)and the mean positional angle of the left(right)wing decreases(increases)during the right lateral gust.Antennae have little effect on the wing kinematic modulations in the lateral gust.These asymmetric responses produce a roll moment,tilting the body to resist the side force generated by the gust.This is a typical helicopter model employed by hoverflies to alleviate the gust.These results provide insight into the remarkable capacity of hoverflies to contend with gusts and can also inspire the design of flapping-wing micro-air vehicles.

Aeroelastic dynamic response of elastic aircraft with consideration of two-dimensional discrete gust excitation

Design loads generally require a one-dimensional discrete gust profile without consideration of the spanwise effect,and this profile cannot represent the true gust field exactly.For a high aspect ratio aircraft,two-dimensional gusts may cause critical load conditions,and approaches for calculating dynamic responses under two-dimensional discrete gust excitation are rarely presented.In this paper,a spanwise non-uniform vertical discrete gust field is established based on a onedimensional‘1-cos’gust profile in reference to a DARPA proposal,while frequency and hybrid approaches to the dynamic response analysis of flexible aircraft under this two-dimensional gust excitation are presented.Solution techniques have been applied to a high aspect ratio aircraft to assess the different response characteristics with a comparison between one-dimensional and two-dimensional discrete gust field conditions.The results show that the two-dimensional discrete gust model produces a higher bending moment than that of the one-dimensional condition.Therefore,the critical load conditions that are derived from the two-dimensional discrete gust for high aspect ratio aircraft should be seriously considered.According to the analysis,an active control scheme to alleviate the bending loads caused by the two-dimensional gust is designed,and alleviation effects in different gust conditions are compared.

Wind tunnel test of gust load alleviation for a large-scale full aircraft model

Wind tunnel test is an important way to test the performance of Gust Load Alleviation(GLA).At present,some component-level wind tunnel tests have been carried out in big aviation countries,but there is a lack of full aircraft model GLA tests.In this study,a set of large-scale GLA test system in low-speed wind tunnel is developed,which includes a gust generator,a five-degree-of-freedom suspension system,a full elastic aircraft model with control system,and gust load measuring devices.Two control schemes based on closed-loop feedback control and open-loop feed forward control are respectively designed and verified by the full-model GLA tests in the wind tunnel.The experimental results show that the designed gust generator can generate a stable wideband,wide-area gust wind field;the suspension support system can sustain static and dynamic stability during wind tunnel test,and enables the model moving in the horizontal,vertical,pitching,rolling and yawing directions.The results show that the closed-loop feedback control can obtain good control performance of reducing the peak values of elastic vibration response induced by gust excitation,but has little effect on suppressing the rigid body motion excited by low-frequency gust,while the open-loop feed forward control presents superior performance in allevi-ating the high-frequency elastic vibration as well as the low-frequency rigid body motion with more than 40%overall reduction rate.

Probabilistic Wind Gust Forecasting during the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics

The probabilistic forecast of wind gusts poses a significant challenge during the post-processing of numerical model outputs.Comparative analysis of probabilistic forecasting methods plays a crucial role in enhancing forecast accuracy.Within the context of meteorological services for alpine skiing at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics,The ECMWF ensemble products were used to evaluate six post-processing methods.These methods include ensemble model output statistics(EMOS),backpropagation neural networks(BP),particle swarm optimization algorithms with backpropagation neural networks(PSO),truncated normal distributions,truncated logarithmic distributions,and generalized extreme value(GEV) distributions.The performance of these methods in predicting gust probabilities at five observation points along a ski track was compared.All six methods exhibited a substantial reduction in forecast errors compared to the original ECMWF products;however,the ability to correct the model forecast results varied significantly across different wind speed ranges.Specifically,the EMOS,truncated normal distribution,truncated logarithmic distribution,and GEV distribution demonstrated advantages in low wind-speed ranges,whereas the BP and PSO methods exhibit lower forecast errors for high wind-speed events.Furthermore,this study affirms the rationality of utilizing the statistical characteristics derived from ensemble forecasts as probabilistic forecast factors.The application of probability integral transform(PIT) and quantile–quantile(QQ) plots demonstrates that gust variations at the majority of observation sites conform to the GEV distribution,thereby indicating the potential for further enhanced forecast accuracy.The results also underscore the significant utility of the PSO hybrid model,which amalgamates particle swarm optimization with a BP neural network,in the probabilistic forecasting of strong winds within the field of meteorology.

实验性脾虚大鼠肠道黏膜味蛋白Gαgust基因及蛋白表达及补脾方干预研究

目的:观察脾虚模型大鼠肠黏膜味蛋白(Gαgust)表达情况以及健脾方药的干预作用,探讨肠道味觉关键信号分子Gαgust异常表达与脾虚证的发病相关性。方法:采用大黄脾虚模型,并设肾虚模型对照,通过QPCR法、Western blot法、免疫组化法对脾虚治疗组、脾虚自然恢复组、脾虚模型组、肾虚对照组及正常对照组Gαgust进行检测。结果:脾虚模型组Gαgust表达与正常对照组、脾虚自然恢复组相比下降(P<0.05),尤其与肾虚组比较也有显著性差异(P<0.05),经健脾治疗后脾虚治疗组Gαgust表达比脾虚自然恢复组、脾虚模型组、肾虚对照组表达上升。结论:肠道味觉关键信号分子Gαgust异常表达与脾虚证的发病密切相关,而健脾方药对其有一定的调节作用。

多频率组合波形阵风场模拟与测量研究

基于数值模拟方法选取设定FL-51风洞阵风发生器的装置参数,如发生器叶片的数量、展长、弦长及间距等。发生器采用液压摆动缸独立驱动形式,可模拟正弦波、三角波及随机波等多种波形的多频率组合运动,同时能够减少安装传动件,并提升发生器性能。通过阵风场校测结果表明:叶片能够实现摆动频率为0 Hz~15 Hz,在校测范围内发生器产生的正弦流场较均匀;在来流风速40 m/s、叶片摆动频率为10 Hz、摆角为15°时,最大阵风幅值为8.5 m/s。地面测试与流场校测结果表明:该文所提出的阵风场模拟技术可以实现低速风洞多频率多波形组合运动,为风洞试验提供复杂的阵风流场。

Application of Active Flow Control Technique for Gust Load Alleviation

A new gust load alleviation technique is presented in this paper based on active flow control. Numerical studies are conducted to investigate the beneficial effects on the aerodynamic characteristics of the quasi ＂Global Hawk＂ airfoil using arrays of jets during the gust process. Based on unsteady Navier-Stokes equations, the grid-velocity method is introduced to simulate the gust influence, and dynamic response in vertical gust flow perturbation is investigated for the airfoil as well. An unsteady surface transpiration boundary condition is enforced over a user specified portion of the airfoil’s surface to emulate the time dependent velocity boundary conditions. Firstly, after applying this method to simulate typical NACA0006 airfoil gust response to a step change in the angle of attack, it shows that the indicial responses of the airfoil make good agreement with the exact theoretical values and the calculated values in references. Furthermore, gust response characteristic for the quasi ＂Global Hawk＂ airfoil is analyzed. Five kinds of flow control techniques are introduced as steady blowing, steady suction, unsteady blowing, unsteady suction and synthetic jets. The physical analysis of the influence on the effects of gust load alleviation is proposed to provide some guidelines for practice. Numerical results have indicated that active flow control technique,as a new technology of gust load alleviation, can affect and suppress the fluid disturbances caused by gust so as to achieve the purpose of gust load alleviation.

Gust response modeling and alleviation scheme design for an elastic aircraft

Time-domain approaches are presented for analysis of the dynamic response of aeroservoelastic systems to atmospheric gust excitations. The continuous and discrete gust inputs are defined in the time domain. The time-domain approach to continuous gust response uses a state-space formulation that requires the frequency-dependent aerodynamic coefficients to be approximated with the rational function of a Laplace variable. A hybrid method which combines the Fourier transform and time-domain approaches is used to calculate discrete gust response. The purpose of this approach is to obtain a time-domain state-space model without using rational function approximation of the gust columns. Three control schemes are designed for gust alleviation on an elastic aircraft, and three control surfaces are used: aileron, elevator and spoiler. The signals from the rate of pitch angle gyroscope or angle of attack sensor are sent to the elevator while the signals from accelerometers at the wing tip and center of gravity of the aircraft are sent to the aileron and spoiler, respectively. All the control laws are based on classical control theory. The results show that acceleration at the center of gravity of the aircraft and bending-moment at the wing-root section are mainly excited by rigid modes of the aircraft and the accelerations at the wing-tip are mainly excited by elastic modes of the aircraft. All the three control schemes can be used to alleviate the wing-root moments and the accelerations. The gust response can be alleviated using control scheme 3, in which the spoiler is used as a control surface, but the effects are not as good as those of control schemes 1 and 2.

Gust load alleviation wind tunnel tests of a large-aspect-ratio flexible wing with piezoelectric control

An active control technique utilizing piezoelectric actuators to alleviate gust-response loads of a large-aspect-ratio flexible wing is investigated. Piezoelectric materials have been extensively used for active vibration control of engineering structures. In this paper, piezoelectric materials further attempt to suppress the vibration of the aeroelastic wing caused by gust. The motion equation of the flexible wing with piezoelectric patches is obtained by Hamilton＇s principle with the modal approach, and then numerical gust responses are analyzed, based on which a gust load alleviation（GLA） control system is proposed. The gust load alleviation system employs classic propor tional-integral-derivative（PID） controllers which treat piezoelectric patches as control actuators and acceleration as the feedback signal. By a numerical method, the control mechanism that piezoelectric actuators can be used to alleviate gust-response loads is also analyzed qualitatively. Furthermore, through low-speed wind tunnel tests, the effectiveness of the gust load alleviation active control technology is validated. The test results agree well with the numerical results. Test results show that at a certain frequency range, the control scheme can effectively alleviate the z and x wingtip accelerations and the root bending moment of the wing to a certain extent. The control system gives satisfying gust load alleviation efficacy with the reduction rate being generally over 20%.