Steady motion and spiral patterns in typhoon

By using the equations describing typhoons in the atmosphere, the steady three-dimensional stream fieldand the corresponding pressure and temperature fields are obtained. The three-dimensional velocity fields construct anonlinear autonomuos system in the physical space. It is shown that the center of typhoon is a local minimum pressurewith positive vertical vorticity and horizontal convergence in lower levels and a local maximum pressure with negativevertical vorticity and horizontal divergence in the upper levels. Because there exits two saddle-focus points in the autnomous system, there exist the spiral patterns, in which the winds blow spirally in and out of the center in the lowerand upper levels in the Northern Hemisphere and cause the ascending motion near the center and dascending motionnear the edge, respectively . All these are in fair conformity with the observations. It implies that the rotation of earthand the viscosity of air play an important role in the spiral structure of typhoons.

Numerical Investigation of Flow Motion and Performance of A Horizontal Axis Tidal Turbine Subjected to A Steady Current

Horizontal axis tidal turbines have attracted more and more attentions nowadays, because of their convenience and low expense in construction and high efficiency in extracting tidal energy. The present study numerically investigates the flow motion and performance of a horizontal axis tidal turbine with a supporting vertical cylinder under steady current. In the numerical model, the continuous equation and incompressible Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes equations are solved, and the volume of fluid method is employed to track free surface motion. The RNG k-ε model is adopted to calculate turbulence transport while the fractional area/volume obstacle representation method is used to describe turbine characteristics and movement. The effects of installation elevation of tidal turbine and inlet velocity on the water elevation, and current velocity, rotating speed and resultant force on turbine are discussed. Based on the comparison of the numerical results, a better understanding of flow structure around horizontal axis tidal turbine and turbine performance is achieved.

STEADY STATE MOTIONS OF SHALLOW ARCH UNDER PERIODIC FORCE WITH 1:2 INTERNAL RESONANCEON THE PLANE OF PHYSICAL PARAMETERS

The bifurcation dynamics of shallow arch which possesses initial deflection under periodic excitation for the case of 1:2 internal resonance is studied in this paper. The whole parametric plane is divided into several different regions according to lire types of motions; then the distribution of steady state motions of shallow arch on the plane of physical parameters is obtained. Combining with numerical method, the dynamics of the system in different regions, especially in the Hopf bifurcation region, is studied in detail. The rule of the mode interaction and the route to chaos of the system is also analysed at the end.

Free Surface Flow Generated by Submerged Twin-cylinders in Forward Motion Using a Fully Nonlinear Method

The free surface flow generated by twin-cylinders in forced motion submerged beneath the free surface is studied based on the boundary element method. Two relative locations, namely, horizontal and vertical, are examined for the twin cylinders. In both cases, the twin cylinders are starting from rest and ultimately moving with the same constant speed through an accelerating process. Assuming that the fluid is inviscid and incompressible and the flow to be irrotational, the integral Laplace equation can be discretized based on the boundary element method. Fully-nonlinear boundary conditions are satisfied on the unknown free surface and the moving body surface. The free surface is traced by a Lagrangian technique. Regriding and remeshing are applied, which is crucial to quality of the numerical results. Single circular cylinder and elliptical cylinder are calculated by linear method and fully nonlinear method for accuracy checking and then fully nonlinear method is conducted on the twin cylinder cases, respectively. The generated wave elevation and the resultant force are analysed to discuss the influence of the gap between the two cylinders as well as the water depth. It is found that no matter the kind of distribution, when the moving cylinders are close to each other, they suffer hydrodynamic force with large absolute value in the direction of motion. The trend of force varying with the increase of gap can be clearly seen from numerical analysis. The vertically distributed twin cylinders seem to attract with each other while the horizontally distributed twin cylinders are opposite when they are close to each other.