In order to evaluate the effects of the short blade locations on the anti-cavitation performance of the splittel bladed inducer and the pump, 5 inducers with different short blade locations are designed, Cavitation si...In order to evaluate the effects of the short blade locations on the anti-cavitation performance of the splittel bladed inducer and the pump, 5 inducers with different short blade locations are designed, Cavitation simulatior and experimental tests of the pumps with these inducers are carried out. The algebraic slip mixture model in th CFX software is adopted for cavitation simulation. The results show that there is a vortex at the inlet of the indu（ er. Asymmetric cavitation on the inducer and on the impeller is observed. The analysis shows that the short blad locations have a minor effect on the internal flow field in the inducer and on the external performance of th pump, but have a significant effect on the anti-cavitation performance. It is suggested that the inducer shoul be designed appropriately. The present simulations found an optimal inducer with better anti-cavitatio performance.展开更多
Hydrological risk is highly dependent on the occurrence of extreme rainfalls.This fact has led to a wide range of studies on the estimation and uncertainty analysis of the extremes.In most cases,confidence intervals(C...Hydrological risk is highly dependent on the occurrence of extreme rainfalls.This fact has led to a wide range of studies on the estimation and uncertainty analysis of the extremes.In most cases,confidence intervals(CIs)are constructed to represent the uncertainty of the estimates.Since the accuracy of CIs depends on the asymptotic normality of the data and is questionable with limited observations in practice,a Bayesian highest posterior density(HPD)interval,bootstrap percentile interval,and profile likelihood(PL)interval have been introduced to analyze the uncertainty that does not depend on the normality assumption.However,comparison studies to investigate their performances in terms of the accuracy and uncertainty of the estimates are scarce.In addition,the strengths,weakness,and conditions necessary for performing each method also must be investigated.Accordingly,in this study,test experiments with simulations from varying parent distributions and different sample sizes were conducted.Then,applications to the annual maximum rainfall(AMR)time series data in South Korea were performed.Five districts with 38-year(1973–2010)AMR observations were fitted by the three aforementioned methods in the application.From both the experimental and application results,the Bayesian method is found to provide the lowest uncertainty of the design level while the PL estimates generally have the highest accuracy but also the largest uncertainty.The bootstrap estimates are usually inferior to the other two methods,but can perform adequately when the distribution model is not heavy-tailed and the sample size is large.The distribution tail behavior and the sample size are clearly found to affect the estimation accuracy and uncertainty.This study presents a comparative result,which can help researchers make decisions in the context of assessing extreme rainfall uncertainties.展开更多
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(51406185,51276172)the China Scholarship Council Project in 2012(201208330325)+1 种基金the Third Level 151 Talent Project in Zhejiang Provincethe Professional Leader Leading Project in 2013(lj2013005)
文摘In order to evaluate the effects of the short blade locations on the anti-cavitation performance of the splittel bladed inducer and the pump, 5 inducers with different short blade locations are designed, Cavitation simulatior and experimental tests of the pumps with these inducers are carried out. The algebraic slip mixture model in th CFX software is adopted for cavitation simulation. The results show that there is a vortex at the inlet of the indu（ er. Asymmetric cavitation on the inducer and on the impeller is observed. The analysis shows that the short blad locations have a minor effect on the internal flow field in the inducer and on the external performance of th pump, but have a significant effect on the anti-cavitation performance. It is suggested that the inducer shoul be designed appropriately. The present simulations found an optimal inducer with better anti-cavitatio performance.
基金supported by Hanyang University(Grant No.HY-2014)
文摘Hydrological risk is highly dependent on the occurrence of extreme rainfalls.This fact has led to a wide range of studies on the estimation and uncertainty analysis of the extremes.In most cases,confidence intervals(CIs)are constructed to represent the uncertainty of the estimates.Since the accuracy of CIs depends on the asymptotic normality of the data and is questionable with limited observations in practice,a Bayesian highest posterior density(HPD)interval,bootstrap percentile interval,and profile likelihood(PL)interval have been introduced to analyze the uncertainty that does not depend on the normality assumption.However,comparison studies to investigate their performances in terms of the accuracy and uncertainty of the estimates are scarce.In addition,the strengths,weakness,and conditions necessary for performing each method also must be investigated.Accordingly,in this study,test experiments with simulations from varying parent distributions and different sample sizes were conducted.Then,applications to the annual maximum rainfall(AMR)time series data in South Korea were performed.Five districts with 38-year(1973–2010)AMR observations were fitted by the three aforementioned methods in the application.From both the experimental and application results,the Bayesian method is found to provide the lowest uncertainty of the design level while the PL estimates generally have the highest accuracy but also the largest uncertainty.The bootstrap estimates are usually inferior to the other two methods,but can perform adequately when the distribution model is not heavy-tailed and the sample size is large.The distribution tail behavior and the sample size are clearly found to affect the estimation accuracy and uncertainty.This study presents a comparative result,which can help researchers make decisions in the context of assessing extreme rainfall uncertainties.
