The Miyun Reservoir is the most important water source for Beijing Municipality, the capital of China with a population of more than 12 million. In recent decades, the inflow to the reservoir has shown a decreasing tr...The Miyun Reservoir is the most important water source for Beijing Municipality, the capital of China with a population of more than 12 million. In recent decades, the inflow to the reservoir has shown a decreasing trend, which has seriously threatened water use in Beijing. In order to analyze the influents of land use and cover change (LUCC) upon inflow to Miyun Reservoir, terrain and land use information from remote sensing were utilized with a revised evapotranspiration estimation formula; a water loss model under conditions of human impacts was introduced; and a distributed monthly water balance model was established and applied to the Chaobai River Basin controlled by the Miyun Reservoir. The model simulation suggested that not only the impact of land cover change on evapotranspiration, but also the extra water loss caused by human activities, such as the water and soil conservation development projects should be considered. Although these development projects were of great benefit to human and ecological protection, they could reallocate water resources in time and space, and in a sense thereby influence the stream flow.展开更多
In this study,based on the Luo bubble coalescence model,a model correction factor C_e for pressures according to the literature experimental results was introduced in the bubble coalescence efficiency term.Then,a coup...In this study,based on the Luo bubble coalescence model,a model correction factor C_e for pressures according to the literature experimental results was introduced in the bubble coalescence efficiency term.Then,a coupled modified population balance model(PBM) with computational fluid dynamics(CFD) was used to simulate a high-pressure bubble column.The simulation results with and without C_e were compared with the experimental data.The modified CFD-PBM coupled model was used to investigate its applicability to broader experimental conditions.These results showed that the modified CFD-PBM coupled model can predict the hydrodynamic behaviors under various operating conditions.展开更多
The basic energy balance model is applied to analyze the hohlraum energetics data from the Shenguang(SG)series laser facilities and the National Ignition Facility(NIF)experiments published in the past few years.The an...The basic energy balance model is applied to analyze the hohlraum energetics data from the Shenguang(SG)series laser facilities and the National Ignition Facility(NIF)experiments published in the past few years.The analysis shows that the overall hohlraum energetics data are in agreement with the energy balance model within 20%deviation.The 20%deviation might be caused by the diversity in hohlraum parameters,such as material,laser pulse,gas filling density,etc.In addition,the NIF's ignition target designs and our ignition target designs given by simulations are also in accordance with the energy balance model.This work confirms the value of the energy balance model for ignition target design and experimental data assessment,and demonstrates that the NIF energy is enough to achieve ignition if a 1D spherical radiation drive could be created,meanwhile both the laser plasma instabilities and hydrodynamic instabilities could be suppressed.展开更多
On the basis of population balance a mathematical model is developed to describe the formation of polymer particle in styrene suspension polymerization. The characteristics of coalescence and breakage of droplets and ...On the basis of population balance a mathematical model is developed to describe the formation of polymer particle in styrene suspension polymerization. The characteristics of coalescence and breakage of droplets and the gel effect are analyzed in particular. Parameters of the models are estimated by experimental data on reaction conversion and particle size distribution. The results show that the model is suitable for predicting polymerization processes.展开更多
The relationship between vegetation greening and climate change remains unclear due to its complexity, especially in drylands. Against the background of global warming, arid and semi-arid areas, including mid-latitude...The relationship between vegetation greening and climate change remains unclear due to its complexity, especially in drylands. Against the background of global warming, arid and semi-arid areas, including mid-latitude deserts, are most sensitive to climate change. In recent decades, the mechanisms underlying the relationship between vegetation greening and climate change have been widely discussed in the literature. However, the influence of vegetation greening in high latitudes on regional climate has not been fully studied. In this paper, a two-dimensional energy balance model was used to study the influence of greening in high latitudes on mid-latitude deserts. The authors found that when greening occurs in high latitudes, the mid-latitude desert recedes at the south boundary, while the polar ice belt and low-latitude vegetation belt both expand. Simultaneously, greening in high latitudes can induce a negative temperature anomaly in northern latitudes and a positive temperature anomaly in southern latitudes. The mid-latitude desert expands at its north and south boundaries until the CO2 concentration reaches 600 ppm(saturated state). The greening in high latitudes could result in a lower global-mean temperature in the ‘saturated’ state, due to the stronger cooling in high latitudes.展开更多
Groundwater resource potential is the nation’s primary freshwater reserve and accounts for a large portion of potential future water supply.This study focused on quantifying the groundwater resource potential of the ...Groundwater resource potential is the nation’s primary freshwater reserve and accounts for a large portion of potential future water supply.This study focused on quantifying the groundwater resource potential of the Upper Gilgel Gibe watershed using the water balance method.This study began by defining the project area’s boundary,reviewing previous works,and collecting valuable primary and secondary data.The analysis and interpretation of data were supported by the application of different software like ArcGIS 10.4.1.Soil water characteristics of SPAW(Soil-plant-air-water)computer model,base flow index(BFI+3.0),and the water balance model.Estimation of the areal depth of precipitation and actual evapotranspiration was carried out through the use of the isohyetal method and the water balance model and found to be 1664.5 mm/a and 911.6 mm/a,respectively.A total water volume of 875829800 m^(3)/a is estimated to recharge the aquifer system.The present annual groundwater abstraction is estimated as 10150000 m^(3)/a.The estimated specific yield,exploitable groundwater reserve,and safe yield of the catchment are 5.9%,520557000 m^(3)/a,and 522768349 m^(3)/a respectively.The total groundwater abstraction is much less than the recharge and the safe yield of the aquifer.The results show that there is a sufficient amount of groundwater in the study area,and the groundwater resources of the area are considered underdeveloped.展开更多
This study aims to improve the evaluation of residual oil saturation in water flooded zones based on the material balance model(MBM)with variable multiple for injected water.We investigated the change patterns of rock...This study aims to improve the evaluation of residual oil saturation in water flooded zones based on the material balance model(MBM)with variable multiple for injected water.We investigated the change patterns of rock-electro parameters during waterflooding through the analysis of displacement tests.Our work differentiated the waterflooding into numerous displacement processes and accordingly propose an improved time-differentiated variable multiple MBM.The calculation results of the improved model are more consistent with the displacement experiment data of cores.Furthermore,the improved method was integrated into the comprehensive interpretation platform of offshore logging to analyze water flooded zones of a well in the A oilfield.As a result,the residual oil saturation calculated is in close agreement with the results of experiments on cores.Our results indicate that the time-differentiation and variable multiplier for injected water can effectively enhance the assessment accuracy of the residual oil saturation of water-flooded zones.展开更多
In order to identify the day and night pollution sources of PM10 in ambient air in Longyan City,the authors analyzed the elemental composition of respirable particulate matters in the day and night ambient air samples...In order to identify the day and night pollution sources of PM10 in ambient air in Longyan City,the authors analyzed the elemental composition of respirable particulate matters in the day and night ambient air samples and various pollution sources which were collected in January 2010 in Longyan with inductivity coupled plasma-mass spectrometry(ICP-MS).Then chemical mass balance(CMB) model and factor analysis(FA) method were applied to comparatively study the inorganic components in the sources and receptor samples.The results of factor analysis show that the major sources were road dust,waste incineration and mixed sources which contained automobile exhaust,soil dust/secondary dust and coal dust during the daytime in Longyan City,China.There are two major sources of pollution which are soil dust and mixture sources of automobile exhaust and secondary dust during the night in Longyan.The results of CMB show that the major sources are secondary dust,automobile exhaust and road dust during the daytime in Longyan.The major sources are secondary dust,soil dust and automobile exhaust during the night in Longyan.The results of the two methods are similar to each other and the results will guide us to plan to control the PM10 pollution sources in Longyan.展开更多
Modeling and analyzing dynamic changes of land thermal radiance scenes play an important role in thermal remote sensing. In this paper, the diurnal variation of ground surface thermal scene is mainly discussed. Firstl...Modeling and analyzing dynamic changes of land thermal radiance scenes play an important role in thermal remote sensing. In this paper, the diurnal variation of ground surface thermal scene is mainly discussed. Firstly, based on the land surface energy balance equation, the diurnal variation of land surface temperatures (LSTs) over bare land covers were simulated by an analyt- ical thermal model with second harmonic terms, and the diurnal LST variation of vegetation canopy was simulated using the Cupid model. Secondly, normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI), normalized difference water index (NDWI), and ratio resident-area index (RRI) were used to evaluate the endmember abundance of four land cover types including vegetation, bare soil, impervious and water area, which were calculated from IKONOS visible and near infrared (VNIR) bands. Finally, the thermal radiance scenes at various times and view angles were modeled based on the linear-energy-mixing hypothesis. The re- suits showed that the simulated daily LST variations for vegetated and bare surfaces are correlated with the measured values with a maximum standard deviation of 2.7℃, that land thermal radiant textures with high-resolution are restored from the lin- ear-energy-mixing method, and that the information abundance of the scene are related to the distribution of land cover, the imaging time, and the view angle.展开更多
In this study,an approach that integrates airborne imagery data as inputs was used to improve the estimation of soil water deficit(SWD)for maize and sunflower grown under full and deficit irrigation treatments.The pro...In this study,an approach that integrates airborne imagery data as inputs was used to improve the estimation of soil water deficit(SWD)for maize and sunflower grown under full and deficit irrigation treatments.The proposed model was applied to optimize the maximum total available soil water(TAWr)by minimizing the difference between a water stress coefficient ks and crop water stress index(1-CWSI).The optimal value of maximum TAWr was then used to calibrate a soil water balance model which in turn updated the estimation of soil water deficit.The estimates of SWD in the soil profile of both irrigated maize and sunflower fields were evaluated with the crop root zone SWD derived from neutron probe measurements and the FAO-56 SWD procedure.The results indicated a good agreement between the estimated SWD from the proposed approach and measured SWD for both maize and sunflower.The statistical analyses indicated that the maximum TAWr estimated from CWSI significantly improved the estimates of SWD,which reduced the mean absolute error(MAE)and root mean square error(RMSE)by 40%and 44%for maize and 22%for sunflower,compared with the FAO-56 model.The proposed procedure works better for crops under deficit irrigation condition.With the availability of higher spatial and temporal resolution airborne imagery during the growing season,the optimization procedure can be further improved.展开更多
Bubble columns are widely used in chemical and biochemical processes due to their excellent mass and heat transfer characteristics and simple construction.However,their fundamental hydrodynamic behaviors,which are ess...Bubble columns are widely used in chemical and biochemical processes due to their excellent mass and heat transfer characteristics and simple construction.However,their fundamental hydrodynamic behaviors,which are essential for reactor scale-up and design,are still not fully understood.To develop design tools for engineering purposes,much research has been carried out in the area of computationalfluid dynamics(CFD)modeling and simulation of gas-liquidflows.Due to the importance of the bubble behavior,the bubble size distribution must be considered in the CFD models.The population balance model(PBM)is an effective approach to predict the bubble size distribution,and great efforts have been made in recent years to couple the PBM into CFD simulations.This article gives a selective review of the modeling and simulation of bubble column reactors using CFD coupled with PBM.Bubble breakup and coalescence models due to different mechanisms are discussed.It is shown that the CFD-PBM coupled model with proper bubble breakup and coalescence models and interphase force formulations has the ability of predicting the complex hydrodynamics in differentflow regimes and,thus,provides a unified description of both the homo-geneous and heterogeneous regimes.Further study is needed to improve the models of bubble coalescence and breakup,turbulence modification in high gas holdup,and interphase forces of bubble swarms.展开更多
The internal balance technique is effective for the model reduction in flexible structures, especially the ones with dense frequencies. However, due to the difficulty in extracting the internal balance modal coordinat...The internal balance technique is effective for the model reduction in flexible structures, especially the ones with dense frequencies. However, due to the difficulty in extracting the internal balance modal coordinates from the physical sensor readings, research on this topic has been mostly theoretical so far, and little has been done in experiments or engineering applications. This paper studies the internal balance method theoretically as well as experimentally and designs an active controller based on the reduction model. The research works on a digital signal processor (DSP) TMS320F2812- based experiment system with a flexible beam and proposes an approximate approach to access the internal balance modal coordinates. The simulation and test results have shown that the proposed approach is feasible and effective, and the designed controller is successful in restraining the beam vibration.展开更多
Based on a two-dimensional energy balance model, the studies on some climatic issues such as the re- lationship between ice cap latitude and solar constant, desertifieation, and the warming effect of carbon dioxide, h...Based on a two-dimensional energy balance model, the studies on some climatic issues such as the re- lationship between ice cap latitude and solar constant, desertifieation, and the warming effect of carbon dioxide, have been reviewed and discussed. The phenomenon that a fixed solar constant might correspond to different equilibrium ice cap latitudes is determined by the continuity of albedo distribution. The disconti- nuity in albedo distribution increases the number of equilibrium ice cap latitudes. Desert would expand both northward and southward when desert surface albedo is increasing. This would deteriorate the ecological environment in border regions, and then threaten the existence of local inhabitants. Melting of the polar ice would not be accelerated, with increasing carbon dioxide concentration. The ice cap latitude would move northward slowly, with some “hiatus” periods, under the slowly increasing global average surface tempera- ture. According to the current research, future development of the two-dimensional energy balance model and possible progress are also forecasted.展开更多
The aggregation behavior of submicron-sized particles of praseodymium-doped zirconium silicate, a ceramic pigment, in aqueous suspension was predicted by a modified population balance model, In the model, the collisio...The aggregation behavior of submicron-sized particles of praseodymium-doped zirconium silicate, a ceramic pigment, in aqueous suspension was predicted by a modified population balance model, In the model, the collision frequencies were selected to describe evolution of the particle size distribution of the suspension. The collision efficiency was estimated as a function of interaction potential between particles based on Derjaguin-Landau-Verwey-Overbeek theory. The population balance model was modified to predict the stable state of the aggregation by introducing the volume mean size of aggregate to stability ratio. In addition, aggregation of the particles in aqueous suspension in the presence of sodium dodecyl benzene sulfonate or potassium chloride was experimentally investigated. The predicted data (i.e., the final aggregate size, aggregation rate, and particle size distribution) were similar to the experimentalresults.展开更多
The Balanced Truncation Method (BTM) is applied to an even distributed RC interconnect case by using Wang's closed-forms of even distributed RC interconnect models. The results show that extremely high order RC in...The Balanced Truncation Method (BTM) is applied to an even distributed RC interconnect case by using Wang's closed-forms of even distributed RC interconnect models. The results show that extremely high order RC interconnect can be high-accurately approximated by only third order balanced model. Related simulations are executed in both time domain and frequency domain. The results may be applied to VLSI interconnect model reduction and design.展开更多
A two-dimensional energy balance climate model has been built to investigate the climate on Mars.The model takes into account the balance among solar radiation,longwave radiation,and energy transmission and can be sol...A two-dimensional energy balance climate model has been built to investigate the climate on Mars.The model takes into account the balance among solar radiation,longwave radiation,and energy transmission and can be solved analytically by Legendre polynomials.With the parameters for thermal diffusion and radiation processes being properly specified,the model can simulate a reasonable surface atmospheric temperature distribution but not a very perfect vertical atmospheric temperature distribution compared with numerical results,such as those from the Mars Climate Database.With varying solar radiation in a Martian year,the model can simulate the seasonal variation of the air temperature on Mars.With increasing dust content,the Martian atmosphere gradually warms.However,the warming is insignificant in the cold and warm scenarios,in which the dust mixing ratio varies moderately,whereas the warming is significant in the storm scenario,in which the dust mixing ratio increases dramatically.With an increasing albedo value of either the polar cap or the non-ice region,Mars gradually cools.The mean surface atmospheric temperature decreases moderately with an increasing polar ice albedo,whereas it increases dramatically with an increasing non-ice albedo.This increase occurs because the planetary albedo of the ice regions is smaller than that of the non-ice region.展开更多
A conceptual hydrological model that links the Xin'anjiang hydrological model and a physically based snow energy and mass balance model, described as the XINSNOBAL model, was developed in this study for simulating ra...A conceptual hydrological model that links the Xin'anjiang hydrological model and a physically based snow energy and mass balance model, described as the XINSNOBAL model, was developed in this study for simulating rain-on-snow events that commonly occur in the Pacific Northwest of the United States. The resultant model was applied to the Lookout Creek Watershed in the H. J. Andrews Experimental Forest in the western Cascade Mountains of Oregon, and its ability to simulate streamflow was evaluated. The simulation was conducted at 24-hour and one-hour time scales for the period of 1996 to 2005. The results indicated that runoffand peak discharge could be underestimated if snowpack accumulation and snowmelt under rain-on-snow conditions were not taken into account. The average deterministic coefficient of the hourly model in streamflow simulation in the calibration stage was 0.837, which was significantly improved over the value of 0.762 when the Xin'anjiang model was used alone. Good simulation performance of the XINSNOBAL model in the WS 10 catchment, using the calibrated parameter of the Lookout Creek Watershed for proxy-basin testing, demonstrates that transplanting model parameters between similar watersheds can orovide a useful tool for discharge forecastin~, in un^au^ed basins.展开更多
Accurate assessment of water deficit and related uncertainties in water-scarce areas is strategically important in various fields of water resources management. This study developed a hybrid approach integrating conce...Accurate assessment of water deficit and related uncertainties in water-scarce areas is strategically important in various fields of water resources management. This study developed a hybrid approach integrating conceptual water balance model and econometric regression to estimate water shortage and its related uncertainties in water-scarce areas. This hybrid approach was used to assess the agricultural water deficit of Beijing, an extremely water-scarce area in China. A predictive model of agricultural water demand was developed using the stepwise multiple regression method, and was validated by comparing the predicted values with observed data. Scenario analysis was employed to investigate the uncertainties of agricultural water shortage and agricultural water demand. This modeling approach can assist water administration in creating sustainable water allocation strategies in water-scarce areas.展开更多
We have developed an energy balance equation for the universe. The two system parameters involved in the equation could be “fine-tuned” so that the predicted temperature histories all lead to what is observed in the...We have developed an energy balance equation for the universe. The two system parameters involved in the equation could be “fine-tuned” so that the predicted temperature histories all lead to what is observed in the present cosmic microwave background. We have shown that various combinations of these two parameters are possible;in particular, the present background temperature needs not be the remnant of a very hot temperature in the far distance past. We also solved for the propagation of vortex solitons in optical fibres as contrasting examples to show how electromagnetic wave could be transmitted in a particular waveform under strictly controlled conditions. To avoid singularity, all vortexes have a black centre. We conclude that while numerical techniques can be used to account for an infinite quantity, it is unlikely that such a quantity could exist in reality.展开更多
Background: Tropical forests play an important role in the global carbon(C) cycle.However, tropical montane forests have been studied less than tropical lowland forests, and their role in carbon storage is not well...Background: Tropical forests play an important role in the global carbon(C) cycle.However, tropical montane forests have been studied less than tropical lowland forests, and their role in carbon storage is not well understood.Montane forests are highly endangered due to logging, land-use and climate change.Our objective was to analyse how the carbon balance changes during forest succession.Methods: In this study, we used a method to estimate local carbon balances that combined forest inventory data with process-based forest models.We utilised such a forest model to study the carbon balance of a tropical montane forest in South Ecuador, comparing two topographical slope positions(ravines and lower slopes vs upper slopes and ridges).Results: The simulation results showed that the forest acts as a carbon sink with a maximum net ecosystem exchange(NEE) of 9.3 Mg C?(ha?yr)-1during its early successional stage(0–100 years).In the late successional stage, the simulated NEE fluctuated around zero and had a variation of 0.77 Mg C?(ha?yr)–1.The simulated variability of the NEE was within the range of the field data.We discovered several forest attributes(e.g., basal area or the relative amount of pioneer trees) that can serve as predictors for NEE for young forest stands(0–100 years) but not for those in the late successional stage(500–1,000 years).In case of young forest stands these correlations are high, especially between stand basal area and NEE.Conclusion: In this study, we used an Ecuadorian study site as an example of how to successfully link a forest model with forest inventory data, for estimating stem-diameter distributions, biomass and aboveground net primary productivity.To conclude, this study shows that process-based forest models can be used to investigate the carbon balance of tropical montane forests.With this model it is possible to find hidden relationships between forest attributes and forest carbon fluxes.These relationships promote a better understanding of the role of tropical montane forests in the context of global carbon cycle, which in future will become more relevant to a society under global change.展开更多
基金supported by the Knowledge Innovation Key Project of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Nos. CX10G-E01-08 andKZCX2-SW-317) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 50279049)
文摘The Miyun Reservoir is the most important water source for Beijing Municipality, the capital of China with a population of more than 12 million. In recent decades, the inflow to the reservoir has shown a decreasing trend, which has seriously threatened water use in Beijing. In order to analyze the influents of land use and cover change (LUCC) upon inflow to Miyun Reservoir, terrain and land use information from remote sensing were utilized with a revised evapotranspiration estimation formula; a water loss model under conditions of human impacts was introduced; and a distributed monthly water balance model was established and applied to the Chaobai River Basin controlled by the Miyun Reservoir. The model simulation suggested that not only the impact of land cover change on evapotranspiration, but also the extra water loss caused by human activities, such as the water and soil conservation development projects should be considered. Although these development projects were of great benefit to human and ecological protection, they could reallocate water resources in time and space, and in a sense thereby influence the stream flow.
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(91634101)The Project of Construction of Innovative TeamsTeacher Career Development for Universities and Colleges under Beijing Municipality(IDHT20180508)
文摘In this study,based on the Luo bubble coalescence model,a model correction factor C_e for pressures according to the literature experimental results was introduced in the bubble coalescence efficiency term.Then,a coupled modified population balance model(PBM) with computational fluid dynamics(CFD) was used to simulate a high-pressure bubble column.The simulation results with and without C_e were compared with the experimental data.The modified CFD-PBM coupled model was used to investigate its applicability to broader experimental conditions.These results showed that the modified CFD-PBM coupled model can predict the hydrodynamic behaviors under various operating conditions.
基金This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.11405011 and 11475033).
文摘The basic energy balance model is applied to analyze the hohlraum energetics data from the Shenguang(SG)series laser facilities and the National Ignition Facility(NIF)experiments published in the past few years.The analysis shows that the overall hohlraum energetics data are in agreement with the energy balance model within 20%deviation.The 20%deviation might be caused by the diversity in hohlraum parameters,such as material,laser pulse,gas filling density,etc.In addition,the NIF's ignition target designs and our ignition target designs given by simulations are also in accordance with the energy balance model.This work confirms the value of the energy balance model for ignition target design and experimental data assessment,and demonstrates that the NIF energy is enough to achieve ignition if a 1D spherical radiation drive could be created,meanwhile both the laser plasma instabilities and hydrodynamic instabilities could be suppressed.
文摘On the basis of population balance a mathematical model is developed to describe the formation of polymer particle in styrene suspension polymerization. The characteristics of coalescence and breakage of droplets and the gel effect are analyzed in particular. Parameters of the models are estimated by experimental data on reaction conversion and particle size distribution. The results show that the model is suitable for predicting polymerization processes.
基金This work was jointly supported by the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences[grant number XDA2006010301]the National Natural Science Foundation of China[grant numbers 41521004,41705047,and 41875083]+1 种基金the Foundation of the Key Laboratory for Semi-Arid Climate Change of the Ministry of Education in Lanzhou University from the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities[grant numbers lzujbky-2017-bt04 and lzujbky-2017-70]the China 111 Project[grant number B13045].
文摘The relationship between vegetation greening and climate change remains unclear due to its complexity, especially in drylands. Against the background of global warming, arid and semi-arid areas, including mid-latitude deserts, are most sensitive to climate change. In recent decades, the mechanisms underlying the relationship between vegetation greening and climate change have been widely discussed in the literature. However, the influence of vegetation greening in high latitudes on regional climate has not been fully studied. In this paper, a two-dimensional energy balance model was used to study the influence of greening in high latitudes on mid-latitude deserts. The authors found that when greening occurs in high latitudes, the mid-latitude desert recedes at the south boundary, while the polar ice belt and low-latitude vegetation belt both expand. Simultaneously, greening in high latitudes can induce a negative temperature anomaly in northern latitudes and a positive temperature anomaly in southern latitudes. The mid-latitude desert expands at its north and south boundaries until the CO2 concentration reaches 600 ppm(saturated state). The greening in high latitudes could result in a lower global-mean temperature in the ‘saturated’ state, due to the stronger cooling in high latitudes.
基金Jimma University for its support during the research work
文摘Groundwater resource potential is the nation’s primary freshwater reserve and accounts for a large portion of potential future water supply.This study focused on quantifying the groundwater resource potential of the Upper Gilgel Gibe watershed using the water balance method.This study began by defining the project area’s boundary,reviewing previous works,and collecting valuable primary and secondary data.The analysis and interpretation of data were supported by the application of different software like ArcGIS 10.4.1.Soil water characteristics of SPAW(Soil-plant-air-water)computer model,base flow index(BFI+3.0),and the water balance model.Estimation of the areal depth of precipitation and actual evapotranspiration was carried out through the use of the isohyetal method and the water balance model and found to be 1664.5 mm/a and 911.6 mm/a,respectively.A total water volume of 875829800 m^(3)/a is estimated to recharge the aquifer system.The present annual groundwater abstraction is estimated as 10150000 m^(3)/a.The estimated specific yield,exploitable groundwater reserve,and safe yield of the catchment are 5.9%,520557000 m^(3)/a,and 522768349 m^(3)/a respectively.The total groundwater abstraction is much less than the recharge and the safe yield of the aquifer.The results show that there is a sufficient amount of groundwater in the study area,and the groundwater resources of the area are considered underdeveloped.
文摘This study aims to improve the evaluation of residual oil saturation in water flooded zones based on the material balance model(MBM)with variable multiple for injected water.We investigated the change patterns of rock-electro parameters during waterflooding through the analysis of displacement tests.Our work differentiated the waterflooding into numerous displacement processes and accordingly propose an improved time-differentiated variable multiple MBM.The calculation results of the improved model are more consistent with the displacement experiment data of cores.Furthermore,the improved method was integrated into the comprehensive interpretation platform of offshore logging to analyze water flooded zones of a well in the A oilfield.As a result,the residual oil saturation calculated is in close agreement with the results of experiments on cores.Our results indicate that the time-differentiation and variable multiplier for injected water can effectively enhance the assessment accuracy of the residual oil saturation of water-flooded zones.
基金Supported by the Natural Basic Research Program of China(No.2005CB422207)the Fund of Eco-enviromental Impacts and Protection in Devoloping and Utilizing of Oil-shale Resources(No.OSR-01-06)
文摘In order to identify the day and night pollution sources of PM10 in ambient air in Longyan City,the authors analyzed the elemental composition of respirable particulate matters in the day and night ambient air samples and various pollution sources which were collected in January 2010 in Longyan with inductivity coupled plasma-mass spectrometry(ICP-MS).Then chemical mass balance(CMB) model and factor analysis(FA) method were applied to comparatively study the inorganic components in the sources and receptor samples.The results of factor analysis show that the major sources were road dust,waste incineration and mixed sources which contained automobile exhaust,soil dust/secondary dust and coal dust during the daytime in Longyan City,China.There are two major sources of pollution which are soil dust and mixture sources of automobile exhaust and secondary dust during the night in Longyan.The results of CMB show that the major sources are secondary dust,automobile exhaust and road dust during the daytime in Longyan.The major sources are secondary dust,soil dust and automobile exhaust during the night in Longyan.The results of the two methods are similar to each other and the results will guide us to plan to control the PM10 pollution sources in Longyan.
基金supported by the 12th and the 11th Five-Year Plan of Civil Aerospace Technology Advanced Research Projects (Grant Nos.O6K00100KJ,Y1K0030044)the China International Science and Technology Cooperation Program (Grant No. 2010DFA21880)
文摘Modeling and analyzing dynamic changes of land thermal radiance scenes play an important role in thermal remote sensing. In this paper, the diurnal variation of ground surface thermal scene is mainly discussed. Firstly, based on the land surface energy balance equation, the diurnal variation of land surface temperatures (LSTs) over bare land covers were simulated by an analyt- ical thermal model with second harmonic terms, and the diurnal LST variation of vegetation canopy was simulated using the Cupid model. Secondly, normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI), normalized difference water index (NDWI), and ratio resident-area index (RRI) were used to evaluate the endmember abundance of four land cover types including vegetation, bare soil, impervious and water area, which were calculated from IKONOS visible and near infrared (VNIR) bands. Finally, the thermal radiance scenes at various times and view angles were modeled based on the linear-energy-mixing hypothesis. The re- suits showed that the simulated daily LST variations for vegetated and bare surfaces are correlated with the measured values with a maximum standard deviation of 2.7℃, that land thermal radiant textures with high-resolution are restored from the lin- ear-energy-mixing method, and that the information abundance of the scene are related to the distribution of land cover, the imaging time, and the view angle.
文摘In this study,an approach that integrates airborne imagery data as inputs was used to improve the estimation of soil water deficit(SWD)for maize and sunflower grown under full and deficit irrigation treatments.The proposed model was applied to optimize the maximum total available soil water(TAWr)by minimizing the difference between a water stress coefficient ks and crop water stress index(1-CWSI).The optimal value of maximum TAWr was then used to calibrate a soil water balance model which in turn updated the estimation of soil water deficit.The estimates of SWD in the soil profile of both irrigated maize and sunflower fields were evaluated with the crop root zone SWD derived from neutron probe measurements and the FAO-56 SWD procedure.The results indicated a good agreement between the estimated SWD from the proposed approach and measured SWD for both maize and sunflower.The statistical analyses indicated that the maximum TAWr estimated from CWSI significantly improved the estimates of SWD,which reduced the mean absolute error(MAE)and root mean square error(RMSE)by 40%and 44%for maize and 22%for sunflower,compared with the FAO-56 model.The proposed procedure works better for crops under deficit irrigation condition.With the availability of higher spatial and temporal resolution airborne imagery during the growing season,the optimization procedure can be further improved.
基金gratefully acknowledged the financial supports by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.20606021)Foundation for the Author of National Excellent Doctoral Dissertation of China(No.200757)the State Key Development Program for Basic Research Project of China(Grant No.2007CB714302).
文摘Bubble columns are widely used in chemical and biochemical processes due to their excellent mass and heat transfer characteristics and simple construction.However,their fundamental hydrodynamic behaviors,which are essential for reactor scale-up and design,are still not fully understood.To develop design tools for engineering purposes,much research has been carried out in the area of computationalfluid dynamics(CFD)modeling and simulation of gas-liquidflows.Due to the importance of the bubble behavior,the bubble size distribution must be considered in the CFD models.The population balance model(PBM)is an effective approach to predict the bubble size distribution,and great efforts have been made in recent years to couple the PBM into CFD simulations.This article gives a selective review of the modeling and simulation of bubble column reactors using CFD coupled with PBM.Bubble breakup and coalescence models due to different mechanisms are discussed.It is shown that the CFD-PBM coupled model with proper bubble breakup and coalescence models and interphase force formulations has the ability of predicting the complex hydrodynamics in differentflow regimes and,thus,provides a unified description of both the homo-geneous and heterogeneous regimes.Further study is needed to improve the models of bubble coalescence and breakup,turbulence modification in high gas holdup,and interphase forces of bubble swarms.
基金Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.11072146 and 11002087)
文摘The internal balance technique is effective for the model reduction in flexible structures, especially the ones with dense frequencies. However, due to the difficulty in extracting the internal balance modal coordinates from the physical sensor readings, research on this topic has been mostly theoretical so far, and little has been done in experiments or engineering applications. This paper studies the internal balance method theoretically as well as experimentally and designs an active controller based on the reduction model. The research works on a digital signal processor (DSP) TMS320F2812- based experiment system with a flexible beam and proposes an approximate approach to access the internal balance modal coordinates. The simulation and test results have shown that the proposed approach is feasible and effective, and the designed controller is successful in restraining the beam vibration.
基金Supported by the National(Key)Basic Research and Development(973)Program of China(2014CB953903)Fundamental Research Funds for Central Universities(2013YB45)
文摘Based on a two-dimensional energy balance model, the studies on some climatic issues such as the re- lationship between ice cap latitude and solar constant, desertifieation, and the warming effect of carbon dioxide, have been reviewed and discussed. The phenomenon that a fixed solar constant might correspond to different equilibrium ice cap latitudes is determined by the continuity of albedo distribution. The disconti- nuity in albedo distribution increases the number of equilibrium ice cap latitudes. Desert would expand both northward and southward when desert surface albedo is increasing. This would deteriorate the ecological environment in border regions, and then threaten the existence of local inhabitants. Melting of the polar ice would not be accelerated, with increasing carbon dioxide concentration. The ice cap latitude would move northward slowly, with some “hiatus” periods, under the slowly increasing global average surface tempera- ture. According to the current research, future development of the two-dimensional energy balance model and possible progress are also forecasted.
文摘The aggregation behavior of submicron-sized particles of praseodymium-doped zirconium silicate, a ceramic pigment, in aqueous suspension was predicted by a modified population balance model, In the model, the collision frequencies were selected to describe evolution of the particle size distribution of the suspension. The collision efficiency was estimated as a function of interaction potential between particles based on Derjaguin-Landau-Verwey-Overbeek theory. The population balance model was modified to predict the stable state of the aggregation by introducing the volume mean size of aggregate to stability ratio. In addition, aggregation of the particles in aqueous suspension in the presence of sodium dodecyl benzene sulfonate or potassium chloride was experimentally investigated. The predicted data (i.e., the final aggregate size, aggregation rate, and particle size distribution) were similar to the experimentalresults.
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文摘The Balanced Truncation Method (BTM) is applied to an even distributed RC interconnect case by using Wang's closed-forms of even distributed RC interconnect models. The results show that extremely high order RC interconnect can be high-accurately approximated by only third order balanced model. Related simulations are executed in both time domain and frequency domain. The results may be applied to VLSI interconnect model reduction and design.
基金jointly funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant 41505042)the National Program on Global Change and Air–Sea Interaction (Grant GASIIPOVAI-03)+1 种基金the National Basis Research Program of China (Grants 2015CB953601, 2014CB953903)the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities
文摘A two-dimensional energy balance climate model has been built to investigate the climate on Mars.The model takes into account the balance among solar radiation,longwave radiation,and energy transmission and can be solved analytically by Legendre polynomials.With the parameters for thermal diffusion and radiation processes being properly specified,the model can simulate a reasonable surface atmospheric temperature distribution but not a very perfect vertical atmospheric temperature distribution compared with numerical results,such as those from the Mars Climate Database.With varying solar radiation in a Martian year,the model can simulate the seasonal variation of the air temperature on Mars.With increasing dust content,the Martian atmosphere gradually warms.However,the warming is insignificant in the cold and warm scenarios,in which the dust mixing ratio varies moderately,whereas the warming is significant in the storm scenario,in which the dust mixing ratio increases dramatically.With an increasing albedo value of either the polar cap or the non-ice region,Mars gradually cools.The mean surface atmospheric temperature decreases moderately with an increasing polar ice albedo,whereas it increases dramatically with an increasing non-ice albedo.This increase occurs because the planetary albedo of the ice regions is smaller than that of the non-ice region.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grants No. 40901015 and41001011)the Major Program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grants No. 51190090 and 51190091)+3 种基金the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (Grants No. B1020062 andB1020072)the Ph. D. Programs Foundation of the Ministry of Education of China (Grant No.20090094120008)the Special Fund of State Key Laboratories of China (Grants No. 2009586412 and 2009585412)the Programme of Introducing Talents of Disciplines to Universities of the Ministry of Education and State Administration of the Foreign Experts Affairs of China (the 111 Project, Grant No.B08048)
文摘A conceptual hydrological model that links the Xin'anjiang hydrological model and a physically based snow energy and mass balance model, described as the XINSNOBAL model, was developed in this study for simulating rain-on-snow events that commonly occur in the Pacific Northwest of the United States. The resultant model was applied to the Lookout Creek Watershed in the H. J. Andrews Experimental Forest in the western Cascade Mountains of Oregon, and its ability to simulate streamflow was evaluated. The simulation was conducted at 24-hour and one-hour time scales for the period of 1996 to 2005. The results indicated that runoffand peak discharge could be underestimated if snowpack accumulation and snowmelt under rain-on-snow conditions were not taken into account. The average deterministic coefficient of the hourly model in streamflow simulation in the calibration stage was 0.837, which was significantly improved over the value of 0.762 when the Xin'anjiang model was used alone. Good simulation performance of the XINSNOBAL model in the WS 10 catchment, using the calibrated parameter of the Lookout Creek Watershed for proxy-basin testing, demonstrates that transplanting model parameters between similar watersheds can orovide a useful tool for discharge forecastin~, in un^au^ed basins.
基金supported by the Sino-Swiss Science and Technology Cooperation Program of Switzerlandthe Ministry of Science and Technology of China(Grant No.2009DFA22980)
文摘Accurate assessment of water deficit and related uncertainties in water-scarce areas is strategically important in various fields of water resources management. This study developed a hybrid approach integrating conceptual water balance model and econometric regression to estimate water shortage and its related uncertainties in water-scarce areas. This hybrid approach was used to assess the agricultural water deficit of Beijing, an extremely water-scarce area in China. A predictive model of agricultural water demand was developed using the stepwise multiple regression method, and was validated by comparing the predicted values with observed data. Scenario analysis was employed to investigate the uncertainties of agricultural water shortage and agricultural water demand. This modeling approach can assist water administration in creating sustainable water allocation strategies in water-scarce areas.
文摘We have developed an energy balance equation for the universe. The two system parameters involved in the equation could be “fine-tuned” so that the predicted temperature histories all lead to what is observed in the present cosmic microwave background. We have shown that various combinations of these two parameters are possible;in particular, the present background temperature needs not be the remnant of a very hot temperature in the far distance past. We also solved for the propagation of vortex solitons in optical fibres as contrasting examples to show how electromagnetic wave could be transmitted in a particular waveform under strictly controlled conditions. To avoid singularity, all vortexes have a black centre. We conclude that while numerical techniques can be used to account for an infinite quantity, it is unlikely that such a quantity could exist in reality.
基金financial support of the German Research Foundation(DFG,Research Unit 816)for initializing the forest plots and the plot census as well as a first model parameterisationthe Helmholtz Alliance:Remote Sensing and Earth System Dynamics for financing the work on the further parameterisation of the model and analysis of the data
文摘Background: Tropical forests play an important role in the global carbon(C) cycle.However, tropical montane forests have been studied less than tropical lowland forests, and their role in carbon storage is not well understood.Montane forests are highly endangered due to logging, land-use and climate change.Our objective was to analyse how the carbon balance changes during forest succession.Methods: In this study, we used a method to estimate local carbon balances that combined forest inventory data with process-based forest models.We utilised such a forest model to study the carbon balance of a tropical montane forest in South Ecuador, comparing two topographical slope positions(ravines and lower slopes vs upper slopes and ridges).Results: The simulation results showed that the forest acts as a carbon sink with a maximum net ecosystem exchange(NEE) of 9.3 Mg C?(ha?yr)-1during its early successional stage(0–100 years).In the late successional stage, the simulated NEE fluctuated around zero and had a variation of 0.77 Mg C?(ha?yr)–1.The simulated variability of the NEE was within the range of the field data.We discovered several forest attributes(e.g., basal area or the relative amount of pioneer trees) that can serve as predictors for NEE for young forest stands(0–100 years) but not for those in the late successional stage(500–1,000 years).In case of young forest stands these correlations are high, especially between stand basal area and NEE.Conclusion: In this study, we used an Ecuadorian study site as an example of how to successfully link a forest model with forest inventory data, for estimating stem-diameter distributions, biomass and aboveground net primary productivity.To conclude, this study shows that process-based forest models can be used to investigate the carbon balance of tropical montane forests.With this model it is possible to find hidden relationships between forest attributes and forest carbon fluxes.These relationships promote a better understanding of the role of tropical montane forests in the context of global carbon cycle, which in future will become more relevant to a society under global change.