Sparse-tree land is one of the typical lands and can be considered as one typical rough surface in boundary layer meteorology. Many lands can be classified into the kind surface in the view of scaIe and distribution f...Sparse-tree land is one of the typical lands and can be considered as one typical rough surface in boundary layer meteorology. Many lands can be classified into the kind surface in the view of scaIe and distribution feature of the roughness elements such as agroforest, scatter planted or growing trees, savanna and so on. The structure of surface boundary layer in sparse-tree land is analyzed and the perameters, friction velocity u*and roughness length zo are deduced based on energy balance law and other physical hypothesis. The models agree well with data of wind tunnel experiments and field measurements.展开更多
In conventional modeling of a cable-pulley system, the cable must be finely meshed with Lagrangian elements for valid contact detections with pulleys, leading to extremely low efficiency. The sliding joint method base...In conventional modeling of a cable-pulley system, the cable must be finely meshed with Lagrangian elements for valid contact detections with pulleys, leading to extremely low efficiency. The sliding joint method based on the arbitrary-Lagrangian- Eulerian （ALE） formulation still lacks an efficient cable element, and in particular, modeling of friction between a sliding joint and the cable has not been studied. This paper presents efficient multi-body modeling of a cable-pulley system with friction. A variable- length cable element with a node movable along the cable, which is described with ALE, is developed to mesh the cable. A transitional cable element is then proposed to model the contact part of the cable by fixing its two nodes to the two corresponding locations of the pulley. Friction of the cable-pulley is derived as a simple law of tension decay and embedded in the multi-body system modeling. It is simplified as a generalized friction force acting only on the arc-length coordinate. This approach can use a rough mesh on the cable, and is free of contact detections, thus significantly saving computation time. Several examples are presented to validate the proposed method, and show its effectiveness in real engineering applications.展开更多
In order to correctly predict tube cross section time-smoothed velocity distribution, friction factor and mass transfer behavior, two models for turbulent flow in circular tubes based on classical Prandtl mixing lengt...In order to correctly predict tube cross section time-smoothed velocity distribution, friction factor and mass transfer behavior, two models for turbulent flow in circular tubes based on classical Prandtl mixing length theory and a modified mixing length were established. The results show that the modified mixing length includes the introduction of a damping function for the viscous sublayer and the second-order derivative to approximate eddy velocity. The calculated dimensionless time-smoothed velocity from the model based on Prandtl mixing length is much better than the result from the concept of eddy viscosity. The calculated eddy viscosity from the model based on modified mixing length is much better than the result from the model based on the classical Prandtl mixing length theory. And the friction factor calculated from the model based on the modified mixing length agrees well with the reported empirical relationships.展开更多
In this paper, the driving forces at a pile top are considered as a periodic load during driving and the Mathieu equation is derived. From the stability charts of this equation, we can obtain the critical length of th...In this paper, the driving forces at a pile top are considered as a periodic load during driving and the Mathieu equation is derived. From the stability charts of this equation, we can obtain the critical length of the pile, and the effect of skin friction upon the critical length is discussed.展开更多
文摘Sparse-tree land is one of the typical lands and can be considered as one typical rough surface in boundary layer meteorology. Many lands can be classified into the kind surface in the view of scaIe and distribution feature of the roughness elements such as agroforest, scatter planted or growing trees, savanna and so on. The structure of surface boundary layer in sparse-tree land is analyzed and the perameters, friction velocity u*and roughness length zo are deduced based on energy balance law and other physical hypothesis. The models agree well with data of wind tunnel experiments and field measurements.
基金Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.11302114)the Major State Basic Research Development Program(No.2012CB821203)the Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory Construction Project of China(No.2011A060901026)
文摘In conventional modeling of a cable-pulley system, the cable must be finely meshed with Lagrangian elements for valid contact detections with pulleys, leading to extremely low efficiency. The sliding joint method based on the arbitrary-Lagrangian- Eulerian （ALE） formulation still lacks an efficient cable element, and in particular, modeling of friction between a sliding joint and the cable has not been studied. This paper presents efficient multi-body modeling of a cable-pulley system with friction. A variable- length cable element with a node movable along the cable, which is described with ALE, is developed to mesh the cable. A transitional cable element is then proposed to model the contact part of the cable by fixing its two nodes to the two corresponding locations of the pulley. Friction of the cable-pulley is derived as a simple law of tension decay and embedded in the multi-body system modeling. It is simplified as a generalized friction force acting only on the arc-length coordinate. This approach can use a rough mesh on the cable, and is free of contact detections, thus significantly saving computation time. Several examples are presented to validate the proposed method, and show its effectiveness in real engineering applications.
基金Project(20736009) supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of ChinaProject(07JJ6017) supported by the Natural Science Foundation of Hunan Province, China
文摘In order to correctly predict tube cross section time-smoothed velocity distribution, friction factor and mass transfer behavior, two models for turbulent flow in circular tubes based on classical Prandtl mixing length theory and a modified mixing length were established. The results show that the modified mixing length includes the introduction of a damping function for the viscous sublayer and the second-order derivative to approximate eddy velocity. The calculated dimensionless time-smoothed velocity from the model based on Prandtl mixing length is much better than the result from the concept of eddy viscosity. The calculated eddy viscosity from the model based on modified mixing length is much better than the result from the model based on the classical Prandtl mixing length theory. And the friction factor calculated from the model based on the modified mixing length agrees well with the reported empirical relationships.
文摘In this paper, the driving forces at a pile top are considered as a periodic load during driving and the Mathieu equation is derived. From the stability charts of this equation, we can obtain the critical length of the pile, and the effect of skin friction upon the critical length is discussed.
