A Study on a Partially Immersed Gold Electrode Using an Electrochemical Quartz Crystal Impedance System

The electrochemical quartz crystal impedance system (EQCIS) has been used for the study of a partially immersed Au electrode in 0.2 mol/L NaClO4 aqueous solution. The influences of the immersed area and height of the electrode on the EQCIS responses were evaluated, showing the highest response sensitivity to liquid loading at the center of the piezoelectric quartz crystal electrode. The increase in the immersed height of the Au electrode at oxygen reduction potentials during potential cycling was measured by this technique.

Calculating the Wave Force on Partially Immersed Large-Scale Horizontal Cylinders

Large-scale interceptors constitute the main structure of offshore self-driven floating marine litter collection devices,and the structural stability of such interceptors under the action of waves directly influences the overall safety of the device.When the ratio of the diameter of a horizontal cylinder in such interceptors to the incident wavelength is larger than 0.25,the wave force can be calculated by using the diffraction theory,by considering the problem as that of the interaction between the waves and a partially immersed large-scale horizontal cylinder.In this study,an analytical approach to calculate the wave force on a partially immersed large-scale horizontal cylinder was formulated by using the stepwise approximation method.Physical model tests were conducted to investigate the effects of different factors(wave height,period,and immersion depth)on the wave force on a large-scale horizontal cylinder under conditions involving short-period waves.The results show that both horizontal and vertical wave forces on the cylinder increase as the wave height(immersion depth)increases in most cases.The vertical wave force decreases with the decrease of the period.For the horizontal wave force,it increases with the decrease of the period when the wavelength is larger than the diameter of the cylinder and decreases with the decrease of the period when the wavelength is smaller than the diameter of the cylinder.

Effect of Bottom Undulation on the Waves Generated Due to Rolling of a Plate

In the present paper, the effect of a small bottom tmdulation of the sea bed in the form of periodic bed form on the surface waves generated due to a rolling oscillation of a vertical barrier either partially immersed or completely submerged in water of non uniform finite depth is investigated. A simplified perturbation technique involving a non dimensional parameter characterizing the smallness of the bottom deformation is applied to reduce the given boundary value problem to two independent boundary value problems upto first order. The first boundary value problem corresponds to the problem of water wave generation due to rolling oscillation of a vertical barrier either partially immersed or completely submerged in water of uniform finite depth. This is a well known problem whose solution is available in the literature. From the second boundary value problem, the first order correction to the wave amplitude at infinity is evaluated in terms of the shape function characterizing the bottom undulation, by employing Green＇s integral theorem. For a patch of sinusoidal ripples at the sea bottom, the first order correction to the wave amplitude at infinity for both the configuration of the barrier is then evaluated numerically and illustrated graphically for various values of the wave number. It is observed that resonant interaction of the wave generated, with the sinusoidal bottom undulation occurs when the ratio of twice the wavelength of the sinusoidal ripple to the wave length of waves generated, approaches unity. Also it is found that the resonance increases as the length of the barrier increases.

STUDY ON THE DYNAMIC BEHAVIOR OF AXIALLY MOVING RECTANGULAR PLATES PARTIALLY SUBMERSED IN FLUID

The natural frequencies, complex modes and critical speeds of an axially moving rectangular plate, which is partially immersed in a fluid and subjected to a pretension, are investigated. The effects of free surface waves, compressibility and viscidity of the fluid are neglected in the analysis. The subsection functions are used to describe the discontinuous characteristics of the system due to partial immersion. The classical thin plate theory is adopted to formulate the equations of motion of a vibrating plate. The velocity potential and Bernoulli＇s equation are used to describe the fluid pressure acting on the moving plate. The effect of fluid on the vibrations of the plate may be equivalent to the added mass on the plate. The effects of distance ratio, moving speed, immersed-depth ratio, boundary conditions, stiffness ratio and aspect ratio of the plate as well as the fluid-plate density ratios on the free vibrations of the moving plate-fluid system are investigated.