简介:A£4M(US$6M)ContracthasbeenawardedtoMillerCivilEngineeringServicesfortheconstructionofScottishandSouthernEnergy'snew3MWhydropowerstationontheriverCuileig,nearUllapootinScotland,Theplantwillbethepow,ercompany'sfirstnewhydroelectricstationsincethe1960s.Constructionissettotake12months,beginninginmidNovember,
简介:Basedonthepropertiesoftraffic,macroscopicdynamicequationsaresetuptosimulatetheflowoftraffic.Besidesrelaxationtermandcompressibilityterm,achangeableareatermiscomposedinthemodeltodescribetheeffectofcarparking,tollbooth,trafficincidents,roadgradingandbicyclesontrafficflow.Withnumericalmethod,threecasesarepresentedtosimulatethechanginglaneareawithtimeandspaceandthepropagatingprocessofhightrafficdensity.Theresultsshowthatthedynamicmodelcanreasonablydescribetheevolutionoftrafficstatesinvariouscomplicatedoccasions.
简介:AlstomPower'sHydrodivisionon22JunelauncheditsMiniAquarange,asaturnkeyapproachtominihydropowerinstallation.Extensiveworkoverthepreviousyearand-a-halfhascontributedtothedevelopmentofanintegratedpackage,comprisingturbine,generatorandaPC-basedcontrolsystem.Thecompanynotedthattherewasa‘rapidgrowth'intheminihydromarket,
简介:Freesurfaceflowproblemsinvolvinglargefreemotionsareanalysedusingfiniteelementtechniques.InsolvingtheseproblemsanArbitraryLagrangian-Eulerian(ALE)kinematicaldescriptionofthefluiddomainisadopted,inwhichthenodalpointscanbedisplacedindependentlyofthefluidmotion.Anewmeshtracingmethodisproposedinthispaper.Toconfirmtheeffectivenessofthenewmethod,solitarywavepropagationisanalysedandthenumericalresultsarecomparedwiththeanalyticalresults.ThebehaviouroftheviscousfluidflowwithafreesurfaceisexpressedbytheunsteadyNavier-Stokesequation.Fornumericalintegrationintimethevelocitycorrectionfractionalstepmethodisused.
简介:Lyapunov'ssecondmethodwasusedtostudythenonlinearstabilityofparallelshearflowsforstress-freeboundaries.Byintroducinganenergyfunctional,itwasshownthattheplaneCouetteandplanePoiseuilleflowsareconditionallyandasymptoticallystableforallReynoldsnumbers.Inparticular,totwo-dimensionalperturbations,bydefiningnewenergyfunctionalstheunconditionalstabilityofthebasicflowswasproved.
简介:Channelfrictionisanimportantparameterinhydraulicanalysis.AchannelfrictionparameterinversionmethodbasedonKalmanFilterwithunknownparametervectorisproposed.Numericalsimulationsindicatethatwhenthenumberofmonitoringstationsexceedsacriticalvalue,thesolutionishardlyaffected.Inaddition,KalmanFilterwithunknownparametervectoriseffectiveonlyatunsteadystate.Forthenonlinearequations,computationsofsensitivitymatricesaretime-costly.Twosimplifiedmeasurescanreducecomputingtime,butnotinfluencetheresults.Oneistoreducesensitivitymatrixanalysistime,theotheristosubstituteforsensitivitymatrix.
简介:AGalerkinfiniteelementformulationisdevelopedforthenumericalsimulationofwaterflowinvariablysat-uratedporousmedia,Picardalgorithmisusedtodealwithseverelynonlinearfieldproblems.Thealgorithmisfor-mulatedforarbitraryquadrilateralelementswhichcanaccommodatecomplexgeometry.Anew"influencecoeffi-cient"techniqueisdevelopedwhichcanbeusedtocomputeelementmatricesinasimpleandefficientmanner.Thistechniqueavoidsnumericalintegrationandleadstoasubstantialsavingofcost.Twoexamplesarepresentedtoverifytheproposedmethod.
简介:Thepapermainlyfocusesondescribingthemodificationmadetoanewdepth-averagedtwo-equationturbulentclosuremodelbasedontherevisedκ-ωmodelrecently.Inthecaseofsidedischargedjetswithtempera-turedifferenceandtransversecurrent,thenewmodelhasbeeninvestigatednumericallyindetail.Asapracticalexampleofapplicationtousethenewmodel,thesidedischargeofthecoolingwaterfromthreeoutletsintoanatu-ralriverononebankhasbeensimulated,andthegeomorphicvariationunderwaterhasbeentreatedsuitably.Twodepth-averagedmodels,andhavebeenused,thelaterwastheuniqueoneuptothepresent.Emphasisisplacedonthecomparativeresearchwithdifferentmodelsunderthesamecomputationalconditions.Ithasbeenverifiedthatifthedischargedflowratesarerelativelysmall,whenthepollutantplumeinthenearandtransitionalzonsispredicted,theagreementwithexperimentalandfielddatasimulatedbythemodelisbetterthanbythemodelorothermethodscommonlyusedinengineering.