简介:Inthispaper,aWindDirectionChangeIndex(WI),whichcandescribefour-dimensionalspatiotemporalchangesoftheatmosphericcirculationobjectivelyandquantitatively,isdefinedtostudyitsevolutionandseasonalvariation.ThefirstfourmodescanbeobtainedbyEOFexpansionofthezonallyaveragedWI.ThefirstmoderevealsthebasicspatialdistributionoftheannuallyaveragedWI.Thesecondmodereflectsthequasi-harmonicpartsoftheWIdeviations.Tropical,subtropicalandextratropicalmonsoonareascanbeclearlyreflectedbythismode.Thethirdmodereflectsthenon-harmonicpartsoftheWIdeviations.Itshowstheso-calledFebruaryreverseinstratosphericatmosphereaswellastheasymmetricseasonalchangesfromspringtofallandfromfalltospringduetoboththeland-seadistributioncontrastbetweentheNorthernandSouthernHemispheresandthenonlineareffectofatmosphericandoceanfluids.Thefourthmoderevealsthenorthwardadvancingoftheglobalreversedwindfieldsfromspringtosummerandtheirsouthwardwithdrawalfromsummertoautumn.
简介:Twodifferentmethodsforincorporatingdiffractioneffectintowaveactionbalanceequationbasedcoastalspectralwavemodels,WABEDandSWAN,arediscussedandevaluatedwithrespecttotheirformulations,numericalimplementations,andmodelingcapabilities.Bothmodelswereruntosimulatethewavetransformationthroughagapbetweentwoinfinitelylongbreakwatersandthatacrossanellipticalshoalobservedinlaboratorystudies,withtheemphasislaidonthediffractioninducedbyeitherobstaclesorwaveamplitudevariations.CalculationsofWABEDwerecomparedwithSommerfeld'sanalyticalsolutions,experimentalobservationsandSWANsimulations.Itisshownthatbothmethodscanpredictreasonablywavediffractionforthetwocasesstudiedherein,andafairlybetterperformanceisprovidedbyWABEDforstrongerdiffractioncase.
简介:Duetocentrifugalforcesinabendsecondarycurrentsperpendiculartothemainflowaregenerated.Becausetheycanbethereasonforimportantbedformingprocessessuchasmeanderingtheyhavetobetakenintoaccountinmorphodynamicsimulations.Theirinfluenceonthebedshearstressisproportionaltotheratioofwaterdepthandcurveradius.Thelatteroneisacurveparameterandisnotdefinedin2Ddigitalterrainmodels.Thispaperpresentsanewformulationforthebedshearstresswhichtakesintoaccounttheinfluenceofsecondarycurrentsindepthaveragedsimulationswithoutusingthecurveradius.ThenewformulationisappliedtoamorphodynamicmodeloftheWeserestuarylocatedinNorthernGermany.Itscapabilitytosimulatethedeflectionofthebedshearstressinbendsisshown.BecauseofthesmoothnessofthecurvesintheWesernosignificantdifferencesinthebedevolutioncanbeseeninthiscase.
简介:Thepapermainlyfocusesondescribingthemodificationmadetoanewdepth-averagedtwo-equationturbulentclosuremodelbasedontherevisedκ-ωmodelrecently.Inthecaseofsidedischargedjetswithtempera-turedifferenceandtransversecurrent,thenewmodelhasbeeninvestigatednumericallyindetail.Asapracticalexampleofapplicationtousethenewmodel,thesidedischargeofthecoolingwaterfromthreeoutletsintoanatu-ralriverononebankhasbeensimulated,andthegeomorphicvariationunderwaterhasbeentreatedsuitably.Twodepth-averagedmodels,andhavebeenused,thelaterwastheuniqueoneuptothepresent.Emphasisisplacedonthecomparativeresearchwithdifferentmodelsunderthesamecomputationalconditions.Ithasbeenverifiedthatifthedischargedflowratesarerelativelysmall,whenthepollutantplumeinthenearandtransitionalzonsispredicted,theagreementwithexperimentalandfielddatasimulatedbythemodelisbetterthanbythemodelorothermethodscommonlyusedinengineering.