Tidal energy balance in the Seto Inland Sea

The tidal volume transport in the Seto Inland Sea is calculated. The cross-section where the volume transport of the M₂ tide is zero, is located around the western part of Bisan Strait. The tidal energy dissipation of the M₂ tide by friction is 6.30×10¹⁶ ergs s^–1 in the Seto Inland Sea. The quality factorQ for the M₂ tide is 20.2. The total energy dissipation of the M₂, S₂, K₁ and O₁ tides is 7.99×10¹⁶ ergs s^–1.     

西北太平洋的潮能通量与耗散

利用基于FVCOM(Finite Volume Coastal Ocean Model)模式同化沿岸验潮站数据的高分辨率潮汐数值模型结果,分析研究了包含中国近海、日本海和鄂霍次克海在内的西北太平洋海域全日、半日分潮的潮能通量与耗散。西北太平洋的潮波能量分3支,分别传入鄂霍次克海、东海和南海。传入东海的半日潮波能量是传入南海的3倍左右;传入南海的全日潮波能量是传入东海的5倍多。传入中国东部海域的M2分潮能中,有64.3%耗散在东海,32.4%耗散在黄海,仅有3.2%耗散在渤海;而K1分潮能中分别有48.2%、31.4%及7.1%耗散在东海、黄海及渤海。进入南海的潮能中,仅有32.7%的M2分潮能和38.3%的K1分潮能耗散在南海的北部海域,另有23.9%的M2分潮能进入并耗散在台湾海峡,其余则进入南海南部。传入日本海的太平洋潮能很少。鄂霍次克海消耗的全日潮能是半日潮能的2倍。     

珠江河口潮能通量与耗散

珠江河口三角洲是我国一个极其复杂的大尺度河口系统,具有独特的河网体系和河口湾.为探讨珠江河口三角洲的潮能通量和潮能耗散机制,基于SELFE模型,建立了珠江河网-河口湾的三维数值模型,计算了河网-河口湾区的潮能通量和潮能耗散.研究表明:珠江河口的潮能通量平面上表现出主槽大,滩地较小;在总能耗中,底摩擦能耗最大,其次是垂向扩散耗散能耗,水平扩散能耗最小;存在‘门’、分汊汇流区和弯曲河道区等典型的高能耗区,高能耗区的单位面积能耗比附近水域的高数倍甚至1～2个数量级.     

不考虑局地引潮势的南海正压潮能通量与潮能耗散

利用ECOM模式模拟南海正压M2、S2、K1、O1分潮, 对南海潮能通量及潮能耗散进行研究.结果显示, M2、S2、K1和O1分潮分别有38.93、5.77、29.73和28.97GW的能通量经吕宋海峡传入南海, 并有2.42、0.36、8.67和7.86GW的能通量由南海经卡里马塔海峡传入爪哇海.由东海及吕宋海峡西北部传入台湾海峡的M2分潮能通量为25.28GW.半日潮进入北部湾和泰国湾的能通量较少(6.52GW), 全日潮则较大(24.74GW).通过民都洛和巴拉巴克海峡断面, 全日潮由南海向苏禄海共输送12.28GW的能通量, 而半日潮则由苏禄海向南海输送1.92GW的能通量.由模式输出结果估计得到的南海各局部海域的底摩擦耗散与净潮能通量存在差异, 为使二者平衡, 可对南海不同海域的底摩擦系数进行调整.依净潮能通量与底摩擦耗散平衡关系计算得到台湾海峡、北部湾、泰国湾及南海深水海域的底摩擦系数分别为0.0023、0.0024、0.0023和0.0021.     

珠江河口潮能收支研究

Tidal energy budget in the Zhujiang(Pearl River) Estuary(ZE) is evaluated by employing high-resolution baroclinic regional ocean modeling system(ROMS). The results obtained via applying the least square method on the model elevations are compared against the tidal harmonic constants at 18 tide stations along the ZE and its adjacent coast. The mean absolute errors between the simulation and the observation of M_2, S_2, K_1 and O_1 are 4.6, 2.8, 3.2 and 2.8 cm in amplitudes and 9.8°, 15.0°, 4.6° and 4.6° in phase-lags, respectively. The comparisons between the simulated and observed sea level heights at 11 tide gauge stations also suggest good model performance. The total tidal energy flux incoming the ZE is estimated to be 343.49 MW in the dry season and larger than 336.18 MW in the wet season, which should due to higher mean sea level height and heavier density in the dry season. M_2, K_1, S_2, O_1 and N_2, the top five barotropic tidal energy flux contributors for the ZE,import 242.23(236.79), 52.97(52.08), 24.49(23.96), 16.22(15.91) and 7.10(6.97) MW energy flux into the ZE in dry(wet) season, successively and respectively. The enhanced turbulent mixing induced by eddies around isolated islands and sharp headlands dominated by bottom friction, interaction between tidal currents and sill topography or constricted narrow waterways together account for the five energy dissipation hotspots, which add up to about 38% of the total energy dissipation inside the ZE.     

Tidal and subtidal water volume exchange in an estuarine system

Estuarine water movements occur over a broad range of time scales. In this study, moored current meter data were used to investigate water volume exchange in the tidal passes of Lake Pontchartrain, Louisiana on the tidal and subtidal time scales. A calibration technique, employing cross-channel measurements of water velocity, was used to calibrate the moored current meters, thus allowing for calculation of volume flow over a 35-day period. The local diurnal tide accounted for 50% of the total volume exchange, the rest being due to subtidal events (frontal passage). This subtidal exchange occurs primarily as large-scale events characterized by volume fluxes up to six times greater than the normal tidal prism. Neglecting this subtidal component in the determination of the volume fluxes for a system such as Lake Pontchartrain, could result in substantial underestimation (by as much as 50%) of these volume and their corresponding material fluxes.     

Tidal Reduction Method Based on Temporal Tidal Time-Difference Variations

Abstract

Technical developments in the positioning and depth detection fields have allowed for vast improvements in sounding results, but the effects of tidal reduction (TR) yet merit improvement; today, TR is the main factor that limits bathymetry precision. It is crucial to determine tidal time difference (TTD) between tidal gauges to conduct effective TTD-based TR. The influence of temporal TTD variations is usually ignored, and the temporal observation window to determine TTD is generally freely selected. In this study, temporal TTD variations were analyzed under the tidal constituent merging theory. Daily and hourly TTDs were compared and utilized to reduce the TR error during time difference method operation. At-sea experiments were conducted to contrast the effects of daily versus hourly TTDs on TR; the results indicate that hourly TTD is more precise and thus better suited to TR.     

潮汐调和分析方法的探讨

为实现对不等时距潮汐资料的分析,基于Matlab内部函数功能,提出了一种调和分析方法。基于这种方法,分别对大连、北海两个站位1985年的全年等时间间距取样的资料和非等时间间距取样的资料进行了调和分析,结果显示,由等时间距资料和非等时间距资料计算的调和常数基本吻合。对大连、北海两个站位的全年资料进行多个不同时间间距取样分...     

潮汐调和分析方法的探讨

为实现对不等时距潮汐资料的分析, 基于Matlab 内部函数功能, 提出了一种调和分析方法。基于这种方法, 分别对大连、北海两个站位1985 年的全年等时间间距取样的资料和非等时间间距取样的资料进行了调和分析, 结果显示, 由等时间距资料和非等时间距资料计算的调和常数基本吻合。对大连、北海两个站位的全年资料进行多个不同时间间距取样分析, 发现当分潮频率大于取样频率的二分之一时, 分潮发生频率混淆。若分潮周期明显大于样品长度, 该分潮的分析结果产生很大误差。最后得出结论为: 此调和分析方法, 适合对非等时间间距、非连续潮汐潮流资料进行调和分析, 并且能够获得与传统方法精度相当的结果。     

Research on energy conversion system of floating wave energy converter

A wave power device includes an energy harvesting system and a power take-off system. The power take-off system of a floating wave energy device is the key that converts wave energy into other forms. A set of hydraulic power take-off system, which suits for the floating wave energy devices, includes hydraulic system and power generation system. The hydraulic control system uses a special“self-hydraulic control system”to control hydraulic system to release or save energy under the maximum and the minimum pressures. The maximum pressure is enhanced to 23 MPa, the minimum to 9 MPa. Quite a few experiments show that the recent hydraulic system is evidently improved in efficiency and reliability than our previous one, that is expected to be great significant in the research and development of our prototype about wave energy conversion.     

Numerical Tidal Current Modeling Using Fine Boundary Fitted Grids for Tidal Flats

Fine grids with small spacing in boundary-fitted coordinates are normally used to treat thecomputation of fluid dynamics for estuarine areas and tidal flats.However,the adoption of Cartesian com-ponents of velocity vectors in this kind of non-orthogonal coordinates will definitely result in a diffculty insolving implicitly the transformed momentum equations,and also complicate the wet-dry point judgementused for flood areas.To solve this problem,equations in terms of generalized contravariant velocityvectors in curvilinear coordinates are derived in the present study,by virtue of which,anAlternative-Direction-Implicit numerical scheme in non-orthogonal grids would then be easily obtained,and wet-dry point judgement would as well be largely simplified.A comparison is made between the explic-it scheme and implicit scheme,showing that the present model is accurate and numerically stable for com-putations of fluid dynamics for estuarine areas and tidal flats.     

潮流能量的提取及对其流速的影响

本文在经过验证的Quoddy Region海域三维潮流数值模型的基础上,植入了提取潮流能的数值计算模块。确定了Western Passage在3种涡轮机布设方式下能够提取的能量以及提取能量的效率,其中采取3排涡轮机交叉布设的方式时,1个大小潮时间内提取的能量最高,可达1 148.1MWh,提取效率为4.57%,远高于另外2种方式。在单排涡轮机布设的实验中(实验一),通过改变速度衰减系数,得到了可提取能量随速度衰减系数的变化曲线,该曲线与前人在理论分析时得到的曲线类似。同时本文还分析了提取潮流能给周围流场带来的影响。     

水平轴潮流能水轮机阵列对区域潮流场影响研究

为考察水轮机阵列对区域潮流特性的影响,本文基于Delft 3D-Flow建立斋堂岛及附近水域的三维水力学模型并通过实测数据进行校验。经验证后的模型,采用TSE方法确定阵列在目标水域中的放置位置,并通过动量损失方式模拟水轮机对流场的影响,进而研究和评估在一定水域面积下不同水轮机数量组成的阵列对潮流场的影响。仿真结果显示:该水域放置水轮机阵列将对附近较大范围水域的水位产生影响,在靠近阵列处水位变化最大能达到3 cm;对区域流速影响较为显著,当阵列中水轮机密度较大时,其尾流影响区域局部时刻流速下降能达到45 cm/s且影响距离可延伸至其下游2 km外。     

基于余水位精化潮高模型的水位生成研究

研究了基于余水位精化潮高模型的水位生成方法。所提方法首先构建网格潮汐场模型,其次采用余水位提高内插模型精度。通过网格搜索策略实现了水深点所属网格的快速定位及水位生成,探索了该模型在水位改正及预报中的应用。实验表明：所提方法既可应用于水位改正又可用于水位预报,且较现有方法在精度上有所提高。     

蓬莱两大潮波接续处的潮汐潮流特性分析

通过对蓬莱沿岸海域多站位潮汐潮流实际观测,研究分析了其东、西两侧潮汐潮流特性。其中,受不同潮波系统控制下的半日分潮影响,蓬莱东、西两侧潮汐有较大差异,而全日分潮虽处同一潮波系统下,但量值较小、作用影响不大;东、西两侧潮流差异相对潮汐较小,半日潮流和全日潮流的变化特性与潮汐对应分潮的变化均不相同。     

Tidal sands as biogeochemical reactors

Sandy sediments of continental shelves and most beaches are often thought of as geochemical deserts because they are usually poor in organic matter and other reactive substances. The present study focuses on analyses of dissolved biogenic compounds of surface seawater and pore waters of Aquitanian coastal beach sediments. To quantitatively assess the biogeochemical reactions, we collected pore waters at low tide on tidal cross-shore transects unaffected by freshwater inputs. We recorded temperature, salinity, oxygen saturation state, and nutrient concentrations. These parameters were compared to the values recorded in the seawater entering the interstitial environment during floods. Cross-shore topography and position of piezometric level at low tide were obtained from kinematics GPS records. Residence time of pore waters was estimated by a tracer approach, using dissolved silica concentration and kinetics estimate of quartz dissolution with seawater. Kinetics parameters were based on dissolved silica concentration monitoring during 20-day incubations of sediment with seawater. We found that seawater that entered the sediment during flood tides remained up to seven tidal cycles within the interstitial environment. Oxygen saturation of seawater was close to 100%, whereas it was as low as 80% in pore waters. Concentrations of dissolved nutrients were higher in pore waters than in seawater. These results suggest that aerobic respiration occurred in the sands. We propose that mineralised organic matter originated from planktonic material that infiltrated the sediment with water during flood tides. Therefore, the sandy tidal sediment of the Aquitanian coast is a biogeochemical reactor that promotes or accelerates remineralisation of coastal pelagic primary production. Mass balance calculations suggest that this single process supplies about 37 kmol of nitrate and 1.9 kmol of dissolved inorganic phosphorus (DIP) to the 250-km long Aquitanian coast during each semi-diurnal tidal cycle. It represents about 1.5% of nitrate and 5% of DIP supplied by the nearest estuary.     

Optimization of an ocean thermal energy conversion system

The optimum performance of a simple Rankine cycle ocean thermal energy conversion plant is investigated analytically. It is shown that the ratio of maximum net power output to heat exchanger surface area varies as H(Δt − t₀)² where H describes the overall heat transfer properties of the evaporator and condenser, Δt is the temperature difference between the warm and cold sea water supplies, and t₀ is a parameter depending primarily upon the pressure drops across the warm and cold sea water pumping systems. The model is relatively insensitive to the choice of working fluid, although ammonia is used as the illustrative example.