In situ acoustic measurements of marine gravel threshold and transport

Measurements of the nearbed turbulent current flow and the bedload transport of marine gravel have been made over three tidal cycles. The turbulence in the bottom boundary layer was measured using two electromagnetic current meters, and the gravel transport was measured using a passive acoustic system which monitored the interparticle collision noise of locally mobile material. Visual estimates of bedload were also obtained with an underwater TV camera. The acoustic technique, unlike a conventional bedload sampler, has allowed estimates of transport to be obtained with a temporal resolution comparable with the turbulence data collected. This has enabled a detailed comparison to be made between the turbulent flow and the sediment response to the instantaneous flow conditions. The results of the study show that of the turbulent bursting events which contribute towards the Reynolds stress, only the sweeps and outward interactions play a significant role in the transport of coarse sedimentary material. The measurements show that it is the instantaneous increases in the horizontal turbulent velocity fluctuations that generate excess shear stresses which drive the transport process.     

溢流堰与竖缝组合式鱼道紊流结构试验研究

利用声学多普勒测速仪（ADV）实测了凹口溢流堰与同侧布置竖缝组合式鱼道的三维瞬时流速,应用射流力学和紊流统计理论剖析了鱼道水池内的时均流速、紊动强度、雷诺应力、相关函数、紊动尺度等紊流结构。试验研究结果表明:溢流堰与竖缝组合式鱼道池内水流流态呈现出复杂的三维紊流结构;同竖缝相比,溢流堰对紊动强度和雷诺应力的变化有着更为显著的影响,尤其是鱼道池内表层区域;堰流区涡旋的相关性比竖缝壁面射流区好,并且堰流区存在较大尺度的涡旋结构,而竖缝壁面射流区的涡旋尺度则较小。相比单一式鱼道,组合式鱼道紊流结构更加复杂,研究结果可为优化鱼道设计、修复鱼类生境提供参考。     

On the relationship between flow and suspended sediment transport over the crest of a sand dune, Río Paraná, Argentina

The links between large‐scale turbulence and the suspension of sediment over alluvial bedforms have generated considerable interest in the last few decades, with past studies illustrating the origin of such turbulence and its influence on flow resistance, sediment transport and bedform morphology. In this study of turbulence and sediment suspension over large sand dunes in the Río Paraná, Argentina, time series of three‐dimensional velocity, and at‐a‐point suspended sediment concentration and particle‐size, were measured with an acoustic Doppler current profiler and laser in situ scattering transmissometer, respectively. These time series were decomposed using wavelet analysis to investigate the scales of covariation of flow velocity and suspended sediment. The analysis reveals an inverse relationship between streamwise and vertical velocities over the dune crest, where streamwise flow deceleration is linked to the vertical flux of fluid towards the water surface in the form of large turbulent fluid ejections. Regions of high suspended sediment concentration are found to correlate well with such events. The frequencies of these turbulent events have been assessed from wavelet analysis and found to concentrate in two zones that closely match predictions from empirical equations. Such a finding suggests that a combination and interaction of vortex shedding and wake flapping/changing length of the lee‐side separation zone are the principal contributors to the turbulent flow field associated with such large alluvial sand dunes. Wavelet analysis provides insight upon the temporal and spatial evolution of these coherent flow structures, including information on the topology of dune‐related turbulent flow structures. At the flow stage investigated, the turbulent flow events, and their associated high suspended sediment concentrations, are seen to grow with height above the bed until a threshold height (ca 0·45 flow depth) is reached, above which they begin to decay and dissipate.     

横向振动格栅紊流紊动特性试验

建立了一套大尺度格栅紊流试验系统,格栅进行有别于传统垂向模式的横向振动,采用粒子图像测速技术(Particle Image Velocimetry,PIV)测量流速。对瞬时流速的检验表明,该系统产生的紊流场具有较强的随机性和统计规律性。均方根流速在格栅片附近变化较大,在两片格栅中间处趋于稳定,纵向均方根流速明显大于垂向均方根流速,二者比值在1.5~2.0之间,接近天然明渠紊流。雷诺应力在距格栅越近处波动越大,随着距格栅距离的增加而减小,至两片格栅中间处雷诺应力基本为0。时间和长度积分尺度在格栅片处最小,随着距格栅距离的增加而线性增加,至两片格栅中间处达到最大值。流速能谱呈现Kolmogorov理论的-5/3次方规律。本系统生成的紊流场的统计规律与传统的垂向振动格栅紊流较为一致,但纵向和垂向的紊动强度更接近实际,为后续紊流中泥沙和污染物等运动机理的研究奠定了基础。     

Quantifying velocity and turbulence structure in depositing sustained turbidity currents across breaks in slope

Two-dimensional experiments investigating sediment transport and turbulence structure in sustained turbidity currents that cross breaks in slope are presented as analogue illustrations for natural flows. The results suggest that in natural flows, turbulence generation at slope breaks may account for increased sand transport into basins and that the formation of a hydraulic jump may not be necessary to explain features such as the occurrence of submarine plunge pools and the deposition of coarser-grained beds in the bottomsets of Gilbert-type fan deltas. Experimental flows were generated on 0°, 3°, 6° and 9° slopes of equal length which terminated abruptly on a horizontal bed. Two-component velocities were measured on the slope, at the slope break and downstream of the slope break. Flows were depositional and non-uniform, visibly slowing and thickening with distance downstream. One-dimensional continuous wavelet transforms of velocity time series were used to produce time-period variance maps. Peaks in variance were tested against a background red-noise spectrum at the 95% level; a significant period banding occurs in the cross-wavelet transform at the slope break, attributed to increased formation of coherent flow structures (Kelvin–Helmholtz billows). Variance becomes distributed at progressively longer periods and the shape of the bed-normal-velocity spectral energy distribution changes with distance downstream. This is attributed to a shift towards larger turbulent structures caused by wake stretching. Mean velocity, Reynolds shear stress and turbulent kinetic energy profiles illustrate the mean distribution of turbulence through the currents. A turbulent kinetic energy transfer balance shows that flow non-uniformity arises through the transfer of mean streamwise slowing to mean bed-normal motion through the action of Reynolds normal stresses. Net turbulence production through the action of normal stresses is achieved on steeper slopes as turbulence dissipation due to mean bed-normal motion is limited. At the slope break, an imbalance between the production and dissipation of turbulence occurs because of the contrasting nature of the wall and free-shear boundaries at the bottom and top of the flows, respectively. A rapid reduction in mean streamwise velocity predominately affects the base of the flows and steeper proximal slope flows have to slow more at the break in slope. The increased turbulent kinetic energy, limited bed-normal motion and strong mixing imposed by steep proximal slopes means rapid slowing enhances turbulence production at the break in slope by focusing energy into coherent flow structures at a characteristic period. Thus, mean streamwise slowing is transferred into turbulence production at the slope break that causes increased transport of sediment and a decrease in deposit mass downstream of the slope break. The internal effects of flow non-uniformity therefore can be separated from the external influence of the slope break.     

瞬态信号高分辨力谱分析——富里叶变换插值法

在介绍提高谱线分辨力的2种数字处理方法(BSFA和移频低通滤波)的基础上,根据谱线间隔Δf=1/(NΔ),要提高谱线分辨力,不仅增大Δ,增大N同样也可以降低Δf,提出了富里叶交换(FFT)插值法。但N值的增大不是由原始采样数据补充零来实现,而是根据在频谱图上选取感兴趣的频域范围作为富氏变换的输入,将谱线的谱添加若干零后再作反富氏变换,得到放大2倍的谱线。该方法在多组信号相关谱分析中尤其适用。     

基于高速摄像技术的推移质运动特征试验

在明渠中开展不同水流条件下低强度均匀沙平衡输沙试验,基于灰度相减方法分析整个床面推移质运动特征,以探寻紊流结构与推移质运动之间的作用机理。结果表明:①受水槽横向方向水流强度分布特征影响,推移质运动概率从水槽中线到两侧壁逐渐变小,且基本呈对称分布;②在紊流相干结构作用下,推移质床面在紊流低速条带区形成凸槽,高速条带区形成凹槽,推移质运动概率沿水槽横向方向存在高低相间的带状分区;③随摩阻雷诺数增大,相邻两推移质运动高概率区域的间距值变化范围为0.13~0.24倍水槽宽度,其值随摩阻雷诺数增大而增大;④不同水流条件下,推移质运动高概率区域间距值约为水深的2倍,这与流向涡模型吻合,表明流向涡是诱导床面出现凹凸相间形态的重要因素。     

新生代以来底栖有孔虫碳氧同位素变化在偏心率长周期上的相位关系及其指示意义

新生代以来地球气候依次经历了两极无冰、单极有冰和两极有冰的气候状态,对比研究这些不同气候背景下地球气候的演化历史可以为我们全面理解新生代气候演化的驱动机制提供新思路。为了探索偏心率长周期上(400 ka)气候变化与冰盖演化和碳循环之间的关系,汇总了新生代以来全球大洋10个站位底栖有孔虫成对的δ¹⁸O和δ¹³C记录,采用交叉小波、瞬时相位和滤波方法,分析了它们在偏心率长周期上的相位关系。分析结果表明,新生代大部分时段底栖有孔虫δ¹⁸O和δ¹³C在偏心率长周期上都具有较高的相关性,但是晚中新世到早上新世相对较弱。新生代底栖有孔虫δ¹⁸O在偏心率长周期上略领先δ¹³C的变化。古新世-始新世无冰期,偏心率长周期上底栖有孔虫δ¹⁸O和δ¹³C接近同相位,主要由轨道驱动的降水变化引起的营养盐-生物泵和陆源碳输入控制,该过程强调碳循环的低纬驱动。渐新世-中新世南极有冰的气候状态下;δ¹⁸O和δ¹³C的相位关系及其驱动机制与古新世-始新世类似,这表明南极冰盖对碳循环和气候变化的影响有限。此外,中新世冰盖变化引起的海平面升降导致陆架碳酸钙在冰期-间冰期旋回上的变化是促使中新世底栖有孔虫δ¹⁸O和δ¹³C在偏心率长周期上趋于同相位的一个重要原因。在中中新世气候适宜期,偏心率长周期上δ¹³C短暂领先δ¹⁸O的变化可能是由于火山除气作用导致CO₂大量入侵海-气系统所致;约13.8 Ma东南极冰盖扩张之后,偏心率长周期上δ¹⁸O开始领先δ¹³C的变化,并且相位差逐渐增大;表明东南极冰盖扩张足以通过调节大洋环流、海平面、生产力、陆源碳输入和陆地植被进一步影响大洋碳循环和气候变化。上新世以来偏心率长周期上δ¹⁸O领先δ¹³C变化,并且相位差达到了新生代的最大值(约100 ka),表明两极冰盖的大幅度生长,已经深刻影响了碳循环和气候变化。

     

Flow and turbulence structure across the ripple–dune transition: an experiment under mobile bed conditions

Current knowledge of flow and turbulent processes acting across the sand bed continuum is still unable to unequivocally explain the mechanism(s) by which ripples become dunes. Understanding has been improved by comparative high-resolution studies undertaken over fixed bedforms at different stages in the continuum. However, these studies both ignore the role of mobile sediment and do not examine flow structure during the actual transition from ripples to dunes. The aims of the paper are: (i) to describe flow and turbulence characteristics acting above mobile bedforms at several stages across the transition; and (ii) to compare these data with those arising from experiments over fixed ripples and dunes. Laboratory experiments are presented that examine the turbulence structure across seven distinct stages of the transition from ripples to dunes. Single-point acoustic Doppler velocimeter sampling at three flow heights above a developing mobile boundary was undertaken. Time-averaged statistics and the instantaneous quadrant record reveal distinct changes in flow structure either side of the change from ripples to dunes. Initially, shear-related, high-frequency vortex shedding dominates turbulence production. This increases until two-dimensional (2D) dunes have formed. Thereafter, turbulence intensities and Reynolds stress decline and three-dimensional dunes exhibit values found over 2D ripples. This is the result of shear layer dampening which occurs when the topographically-accelerated downstream velocity increases at a faster rate than flow depth. Activity at reattachment increases due to high velocity fluid imparting high mass and momentum transfer at the bed and/or wake flapping. Suspended sediment may also play a role in turbulence dampening and bed erosion. Ejections dominate over sweeps in terms of event frequency but not magnitude. Strong relationships between inward interactions and sweeps, and ejections and outward interactions, suggest that mass and momentum exchanges are dependent upon activity in all four quadrants. The results contradict the notion present in most physical models that larger bedforms exhibit most shear layer activity. Consequently an improved model for the ripple–dune transition is proposed.     

Flow, sediment transport and bedform dynamics over the transition from dunes to upper-stage plane beds: implications for the formation of planar laminae

Preliminary results are reported from an experimental study of the interaction between turbulence, sediment transport and bedform dynamics over the transition from dunes to upper stage plane beds. Over the transition, typical dunes changed to humpback dunes (mean velocity 0–8 ms^-1, depth 01 m, mean grain size 0.3 mm) to nominally plane beds with low relief bed waves up to a few mm high. All bedforms had a mean length of 0.7–0.8 m. Hot film anemometry and flow visualization clearly show that horizontal and vertical turbulent motions in dune troughs decrease progressively through the transition while horizontal turbulence intensities increase near the bed on dune backs through to a plane bed. Average bedload and suspended load concentrations increase progressively over the transition, and the near-bed transport rate immediately downstream of flow reattachment increases markedly relative to that near dune crests. This relative increase in sediment transport near reattachment appears to be due to suppression of upward directed turbulence by increased sediment concentration, such that velocity close to the bed can increase more quickly downstream of reattachment. Low-relief bedwaves on upper-stage plane beds are ubiquitous and give rise to laterally extensive, mm-thick planar laminae; however, within such laminae are laminae of more limited lateral extent and thickness, related to the turbulent bursting process over the downstream depositional surface of the bedwaves.     

Oxygen level,primary productivity,and water turbulence during the OAE2 interval of Zagros Basin (SW Iran): Benthic foraminiferal variations in the carbonate microfacies

Cenomanian/Turonian boundary (upper Sarvak Formation) benthic foraminiferal assemblages were analyzed to reconstruct oxygen level, primary productivity, and water turbulence in the Izeh Zone, Zagros Basin. The interplay between environmental perturbations during the Oceanic Anoxic Event 2 (OAE2) and regional tectonic activities in the Zagros Basin resulted in formation of various benthic foraminiferal assemblages in the study section. The OAE2 interval at the region of study starts with extinction of rotaliporids at the onset of δ¹³C positive excursion (peak “a”), which is associated with population of infaunal benthic foraminifera (especially Bolivina alata). The following interval at the onset of Whiteinella archaeocretacea Biozone is characterized by the total absence of benthic taxa and dominance of planoheterohelicids (“Heterohelix shift”) in the black shale strata, indicating expansion of oxygen minimum zone and unhospitable conditions for both benthic and planktic foraminifera. The upper part of OAE2 interval (including δ¹³C peaks “b” and “c”) coincides with harbinger of Neo-Tethys closure in the Arabian Plate, causing a compressional tectonic regime, and creation of uplifted terrains in the basin. The relative sea level started to locally fall in this succession, which was accompanied by a better ventilation of seafloor, lower TOC contents, and reappearance of benthic foraminifera.     

An anemometry technique for turbulence measurements at low velocities

A method using symmetrically bent V-shaped hot-wires has been developed for the accurate measurement of low-speed turbulence. Directional characteristics of V-shaped hot-wires at low velocities are investigated, and a generalized expression is derived for the effective cooling velocity. The measurement with V-shaped hot-wires in a pseudo turbulent field, which is artificially produced by shaking the hot-wires with an accurately known motion in a steady flow, has confirmed that the expression for the effective cooling velocity is also valid for instantaneous velocity fluctuations. The accuracy of a practical technique comprising two V-shaped hot-wires in an X arrangement is investigated by an error analysis in simulated Gaussian velocity fields using a digital computer.     

Comparisons between acoustic measurements and predictions of the bedload transport of marine gravels

Continuous, detailed records of marine gravel transport have been obtained acoustically and compared with bedload transport rates (q_b) predicted by five bedload transport equations using measurements of the near-bed turbulent current flow. When mean flow data are used in these equations, total q_b estimates are similar to those measured. However, when instantaneous flow data are used, total q_b is over-estimated by approximately one order-of-magnitude. Based on the acoustic measurements, an empirical equation has been obtained that gives accurate estimates of total q_b over a tidal cycle and simulates well the intermittent characteristics of marine bedload transport.     

Observation of a coronal mass ejection in January 1997 using radio sounding of the near-solar plasma with the GALILEO spacecraft

Measurements of frequency fluctuations in radio signals generated by the GALILEO spacecraft from January 6 to 11, 1997 are presented and analyzed. The passage of a coronal mass ejection observed by the SOHO/LASCO coronagraph on January 6, 1997 through the radio-communication path between the spacecraft and a ground station was recorded. Radio sounding was carried out at a carrier frequency of 2295 MHz at a heliocentric distance of about 32 solar radii, with the signal being received at three ground stations. As the mass ejection intersected the propagation path, the mean frequency of the signal increased and several-hour-long frequency fluctuations were enhanced. A spectral analysis of the frequency fluctuations shows that the regime and level of plasma turbulence are substantially different in different sections of the quiet solar wind and the disturbed plasmoid. A correlation between the intensity and temporal spectrum of the frequency fluctuations is found. The plasma density in the leading part of the coronal mass ejection exceeds the mean background value by more than an order of magnitude. Our correlation analysis of the frequency fluctuations recorded simultaneously at two widely separated measuring points shows that two flow components with different velocities—the quiet solar wind and a perturbed stream—crossed the communication path. The radio-sounding data are compared with observations of the coronal mass ejection by the SOHO/LASCO coronagraph and plasma measurements near the Earth’s orbit using the WIND satellite. A pronounced correlation is found between the variations in the mean frequency of the sounding signal and the plasma density in near-Earth space.     

格子玻尔兹曼方法及其在大气湍流研究中的应用

文章的目的是对格子玻尔兹曼方法进行系统的介绍，格子玻尔兹曼方法(Lattice Boltzmann Method)的出现直接来源于20世纪60年代的元胞自动机(Cellular Automata)思想，而这一方法用于解决流动现象时，又可以追溯到19世纪的分子运动论，求解的是Boltzmann提出的玻尔兹曼输运方程，因此将这一方法称为格子玻尔兹曼方法，之前也被称为格子气自动机(Lattice Gas Automaton)。该方法多用于研究复杂现象，如材料晶体凝聚时的生长过程、城市土地利用的演化等方面。在20世纪70年代由Hardy、Pomeau和Pazzis建立了第一个用于研究流体运动的格子气自动机，此后，这一方法被广泛用来模拟各种流动问题，诸如二相流、孔隙介质中的渗流等，并根据这一方法开发了相应的商业软件PowerFlow。同时，格子玻尔兹曼方法由于其在微观水平描述运动的特点，成为研究湍流的一个很好的数值计算工具，特别是用其进行直接数值模拟(DNS)计算，成为继传统的差分法、有限体积法和谱方法之后的又一有力的手段。而作为大气运动的一个主要现象的大气湍流，比普通湍流更加复杂，在这里着重介绍了大气湍流的特点和应用格子玻尔兹曼方法模拟湍流的发展过程。     

推移质输沙对阶梯-深潭系统消能的影响

阶梯-深潭系统是山区河流上一种河床结构形态,具有稳定河床和消能减灾的作用。推移质运动会影响水流结构并改变河床形态,从而影响阶梯-深潭系统的消能效率。在野外构建阶梯-深潭系统,通过人工加沙试验,研究不同来水来沙对阶梯-深潭系统流场及消能的影响。研究表明,推移质运动使阶梯上紊动略增强,深潭中紊动大为减弱,从而使阶梯-深潭系统消能率降低。推移质运动的增强改变水流能量分配,其消能附加作用使阶梯-深潭结构消能降低和深潭淤埋。     

Toward modeling of CO2 multi-phase flow patterns using a stochastic multi-scale approach

Although pipe transport for storage of CO₂ captured from combustion exhaust is most efficient under supercritical conditions, subcritical multi-phase transport might sometimes occur intentionally or unintentionally. To adequately assess the consequences of subcriticality, the fidelity of subcritical multi-phase turbulent transport modeling, including confinement and buoyancy effects, must be improved. For this reason, an extension of one-dimensional turbulence, a stochastic turbulence modeling strategy, for application to this regime is underway. As a step toward this extension, a turbulent liquid jet issuing from a planar channel is simulated and results are compared with liquid jet measurements and channel flow numerical simulations. A previously noted turbulence decay scaling is reproduced, suggesting that the scaling is more robust than might be supposed, given the complicating factors. This work provides a basis for extension to the primary breakup regime of liquid jets and hence to subcritical multi-phase turbulence more generally.     

How bioturbation obscured the Cretaceous–Palaeogene boundary record

The Cretaceous–Palaeogene (K/Pg) boundary interval is often penetrated by burrows, which may obscure stratigraphic and micropalaeontological records, leading to misinterpretations of the sequence of events spanning the K/Pg boundary. Here, we assess the role of burrowing organisms in the redistribution of benthic foraminifera across the boundary at Bidart (France), and report a strong relationship between the behaviour represented by pre‐ and post‐K/Pg trace fossils and their benthic foraminiferal content. We further infer a brief interval of eutrophic conditions at the seafloor, as reported from other locations, which disappeared from the lowermost Danian stratigraphic record and is represented only inside post‐K/Pg trace fossils hosted in Cretaceous strata. The combined study of trace fossils and microfossils is a powerful tool in eco‐stratigraphy and event‐stratigraphy, and can yield important insights into the completeness of the K/Pg record, especially at locations such as Bidart where this interval has traditionally been assumed to be complete.     

The dynamics of turbulent, transitional and laminar clay-laden flow over a fixed current ripple

Most aqueous sedimentary environments contain varying concentrations of fine‐grained, often clay‐rich, sediment that is transported in suspension and may modify the properties of the flow and underlying mobile bed. This paper presents results from a series of laboratory experiments examining the mean and turbulent properties of clay‐laden (kaolinite) flows, of various volumetric sediment concentrations between 0·046% and 12·7%, moving over a fixed, idealized current ripple. As the kaolinite concentration was raised, with flow velocity and depth constant, four flow types were observed to occur: (i) turbulent flow, in which flow separation is dominant in the leeside of the ripple; (ii) turbulence‐enhanced transitional flow, in which turbulence in the leeside separation zone region is enhanced; (iii) turbulence‐attenuated transitional flow, in which turbulence along the separation zone shear layer and in the free flow above it becomes damped, eventually leading to a reduction in the size of the separation zone wake region; and (iv) laminar plug flow, in which turbulence is damped and flow is almost stagnant in the lee of the ripple. Such modulation of turbulence by increasing clay concentrations suggests that many paradigms of flow and bedform dynamics, which have been based on extensive past work in clear water flows, require revision. The present results highlight a need to fully characterize the boundary conditions for turbulence modulation as a function of clay type and applied flow conditions, and the effects of such flows on fully mobile cohesionless beds.