A method to measure suspended load transports in estuaries

It is shown that an optical beam-attenuance meter integrated into an Aanderaa current meter is a suitable device for measuring time series of fluxes of suspended material in turbid estuarine water. Some typical applications are presented.     

基于PCL语言的浮体湿表面B样条面元生成方法

提出一种基于PCL语言生成浮体湿表面B样条面元的方法.介绍利用PCL语言生成浮体湿表面型值数据点,对型值数据点进行规范参数化,反算B样条面元控制点,以及生成由控制点计算得到的用于检查B面元质量的加密曲面网格这四个主要模块的程序流程,并对编写该程序时需要用到的PCL函数及注意事项进行说明.该方法充分利用MSC.Patran强大的图形处理及三维显示功能,可以准确生成任意形状浮体湿表面的B样条面元,为获得准确的高阶水动力结果奠定了基础.     

Short pulse radar used to measure sea surface wind speed and SWH

A joint airborne measurement program is being pursued by NRL and NASA Wallops Flight Center to determine the extent to which wind speed and sea surface significant wave height (SWH) can be measured quantitatively and remotely with a short pulse (2 ns), wide-beam (60deg), nadir-looking 3-cm radar. The concept involves relative power measurements only and does not need a scanning antenna, doppler filters, or absolute power calibration. The slopes of the leading and trailing edges of the averaged received power for the pulse limited altimeter are used to infer SWH and surface wind speed. The interpretation is based on theoretical models of the effects of SWH on the leading edge shape and rms sea-surface slope on the trailing-edge shape. The models include the radar system parameters of antenna beam width and pulsewidth. Preliminary experimental results look promising and indicate that it may be possible to design a relatively compact airborne radar to infer, in real-time, the sea surface SWH and surface wind speed.     

An ultrasonic device to measure surface displacements of water and floating bodies

Non-intrusive measuring instruments are desirable tools to investigate the response of vessels or marine structures subjected to water waves, whether in a laboratory or in the field. An ultrasonic sensing device is designed and built to measure surface displacements of a floating body. An ultrasonic sensor can sense any surface that lies in front of it, whether it is a solid or a liquid surface. In this study, a specialized electronic circuit board is designed to measure a wide range of surface displacements. The proposed system not only can be used to measure heave, surge, and pitch of a floating body continuously but also it can act as a water waveform recording instrument. The proposed ultrasonic measuring device is far more accurate than the current standard instruments (e.g. potentiometers) based on the simple fact that the measured surface is not disturbed. Furthermore, this device is of low manufacturing cost and has a practical size that renders it suitable for a broad range of applications. Hence, it can be used in a laboratory setup as well as in conducting field tests.     

A method to measure enforcement effort in shipping with incomplete information

Current methods in the shipping industry to evaluate performance do not account for differences in fleet profiles of registries such as age, size or ship type and not for bad luck. This can lead to unfair evaluation of enforcement efforts of the international standards. Furthermore, incentives to improve performance are concentrated on decreasing detentions rather than incidents. This article proposes a new method to a longstanding problem to evaluate performance that rectifies shortcomings of the method currently used. The proposed method measures the enforcement effort by means of proxy variables and introduces incentives for improvement that go beyond the currently used 'detention'. The aim is to provide a fair and transparent way. The proposed method is applied and results are compared with methods currently used to demonstrate how the rankings change. The method can be adapted to other areas of the shipping industry such as classification societies or ship management companies.     

Experimental investigation of the harmonic generation by waves over a submerged plate

Experiments in a wave flume have been performed to analyse the nonlinear interaction between regular gravity waves and a submerged horizontal plate used as breakwater. A new method, based on the Doppler shift generated by a moving probes, has been used to discriminate the incident fundamental mode and the reflected fundamental mode. The relationships of the reflection and transmission coefficients to the wave number at different submergence depth ratios are presented. The accurate discrimination, by this method, of the phase-locked and free modes allows the quantification of the higher harmonics generated by the breakwater and the analysis of the nonlinear interaction between the waves and the submerged plate. The transfer of energy from the fundamental mode to higher harmonics is very large in the cases of small submergence depth ratios. The vortices produced at the edges take part in the production of higher harmonics by interaction with the free surface but involve, at the same time, a dissipation process that increases the efficiency of the breakwater.     

一种利用SMOS卫星观测的海表面盐度反演海水盐度廓线的方法

This paper proposes a new method to retrieve salinity profiles from the sea surface salinity(SSS) observed by the Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity(SMOS) satellite. The main vertical patterns of the salinity profiles are firstly extracted from the salinity profiles measured by Argo using the empirical orthogonal function. To determine the time coefficients for each vertical pattern, two statistical models are developed. In the linear model, a transfer function is proposed to relate the SSS observed by SMOS(SMOS_SSS) with that measured by Argo, and then a linear relationship between the SMOS_SSS and the time coefficient is established. In the nonlinear model, the neural network is utilized to estimate the time coefficients from SMOS_SSS, months and positions of the salinity profiles. The two models are validated by comparing the salinity profiles retrieved from SMOS with those measured by Argo and the climatological salinities. The root-mean-square error(RMSE) of the linear and nonlinear model are 0.08–0.16 and 0.08–0.14 for the upper 400 m, which are 0.01–0.07 and 0.01–0.09 smaller than the RMSE of climatology. The error sources of the method are also discussed.     

Experimental investigation of fluctuations of radar signals caused by surface waves

On the oceanographic platform of the Marine Hydrophysical Institute of the Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences, we performedin situ investigations of surface waves based on the analysis of the fluctuations of radar signals at a wavelength of 1.2 cm. We analyzed both the traditional modulation transfer function used to describe variations of the scattering cross section for the scales of surface waves and the correlation of mean variations of the level of radar signals with the group structure of waving. This is of interest for applications in medium-resolution radar systems (−200–500m) recording the group structure of waving in the process of its smoothing. The experimental estimations of the amplitude of variations of radar signals caused by the group structure of waving are in good agreement with numerical results obtained with the help of a two-scale model of scattering of radar signals by the sea surface. Translated by Peter V. Malyshev and Dmitry V. Malyshev     

关于DAWSON方法中网格划分的研究

在CFD中,网格的划分有时是一个很重要的问题。在势流理论的DAWSON方法中,有一套生成网格的基本方法,但初值的选择是人为的,因此,如何选择一个合理的初值乃是一个关键的问题。有鉴于此,本文就WIGLEY船型,基于正交设计原理,设计了数值试验方案,研究了各种不同的初值对波形图和源强分布图以及兴波阻力的影响,并据此给出了一个选择合适初值的方法。     

On the generation of lateral internal waves by a surface seiche in a partially mixed estuary

Dyer (1982) observed internal oscillations in Southampton Water of predominantly 8 and 4 min periods. These were thought to be lateral standing waves generated by the interaction of the first- and second-order surface seiches, respectively, with estuarine topography. The present paper extends the work of Rattray (1960) to model the cross-sectional topography of Southampton Water, and shows that internal waves of the observed periods, wavelengths and amplitudes could indeed have been generated in the manner envisaged, but only near the times of certain internal resonant conditions. In general, about two or three such resonances occur per half tidal cycle, and this is in qualitative agreement with Dyer's observations.     

Experimental study on loss factor for corrugated plates by bandwidth method

The material loss factor for technically orthotropic plates was measured by half-power bandwidth method. Rectangular and trapezoidal corrugated plates of steel were considered. A simple isotropic steel plate was also considered for comparison of the results. The concept of single degree of freedom system was adopted. The tests were undertaken at very low frequency range (0–100) Hz. The plate models were suspended freely with two wires to minimize or prevent excessive extraneous energy dissipation. Out of plane point force, random in nature was applied to the top middle of the plates and the responses were measured from the middle point of the plates by FFT analyzer using miniature small mass accelerometer as sensor. The aim of these tests is to investigate the effects of bending rigidity and mode orders over material loss factor. The values of estimated modal damping loss factors are compared and tabulated for the plates models considered. Natural frequencies of some of the initial modes of the plates are also presented.It is observed that the higher the value of bending rigidity of the plates, the larger the values of loss factor of it. There was a significant increase in value of loss factor in corrugated plates to that of the isotropic plate.     

利用浅水地形及其SAR影像确定海面风向的一种方法

利用浅水地形的SAR影像以及基于浅水地形SAR仿真模型计算得到的仿真SAR影像,基于仿真SAR影像与真实SAR影像之间的相关性提出了一种确定海面风向的方法——最大相关系数法.以南沙双子礁海域为例,利用最大相关系数法确定出了一幅RADARSAT SAR影像成像时刻的海面风向,通过对结果的比较分析可以看出对于包含浅水地形的SAR影像应用该方法探测海面风向是可行的.     

Numerical simulation of sloshing with large deforming free surface by MPS-LES method

Moving particle semi-implicit (MPS) method is a fully Lagrangian particle method which can easily solve problems with violent free surface. Although it has demonstrated its advantage in ocean engineering applications, it still has some defects to be improved. In this paper, MPS method is extended to the large eddy simulation (LES) by coupling with a sub-particle-scale (SPS) turbulence model. The SPS turbulence model turns into the Reynolds stress terms in the filtered momentum equation, and the Smagorinsky model is introduced to describe the Reynolds stress terms. Although MPS method has the advantage in the simulation of the free surface flow, a lot of non-free surface particles are treated as free surface particles in the original MPS model. In this paper, we use a new free surface tracing method and the key point is "neighbor particle". In this new method, the zone around each particle is divided into eight parts, and the particle will be treated as a free surface particle as long as there are no "neighbor particles" in any two parts of the zone. As the number density parameter judging method has a high efficiency for the free surface particles tracing, we combine it with the neighbor detected method. First, we select out the particles which may be mistreated with high probabilities by using the number density parameter judging method. And then we deal with these particles with the neighbor detected method. By doing this, the new mixed free surface tracing method can reduce the mistreatment problem efficiently. The serious pressure fluctuation is an obvious defect in MPS method, and therefore an area-time average technique is used in this paper to remove the pressure fluctuation with a quite good result. With these improvements, the modified MPS-LES method is applied to simulate liquid sloshing problems with large deforming free surface. Results show that the modified MPS-LES method can simulate the large deforming free surface easily. It can not only capture the large impact pressure accurately on rolling tank wall but also can generate all physical phenomena successfully. The good agreement between numerical and experimental results proves that the modified MPS-LES method is a good CFD methodology in free surface flow simulations.     

船舶螺旋桨尾流场的数值分析

利用基于速度势的低阶面元法计算船舶螺旋桨的尾流场。采用计算较为简捷的关于扰动速度势的基本积分微分方程，并采用双曲面形状的面凶以消除面元间的缝隙。Newton-Raphson迭代过程被用来在桨叶随边满足压力Kutta条件，使桨叶面上表面的压力在随边有良好的一致性。在计算面元的影响系数时，应用了Morino导出的解析计算公式，加快了数值计算的速度。从解面元法的基本积分方程得到的偶极强度和源汇强度，直接求得尾流场的速度分布。     

Electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy as a novel approach to measure macromolecule–surface interactions and activities of extracellular enzymes

The dynamics of high molecular weight organic matter in marine systems are influenced by molecular conformation, interactions with surfaces and susceptibility to enzymatic hydrolysis, parameters that are difficult to observe experimentally. Here we use electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy (EPR) and spin-labeled (SL-) polysaccharides to monitor the sorption of SL-polysaccharides to natural sediment surfaces and to montmorillonite and to observe decreases in polysaccharide size due to enzymatic hydrolysis. SL-pullulan, SL-xylan and SL-maltoheptaose all sorbed rapidly to muddy sediments but not to sandy sediments. SL-pullulan and SL-maltoheptaose also both sorbed to montmorillonite; however, SL-pullulan reached substantially greater final surface loadings than did SL-maltoheptaose. Using EPR has the advantages of being rapid (spectra can be acquired in 100 seconds), non-destructive and functional in complex media, including sediment slurries, muddy water or other optically opaque samples, permitting investigation of the interactions between biomacromolecules, extracellular enzymes and mineral surfaces in aquatic environments.     

构造生烃

生烃是岩石中所含的有机质产生流体有机化合物的化学反应。岩石有机质化学反应存在两种系统：封闭系统和开放系统,随着埋深加大,烃源岩越来越致密,岩石的化学反应逐渐由开放系统转变为封闭系统。目前的生烃理论仅仅是开放系统下烃源岩成熟与生烃理论,烃源岩成熟与生烃是不匹配的。封闭系统下烃源岩成熟与生烃是不匹配的,烃源岩成熟但不生烃,而是形成另外一种成熟的固体有机质。大多数情况是烃源岩为半封闭系统,烃源岩处于欠生烃状态。构造运动形成的断层和裂隙将烃源岩与疏导层沟通,烃源岩迅速由封闭、半封闭系统转变为开放系统。这种生烃系统的转变形成短时间内过量生烃,笔者将这种生烃作用命名为构造生烃,意味着构造运动期即为主生烃期,伴随着多次构造运动可以形成多个幕式生烃高峰。构造生烃理论开拓两个极其重要的勘探领域：第一,新构造勘探。以往认为已经过了生、排烃期的构造得以解放,如渤海湾郯庐断裂带第四纪圈闭不是过了主生烃期,而是正处于构造生烃的过生烃高峰期。以PL19-3为代表的油气运聚强度只有构造生烃能够解释;第二,超深勘探,特别是天然气勘探。深层勘探的下限将大大延伸,生烃门限,特别是生气门限将大大加深,仅生烃而言万米都不是天然气勘探的极限。     

Evaluation of the indophenol method to measure NH4 in extracts from coastal marine sediments

It has been found that the measurement of NH₄⁺ in extracts of marine sediments was influenced by factors which inhibit the indophenol colour development, and through gel chromatography, diffusion, dilution and internal standard assays, it was possible to determine the extent of this interference. The measurement of NH₄⁺ in KCl extracts and porewater, using internal standards, indicated that colour development was inhibited 13% and 51%, respectively. Dilution of samples alleviated this inhibition, but more than five-fold dilution was necessary for some extracts. Diffusion of NH₃, collection and measurement generally gave concentrations comparable with those derived from the use of internal standards. These data suggest that the indophenol reagents should be added to sufficient diluted sediment extracts or to diffusates from extracts, to prevent interference to the colour development of NH₄⁺.     

An instrument to measure seabed boundary-layer processes

An instrumented platform for investigating the processes governing sediment resuspension and transport near the seabed is described. Water velocities at five positions, suspended-sediment concentration profiles, surface wave activity, and other parameters are measured. The data logger is extremely flexible. There is no fundamental limit to the number or type of sensors that can be fitted. Regular and adaptive sampling are supported to make best use of its 12 Mb of solid-state data storage. Each individual sensor has its sampling rate specified at up to 10 Hz. The platform is designed to minimize flow interference in the vicinity of the current meters. Its orientation is monitored during deployment so that it can be aligned optimally     

A statistical method to get surface level air-temperature from satellite observations of precipitable water

Ten-day mean surface level air-temperature from SSMI precipitable water (SSMI-T _a ) has been derived and compared with the temperature from two ocean data buoys (Buoy-T _a ) of Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) for a period of six months (July–December, 1988). Statistical relations between air-temperature and mixing ratio, using data from ocean data buoys are used to derive air-temperature from mixing ratio, obtained from SSMI precipitable water. For getting the mixing ratio from precipitable water, regional mixing ratio-precipitable water relations have been used, instead of global relation proposed by Liu (1986). The rms errors (standard deviation of the difference between SSMI-T _a and Buoy-T _a ) for two buoy locations are found to be 1.15 and 1.12°C, respectively. Surface level temperature for the two buoy locations are also derived using direct regression relation between Buoy-T _a and precipitable water. The rms errors of the SSMI-T _a , in this case are found to be reduced to 1.0°C.