实验水槽常规流速模拟的缩尺方法

提出了一种实验室水槽中流速模拟的方法,该方法可根据需要提供合适的模型缩尺比,用来完成相关海洋工程的模型水动力性能实验,可以近似地模拟出实际设备在水中的工作状态,为在实验水槽中模拟水流动力参数提供有效的参考,方便水槽中的科学实验的开展。     

基于海洋仪器设备的动力环境实验模拟

海洋动力环境实验模拟是海洋环境监测技术、海洋能开发技术研究的基础,其目的是为海洋仪器设备的研制与测试提供模拟的实验环境.实验模拟动力环境参数的确定是关键,根据海洋仪器设备(包含海洋监测仪器设备与海洋可再生能源开发利用设备等)的需求以及我国沿海实际风、浪、流的特征,确定了实验模拟的相关参数.     

海上地震勘探主要采集参数的选取与验证——以南海北部某调查区为例

采集参数选取的优劣直接关系到野外地震资料质量的高低。作者经过多年海上地震调查实践,总结了一套实用的采集参数选取原则与验证流程。首先结合南海北部某调查区以往的地震和地质资料分析,建立了典型的地震地质结构模型;根据现有调查设备的性能,利用专业软件Nucleus6.2模拟对采集参数选取的理论计算,比较不同采集参数组合的模拟结果,选择有利于调查任务的参数组合。对海上生产前模拟选用的采集参数组合做试验和验证,确定了最适合的参数作业。运用该套原则和流程精心设计,实验获得了高质量野外资料。     

海洋监测设备实验水槽的环境动力参数I.典型海域

为海洋监测设备实验水槽的设计和模型实验的开展提供动力环境方面的依据,分析了中国近海和各大洋典型海域浪、流、风等环境要素的特征,对中国近海给出环境要素特征量的平均值和最大观测值,对大洋给出统计的最大概率对应的要素值和1%概率大值;模拟能力评估显示,实验水槽对浪、流、风均具有很好的模拟能力,可满足今后对海洋监测设备开展的各类模型实验需要。     

植物消浪护岸模型实验研究

对于在堤岸上种树消浪这一新的护岸工程,根据实际波浪要素和现有实验设备条件确定出几何比尺,选取桧柏树枝作为防浪树的模型,筛选主要影响因素进行量纲分析,确定实验组次,对实验现象和数据作定性和定量的分析,得出防浪林应有相当的宽度,才能起到预期的防浪护岸效果,防浪林过窄,可能会引起“共振”现象,并且斜坡的消浪效果好于平坡,对实际工程可起参考作用。     

海岸带边坡防浪林消浪理论与实验研究

在海岸边坡上种植防浪林是一种新的护岸形式,应用理论分析和模型实验对其进行了初步研究.建立波浪在斜坡上传播的控制方程及边界条件,应用摄动理论求解非线性解,得到了一阶精确解和二阶近似解.在模型实验中,确定几何比尺为 1∶10,选取桧柏树枝作为防浪林模型,根据量纲分析,确定的主要影响因素是海岸边坡坡度、波高、波周期、水深与防浪林树宽.实验结果表明,防浪林宽度与岸坡坡度对消浪效果影响较大.     

深水半潜式生产平台耦合动力特性对比研究

应用数值模拟与模型试验相结合的方法研究半潜式生产平台系泊状态下的耦合动力特性。建立耦合分析模型,时域内计算求解平台的动力响应,选取缩尺比为1∶60,采用等效截断模型方法对数值模拟结果进行验证。通过对比模型试验与数值模拟结果发现:等效截断系泊系统可以较好地模拟平台的位移响应,但在系泊张力方面却差异较大,此外极端海况下平台的甲板上浪问题也必须得到充分重视。     

一种海冰热力过程参数化方案

由于海冰热力过程太复杂,难于精确计算冰面和水面热量收支方程中的每一项,并且净热量收支比每项小得多,因此难以确定海冰热力一动力模式中的净热通量。本文根据渤海的水文气象观测,详细分析了太阳短波辐射、长波辐射、云量、感热和潜热等对海冰热力增长函数的贡献,给出了一种海冰热力过程的参数化方案。并选取２个典型的个例进行了对比研究。模拟结果表明,该参数化方案能较好地模拟渤海海冰的热力过程。     

单齿破碎参数对水合物切削力影响规律研究

在海洋天然气水合物的机械采掘过程中,单齿破碎参数是影响整个绞吸头采掘效率的重要因素,掌握单齿破碎参数对切削力的影响规律对于整个水合物开采系统具有重要的意义。本文基于水合物破碎替代试样开展绞吸单齿切削实验,研究在不同几何参数与不同切削深度下单齿破碎切削载荷变化规律;基于D-P岩石破坏准则建立三维正交切削单齿切向力和法向力的解析式;并建立ABAQUS有限元分析模型,以实验数据进行验证,开展正交模拟实验,优选单齿几何参数与切削深度。结果表明:切削深度和刀齿宽度与切削载荷呈正相关,两者分别在15 mm和3 mm时,增大了对切削载荷的影响;前角与切削载荷呈负相关,且随自身的增大,对载荷的影响减小;仿真与实验结果拟合良好,前角对切削比能有着显著的影响,刀齿宽度和切削深度对切削比能基本无影响;最优组合为α=60°、d=9 mm、W=25 mm。该研究为水合物绞吸头单齿的设计和绞吸开采参数的制定提供了理论支撑。     

雷达高度计海况偏差估计神经网络模型研究

本文基于Jason-2高度计数据,在12个不同季节的cycle数据中组合1~6个cycle的有效波高、风速和海况偏差为训练集,选取Jason-2的另外3个不同季节的cycle数据集为测试集。经检验分析,确定3个cycle对应的BP神经网络模型。将该模型应用于HY-2高度计海况偏差的估计,通过海况偏差与有效波高及风速的拟合优度、解释方差和残差对比分析,结果表明:神经网络BP模型可以有效应用于HY-2的海况偏差估计并明显优于传统海况偏差参数模型。     

Mobile layer thickness in sheet flow beneath random waves

The erosion depth and the sheet flow layer thickness represent two characteristic parameters for transport processes in oscillatory sheet flow. Formulas for these parameters under regular waves have been applied to obtain characteristic statistical values under random waves. The applicability of the method for practical purposes is illustrated by two examples using data typical for field conditions at water depths of 70 m (Ekofisk location in the North Sea) and 15 m, respectively. Two fictive storms based on the Dohmen-Janssen and Hanes [Dohmen-Janssen, C.M., Hanes, D.M., 2005. Sheet flow and suspended sediment due to wave groups in a large wave flume. Cont. Shelf Res. 25, 333–347] data from large scale wave flume tests have also been utilized to demonstrate how the return period of the sheet flow layer thickness observed in their experiments can be estimated.     

Generation and propagation of transient nonlinear waves in a wave flume

A semi-analytical nonlinear wavemaker model is derived to predict the generation and propagation of transient nonlinear waves in a wave flume. The solution is very efficient and is achieved by applying eigenfunction expansions and FFT. The model is applied to study the effect of the wavemaker and its motion on the generation and propagation of nonlinear waves. The results indicate that the linear wavemaker theory may be applied to predict only the generation of waves of low steepness for which the nonlinear terms in the kinematic wavemaker boundary condition and free-surface boundary conditions are of secondary importance. For waves of moderate steepness and steep waves these nonlinear terms have substantial effects on wave profile and wave spectrum just after the wavemaker. A wave spectrum corresponding to a sinusoidally moving wavemaker possesses a multi-peak form with substantial nonlinear components, which disturbs or may even exclude physical modeling in wave flumes. The analysis shows that the widely recognized weakly nonlinear wavemaker theory may only be applied to describe the generation and propagation of waves of low steepness. This is subject to further restrictions in shallow and deep waters because the kinematic wavemaker boundary condition as well as the nonlinear interaction of wave components and the evolution of wave energy spectrum is not properly described by weakly nonlinear wavemaker theory. Laboratory experiments were conducted in a wave flume to verify the nonlinear wavemaker model. The comparisons show a reasonable agreement between predicted and measured free-surface elevation and the corresponding amplitudes of Fourier series. A reasonable agreement between theoretical results and experimental data is observed even for fairly steep waves.     

Flume confinement effect on wave-induced dynamic pressures on twin-tandem cylinders

The estimates of wave-induced dynamic pressures around surface piercing twin-tandem rigid vertical circular cylinders fixed at the bottom of a wave flume, obtained using the source distribution method, are compared with the measured values. The influence of flume confinement on dynamic pressures is estimated by the method of images. The experiments are carried out on cylinders of 40 cm diameter mostly in deep water conditions in a wave flume 4 m wide, for different values of scattering parameters and spacings between the cylinders.     

An active wave generating–absorbing boundary condition for VOF type numerical model

The objective of the present work is to discuss the implementation of an active wave generating–absorbing boundary condition for a numerical model based on the Volume Of Fluid (VOF) method for tracking free surfaces. First an overview of the development of VOF type models with special emphasis in the field of coastal engineering is given. A new type of numerical boundary condition for combined wave generation and absorption in the numerical model VOFbreak² is presented. The numerical boundary condition is based on an active wave absorption system that was first developed in the context of physical wave flume experiments, using a wave paddle. The method applies to regular and irregular waves. Velocities are measured at one location inside the computational domain. The reflected wave train is separated from the incident wave field in front of a structure by means of digital filtering and subsequent superposition of the measured velocity signals. The incident wave signal is corrected, so that the reflected wave is effectively absorbed at the boundary. The digital filters are derived theoretically and their practical design is discussed. The practical use of this numerical boundary condition is compared to the use of the absorption system in a physical wave flume. The effectiveness of the active wave generating–absorbing boundary condition finally is proved using analytical tests and numerical simulations with VOFbreak².     

A scale comparison of waves breaking on a beach

A measurement programme, conducted in a small-scale wave flume, which comprised the breaking of periodic and random waves on a gently sloping beach, was partly repeated in a large-scale wave flume. The results are used here to make a scale comparison. The quantities considered in the comparison are wave heights, set-up and vertical profiles of maximum seaward, maximum shoreward and time-mean horizontal velocities. It appears that, both qualitatively and quantitatively, scale effects in these quantities are virtually absent in the wave height range of 0.1 m to 1.5 m.     

波浪发电装置浮筒的水动力特性及参数研究

针对我国波浪发电的发展现状,介绍了“海蛇”波浪发电装置的发电原理,并应用OrcaFlex 软件建立了装置的水动力数值模型,研究了“海蛇”装置浮筒的水动力特性.根据“海蛇”装置的结构特点,通过对活塞运动的时程曲线进行傅里叶变换,给出此装置一级转化总势能计算的简易方法.另外,通过改变浮筒的直径和长度,以装置的效率/体积比作为衡量系统经济性的指标,研究浮筒几何参数对装置一级能量转化效率的影响.结果表明,装置一级能量转化效率随浮筒长度和直径增加而变大,进一步分析表明,适当增加浮筒长度比增大直径更具经济效益.装置的效率/体积比随着浮筒直径增加存在先增加后减少的拐点,这可以为“海蛇”的初始设计提供一定的理论依据.     

点吸收式波浪能发电装置姿态特性分析

点吸收式波浪能发电装置是一种最简单的振荡体式波浪能发电装置, 但其安装成本高、生存能力较差。本文针对点吸收式波浪能发电装置的姿态稳定性问题, 开展了其在波浪作用下的运动姿态和发电功率之间的关系研究。首先介绍了点吸收波浪能发电装置的工作原理; 然后,根据我国南海海域的自然资源条件, 划定波况范围, 利用相似理论在实验室中模拟波浪参数,选定工况, 建立模型, 设计测量系统, 开展物理模型试验; 最后, 利用试验结果分析了发电装置的最佳发电周期、波高对装置发电功率的影响, 装置姿态对发电功率的影响等。本文为点吸收式波浪能发电装置设计及测试提供了参考。     

New model to determine forces at on-bottom slender pipelines

The present paper proposes a numerical model to determine horizontal and vertical components of the hydrodynamic forces on a slender submarine pipeline lying at the sea bed and exposed to non-linear waves plus a current. The new model is an extension of the Wake II type model, originally proposed for sinusoidal waves (Soedigdo et al., 1999) and for combined sinusoidal waves and currents (Sabag et al., 2000), to the case of periodic or random waves, even with a superimposed current. The Wake II type model takes into account the wake effects on the kinematic field and the time variation of drag and lift hydrodynamic coefficients. The proposed extension is based on an evolutional analysis carried out for each half period of the free stream horizontal velocity at the pipeline. An analytical expression of the wake velocity is developed starting from the Navier–Stokes and the boundary layer equations. The time variation of the drag and lift hydrodynamic coefficients is obtained using a Gaussian integration of the start-up function. A reduced scale laboratory investigation in a large wave flume has been conducted in order to calibrate the empirical parameters involved in the proposed model. Different wave and current conditions have been considered and measurements of free stream horizontal velocities and dynamic pressures on a bottom-mounted pipeline have been conducted. The comparison between experimental and numerical hydrodynamic forces shows the accuracy of the new model in evaluating the time variation of peaks and phase shifts of the horizontal and vertical wave and current induced forces.     

Experimental analysis of the flow field around horizontal axis tidal turbines by use of scale mesh disk rotor simulators

Understanding the flow field around horizontal axis marine current turbines is important if this new energy generation technology is to advance. The aim of this work is to identify and provide an understanding of the principal parameters that govern the downstream wake structure and its recovery to the free-stream velocity profile. This will allow large farms or arrays of devices to be installed whilst maximising device and array efficiency. Wake characteristics of small-scale mesh disk rotor simulators have been measured in a 21 m tilting flume at the University of Southampton. The results indicate that wake velocities are reduced in the near wake region (close behind the rotor disk) for increasing levels of disk thrust. Further downstream all normalised wake velocity values converge, enforcing that, as for wind turbines, far wake recovery is a function of the ambient flow turbulence. Varying the disk proximity to the water surface/bed introduces differential mass flow rates above and below the rotor disk that can cause the wake to persist much further downstream. Finally, the introduction of increased sea bed roughness whilst increasing the depth-averaged ambient turbulence actually decreases downstream wake velocities. Results presented demonstrate that there are a number of interdependent variables that affect the rate of wake recovery and will have a significant impact on the spacing of marine current turbines within an array.     

Numerical study of combined overflow and wave overtopping over a smooth impermeable seawall

A numerical wave flume is used to investigate the discharge characteristics of combined overflow and wave overtopping of impermeable seawalls. The numerical procedure computes solutions to the Reynolds-averaged Navier–Stokes equations and includes the generation of an irregular train of waves, the simulation of wave breaking and interaction with a sloping, impermeable wall. The numerical model is first tested against published experimental observations, approximate analytical solutions and empirical design formulae for the cases of pure overflow and pure overtopping. A sequence of numerical experiments simulating combined overflow and overtopping are described. The results are used to determine empirical discharge formulae of the form used in current practice.