Climate Change Impact on Hydrological Extremes: Preliminary Results from the Polish-Norwegian Project

This paper presents the background, objectives, and preliminary outcomes from the first year of activities of the Polish–Norwegian project CHIHE (Climate Change Impact on Hydrological Extremes). The project aims to estimate the influence of climate changes on extreme river flows (low and high) and to evaluate the impact on the frequency of occurrence of hydrological extremes. Eight “twinned” catchments in Poland and Norway serve as case studies. We present the procedures of the catchment selection applied in Norway and Poland and a database consisting of near-natural ten Polish and eight Norwegian catchments constructed for the purpose of climate impact assessment. Climate projections for selected catchments are described and compared with observations of temperature and precipitation available for the reference period. Future changes based on those projections are analysed and assessed for two periods, the near future (2021–2050) and the far-future (2071–2100). The results indicate increases in precipitation and temperature in the periods and regions studied both in Poland and Norway.     

Parallel hydrodynamic finite element model with an N-Best refining partition scheme

We enhance a robust parallel finite element model for coasts and estuaries cases with the use of N-Best refinement algorithms, in multilevel partitioning scheme. Graph partitioning is an important step to construct the parallel model, in which computation speed is a big concern. The partitioning strategy includes the division of the research domain into several semi-equal-sized sub-domains, minimizing the sum weight of edges between different sub-domains. Multilevel schemes for graph partitioning are divided into three phases: coarsening, partitioning, and uncoarsening. In the uncoarsening phase, many refinement algorithms have been proposed previously, such as KL, Greedy, and Boundary refinements. In this study, we propose an N-Best refinement algorithm and show its advantages in our case study of Xiamen Bay. Compared with original partitioning algorithm in previous models, the N-Best algorithm can speed up the computation by 1.9 times, and the simulation results are in a good match with the in-situ data.     

水环境污染物迁移转化研究与泥沙运动

从三个方面,即泥沙颗粒本身的性质,污染水体中泥沙运动特点如污水氧化塘中的泥沙运动、河口段的泥沙运动,天然水体中污染物如重金属、难降解有机污染物、营养性污染物和油污染物迁移转化、归宿现象,阐述了将环境科学主要是水环境化学、环境地球化学、水化学和水利工程科学主要是水力学、泥沙运动力学结合起来研究水环境问题的重要性和必要性。     

Extreme Particulate Levels at a Western Pacific Coastal City: The Influence of Meteorological Factors and the Contribution of Long-Range Transport

The 4-year data sets (1998–2001) of PM₁₀ and other gaseous pollutants at four rural and urban monitoring sites provided by Environmental Protection Department of Hong Kong have been analyzed for days of extremely high and low PM₁₀ levels. The annual means of PM₁₀ concentrations are between 37 and 57 μg/m³. The level of high PM₁₀ concentration is defined from the comparison of local and international standards. Episode days are mainly controlled by different meteorological conditions: the continental outflow, the land-sea breeze/weak synoptic forcings and the approaching tropical cyclones. Integrated approaches have been used to distinguish between the predominantly “territory wide” and “long-range transport” (LRT) episode days. Case studies of these types of episodes are presented and the number of episode days per year for each type has been estimated. It is found that the LRT contributions are significant and account for ∼66% of the PM₁₀ episode days. Very high correlations between CO and PM₁₀ concentrations, and between SO₂ and PM₁₀ concentrations, can be found during the “territory wide” episode days which implies the important contributions of fossil fuel combustion to the PM₁₀ episodes. The number of “low level” PM₁₀ days per year has decreased by a factor near 3 from 1998 to 2001. Precipitation scavenging is the major process causing low levels of PM₁₀, irrespective of the associated weather systems. The regional annual background level is ∼9 μg/m³. With the exception of seasalt components, the average elemental concentrations of major inorganic species are similar for all of the sites during LRT events and constitute representative compositions of PM₁₀ during such events.     

Numerical modeling of multi-directional irregular waves incorporating 2-D numerical wave absorber and subgrid turbulence

In this paper, a finite difference scheme with an efficient 2-D numerical wave absorber for solving the extended Boussinesq equations as derived by Nwogu (Nwogu, O., 1993. Alternative form of Boussinesq equations for nearshore wave propagation. J. Waterway, Port, Coastal and Ocean Engineering, ASCE 119, 618–638) is proposed. The alternate direction iterative method combined with an efficient predictor-corrector scheme are adopted for the numerical solution of the governing differential equations. To parameterize the contribution of unresolved small-scale motions, the philosophy of the large eddy simulation is applied on the horizontal plane. The proposed method is verified by two test cases where experimental data are available for comparison. The first case is wave diffraction around a semi-infinite breakwater studied by Briggs et al. (Briggs, M.J., Thompson, E.F., Vincent, C.L., 1995. Wave diffraction around breakwater. Journal of Waterway, Port, Coastal, and Ocean Engineering, ASCE 121, 23–35). The other case is wave concentration by a navigation channel as reported by Yu et al. (Yu, Y.-X., Liu, S.-X., Li, Y.S., Wai, O.W.H., 2000. Refraction and diffraction of random waves through breakwater. Ocean Engineering 27, 489–509). Numerical results agree very well with the corresponding experimental data in both cases.     

区域创新集群发展的关键要素及作用机制研究——以日本创新集群为例

在分析创新集群的构成与创新机制的基础上,从外部环境、构成主体等4个方面讨论了创新集群与产业集群的区别。以日本创新集群发展为例,分析创新集群的关键创新要素及作用机制,研究发现:在知识经济和经济区域化发展背景下,区域创新集群已成为促进区域产业升级与提升竞争力的核心力量;在创新集群发展中,领先企业的创新主导与示范作用突出,但又通过技术权力以技术锁定、标准控制等各种不同方式实施技术控制,影响中小型企业及其他研发机构发挥创新作用;在技术传播中,技术扩散、技术转移、技术溢出同时存在,在不同主体、不同阶段、不同空间尺度之间的途径与作用效果不同,畅通的技术通道保证了创新的共创共享;社会网络以社会文化、制度基础保障了各成员主体间经济学意义上最经济的创新合作与交流;创新平台构建了多要素、多功能、多层次的创新系统,体现了创新集群的整体创新优势。此外,行业协会也是创新集群形成与发展的重要基础。     

半无限平面问题的相对位移

通过Flamant和Melan的解析解答、Mindlin解答的积分蜕化公式以及有限元数值分析计算结果,展示了在半无限平面问题中线荷载作用方向位移解答的不确定性。线荷载作用方向没有绝对位移,只有相对位移,但相对位移会随着与位移约束参考点距离的增大而增大,或随着线荷载在垂直于半平面方向分布长度的增大而增大,不具收敛性。这意味着,在解析和数值分析中,纯粹的半平面问题的位移解答具有多值性,因此,将岩土工程问题作为半空间问题进行分析是必要的。     

Stress relaxation of grouted entirely large diameter B-GFRP soil nail

One of the potential solutions to steel-corrosion-related problems is the usage of fiber reinforced polymer (FRP) as a replacement of steel bars. In the past few decades, researchers have conducted a large number of experimental and theoretical studies on the behavior of small size glass fiber reinforce polymer (GFRP) bars (diameter smaller than 20 mm). However, the behavior of large size GFRP bar is still not well understood. Particularly, few studies were conducted on the stress relaxation of grouted entirely large diameter GFRP soil nail. This paper investigates the effect of stress levels on the relaxation behavior of GFRP soil nail under sustained deformation ranging from 30% to 60% of its ultimate strain. In order to study the behavior of stress relaxation, two B-GFRP soil nail element specimens were developed and instrumented with fiber Bragg grating (FBG) strain sensors which were used to measure strains along the B-GFRP bars. The test results reveal that the behavior of stress relaxation of B-GFRP soil nail element subjected to pre-stress is significantly related to the elapsed time and the initial stress of relaxation procedure. The newly proposed model for evaluating stress relaxation ratio can substantially reflect the influences of the nature of B-GFRP bar and the property of grip body. The strain on the nail body can be redistributed automatically. Modulus reduction is not the single reason for the stress degradation.