Development of a geotechnical and geophysical database for seismic zonation of the Ankara Basin,Turkey

The Kocaeli earthquake (M _w = 7.4) of 17 August 1999 occurred in the Eastern Marmara Region of Turkey along the North Anadolu Fault and resulted in a very serious loss of life and property. One of the most important geotechnical issues of this event was the permanent ground deformations because of both liquefaction and faulting. These deformations occurred particularly along the southern shores of ?zmit Bay and Sapanca Lake between the cities of Yalova and Adapazar? in the west and east, respectively. In this study, three sites founded on delta fans, namely De?irmendere Nose, Yeniköy tea garden at Seymen on the coast of ?zmit Bay, and Vak?f Hotel site on the coast of Sapanca Lake were selected as typical cases. The main causes of the ground deformations at these sites were then investigated. Geotechnical characterization of the ground, derivation of displacement vectors from the pre- and post-earthquake aerial photographs, liquefaction assessments based on field performance data, and analyses carried out using the sliding body method have been fundamental in this study. The displacement vectors determined from photogrammetric evaluations conducted at De?irmendere and Seymen showed a combined movement of faulting and liquefaction. But except the movements in the close vicinity of shorelines, the dominant factor in this movement was faulting. The results obtained from the analyses suggested that the ground failure at De?irmendere was a submarine landslide mainly because of earthquake shaking rather than liquefaction. On the other hand, the ground failures at the Yeniköy tea garden on the coast of Seymen and the hotel area in Sapanca town resulted from liquefaction-induced lateral spreading. It was also obtained that the ground deformations estimated from the sliding body method were quite close to those measured by aerial photogrammetry technique.     

A NUMERICAL ANALYSIS ON TYPHOON ASYMMETRIC STRUCTURE AND MOTION

Five prediction experiments are carried out with two typhoons in 1992 using a limitedarca primitiveequations and two-way interactive model in a movable,nested mesh. The result indicates good agreementin terms of motion between the prediction and observation. Studying the asymmetric structure in the cases selected, a close link is uncovered between the temporal evolutions of the structure and the track of motion in a tropical cyclone. Understanding of real asymmetric structure will help to improve the skill offorecasting tropical cyclones.     

海州露天矿北帮边坡滑动成因机制及其稳定性分析

以海州露天矿地质背景条件为基础,从边坡滑动形成的影响因素分析出发,研究北帮边坡滑动成因机制,确定边坡的滑动破坏模式。同时,以该边坡的典型工程地质剖面为基础,构建稳定性计算的地质模型,并采用极限平衡法——简布法、摩根斯坦-普利斯法、推力系数法等进行边坡稳定性分析,用以说明北帮边坡的整体稳定性,为滑坡治理提供科学合理的设计依据。     

二十面体和经纬网格模式在正压情况下的模拟效果对比分析

利用MPAS(Model for Prediction Across Scales)和北京大学浅水模式(PKU_SWM)对余弦钟和Rossby-Haurwitz波理想个例进行了模拟。结果表明:在余弦钟测试中,MPAS能更好的模拟出余弦钟的基本形态,但模拟结果的绝对误差较大;网格分辨率提高后,MPAS模拟效果提升得更明显。在Rossby-Haurwitz波测试中,MPAS模拟的槽脊位置和强度更加接近于初始分布形态,PKU_SWM模拟的槽脊的强度偏强,位置偏西,MPAS模拟效果整体要优于PKU_SWM;网格分辨率提高后,两模式模拟效果都有较大的提升。     

Numerical flow analysis of single-stage ducted marine propulsor

The present work has solved 3D incompressible RANS equations on a rotating, non-orthogonal multi-blocked grid to efficiently analyze a ducted marine propulsor with rotor–stator interaction. To handle the interface boundary between a rotor and a stator, the sliding multi-block technique using the cubic spline interpolation and the bilinear interpolation was applied. To validate the present code, the flow of a single stage turbine flow was simulated. Time averaged pressure coefficients were compared with experiments and good agreements were obtained. After the code validation, the flowfield around a single-stage ducted marine propulsor having a single stage of rotor and stator was successfully simulated and the hydrodynamic performance coefficients were computed.     

A Novel VOF-Type Volume-Tracking Method for Free-Surface Flows Based on Unstructured Triangular Mesh

A novel VOF-type volume-tracking method for two-dimensional free-surface flows based on the unstructured triangular mesh is presented. Owing to the inherent merit of the unstructured triangular mesh in fitting curved boundaries, this method can handle the free-surface problems with complex geometries accurately and directly, without introducing any complicated boundary treatment or artificial diffusion. The method solves the volume transport equation geometrically through the Modified Lagrangian-Eulerian Re-map （MLER） method, which is applied to advective fluid volumes. Moreover, the PLIC method is adopted to give a second-order reconstructed interface approximation. To validate this method, two advection tests were performed for the establishment of the accuracy and convergence rate of the solutions. Numerical results for these complex tests provide convincing evidence for the excellent solution quality and fidelity of the method.     

床面冲淤计算机处理方法

冲淤计算是河流，河口，海岸等水域中分析，预测床面变化的基础，利用非结构网络自动剖分技术形成覆盖计算区域的三角网，能较好地适应边界和特殊地形，基于高程内插建立三角网数字高程模型，采用垂直三棱柱体作为基本单位计算不同时段冲淤量，从而提高计算精度，通过网络剖分，利用在计算区域内任意选择子域进行淤量的计算和分析。同时将生成的非结构网格直接有于二维床面冲淤数学模型，便于对每个节点的计算结果进行检证以提高模型的可靠性。