Wavelet triangulated irregular networks

GIS applications have recently begun to emerge on the Internet. The management of three-dimensional geographic datasets in this distributed environment poses a particularly challenging problem, which highlights the need for a good data representation. This paper presents a new multiresolution data representation: the Wavelet Triangulated Irregular Network (WTIN). Compared to the traditional cell-based Digital Elevation Model (DEM) format and the Triangulated Irregular Network (TIN) format, it is more compact and suitable for scalable distributed GIS services. This format is based on the second-generation wavelet theory and is specially designed for geographical height field data. The modified Butterfly scheme is used for constructing the wavelet transform. For every point in the geographic surface, only a single wavelet coefficient is used, which makes the final data representation very efficient and easy to compress. Because the transform used in the data representation is a linear filter operation, the computational efficiency is better than other multiresolution data formats for terrain surfaces. Results from numerical experiments on real data are given to demonstrate that the proposed data representation can be efficiently implemented. The results show that the proposed WTIN data format can provide multiresolution data sets, which achieve significant compression while preserving geographical features. The quality is found to be quite acceptable for geographical terrain representation.     

页岩气藏评价中的岩石物理方法

岩石物理在页岩气勘探开发中非常重要,而文献中至今缺少足够的重视.本文分别从页岩气藏的地质特征、评价参数、岩心分析工作流程及测井工作流程等4个方面探讨页岩气储层的固有特征及岩石物理所起的关键作用.从生烃潜力、储存性能、流动特性和力学性质讨论相关评价参数的岩石物理方法,重点讨论吸附气含量的计算、力学性质及基质渗透率的测量.在页岩气储层测井评价方面,重点探讨有机质含量的测井评价方法、页岩气层孔隙度的评价方法、随钻测井用于水平井的地质导向、及测井评价在制定压裂方案中的应用.     

混凝土核心筒的水平双向循环加载试验研究

为了研究地震多维性对于混凝土核心筒抗震性能的影响,对大尺寸混凝土核心筒试件进行了水平双向加载下的拟静力试验.重点研究在双向加载下,核心筒的破坏形态与机理、承载能力、变形性能、刚度退化等方面的问题.结果表明,由于水平双向加载下简体一个方向的损伤影响到另一个方向的性能,因而对混凝土核心筒的抗震能力造成不利影响.因此,在实际工程中应合理地考虑这种影响,这对于确保混凝土核心筒的抗震安全具有重要意义.     

A study on the seismic performance of steel‐reinforced concrete frame‐concrete core wall high‐rise mixed structure by large‐scale shaking table tests and numerical simulations

This paper reports a study for the seismic performance of one large‐scaled (1/15) model of 30‐story steel‐reinforced concrete frame‐concrete core wall mixed structure. The study was implemented by both shaking table tests, in which the similarity ratio for lateral and gravitational accelerations was kept to 1:1, and numerical nonlinear dynamic analysis. The test observations presented herein include story displacement, interstory drift, natural vibration periods, and final failure mode. The numerical analysis was performed to simulate the shaking table test procedure, and the numerically obtained responses were verified by the test results. On the basis of the numerical results, the progressions of structural stiffness, base shear, and overturning moment were investigated, and the distributions of base shear and overturning moment between frame and core wall were also discussed. The test demonstrates the seismic performance of the steel‐reinforced concrete frame‐core wall mixed structure and reveals the potential overturning failure mode for high rise structures. The nonlinear analysis results indicate that the peripheral frames could take more shear forces after core wall damaged under severe earthquakes. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

The influence of a coastal headland on oceanic boundary currents

Abstract

The steady state circulation of a constant barotropic current around a coastal headland, bay, or combination of the two, located on a flat bottom, mid-latitude β-plane is considered. The maximum displacement of the coastal features from the mean straight coastline is assumed to be small compared to the longshore variation of the coastline. Under this slowly varying coastline approximation, a linearised vorticity equation is derived for the perturbation stream function. An analytical solution for the perturbation stream function is obtained using a Green's function technique. For a specified coastline the effects of coastal orientation, linear friction and the strength of the mean flow are investigated. The model predicts that the flow field will adopt the pattern of the coastline. The question of whether a coastal feature is likely to induce linear flow dynamics within the coastal boundary layer is also addressed. In the case when a single Gaussian headland or bay violates the slowly varying longshore condition the model predicts that flow stagnation will not occur. However for multiple headlands and bays, flow stagnation is possible when the slowly varying longshore condition is sufficiently violated.

Cape Mendocino and Point Conception along the California coast can be modelled using either a single Gaussian headland coastline or a multiple headland and bay coastline. In either case the model coastline does not vary slowly alongshore and nonlinear flow in the coastal region is likely. A permanent eddy to the south of Point Conception is likely to testify to the non-linear flow regime induced by the headland.     

A theory for the evolution of wind-generated gravity-wave spectra due to dissipation

Abstract

In Naeser (1979), later denoted N, it was shown that a frequency shift of a wave spectrum had to be expected as a result of dissipation of energy and conservation of spin of the waves. While time-dependency was treated in N, mainly space-dependency is treated here. In order to do this, the velocity of the spin of the waves is calculated. It is shown that this can be made equal to the group velocity by a second order coordinate transformation. In the limits of deep and shallow water the transformation becomes the identity, and leaves the Stokes drift at its usual value if the moment point is located at the mean water level.

By supposing that the dissipation is proportional to the molecular dissipation, and that the entire wind-wave interaction takes place at extremely high frequencies and at a constant rate, it is shown that the energy density at the high frequency slope of a fetch-dependent spectrum is inversely proportional to the fifth power of the frequency, while a spectrum which is only a function of the time for which the wind has blown is inversely proportional to the fourth power. The theory is compared with observations which it fits within the accuracy of the method. It is also compared with existing theories and reasons for the discrepancies are pointed out.     

A review of: “Problems of Solar and Stellar Oscillations. Iau Colloquium No. 66. Edited by D. O. Gough. D. Reidel Publishing Company, 493 pp. Df1195.00/U.S. $84.50 (ISBN 90-277-1554-8). 1983.”

Abstract

The model equations describing two-dimensional thermohaline convection of a Boussinesq fluid in a rotating horizontal layer are known to support multiple instabilities, depending on the values of certain control parameters (Arneodo et al., 1985). Most of these multiple instabilities have already been studied for double or triple diffusive convection, where behaviours ranging from simple steady to irregular motions have been found. Here we consider the one remaining bifurcation mentioned by Arneodo et al. (1985): the interaction between a steady and an oscillatory convection roll when the linear spectrum for a single wavenumber comprises one zero and one pair of purely imaginary eigenvalues. The method of centre manifolds and normal forms is used to derive evolution equations for the amplitudes of the convection rolls close to bifurcation and the behaviours associated with the equations is discussed.     

A large class of non-zonal oceanic flows satisfying the arnold-blumen sufficient condition for stability

Abstract

Recently Andrews has discussed an example of a topographically-forced non-zonal now satisfying the Arnold-Blumen sufficient condition for stability. At large distances from the topographic centre this flow becomes purely zonal and westward. After underlining the richness of solutions of the Andrews model, the present paper goes on to show that Andrews' technique can be applied successfully to a model where the vertical profile of static stability resembles those found in the ocean. In particular we obtain a large class of hydrodynamic stable flows, forced by the bottom topography, for continuously stratified fluids (two layers each with uniform Brunt-Väisälä frequency).     

The instability of barotropic circular vortices

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The linear, normal mode instability of barotropic circular vortices with zero circulation is examined in the f-plane quasigeostrophic equations. Equivalents of Rayleigh's and Fjortoft's criteria and the semicircle theorem for parallel shear flow are given, and the energy equation shows the instability to be barotropic. A new result is that the fastest growing perturbation is often an internal instability, having a finite vertical scale, but may also be an external instability, having no vertical structure. For parallel shear flow the fastest growing perturbation is always an external instability; this is Squire's theorem. Whether the fastest growing perturbation is internal or external depends upon the profile: for mean flow streamfunction profiles which monotonically decrease with radius, the instability is internal for less steep profiles with a broad velocity extremum and external for steep profiles with a narrow velocity extremum. Finite amplitude, numerical model calculations show that this linear instability analysis is not valid very far into the finite amplitude range, and that a barotropic vortex, whose fastest growing perturbation is internal, is vertically fragmented by the instability.     

The incidence of internal waves onto a thin submerged barrier

Abstract

The problem of oblique incidence of internal ocean waves on a thin submerged ocean barrier is considered when the ocean has exponential density stratification. A Wiener-Hopf approach is used combined with numerical evaluation of series. Results for the reflected energy are obtained and reveal a complex dependence on incidence and barrier height. Application of this model to waves incident on the Mid-Atlantic ridge suggests that the ridge almosts isolates first mode energy on one side of the ocean from the other side. In certain circumstances there, is a surprising appearance of “barrier” waves. These waves are closely confined to the barrier and propagate along it.