scholarly journals Impact pressure distribution of inverted arch plunge pool for large discharge

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 209-218
Author(s):  
Yu Wang ◽  
Yaan Hu ◽  
Jinde Gu ◽  
Yu Peng ◽  
Yang Xue
Keyword(s):  
Pressure Distribution ◽  
High Water ◽  
Impact Pressure ◽  
Engineering Practice ◽  
Plunge Pool ◽  
Novel Approach ◽  
Water Head ◽  
Relative Errors ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Large Discharge

Abstract In view of high water head and large discharge in the release structures of hydraulic projects, the inverted arch plunge pool has been put forward due to higher overload capability and stability. Impact pressure on the bottom is a serious concern in design safety precautions, however, the quantitative impact pressure distribution in the inverted arch plunge pool is not yet elucidated. In this study, a novel approach is presented to estimate the impact pressure of an inverted arch plunge pool. Impact pressure characteristics are experimentally investigated under different hydraulic conditions. The results detailed the effect of relative discharge coefficient and the deflection angle relative to the vertical central axis of the plunge pool bottom. The predicting formulas of impact pressure distribution are derived within small relative errors, and the proposed approaches have good applicability in three case studies. The achievements of this investigation are used to define issuance parameters relevant for engineering practice.

Pressure distribution of bottom rollers below the aerator device

2019 ◽  
Vol 79 (4) ◽  
pp. 668-675 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yu Wang ◽  
Jianhua Wu ◽  
Fei Ma ◽  
Shangtuo Qian
Keyword(s):  
Pressure Distribution ◽  
High Water ◽  
Geometrical Parameters ◽  
Cavitation Damage ◽  
Novel Approach ◽  
Water Head ◽  
Jet Impact ◽  
Hydraulic Conditions ◽  
Relative Errors ◽  
Large Flow

Abstract With regard to high water head and large flow velocity in the spillway tunnels of hydraulic projects in China, the aerator device has been introduced and is widely used to prevent cavitation damage. The bottom rollers in the nappe cavity below the aerator device are a serious concern in designing suitable cavity regimes; however, observation of roller size may be inaccurate due to high flow turbulence and de-aeration in the jet impact region. In this study, a novel approach is proposed to predict roller sizes using pressure distribution of the bottom rollers. Pressure distribution characteristics are experimentally investigated under different geometrical parameters of aerator device and hydraulic conditions. The results specify the influence of the relative step height and working gate opening on pressure distribution. The simplified estimating formula of pressure distribution is derived within relative errors of 15%. The evaluation of the applicability of the proposed equation shows test data are in good agreement with the calculated value. Research results provide a reference for estimating bottom rollers of similar engineering.

scholarly journals Numerical Simulation of the Hydraulic Performances and Flow Pattern of Swallow-Tailed Flip Bucket

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Lifang Zhang ◽  
Jianmin Zhang ◽  
Yakun Guo ◽  
Yong Peng
Keyword(s):  
Pressure Distribution ◽  
Flow Pattern ◽  
Width Ratio ◽  
Unit Discharge ◽  
Plunge Pool ◽  
Strip Shape ◽  
Pressure Peak ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Discharge Distribution ◽  
Opening Width

In this study, the evolution process of the swallow-tailed flip bucket water nappe entering into the plunge pool is simulated by using the standard k-ε turbulence model and the volume-of-fluid method. The effects of the upstream opening width ratio and downstream bucket angle on the flow pattern, the unit discharge distribution, and the impact pressure distribution are studied. Based on the numerical results, the inner and outer jet trajectories are proposed by using the data. Results show that the longitudinal stretching length decreases with the increase of the upstream opening width ratio and increases with the increase of the downstream bucket angle. The water nappe enters the plunge pool in a long strip shape. Thus, the unit discharge distribution of water nappe entry is consistent with the pressure distribution at the plunge pool bottom. The upstream opening width ratio and downstream bucket angle should be chosen as their intermediate values in order to have a uniform discharge distribution and to reduce the pressure peak at the plunge pool floor, which is effectively to avoid instability and destruction of plunge pool floor.

scholarly journals Effect of Sediment Concentration on Hydraulic Characteristics of Energy Dissipation in a Falling Turbulent Jet

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (9) ◽  
pp. 1672 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wenjuan Gou ◽  
Huiping Li ◽  
Yunyi Du ◽  
Hongxia Yin ◽  
Fang Liu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Energy Dissipation ◽  
Hydrodynamic Pressure ◽  
Sediment Concentration ◽  
Dominant Frequency ◽  
Flume Experiments ◽  
Plunge Pool ◽  
Water Head ◽  
Jet Trajectory ◽  
High Dams ◽  
The Impact

The effect of sediment on the hydraulics of jet energy dissipation is an urgent issue for high dams built on sediment-laden rivers. Accordingly, flume experiments were conducted using a ski-jump type energy dissipator in flows of four sediment concentrations (0 kg/m3, 50 kg/m3, 150 kg/m3, and 250 kg/m3) to determine the effects on discharge, flow regime, and hydrodynamic pressure in a plunge pool. The results demonstrate that the effect of sediment on discharge is constant, regardless of sediment concentration, when compared to fresh water. The width of the nappe decreased with increasing concentrations of sediment. The length of the jet trajectory increased with upstream water head. The time-averaged pressure and fluctuation pressure both exhibited peaks, describing the impact of the jet on the bottom of the plunge pool. The maximum time-averaged pressure and maximum fluctuating pressure both noticeably increased with upstream water head and slightly increased with sediment concentration for a given flow condition. The results also demonstrated that the dominant frequency of fluctuation trends to lower values, and that both the fluctuating energy and vortex scale increase with increasing sediment concentrations due to increased viscosity. These findings can be used to improve energy dissipation in dams on sediment-laden rivers.

scholarly journals Impact Pressure Distribution on a Monopile Structure Excited by Irregular Breaking Wave

2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (s1) ◽  
pp. 29-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
Duje Veic ◽  
Wojciech Sulisz
Keyword(s):  
Pressure Distribution ◽  
Load Distribution ◽  
Breaking Waves ◽  
Impact Pressure ◽  
Engineering Practice ◽  
Breaking Wave ◽  
Vertical Load ◽  
Shape Distribution ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Temporal Pressure

Abstract The problem of impact pressure distribution on a monopole structure excited by irregular breaking waves is investigated. The analysis is performed by applying a numerical model that combines potential flow model with a Navier-Stokes/VOF solution. The temporal pressure distribution is analysed for two breaking wave cases characterized by the significant difference in the steepness of the wave front. The peak impact pressures are observed in the region below the overturning wave jet where the pressure increases rapidly resulting in a peak value of the slamming coefficient equal to Cs=2π. The vertical load distribution provided by the derived model is more realistic than a rectangular shape distribution applied in engineering practice. This is because the vertical load distribution strongly depends on breaking wave shape and it is difficult to uniquely approximate such a load distribution by a rectangle.

Numerical Simulation of High Velocity Waterjet Characteristics and Impact Pressure

2011 ◽  
Vol 109 ◽  
pp. 551-556 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qun Luo ◽  
Kai He ◽  
He Mao ◽  
Jiu Hua Li ◽  
Quan Chang Li ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Numerical Simulation ◽  
Pressure Distribution ◽  
High Velocity ◽  
Impact Pressure ◽  
Hydrodynamic Characteristics ◽  
Initial Region ◽  
Mixture Flow ◽  
Incremental Sheet Metal Forming ◽  
Pump Pressure ◽  
The Impact

This paper presents a numerical simulation approach to analyze high velocity waterjet characteristics and impact pressure. For the complexity of waterjet formation in air, multiphase mixture flow model is used, and the simulation is performed in FLUNET software. The simulation includes the hydrodynamic characteristics and pressure distribution of high velocity waterjet in air. The decay of pressure at different distance along centerline under different pump pressure is analyzed and the length of the initial region of waterjet is determined. In addition, the impact pressure of waterjet at different stand-off distance is also simulated, and the impact pressure distribution and its changing tendency with the stand-off distance are obtained. This paper provides theoretical parameters for waterjet incremental sheet metal forming.

scholarly journals Brain drain and brain gain in Russia: Analyzing international migration of researchers by discipline using Scopus bibliometric data 1996–2020

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander Subbotin ◽  
Samin Aref
Keyword(s):  
Brain Drain ◽  
Policy Development ◽  
Donor Country ◽  
International Mobility ◽  
Science System ◽  
Migration Rates ◽  
Net Migration ◽  
Novel Approach ◽  
Five Disciplines ◽  
The Impact

AbstractWe study international mobility in academia, with a focus on the migration of published researchers to and from Russia. Using an exhaustive set of over 2.4 million Scopus publications, we analyze all researchers who have published with a Russian affiliation address in Scopus-indexed sources in 1996–2020. The migration of researchers is observed through the changes in their affiliation addresses, which altered their mode countries of affiliation across different years. While only 5.2% of these researchers were internationally mobile, they accounted for a substantial proportion of citations. Our estimates of net migration rates indicate that while Russia was a donor country in the late 1990s and early 2000s, it has experienced a relatively balanced circulation of researchers in more recent years. These findings suggest that the current trends in scholarly migration in Russia could be better framed as brain circulation, rather than as brain drain. Overall, researchers emigrating from Russia outnumbered and outperformed researchers immigrating to Russia. Our analysis on the subject categories of publication venues shows that in the past 25 years, Russia has, overall, suffered a net loss in most disciplines, and most notably in the five disciplines of neuroscience, decision sciences, mathematics, biochemistry, and pharmacology. We demonstrate the robustness of our main findings under random exclusion of data and changes in numeric parameters. Our substantive results shed light on new aspects of international mobility in academia, and on the impact of this mobility on a national science system, which have direct implications for policy development. Methodologically, our novel approach to handling big data can be adopted as a framework of analysis for studying scholarly migration in other countries.

scholarly journals Influence of the Spatial Pressure Distribution of Breaking Wave Loading on the Dynamic Response of Wolf Rock Lighthouse

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 55
Author(s):  
Darshana T. Dassanayake ◽  
Alessandro Antonini ◽  
Athanasios Pappas ◽  
Alison Raby ◽  
James Mark William Brownjohn ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Dynamic Response ◽  
Pressure Distribution ◽  
Distinct Element ◽  
Breaking Waves ◽  
Breaking Wave ◽  
Wave Loading ◽  
Wave Impact ◽  
Pressure Distributions ◽  
Impact Area ◽  
The Impact

The survivability analysis of offshore rock lighthouses requires several assumptions of the pressure distribution due to the breaking wave loading (Raby et al. (2019), Antonini et al. (2019). Due to the peculiar bathymetries and topographies of rock pinnacles, there is no dedicated formula to properly quantify the loads induced by the breaking waves on offshore rock lighthouses. Wienke’s formula (Wienke and Oumeraci (2005) was used in this study to estimate the loads, even though it was not derived for breaking waves on offshore rock lighthouses, but rather for the breaking wave loading on offshore monopiles. However, a thorough sensitivity analysis of the effects of the assumed pressure distribution has never been performed. In this paper, by means of the Wolf Rock lighthouse distinct element model, we quantified the influence of the pressure distributions on the dynamic response of the lighthouse structure. Different pressure distributions were tested, while keeping the initial wave impact area and pressure integrated force unchanged, in order to quantify the effect of different pressure distribution patterns. The pressure distributions considered in this paper showed subtle differences in the overall dynamic structure responses; however, pressure distribution #3, based on published experimental data such as Tanimoto et al. (1986) and Zhou et al. (1991) gave the largest displacements. This scenario has a triangular pressure distribution with a peak at the centroid of the impact area, which then linearly decreases to zero at the top and bottom boundaries of the impact area. The azimuthal horizontal distribution was adopted from Wienke and Oumeraci’s work (2005). The main findings of this study will be of interest not only for the assessment of rock lighthouses but also for all the cylindrical structures built on rock pinnacles or rocky coastlines (with steep foreshore slopes) and exposed to harsh breaking wave loading.

scholarly journals Analysis of High-Friction Surface Texture with Respect to Friction and Wear

Coatings ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (7) ◽  
pp. 758
Author(s):  
Cibi Pranav ◽  
Minh-Tan Do ◽  
Yi-Chang Tsai
Keyword(s):  
Friction Coefficient ◽  
Surface Texture ◽  
Safety Concern ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Scanning System ◽  
Novel Approach ◽  
Texture Parameters ◽  
Aggregate Loss ◽  
Friction Surfaces ◽  
The Impact

High Friction Surfaces (HFS) are applied to increase friction capacity on critical roadway sections, such as horizontal curves. HFS friction deterioration on these sections is a safety concern. This study deals with characterization of the aggregate loss, one of the main failure mechanisms of HFS, using texture parameters to study its relationship with friction. Tests are conducted on selected HFS spots with different aggregate loss severity levels at the National Center for Asphalt Technology (NCAT) Test Track. Friction tests are performed using a Dynamic Friction Tester (DFT). The surface texture is measured by means of a high-resolution 3D pavement scanning system (0.025 mm vertical resolution). Texture data are processed and analyzed by means of the MountainsMap software. The correlations between the DFT friction coefficient and the texture parameters confirm the impact of change in aggregates’ characteristics (including height, shape, and material volume) on friction. A novel approach to detect the HFS friction coefficient transition based on aggregate loss, inspired by previous works on the tribology of coatings, is proposed. Using the proposed approach, preliminary outcomes show it is possible to observe the rapid friction coefficient transition, similar to observations at NCAT. Perspectives for future research are presented and discussed.

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