scholarly journals A Study on High-Speed Avalanches in the Kurobe Canyon, Japan

1980 ◽  
Vol 26 (94) ◽  
pp. 141-151 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hiromu Shimizu ◽  
Tosio Huzioka ◽  
Eizi Akitaya ◽  
Hideki Narita ◽  
Masayuki Nakagawa ◽  
...  

AbstractObservations and measurements were made of high-speed avalanches at Shiai-dani, the Kurobe canyon, to reveal their real features and properties, using strain-gauge-type load cells in measuring impact force and speed. A maximum impact pressure of 140 × 104 N m-2 was obtained, as well as data indicating the existence of a number of wave fronts, ranging in speed from 9 to 60 m s -1 inside an avalanche. Violent changes in atmospheric pressure ranging from -21 to +5 mbar were observed near its path when a high-speed avalanche passed by.

1980 ◽  
Vol 26 (94) ◽  
pp. 141-151 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hiromu Shimizu ◽  
Tosio Huzioka ◽  
Eizi Akitaya ◽  
Hideki Narita ◽  
Masayuki Nakagawa ◽  
...  

Abstract Observations and measurements were made of high-speed avalanches at Shiai-dani, the Kurobe canyon, to reveal their real features and properties, using strain-gauge-type load cells in measuring impact force and speed. A maximum impact pressure of 140 × 104 N m-2 was obtained, as well as data indicating the existence of a number of wave fronts, ranging in speed from 9 to 60 m s -1 inside an avalanche. Violent changes in atmospheric pressure ranging from -21 to +5 mbar were observed near its path when a high-speed avalanche passed by.


2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ricardo Gobato ◽  
Alireza Heidari

An “explosive extratropical cyclone” is an atmospheric phenomenon that occurs when there is a very rapid drop in central atmospheric pressure. This phenomenon, with its characteristic of rapidly lowering the pressure in its interior, generates very intense winds and for this reason it is called explosive cyclone, bomb cyclone. With gusts recorded of 116 km/h, atmospheric phenomenon – “cyclone bomb” (CB) hit southern Brazil on June 30, the beginning of winter 2020, causing destruction in its influence over. One of the cities most affected was Chapecó, west of the state of Santa Catarina. The satellite images show that the CB generated a low pressure (976 mbar) inside it, generating two atmospheric currents that moved at high speed. In a northwest-southeast direction, Bolivia and Paraguay, crossing the states of Parana and Santa Catarina, and this draft that hit the south of Brazil, which caused the destruction of the affected states.  Another moving to Argentina, southwest-northeast direction, due to high area of high pressure (1022 mbar). Both enhanced the phenomenon.


Processes ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (7) ◽  
pp. 1229
Author(s):  
Hongtao Zhang ◽  
Zhihua Wang ◽  
Yong He ◽  
Jie Huang ◽  
Kefa Cen

To improve our understanding of the interactive effects in combustion of binary multicomponent fuel droplets at sub-atmospheric pressure, combustion experiments were conducted on two fibre-supported RP-3 kerosene droplets at pressures from 0.2 to 1.0 bar. The burning life of the interactive droplets was recorded by a high-speed camera and a mirrorless camera. The results showed that the flame propagation time from burning droplet to unburned droplet was proportional to the normalised spacing distance between droplets and the ambient pressure. Meanwhile, the maximum normalised spacing distance from which the left droplet can be ignited has been investigated under different ambient pressure. The burning rate was evaluated and found to have the same trend as the single droplet combustion, which decreased with the reduction in the pressure. For every experiment, the interactive coefficient was less than one owing to the oxygen competition, except for the experiment at L/D0 = 2.5 and P = 1.0 bar. During the interactive combustion, puffing and microexplosion were found to have a significant impact on secondary atomization, ignition and extinction.


1987 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 264-275 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander Bahlsen ◽  
Benno M. Nigg

Impact forces analysis in heel-toe running is often used to examine the reduction of impact forces for different running shoes and/or running techniques. Body mass is reported to be a dominant predictor of vertical impact force peaks. However, it is not evident whether this finding is only true for the real body mass or whether it is also true for additional masses attached to the body (e.g., running with additional weight or heavy shoes). The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of additional mass on vertical impact force peaks and running style. Nineteen subjects (9 males, 10 females) with a mean mass of 74.2 kg/56.2 kg (SD = 10.0 kg and 6.0 kg) volunteered to participate in this study. Additional masses were attached to the shoe (.05 and .1 kg), the tibia (.2, .4, .6 kg), and the hip (5.9 and 10.7 kg). Force plate measurements and high-speed film data were analyzed. In this study the vertical impact force peaks, Fzi, were not affected by additional masses, the vertical active force peaks, Fza, were only affected by additional masses greater than 6 kg, and the movement was only different in the knee angle at touchdown, ϵ0, for additional masses greater than .6 kg. The results of this study did not support findings reported earlier in the literature that body mass is a dominant predictor of external vertical impact force peaks.


2009 ◽  
Vol 63 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Joanna Karcz ◽  
Beata Mackiewicz

AbstractThe effects of baffling of an agitated vessel on the production of floating particles suspension are presented in this paper. Critical agitator speed, needed for particles dispersion in a liquid agitated in a vessel of the inner diameter of 0.295 m, was determined. The just drawdown agitator speeds were defined analogously to the Zwietering criterion. Specific agitation energy was calculated from the power consumption experimental data obtained by means of the strain gauge method. The experiments were carried out for twelve configurations of the baffles differing in number, length and their arrangement in the vessels. The following high-speed impellers were used: up- and downpumping six blade pitched blade turbines, Rushton turbine, and propeller. The impeller was located in the vessel in the height equal to two-thirds or one-third of the vessel diameter from the bottom of the vessel. The results were described in the form of a dimensionless equation.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arman Subash ◽  
Haisol Kim ◽  
Sven-Inge M\xf6ller ◽  
Mattias Richter ◽  
Christian Brackmann ◽  
...  

2021 ◽  
pp. 014459872110520
Author(s):  
Yabin Gao ◽  
Xin Xiang ◽  
Ziwen Li ◽  
Xiaoya Guo ◽  
Peizhuang Han

Hydraulic slotting has become one of the most common technologies adopted to increase permeability in low permeability in coal field seams. There are many factors affecting the rock breaking effects of water jets, among which the impact force cannot be ignored. To study the influencing effects of contact surface shapes on jet flow patterns and impact force, this study carried out experiments involving water jet impingement planes and boreholes under different pressure conditions. The investigations included numerical simulations under solid boundary based on gas–liquid coupling models and indoor experiments under high-speed camera observations. The results indicated that when the water jets impinged on different contact surfaces, obvious reflection flow occurred, and the axial velocity had changed through three stages during the development process. Moreover, the shapes of the contact surfaces, along with the outlet pressure, were found to have impacts on the angles and velocities of the reflected flow. The relevant empirical formulas were summarized according to this study's simulation results. In addition, the flow patterns and shapes of the contact surfaces were observed to have influencing effects on the impact force. An impact force model was established in this study based on the empirical formula, and the model was verified using both the simulation and experimental results. It was confirmed that the proposed model could provide important references for the optimization of the technical parameters water jet systems, which could provide theoretical support for the further intelligent and efficient transformation of coal mine drilling water jet technology.


1980 ◽  
Vol 26 (94) ◽  
pp. 179-187 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. A. Schaerer ◽  
A. A. Salway

AbstractContinuous records have been made during the passage of dry–snow avalanches of both seismic signals, which allows the avalanche speed to be estimated, and impact pressures on load cells with surface areas of 645 and 6 450 mm2. The impact pressure recordings show an initial peak followed by a base pressure. The observed initial and base pressures vary strongly within avalanches and from one avalanche to another, but, on average, they can be correlated with the frontal speed and the density of the deposited avalanche snow. It is concluded that well–developed dry–snow avalanches have an unsteady wave motion similar to the slug flow observed in ultra–rapid flow of water, and that they consist of three stratified components: dense flowing snow at the bottom, light flowing snow, and powder snow.


2010 ◽  
Vol 132 (08) ◽  
pp. 52-53
Author(s):  
Anthony J. Gannon ◽  
Garth V. Hobson

This article discusses the performance testing of transonic rotors at the Turbopropulsion Laboratory at the Naval Postgraduate School. The Mach number is one of the most important parameters in the case of high-speed compressors. In order to limit power consumption in a test machine, the simplest change is to scale down the machine. A second concept to reduce the power consumption of the machine once it has been scaled down is to throttle the flow before the rotor rather than after it. As a high-speed rotor compresses the incoming air by around 1.4–1.6 times, the air leaving it is appreciably denser than that coming in. If one throttles upstream of the rotor, the exhaust air leaves the machine at atmospheric pressure, which means that the incoming air is below atmospheric pressure. With upstream throttling, care has to be taken to provide long enough ducting ahead of the test compressor to present as uniform as possible flow after the flow rate measuring nozzle.


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