scholarly journals Electromagnetic Scattering of Near-Field Turbulent Wake Generated by Accelerated Propeller

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (24) ◽  
pp. 5178
Author(s):  
Yuxin Deng ◽  
Min Zhang ◽  
Wangqiang Jiang ◽  
Letian Wang

The electromagnetic scattering study of the turbulent wake of a moving ship has important application value in target recognition and tracking. However, to date, there has been insufficient research into the electromagnetic characteristics of near-field propeller turbulence. This study presents a new procedure for evaluating the electromagnetic scattering coefficient and imaging characteristics of turbulent wakes in the near field. By controlling the different values of the net momenta, a turbulent wake was generated using the large-eddy simulation method. The results show that the net momentum transferred to the background flow field determines the development of the turbulent wake, which explains the formation mechanism of the turbulence. Combined with the turbulent energy attenuation spectrum, the electromagnetic scattering characteristics of the turbulent wake were calculated using the two-scale facet mode. Using this method, the impact of different parameters on the scattering coefficient and the electromagnetic image of the turbulence wake were investigated, to explain the modulation mechanism and electromagnetic imaging characteristics of the near-field turbulent wake. Moreover, an application for estimating a ship’s heading is proposed based on the electromagnetic imaging characteristics of the turbulent wake.

2013 ◽  
Vol 756-759 ◽  
pp. 4586-4590
Author(s):  
Jun Gu ◽  
Kun Cai ◽  
Zi Chang Liang

The simulated PM-spectrum fractal sea surfaces and the 3-D near-field distributed model of horn antenna are built, the near-field formulas of KA method are deduced. The near-field scattering coefficient and the Doppler echo signal of rough sea surfaces are calculated, the agreement with measured data proved the correctness and validity of the near-field scattering model.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian Grinderslev ◽  
Niels Nørmark Sørensen ◽  
Sergio González Horcas ◽  
Niels Troldborg ◽  
Frederik Zahle

Abstract. In order to design future large wind turbines, knowledge is needed about the impact of aero-elasticity on the rotor loads and performance, and about the physics of the atmospheric flow surrounding the turbines. The objective of the present work is to study both effects by means of high fidelity rotor-resolved numerical simulations. In particular, unsteady computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations of a 2.3 MW wind turbine rotor are conducted, this rotor being the largest design with relevant experimental data available to the authors. Turbulence is modeled with two different approaches. On one hand, the well established improved delayed detached eddy simulation (IDDES) model is employed. An additional set of simulations relies on a novel hybrid turbulence model, developed within the framework of the present work. It consists on the blending of a large eddy simulation (LES) model for atmospheric flow by Deardorff with an IDDES model for the separated flow near the rotor geometry. In the same way, the assessment of the influence of the blade flexibility is performed by comparing two different sets of computations. A first group accounts for a structural multi body dynamic (MBD) model of the blades. The MBD solver was coupled to the CFD solver during run time with a staggered fluid structure interaction (FSI) scheme. The second set of simulations uses the original rotor geometry, without accounting for any structural deflection. The results of the present work show no significant difference between the IDDES and the hybrid turbulence model. However, it is expected that future simulations of more complex stratification and longer domains will benefit from the developed hybrid model. In a similar manner, and due to the fact that the considered rotor was relatively stiff, the loading variation introduced by the blade flexibility was found to be negligible when compared to the influence of inflow turbulence. The simulation method validated here is considered highly relevant for future turbine designs, where the impact of blade elasticity will be significant and the detailed structure of the atmospheric inflow will be important.


Author(s):  
David Munday ◽  
Nick Heeb ◽  
Ephraim Gutmark ◽  
Junhui Liu ◽  
K. Kailasanath

This paper presents observations and simulations of the impact of several technologies on modifying the flow-field and acoustic emissions from supersonic jets from nozzles typical of those used on military aircraft. The flow-field is measured experimentally by shadowgraph and particle image velocimetry. The acoustics are characterized by near- and far-field microphone measurements. The flow- and near-field pressures are simulated by a monotonically integrated large eddy simulation. Use of unstructured grids allows accurate modeling of the nozzle geometry. The emphasis of the work is on “off-design” or nonideally expanded flow conditions. The technologies applied to these nozzles include chevrons, fluidic injection, and fluidically enhanced chevrons. The fluidic injection geometry and the fluidic enhancement geometry follow the approach found successful for subsonic jets by employing jets pitched 60 deg into the flow, impinging on the shear layer just past the tips of the chevrons or in the same axial position when injection is without chevrons.


Author(s):  
Lu Dai ◽  
Zhiguo Wei ◽  
Jun Wu ◽  
Yong Liu ◽  
Can Ma ◽  
...  

While the steam power plant runs at low load, the drastic vibration and noise of the steam discharge pipes will be induced by the discharging process of high temperature and high pressure steam. Motived by this, the analytical model of inner flow field of the steam discharge pipes is modeled in this paper. The large eddy simulation method is used to analyze the characteristics of the inner flow field of the steam discharge pipes. The mechanism of transient noise in the process of steam discharging, by the comparison of variation law of the inner flow field with different opening angles of control valve or different time, is obtained. On this basis, the K-FWH method is employed to calculate the transient noise of steam discharging. The results show that the key factors of transient noise generation can be owed to the impact effect of steam jet flow on the surface of valve structure, the shear and friction effect induced by the uneven flow, the energy loss of vortex collapse in the process of valve throttling, and the surface noise sources induced by turbulent flow and so on. The throttle noise induced by control valve is presented as significant broadband characteristics in the frequency domain, and the level of transient noise increases with the decreasing of the opening angle of control valve.


Author(s):  
David Munday ◽  
Nick Heeb ◽  
Ephraim Gutmark ◽  
Junhui Liu ◽  
K. Kailasanath

This paper presents observations and simulations of the impact of several technologies on modifying the flow field and acoustic emissions from supersonic jets from nozzles typical of those used on military aircraft. The flowfield is measured experimentally by shadowgraph and particle image velocimetry (PIV). The acoustics are characterized by near and far-field microphone measurements. The flow and near-field pressures are simulated by monotonically integrated large-eddy simulation (MILES). Use of unstructured grids allows accurate modeling of the nozzle geometry. The nozzle geometries used in this research are representative of practical engine nozzles. The emphasis of the work is on “off-design” or non-ideally expanded flow conditions. The technologies applied to these nozzles include chevrons, fluidic injection and fluidically enhanced chevrons. The fluidic injection geometry and fluidic enhancement geometry follow the approach found successful for subsonic jets by Alkislar, Krothapalli & Butler [1] employing jets pitched 60° into the flow, impinging on the shear layer just past the tips of the chevrons, or in the same axial position when injection is without chevrons.


Elem Sci Anth ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian J. Gaudet ◽  
Thomas Lauvaux ◽  
Aijun Deng ◽  
Kenneth J. Davis

The Indianapolis Flux Experiment (INFLUX) aims to quantify and improve the effectiveness of inferring greenhouse gas (GHG) source strengths from downstream concentration measurements in urban environments. Mesoscale models such as the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model can provide realistic depictions of planetary boundary layer (PBL) structure and flow fields at horizontal grid lengths (Δx) down to a few km. Nevertheless, a number of potential sources of error exist in the use of mesoscale models for urban inversions, including accurate representation of the dispersion of GHGs by turbulence close to a point source. Here we evaluate the predictive skill of a 1-km chemistry-adapted WRF (WRF-Chem) simulation of daytime CO2 transport from an Indianapolis power plant for a single INFLUX case (28 September 2013). We compare the simulated plume release on domains at different resolutions, as well as on a domain run in large eddy simulation (LES) mode, enabling us to study the impact of both spatial resolution and parameterization of PBL turbulence on the transport of CO2. Sensitivity tests demonstrate that much of the difference between 1-km mesoscale and 111-m LES plumes, including substantially lower maximum concentrations in the mesoscale simulation, is due to the different horizontal resolutions. However, resolution is insufficient to account for the slower rate of ascent of the LES plume with downwind distance, which results in much higher surface concentrations for the LES plume in the near-field but a near absence of tracer aloft. Physics sensitivity experiments and theoretical analytical models demonstrate that this effect is an inherent problem with the parameterization of turbulent transport in the mesoscale PBL scheme. A simple transformation is proposed that may be applied to mesoscale model concentration footprints to correct for their near-field biases. Implications for longer-term source inversion are discussed.


2012 ◽  
Vol 43 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 54-63 ◽  
Author(s):  
Baohong Lu ◽  
Huanghe Gu ◽  
Ziyin Xie ◽  
Jiufu Liu ◽  
Lejun Ma ◽  
...  

Stochastic simulation is widely applied for estimating the design flood of various hydrosystems. The design flood at a reservoir site should consider the impact of upstream reservoirs, along with any development of hydropower. This paper investigates and applies a stochastic simulation approach for determining the design flood of a complex cascade of reservoirs in the Longtan watershed, southern China. The magnitude of the design flood when the impact of the upstream reservoirs is considered is less than that without considering them. In particular, the stochastic simulation model takes into account both systematic and historical flood records. As the reliability of the frequency analysis increases with more representative samples, it is desirable to incorporate historical flood records, if available, into the stochastic simulation model. This study shows that the design values from the stochastic simulation method with historical flood records are higher than those without historical flood records. The paper demonstrates the advantages of adopting a stochastic flow simulation approach to address design-flood-related issues for a complex cascade reservoir system.


Water ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (11) ◽  
pp. 1540
Author(s):  
Qianqian Ji ◽  
Zhe Gao ◽  
Xingyao Li ◽  
Jian’en Gao ◽  
Gen’guang Zhang ◽  
...  

The Loess Hilly–Gully region (LHGR) is the most serious soil erosion area in the world. For the small watershed with high management in this area, the scientific problem that has been paid attention to in recent years is the impact of the land consolidation project on the erosion environment in the gully region. In this study, the 3D simulation method of vegetation, eroded sediment and pollutant transport was innovated based on the principles of erosion sediment dynamics and similarity theory, and the impacts of GLCP were analyzed on the erosion environment at different scales. The verification results show that the design method and the scale conversion relationship (geometric scale: λl = 100) were reasonable and could simulate the transport process on the complex underlying surface of a small watershed. Compared with untreated watersheds, a significant change was the current flood peak lagging behind the sediment peak. There were two important critical values of GLCP impact on the erosion environment. The erosion transport in HMSW had no change when the proportion was less than 0.85%, and increased obviously when it was greater than 3.3%. The above results have important theoretical and practical significance for watershed simulation and land-use management in HMSW.


2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip E. Schaner ◽  
Ly-Binh-An Tran ◽  
Bassem I. Zaki ◽  
Harold M. Swartz ◽  
Eugene Demidenko ◽  
...  

AbstractDuring a first-in-humans clinical trial investigating electron paramagnetic resonance tumor oximetry, a patient injected with the particulate oxygen sensor Printex ink was found to have unexpected fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) uptake in a dermal nodule via positron emission tomography (PET). This nodule co-localized with the Printex ink injection; biopsy of the area, due to concern for malignancy, revealed findings consistent with ink and an associated inflammatory reaction. Investigations were subsequently performed to assess the impact of oxygen sensors on FDG-PET/CT imaging. A retrospective analysis of three clinical tumor oximetry trials involving two oxygen sensors (charcoal particulates and LiNc-BuO microcrystals) in 22 patients was performed to evaluate FDG imaging characteristics. The impact of clinically used oxygen sensors (carbon black, charcoal particulates, LiNc-BuO microcrystals) on FDG-PET/CT imaging after implantation in rat muscle (n = 12) was investigated. The retrospective review revealed no other patients with FDG avidity associated with particulate sensors. The preclinical investigation found no injected oxygen sensor whose mean standard uptake values differed significantly from sham injections. The risk of a false-positive FDG-PET/CT scan due to oxygen sensors appears low. However, in the right clinical context the potential exists that an associated inflammatory reaction may confound interpretation.


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