scholarly journals Shallow Water Measurements Using a Single Green Laser Corrected by Building a Near Water Surface Penetration Model

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 426 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jianhu Zhao ◽  
Xinglei Zhao ◽  
Hongmei Zhang ◽  
Fengnian Zhou
Author(s):  
G. Mandlburger ◽  
B. Jutzi

<p><strong>Abstract.</strong> The recent advent of single photon sensitive airborne LiDAR (Light Detection And Ranging) sensors has enabled higher areal coverage performance at the price of an increased outlier rate and a lower ranging accuracy compared to conventional Multi-Photon LiDAR. Single Photon LiDAR, in particular, uses green laser light capable of penetrating clear shallow water. Although primarily designed for large area topographic mapping, the technique can also be used for mapping the water surface and shallow water bathymetry. In this contribution we investigate the capability of Single Photon LiDAR for large area mapping of water surface heights. While interface returns from conventional green-only bathymetric sensors generally suffer from water level underestimation due to the water penetration capabilities of green laser radiation, the specific questions are, if Single Photon LiDAR (i) is less affected by this well known effect due to the high receiver sensitivity and (ii) consequently delivers a higher number of water surface echoes. The topic is addressed empirically in a case study by comparing the water surface responses of Single Photon LiDAR (Navarra, Spain) and Multi-Photon Topo-Bathymetric LiDAR (Neubacher Au, Austria) for selected water bodies with a horizontal water surface (reservoirs, ponds). Although flown at different altitudes, both datasets are well comparable as they exhibit the same strip point density of ca. 14<span class="thinspace"></span>points/m<sup>2</sup>. The expected superiority of Single Photon LiDAR over conventional green-only bathymetric LiDAR for mapping water surfaces could not be verified in this investigation. While both datasets show good agreement compared to a reference water level when aggregating points into cells of 10<span class="thinspace"></span>&amp;times;<span class="thinspace"></span>10<span class="thinspace"></span>m<sup>2</sup> (mean deviations &amp;lt;<span class="thinspace"></span>5<span class="thinspace"></span>cm), higher resolution Single Photon LiDAR based water surface models (grid size 1&amp;ndash;5<span class="thinspace"></span>m) show a systematic water level underestimation of 5&amp;ndash;20<span class="thinspace"></span>cm. However, independently measured ground truth observations and simultaneous data acquisition of the same area with both techniques are necessary to verify the results.</p>


2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 137
Author(s):  
Debajit Misra ◽  
Sudip Ghosh

In the present paper, an innovative low energy-intensive evaporative cooling system has been proposed for greenhouse application in near-tropical regions dominated by hot climate. The system can operate under dual- ventilation mode to maintain a favourable microclimate inside the greenhouse. A single ridge type un-even span greenhouse has been considered, targeting a few species of Indian tropical flowers. The greenhouse has a continuous roof vent as well as adjustable side vents and is equipped with exhaust fans on top and roll-up curtains on the sides. The greenhouse is surrounded by shallow water ponds outside its longitudinal walls and evaporative surfaces partially cover the free water surface. Inside the pond, low cost evaporative surfaces are so placed that they form air channels.  Thus, outside air flows through the channels formed by the wetted surfaces over the water surface and undergoes evaporative cooling before entering the greenhouse. A simplified theoretical model has been presented in this paper to predict the inside greenhouse air temperature while ambient weather data are used as model inputs. The study reveals that during average radiation periods, the greenhouse can depends solely on natural ventilation and during peak radiation hours fan-induced ventilation is needed to maintain the required level of temperature. It is seen that under dual-ventilation mode greenhouse, temperature can be kept 3-6 oC lower than ambient temperature when saturation effectiveness is 0.7 and with 75% shading. Keywords: Greenhouse, Evaporative Cooling, Ventilation, Saturation Effectiveness, Wetted SurfaceArticle History: Received February 25th 2017; Received in revised form April 14th 2017; Accepted May 4th 2017; Available onlineHow to Cite This Article: Misra, D. and Ghosh, S., (2017) Performance Study of a Floricultural Greenhouse Surrounded by Shallow Water Ponds. International Journal of Renewable Energy Develeopment, 6(2), 137-144.https://doi.org/10.14710/ijred.6.2.137-144


2021 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 145-155
Author(s):  
G. Omel’yanov

The general Degasperis-Prosesi equation (gDP) describes the evolution of the water surface in a unidirectional shallow water approximation. We consider essentially non-integrable versions of this model and analyze their cuspon-type solutions, that is continuous traveling waves with the unbounded first derivative.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shangzhi Chen ◽  
Feifei Zheng ◽  
Qingzhou Zhang

&lt;p&gt;With the possible climate change and increased pace of urbanization in the century, urban flooding has caused more and more attentions nowadays. Shallow water equations are widely used to reproduce the flow hydrodynamics of flooding around the urban areas, which have been proved a powerful tool for flood risk assessment and evacuation management, like river flow or flowing at drainage networks with irregular cross-sections at 1D scale. Over the last two decades, Godunov-type schemes have became popular for its robustness treating complex flow phenomenons. When tacking complex topography in the framework of Godunov-type scheme, sourer term needs to be treated property to preserve steady state, that flux gradient and sourer term are balanced. Capart et al. (2003) reconstructed the momentum flux by considering the balance of hydrostatic pressure with the approximated water surface level, which has the ability to tackle the irregular and non-prismatic channel flow with complex topography. This approximation is exact for two cases: 1) rectangular and prismatic channel; 2) water surface is horizontal. However, for other cases, approximation is employed to achieve the hydrostatic equilibrium, which has reduced the accuracy of the numerical solution and increased the complexity for the model implementation.&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In this work, we present a new well-balanced numerical scheme for simulating 1D frictional shallow water flow with irregular cross-sections over complex topography involving wetting and drying. The proposed scheme solves, in a finite volume Godunov-type framework, a set of pre-balanced shallow water equations derived by considering pressure balancing (Liang and Marche, 2009). HLL approximated Riemann solver is adopted for the flux calculation at the cell interface. Non-negative reconstruction of Riemann state (Audusse et al., 2004) and local bed modification (Liang, 2010) produce stable and well-balanced solutions to shallow water flow hydrodynamics. Bed slope source term can be approximated using central difference and no special treatment is needed for wet and dry bed. The friction source term is discretized using a splitting implicit scheme and limiting value of friction force is used to ensure stability for the dry bottom (Liang and Marche, 2009). The new numerical scheme is validated against two theoretical benchmark tests and then compared with the validated shallow water model with circular and trapezoid cross-sections over complex topography involving wetting and drying. This method is also possible to reproduce the mixed flow in the conduit or for the flow with non-prismatic channel like river flow in the near future.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;References&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Audusse, E., Bouchut, F., Bristeau, M. O., Klein, R., &amp; Perthame, B. T. (2004). A fast and stable well-balanced scheme with hydrostatic reconstruction for shallow water flows.&amp;#160;SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing,&amp;#160;25(6), 2050-2065.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Capart, H, Eldho, TI, Huang, SY, Young, DL, and Zech, Yves, &quot;Treatment of natural geometry in finite volume river flow computations&quot;, Journal of Hydraulic Engineering 129, 5 (2003), pp. 385--393.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Liang, Qiuhua and Marche, Fabien, &quot;Numerical resolution of well-balanced shallow water equations with complex source terms&quot;, Advances in water resources 32, 6 (2009), pp. 873--884.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Liang, Qiuhua, &quot;Flood simulation using a well-balanced shallow flow model&quot;, Journal of hydraulic engineering 136, 9 (2010), pp. 669--675.&lt;/p&gt;


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