Storm surge is often the marine disaster that poses the greatest threat to life and property in coastal areas.Accurate and timely issuance of storm surge warnings to take appropriate countermeasures is an important me...Storm surge is often the marine disaster that poses the greatest threat to life and property in coastal areas.Accurate and timely issuance of storm surge warnings to take appropriate countermeasures is an important means to reduce storm surge-related losses.Storm surge numerical models are important for storm surge forecasting.To further improve the performance of the storm surge forecast models,we developed a numerical storm surge forecast model based on an unstructured spherical centroidal Voronoi tessellation(SCVT)grid.The model is based on shallow water equations in vector-invariant form,and is discretized by Arakawa C grid.The SCVT grid can not only better describe the coastline information but also avoid rigid transitions,and it has a better global consistency by generating high-resolution grids in the key areas through transition refinement.In addition,the simulation speed of the model is accelerated by using the openACC-based GPU acceleration technology to meet the timeliness requirements of operational ensemble forecast.It only takes 37 s to simulate a day in the coastal waters of China.The newly developed storm surge model was applied to simulate typhoon-induced storm surges in the coastal waters of China.The hindcast experiments on the selected representative typhoon-induced storm surge processes indicate that the model can reasonably simulate the distribution characteristics of storm surges.The simulated maximum storm surges and their occurrence times are consistent with the observed data at the representative tide gauge stations,and the mean absolute errors are 3.5 cm and 0.6 h respectively,showing high accuracy and application prospects.展开更多
在利用数值模拟研究褶型纤维过滤介质过滤性能时,为了克服层状结构纤维层与层之间不连贯及孔状结构纤维规整分布的不足,本文基于Voronoi-Random算法建立了褶型纤维过滤介质模型,并通过加密或减少纤维数量改变其固体体积分数(SVF).采用“...在利用数值模拟研究褶型纤维过滤介质过滤性能时,为了克服层状结构纤维层与层之间不连贯及孔状结构纤维规整分布的不足,本文基于Voronoi-Random算法建立了褶型纤维过滤介质模型,并通过加密或减少纤维数量改变其固体体积分数(SVF).采用“Caught on first touch”和“Hamker”两种碰撞模型对褶型纤维过滤介质的气-固两相流动进行数值模拟.结果表明:压力损失和过滤效率数值计算值与经验关联式计算值吻合较好,误差在15%之内;将采用两种碰撞模型得到的过滤效率与经验关联式计算值进行比较,得出采用“Hamker”碰撞模型得到的过滤效率符合实际;在过滤介质上的沉积颗粒并不完全是纤维捕集,大多数颗粒是由形成的树枝状结构捕集;压降和单位面积沉积量随过滤时间的增长呈现指数增长趋势.展开更多
Since its introduction,discontinuous deformation analysis(DDA)has been widely used in different areas of rock mechanics.By dividing large blocks into subblocks and introducing artificial joints,DDA can be applied to r...Since its introduction,discontinuous deformation analysis(DDA)has been widely used in different areas of rock mechanics.By dividing large blocks into subblocks and introducing artificial joints,DDA can be applied to rock fracture simulation.However,parameter calibration,a fundamental issue in discontinuum methods,has not received enough attention in DDA.In this study,the parameter calibration of DDA for intact rock is carefully studied.To this end,a subblock DDA with Voronoi tessellation is presented first.Then,a modified contact constitutive law is introduced,in which the tensile and shear meso-strengths are modified to be independent of the bond lengths.This improvement can prevent the unjustified preferential failure of short edges.A method for imposing confining pressure is also introduced.Thereafter,sensitivity analysis is performed to investigate the influence of the calculated parameters and meso-parameters on the mechanical properties of modeled rock.Based on the sensitivity analysis,a unified calibration procedure is suggested for both cases with and without confining pressure.Finally,the calibration procedure is applied to two examples,including a biaxial compression test.The results show that the proposed Voronoi-based DDA can simulate rock fracture with and without confining pressure very well after careful parameter calibration.展开更多
基金The National Natural Science Foundation of China under contract No.42076214.
文摘Storm surge is often the marine disaster that poses the greatest threat to life and property in coastal areas.Accurate and timely issuance of storm surge warnings to take appropriate countermeasures is an important means to reduce storm surge-related losses.Storm surge numerical models are important for storm surge forecasting.To further improve the performance of the storm surge forecast models,we developed a numerical storm surge forecast model based on an unstructured spherical centroidal Voronoi tessellation(SCVT)grid.The model is based on shallow water equations in vector-invariant form,and is discretized by Arakawa C grid.The SCVT grid can not only better describe the coastline information but also avoid rigid transitions,and it has a better global consistency by generating high-resolution grids in the key areas through transition refinement.In addition,the simulation speed of the model is accelerated by using the openACC-based GPU acceleration technology to meet the timeliness requirements of operational ensemble forecast.It only takes 37 s to simulate a day in the coastal waters of China.The newly developed storm surge model was applied to simulate typhoon-induced storm surges in the coastal waters of China.The hindcast experiments on the selected representative typhoon-induced storm surge processes indicate that the model can reasonably simulate the distribution characteristics of storm surges.The simulated maximum storm surges and their occurrence times are consistent with the observed data at the representative tide gauge stations,and the mean absolute errors are 3.5 cm and 0.6 h respectively,showing high accuracy and application prospects.
文摘在利用数值模拟研究褶型纤维过滤介质过滤性能时,为了克服层状结构纤维层与层之间不连贯及孔状结构纤维规整分布的不足,本文基于Voronoi-Random算法建立了褶型纤维过滤介质模型,并通过加密或减少纤维数量改变其固体体积分数(SVF).采用“Caught on first touch”和“Hamker”两种碰撞模型对褶型纤维过滤介质的气-固两相流动进行数值模拟.结果表明:压力损失和过滤效率数值计算值与经验关联式计算值吻合较好,误差在15%之内;将采用两种碰撞模型得到的过滤效率与经验关联式计算值进行比较,得出采用“Hamker”碰撞模型得到的过滤效率符合实际;在过滤介质上的沉积颗粒并不完全是纤维捕集,大多数颗粒是由形成的树枝状结构捕集;压降和单位面积沉积量随过滤时间的增长呈现指数增长趋势.
基金The authors would like to thank the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.51879184 and 52079091)for funding this work.
文摘Since its introduction,discontinuous deformation analysis(DDA)has been widely used in different areas of rock mechanics.By dividing large blocks into subblocks and introducing artificial joints,DDA can be applied to rock fracture simulation.However,parameter calibration,a fundamental issue in discontinuum methods,has not received enough attention in DDA.In this study,the parameter calibration of DDA for intact rock is carefully studied.To this end,a subblock DDA with Voronoi tessellation is presented first.Then,a modified contact constitutive law is introduced,in which the tensile and shear meso-strengths are modified to be independent of the bond lengths.This improvement can prevent the unjustified preferential failure of short edges.A method for imposing confining pressure is also introduced.Thereafter,sensitivity analysis is performed to investigate the influence of the calculated parameters and meso-parameters on the mechanical properties of modeled rock.Based on the sensitivity analysis,a unified calibration procedure is suggested for both cases with and without confining pressure.Finally,the calibration procedure is applied to two examples,including a biaxial compression test.The results show that the proposed Voronoi-based DDA can simulate rock fracture with and without confining pressure very well after careful parameter calibration.
