NUMERICAL MODELLING OF THE QUASI-GLOBAL OCEAN CIRCULATION BASED ON POM

A free surface quasi-global ocean circulation model, Princeton Ocean Model (POM), was adopted to simulate the climatological circulation. The horizontal resolution of the model was 1/2~X 1/2~ with 16 vertical sigma layers. The initial temperature and salinity fields of the model were interpolated from the Levitus data, and the COADS(Comprehensive Ocean-Atmosphere Data Set ) monthly mean SST and wind fields were used as the surface forcing. The integral time length is 6a. The main general circulation components such as the equatorial current, the equatorial undercurrent, the south and north equatorial currents, the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC), the Kuroshio and the Gulf Stream were well reconstructed. The volume transports of PN section and ACC agree well with the estimations on field survey. Up to now there is no global or quasi-global circulation model results using POM in literature. Our results demonstrate that POM has sound ability to simulate the coastal circulation as well as the general ocean circulation. And this result can provide open boundary conditions for fine resolution regional ocean circulation models.     

THE EFFECTS OF RADIATION STRESS ON WAVE HEIGHTS AND SEA LEVEL IN THE INTERACTION OF COUPLED WAVE-TIDE-SURGE IN THE COASTAL AREA

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INFLUENCE OF CAPILLARITY ON NANO-LITER FLOWRATE MEASUREMET WITH DISPLACEMET METHOD

Nano-liter flowrate measurements in micro-tubes with displacement method were performed and the effect of capillarity force on the accuracy was investigated through lab experiments and theoretical analysis in this article. The experiments were conducted under the pressure drops ranging from 1 kPa to 10 kPa in a circular pipe with a diameter of 50 μm, to give the pressure-flowrate (P-Q) relation and verify the applicability of the classical Hagen-Poiseuille (HP) formula. The experimental results showed that there existed a discrepancy between the experimental data and the theoretical values predicted by the HP formula if the capillary effect was not considered, which exceeded obviously the limit of the system error. And hence a modified formula for the relation, taking the capillary effect into account, was presented through theoretical deduction, and after the HP formula had been modified the error was proved to be less than 3%, which was permitted in comparison with the system error. It was also concluded that only by eliminating the effect of the capillary force in experiments could the original HP formula be employed to predict the pressure-flowrate relation in the Hagen-Poiseuille flow in the micro-tube.     

NUMERICAL PREDICTION OF PROPELLER EXCITED ACOUSTIC RESPONSE OF SUBMARINE STRUCTURE BASED ON CFD,FEM AND BEM

A mesh-less Refined Integral Algorithm (RIA) of Boundary Element Method (BEM) is proposed to accurately solve the Helmholtz Integral Equation (HIE).The convergence behavior and the practicability of the method are validated.Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD),Finite Element Method (FEM) and RIA are used to predict the propeller excited underwater noise of the submarine hull structure.Firstly the propeller and submarine’s flows are independently validated,then the self propulsion of the "submarine+propeller" system is simulated via CFD and the balanced point of the system is determined as well as the self propulsion factors.Secondly,the transient response of the "submarine+ propeller" system is analyzed at the balanced point,and the propeller thrust and torque excitations are calculated.Thirdly the thrust and the torque excitations of the propeller are loaded on the submarine,respectively,to calculate the acoustic response,and the sound power and the main peak frequencies are obtained.Results show that:(1) the thrust mainly excites the submarine axial mode and the high frequency area appears at the two conical-type ends,while the torque mainly excites the circumferential mode and the high frequency area appears at the broadside of the cylindrical section,but with rather smaller sound power and radiation efficiency than the former,(2) the main sound source appears at BPF and 2BPF and comes from the harmonic propeller excitations.So,the main attention should be paid on the thrust excitation control for the sound reduction of the propeller excited submarine structure.