An analytical study on three-dimensional versus two-dimensional water table-induced flow patterns in a Tóthian basin

2017 ◽  
Vol 31 (22) ◽  
pp. 4006-4018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jun-Zhi Wang ◽  
Xiao-Wei Jiang ◽  
Zhi-Yuan Zhang ◽  
Li Wan ◽  
Xu-Sheng Wang ◽  
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2011 ◽  
Vol 278 (1725) ◽  
pp. 3670-3678 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brooke E. Flammang ◽  
George V. Lauder ◽  
Daniel R. Troolin ◽  
Tyson Strand

Understanding how moving organisms generate locomotor forces is fundamental to the analysis of aerodynamic and hydrodynamic flow patterns that are generated during body and appendage oscillation. In the past, this has been accomplished using two-dimensional planar techniques that require reconstruction of three-dimensional flow patterns. We have applied a new, fully three-dimensional, volumetric imaging technique that allows instantaneous capture of wake flow patterns, to a classic problem in functional vertebrate biology: the function of the asymmetrical (heterocercal) tail of swimming sharks to capture the vorticity field within the volume swept by the tail. These data were used to test a previous three-dimensional reconstruction of the shark vortex wake estimated from two-dimensional flow analyses, and show that the volumetric approach reveals a different vortex wake not previously reconstructed from two-dimensional slices. The hydrodynamic wake consists of one set of dual-linked vortex rings produced per half tail beat. In addition, we use a simple passive shark-tail model under robotic control to show that the three-dimensional wake flows of the robotic tail differ from the active tail motion of a live shark, suggesting that active control of kinematics and tail stiffness plays a substantial role in the production of wake vortical patterns.


2003 ◽  
Vol 476 ◽  
pp. 159-177 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. M. GOMILKO ◽  
V. S. MALYUGA ◽  
V. V. MELESHKO

Motivated by the recent paper of Hills & Moffatt (2000), we investigate the Stokes flow in a trihedral corner formed by three mutually orthogonal planes, induced by a non-zero velocity distribution over one of the walls of the corner. It is shown that the local behaviour of the velocity field near the edges of the corner, where a discontinuity of the boundary velocity is assumed, coincides with the Goodier–Taylor solution for a two-dimensional wedge. Analysis of the streamline patterns confirms the existence of eddies near the stationary edge in the flow, induced either by uniform translation of one of the walls of the corner in the direction perpendicular to its bisectrix or by uniform rotation of a side about the vertex of the corner. These flows are shown to be quasi-two-dimensional. If the wall rotates about a centre displaced from the vertex, the induced flow is essentially three-dimensional. In the antisymmetric velocity field, a stagnation line appears composed of stagnation points of different types. Otherwise the three-dimensionality manifests itself in a non-closed spiral shape of the streamlines.


1986 ◽  
Vol 108 (2) ◽  
pp. 197-201 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. H. Lin ◽  
A. C. Raptis

This paper deals with an analytical study on acoustic resonances of elastic oscillations of a group of parallel, circular, thin cylinders in an unbounded volume of barotropic, compressible, inviscid fluid. The perturbed motion of the fluid is assumed due entirely to the flexural oscillations of the cylinders. The motion of the fluid disturbances is first formulated in a three-dimensional wave form and then casted into a two-dimensional Helmholtz equation for the harmonic motion in time and in axial space. The acoustic motion in the fluid and the elastic motion in the cylinders are solved simultaneously. Acoustic resonances were approximately determined from the secular (eigenvalue) equation by the method of successive iteration with the use of digital computers for a given set of the fluid properties and the cylinders’ geometry and properties. Effects of the flexural wavenumber and the configuration of and the spacing between the cylinders on the acoustic resonances were thoroughly investigated.


1990 ◽  
Vol 112 (2) ◽  
pp. 396-401 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Nilsen ◽  
L. Storesletten

This paper is an analytical study on natural two-dimensional convection in horizontal rectangular channels filled by isotropic and anisotropic porous media. The channel walls, assumed to be impermeable and perfectly heat conducting, are nonuniformly heated to establish a linear temperature distribution in the vertical direction. We derive the critical Rayleigh numbers for the onset of convection and examine the steady flow patterns at moderately supercritical Rayleigh numbers. The stability properties of these flow patterns are examined against two-dimensional perturbations using a weakly nonlinear theory.


Author(s):  
H.A. Cohen ◽  
T.W. Jeng ◽  
W. Chiu

This tutorial will discuss the methodology of low dose electron diffraction and imaging of crystalline biological objects, the problems of data interpretation for two-dimensional projected density maps of glucose embedded protein crystals, the factors to be considered in combining tilt data from three-dimensional crystals, and finally, the prospects of achieving a high resolution three-dimensional density map of a biological crystal. This methodology will be illustrated using two proteins under investigation in our laboratory, the T4 DNA helix destabilizing protein gp32*I and the crotoxin complex crystal.


Author(s):  
B. Ralph ◽  
A.R. Jones

In all fields of microscopy there is an increasing interest in the quantification of microstructure. This interest may stem from a desire to establish quality control parameters or may have a more fundamental requirement involving the derivation of parameters which partially or completely define the three dimensional nature of the microstructure. This latter categorey of study may arise from an interest in the evolution of microstructure or from a desire to generate detailed property/microstructure relationships. In the more fundamental studies some convolution of two-dimensional data into the third dimension (stereological analysis) will be necessary.In some cases the two-dimensional data may be acquired relatively easily without recourse to automatic data collection and further, it may prove possible to perform the data reduction and analysis relatively easily. In such cases the only recourse to machines may well be in establishing the statistical confidence of the resultant data. Such relatively straightforward studies tend to result from acquiring data on the whole assemblage of features making up the microstructure. In this field data mode, when parameters such as phase volume fraction, mean size etc. are sought, the main case for resorting to automation is in order to perform repetitive analyses since each analysis is relatively easily performed.


Author(s):  
Yu Liu

The image obtained in a transmission electron microscope is the two-dimensional projection of a three-dimensional (3D) object. The 3D reconstruction of the object can be calculated from a series of projections by back-projection, but this algorithm assumes that the image is linearly related to a line integral of the object function. However, there are two kinds of contrast in electron microscopy, scattering and phase contrast, of which only the latter is linear with the optical density (OD) in the micrograph. Therefore the OD can be used as a measure of the projection only for thin specimens where phase contrast dominates the image. For thick specimens, where scattering contrast predominates, an exponential absorption law holds, and a logarithm of OD must be used. However, for large thicknesses, the simple exponential law might break down due to multiple and inelastic scattering.


Author(s):  
D. E. Johnson

Increased specimen penetration; the principle advantage of high voltage microscopy, is accompanied by an increased need to utilize information on three dimensional specimen structure available in the form of two dimensional projections (i.e. micrographs). We are engaged in a program to develop methods which allow the maximum use of information contained in a through tilt series of micrographs to determine three dimensional speciman structure.In general, we are dealing with structures lacking in symmetry and with projections available from only a limited span of angles (±60°). For these reasons, we must make maximum use of any prior information available about the specimen. To do this in the most efficient manner, we have concentrated on iterative, real space methods rather than Fourier methods of reconstruction. The particular iterative algorithm we have developed is given in detail in ref. 3. A block diagram of the complete reconstruction system is shown in fig. 1.


Author(s):  
A.M. Jones ◽  
A. Max Fiskin

If the tilt of a specimen can be varied either by the strategy of observing identical particles orientated randomly or by use of a eucentric goniometer stage, three dimensional reconstruction procedures are available (l). If the specimens, such as small protein aggregates, lack periodicity, direct space methods compete favorably in ease of implementation with reconstruction by the Fourier (transform) space approach (2). Regardless of method, reconstruction is possible because useful specimen thicknesses are always much less than the depth of field in an electron microscope. Thus electron images record the amount of stain in columns of the object normal to the recording plates. For single particles, practical considerations dictate that the specimen be tilted precisely about a single axis. In so doing a reconstructed image is achieved serially from two-dimensional sections which in turn are generated by a series of back-to-front lines of projection data.


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