A Non-Linear Wave Model with Variable Molar Flows for Dynamic Behaviour and Disturbance Propagation in Distillation Columns

2007 ◽  
Vol 85 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-73 ◽  
Author(s):  
N.P. Hankins
2010 ◽  
Vol 34 (8) ◽  
pp. 1984-1999 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ahmadreza Zamani ◽  
Ahmadreza Azimian ◽  
Arnold Heemink ◽  
Dimitri Solomatine

Author(s):  
Vincenzo Nava ◽  
Felice Arena

Nowadays technical and scientific communities are increasingly interested in the development of technologies for floating devices which can serve different purposes both in coastal and offshore environment. Thus, strong effort is required in the development of correct and efficient algorithms for studying the behavior of such structures under the action of sea wave loadings. At this purpose, in the past few years several approaches were investigated, both in frequency and in time domains, using linear and non-linear structural models and linear and non-linear wave theories. In this note, the effects of nonlinearities in the wave model on the dynamics of a non-linear floating rigid body model are calculated using the second-order Quasi-Determinism (QD) theory (see [1], [2]; [3]) under the action of extremely high waves. Structural nonlinearities consist essentially in non linear damping and nonlinear stiffness due to mooring lines, following the model shown in Nava & Arena, [4]. Numerical nonlinear simulations were performed by means of an algorithm based on the approach showed in Zheng et al. [5], and the results compared to those provided by the nonlinear QD theory. The purpose of this note is to show not only the effects of nonlinearities in the behavior of a floating body and to compare them with those obtained from a linear approach, but also to estimate them through non linear QD theory under the occurrence of a large wave in order to evaluate the reliability of the proposed approach.


2021 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Takuji Waseda ◽  
Shogo Watanabe ◽  
Wataru Fujimoto ◽  
Takehiko Nose ◽  
Tsubasa Kodaira ◽  
...  

The presence of coherent wave groups in the ocean has been so far postulated but still lacks evidence other than the indication from the radar images. Here, we attempt to reconstruct a wave field to monitor the evolution of a directional wave group based on a phase resolving two-dimensional non-linear wave model constrained by the stereo images of the ocean surface. The reconstructed wave field of around 20 wavelength squared revealed a coherent wave group compact in both propagating and transverse directions. The envelope of the wave group seems to be oriented obliquely to the propagation direction, somewhat resembling the directional soliton that was theoretically predicted and experimentally and numerically reproduced recently. A comparison with a constrained linear wave model demonstrated the coherence of the non-linear wave group that propagates for tens of wavelengths. The study elaborates a possibility of a spatially coherent short crested wave group in the directional sea.


Author(s):  
Jenny M. V. Trumars ◽  
Niels Jacob Tarp-Johansen ◽  
Thomas Krogh

Due to the pronounced dynamic behavior of wind turbines, fatigue load effects may be quite sensitive to the precise modeling of the frequency content of the wave loading. As the offshore wind turbine technology progresses, larger and larger turbines will be placed at still deeper waters, causing the resonant frequency of the first eigen mode of a traditional bottom-fixed support structure to be typically in the range from 0.25 Hz to 0.35 Hz. The deeper the water and the larger the turbine, the lower the frequency will be. As an example, wave measurements from the offshore wind farm Bockstigen show a second peak at approximately 0.3 Hz in the wave spectrum. Thus this peak, or similar peaks realized at shallow water sites, may very well be dynamically amplified in the response. This second peak cannot be modelled with a linear wave model, and a wave model taking non-linearities into account has to be used. In the presented work, both a linear and a non-linear wave model are used to study the fatigue in an offshore wind power plant and the difference is compared. Time series of irregular linear and non-linear waves are calculated, and structural calculations of an offshore wind turbine with a slender support structure are used in the analysis of the fatigue loads. The forces on the structure are calculated using Morison’s equation, integrating along the structure and lumping the loads in nodes for the structural calculations. The difference between the wave models is significant and the non-linear model yields higher fatigue damage than the linear one.


2020 ◽  
Vol 53 (2) ◽  
pp. 12334-12339
Author(s):  
M. Bonfanti ◽  
F. Carapellese ◽  
S.A. Sirigu ◽  
G. Bracco ◽  
G. Mattiazzo

2010 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 359-372 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. J.-M. C. Leysinger Vieli ◽  
G. H. Gudmundsson

Abstract. The advance of a glacier over a deforming sediment layer is analysed numerically. We treat this problem as a contact problem involving two slowly-deforming viscous bodies. The surface evolution of the two bodies, and of the contact interface between them, is followed through time. Using various different non-linear till rheologies, we show how the mode of advance depends on the relative effective viscosities of ice and till. Three modes of advances are observed: (1) overriding, where the glacier advances through ice deformation only and without deforming the sediment; (2) plug-flow, where the sediment is strongly deformed, the ice moves forward as a block and a bulge is built in front of the glacier; and (3) mixed-flow, where the glacier advances through both ice and sediment deformation. For the cases of both overriding and mixed-flow, an inverse depth-age relationship within the ice is obtained. A series of model experiments show the contrast in effective viscosity between ice and till to be the single most important model parameter defining the mode of advance and the resulting thickness distribution of the till. Our model experiments indicate that the thickness of the deforming till layer is greatest close to the glacier front. Measurements of till thickness taken in such locations may not be representative of deforming till thickness elsewhere. Given sufficiently large contrast in effective viscosity between ice and till, a sediment bulge is formed in front of the glacier. During glacier advance, the bulge quickly reaches a steady state form strongly resembling single-crested push moraines. Inspection of particle paths within the sediment bulge, shows that particles within the till travel at a different speed from the bulge itself, and the push moraine to advance as a form-conserving non-linear wave.


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