scholarly journals NUMERICAL MODELING OF MORPHODYNAMIC CHANGES IN THE JADE ESTUARY – GERMANY

2011 ◽  
Vol 1 (32) ◽  
pp. 84 ◽  
Author(s):  
Almut Gelfort ◽  
Florian Ladage ◽  
Oliver Stoschek
Keyword(s):  
Numerical Modeling ◽  
Sediment Transport ◽  
Numerical Model ◽  
Input Data ◽  
Set Up

Based on a case study sediment transport was modeled numerically for the Jade estuary. Due to the construction of the JadeWeserPort the morphology in the area is undergoing a relocation. The study gives an overview on various studies undertaken as a consultant tool to help designers and decisions makers. A hydrodynamic as well as a morphodynamic numerical model was set up. Although the input data on the morphodynamic part was limited, the results showed that the tool at hand is capable of producing reliable results in the field of modeling sediment transport.

scholarly journals Developing a Coupling Model System of Global Rainfall Data and Open-Source Model for Water Forecast in Poorly Gauged Basins

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 355 ◽  
Author(s):  
Duong Du Bui ◽  
Duc Minh Tran ◽  
Huong Thi Vu ◽  
Nuong Thi Bui
Keyword(s):  
Open Source ◽  
Input Data ◽  
Water Security ◽  
Coupling Model ◽  
Source Model ◽  
Rainfall Data ◽  
Creative Commons ◽  
Set Up ◽  
User Friendly

Water security is under severe pressures from human interventions and climate change in all over the world and improved water forecast is essential for water management. HYPE is a semi-distributed hydrographic model, running on Windows or Linux operating systems. The code of the model is written by the Fortran programming language and open source as Lesser GNU Public License. HYPE has been becoming a widely used tool in the forecasting of transboundary flows. However, the application of HYPE encounters many difficulties in processing input data and serving the construction, calibration, and validation of the model. This article introduces the development of the V-HYPE tool that helps a couple of global rainfall data and HYPE model for operational use. V-HYPE allows developing a user-friendly interface and setting parameters of the HYPE model as well as evaluating errors and transforming and visually displaying the results of the model. Besides, the V-HYPE has the ability to show related maps (i.e. sub-basins, river network, lake, and dams, etc), set up input data, automatically download global rainfall data, and visually display results on WebGIS. V-HYPE also can generate bulletins supporting for operational water resources warning and forecasting works in Vietnam. The utilities of this tool are demonstrated in the case study of Serepok river basin.This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited.

scholarly journals HARBOR AGITATION DUE TO OFFSHORE SHIP WAVES USING SWASH: A CASE STUDY OF KUMKAPI YACHT PARK, ISTANBUL

2018 ◽  
pp. 12
Author(s):  
Cüneyt Baykal ◽  
Gülizar Özyurt TarakcıoÄŸlu ◽  
Emrecan Işık
Keyword(s):  
Numerical Modeling ◽  
Free Surface ◽  
Numerical Model ◽  
Coastal Waters ◽  
Rotational Flow ◽  
Ship Waves ◽  
Safety Requirements ◽  
Flow And Transport ◽  
Bosphorus Strait

This study presents the results of a numerical modeling study on the harbor agitation in case of offshore ship waves using SWASH (acronym for Simulating WAves till SHore), a numerical model developed for the simulating unsteady, non-hydrostatic, free-surface, rotational flow and transport phenomena in coastal waters as driven by waves, tides, buoyancy and wind forces (Zijlema et al. 2011). The study area is the Kumkapi Yacht Park, at the Marmara coast of Istanbul, 2.5 km west of the southern entrance of Bosphorus strait. The yacht park is currently used as a fishery harbor, which is severely affected by the ship waves of ferries and sea buses passing nearby almost parallel to the main breakwater of the harbor (aligned from west to east). The park is planned to berth a total of 140 yachts varying from 5 m to 40 m in length (Figure 1). For this purpose, the present harbor layout together with several alternative plans have been studied numerically to investigate agitation due to ship waves of ferries and sea buses considering the design safety requirements of ASCE (2012) for the safe mooring and berthing of yachts.

2D numerical modelling of bed profile changes due to tsunami effects on near shore coasts: Kadikoy case study

2005 ◽  
Vol 51 (11) ◽  
pp. 231-238
Author(s):  
M.S. Kabdasli ◽  
V.S. Ozgur Kirca ◽  
A. Aydingakko
Keyword(s):  
Sediment Transport ◽  
Coastal Region ◽  
Coastal Structures ◽  
Tsunami Waves ◽  
Near Shore ◽  
Wave Heights ◽  
Profile Changes ◽  
Vertical Changes ◽  
Set Up

This study was aimed at the investigation of tsunami effects on the seabed profile as these may be important for coastal structures, like sea outfalls or breakwaters. Tsunamis are well known with huge wave heights and destructive effects on the coastal region. A 2D numerical model was set using the software, COSMOS to calculate the cross-shore sediment transport and to evaluate profile changes in the coastal seabed. The study area is Kadikoy region, a densely populated industrial coastal area in South East Istanbul. The model was run for different kinds of tsunami waves. Not only the bed profile changes, but also the wave heights, breaker depths, peak wave bottom orbital velocities, wave set-up and cross-shore sediment transport rates were determined. The results indicated that, at a water depth around 40–50 m, some tsunamis were found to have a wave height of order of 15 m, which became about 5 m at a depth of 10 m. The wave set up near the coast was about 1.5–2 m. The results also implied that tsunami waves, with their destructive nature, could lead to dramatic vertical changes of the seabed.

Sediment transport under dry weather conditions in a small sewer system

1998 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 155-162
Author(s):  
Flemming Schlütter ◽  
Kjeld Schaarup-Jensen
Keyword(s):  
Sediment Transport ◽  
Field Data ◽  
Field Measurements ◽  
Weather Conditions ◽  
Sewer System ◽  
Transport Models ◽  
Sewer Systems ◽  
Combined Sewer ◽  
Initial Results

Increased knowledge of the processes which govern the transport of solids in sewers is necessary in order to develop more reliable and applicable sediment transport models for sewer systems. Proper validation of these are essential. For that purpose thorough field measurements are imperative. This paper renders initial results obtained in an ongoing case study of a Danish combined sewer system in Frejlev, a small town southwest of Aalborg, Denmark. Field data are presented concerning estimation of the sediment transport during dry weather. Finally, considerations on how to approach numerical modelling is made based on numerical simulations using MOUSE TRAP (DHI 1993).

scholarly journals Effects of Infills in the Seismic Performance of an RC Factory Building in Pakistan

Buildings ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (7) ◽  
pp. 276
Author(s):  
Nisar Ali Khan ◽  
Giorgio Monti ◽  
Camillo Nuti ◽  
Marco Vailati
Keyword(s):  
Numerical Model ◽  
Construction Materials ◽  
Building Codes ◽  
Construction Technique ◽  
Infill Walls ◽  
Mortar Strength ◽  
Materials Used ◽  
Seismic Response Of Buildings

Infilled reinforced concrete (IRC) frames are a very common construction typology, not only in developing countries such as Pakistan but also in southern Europe and Western countries, due to their ease of construction and less technical skills required for the construction. Their performance during past earthquakes has been in some cases satisfactory and in other cases inadequate. Significant effort has been made among researchers to improve such performance, but few have highlighted the influence of construction materials used in the infill walls. In some building codes, infills are still considered as non-structural elements, both in the design of new buildings and, sometimes, in the assessment of existing buildings. This is mainly due to some difficulties in modeling their mechanical behavior and also the large variety of typologies, which are difficult to categorize. Some building codes, for example, Eurocode, already address the influence of infill walls in design, but there is still a lack of homogeneity among different codes. For example, the Pakistan building code (PBC) does not address infills, despite being a common construction technique in the country. Past earthquake survey records show that construction materials and infill types significantly affect the seismic response of buildings, thus highlighting the importance of investigating such parameters. This is the object of this work, where a numerical model for infill walls is introduced, which aims at predicting their failure mode, as a function of some essential parameters, such as the friction coefficient between mortar and brick surface and mortar strength, usually disregarded in previous models. A comprehensive case study is presented of a three-story IRC frame located in the city of Mirpur, Pakistan, hit by an earthquake of magnitude 5.9 on 24 September 2019. The results obtained from the numerical model show good agreement with the damage patterns observed in situ, thus highlighting the importance of correctly modeling the infill walls when seismically designing or assessing Pakistani buildings that make use of this technology.

scholarly journals Numerical Aspects of Particle-in-Cell Simulations for Plasma-Motion Modeling of Electric Thrusters

Aerospace ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (5) ◽  
pp. 138
Author(s):  
Giuseppe Gallo ◽  
Adriano Isoldi ◽  
Dario Del Gatto ◽  
Raffaele Savino ◽  
Amedeo Capozzoli ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Numerical Model ◽  
Computing Time ◽  
Computational Time ◽  
Electric Motors ◽  
Motion Modeling ◽  
Particle In Cell ◽  
Computing Platform ◽  
Hall Effect Thruster ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Pic Code

The present work is focused on a detailed description of an in-house, particle-in-cell code developed by the authors, whose main aim is to perform highly accurate plasma simulations on an off-the-shelf computing platform in a relatively short computational time, despite the large number of macro-particles employed in the computation. A smart strategy to set up the code is proposed, and in particular, the parallel calculation in GPU is explored as a possible solution for the reduction in computing time. An application on a Hall-effect thruster is shown to validate the PIC numerical model and to highlight the strengths of introducing highly accurate schemes for the electric field interpolation and the macroparticle trajectory integration in the time. A further application on a helicon double-layer thruster is presented, in which the particle-in-cell (PIC) code is used as a fast tool to analyze the performance of these specific electric motors.

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