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Mechanism of Cloud Cavitation Generation on a 2-D Hydrofoil
When a sheet cavity on a hydrofoil section attains a certain size, it starts violent periodical oscillation shedding a harmful cloud cavity downstream at each oscillation cycle.
This phenomenon is due to the occurrence of the re-entrant jet. In this paper, the behavior of the re-entrant jet was observed in detail using a transparent foil section model and a high-speed video camera. Time variation of pressure distribution on the foil was measured simultaneously.
It was found that the re-entrant jet can start at any point in sheet cavity elongating stage. Even two re-entrant jets can appear in one cycle.
When a re-entrant jet is generated upstream, the jet velocity is lower compared to the case when a re-entrant jet is generated downstream. The jet velocity is almost constant at the value determined by the location of the generation.
As a result, the cavity oscillation cycle becomes constant when it is normalized by the sheet cavity surface velocity and the maximum sheet cavity length.
The jet velocity is calculated from the pressure gradient at the sheet cavity T.E., using a simple theoretical model. The calculated jet velocity agrees with the measurement, showing that the jet velocity increases as its generation point shifts downstream. It is possible that pressure gradient at the sheet cavity T.E. is the driving force of re-entrant jet
Polarimetric SAR Approaches to Integrated Field Sciences (Understanding for each and integrated ecosystem using remote sensing, 6th International Symposium on Integrated Field Science)
Stock impact of exogenous hatchery-produced abalone in Japan(Sustainable Yield and Population Conservation for Marine Organisms from the Point of View of Genetic Resources,International Workshop in Faculty of Agricultural Science and Field Science Center in Tohoku University 2008)
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Onsager-Machlup action-based path sampling and its combination with replica exchange for diffusive and multiple pathways
For sampling multiple pathways in a rugged energy landscape, we propose a
novel action-based path sampling method using the Onsager-Machlup action
functional. Inspired by the Fourier-path integral simulation of a quantum
mechanical system, a path in Cartesian space is transformed into that in
Fourier space, and an overdamped Langevin equation is derived for the Fourier
components to achieve a canonical ensemble of the path at a finite temperature.
To avoid "path trapping" around an initially guessed path, the path sampling
method is further combined with a powerful sampling technique, the replica
exchange method. The principle and algorithm of our method is numerically
demonstrated for a model two-dimensional system with a bifurcated potential
landscape. The results are compared with those of conventional transition path
sampling and the equilibrium theory, and the error due to path discretization
is also discussed.Comment: 20 pages, 5 figures, submitted to J. Chem. Phy
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