33 research outputs found
Upstream structural management measures for an urban area flooding in Turkey
In recent years, flooding has become an increasing concern across many parts of the world of both the general public and their governments. The climate change inducing more intense rainfall events occurring in short period of time lead flooding in rural and urban areas. In this study the flood modelling in an urbanized area, namely Samsun-Terme in Blacksea region of Turkey is performed. MIKE21 with flexible grid is used in 2-dimensional shallow water flow modelling. 1 x 1000(-1) scaled maps with the buildings for the urbanized area and 1 x 5000(-1) scaled maps for the rural parts are used to obtain DTM needed in the flood modelling. The bathymetry of the river is obtained from additional surveys. The main river passing through the urbanized area has a capacity of 500 m(3) s(-1) according to the design discharge obtained by simple ungauged discharge estimation depending on catchment area only. The upstream structural base precautions against flooding are modelled. The effect of four main upstream catchments on the flooding in the downstream urban area are modelled as different scenarios. It is observed that if the flow from the upstream catchments can be retarded through a detention pond constructed in one of the upstream catchments, estimated Q(100) flood can be conveyed by the river without overtopping from the river channel. The operation of the upstream detention ponds and the scenarios to convey Q(500) without causing flooding are also presented. Structural management measures to address changes in flood characteristics in water management planning are discussed
Discretized rotation has infinitely many periodic orbits
For a fixed k in (-2,2), the discretized rotation on Z^2 is defined by
(x,y)->(y,-[x+ky]). We prove that this dynamics has infinitely many periodic
orbits.Comment: Revised after referee reports, and added a quantitative statemen
The ALPS project release 2.0: Open source software for strongly correlated systems
We present release 2.0 of the ALPS (Algorithms and Libraries for Physics
Simulations) project, an open source software project to develop libraries and
application programs for the simulation of strongly correlated quantum lattice
models such as quantum magnets, lattice bosons, and strongly correlated fermion
systems. The code development is centered on common XML and HDF5 data formats,
libraries to simplify and speed up code development, common evaluation and
plotting tools, and simulation programs. The programs enable non-experts to
start carrying out serial or parallel numerical simulations by providing basic
implementations of the important algorithms for quantum lattice models:
classical and quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) using non-local updates, extended
ensemble simulations, exact and full diagonalization (ED), the density matrix
renormalization group (DMRG) both in a static version and a dynamic
time-evolving block decimation (TEBD) code, and quantum Monte Carlo solvers for
dynamical mean field theory (DMFT). The ALPS libraries provide a powerful
framework for programers to develop their own applications, which, for
instance, greatly simplify the steps of porting a serial code onto a parallel,
distributed memory machine. Major changes in release 2.0 include the use of
HDF5 for binary data, evaluation tools in Python, support for the Windows
operating system, the use of CMake as build system and binary installation
packages for Mac OS X and Windows, and integration with the VisTrails workflow
provenance tool. The software is available from our web server at
http://alps.comp-phys.org/.Comment: 18 pages + 4 appendices, 7 figures, 12 code examples, 2 table
Metallic, magnetic and molecular nanocontacts
Scanning tunnelling microscopy and break-junction experiments realize metallic and molecular nanocontacts that act as ideal one-dimensional channels between macroscopic electrodes. Emergent nanoscale phenomena typical of these systems encompass structural, mechanical, electronic, transport, and magnetic properties. This Review focuses on the theoretical explanation of some of these properties obtained with the help of first-principles methods. By tracing parallel theoretical and experimental developments from the discovery of nanowire formation and conductance quantization in gold nanowires to recent observations of emergent magnetism and Kondo correlations, we exemplify the main concepts and ingredients needed to bring together ab initio calculations and physical observations. It can be anticipated that diode, sensor, spin-valve and spin-filter functionalities relevant for spintronics and molecular electronics applications will benefit from the physical understanding thus obtained
High mass photon pairs in lepton+ lepton-gamma gamma events at LEP
High mass photon pairs in lepton+ lepton-gamma gamma events at LEP Adriani, O.; Aguilar-Benitez, M.; Ahlen, S.P.; Alcaraz, J.; Aloisio, A.; Alverson, G.; Alviggi, M.G.; Ambrosi, G.; Linde, F.L. Published in: Physics Letters B DOI: 10.1016/0370-2693(92)91576-U Link to publication Citation for published version (APA): Adriani, O., Aguilar-Benitez, M., Ahlen, S. P., Alcaraz, J., Aloisio, A., Alverson, G., ... Linde, F. L. (1992). High mass photon pairs in lepton+ lepton-gamma gamma events at LEP. Physics Letters B, 295,[337][338][339][340][341][342][343][344][345][346] https://doi.org/10.1016/0370-2693(92)91576-U General rights It is not permitted to download or to forward/distribute the text or part of it without the consent of the author(s) and/or copyright holder(s), other than for strictly personal, individual use, unless the work is under an open content license (like Creative Commons). Disclaimer/Complaints regulations If you believe that digital publication of certain material infringes any of your rights or (privacy) interests, please let the Library know, stating your reasons. In case of a legitimate complaint, the Library will make the material inaccessible and/or remove it from the website. Please Ask the Library: https://uba.uva.nl/en/contact, or a letter to: Library of the University of Amsterdam, Secretariat, Singel 425, 1012 WP Amsterdam, The Netherlands. You will be contacted as soon as possible. Download date: 28 Jun 2019 Physics Letters B 295 (1992) From the analysis of the reactions e + e-~ g + g-(n?) (g = e, #, ~) we observe four events, one e+e -~'7 and three #+ ~-??, with the invariant mass of the photon pairs close to 60 GeV. These events were selected from a data sample collected in the L3 detector corresponding to 950000 produced Z°'s. More data are necessary to ascertain the origin of these events
Validation of the operational MSG-SEVIRI snow cover product over Austria
The objective of this study is to evaluate the mapping accuracy of the
MSG-SEVIRI operational snow cover product over Austria. The SEVIRI instrument
is aboard the geostationary Meteosat Second Generation (MSG) satellite. The
snow cover product provides 32 images per day, with a relatively low spatial
resolution of 5 km over Austria. The mapping accuracy is examined at 178
stations with daily snow depth observations and compared with the daily
MODIS-combined (Terra + Aqua) snow cover product for the period April
2008–June 2012.
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The results show that the 15 min temporal sampling allows a significant
reduction of clouds in the snow cover product. The mean annual cloud coverage
is less than 30% in Austria, as compared to 52% for the combined MODIS
product. The mapping accuracy for cloud-free days is 89% as compared to
94% for MODIS. The largest mapping errors are found in regions with large
topographical variability. The errors are noticeably larger at stations with
elevations that differ greatly from those of the mean MSG-SEVIRI pixel
elevations. The median of mapping accuracy for stations with absolute
elevation difference less than 50 m and more than 500 m is 98.9 and
78.2%, respectively. A comparison between the MSG-SEVIRI and MODIS
products indicates an 83% overall agreement. The largest disagreements are
found in Alpine valleys and flatland areas in the spring and winter months, respectively