The calculation of magnetotelluric quantities for three‐dimensional conductivity inhomogeneities

Geophysics ◽  
1978 ◽  
Vol 43 (6) ◽  
pp. 1167-1175 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. W. Jones ◽  
K. Vozoff

Three‐dimensional numerical modeling is applied to magnetotelluric principal axis and tipper analysis. Calculations of the impedance, rotation angles, and tipper azimuths are made at the surface of a conducting half‐space which contains perturbed two‐dimensional models. The object is to determine which of the directions is less disturbed by the perturbations, and hence is the more reliable guide to probable strike direction. The results indicate that the principal axis direction is a marginally more stable indicator of strike direction than is the tipper azimuth.

2008 ◽  
Vol 62 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter C. Chu

The Navy’s mine impact burial prediction model creates a time history of a cylindrical or a noncylindrical mine as it falls through air, water, and sediment. The output of the model is the predicted mine trajectory in air and water columns, burial depth/orientation in sediment, as well as height, area, and volume protruding. Model inputs consist of parameters of environment, mine characteristics, and initial release. This paper reviews near three decades’ effort on model development from one to three dimensions: (1) one-dimensional models predict the vertical position of the mine’s center of mass (COM) with the assumption of constant falling angle, (2) two-dimensional models predict the COM position in the (x,z) plane and the rotation around the y-axis, and (3) three-dimensional models predict the COM position in the (x,y,z) space and the rotation around the x-, y-, and z-axes. These models are verified using the data collected from mine impact burial experiments. The one-dimensional model only solves one momentum equation (in the z-direction). It cannot predict the mine trajectory and burial depth well. The two-dimensional model restricts the mine motion in the (x,z) plane (which requires motionless for the environmental fluids) and uses incorrect drag coefficients and inaccurate sediment dynamics. The prediction errors are large in the mine trajectory and burial depth prediction (six to ten times larger than the observed depth in sand bottom of the Monterey Bay). The three-dimensional model predicts the trajectory and burial depth relatively well for cylindrical, near-cylindrical mines, and operational mines such as Manta and Rockan mines.


1993 ◽  
Vol 03 (02) ◽  
pp. 399-404 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. SÜNNER ◽  
H. SAUERMANN

Nonlinear self-excited oscillations are usually investigated for two-dimensional models. We extend the simplest and best known of these models, the van der Pol oscillator, to a three-dimensional one and study its dynamical behaviour by methods of bifurcation analysis. We find cusps and other local codimension 2 bifurcations. A homoclinic (i.e. global) bifurcation plays an important role in the bifurcation diagram. Finally it is demonstrated that chaos sets in. Thus the system belongs to the few three-dimensional autonomous ones modelling physical situations which lead to chaotic behavior.


1999 ◽  
Vol 36 (02) ◽  
pp. 102-112
Author(s):  
Michael D. A. Mackney ◽  
Carl T. F. Ross

Computational studies of hull-superstructure interaction were carried out using one-, two-and three-dimensional finite element analyses. Simplification of the original three-dimensional cases to one- and two-dimensional ones was undertaken to reduce the data preparation and computer solution times in an extensive parametric study. Both the one- and two-dimensional models were evaluated from numerical and experimental studies of the three-dimensional arrangements of hull and superstructure. One-dimensional analysis used a simple beam finite element with appropriately changed sections properties at stations where superstructures existed. Two-dimensional analysis used a four node, first order quadrilateral, isoparametric plane elasticity finite element, with a corresponding increase in the grid domain where the superstructure existed. Changes in the thickness property reflected deck stiffness. This model was essentially a multi-flanged beam with the shear webs representing the hull and superstructure sides, and the flanges representing the decks One-dimensional models consistently and uniformly underestimated the three-dimensional behaviour, but were fast to create and run. Two-dimensional models were also consistent in their assessment, and considerably closer in predicting the actual behaviours. These models took longer to create than the one-dimensional, but ran in very much less time than the refined three-dimensional finite element models Parametric insights were accomplished quickly and effectively with the simplest model and processor, but two-dimensional analyses achieved closer absolute measure of the displacement behaviours. Although only static analysis with simple loading and support conditions were presented, it is believed that similar benefits would be found for other loadings and support conditions. Other engineering components and structures may benefit from similarly judged simplification using one- and two-dimensional models to reduce the time and cost of preliminary design.


2000 ◽  
Vol 176 ◽  
pp. 362-372
Author(s):  
Å. Nordlund ◽  
R. F. Stein

AbstractWe review properties of stellar convection, as derived from detailed 3-D numerical modeling, and assess to what extent 1-D models are able to provide a fair representation of stellar structure in various regions of the HR diagram. We point out a number of problems and discrepancies that are inevitable when using conventional 1-D models. The problems originate mainly in the surface layers, where horizontal fluctuations become particularly large, and where convective energy transport gives way to radiation. We conclude that it is necessary (and possible) to use three-dimensional models of these layers, in order to avoid the uncertainties and inaccuracies associated with 1-D representations.


1997 ◽  
Vol 12 (19) ◽  
pp. 1393-1410 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. M. Sergeev

Finite layers of three-dimensional models can be regarded as two-dimensional with complicated multi-stated weights. The tetrahedron equation in 3D provides the Yang–Baxter equation for this composite weights in 2D. Such solutions of the Yang–Baxter equation are constructed for the simplest operator solution of the tetrahedron equation. These R-matrices can be regarded as a special projection of universal R-matrix for some Drinfeld double [Formula: see text], associated with the affine algebra [Formula: see text]. Usual R-matrix for [Formula: see text] is another projection of [Formula: see text].


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Evan D. Davidge

Airflows in the cutting/collection/discharge system of a professional lawn care system were studied numerically and experimentally in this thesis. Various three-dimensional and two-dimensional computational fluid dynamics models were developed in order to investigate the complex airflow created by a pair of counter-rotating blades. The three-dimensional models were used to study the actual flows; the two-dimensional models were developed to investigate the optimal shapes of the rotating blades using the mass flow rate per unit power consumption as the objective function. Experiments were carried out mainly to validate the computer models developed in this study for airflow velocity and power usage for an actual cutting system. Vibrations of a cutting blade were studied using the finite element method and experiments. It was found that the blades will experience resonance under normal operating conditions.


2007 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 91-95
Author(s):  
S.V. Amel’kin ◽  
A.A. Gubaidullin ◽  
A.V. Shnaider

The results of experiments on the formation and flow of foam in a two-dimensional glass model of the porous medium and three-dimensional porous rock sample are compared.


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