scholarly journals 4D volcano gravimetry

Geophysics ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 73 (6) ◽  
pp. WA3-WA18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maurizio Battaglia ◽  
Joachim Gottsmann ◽  
Daniele Carbone ◽  
José Fernández
Keyword(s):  
Numerical Models ◽  
Hydrothermal Systems ◽  
Analytical Models ◽  
Quality Data ◽  
Campi Flegrei ◽  
Maximum Information ◽  
Magma Flow ◽  
Long Valley Caldera ◽  
Volcanic Source ◽  
Gravity Measurements

Time-dependent gravimetric measurements can detect subsurface processes long before magma flow leads to earthquakes or other eruption precursors. The ability of gravity measurements to detect subsurface mass flow is greatly enhanced if gravity measurements are analyzed and modeled with ground-deformation data. Obtaining the maximum information from microgravity studies requires careful evaluation of the layout of network benchmarks, the gravity environmental signal, and the coupling between gravity changes and crustal deformation. When changes in the system under study are fast (hours to weeks), as in hydrothermal systems and restless volcanoes, continuous gravity observations at selected sites can help to capture many details of the dynamics of the intrusive sources. Despite the instrumental effects, mainly caused by atmospheric temperature, results from monitoring at Mt. Etna volcano show that continuous measurements are a powerful tool for monitoring and studying volcanoes.Several analytical and numerical mathematical models can beused to fit gravity and deformation data. Analytical models offer a closed-form description of the volcanic source. In principle, this allows one to readily infer the relative importance of the source parameters. In active volcanic sites such as Long Valley caldera (California, U.S.A.) and Campi Flegrei (Italy), careful use of analytical models and high-quality data sets has produced good results. However, the simplifications that make analytical models tractable might result in misleading volcanological inter-pretations, particularly when the real crust surrounding the source is far from the homogeneous/isotropic assumption. Using numerical models allows consideration of more realistic descriptions of the sources and of the crust where they are located (e.g., vertical and lateral mechanical discontinuities, complex source geometries, and topography). Applications at Teide volcano (Tenerife) and Campi Flegrei demonstrate the importance of this more realistic description in gravity calculations.

scholarly journals Fiber Bragg Grating Sensors for Underwater Vibration Measurement: Potential Hydropower Applications

Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (13) ◽  
pp. 4272
Author(s):  
Oscar de la Torre ◽  
Ignazio Floris ◽  
Salvador Sales ◽  
Xavier Escaler
Keyword(s):  
Fiber Bragg Grating ◽  
Numerical Models ◽  
Vibration Measurement ◽  
Quality Data ◽  
Bragg Grating ◽  
Laser Vibrometer ◽  
Main Concern ◽  
High Expectations ◽  
Fiber Bragg Grating Sensors ◽  
Hydraulic Machinery

The present paper assesses the performance and characteristics of fiber Bragg grating sensors, with a special interest in their applications in hydraulic machinery and systems. The hydropower industry is turning to this technology with high expectations of obtaining high quality data to validate and calibrate numerical models that could be used as digital twins of key assets, further strengthening the sector’s relevant position within industry 4.0. Prior to any validation, fiber Bragg grating sensors’ ability to perform well underwater for long periods of time with minimal degradation, and their ease of scalability, drew the authors´ attention. A simplified modal analysis of a partially submerged beam is proposed here as a first step to validate the potential of this type of technology for hydropower applications. Fiber Bragg grating sensors are used to obtain the beam’s natural frequencies and to damp vibrations under different conditions. The results are compared with more established waterproof electric strain gauges and a laser vibrometer with good agreement. The presence of several sensors in a single fiber ensures high spatial resolution, fundamental to precisely determine vibration patterns, which is a main concern in this industry. In this work, the beam’s vibration patterns have been successfully captured under different excitations and conditions.

scholarly journals Gaining a better understanding of the extrusion process in fused filament fabrication 3D printing: a review

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bahaa Shaqour ◽  
Mohammad Abuabiah ◽  
Salameh Abdel-Fattah ◽  
Adel Juaidi ◽  
Ramez Abdallah ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
3D Printing ◽  
Numerical Models ◽  
Extrusion Process ◽  
Analytical Models ◽  
Limiting Factor ◽  
Fused Filament Fabrication ◽  
Promising Tool ◽  
Relevant Work ◽  
3D Printing Technique ◽  
Required Quality

AbstractAdditive manufacturing is a promising tool that has proved its value in various applications. Among its technologies, the fused filament fabrication 3D printing technique stands out with its potential to serve a wide variety of applications, ranging from simple educational purposes to industrial and medical applications. However, as many materials and composites can be utilized for this technique, the processability of these materials can be a limiting factor for producing products with the required quality and properties. Over the past few years, many researchers have attempted to better understand the melt extrusion process during 3D printing. Moreover, other research groups have focused on optimizing the process by adjusting the process parameters. These attempts were conducted using different methods, including proposing analytical models, establishing numerical models, or experimental techniques. This review highlights the most relevant work from recent years on fused filament fabrication 3D printing and discusses the future perspectives of this 3D printing technology.

Modelling of interactions between dykes, inclined sheets and faults at Santorini volcano

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kyriaki Drymoni ◽  
John Browning ◽  
Agust Gudmundsson
Keyword(s):  
Tensile Strength ◽  
Fault Zone ◽  
Numerical Models ◽  
Damage Zone ◽  
Sheet Thickness ◽  
Analytical Models ◽  
Energy Conditions ◽  
Dyke Swarm ◽  
Normal Faults ◽  
Santorini Volcano

<p>Dykes and inclined sheets are known occasionally to exploit faults as parts of their paths, but the conditions that allow this to happen are still not fully understood. Here we report field observations from a well-exposed dyke swarm of the Santorini volcano, Greece, that show dykes and inclined sheets deflected into faults and the results of analytical and numerical models to explain the conditions for deflection. The deflected dykes and sheets belong to a local swarm of 91 dyke/sheet segments that was emplaced in a highly heterogeneous and anisotropic host rock and partially cut by some regional faults and a series of historic caldera collapses, the caldera walls providing, excellent exposures of the structures. The numerical models focus on a normal-fault dipping 65° with a damage zone composed of parallel layers or zones of progressively more compliant rocks with increasing distance from the fault rupture plane. We model sheet-intrusions dipping from 0˚ to 90˚ and with overpressures of alternatively 1 MPa and 5 MPa, approaching the fault. We further tested the effects of changing (1) the sheet thickness, (2) the fault-zone thickness, (3) the fault-zone dip-dimension (height), and (4) the loading by, alternatively, regional extension and compression. We find that the stiffness of the fault core, where a compliant core characterises recently active fault zones, has pronounced effects on the orientation and magnitudes of the local stresses and, thereby, on the likelihood of dyke/sheet deflection into the fault zone. Similarly, the analytical models, focusing on the fault-zone tensile strength and energy conditions for dyke/sheet deflection, indicate that dykes/sheets are most likely to be deflected into and use steeply dipping recently active (zero tensile-strength) normal faults as parts of their paths.</p>

scholarly journals Modelling the high temperature oxidation of titanium alloys: review of analytical models and development of a new numerical tool PyTiOx

2020 ◽  
Vol 321 ◽  
pp. 06012
Author(s):  
C. Ciszak ◽  
D. Monceau ◽  
C. Desgranges
Keyword(s):  
Numerical Models ◽  
Ecological Impact ◽  
Operating Costs ◽  
Analytical Models ◽  
Temperature Oxidation ◽  
Ti Alloys ◽  
State Diffusion ◽  
First Results ◽  
Aeronautical Industry ◽  
Numerical Tool

In order to limit the ecological impact of air traffic and its operating costs, the aeronautical industry is looking for improving engines efficiencies and substitutes to high density Ni-based superalloys. Thus, a wider use of Ti-alloys operating at higher temperatures is one of the developed solutions. Being able to predict as accurately as possible the oxidation behavior of Ti-based components at high temperatures appears therefore crucial to improve their sizing and durability. Analytical models based on the solid-state diffusion laws can be found in the litterature. They are fairly accurate in most cases, but they reveal some intrinsic limitations in specific cases such as temperature transients or thin components. Numerical models were later developed to break down these limitations. First results from a new numerical tool called “PyTiOx” (still under development are presented here. They confirm the intrinsic limitations of analytical models. In the case of thin samples, the numerical model predicts an increase of scaling kinetic when metal becomes O-saturated, whereas analytical models do not.

scholarly journals Nonlinear processes in the bunched electron beams of high-power klystrons and the limits of analytical and one-dimensional numerical models applicability for their analysis.

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (12) ◽  
Author(s):  
V.Y. Rodyakin ◽  
◽  
V.M. Pikunov ◽  
V.N. Aksenov ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Electron Beam ◽  
High Power ◽  
Numerical Models ◽  
Nonlinear Effects ◽  
Analytical Models ◽  
Modulation Amplitude ◽  
Two Dimensional ◽  
One Dimensional ◽  
Charge Parameter ◽  
Program Data

We present the results of a comparative theoretical analysis of the electron beam bunching in a single-stage klystron amplifier using analytical models, a one-dimensional disk program, and a two-dimensional program. Data on the influence of various one-dimensional and two-dimensional nonlinear effects on the efficiency of electron beam bunching at different values of the space charge parameter and the modulation amplitude are presented. The limits of applicability of analytical and one-dimensional numerical models for electron beam bunching analysis in high-power klystron amplifiers are found.

Closed-form expressions for the steady-state response of damped transmission line conductors considering their bending stiffness

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (15-16) ◽  
pp. 1319-1329
Author(s):  
Marcelo A Ceballos ◽  
José E Stuardi
Keyword(s):  
Steady State ◽  
Transmission Line ◽  
Numerical Models ◽  
Mechanical Impedance ◽  
Steady State Solution ◽  
Bending Stiffness ◽  
Analytical Models ◽  
Dispersive Media ◽  
Overhead Transmission Line ◽  
Damper Design

This paper begins with a brief compilation of analytical models typically used to calculate the dynamic response of a conductor span belonging to an overhead transmission line, with a Stockbridge-type damper located near one of its ends. In most of analyses found in the literature, the calculation of the response is done through the superposition of waves that propagate in both longitudinal directions impinging and reflecting at the span ends and at the damper attachment points. The approach proposed in this paper allows obtaining the response as the steady-state solution of the governing differential equations providing suitable analytical expressions for conductors with bending stiffness, which are dispersive media for propagating waves. Using these analytical solutions, the influence of bending stiffness on the efficiency and on the optimal mechanical impedance of the damper, which are of great importance in damper design, can be described explicitly. At the same time, the proposed methodology avoids the need of numerical models or approximate formulas to calculate the bending strains in critical points of the conductor with a single damper.

UV disinfection of water: the need for UV reactor validation

2003 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 293-300 ◽  
Author(s):  
Y.A. Lawryshyn ◽  
B. Cairns
Keyword(s):  
Legionella Pneumophila ◽  
Uv Light ◽  
Numerical Models ◽  
Operating Conditions ◽  
Analytical Models ◽  
Human Consumption ◽  
Average Dose ◽  
Reactor Performance ◽  
Uv Reactor ◽  
Bioassay Data

Disinfection by ultraviolet light (UV) has received wide endorsement as an important contribution to the multiple barrier approach for protection of public health. UV can be used both to disinfect wastewater discharged to the environment, and to disinfect that water when it is picked up again for human consumption. UV readily blocks infectivity by such chlorine-resistant pathogens as Cryptosporidium parvum, Giardia lamblia and Legionella pneumophila. Multiple disinfectant use is now being discussed to broaden the spectrum of pathogens that can be inactivated by using disinfectants in their most strategically advantageous dose and function. Optimizing multiple barrier strategies requires attention to validation of the concepts and technologies involved. UV technology validation ensures that the equipment can deliver the target UV design dose, and that the monitoring/control technology modulates the dose appropriately with changes in water quality or operating conditions. The bioassay approach for UV reactor validation is recommended over analytical and numerical models. Analytical models, which provide an average dose estimate, have been shown to be inadequate. Numerical models, which utilize Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) and UV light intensity models to predict reactor performance, can be accurate when used by skilled professionals but require significant validation and/or calibration against bioassay data.

Analytical and Numerical Prediction of Springback of SS/Al-Alloy Cladded Sheet in V-Bending

2020 ◽  
Vol 143 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Pankaj Kumar Sharma ◽  
Vijay Gautam ◽  
Atul Kumar Agrawal
Keyword(s):  
Analytical Model ◽  
Outer Layer ◽  
Numerical Models ◽  
Yield Criterion ◽  
Bending Moment ◽  
Analytical Models ◽  
Bend Angle ◽  
Radius Of Curvature ◽  
Al Alloy ◽  
First Case

Abstract The present work deals with the development of an analytical model incorporating the effects of anisotropy and strain hardening to predict the springback in V-bending of two-ply sheet metal using a punch profile radius of 15 mm and included a bend angle of 90 deg. In the analytical model, the total bending moment is determined from resulting bending stresses for two different layers arranged in parallel planes one above the other and a new radius of curvature after springback is determined by applying a negative bending moment. The two-ply sheet composed of layers of AA1050 and SS430 is characterized for its tensile properties to be used in analytical and numerical models for prediction of springback. To study the effect of each layer during bending operation, two possible cases of sheet placements during bending and springback are studied; i.e., in the first case, the inner layer is of AA1050 while the SS430 layer is the outer layer whereas in the second case it is opposite. In all the cases of springback experiments when the outer layer is of SS430, the springback values are higher than the values obtained with the specimens when the inner layer is of SS430. This could be attributed to the higher tensile strength of the stainless steel layer and the higher bending radius experienced by it. The springback behaviors are also analyzed by simulations using Hill's anisotropic yield criterion in abaqus software. The springback results obtained by simulations and analytical models are in good agreement in general; however, in some cases, discrepancy of more than 15% is observed in the analytical results when compared with the experimental results.

scholarly journals Numerical models for ground deformation and gravity changes during volcanic unrest: simulating the hydrothermal system dynamics of a restless caldera

Solid Earth ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 557-577 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Coco ◽  
J. Gottsmann ◽  
F. Whitaker ◽  
A. Rust ◽  
G. Currenti ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mechanical Properties ◽  
Pore Pressure ◽  
Hydrothermal System ◽  
Ground Deformation ◽  
Numerical Models ◽  
Gravity Data ◽  
Ground Surface ◽  
Campi Flegrei ◽  
Hazard Evaluation ◽  
Gravity Changes

Abstract. Ground deformation and gravity changes in restless calderas during periods of unrest can signal an impending eruption and thus must be correctly interpreted for hazard evaluation. It is critical to differentiate variation of geophysical observables related to volume and pressure changes induced by magma migration from shallow hydrothermal activity associated with hot fluids of magmatic origin rising from depth. In this paper we present a numerical model to evaluate the thermo-poroelastic response of the hydrothermal system in a caldera setting by simulating pore pressure and thermal expansion associated with deep injection of hot fluids (water and carbon dioxide). Hydrothermal fluid circulation is simulated using TOUGH2, a multicomponent multiphase simulator of fluid flows in porous media. Changes in pore pressure and temperature are then evaluated and fed into a thermo-poroelastic model (one-way coupling), which is based on a finite-difference numerical method designed for axi-symmetric problems in unbounded domains.Informed by constraints available for the Campi Flegrei caldera (Italy), a series of simulations assess the influence of fluid injection rates and mechanical properties on the hydrothermal system, uplift and gravity. Heterogeneities in hydrological and mechanical properties associated with the presence of ring faults are a key determinant of the fluid flow pattern and consequently the geophysical observables. Peaks (in absolute value) of uplift and gravity change profiles computed at the ground surface are located close to injection points (namely at the centre of the model and fault areas). Temporal evolution of the ground deformation indicates that the contribution of thermal effects to the total uplift is almost negligible with respect to the pore pressure contribution during the first years of the unrest, but increases in time and becomes dominant after a long period of the simulation. After a transient increase over the first years of unrest, gravity changes become negative and decrease monotonically towards a steady-state value.Since the physics of the investigated hydrothermal system is similar to any fluid-filled reservoir, such as oil fields or CO2 reservoirs produced by sequestration, the generic formulation of the model will allow it to be employed in monitoring and interpretation of deformation and gravity data associated with other geophysical hazards that pose a risk to human activity.

scholarly journals Differential Rotation as an Axisymmetric Resonant Mode of Convection

1991 ◽  
Vol 130 ◽  
pp. 178-181
Author(s):  
Kwing L. Chan ◽  
Hans G. Mayr
Keyword(s):  
Angular Velocity ◽  
Differential Rotation ◽  
Rotation Axis ◽  
Numerical Models ◽  
Resonant Mode ◽  
Analytical Models ◽  
Resonance Model ◽  
Solar Convection Zone ◽  
Solar Differential Rotation ◽  
Solar Convection

Recent results from helioseismology (see Goode, these Proceedings) have shown that the inferred contours of the solar angular velocity are more or less radial in the convection region, and the rotation becomes uniform below. These observations contradict the prevailing numerical models of Taylor columns which predict angular velocity contours parallel to the rotation axis of the Sun. Thus, an alternative explanation of solar differential rotation is called for.Presently, it is not feasible to construct a thermally-relaxed, dynamically self-consistent numerical model of the solar convection zone (see Chan and Serizawa, these Proceedings). It is then appropriate to explore simplified models that may shed some light. A number of analytical models have been proposed for the solar differential rotation, and the reader is referred to the book by Rüdiger (1989) for a comprehensive review of this subject. Here, we report on some recent development on the convective resonance model proposed by Chan et al. (1987; hereafter referred as CSM).

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