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Identification of optimal sites for the isolation of waste on the abyssal seafloor was performed with two approaches: by the traditional method of map overlays of relevant attributes, and by a specially developed, automated Site-Selection Model (SSM). Five initial, Surrogate Sites, identified with the map-overlay approach, were then compared with the more rigorously produced scores from the SSM. The SSM, a process for optimization of site locations, accepts subjective, expert-based judgments and transforms them into a quantitative, reproducible, and documented product. The SSM is adaptable to any siting scenario. Forty-one factors relevant to the isolation scenario, including 21 weightable factors having a total of 123 scorable categories, have been entered into the SSM. Factors are grouped under project definition, unique environments, anthropogenic, geologic, biologic, weather, oceanographic and distance criteria. The factor scores are linked to a georeferenced database array of all factors, corresponding to 1°×1° latitude–longitude squares. The SSM includes a total of 2241 one-degree squares within 1000 n.m. of the U.S. coasts, including the western North Atlantic, the Gulf of Mexico, and the eastern North Pacific. Under a carefully weighted and scored scenario of isolation, the most favorable sites identified with the SSM are on the Hatteras and Nares Abyssal Plains in the Atlantic. High-scoring sites are also located in the Pacific abyssal hills province between the Murray and Molokai Fracture Zones. Acceptable 1° squares in the Gulf of Mexico are few and of lower quality, with the optimum location on the northern Sigsbee Abyssal Plain. Two of the five Surrogate Site locations, on the Hatteras and Sigsbee Abyssal Plains, correspond to the best SSM sites in each ocean area. Two Pacific and a second Atlantic Surrogate Site are located in low-scoring regions or excluded by the SSM. Site-selection results from the SSM, although robust, are an initial attempt to quantify the site-selection process. The SSM database exposes a significant lack of high-quality information for many areally mappable attributes on the abyssal seafloor, particularly bottom-current speed and measures of biologic productivity and flux. Terminologies and classifications of some measures, such as sediment types, suffer from parochialism and vary by ocean. Considerable research is needed even for a broad understanding of the environmental measures required to make sound societal decisions about use of the abyssal seafloor for disposal or other purposes. 相似文献
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Nobuaki Sakamoto Pablo M. Carrica Frederick Stern 《Journal of Marine Science and Technology》2012,17(4):446-468
Part 2 of this two-part paper presents the analysis and validation results of local flow characteristics for a surface combatant Model 5415 bare hull under static and dynamic planar motion mechanism simulations. Unsteady Reynolds averaged Navier–Stokes (URANS) computations are carried out by a general-purpose URANS/detached eddy simulation research code CFDShip-Iowa Ver. 4. The objective of this research is to investigate the capability of the code in relation to the computational fluid dynamics-based maneuvering prediction method. In the current study, the ship is subjected to static drift, steady turn, pure sway and pure yaw motions at Froude number 0.28. The free surface, three dimensional vortical structure and, the validation of two dimensional local flow quantities together with the available experimental data are of the interest in the current study. Part 1 provides the verification and validation results of forces and moment coefficients, hydrodynamic derivatives, and reconstructions of forces and moment coefficients from resultant hydrodynamic derivatives. 相似文献
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Antonio Pinto-Heredero Tao Xing Frederick Stern 《Journal of Marine Science and Technology》2010,15(4):295-315
Vortical structures and associated instabilities for flows around the Wigley hull for a wide range of drift angles (10° ≤ α ≤ 60°) with free surface are identified and analyzed. Quantitative verification and validation are conducted on three systematically
refined grids with comparison to the experimental data for α = 10°. Analysis of the flow pattern shows a strong correlation between the vortical structures and free-surface wave elevation.
For α = 10° and 30°, the flows remain steady and vortices are generated at the keel and fore and aft perpendiculars of the hull.
The strength and complexity of these vortices increase with increasing α. At α = 45°, flow becomes unsteady without any significant change in the main flow pattern. At α = 60°, a complex and unsteady flow field on the leeward side of the hull is formed with a large recirculation region from
the aft to the fore end, which prevents the flow coming from below the keel from moving up and generating the keel vortices
observed at lower drift angles. Karman-like and helical instabilities are analyzed. The effect of Froude number is more apparent
for large than for small drift angles. 相似文献
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EFD and CFD for KCS heaving and pitching in regular head waves 总被引:3,自引:0,他引:3
Claus D. Simonsen Janne F. Otzen Soizic Joncquez Frederick Stern 《Journal of Marine Science and Technology》2013,18(4):435-459
The KCS container ship was investigated in calm water and regular head seas by means of EFD and CFD. The experimental study was conducted in FORCE Technology’s towing tank in Denmark, and the CFD study was conducted using the URANS codes CFDSHIP-IOWA and Star-CCM+ plus the potential theory code AEGIR. Three speeds were covered and the wave conditions were chosen in order to study the ship’s response in waves under resonance and maximum exciting conditions. In the experiment, the heave and pitch motions and the resistance were measured together with wave elevation of the incoming wave. The model test was designed and conducted in order to enable UA assessment of the measured data. The results show that the ship responds strongly when the resonance and maximum exciting conditions are met. With respect to experimental uncertainty, the level for calm water is comparable to PMM uncertainties for maneuvering testing while the level is higher in waves. Concerning the CFD results, the computation shows a very complex and time-varying flow pattern. For the integral quantities, a comparison between EFD and CFD shows that the computed motions and resistance in calm water is in fair agreement with the measurement. In waves, the motions are still in fair agreement with measured data, but larger differences are observed for the resistance. The mean resistance is reasonable, but the first order amplitude of the resistance time history is underpredicted by CFD. Finally, it seems that the URANS codes are in closer agreement with the measurements compared to the potential theory. 相似文献
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Eliahu Stern 《运输评论》2013,33(1):65-81
Arid areas are characterized by dispersed patterns of population and economic activities in a hot and dry environment. Although basic human needs are identical everywhere, patterns of travel behaviour in arid lands are different from the patterns in more humid areas. The different behavioural patterns imply somewhat different demand patterns for transport services in general and transit services in particular. Good access to the scattered small communities and more so to the remote urban centres is of prime concern in the sparsely populated arid areas. And the demand patterns themselves raise the need to develop unusual types of service based on local conditions. This article presents the effects of the arid spatial and climatic conditions on transit demand and supply. After examining the service standards required in the sparselands and using the Israeli Negev region as an example, guidelines for developing regional transit systems in these arid areas are put forward. 相似文献
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Yusuke Tahara Daniele Peri Emilio Fortunato Campana Frederick Stern 《Journal of Marine Science and Technology》2008,13(2):95-116
The main objective of this article is to describe the development of two advanced multiobjective optimization methods based
on derivative-free techniques and complex computational fluid dynamics (CFD) analysis. Alternatives for the geometry and mesh
manipulation techniques are also described. Emphasis is on advanced strategies for the use of computer resource-intensive
CFD solvers in the optimization process: indeed, two up-to-date free surface-fitting Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes equation
solvers are used as analysis tools for the evaluation of the objective function and functional constraints. The two optimization
methods are realized and demonstrated on a real design problem: the optimization of the entire hull form of a surface combatant,
the David Taylor Model Basin—Model 5415. Realistic functional and geometrical constraints for preventing unfeasible results
and to get a final meaningful design are enforced and discussed. Finally, a recently proposed verification and validation
methodology is applied to assess uncertainties and errors in simulation-based optimization, based on the differences between
the numerically predicted improvement of the objective function and the actual improvement measured in a dedicated experimental
campaign. The optimized model demonstrates improved characteristics beyond the numerical and experimental uncertainty, confirming
the validity of the simulation-based design frameworks. 相似文献
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Tomohiro Takai Manivannan Kandasamy Frederick Stern 《Journal of Marine Science and Technology》2011,16(4):434-447
The accurate prediction of waterjet propulsion using computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is of interest for performance analyses
of existing waterjet designs as well as for improvement and design optimization of new waterjet propulsion systems for high-speed
marine vehicles. The present work is performed for three main purposes: (1) to investigate the capability of a URANS flow
solver, CFDSHIP-IOWA, for the accurate simulation of waterjet propelled ships, including waterjet–hull interactions; (2) to
carry out detailed verification and validation (V&V) analysis; and (3) to identify optimization opportunities for intake duct
shape design. A concentrated effort is applied to V&V work and performance analysis of waterjet propelled simulations which
form the focus of this paper. The joint high speed sealift design (JHSS), which is a design concept for very large high-speed
ships operating at transit speeds of at least 36 knots using four axial flow waterjets, is selected as the initial geometry
for the current work and subsequent optimization study. For self-propelled simulations, the ship accelerates until the resistance
equals the prescribed thrust and added tow force, and converges to the self propulsion point (SPP). Quantitative V&V studies
are performed on both barehull and waterjet appended designs, with corresponding experimental fluid dynamics (EFD) data from
1/34 scale model testing. Uncertainty assessments are performed on iterative convergence and grid size. As a result, the total
resistance coefficient for the barehull case and SPP for the waterjet propelled case are validated at the average uncertainty
intervals of 7.0 and 1.1%D, respectively. Predictions of CFD computations capture the general trend of resistance over the speed range of 18–42 knots,
and show reasonable agreement with EFD with average errors of 1.8 and 8.0%D for the barehull and waterjet cases, respectively. Furthermore, results show that URANS is able to accurately predict the
major propulsion related features such as volume flow rate, inlet wake fraction, and net jet thrust with an accuracy of ~9%D. The flow feature details inside the duct and interference of the exit jets are qualitatively well-predicted as well. It
is found that there are significant losses in inlet efficiency over the speed range; hence, one objective for subsequent optimization
studies could be maximizing the inlet efficiency. Overall, the V&V work indicates that the present approach is an efficient
tool for predicting the performance of waterjet propelled JHSS ships and paves the way for future optimization work. The main
objective of the optimization will be reduction of powering requirements by increasing the inlet efficiency through modification
of intake duct shape. 相似文献
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Nobuaki Sakamoto Pablo M. Carrica Frederick Stern 《Journal of Marine Science and Technology》2012,17(4):422-445
Part 1 of this two-part paper presents the verification and validation results of forces and moment coefficients, hydrodynamic derivatives, and reconstructions of forces and moment coefficients from resultant hydrodynamic derivatives for a surface combatant Model 5415 bare hull under static and dynamic planar motion mechanism simulations. Unsteady Reynolds averaged Navier–Stokes (URANS) computations are carried out by a general purpose URANS/detached eddy simulation research code CFDShip-Iowa Ver. 4. The objective of this research is to investigate the capability of the code in regards to the computational fluid dynamics based maneuvering prediction method. In the current study, the ship is subjected to static drift, steady turn, pure sway, pure yaw, and combined yaw and drift motions at Froude number 0.28. The results are analyzed in view of: (1) the verification for iterative, grid, and time-step convergence along with assessment of overall numerical uncertainty; and (2) validations for forces and moment coefficients, hydrodynamic derivatives, and reconstruction of forces and moment coefficients from resultant hydrodynamic derivatives together with the available experimental data. Part 2 provides the validation for flow features with the experimental data as well as investigations for flow physics, e.g., flow separation, three dimensional vortical structure, and reconstructed local flows. 相似文献