Convectively unstable processes caused by dense water subsidence are common occurrences in high-latitude oceanic regions,and significantly modulate mass and heat transport and mixing processes in the ocean.An idealize...Convectively unstable processes caused by dense water subsidence are common occurrences in high-latitude oceanic regions,and significantly modulate mass and heat transport and mixing processes in the ocean.An idealized numerical experiment using the large eddy simulation method was conducted to analyze the three-dimensional flow field structure and the mechanism for dense water subsidence.Specifically,a negative salt flux is set at the sea surface,in which salt flux enters the sea surface to simulate the icing and salting-out phenomena that occur at high latitudes.Results show that the mean-state 3D flow field of dense water subsidence exhibits a hollow conical distribution.The horizontal flow field is characterized by a cyclonic vortex that driven primarily by the pressure gradient and influenced by the Coriolis effect.Moreover,the inverse vertical pressure gradient generated by this vortex inhibits the sinking of the plume,leading to its off-axis deflection and the development of an anticyclonic precession.In addition,the impact of rotation on the structure of a sinking plume within a stratified environment is discussed.Both horizontal vortex intensity and cone angle of the hollow cone flow field are increased with increasing rotation rate,resulting in a decrease in the plume’s maximum sinking depth.Variances in rotation direction cause the horizontal vortex and sinking plumes of dense water in the northern and southern hemispheres to rotate in opposite directions.展开更多
In the context of global warming and intensified human activities,glacier instability in plateau regions has increased,and glacier debris flows have become active,which poses a significant threat to the lives and prop...In the context of global warming and intensified human activities,glacier instability in plateau regions has increased,and glacier debris flows have become active,which poses a significant threat to the lives and property of people and socioeconomic development.The mass movement process of glacier debris flows is extremely complex,so this paper uses the 2018 Sedongpu glacier debris flow event on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau as an example and applies a numerical simulation method to invert the whole process of mass movement.In view of the interaction between phases in the process of motion,we use the fluid-solid coupling method to describe the mass movement.The granular-flow model and drift-flux model are employed in FLOW3D software to study the mass movement process of glacier debris flows and explore their dynamic characteristics.The results indicate that the glacier debris flow lasted for 700 s,and the movement process was roughly divided into four stages,including initiation,scraping,surging and deposition;the depositional characteristics calculated by the fluid-solid coupling model are consistent with the actual survey results and have good reliability;strong erosion occurs during the mass movement,the clear volume amplification effect,and the first wave climbs 17.8 m across the slope.The fluid-solid coupling method can better simulate glacier debris flows in plateau regions,which is helpful for the study of the mechanism and dynamic characteristics of such disasters.展开更多
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.42250710152,42192562)the Southern Laboratory of Ocean Science and Engineering(Guangdong Zhuhai)(No.SML 2020 SP 007)。
文摘Convectively unstable processes caused by dense water subsidence are common occurrences in high-latitude oceanic regions,and significantly modulate mass and heat transport and mixing processes in the ocean.An idealized numerical experiment using the large eddy simulation method was conducted to analyze the three-dimensional flow field structure and the mechanism for dense water subsidence.Specifically,a negative salt flux is set at the sea surface,in which salt flux enters the sea surface to simulate the icing and salting-out phenomena that occur at high latitudes.Results show that the mean-state 3D flow field of dense water subsidence exhibits a hollow conical distribution.The horizontal flow field is characterized by a cyclonic vortex that driven primarily by the pressure gradient and influenced by the Coriolis effect.Moreover,the inverse vertical pressure gradient generated by this vortex inhibits the sinking of the plume,leading to its off-axis deflection and the development of an anticyclonic precession.In addition,the impact of rotation on the structure of a sinking plume within a stratified environment is discussed.Both horizontal vortex intensity and cone angle of the hollow cone flow field are increased with increasing rotation rate,resulting in a decrease in the plume’s maximum sinking depth.Variances in rotation direction cause the horizontal vortex and sinking plumes of dense water in the northern and southern hemispheres to rotate in opposite directions.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.U20A20111,41977229)the Sichuan Youth Science and Technology Innovation Research Team Project(No.2020JDTD0006).
文摘In the context of global warming and intensified human activities,glacier instability in plateau regions has increased,and glacier debris flows have become active,which poses a significant threat to the lives and property of people and socioeconomic development.The mass movement process of glacier debris flows is extremely complex,so this paper uses the 2018 Sedongpu glacier debris flow event on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau as an example and applies a numerical simulation method to invert the whole process of mass movement.In view of the interaction between phases in the process of motion,we use the fluid-solid coupling method to describe the mass movement.The granular-flow model and drift-flux model are employed in FLOW3D software to study the mass movement process of glacier debris flows and explore their dynamic characteristics.The results indicate that the glacier debris flow lasted for 700 s,and the movement process was roughly divided into four stages,including initiation,scraping,surging and deposition;the depositional characteristics calculated by the fluid-solid coupling model are consistent with the actual survey results and have good reliability;strong erosion occurs during the mass movement,the clear volume amplification effect,and the first wave climbs 17.8 m across the slope.The fluid-solid coupling method can better simulate glacier debris flows in plateau regions,which is helpful for the study of the mechanism and dynamic characteristics of such disasters.
