A higher order boundary dement method （HOBEM） is implemented for wave-current action on structures. The freeterm coefficient and Cauchy principal value （ GPV） integrals are computed by direct methods. Numerical ex...A higher order boundary dement method （HOBEM） is implemented for wave-current action on structures. The freeterm coefficient and Cauchy principal value （ GPV） integrals are computed by direct methods. Numerical experiments are carried out to validate the computation of free-term coefficient and GPV integrals. The results show that the computation precision of free-term coefficient is very high for various bodies, even with edges and corners, and the convergence speed is fast for CPV integrals for different meshes. The comparison of the second order mean drift force due to wave-current action on a uniform cylinder is made with an analytic solution. It is found that good agreement exists between the present calculation and the analytic solutions. Finally, the numerical code is applied for computing wave-current action on Snorrc TLP.展开更多
Under the combination of currents and waves, seabed scour occurs around offshore wind turbine foundations, which affects the stability and safe operation of offshore wind turbines. In this study, physical model experi...Under the combination of currents and waves, seabed scour occurs around offshore wind turbine foundations, which affects the stability and safe operation of offshore wind turbines. In this study, physical model experiments under unidirectional flow, bidirectional flow, and wave-current interactions with different flow directions around the pile group foundation were first conducted to investigate the development of scour around the pile group foundation.Additionally, a three-dimensional scour numerical model was established via the open-source software REEF3D to simulate the flow field and scour around the prototype-scale foundation. The impact of flow on scour was discussed.Under unidirectional flow, scour equilibrium was reached more quickly, with the maximum scour depth reaching approximately 1.2 times the pile diameter and the extent of the scour hole spanning about 4.9 times the pile diameter.Compared with those under unidirectional flow, the scour depths under combinations of currents and waves, as well as bidirectional flow, were slightly smaller. However, the morphology of scour holes was more uniform and symmetrical. The numerical simulation results show good agreement with the experimental data, demonstrating the impact of varying flow directions on the velocity distribution around the foundation, the morphology of scour holes, and the location of the maximum scour depth.展开更多
The movement of sediment in estuary and on coast is directly restricted by the bed shear stress. Therefore, the research on the basic problem of sediment movement by the bed shear stress is an important way to researc...The movement of sediment in estuary and on coast is directly restricted by the bed shear stress. Therefore, the research on the basic problem of sediment movement by the bed shear stress is an important way to research the theory of sediment movement. However, there is not a measuring and computing method to measure the bed shear stress under a complicated dynamic effect like wave and current. This paper describes the measurement and test research on the bed shear stress in a long launder of direct current by the new instrument named thermal shearometer based on micro-nanotechnology. As shown by the research results, the thermal shearometer has a high response frequency and strong stability. The measured results can reflect the basic change of the bed shear stress under wave and wave-current effect, and confirm that the method of measuring bed shear stress under wave-current effect with thermal shearometer is feasible. Meanwhile, a preliminary method to compute the shear stress compounded by wave-current is put forward according to the tested and measured results, and then a reference for further study on the basic theory of sediment movement under a complicated dynamic effect is provided.展开更多
The interaction between waves, currents and bottoms in estuarine and coastal regions is ubiquitious, in particular the dynamic mechanism of waves on large-scale slowly varying currents. The wave action concept may be ...The interaction between waves, currents and bottoms in estuarine and coastal regions is ubiquitious, in particular the dynamic mechanism of waves on large-scale slowly varying currents. The wave action concept may be extended and applicated to the study of the mechanism. Considering the effects of moving bottoms and starting from the Navier-Stokes equation of motion of a vinous fluid including the Coriolis force, a generalized mean-flow medel theory for the nearshore region, that is, a set of mean-flow equations and their generalized wave action equation involving the three new kinds of actions termed respectively as the current wave action, the bottom wave action and the dissipative wave action which can be applied to arbitrary depth over moving bottoms and ambient currents with a typical vertical structure, is developed by vertical integration and time-averaglng over a wave peried, thus extending the classical concept, wave action, from the ideal averaged flow conservative system to the real averaged flow dissipative dynamical system, and having a large range of application.展开更多
Wave-current interaction and its effects on the hydrodynamic environment in the Beibu Gulf(BG) have been investigated via employing the Coupled Ocean–Atmosphere–Wave–Sediment Transport(COAWST) modeling system. The ...Wave-current interaction and its effects on the hydrodynamic environment in the Beibu Gulf(BG) have been investigated via employing the Coupled Ocean–Atmosphere–Wave–Sediment Transport(COAWST) modeling system. The model could simulate reasonable hydrodynamics in the BG when validated by various observations.Vigorous tidal currents refract the waves efficiently and make the seas off the west coast of Hainan Island be the hot spot where currents modulate the significant wave height dramatically. During summer, wave-enhanced bottom stress could weaken the near-shore component of the gulf-scale cyclonic-circulation in the BG remarkably, inducing two major corresponding adjustments: Model results reveal that the deep-layer cold water from the southern BG makes critical contribution to maintaining the cold-water mass in the northern BG Basin.However, the weakened background circulation leads to less cold water transported from the southern gulf to the northern gulf, which finally triggers a 0.2℃ warming in the cold-water mass area;In the top areas of the BG, the suppressed background circulation reduces the transport of the diluted water to the central gulf. Therefore, more freshwater could be trapped locally, which then triggers lower sea surface salinity(SSS) in the near-field and higher SSS in the far-field.展开更多
The northern South China Sea(SCS) is frequently affected by typhoons. During severe storm events, wave-current interactions produce storm surges causing enormous damage in the path of the typhoon. To evaluate the infl...The northern South China Sea(SCS) is frequently affected by typhoons. During severe storm events, wave-current interactions produce storm surges causing enormous damage in the path of the typhoon. To evaluate the influence of wave-current interactions on storm surge, we used a coupled ocean-atmospherewave-sediment transport(COAWST) modeling system with radiation-stress and vortex-force formulations to simulate two typically intense tropical storms that invaded the SCS, namely Typhoons Nuri(2008) and Hagupit(2008), and compared results with observations from the Hong Kong Observatory. Both radiationstress and vortex-force formulations significantly improved the accuracy of the simulation. Depending on which typhoon and the topography encountered, the influence of surface waves on the oceanic circulation showed different characteristics, including the differences of range and intensity of storm surge between vortex-force and radiation-stress experiments. During typhoon landing, strong sea-surface elevation in concert with wave set-up/set-down caused the adjustment of the momentum balance. In the direction perpendicular to the current, but especially in the cross-shore direction, the pressure gradient and wave effects on the current dominated the momentum balance.展开更多
To scrutinize the characteristics of wave-current loads on a bridge shuttle-shaped cap–pile foundation,a 1:125 test model was considered in a laboratory flume.The inline,transverse and vertical wave–current forces a...To scrutinize the characteristics of wave-current loads on a bridge shuttle-shaped cap–pile foundation,a 1:125 test model was considered in a laboratory flume.The inline,transverse and vertical wave–current forces acting on the shuttle-shaped cap-pile group model were measured considering both random waves and a combination of random waves with a current.The experimental results have shown that the wave-current forces can be well correlated with the wave height,the wavelength,the current velocity,the incident direction and the water level in the marine environment.An increase in the current velocity can lead to a sharp increase in the inline and transverse wave-current forces,while the vertical wave-current force decreases.Moreover,the wave-current forces are particularly strong when a combination of high tide,strong wave and strong current is considered.展开更多
We examined the influences of the wind fi eld and wave-current interaction(WCI)on the numerical simulation results of typhoon-induced wind waves in the northern East China Sea(NECS)using the coupled Simulating Waves N...We examined the influences of the wind fi eld and wave-current interaction(WCI)on the numerical simulation results of typhoon-induced wind waves in the northern East China Sea(NECS)using the coupled Simulating Waves Nearshore+Advanced Circulation(SWAN+ADCIRC)model.The simulations were performed during two typhoon events(Lekima and Muifa),and two widely used reanalysis wind fields,the Climate Forecast System Version 2(CFSv2)from the National Centers for Environmental Prediction(NCEP)and the fifth-generation European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts(ECMWF)Reanalysis(ERA5),were compared.The results indicate that the ERA5 and CFSv2 wind fields both reliably reproduced the wind variations measured by in-situ buoys,and the accuracy of the winds from ERA5 were generally better than those from CFSv2 because CFSv2 tended to overestimate the wind speed and the simulated significant wave height(SWH),particularly the peak SWH.The WCI effects between the two wind field simulations were similar;these effects enhanced the SWH throughout the nearshore NECS during both typhoons but suppressed the SWH on the right side of the Typhoon Muifa track in the deep and off shore sea areas.In summary,variations in the water depth and current propagation direction dominate the modulation of wave height.展开更多
The nonlinear dynamic response induced by the wave-current interaction on a deepwater steep wave riser(SWR)is numerically investigated based on a three-dimensional(3 D)time-domain finite element method(FEM).The govern...The nonlinear dynamic response induced by the wave-current interaction on a deepwater steep wave riser(SWR)is numerically investigated based on a three-dimensional(3 D)time-domain finite element method(FEM).The governing equation considering internal flow is established in the global coordinate system.The whole SWR consists of three segments:the decline segment,buoyancy segment and hang-off segment,in which the buoyancy segment is wrapped by several buoyancy modules in the middle section,leading to the arch bend and sag bend.A Newmark-β iterative scheme is adopted for the accurate analysis to solve the governing equation and update the dynamic response at each time step.The proposed method is verified through the published results for the dynamic response of steel catenary riser(SCR)and static configuration of steel lazy wave riser(SLWR).Simulations are executed to study the influence of wave height,current velocity/direction,internal flow density/velocity and top-end pressure on the tension,configuration and bending moment of the SWR.The results indicate that the influence of the current on the configuration and mechanical behavior of the SWR is greater than that of the wave,especially in the middle section.With increasing current velocity,the suspending height of the middle section drops,meanwhile,its bending moment decreases accordingly,but the tension increases significantly.For a fixed external load,the increasing internal flow density induces the amplification of the tension at the hang-off segment and the mitigation at the decline segment,while the opposite trend occurs at the bending moment.展开更多
The aim of this paper is to present an analytical expression for the streamwise velocity distribution in a non-uniform flow in the presence of waves; the correlation between the horizontal and vertical velocity compon...The aim of this paper is to present an analytical expression for the streamwise velocity distribution in a non-uniform flow in the presence of waves; the correlation between the horizontal and vertical velocity components has been compreheusively examined. Different from previous researches which attributed the deviation of velocity from the classical log-law to the wave Reynolds stress, i.e. - ρ uv^- only, this study demonstrates that the momentum flux caused by mean velocities, i.e., u^- and v^-, is also responsible for the velocity deviation, and it is found that the streamwise velocity for a flow in the presence of non-zero wall-normal velocity does not follow the classical log-law, but the modified log-law proposed in this study based on simplified mixing-length theorem. The validity of the modified log-law has been verified by use of available experimental data from published sources for combined wave-current flows, and good agreement between the predicted and observed velocity profiles has been achieved.展开更多
It is shown that time asymmetry is essential for deriving thermodynamic law and arises from the turnover of energy while reducing its information content and driving entropy increase. A dynamically interpreted princip...It is shown that time asymmetry is essential for deriving thermodynamic law and arises from the turnover of energy while reducing its information content and driving entropy increase. A dynamically interpreted principle of least action enables time asymmetry and time flow as a generation of action and redefines useful energy as an information system which implements a form of acting information. This is demonstrated using a basic formula, originally applied for time symmetry/energy conservation considerations, relating time asymmetry (which is conventionally denied but here expressly allowed), to energy behaviour. The results derived then explained that a dynamic energy is driving time asymmetry. It is doing it by decreasing the information content of useful energy, thus generating action and entropy increase, explaining action-time as an information phenomenon. Thermodynamic laws follow directly. The formalism derived readily explains what energy is, why it is conserved (1st law of thermodynamics), why entropy increases (2nd law) and that maximum entropy production within the restraints of the system controls self-organized processes of non-linear irreversible thermodynamics. The general significance of the principle of least action arises from its role of controlling the action generating oriented time of nature. These results contrast with present understanding of time neutrality and clock-time, which are here considered a source of paradoxes, intellectual contradictions and dead-end roads in models explaining nature and the universe.展开更多
Objective: To explore the effect of Health Action Process Approach (HAPA) theory in patients with type D personality psoriasis. Methods: A total of 66 patients with type D personality psoriasis admitted to the dermato...Objective: To explore the effect of Health Action Process Approach (HAPA) theory in patients with type D personality psoriasis. Methods: A total of 66 patients with type D personality psoriasis admitted to the dermatology department of a top-three hospital in Jingzhou City from November 2022 to July 2023 were selected and divided into control group and test group with 33 cases in each group by random number table method. The control group received routine health education, and the experimental group received health education based on the HAPA theory. Chronic disease self-efficacy scale, hospital anxiety and depression scale and skin disease quality of life scale were used to evaluate the effect of intervention. Results: After 3 months of intervention, the scores of self-efficacy in experimental group were higher than those in control group (P P Conclusion: Health education based on the theory of HAPA can enhance the self-efficacy of patients with type D personality psoriasis, relieve negative emotions and improve their quality of life.展开更多
The task of student action recognition in the classroom is to precisely capture and analyze the actions of students in classroom videos,providing a foundation for realizing intelligent and accurate teaching.However,th...The task of student action recognition in the classroom is to precisely capture and analyze the actions of students in classroom videos,providing a foundation for realizing intelligent and accurate teaching.However,the complex nature of the classroom environment has added challenges and difficulties in the process of student action recognition.In this research article,with regard to the circumstances where students are prone to be occluded and classroom computing resources are restricted in real classroom scenarios,a lightweight multi-modal fusion action recognition approach is put forward.This proposed method is capable of enhancing the accuracy of student action recognition while concurrently diminishing the number of parameters of the model and the Computation Amount,thereby achieving a more efficient and accurate recognition performance.In the feature extraction stage,this method fuses the keypoint heatmap with the RGB(Red-Green-Blue color model)image.In order to fully utilize the unique information of different modalities for feature complementarity,a Feature Fusion Module(FFE)is introduced.The FFE encodes and fuses the unique features of the two modalities during the feature extraction process.This fusion strategy not only achieves fusion and complementarity between modalities,but also improves the overall model performance.Furthermore,to reduce the computational load and parameter scale of the model,we use keypoint information to crop RGB images.At the same time,the first three networks of the lightweight feature extraction network X3D are used to extract dual-branch features.These methods significantly reduce the computational load and parameter scale.The number of parameters of the model is 1.40 million,and the computation amount is 5.04 billion floating-point operations per second(GFLOPs),achieving an efficient lightweight design.In the Student Classroom Action Dataset(SCAD),the accuracy of the model is 88.36%.In NTU 60(Nanyang Technological University Red-Green-Blue-Depth RGB+Ddataset with 60 categories),the accuracies on X-Sub(The people in the training set are different from those in the test set)and X-View(The perspectives of the training set and the test set are different)are 95.76%and 98.82%,respectively.On the NTU 120 dataset(Nanyang Technological University Red-Green-Blue-Depth dataset with 120 categories),RGB+Dthe accuracies on X-Sub and X-Set(the perspectives of the training set and the test set are different)are 91.97%and 93.45%,respectively.The model has achieved a balance in terms of accuracy,computation amount,and the number of parameters.展开更多
On the morning of May 31st,the parallel forum"Ecological Actions to Carry Forward the Shared Values of Mankind,"as part of the 4th Dialogue on Exchanges and Mutual Learning among Civilisations,was held in Du...On the morning of May 31st,the parallel forum"Ecological Actions to Carry Forward the Shared Values of Mankind,"as part of the 4th Dialogue on Exchanges and Mutual Learning among Civilisations,was held in Dunhuang.More than 50 experts and scholars from different countries,including China,Kenya and Japan,engaged in indepth discussions on the theme.展开更多
ln order to improve the level of investment promotion and redouble effortsto enhance services,on February l9th,the 2025 Action Plan for StabilizingForeign lnvestment was released,proposing 20 measures in four aspects....ln order to improve the level of investment promotion and redouble effortsto enhance services,on February l9th,the 2025 Action Plan for StabilizingForeign lnvestment was released,proposing 20 measures in four aspects.Cur-rently,with increasing uncertainties in the external environment,China facesmultple difficulties and challenges in attracting foreign investment.展开更多
Graph convolutional network(GCN)as an essential tool in human action recognition tasks have achieved excellent performance in previous studies.However,most current skeleton-based action recognition using GCN methods u...Graph convolutional network(GCN)as an essential tool in human action recognition tasks have achieved excellent performance in previous studies.However,most current skeleton-based action recognition using GCN methods use a shared topology,which cannot flexibly adapt to the diverse correlations between joints under different motion features.The video-shooting angle or the occlusion of the body parts may bring about errors when extracting the human pose coordinates with estimation algorithms.In this work,we propose a novel graph convolutional learning framework,called PCCTR-GCN,which integrates pose correction and channel topology refinement for skeleton-based human action recognition.Firstly,a pose correction module(PCM)is introduced,which corrects the pose coordinates of the input network to reduce the error in pose feature extraction.Secondly,channel topology refinement graph convolution(CTR-GC)is employed,which can dynamically learn the topology features and aggregate joint features in different channel dimensions so as to enhance the performance of graph convolution networks in feature extraction.Finally,considering that the joint stream and bone stream of skeleton data and their dynamic information are also important for distinguishing different actions,we employ a multi-stream data fusion approach to improve the network’s recognition performance.We evaluate the model using top-1 and top-5 classification accuracy.On the benchmark datasets iMiGUE and Kinetics,the top-1 classification accuracy reaches 55.08%and 36.5%,respectively,while the top-5 classification accuracy reaches 89.98%and 59.2%,respectively.On the NTU dataset,for the two benchmark RGB+Dsettings(X-Sub and X-View),the classification accuracy achieves 89.7%and 95.4%,respectively.展开更多
Arsenic(As)pollution in coastal wetlands has been receiving growing attention.However,the exact mechanism of As mobility driven by tidal action is still not completely understood.The results reveal that lower total As...Arsenic(As)pollution in coastal wetlands has been receiving growing attention.However,the exact mechanism of As mobility driven by tidal action is still not completely understood.The results reveal that lower total As concentrations in solution were observed in the flood-ebb treatment(FE),with the highest concentration being 7.1μg/L,and As(V)was the predominant species.However,elevated levels of total As in solution were found in the flooded treatment(FL),with a maximum value of 14.5μg/L after 30 days,and As(III)was the predominant form.The results of dissolved organicmatter(DOM)suggest that in the early to mid-stages of the incubation,fulvic acid-like substances might be utilized by microorganisms as electron donors or shuttle bodies,facilitating the reductive release of As/Fe from sediments.Both flood-ebb and flooded treatments promoted the transformation of crystalline iron hydrous oxides-bound As into residual forms.However,prolonged flooded conditions more readily facilitated the formation of specific adsorption forms of As and the reduction of crystalline iron hydrous oxides-bound As,increasing As mobility.In addition,the flood-ebb tides have been found to increase the diversity ofmicrobial populations.The main microbial genera in the flood-ebb treatment included Salinimicrobium,Erythrobacter,Yangia,Sulfitobacter,and Marinobacter.Bacillus,Psychrobacter,and Yangia showed a significant correlation with As(V).In flooded treatment,Bacillus,Pseudomonas,and Geothermobacter played a major role in the reduction and release of As.This study significantly contributes to the current understanding of how As behaves in diverse natural environments.展开更多
Coal direct liquefaction technology is a crucial contemporary coal chemical technology for efficient and clean use of coal resources. The development of direct coal liquefaction technology and the promotion of alterna...Coal direct liquefaction technology is a crucial contemporary coal chemical technology for efficient and clean use of coal resources. The development of direct coal liquefaction technology and the promotion of alternative energy sources are important measures to guarantee energy security and economic security. However, several challenges need to be addressed, including low conversion rate, inadequate oil yield, significant coking, demanding reaction conditions, and high energy consumption. Extensive research has been conducted on these issues, but further exploration is required in certain aspects such as pyrolysis of macromolecules during the liquefaction process, hydrogen activation, catalysts' performance and stability, solvent hydrogenation, as well as interactions between free radicals to understand their mechanisms better. This paper presents a comprehensive analysis of the design strategy for efficient catalysts in coal liquefaction, encompassing the mechanism of coal liquefaction, catalyst construction,and enhancement of catalytic conversion efficiency. It serves as a comprehensive guide for further research endeavors. Firstly, it systematically summarizes the conversion mechanism of direct coal liquefaction, provides detailed descriptions of various catalyst design strategies, and especially outlines the catalytic mechanism. Furthermore, it addresses the challenges and prospects associated with constructing efficient catalysts for direct coal liquefaction based on an understanding of their action mechanisms.展开更多
Action recognition,a fundamental task in the field of video understanding,has been extensively researched and applied.In contrast to an image,a video introduces an extra temporal dimension.However,many existing action...Action recognition,a fundamental task in the field of video understanding,has been extensively researched and applied.In contrast to an image,a video introduces an extra temporal dimension.However,many existing action recognition networks either perform simple temporal fusion through averaging or rely on pre-trained models from image recognition,resulting in limited temporal information extraction capabilities.This work proposes a highly efficient temporal decoding module that can be seamlessly integrated into any action recognition backbone network to enhance the focus on temporal relationships between video frames.Firstly,the decoder initializes a set of learnable queries,termed video-level action category prediction queries.Then,they are combined with the video frame features extracted by the backbone network after self-attention learning to extract video context information.Finally,these prediction queries with rich temporal features are used for category prediction.Experimental results on HMDB51,MSRDailyAct3D,Diving48 and Breakfast datasets show that using TokShift-Transformer and VideoMAE as encoders results in a significant improvement in Top-1 accuracy compared to the original models(TokShift-Transformer and VideoMAE),after introducing the proposed temporal decoder.The introduction of the temporal decoder results in an average performance increase exceeding 11%for TokShift-Transformer and nearly 5%for VideoMAE across the four datasets.Furthermore,the work explores the combination of the decoder with various action recognition networks,including Timesformer,as encoders.This results in an average accuracy improvement of more than 3.5%on the HMDB51 dataset.The code is available at https://github.com/huangturbo/TempDecoder.展开更多
Water decoction is the main form of traditional Chinese medicine(TCM)administered in clinics.Polysaccharides are major components of decoction.Recent studies reported that polysaccharides possess multiple pharmacologi...Water decoction is the main form of traditional Chinese medicine(TCM)administered in clinics.Polysaccharides are major components of decoction.Recent studies reported that polysaccharides possess multiple pharmacological activities.However,the mechanism by which oral Chinese herbal polysaccharides play vital roles in the body remains uncertain.This review discussed the polysaccharides in Chinese herbal decoctions and their effects,direct and indirect.The direct impact of polysaccharides includes being absorbed into the body immunity regulation through Peyer’s patches;electrostatic adsorption,hydrophobic interaction,and glycoprotein receptors-induced antibacterial effects;prebiotic functions;gut microbiota structural regulation;and increasing the relative abundance of beneficial bacteria.The indirect effects of the polysaccharides in Chinese herbal decoctions include phytochemical toxicity reduction and activity enhancement.Finally,their clinical and research significance is summarized and future research directions are discussed.展开更多
基金This researchis supported by Research Fund for Doctoral Programs of Higher Education (Grant No.20030141006) ,and a Program for Changjiang Scholars and Innovative Research Teams in Universities (Grant No.IRT0420)
文摘A higher order boundary dement method （HOBEM） is implemented for wave-current action on structures. The freeterm coefficient and Cauchy principal value （ GPV） integrals are computed by direct methods. Numerical experiments are carried out to validate the computation of free-term coefficient and GPV integrals. The results show that the computation precision of free-term coefficient is very high for various bodies, even with edges and corners, and the convergence speed is fast for CPV integrals for different meshes. The comparison of the second order mean drift force due to wave-current action on a uniform cylinder is made with an analytic solution. It is found that good agreement exists between the present calculation and the analytic solutions. Finally, the numerical code is applied for computing wave-current action on Snorrc TLP.
基金financially supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China (Grant No. 2021YFB2601100)the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 51979190)。
文摘Under the combination of currents and waves, seabed scour occurs around offshore wind turbine foundations, which affects the stability and safe operation of offshore wind turbines. In this study, physical model experiments under unidirectional flow, bidirectional flow, and wave-current interactions with different flow directions around the pile group foundation were first conducted to investigate the development of scour around the pile group foundation.Additionally, a three-dimensional scour numerical model was established via the open-source software REEF3D to simulate the flow field and scour around the prototype-scale foundation. The impact of flow on scour was discussed.Under unidirectional flow, scour equilibrium was reached more quickly, with the maximum scour depth reaching approximately 1.2 times the pile diameter and the extent of the scour hole spanning about 4.9 times the pile diameter.Compared with those under unidirectional flow, the scour depths under combinations of currents and waves, as well as bidirectional flow, were slightly smaller. However, the morphology of scour holes was more uniform and symmetrical. The numerical simulation results show good agreement with the experimental data, demonstrating the impact of varying flow directions on the velocity distribution around the foundation, the morphology of scour holes, and the location of the maximum scour depth.
基金financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.51309158)funds from the National Key Scientific Instrument and Equipment Development Project(Grant No.2013YQ04091108)Important and Large Scientific and Technical Project of the Ministry of Communications(Grant No.201132874640)
文摘The movement of sediment in estuary and on coast is directly restricted by the bed shear stress. Therefore, the research on the basic problem of sediment movement by the bed shear stress is an important way to research the theory of sediment movement. However, there is not a measuring and computing method to measure the bed shear stress under a complicated dynamic effect like wave and current. This paper describes the measurement and test research on the bed shear stress in a long launder of direct current by the new instrument named thermal shearometer based on micro-nanotechnology. As shown by the research results, the thermal shearometer has a high response frequency and strong stability. The measured results can reflect the basic change of the bed shear stress under wave and wave-current effect, and confirm that the method of measuring bed shear stress under wave-current effect with thermal shearometer is feasible. Meanwhile, a preliminary method to compute the shear stress compounded by wave-current is put forward according to the tested and measured results, and then a reference for further study on the basic theory of sediment movement under a complicated dynamic effect is provided.
基金This paper was supported bythe Foundationforthe Author of National Excellent Doctoral Dissertation of P.R.China(Grant No.200428) the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos .10272072 and 50424913) +1 种基金theShanghai Natural Science Foundation (Grant No.05ZR14048) the Shanghai Leading Academic Discipline Pro-ject (Grant No. Y0103)
文摘The interaction between waves, currents and bottoms in estuarine and coastal regions is ubiquitious, in particular the dynamic mechanism of waves on large-scale slowly varying currents. The wave action concept may be extended and applicated to the study of the mechanism. Considering the effects of moving bottoms and starting from the Navier-Stokes equation of motion of a vinous fluid including the Coriolis force, a generalized mean-flow medel theory for the nearshore region, that is, a set of mean-flow equations and their generalized wave action equation involving the three new kinds of actions termed respectively as the current wave action, the bottom wave action and the dissipative wave action which can be applied to arbitrary depth over moving bottoms and ambient currents with a typical vertical structure, is developed by vertical integration and time-averaglng over a wave peried, thus extending the classical concept, wave action, from the ideal averaged flow conservative system to the real averaged flow dissipative dynamical system, and having a large range of application.
基金The Program for Scientific Research Start-up Funds of Guangdong Ocean University under contract No.101302/R18001the Fund of Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory(Zhanjiang)under contract No.ZJW-2019-08+1 种基金the National Key Research and Development Program of China under contract No.2016YFC1401403the National Natural Science Foundation of China under contract Nos 41476009 and 41776034
文摘Wave-current interaction and its effects on the hydrodynamic environment in the Beibu Gulf(BG) have been investigated via employing the Coupled Ocean–Atmosphere–Wave–Sediment Transport(COAWST) modeling system. The model could simulate reasonable hydrodynamics in the BG when validated by various observations.Vigorous tidal currents refract the waves efficiently and make the seas off the west coast of Hainan Island be the hot spot where currents modulate the significant wave height dramatically. During summer, wave-enhanced bottom stress could weaken the near-shore component of the gulf-scale cyclonic-circulation in the BG remarkably, inducing two major corresponding adjustments: Model results reveal that the deep-layer cold water from the southern BG makes critical contribution to maintaining the cold-water mass in the northern BG Basin.However, the weakened background circulation leads to less cold water transported from the southern gulf to the northern gulf, which finally triggers a 0.2℃ warming in the cold-water mass area;In the top areas of the BG, the suppressed background circulation reduces the transport of the diluted water to the central gulf. Therefore, more freshwater could be trapped locally, which then triggers lower sea surface salinity(SSS) in the near-field and higher SSS in the far-field.
基金Supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China(No.2016YFC1402000)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.41376027,U1133001,41606024)+3 种基金the National Program on Global Change and Air-Sea Interaction(No.GASI-IPOVAI-01-06)the NSFC-Shandong Joint Fund for Marine Science Research Centers(No.U1406401)the NSFC Innovative Group Grant Project(No.41421005)the High Performance Computing Environment Qingdao Branch of Chinese Academy of Science(CAS)
文摘The northern South China Sea(SCS) is frequently affected by typhoons. During severe storm events, wave-current interactions produce storm surges causing enormous damage in the path of the typhoon. To evaluate the influence of wave-current interactions on storm surge, we used a coupled ocean-atmospherewave-sediment transport(COAWST) modeling system with radiation-stress and vortex-force formulations to simulate two typically intense tropical storms that invaded the SCS, namely Typhoons Nuri(2008) and Hagupit(2008), and compared results with observations from the Hong Kong Observatory. Both radiationstress and vortex-force formulations significantly improved the accuracy of the simulation. Depending on which typhoon and the topography encountered, the influence of surface waves on the oceanic circulation showed different characteristics, including the differences of range and intensity of storm surge between vortex-force and radiation-stress experiments. During typhoon landing, strong sea-surface elevation in concert with wave set-up/set-down caused the adjustment of the momentum balance. In the direction perpendicular to the current, but especially in the cross-shore direction, the pressure gradient and wave effects on the current dominated the momentum balance.
基金supported by the Major Special Science and Technology Project of“Ningbo Science and Technology Innovation 2025”(Grant No.2019B10076)Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province(No.LY23E080001).
文摘To scrutinize the characteristics of wave-current loads on a bridge shuttle-shaped cap–pile foundation,a 1:125 test model was considered in a laboratory flume.The inline,transverse and vertical wave–current forces acting on the shuttle-shaped cap-pile group model were measured considering both random waves and a combination of random waves with a current.The experimental results have shown that the wave-current forces can be well correlated with the wave height,the wavelength,the current velocity,the incident direction and the water level in the marine environment.An increase in the current velocity can lead to a sharp increase in the inline and transverse wave-current forces,while the vertical wave-current force decreases.Moreover,the wave-current forces are particularly strong when a combination of high tide,strong wave and strong current is considered.
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.U1706216,41976010,42006027,U1806227)the Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province,China(No.ZR2016DQ16)+2 种基金the Key Deployment Project of Center for Ocean Mega-Science,Chinese Academy of Sciences(Nos.COMS2019J02,COMS2019J05)the Chinese Academy of Sciences Strategic Priority Project(Nos.XDA19060202,XDA19060502)the National Key Research and Development Program of China(No.2016YFC1402000)。
文摘We examined the influences of the wind fi eld and wave-current interaction(WCI)on the numerical simulation results of typhoon-induced wind waves in the northern East China Sea(NECS)using the coupled Simulating Waves Nearshore+Advanced Circulation(SWAN+ADCIRC)model.The simulations were performed during two typhoon events(Lekima and Muifa),and two widely used reanalysis wind fields,the Climate Forecast System Version 2(CFSv2)from the National Centers for Environmental Prediction(NCEP)and the fifth-generation European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts(ECMWF)Reanalysis(ERA5),were compared.The results indicate that the ERA5 and CFSv2 wind fields both reliably reproduced the wind variations measured by in-situ buoys,and the accuracy of the winds from ERA5 were generally better than those from CFSv2 because CFSv2 tended to overestimate the wind speed and the simulated significant wave height(SWH),particularly the peak SWH.The WCI effects between the two wind field simulations were similar;these effects enhanced the SWH throughout the nearshore NECS during both typhoons but suppressed the SWH on the right side of the Typhoon Muifa track in the deep and off shore sea areas.In summary,variations in the water depth and current propagation direction dominate the modulation of wave height.
基金financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.51861130358,51609109)the State Key Laboratory of Ocean Engineering,China(Shanghai Jiao Tong University)(Grant No.1905)+1 种基金the Newton Advanced Fellowships of the Royal Societythe Postgraduate Research&Practice Innovation Program of Jiangsu Province(Grant No.KYCX20_3153)。
文摘The nonlinear dynamic response induced by the wave-current interaction on a deepwater steep wave riser(SWR)is numerically investigated based on a three-dimensional(3 D)time-domain finite element method(FEM).The governing equation considering internal flow is established in the global coordinate system.The whole SWR consists of three segments:the decline segment,buoyancy segment and hang-off segment,in which the buoyancy segment is wrapped by several buoyancy modules in the middle section,leading to the arch bend and sag bend.A Newmark-β iterative scheme is adopted for the accurate analysis to solve the governing equation and update the dynamic response at each time step.The proposed method is verified through the published results for the dynamic response of steel catenary riser(SCR)and static configuration of steel lazy wave riser(SLWR).Simulations are executed to study the influence of wave height,current velocity/direction,internal flow density/velocity and top-end pressure on the tension,configuration and bending moment of the SWR.The results indicate that the influence of the current on the configuration and mechanical behavior of the SWR is greater than that of the wave,especially in the middle section.With increasing current velocity,the suspending height of the middle section drops,meanwhile,its bending moment decreases accordingly,but the tension increases significantly.For a fixed external load,the increasing internal flow density induces the amplification of the tension at the hang-off segment and the mitigation at the decline segment,while the opposite trend occurs at the bending moment.
文摘The aim of this paper is to present an analytical expression for the streamwise velocity distribution in a non-uniform flow in the presence of waves; the correlation between the horizontal and vertical velocity components has been compreheusively examined. Different from previous researches which attributed the deviation of velocity from the classical log-law to the wave Reynolds stress, i.e. - ρ uv^- only, this study demonstrates that the momentum flux caused by mean velocities, i.e., u^- and v^-, is also responsible for the velocity deviation, and it is found that the streamwise velocity for a flow in the presence of non-zero wall-normal velocity does not follow the classical log-law, but the modified log-law proposed in this study based on simplified mixing-length theorem. The validity of the modified log-law has been verified by use of available experimental data from published sources for combined wave-current flows, and good agreement between the predicted and observed velocity profiles has been achieved.
文摘It is shown that time asymmetry is essential for deriving thermodynamic law and arises from the turnover of energy while reducing its information content and driving entropy increase. A dynamically interpreted principle of least action enables time asymmetry and time flow as a generation of action and redefines useful energy as an information system which implements a form of acting information. This is demonstrated using a basic formula, originally applied for time symmetry/energy conservation considerations, relating time asymmetry (which is conventionally denied but here expressly allowed), to energy behaviour. The results derived then explained that a dynamic energy is driving time asymmetry. It is doing it by decreasing the information content of useful energy, thus generating action and entropy increase, explaining action-time as an information phenomenon. Thermodynamic laws follow directly. The formalism derived readily explains what energy is, why it is conserved (1st law of thermodynamics), why entropy increases (2nd law) and that maximum entropy production within the restraints of the system controls self-organized processes of non-linear irreversible thermodynamics. The general significance of the principle of least action arises from its role of controlling the action generating oriented time of nature. These results contrast with present understanding of time neutrality and clock-time, which are here considered a source of paradoxes, intellectual contradictions and dead-end roads in models explaining nature and the universe.
文摘Objective: To explore the effect of Health Action Process Approach (HAPA) theory in patients with type D personality psoriasis. Methods: A total of 66 patients with type D personality psoriasis admitted to the dermatology department of a top-three hospital in Jingzhou City from November 2022 to July 2023 were selected and divided into control group and test group with 33 cases in each group by random number table method. The control group received routine health education, and the experimental group received health education based on the HAPA theory. Chronic disease self-efficacy scale, hospital anxiety and depression scale and skin disease quality of life scale were used to evaluate the effect of intervention. Results: After 3 months of intervention, the scores of self-efficacy in experimental group were higher than those in control group (P P Conclusion: Health education based on the theory of HAPA can enhance the self-efficacy of patients with type D personality psoriasis, relieve negative emotions and improve their quality of life.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant 62107034the Major Science and Technology Project of Yunnan Province(202402AD080002)Yunnan International Joint R&D Center of China-Laos-Thailand Educational Digitalization(202203AP140006).
文摘The task of student action recognition in the classroom is to precisely capture and analyze the actions of students in classroom videos,providing a foundation for realizing intelligent and accurate teaching.However,the complex nature of the classroom environment has added challenges and difficulties in the process of student action recognition.In this research article,with regard to the circumstances where students are prone to be occluded and classroom computing resources are restricted in real classroom scenarios,a lightweight multi-modal fusion action recognition approach is put forward.This proposed method is capable of enhancing the accuracy of student action recognition while concurrently diminishing the number of parameters of the model and the Computation Amount,thereby achieving a more efficient and accurate recognition performance.In the feature extraction stage,this method fuses the keypoint heatmap with the RGB(Red-Green-Blue color model)image.In order to fully utilize the unique information of different modalities for feature complementarity,a Feature Fusion Module(FFE)is introduced.The FFE encodes and fuses the unique features of the two modalities during the feature extraction process.This fusion strategy not only achieves fusion and complementarity between modalities,but also improves the overall model performance.Furthermore,to reduce the computational load and parameter scale of the model,we use keypoint information to crop RGB images.At the same time,the first three networks of the lightweight feature extraction network X3D are used to extract dual-branch features.These methods significantly reduce the computational load and parameter scale.The number of parameters of the model is 1.40 million,and the computation amount is 5.04 billion floating-point operations per second(GFLOPs),achieving an efficient lightweight design.In the Student Classroom Action Dataset(SCAD),the accuracy of the model is 88.36%.In NTU 60(Nanyang Technological University Red-Green-Blue-Depth RGB+Ddataset with 60 categories),the accuracies on X-Sub(The people in the training set are different from those in the test set)and X-View(The perspectives of the training set and the test set are different)are 95.76%and 98.82%,respectively.On the NTU 120 dataset(Nanyang Technological University Red-Green-Blue-Depth dataset with 120 categories),RGB+Dthe accuracies on X-Sub and X-Set(the perspectives of the training set and the test set are different)are 91.97%and 93.45%,respectively.The model has achieved a balance in terms of accuracy,computation amount,and the number of parameters.
文摘On the morning of May 31st,the parallel forum"Ecological Actions to Carry Forward the Shared Values of Mankind,"as part of the 4th Dialogue on Exchanges and Mutual Learning among Civilisations,was held in Dunhuang.More than 50 experts and scholars from different countries,including China,Kenya and Japan,engaged in indepth discussions on the theme.
文摘ln order to improve the level of investment promotion and redouble effortsto enhance services,on February l9th,the 2025 Action Plan for StabilizingForeign lnvestment was released,proposing 20 measures in four aspects.Cur-rently,with increasing uncertainties in the external environment,China facesmultple difficulties and challenges in attracting foreign investment.
基金The Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities provided financial support for this research.
文摘Graph convolutional network(GCN)as an essential tool in human action recognition tasks have achieved excellent performance in previous studies.However,most current skeleton-based action recognition using GCN methods use a shared topology,which cannot flexibly adapt to the diverse correlations between joints under different motion features.The video-shooting angle or the occlusion of the body parts may bring about errors when extracting the human pose coordinates with estimation algorithms.In this work,we propose a novel graph convolutional learning framework,called PCCTR-GCN,which integrates pose correction and channel topology refinement for skeleton-based human action recognition.Firstly,a pose correction module(PCM)is introduced,which corrects the pose coordinates of the input network to reduce the error in pose feature extraction.Secondly,channel topology refinement graph convolution(CTR-GC)is employed,which can dynamically learn the topology features and aggregate joint features in different channel dimensions so as to enhance the performance of graph convolution networks in feature extraction.Finally,considering that the joint stream and bone stream of skeleton data and their dynamic information are also important for distinguishing different actions,we employ a multi-stream data fusion approach to improve the network’s recognition performance.We evaluate the model using top-1 and top-5 classification accuracy.On the benchmark datasets iMiGUE and Kinetics,the top-1 classification accuracy reaches 55.08%and 36.5%,respectively,while the top-5 classification accuracy reaches 89.98%and 59.2%,respectively.On the NTU dataset,for the two benchmark RGB+Dsettings(X-Sub and X-View),the classification accuracy achieves 89.7%and 95.4%,respectively.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.41977283)the Qing Lan Project of Jiangsu Province of China.
文摘Arsenic(As)pollution in coastal wetlands has been receiving growing attention.However,the exact mechanism of As mobility driven by tidal action is still not completely understood.The results reveal that lower total As concentrations in solution were observed in the flood-ebb treatment(FE),with the highest concentration being 7.1μg/L,and As(V)was the predominant species.However,elevated levels of total As in solution were found in the flooded treatment(FL),with a maximum value of 14.5μg/L after 30 days,and As(III)was the predominant form.The results of dissolved organicmatter(DOM)suggest that in the early to mid-stages of the incubation,fulvic acid-like substances might be utilized by microorganisms as electron donors or shuttle bodies,facilitating the reductive release of As/Fe from sediments.Both flood-ebb and flooded treatments promoted the transformation of crystalline iron hydrous oxides-bound As into residual forms.However,prolonged flooded conditions more readily facilitated the formation of specific adsorption forms of As and the reduction of crystalline iron hydrous oxides-bound As,increasing As mobility.In addition,the flood-ebb tides have been found to increase the diversity ofmicrobial populations.The main microbial genera in the flood-ebb treatment included Salinimicrobium,Erythrobacter,Yangia,Sulfitobacter,and Marinobacter.Bacillus,Psychrobacter,and Yangia showed a significant correlation with As(V).In flooded treatment,Bacillus,Pseudomonas,and Geothermobacter played a major role in the reduction and release of As.This study significantly contributes to the current understanding of how As behaves in diverse natural environments.
基金National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 22208273)Tianchi Talent Plan of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous RegionPostdoctoral Fellowship Program of CPSF under Grant Number GZC20240428。
文摘Coal direct liquefaction technology is a crucial contemporary coal chemical technology for efficient and clean use of coal resources. The development of direct coal liquefaction technology and the promotion of alternative energy sources are important measures to guarantee energy security and economic security. However, several challenges need to be addressed, including low conversion rate, inadequate oil yield, significant coking, demanding reaction conditions, and high energy consumption. Extensive research has been conducted on these issues, but further exploration is required in certain aspects such as pyrolysis of macromolecules during the liquefaction process, hydrogen activation, catalysts' performance and stability, solvent hydrogenation, as well as interactions between free radicals to understand their mechanisms better. This paper presents a comprehensive analysis of the design strategy for efficient catalysts in coal liquefaction, encompassing the mechanism of coal liquefaction, catalyst construction,and enhancement of catalytic conversion efficiency. It serves as a comprehensive guide for further research endeavors. Firstly, it systematically summarizes the conversion mechanism of direct coal liquefaction, provides detailed descriptions of various catalyst design strategies, and especially outlines the catalytic mechanism. Furthermore, it addresses the challenges and prospects associated with constructing efficient catalysts for direct coal liquefaction based on an understanding of their action mechanisms.
基金Shanghai Municipal Commission of Economy and Information Technology,China (No.202301054)。
文摘Action recognition,a fundamental task in the field of video understanding,has been extensively researched and applied.In contrast to an image,a video introduces an extra temporal dimension.However,many existing action recognition networks either perform simple temporal fusion through averaging or rely on pre-trained models from image recognition,resulting in limited temporal information extraction capabilities.This work proposes a highly efficient temporal decoding module that can be seamlessly integrated into any action recognition backbone network to enhance the focus on temporal relationships between video frames.Firstly,the decoder initializes a set of learnable queries,termed video-level action category prediction queries.Then,they are combined with the video frame features extracted by the backbone network after self-attention learning to extract video context information.Finally,these prediction queries with rich temporal features are used for category prediction.Experimental results on HMDB51,MSRDailyAct3D,Diving48 and Breakfast datasets show that using TokShift-Transformer and VideoMAE as encoders results in a significant improvement in Top-1 accuracy compared to the original models(TokShift-Transformer and VideoMAE),after introducing the proposed temporal decoder.The introduction of the temporal decoder results in an average performance increase exceeding 11%for TokShift-Transformer and nearly 5%for VideoMAE across the four datasets.Furthermore,the work explores the combination of the decoder with various action recognition networks,including Timesformer,as encoders.This results in an average accuracy improvement of more than 3.5%on the HMDB51 dataset.The code is available at https://github.com/huangturbo/TempDecoder.
基金by grants from the Science and Technology Development Fund,Macao SAR(0005/2024/AKP,0075/2022/A,and 028/2022/ITP)the Zhuhai Science and Technology Plan Project in the Social Development Field(2220004000117)the University of Macao(MYRG-GRG2023-00082-ICMSUMDF,MYRG-GRG2024-00150-ICMS-UMDF and CPG2025-00030-ICMS).
文摘Water decoction is the main form of traditional Chinese medicine(TCM)administered in clinics.Polysaccharides are major components of decoction.Recent studies reported that polysaccharides possess multiple pharmacological activities.However,the mechanism by which oral Chinese herbal polysaccharides play vital roles in the body remains uncertain.This review discussed the polysaccharides in Chinese herbal decoctions and their effects,direct and indirect.The direct impact of polysaccharides includes being absorbed into the body immunity regulation through Peyer’s patches;electrostatic adsorption,hydrophobic interaction,and glycoprotein receptors-induced antibacterial effects;prebiotic functions;gut microbiota structural regulation;and increasing the relative abundance of beneficial bacteria.The indirect effects of the polysaccharides in Chinese herbal decoctions include phytochemical toxicity reduction and activity enhancement.Finally,their clinical and research significance is summarized and future research directions are discussed.
