Wave run-up and overtopping on smooth and rough slopes of coastal structures     

N. J. Shankar  M. P. R. Jayaratne 《Ocean Engineering》2003,30(2):221-238

A series of hydraulic model tests has been carried out in a glass wave flume to investigate the influences of wave height, wave period, wave steepness, surf similarity parameter, roughness, layer thickness and porosity on wave run-up and overtopping of 1:2 sloped impermeable and permeable breakwaters fronted by a 1:10 gentle, smooth beach slope. The analysis of results involves the correlation between the overtopping energy transfer with the relative wall height and the relationship between wave run-up and overtopping rate. Further, measured wave run-up and overtopping rates are compared with the results given in the Shore Protection Manual (1984), Automated Coastal Engineering System (1992)and results of other investigators.  相似文献   

Stationary spatially modulated fourier transform spectro-radiometer     

Subramaniam  S.  Ravindra  Babu Y.  Rabindranath  Bera  Basheerullah  Baig G.  Viswanath  P. V.  Bajpai  O. P. 《Journal of the Indian Society of Remote Sensing》2003,31(3):187-196

Journal of the Indian Society of Remote Sensing - A stationary, compact, spatially modulated Fourier Transform spectro-radiometer based on triangular, common path Sagnac interferometer has been...  相似文献   

Mechanism of arrested charnockite formation at Nemmara, Palghat region, southern India   总被引：3，自引：0，他引：3  

G. R. Ravindra Kumar   《Lithos》2004,75(3-4):331-358

The formation of arrested charnockite is an excellent example of structurally controlled channellised fluid flow along specific sites accompanied by selective elemental mobility and mineralogical changes. The present paper recognises and focuses study on three types of arrested charnockite formation from Palghat region, namely, shear-controlled, foliation parallel and boudin-neck types, and address their spatio-temporal relations to regional-scale charnoenderbite. The shear-controlled and foliation parallel types post-date deformation and migmatisation. The boudin-neck type, on the contrary, is coeval with partial melting and followed the path of cooling and decreasing water activity in the gneiss. K-feldspar veining around plagioclase and quartz, symplectitic intergrowth of biotite+quartz after orthopyroxene and K-feldspar, and fluid inclusion data suggests the presence of alkalic supercritical brine and low-density CO₂-rich fluid during charnockite formation. Charnockite domains developed following the breakdown of hornblende, biotite and quartz are characterised by a more or less pronounced depletion of Fe, Ca, Mg and Ti and trace elements Y and Zr, compared to their counterpart gneiss. REE spectra indicate a subtle depletion in the HREE near the centre of the charnockite domain. Although close-pair samples of gneiss–charnockite are isochemical, on a scale of a few millimetres, bi-directional element movement, related to the formation of new mineral was noted. It is postulated that arrested charnockite formation developed in situ on local scale within the granitic domains of the hornblende-biotite gneiss, in the presence of CO₂-rich fluids and alkalic supercritical saline brine. This process post-dated the time of regional granulite (charnoenderbite) and large regional scale retrogression and migmatisation.  相似文献   

Gneiss-charnockite relation around Ponmudi,southern Kerala: evidences and implications of prograde charnockite formation in southern India     

C. Srikantappa  G. R. Ravindra Kumar 《Journal of Earth System Science》1987,96(1):1-10

Isochemical conversion of garnet-biotite bearing paragneiss to charnockite in the Precambrian Khondalite belt of southern Kerala is described from Ponmudi area. Petrographic evidences indicate the formation of hypersthene by the breakdown of biotite in the presence of quartz following the reaction: Biotite + quartz → hypersthene + K-feldspar + vapour. The estimated pressure — temperature conditions of metamorphism are around 5–7 kbars and 750° ± 40°C. Presence of CO₂-rich, mixed CO₂-H₂O and H₂O-rich inclusions were noticed in gneiss as well as in charnockites. Charnockites contain abundant CO₂-rich inclusions.  相似文献   

The relationship between lightning activity and surface wet bulb temperature and its variation with latitude in Australia     

E. R. Jayaratne  Y. Kuleshov 《Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics》2006,91(1-4):17-24

Summary Convective Available Potential Energy (CAPE) is the driving force for thunderstorm development. CAPE is closely controlled by wet bulb temperature. The lightning activity measured by a network of ten lightning flash counters widely distributed across continental Australia was studied as a function of wet bulb temperature. At each of the stations, the monthly total of lightning ground flashes, N, increased sharply with the increase of the monthly mean daily maximum wet bulb temperature, T_w, max. The dependence was strongest in the tropics and became less pronounced at temperate latitudes. In Darwin (latitude 12° S), the lightning ground flash activity increased by over three orders of magnitude over a 7 °C range of T_w, max. The corresponding increases for Coffs Harbour (latitude 30° S) and for Melbourne (latitude 38° S) were about one and a half orders of magnitude and about half an order of magnitude, respectively, each over a 10 °C range of T_w, max. Power law approximations were derived for each of the ten stations and showed that the logarithm of N was directly proportional to the power, P, of T_w, max. The value of P showed a sharp exponential decrease with increasing latitude away from the equator.  相似文献   

A five-year study of lightning activity using a CGR3 flash counter in Gaborone, Botswana     

E. R. Jayaratne  V. Ramachandran 《Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics》1998,66(3-4):235-241

Summary We have used a CGR3 lightning flash counter to gather lightning type and occurrence data over five complete years in Gaborone, Botswana. The results show that the mean ground flash density is 4.6 km^–2 yr^–1. Of these, 4.9% of ground flashes lower a net positive charge. The overall ratio of intracloud flashes to ground flashes is 1.9, the value being slightly higher during the nights than the daytime. A typical lightning season lasts from September to May, the activity reaching a peak between November and January. There is virtually no lightning at all during the dry winter months of June, July and August. The number of flashes per storm shows a marked decrease as the season progresses. In the diurnal cycle, the peak lightning activity occurs at around 19 h, which is somewhat late when compared with most other locations. However, together with observations in the Central United States, it seems to suggest that the peak activity occurs later in the day at mid-continental locations.With 7 Figures  相似文献   

Thermal characteristics of a classical solar telescope primary mirror     

Ravinder K. Banyal  B. Ravindra 《New Astronomy》2011,16(5):328-336

We present a detailed thermal and structural analysis of a 2 m class solar telescope mirror which is subjected to a varying heat load at an observatory site. A 3-dimensional heat transfer model of the mirror takes into account the heating caused by a smooth and gradual increase of the solar flux during the day-time observations and cooling resulting from the exponentially decaying ambient temperature at night. The thermal and structural response of two competing materials for optical telescopes, namely Silicon Carbide – best known for excellent heat conductivity and Zerodur – preferred for its extremely low coefficient of thermal expansion, is investigated in detail. The insight gained from these simulations will provide a valuable input for devising an efficient and stable thermal control system for the primary mirror.  相似文献   

Behaviour of radiogenic Pb in zircon during ultrahigh-temperature metamorphism: an ion imaging and ion tomography case study from the Kerala Khondalite Belt,southern India   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Martin?J.?WhitehouseEmail author  G.?R.?Ravindra Kumar  Andrius?Rim?a 《Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology》2014,168(2):1042

Zircon crystals from a locally charnockitized Paleoproterozoic high-K metagranite from the Kerala Khondalite Belt (KKB) of southern India have been investigated by high-spatial resolution secondary ion mass spectrometry analysis of U–Th–Pb and rare earth elements (REE), together with scanning ion imaging and scanning ion tomography (depth-profiled ion imaging). The spot analyses constrain the magmatic crystallization age of the metagranite to ca. 1,850 Ma, with ultrahigh-temperature (UHT) metamorphism occurring at ca. 570 Ma and superimposed charnockite formation at ca. 520–510 Ma, while the ion imaging reveals a patchy distribution of radiogenic Pb throughout the zircon cores. Middle- to heavy-REE depletion in ca. 570 Ma zircon rims suggests that these grew in equilibrium with garnet and therefore date the UHT metamorphism in the KKB. The maximum apparent ²⁰⁷Pb/²⁰⁶Pb age obtained from the unsupported radiogenic Pb concentrations is also consistent with formation of the Pb patches during this event. The superimposed charnockitization event appears to have caused additional Pb-loss in the cores and recrystallization of the rims. The results of depth-profiling of the scanning ion tomography image stack show that the Pb-rich domains range in size from <5 nm to several 10 nm (diameter if assumed to be spherical). The occurrence of such patchy Pb has previously been documented only from UHT metamorphic zircon, where it likely results from annealing of radiation-damaged zircon. The formation of a discrete, heterogeneously distributed and subsequently immobile Pb phase effectively arrests the normal Pb-loss process seen at lower grades of metamorphism.  相似文献   

Free-convection flow in the stokes problem for a vertical plate with variable surface temperature     

Basant Kumar Jha  Ravindra Prasad  Surendra Rai 《Astrophysics and Space Science》1991,175(1):157-163

The free-convection flow of an incompressible viscous fluid past an infinite, vertical plate for impulsive as well as uniformly accelerated motion of the plate is discussed when the plate temperatuve varies as the square root of time. The Laplace transform technique is used to obtain the expressions for velocity and skin-friction. The influence of the various parameters, entering into problem, on the velocity field and skin-friction is extensively discussed.  相似文献   

MHD free-convection and mass transfer flow through a porous medium with heat source     

Basant Kumar Jha  Ravindra Prasad 《Astrophysics and Space Science》1991,181(1):117-123

An analytical study is performed to examine the heat source characteristics on the free-convection and mass transfer flow past an impulsively started infinite non-conducting vertical plate of a viscous, incompressible electrically-conducting fluid under the action of a uniform magnetic field through porous medium. The effects of various parameters on the velocity field are extensively discussed.  相似文献