The design and construction of a small wave-sediment tank, built and instrumented for under $10,000, is described. The tank is equipped with a piston-type wavemaker, capable of producing both small-amplitude and solitary waves. The middle section of the tank contains a sediment bed appropriate for wave-soil-structure interaction and sediment transport experiments. Wave energy is absorbed by a g...

Tank No. 1 No. 2 No. 3 Energy (MeV ) 19.7 36.7 50.1 No. of Cell 76 43 27 Length (m) 9.92 9.44 7.32 Tank dia. (mm) 561.1 561.1 561.1 DT dia. (mm) 140 140 140 Stem dia. (mm) 34 34 34 Bore dia. (mm) 13, 18 22 26 Table 1. DTL design parameters Figure 1. rf-contactors (a) rf-contactor between the end-plate and the tank, (b) rfcontactor between the stem of the drift tube and the tank (a) (b) End plate

Water-tank models of meso-scale atmospheric processes often show good qualitative agreement of bulk quantities and flow characteristics and good quantitative agreement of turbulence quantities with field observations. However, it was demonstrated in the first part of this two-part communication that the similarity of velocities of thermally driven upslope flows in atmosphere and water tank is v...

This life cycle design (LCD) project was a collaborative effort between the National Pollution Prevention Center at the University of Michigan, General Motors (GM), and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The primary objective of this project was to apply life cycle design tools to guide the improvement of fuel tank systems. Two alternative fuel tank systems used in a 1996 GM vehicl...

the directional response and roll stability characteristics of a partly filled tractor semi-trailer vehicle, with cylindrical tank, are investigated in various maneuvers. the dynamic interaction of liquid cargo with the tractor semi-trailer vehicle is also evaluated by integrating a dynamic slosh model of the partly filled tank with five-degrees-of-freedom of a tractor semi-trailer tank model. ...

The subject of petroleum storage tank fires has gained a great deal of attention due to the high cost of petroleum, and the consequent disruption of petroleum production; therefore, much of the current research has focused on petroleum storage tank fires. Also, the number of petroleum tank fires is oscillating between 15 and 20 fires per year. About 33% of all tank fires are attributed to light...

The inspection of a storage tank floor is a time consuming and expensive procedure, mainly due to necessity to empty and to clean the tank before an inspection. For this purpose a long range ultrasonic technique based on Lamb waves may be applied. Such an approach is used for inspection of pipes and can cover the distances up 100m. However the storage tanks are much more complicated structures ...

Original scientific paper This paper presents designing of spherical tank using combination of analytical procedure with FEM analysis and experimental testing in order to minimize design time and verify design strength. Analytical procedure for calculation of the tank strength in the initial stages of design process is briefly presented. Based on analytical results, tank is dimensioned and FEM ...

Thermodynamic analysis and numerical modeling of hurricane intensity has shown that its is controlled by the enthalpy transfer from the ocean surface and by drag. Direct measurements of drag, evaporation, and sensible heat transfer are not easily performed on the high seas. Therefore, a wind wave tank has been constructed in which a few aspects of a tropical storm are simulated. The air velocit...

we consider the semilinear elliptic boundary value problem  = ∈∂ω− δ = ∈ωu x xu x f u x x( ) 0;( ) λ ( ( ));where λ > 0 is a parameter, ω is a bounded region in rn with a smooth boundary, and f is asmooth function. we prove, under some additional conditions, the existence of a positive solution for λlarge. we prove that our solution u for λ large is such that = →∞∈ω|| u ||: sup| u(x) |xas λ ...