Thermodynamics And Morphodynamics In Wave Energy

Author : Antonio Moñino,Encarnación Medina-López,Rafael J. Bergillos,María Clavero,Alistair Borthwick,Miguel Ortega-Sánchez
Publisher : Springer
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2018-04-20
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319907017

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Thermodynamics and Morphodynamics in Wave Energy by Antonio Moñino,Encarnación Medina-López,Rafael J. Bergillos,María Clavero,Alistair Borthwick,Miguel Ortega-Sánchez Pdf

This book examines the performance of oscillating water column (OWC) wave energy converters. It discusses the influence of humid air inside the chamber and changes in the seabed, and also investigates the role of wave energy converters in coastal protection. The authors use a real gas model to describe the thermodynamics of the air–water vapour mixture inside the chamber, and the compression and expansion process during the wave cycle. Further, they present an alternative formulation with new perspectives on the adiabatic process of the gaseous phase, including a modified adiabatic index, and subsequent modified thermodynamic state variables such as enthalpy, entropy and specific heat. The book also develops a numerical model using computational fluid dynamics to simulate OWC characteristics in open sea, and studies the performance of a linear turbine using an actuator disk model. It then compares the results from both cases to find an agreement between the analytical and numerical models when humidity is inserted in the gaseous phase. Introducing new concepts to studies of wave energy to provide fresh perspectives on energy extraction and efficiency problems, the book is a valuable resource for researchers and industrial companies involved in thermal energy and coastal engineering. It is also of interest to undergraduate and postgraduate students, as it broadens their view of wave energy.

Author : Rafael J. Bergillos,Cristobal Rodriguez-Delgado,Gregorio Iglesias
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 87 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-25
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783030313180

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Ocean Energy and Coastal Protection by Rafael J. Bergillos,Cristobal Rodriguez-Delgado,Gregorio Iglesias Pdf

This book presents the innovative concept of the dual function of wave farms as both renewable energy generators and coastal protection elements against erosion and flooding. Developing renewable energy is one of the most pressing targets for society in the coming decades due to the finite nature of fossil fuels, their high costs, and the environmental impacts of their exploration and use, including climate change and the subsequent sea-level rise. Wave energy is one of the most promising renewable energy sources, thanks to its huge potential and low impact on the environment. As such, this book discusses the development and application of artificial intelligence to optimise wave farm location and layout, assesses the influence of the wave energy converter geometry on coastal protection against erosion and flooding, and analyses how the performance of wave farms as coastal defence elements is affected by climate change and sea level rise. The concepts, methods and conclusions presented are helpful to students, researchers, academics, engineers, designers, stakeholders and managers around the globe interested in wave energy, coastal engineering, and coastal management.

Author : Ya B. Zel'dovich,Yu. P. Raizer
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 946 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2002-03-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780486420028

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Physics of Shock Waves and High-Temperature Hydrodynamic Phenomena by Ya B. Zel'dovich,Yu. P. Raizer Pdf

Physical, chemical processes in gases at high temperatures are focus of outstanding text by two distinguished physicists. Combines material from gas dynamics, shock-wave theory, thermodynamics and statistical physics, molecular physics, spectroscopy, radiation theory, other fields for comprehensive treatment. 284 black-and-white illustrations. 1966–1967 edition, originally published in two volumes.

Author : Mohamed Farhat,Pai-Yen Chen,Sebastien Guenneau,Stefan Enoch
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 475 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789814669962

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Transformation Wave Physics by Mohamed Farhat,Pai-Yen Chen,Sebastien Guenneau,Stefan Enoch Pdf

Space–time transformations as a design tool for a new class of composite materials (metamaterials) have proved successful recently. The concept is based on the fact that metamaterials can mimic a transformed but empty space. Light rays follow trajectories according to Fermat’s principle in this transformed electromagnetic, acoustic, or elastic space instead of laboratory space. This allows one to manipulate wave behaviors with various exotic characteristics such as (but not limited to) invisibility cloaks. This book is a collection of works by leading international experts in the fields of electromagnetics, plasmonics, elastodynamics, and diffusion waves. The experimental and theoretical contributions will revolutionize ways to control the propagation of sound, light, and other waves in macroscopic and microscopic scales. The potential applications range from underwater camouflaging and electromagnetic invisibility to enhanced biosensors and protection from harmful physical waves (e.g., tsunamis and earthquakes). This is the first book that deals with transformation physics for all kinds of waves in one volume, covering the newest results from emerging topical subjects such as transformational plasmonics and thermodynamics.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 818 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0816272824

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Mechanics, Waves and Thermodynamics by Anonim Pdf

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Author : Luca M. Possati
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2022-12-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781000806076

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Unconscious Networks by Luca M. Possati Pdf

This book develops an original theoretical framework for understanding human-technology relations. The author’s approach, which he calls technoanalysis, analyzes artificial intelligence based on Freudian psychoanalysis, biosemiotics, and Latour’s actor-network theory. How can we communicate with AI to determine shared values and objectives? And what, ultimately, do we want from machines? These are crucial questions in our world, where the influence of AI-based technologies is rapidly growing. Unconscious dynamics influence AI and digital technology and understanding them is essential to better controlling AI systems. This book’s unique methodology— which combines psychoanalysis, biosemiotics, and actor-network theory—reveals a radical reformulation of the problem of the human mind. Technoanalysis views the mind as a hybrid network of humans and nonhuman actants in constant interaction with one another. The author argues that human unconscious dynamics influence and shape technology, just as technology influences and shapes human unconscious dynamics. He proceeds to show how this conception of the relationship between the unconscious and technology can be applied to social robotics and AI. Unconscious Networks will appeal to scholars and advanced students interested in philosophy of technology, philosophy of artificial intelligence, psychoanalysis, and science and technology studies.

Author : Andrew D. Short
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Science
ISBN : UCSD:31822028308492

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Handbook of Beach and Shoreface Morphodynamics by Andrew D. Short Pdf

A highly readable book on the nature of beaches, including thedynamics of the shoreface, surf, swash and backbeach, and globallyat the regional variations in beach systems from the tropics to thepoles. The beach and adjacent shoreface are the most dynamic part of theEarth's surface. They represent a narrow zone where waves, tidesand winds continously interact, producing, wherever sediment isavailable, hundreds of thousands of kilometres of beach systems.Beaches are also the focus of intense pressure from users anddevelopers, and for these reasons alone a knowledge of beachsystems and their morphodynamics is critical to their sustainablemanagement. This book is the first to: * provide an in-depth and holistic view of beach systems, lookingboth in detail at the different beach zones and globally at rangeof parameters influencing regional variation * examine the relationship between beaches and ancillary dunesystems and includes chapters on beach ecology, safety,stratification and barrier evolution. The book is designed for use in the classroom and the office, beingaimed at university level students and coastal professioanls.

Author : Michael Gunter
Publisher : Archway Publishing
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-07
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781480810099

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Levolution by Michael Gunter Pdf

Without Levolution, there would be no gravity, stars, or life; but up until now, the self-similar properties these energetic systems has been obscured. Michael Gunter, an ecologist, examines the Levolution process, which underlies a whole new paradigm that explains how the universe works and what it is doing. It is responsible for creating every type of naturally occurring system we know. In easy-to-understand language, Gunter explains how Levolution is based on simple properties of energy flowing in systems. Learning how it works will help you understand: the cosmological relevance of energy and its laws; the contents of the universe as twenty- three levels of increasing, entropically functional order imposed on a single batch of energy; that the universe appears to have a purpose. The end result is an entirely new perspective on what we call order and a new spin on what ancient and recent thinkers have said about the nature of the universe. The newly proposed Laws of Functional Order will equip you to understand the profound role of thermodynamic natural selection, universal evolution, and the cosmic order caused by Levolution.

Author : Simon P. Neill,M Reza Hashemi
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-20
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780128104491

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Fundamentals of Ocean Renewable Energy by Simon P. Neill,M Reza Hashemi Pdf

Fundamentals of Ocean Renewable Energy: Generating Electricity from the Sea presents the basic concepts of mechanics and introduces the various technical aspects of ocean renewable energy. Contents follow a logical sequence, starting with hydrodynamics and then separately examining each conversion technology, with special focus on tidal energy, offshore wind and wave energy, as well as current and ocean thermal energy conversion (OTEC). The authors explore key topics for resource characterization and optimization, such as monitoring and measurement methods and ocean modeling. They also discuss the sustainability, planning, integration and distribution challenges for the implementation of these technologies, including co-location with other systems. Finally, case studies of ocean energy sites and devices allow for a better understanding of how ocean energy conversion works in real-world settings. This book is an invaluable resource for students at graduate and senior undergraduate level engineering (ocean, mechanical, and civil) and oceanography with prior knowledge of fluid mechanics and mechanics of materials. Presents the fundamental physics and theory behind ocean energy systems, covering both oceanographic and engineering aspects of ocean energy Explores the most widely adopted conversion technologies, including tidal, wave, offshore wind, ocean thermal and currents

Author : Torsten Liem,Patrick van den Heede
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Page : 720 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781909141636

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Foundations of Morphodynamics in Osteopathy by Torsten Liem,Patrick van den Heede Pdf

In 35 chapters written by the editors and a team of internationally renowned contributors, the book covers the underlying principles of osteopathic palpation from a biodynamic and 'morphodynamic' perspective, and their application in the cranial field and the spinal cord. It emphasises the importance of considering not just the patient's physical self, but also the inner consciousness. It teaches how to assess tissue-energy characteristics, and to use this understanding in managing the whole patient. The work discusses biophysical, neurobiological and psychological interactions as well as the interplay of developmental dynamics and further epigenetic influences on the organism. As well as the primary respiratory mechanism, various biological rhythms play an important role within osteopathic treatment; the book explores new insights that flow from chronobiology and rhythm research. All osteopathic practice develops on conceptual foundations. Acknowledging the importance in the practice of osteopathy of such theoretical underpinning, the book discusses osteopathy with regard to the development of paradigms within the healing arts as well as from various philosophical viewpoints - such as postmodern, system-theoretical, Goethian and phenomenological. It examines thoroughly the multi-layered dynamics of development of human beings interacting with their environment. The resulting implications for therapeutic interaction as well as principles of diagnosis and treatment form the core of the book. These fundamental principles are then specifically applied to the cranial sphere. This section focuses primarily on the treatment of the brain, as well as the developmental dynamics of the relations of the midline, cranial bones, dural structures, vessels and cranial nerves.

Author : Jesper Hoffmeyer
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2008-02-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781402067068

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A Legacy for Living Systems by Jesper Hoffmeyer Pdf

Gregory Bateson’s contribution to 20th century thinking has appealed to scholars from a wide range of fields dealing in one way or another with aspects of communication and epistemology. A number of his insights were taken up and developed further in anthropology, psychology, evolutionary biology and communication theory. But the large, trans-disciplinary synthesis that, in his own mind, was his major contribution to science received little attention from the mainstream scientific communities. This book represents a major attempt to revise this deficiency. Scholars from ecology, biochemistry, evolutionary biology, cognitive science, anthropology and philosophy discuss how Bateson's thinking might lead to a fruitful reframing of central problems in modern science. Most important perhaps, Bateson's bioanthropology is shown to play a key role in developing the set of ideas explored in the new field of biosemiotics. The idea that organismic life is indeed basically semiotic or communicative lies at the heart of the biosemiotic approach to the study of life. The only book of its kind, this volume provides a key resource for the quickly-growing substratum of scholars in the biosciences, philosophy and medicine who are seeking an elegant new approach to exploring highly complex systems.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1068 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Aquatic biology
ISBN : UCAL:B4357339

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Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts by Anonim Pdf

Author : S J Hawkins
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 1054 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-11
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781000452242

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Oceanography and Marine Biology: An Annual Review, Volume 59 by S J Hawkins Pdf

Oceanography and Marine Biology: An Annual Review remains one of the most cited sources in marine science and oceanography. The ever-increasing interest in work in oceanography and marine biology and its relevance to global environmental issues, especially global climate change and its impacts, creates a demand for authoritative refereed reviews summarizing and synthesizing the results of recent research. If you are interested in submitting a review for consideration for publication in OMBAR, please email the Editor in Chief, Stephen Hawkins, at [email protected]. For nearly 60 years, OMBAR has been an essential reference for research workers and students in all fields of marine science. This volume considers such diverse topics as the Great Barrier Reef Expedition of 1928-29, Mediterranean marine caves, macromedusae in eastern boundary currents, marine biodiversity in Korea, and development of a geo-ecological carbonate reef system model to predict responses of reefs to climate change. Seven of the peer-reviewed contributions in Volume 59 are available to read Open Access on this webpage (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 9). An international Editorial Board ensures global relevance and expert peer review, with editors from Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, Ireland, Singapore and the United Kingdom. The series volumes find a place in the libraries of not only marine laboratories and oceanographic institutes, but also universities worldwide.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Science
ISBN : CORNELL:31924057185252

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Technical Abstract Bulletin by Anonim Pdf

Author : Theo Gerkema
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-20
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781108474269

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An Introduction to Tides by Theo Gerkema Pdf

A self-contained introduction to tides, explaining the origin of tidal constituents and their wave propagation in oceans and coastal seas.