Observations are given for the foehn event which occurred in the Abashiri-Ohmu area (N44.3, E143.5), Hokkaido, northern Japan, on 12 May 1975. A numerical investigation is made of the foehn, using a 2-dimensional nonhydrostatic model. The foehn is well simulated, even without any diabatic heating in the presence of an inversion layer below 900hPa. This foehn is confirmed to be dynamically induc...

A thin lay er of fluid flowing down a solid planar surface has a free sur face height described by a nonlinear POE derived via the lubrication ap­ proximat ion from the Navi er St okes equations. For th in films , sur face tension plays an important rol e both in providing a significant driving force and in smoothi ng the free surface. Sur fac tant molecules on the free surface tend to reduce s...

Oil droplet transport under a non-breaking deep water wave field is investigated herein using Computational Fluid dynamics (CFD). The Reynolds-averaged Navier–Stokes (RANS) equations were solved to simulate regular waves in the absence of wind stress, and the resulting water velocities agreed with Stokes theory for waves. The RANS velocity field was then used to predict the transport of buoyant...

Wave data from five 12-13 MHz SeaSondes radars along the central California coast were analyzed to evaluate the utility of operational wave parameters, including significant wave height, period, and direction. Data from four in situ wave buoys served to verify SeaSonde data and independently corroborate wave variability. Hourly averaged measurements spanned distance is 150 km alongshore × 45 km...

In this paper, a novel shore-based S-band microwave Doppler coherent wave radar (Microwave Ocean Remote SEnsor (MORSE)) is designed to improve wave measurements. Marine radars, which operate in the X band, have been widely used for ocean monitoring because of their low cost, small size and flexibility. However, because of the non-coherent measurements and strong absorption of X-band radio waves...

Nonlinear advective adjustment of a discontinuity in free-surface height under gravity and rotation is considered, using the method of contour dynamics. After linear wave-adjustment has set up an interior jet and boundary currents in a wide (9 one Rossby radius) channel, fluid surges down-channel on both walls, rather than only that wall supporting a down-channel Kelvin wave. A wedgelike intrus...

The travelling wave dielectrophoretic pump studied here is essentially a rectangular straight micro-channel with an electrode array on part of its wall, and operated under an ac voltage with phase shift at neighbouring electrodes. The travelling wave dielectrophoretic force drives the cells, which drag the plasma, and after some sophisticated interaction between conventional dielectrophoresis, ...

We consider the widespread hypothesis that coherent curvature radiation is responsible for the radio emission of pulsars. The comparison of energy conservation and the published data and luminosities explicitely proves that coherent curvature radiation cannot be the source for the radio emission of pulsars for frequencies below a few GHz. At higher frequencies coherent curvature radiation can b...