Field observations showed that in many gravel-bed rivers, rice stems and gravel interact with each other and affect the flow structure. This calls to conduct research in more details in laboratory to better understand impacts of interaction between rice stems and gravel bed rivers on the flow structure. The outcome of such investigations can improve the estimation of drag coefficient in hydrodynamic models. Experiments were carried out in a flume with gravel bed and the vegetated vertical flume walls to investigate turbulence characteristics under favorable pressure gradient flows. Results showed that the stress fraction involves both the sweep and ejection dominance near the vegetated flume walls, showing no negative Reynolds shear stress near water surface. The values of exuberance ratio play a significant role on the magnitude of the Reynolds shear stress which varies with the distance from the vegetation. Quadrant analysis reveals that a major part of the momentum flux is transported during a short period of strong turbulence activity near the bed at the central axis. Augmentation of the hole size makes difference between contributions of sweep and ejection with those of the outward and inward interactions near the bed, however, the hole size doesn’t play any role near the water surface.
Turbulence of flow over mobile bedforms in natural open channels is not yet clearly understood. An attempt is made in this paper to determine the effect of naturally formed mobile bedforms on velocities, turbulent intensities and turbulent stresses. Instantaneous velocities are measured using a two-dimensional particle image velocimetry (PIV) to evaluate the turbulence structure of free surface flow over a fixed (immobile) bed, a weakly mobile bed and a temporally varying mobile bed with different stages of bedform development. This paper documents the vertical distribution of velocity, turbulence intensities, Reynolds shear stress and higher-order moments including skewness and turbulent diffusion factors. Analysis of the velocity distributions shows a substantial decrease of velocity near the bed with increasing bedform mobility due to increased friction. A modified logarithmic law with a reduced von Kármán constant and increased velocity shift is proposed for the case of the mobile bedforms. A significant increase in the Reynolds shear stress is observed in the mobile bedforms experiments accompanied by changes over the entire flow depth compared to an immobile bed. The skewness factor distribution was found to be different in the case of the flow over the mobile bedforms. All higher-order turbulence descriptors are found to be significantly affected by the formation of temporally varying and non-equilibrium mobile bedforms. Quadrant analysis indicates that sweep and outward events are found to be dominant in strongly mobile bedforms and govern the bedform mobility.
This work describes Large Eddy Simulation of backward-facing step flow laden with particles. The concentration of the particles in the flow is high enough for consideration of two-way coupling. This means that the particles are influenced by fluid and vice versa. The inter-particle collisions are neglected. The Euler-Lagrange method is adopted which means that the fluid is considered to be continuum (Euler approach) and for each individual particle is solved Lagrangian equation of motion. Particles are considered to be spherical. The simulations are performed for different volume fractions. The results are compared to the single-phase flow in order to investigate the effect of the particles on the turbulence statistics of the carrier phase. and Obsahuje seznam literatury
The study focuses on analysis of the collection of historical graffiti preserved in the cave Býčí skála (Moravian Karst). Epigraphic relics preserved here, started to be produced around 1796, when the cave was an integral part of the Lichtenstein romantic landscape park. The research proved several touristic "waves of colonization" the manifested themselves in different character of the graffiti and their varied spatial distribution in the cave
The photosynthesis and related plant productivity aspects of plants and cyanobacteria depend upon the functioning of photosystem 2 (PS2), associated with D1 and D2 heterodimer reaction centre core proteins. The D1 protein is encoded by psbA gene, genetically localized on the plastid genome (cpDNA), contains functional cofactors of PS2 in association with D2 protein, and also functions for radiant energy transformation through oxidation of water and reduction of plastoquinone. Surprisingly, D1 protein accounts for even less than 1% of the total thylakoid membrane protein content. In spite of that, its rate of turnover is very much comparable to ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase (RuBPCO) large subunit, most abundantly present in green tissue. The normal functioning of PS2 possesses damage-repair cycles of D1 protein. Generally, rate of photodamage does not exceed the rate of repair under optimal growth conditions, therefore, no adverse effect on photosynthetic efficiency is manifest. However, under strong irradiance coupled with elevated temperature, level of photodamage exceeds the rate of repair, resulting in photoinhibition, photodegradation of D1 protein, and lowering photosynthetic efficiency linked with plant productivity eventually. The features of D1 turnover process are reviewed, particularly with respect to molecular mechanisms.