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High-Resolution Mapping In Manus Basin, C. Roman, V. Ferrini Dec 2006

High-Resolution Mapping In Manus Basin, C. Roman, V. Ferrini

Christopher N. Roman

Near-bottom seafloor mapping with precisely navigated deep submergence vehicles has become increasingly common in a range of oceanographic settings. Recent mapping efforts at deep-water hydrothermal vent sites have resulted in high-resolution (sub-meter) bathymetry datasets that can be used to identify morphological features associated with volcanic, tectonic, and hydrothermal processes. The resolution of these maps, and our ability to accurately quantify the complex morphologic details of hydrothermal structures has been limited by a number of variables including navigational accuracy, sonar settings (e.g. acoustic wavelength, sonar orientation, ping rate), survey parameters (e.g. altitude, speed), data density, and data processing techniques (e.g. gridding …


Consistency Based Error Evaluation For Deep Sea Bathymetric Mapping With Robotic Vehicles, Christopher Roman, Hanumant Singh Apr 2006

Consistency Based Error Evaluation For Deep Sea Bathymetric Mapping With Robotic Vehicles, Christopher Roman, Hanumant Singh

Christopher N. Roman

This paper presents a method to evaluate the mapping error present in point cloud terrain maps created using robotic vehicles and range sensors. This work focuses on mapping environments where no a priori ground truth is available and self consistency is the only available check against false artifacts and errors. The proposed error measure is based on a disparity measurement between common sections of the environment that have been imaged multiple times. This disparity measure highlights inconsistency in the terrain map by showing regions where multiple overlapping point clouds do not fit together well. This error measure provides the map …


Numerical Prediction And Practical Improvement Of Pulverized Coal Combustion In Blast Furna, Wei-Hsin Chen Feb 2006

Numerical Prediction And Practical Improvement Of Pulverized Coal Combustion In Blast Furna, Wei-Hsin Chen

Wei-Hsin Chen

No abstract provided.


Scavenging Waves And Influence Distances Of Gas Absorption Around Single Liquid Aerosols In Clouds, Wei-Hsin Chen Dec 2005

Scavenging Waves And Influence Distances Of Gas Absorption Around Single Liquid Aerosols In Clouds, Wei-Hsin Chen

Wei-Hsin Chen

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Air Pollutant Absorption By Single Moving Droplets With Drag Force At Moderate Reynolds Numbers, Wei-Hsin Chen Dec 2005

Air Pollutant Absorption By Single Moving Droplets With Drag Force At Moderate Reynolds Numbers, Wei-Hsin Chen

Wei-Hsin Chen

Mass transfer phenomena of hydrogen chloride around single water droplets at moderate initial Reynolds numbers are investigated to simulate air pollutant absorption by droplets in wet scrubbers. Of particular interest is the uptake mechanism in the droplet under the impact of deceleration. An examination of the mass transfer inside the droplet, in view of the solute transport delay from the gas–liquid interface to the droplet interior, a maximum distribution in concentration difference between the droplet surface and the internal minimum concentration is exhibited. Meanwhile, gaseous scavenging behavior is apparently characterized by the droplet. Regarding the effect of the decelerating motion, …