Abstract: Large plastic deformation caused by friction for high purity copper was investigated using the finite element method with an updated Lagrangian formulation. The phenomenological background of this ...

Abstract: Quasi-geostrophic waves in a two-layer ocean with bottom topography on a ?-plane are examined in detail. The bottom slopes in an arbitrary direction but gently and uniformly. A clear understanding of vertical normal modes ...

Abstract: Poleward propagation of coastal-trapped waves induced by a baroclinic equatorial Kelvin wave incident on the eastern boundary is studied in numerical models. When the thermocline is shallower than shelf depth and so ...

Abstract: The onshore-offshore circulation, equatorward coastal jet and poleward undercurrent associated with coastal upwelling are studied with numerical models. The model ocean has a continental shelf-slope uniform in the longshort ...

Abstract: A series of middepth zonal flows observed in the Pacific is produced in a World Ocean model with the horizontal resolution of 1° ? 1° and 40 vertical levels. It is demonstrated that the middepth zonal flows are driven by ...

Abstract: A simple bottom boundary layer (BBL) model is developed to be incorporated into a z-coordinate medium resolution ocean general circulation model. In the BBL model, velocity is calculated from the pressure gradient, which ...

Abstract: Vertical diffusivity at the thermocline depths is now believed to be as small as 1 ? 10?5 m2 s?1. In order to accomplish a reliable simulation of the World Ocean for the vertical diffusivity of 1 ? 10?5 m2 s?1, two advective ...

Abstract: A thermohaline circulation enhanced by wind forcing is demonstrated in an idealized basin model, and a mechanism that provides a connection between wind forcing and a thermohaline circulation is clarified. A rectangular ...

Abstract: Long-term coastal upwelling over a continental shelf-slope with emphasis on the planetary dispersion of Rossby waves is studied with numerical models. The ocean is forced by a wind stress with a limited longshore extent. ...

Abstract: We conducted the measurement of restoring force characteristics of laminated rubber bearings under various restraining conditions. In the experiment, we provided three laminated rubber bearings ...