Evaluating factors influencing farmers' satisfaction with their irrigation system

The logit technique is used to analyze the relationship between dichotomous reactions of satisfaction (satisfied/dissatisfied) with the irrigation system and certain independent variables. The result shows that five important variables — water availability on time, fertilizer availability, landholding size, farmers' participation in irrigation activities and location of farmland along the canal — significantly determine satisfaction.     

Finding niches for whole-farm design models – contradictio in terminis?

Whole-farm design models quantitatively analyze the effects of a variety of potential changes at the farm system level. Science-driven technical information is confronted with value-driven objectives of farmers or other social groupings under explicit assumptions with respect to exogenous variables that are important drivers of agricultural systems (e.g., market conditions). Hence, farm design is an outcome of objective specification and the potential of a system. In recent publications, whole-farm design modelling has been proposed to enhance (farm) innovation processes. A number of operational modelling tools now offers the opportunity to assess the true potential of whole-farm design modelling to enhance innovation. In this paper, we demonstrate that it is not trivial to find niches for the application of goal-based farm models. Model outcomes appeared not to match questions of farm managers monitoring and learning from their own and other farmers’ practices. However, our research indicates that whole-farm design modelling possesses the capabilities to make a valuable contribution to reframing. Reframing is the phenomenon that people feel an urge to discuss and reconsider current objectives and perspectives on a problem. Reframing might take place in a situation (i) of mutually felt dependency between stakeholders, (ii) in which there is sufficient pressure and urgency for stakeholders to explore new problem definitions and make progress. Furthermore, our research suggests that the way the researcher enters a likely niche to introduce a model and/or his or her position in this niche may have significant implications for the potential of models to enhance an innovation process. Therefore, we hypothesize that the chances of capitalizing on modelling expertise are likely to be higher when researchers with such expertise are a logical and more or less permanent component of ongoing trajectories than when these researchers come from outside to purposefully search for a niche.     

Modelling carbon dynamics in mixed grass–red clover swards

Growth and carbon dynamics in mixed grass–red clover leys were simulated using a growth model for pure stands based on radiation use, allocation within plant and loss of biomass. The model and its parameter values were taken from previous applications of the model to pure swards of grass and red clover grown in the same experiment at the same sites and years.     

SL4105柴油机的连杆杆身的变形分析

对SL4105柴油机的连杆进行了精确的三维建模,并考虑到连杆锻造毛坯和加工误差对连杆刚度的影响,根据实际情况对连杆运动时的整体变形进行了计算分析。分析结果表明:连杆的锻造加工误差会使连杆在最大爆发压力下产生较大的弯曲变形,变形最大值的大小和位置因加工误差的不同而不同。     

Effects of alternative water distribution rules on irrigation system performance: a simulation analysis

Based on a simulation model reflecting physical and economic conditions typically found in rice irrigation systems in Asia, the irrigation performance implications of alternative water distribution rules for dry season irrigation are evaluated under varying degrees of water shortage. The rules examined reflect differing water distribution strategies designed either to maximize conveyance efficiency, economic efficiency, or equity; or to achieve a balance between efficiency and equity objectives. Irrigation performance is evaluated using several efficiency measures reflecting the physical, agronomic and economic productivity of water, and one measure of equity. Economic efficiency and equity among farmers within the portion of the irrigation system that is on in any given season are shown to be complementary, and not competing objectives. Economic efficiency and equity among all farmers within the command area of the irrigation system are largely complementary strategies at the lower levels of water shortage, but with increasing shortage, significant tradeoffs develop between these objectives. An operational rule for water distribution under a goal of maximizing economic efficiency is developed, and the data requirements for its implementation are shown to be modest. Under the model's assumed conditions of dry season rice production dependent solely on surface irrigation for water, the distribution strategy designed to maximize conveyance efficiency results in only modestly lower levels of economic efficiency and equity than could be achieved by the strategy designed to maximize economic efficiency.     

基于SLMD的生物质热解动力学预测模型

采用单纯形格子混合设计法(SLMD)对纤维素、半纤维素和木质素3种生物质组分进行复配优化设计,并在综合热分析仪上进行了热解试验。分析了3组分混合热解特性,建立了由生物质3组分比例直接计算动力学参数的预测模型,对模型进行了试验验证。结果表明:纤维素热解反应级数较低(1.20),活化能较高(134.50 k J/mol),指前因子较大(3.49×1012s-1),热解较为迅速与剧烈;半纤维素和木质素热解的反应级数较高(1.30、1.32),活化能较低(33.51、19.98 k J/mol),指前因子较小(9.43×103、107 s-1),热解较为缓慢;3组分在混合热解中对动力学参数存在交互影响,纤维素对活化能和指前因子的影响较为显著,而半纤维素与木质素对反应级数的影响较大;动力学参数预测模型精度较高,可有效预测生物质热解动力学参数。     

柴油机螺旋气道数字化设计方法

通过系统分析柴油机螺旋气道几何结构以及气道敏感区域对气道流通性能的影响关系,确定了构建螺旋气道的关键结构参数。提出了一种以气缸盖结构为约束条件,涡流比为设计目标,再进行流量系数优化的螺旋气道数字化设计方法,建立了螺旋气道参数化数学模型,开发了一款柴油机螺旋气道数字化建模软件。针对一款自主开发的卧式两缸柴油机螺旋气道的设计要求,采用螺旋气道数字化建模软件建立了螺旋气道数字化三维模型,进行了模型光顺性分析和流通性能分析。分析结果表明,螺旋气道数字化设计方法具有一定的可行性和通用性,只需提供气缸盖结构、流通性能(涡流比和流量系数)的设计要求,通过该数字化设计方法和建模软件就能设计出满足要求的螺旋气道。     

An integrated modelling toolbox for water resources assessment and management in highland catchments: Model description

Water and land resource competition and environmental degradation pose difficult questions for resource managers. In particular, the ensuing trade-offs between economic, environmental, and social factors and their spatiotemporal variability must be considered when implementing management policies. This paper describes an integrated modelling toolbox that has been developed for highland catchments – specifically the Mae Chaem catchment in Northern Thailand. This toolbox contains models of crop growth, erosion and rainfall-runoff, as well as household decision and socioeconomic impact models. The approach described advances and complements previous approaches by: considering more complex interactions between land-use decisions and the hydrological cycle; modelling household decisions based on uncertain expectations; and assessing impacts of changes not only on flows and household income, but also on subsistence production and erosion. An example of the types of trade-offs and scenarios that can be assessed using the integrated modelling toolbox is also presented. This demonstrates that for the scenarios presented, the magnitude and direction of impacts simulated by the model is not dependent on climate. Further testing of the model is demonstrated in a companion paper. Overall, the plausibility of the model is shown.     

横向出流陡坡消能塘体型设计与试验研究

陡坡消能塘水流在塘末端转向 90°进入下游渠道是一种特殊的布置形式。通过对一实际工程消能塘的水力计算与物理模型试验验证 ,提出了此类消能塘体型的设计方法并对设计计算中的几个问题进行了讨论     

基于DEM模型的流域参数识别方法研究

探讨了利用数学高程模型识别流域分水线、确定坡面水流方向以及计算流域参数的方法。通过实验流域的数据验证 ,表明该法能正确计算流域的有关参数 ,自动勾绘流域分水线 ,确定坡面水流方向。从而为分布式水文物理模型的研制提供坚实的基础