TITLE:
Design of Experiments Teaching on Inversion Layer Turbulent Movement Simulation in Glass Water Tank
AUTHORS:
Xiaohang Wen, Lei Zhao, Binyun Wang
KEYWORDS:
Convection Water Tank, Inversion Layer, Atmospheric Boundary Layer, Experimental Teaching
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Social Sciences,
Vol.8 No.4,
April
17,
2020
ABSTRACT: The glass water tank experiment is using water as the medium to simulate
the temperature fields’ structure characteristics and development process of the convection
boundary layer in the laboratory. This experiment uses a fast-responding
temperature sensor to measure vertical profile of temperature and temperature
differences at different height. In this experiment, parameters such as
tropospheric boundary thickness and stability are obtained. The experimental
results show that the indoor water tank convection system can simulate the
formation, development and extinction of inversion layer in boundary layer.
This experiment is suitable as a professional experiment for atmospheric fluid
dynamic course. Meanwhile, students’ understanding of meteorological concepts and basic principles
is more profound and excellent teaching effect is achieved, and thus the
designed experiments have certain promotion value.