A light cylinder under horizontal vibration in a cavity filled with a fluid

The behavior of a light cylindrical body of circular cross-section under horizontal vibration in a rectangular cavity filled with a fluid is experimentally investigated. At critical vibration intensity the body is repelled from the upper side of the cavity and takes up a stable suspended position, in which the gravity field is balanced by the vibrational repulsive force, executing longitudinal oscillations. As the vibrations are intensified, the gap between the cylinder and the wall widens. A new form of instability, namely, the excitation of the tangential motion of the body along the vibration axis, is found to exist on the supercritical range. The cylinder is at a finite distance from the upper side of the cavity and the tangential motion is due to the loss of symmetry of the oscillating motion. The transition of the cylinder to the suspended state and its return to the wall, as well as the excitation of the average longitudinal motion and its cessation, occur thresholdwise and have a hysteresis. The body dynamics are studied as a function of the dimensionless vibration frequency.     

Vibrational Dynamics of a Centrifuged Fluid Layer

The dynamics of a low-viscosity fluid layer inside a rotating cylinder under transverse translational vibration relative to the rotation axis is investigated experimentally. A novel vibrational effect, the generation of intense azimuthal fluid flows with velocities comparable with the cavity rotation velocity, is revealed. The structure and intensity of the vibrational flows and the flow transformation with variation of the determining dimensionless parameters (frequency and vibrational acceleration) are studied.__________Translated from Izvestiya Rossiiskoi Academii Nauk, Mekhanika Zhidkosti i Gaza, No. 2, 2005, pp. 147–156.Original Russian Text Copyright © 2005 by Ivanova, Kozlov, and Polezhaev.     

Thermal Vibrational Convection in Rotating Cavities

The average vibrational motion of a nonisothermal fluid in a uniformly rotating cavity is described theoretically. Equations are obtained using the averaging technique in the high-frequency vibration approximation. It is found that the rotation significantly affects both the intensity of the average flows and the structure of the pulsatory velocity field generating resonance amplification of the fluid vibrations ar certain ratios of the rotation frequency and the force field oscillation frequency. This makes rotation an important controlling factor ensuring a strong averaged effect under relatively weak vibrational action. The problem of excitation of vibrational convection in a plane rotating layer is considered on the basis of the equations obtained when the vibration frequency substantially exceeds the rotation frequency.     

Dynamics of a two-fluid system in a rotating horizontal cylinder under longitudinal vibration

The average dynamics of immiscible fluids with different densities in a horizontal axially vibrating cylinder are studied. The angular velocity is sufficient to sustain the centrifuged state of the fluids. The vibration and rotation frequencies are of the same order. The generation of toroidal vortices periodic along the rotation axis and the formation of quasi-steady interface relief with axially periodic axisymmetric crimps are detected. It is shown that the vortex flow is associated with the generation of an inertial axisymmetric standing wave. The formation of the quasi-steady relief is induced by the development of the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability on the fluid interface under tangential vibration.     

Vibrational dynamics of a light spherical body in a rotating cylinder filled with a fluid

The behavior of a light spherical body in a rotating horizontal cylindrical cavity filled with a low-viscosity fluid is experimentally investigated both in the absence and in the presence of transverse vibrations. The system is in a centrifuged state. Mean rotation of the sphere relative to the cavity is found to exist. In the absence of the vibrations slow lagging rotation of the body is due to the gravity field. With increase in the cavity rotation velocity the intensity of differential rotation reduces. The vibrations lead to the excitation of differential rotation of the body, either anticipating or lagging, due to the resonance excitation of its inertial oscillations. The differential rotation of the body leads to the formation of the cylindrical Taylor-Proudman column. With increase in the column rotation velocity the instability of its boundary manifests itself as an azimuthal two-dimensional wave.     

Modeling of vibrational impact motion of mobile-based body

The paper deals with vibrational impact motion of a mobile-based body on an inclined plane, which is a characteristic for vibrational alignment of components subjected to an automated assembly. The alignment model is presented by a two-degree-of-freedom vibro-impact system in which the moving body is impacting the plane obliquely. Properties of the vibrational impact motion under kinematical excitement of the moving body and under the excitement of the plane in two perpendicular directions were investigated by numerical methods. It was determined that impact displacement occurs under transient regimes of motion from static to dynamic state of equilibrium. Dependencies of maximum displacement of the body and average displacement velocity on force of elastic resistance, amplitude of plane vibration in the direction of the displacement, and phase angle between the perpendicular members of vibration components were established. Zones of system and excitement parameter combination when the vibrational impact motion occurs were defined.     

Hydromagnetic Stokes flow in a rotating fluid with suspended small particles

An initial value investigation is made of the motion of an incompressible, viscous conducting fluid with embedded small spherical particles bounded by an infinite rigid non-conducting plate. Both the plate and the fluid are in a state of solid body rotation with constant angular velocity about an axis normal to the plate. The flow is generated in the fluid-particle system due to non-torsional oscillations of a given frequency superimposed on the plate in the presence of a transverse magnetic field. The operational method is used to derive exact solutions for the fluid and the particle velocities, and the wall shear stress. The small and the large time behaviour of the solutions is discussed in some detail. The ultimate steady-state solutions and the structure of the associated boundary layers are determined with physical implications. It is shown that rotation and magnetic field affect the motion of the fluid relatively earlier than that of the particles when the time is small. The motion for large times is set up through inertial oscillations of frequency equal to twice the angular velocity of rotation. The ultimate boundary layers are established through inertial oscillations. The shear stress at the plate is calculated for all values of the frequency parameter. The small and large-time behaviour of the shear stress is discussed. The exact solutions for the velocity of fluid and the wall shear stress are evaluated numerically for the case of an impulsively moved plate. It is found that the drag and the lateral stress on the plate fluctuate during the non-equilibrium process of relaxation if the rotation is large. The present analysis is very general in the sense that many known results in various configurations are found to follow as special cases.     

Sand-Fluid Interface under Vibration

The average dynamics of the interface between a pure fluid and a granular medium with fluid-filled pores in a closed vibrating cavity are investigated experimentally. Three types of vibration, namely, linear and circular translational in a horizontal plane and rotational about a vertical axis, are considered. In all cases, the excitation of a dynamic relief on the surface of the granular medium, preceded by fluidization of the sand, is observed. For more complicated vibration types, additional average effects are manifested, such as the generation of an average granular-medium motion relative to the cavity under circular vibration and the displacement of the fluidized granular medium toward the rotation axis under rotational vibration. In the cases considered, the regularities of the average dynamics of the fluidized granular medium are found. It is shown that the phenomena in a granular-medium-fluid system can be analyzed using the two-fluid theoretical model.     

Dynamics of a Fluid in a Rotating Horizontal Cylinder

The behavior of a low-viscosity fluid in a rotating horizontal circular cylinder is investigated experimentally. The stability of the centrifuged layer, the motion of the fluid with respect to the cavity, the excitation of inertial waves on the fluid surface, and the effect of the waves on the stability and flow structure are studied over a wide region of relative occupancy of the cavity. The results are analyzed from the viewpoint of vibrational mechanics in which the motion is generated by the oscillations of the fluid with respect to the cavity and the gravity force plays the role of the force oscillating in the cavity reference system.     

Heteroclinic bifurcations in completely liquid-filled spacecraft with flexible appendage

In this paper, the chaotic dynamics in an attitude transition maneuver of a rigid body with a completely liquid-filled cavity in going from minor axis to major axis spin under the influence of viscous damping and a small flexible appendage constrained to undergo only torsional vibration is investigated. The focus in this paper is on the way in which the dynamics of the liquid and flexible appendage vibration are coupled. The equations of motion are derived and then transformed into a form suitable for the application of Melnikov's method. Melnikov's integral is used to predict the transversal intersections of the stable and unstable manifolds for the perturbed system. An analytical criterion for chaotic motion is derived in terms of the system parameters. This criterion is evaluated for its significance to the design of spacecraft. The dependence of the onset of chaos on quantities such as body shape and magnitude of damping values, fuel fraction and frequency of flexible appendage vibration are investigated.     

Dynamics of a Spherical Body in a Liquid with Rotational Vibration of the Cavity

The average dynamics of a single solid sphere in a liquid-filled cylindrical cavity in the presence of high-frequency rotational oscillation about the axis of symmetry is studied experimentally. In the cavity there is an impermeable membrane which forces the liquid as a whole to vibrates together with the cavity. Various orientations of the vessel in the gravity force field are considered. The action of an average force of vibrational nature on the sphere and the dependence of this force on the vibration parameters and the body dimensions and density are studied. The force is measured with respect to the floating threshold for the heavy body, when the average vibrational force balances or exceeds the action of the gravity force.     

Natural transverse vibrations of a rotating rod

We study the natural transverse vibration frequencies and modes of a rod rotating about an axis fixed at an end of the rod. The cases of low, moderately high, and asymptotically high angular velocities are considered. The case of a homogeneous rod with clamped left and free right end is considered in detail. A new constructive algorithm based on the notion of “sagittary function” is used to find the dependences of the natural frequencies and mode shapes on the angular velocity for lower vibration modes. We establish evolution to the model corresponding to vibrations of a rapidly rotating thread subjected to the centrifugal inertial forces. It is shown that the natural frequencies grow practically linearly with increasing angular rotation velocity. The results obtained can be of interest in technical applications, e.g., when studying vibrations of sensor elements in high-precision instruments or of rapidly rotating elongated mechanism elements (turbine or propeller blades, etc).     

Rotor oscillation and stability in complex motion

Precession vibration of a rigid disk with unequal axial moments of inertia is considered when the axis of rotation turns; the disk is located asymmetrically on a flexible axle. Periodic solutions of the equations of motion and the amplitude-frequency relations are obtained for various values of the angular velocity of the axis of rotation. The critical rotational velocities of disks with various moments of inertia are defined in terms of the gyroscopic forces. The stability of motion is analyzed for various angular velocities of the rotating axis. State Technical University of Building and Architecture, Kiev, Ukraine. Translated from Prikladnaya Mekhanika, Vol. 35, No. 7, pp. 104–107, July, 1999.     

Vibrational thermal convection about a uniformly heated cylinder

Vibrational convection under conditions of weightlessness has now been investigated for closed cavities of various geometries (see, for example, [1–3]). However, the question of vibrational convection developing around a heated body in an unconfined fluid remains open. Here, the convection developing under conditions of weightlessness about a uniformly heated infinite cylinder vibrating at high frequencies together with the fluid in a direction perpendicular to the cylinder axis is considered. The nonlinear equations of averaged motion are solved numerically by a finite-difference method. It is shown that at high values of the vibrational Grashof number boundary-layer type flow with a structure consisting of two symmetrical jets perpendicular to the direction of vibration is formed. The flow and heat transfer characteristics are determined.Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Mekhanika Zhidkosti i Gaza, No. 3, pp. 23–26, May–June, 1989.The author wishes to thank E. M. Zhukovitskii for supervising the work.     

旋转惯导系统中转轴方向对系统调制精度的影响

不同轴向的惯性器件误差在惯导系统中的误差传播特性不同,因此在旋转惯导系统中转动机构选择不同转轴方向对系统精度的调制效果不同。分析了在选择不同轴向作为旋转轴时对导航系统精度的影响,并根据转台转轴与机体系、惯性器件(IMU)系之间存在的夹角关系,将其分为两种方案进行讨论,转轴与IMU系存在夹角以及转轴与机体系存在夹角。通过分析,前者在调制效果上与传统的单轴旋转惯导系统相同,而后者会改变调制效果。在此基础上,进一步推导分析了第二种方案下不同转轴方向与系统定位精度之间的内在关系,提出了一种在长时间导航情况下的转轴方向选择方案,并进行了仿真验证。仿真结果表明,与传统单轴旋转惯导系统相比,该方案显著提高了系统的导航定位精度,对在不同情况下转台转轴方向的选择具有一定的工程应用参考价值。     

A quasi-steady 3 degree-of-freedom model for the determination of the onset of bluff body galloping instability

In this paper, a quasi-steady three degree-of-freedom (3-dof) flow-induced galloping instability model for bluff-bodies is proposed. The proposed model can be applied generally for the prediction of onset of galloping instability due to negative aerodynamic damping of any prismatic compact bluff body in a fluidic medium. The three degrees of freedom refer to the bluff body's two orthogonal displacements perpendicular to its length axis and the rotation about its length axis. The model incorporates inertial coupling between the three degrees of freedom and is capable of estimating the onset of galloping instability due changes in drag, lift and moment, assuming that the bluff body is subject to uniform flow and motion. The changes may be a function of wind angle of attack (α) perpendicular to bluff body's length axis, Reynolds number and a skew wind angle (?) in relation to the length axis of the bluff body. An analytical solution of the instability criterion is obtained by applying the Routh-Hurwitz criterion.     

On the extensional and flexural vibrations of rotating bars

The non-linear equations of motion of a slender bar rotating at constant angular velocity about a transverse axis are formulated. Under the assumption that a small perturbed motion occurs about an initially stressed equilibrium configuration, linearized equations of motion for the longitudinal and flexural deformations of a rotating bar carrying a tip mass are derived. Numerical computations for the natural frequencies of the lowest three modes of free vibration reveal that the values of the extensional frequencies increase monotonically, contrary to previously published results, as the angular velocity of rotation increases.     

Quasi-Euler-Poinsot motion of a rigid body

The phase-plane method of nonlinear oscillation is used to discuss the influence of the small dissipation upon the Euler-Poinsot motion of a rigid body about a fixed point. The equations of phase coordinates are applied instead of Eulerian equations, and the global characteristics of the motion of rigid body are analysed according to the distribution and the type of the singular points. A Chaplygin's sphere on a rough plane, a rigid body in viscous medium and one with a cavity filled with viscous fluid are discussed as examples. It is shown that the motions of rigid bodies dissipated by various physical factors have a common qualitative character. The rigid body tends to make a permanent rotation about the principal axis of the largest moment of inertia. The transitive process can change from oscillatory to aperiodic with the decrease in dissipation.     

Inertial and coriolis effects on oscillatory flow in a horizontal dendrite layer

Flow instability due to oscillatory modes of disturbances in a horizontal dendrite layer during alloy solidification is investigated under an external constraint of rotation. The flow in the dendrite layer, which is modeled as flow in a porous layer and with the inertial effects included, is assumed to rotate about the vertical axis at a constant angular velocity. The investigation is an extension of the work in Riahi (On stationary and oscillatory modes of flow instablity in a rotating porous layer during alloy solidification. J. Porous Media, 6, 177–187, 2003), which was for the case in the absence of the inertial effects. Results of the stability analyses indicate, in particular, that the Coriolis effect can enhance the physical domain for the oscillatory flow, while the inertial effect tends to reduce such domain. Sufficiently strong inertial effect can eliminate presence of the oscillatory mode only for the rotation rate beyond some value. The effect of interaction between the local volume fraction of solid and the flow associated with the Coriolis term was found to be stabilizing.