Flow-induced flutter instability of cantilever carbon nanotubes

Carbon nanotubes are finding significant application to nanofluidic devices. This work studies the influence of internal moving fluid on free vibration and flow-induced flutter instability of cantilever carbon nanotubes based on a continuum elastic model. Since the flow-induced vibration of cantilever pipes is non-conservative in nature, cantilever carbon nanotubes conveying fluid are damped with decaying amplitude for flow velocity below a certain critical value. Beyond this critical flow velocity, flutter instability occurs and vibration becomes amplified with growing amplitude. Our results indicate that internal moving fluid substantially affects vibrational frequencies and the decaying rate of amplitude especially for longer cantilever carbon nanotubes of larger innermost radius at higher flow velocity, and the critical flow velocity for flutter instability in some cases may fall within the practical range. On the other hand, a moderately stiff surrounding elastic medium (such as polymers) can significantly suppress the effect of internal moving fluid on vibrational frequencies and suppress or eliminate flutter instability within the practical range of flow velocity.     

Extremely large-amplitude oscillation of soft pipes conveying fluid under gravity

In this work, the nonlinear behaviors of soft cantilevered pipes containing internal fluid flow are studied based on a geometrically exact model, with particular focus on the mechanism of large-amplitude oscillations of the pipe under gravity. Four key parameters, including the flow velocity, the mass ratio, the gravity parameter, and the inclination angle between the pipe length and the gravity direction, are considered to affect the static and dynamic behaviors of the soft pipe. The stability analyses show that, provided that the inclination angle is not equal to π, the soft pipe is stable at a low flow velocity and becomes unstable via flutter once the flow velocity is beyond a critical value. As the inclination angle is equal to π, the pipe experiences, in turn,buckling instability, regaining stability, and flutter instability with the increase in the flow velocity. Interestingly, the stability of the pipe can be either enhanced or weakened by varying the gravity parameter, mainly dependent on the value of the inclination angle.In the nonlinear dynamic analysis, it is demonstrated that the post-flutter amplitude of the soft pipe can be extremely large in the form of limit-cycle oscillations. Besides,the oscillating shapes for various inclination angles are provided to display interesting dynamical behaviors of the inclined soft pipe conveying fluid.     

参-强激励联合作用下输流管的分岔和混沌行为研究

研究输送脉动流的两端固定输流管道在其基础简谐运动激励下的分岔和混沌行为,考虑管道变形的几何非线性和管道材料的非线性因素,推导了系统的非线性运动方程,并应用Galerkin方法对其进行了离散化处理。通过采用数值模拟方法,对系统的运动响应进行仿真,重点探讨了流体平均流速、流速脉动振幅以及基础简谐运动激励振幅对系统动态特性的影响。结果表明,系统在不同的参数下会发生围绕不同平衡点的周期和混沌等运动,并在系统中发现了两条通向混沌运动的途径:倍周期分岔和阵发混沌运动。     

STABILITY AND MODE EVOLUTION CHARACTERISTICS OF A CANTILEVERED FLUID-CONVEYING PIPE ATTACHED WITH THE LUMPED MASS 1)

本文主要研究通过调控集中质量对悬臂输流管稳定性和振动模态特性的影响规律,为输流管动力学性能的可控性提供理论指导和实验依据. 首先基于扩展的哈密顿原理,建立了含集中质量悬臂输流管的非线性动力学理论模型. 基于线性动力学特性分析,研究发现集中质量沿管道轴向位置变化对输流管发生颤振失稳的临界流速有重要影响.并通过伽辽金前四阶模态截断处理线性矩阵方程式,定性地分析了集中质量位置与质量比的变化对于输流管稳定性影响的变化.实验结果表明, 输流管的颤振失稳模态随集中质量位置的变化发生了转迁. 此外,基于动力学理论分析, 发现集中质量比值对失稳临界流速也有重要的影响,且主要取决于集中质量的安装位置. 基于非线性特性,进一步分析了集中质量对输流管振动幅值的影响. 实验和理论研究发现,集中质量位置从固定端向自由端变化时, 输流管振幅表现出先增大后减小趋势,且振动模态也从二阶转迁到三阶.本研究有望为输流管振动驱动应用提供理论支撑与指导意义.     

Hopf bifurcation and chaotic motions of a tubular cantilever subject to cross flow and loose support

The Hopf bifurcation and chaotic motions of a tubular cantilever impacting on loose support is studied using an analytic model that involves delay differential equations. By using the damping-controlled mechanism, a single flexible cantilever in an otherwise rigid square array of cylinders is analyzed. The analytical model, after Galerkin discretization to five d.o.f., exhibits interesting dynamical behavior. Numerical solutions show that, with increasing flow beyond the critical, the amplitude of motion grows until impacting with the loose support placed at the tip end of the cylinder occurs; more complex motions then arise, leading to chaos and quasi-periodic motions for a sufficiently high flow velocity. The effect of location of the loose support on the global dynamics of the system is also investigated.     

含集中质量悬臂输流管的稳定性与模态演化特性研究

本文主要研究通过调控集中质量对悬臂输流管稳定性和振动模态特性的影响规律,为输流管动力学性能的可控性提供理论指导和实验依据. 首先基于扩展的哈密顿原理,建立了含集中质量悬臂输流管的非线性动力学理论模型. 基于线性动力学特性分析,研究发现集中质量沿管道轴向位置变化对输流管发生颤振失稳的临界流速有重要影响.并通过伽辽金前四阶模态截断处理线性矩阵方程式,定性地分析了集中质量位置与质量比的变化对于输流管稳定性影响的变化.实验结果表明, 输流管的颤振失稳模态随集中质量位置的变化发生了转迁. 此外,基于动力学理论分析, 发现集中质量比值对失稳临界流速也有重要的影响,且主要取决于集中质量的安装位置. 基于非线性特性,进一步分析了集中质量对输流管振动幅值的影响. 实验和理论研究发现,集中质量位置从固定端向自由端变化时, 输流管振幅表现出先增大后减小趋势,且振动模态也从二阶转迁到三阶.本研究有望为输流管振动驱动应用提供理论支撑与指导意义.      

THE DYNAMIC BEHAVIORS OF VISCOELASTIC PIPE CONVEYING FLUID WITH THE KELVIN MODEL

Based on the differential constitutive relationship of linear viscoelastic, material, a solid-liquid coupling vibration equation for viscoelastic pipe conveying fluid is derived by the D'Alembert's principle. The critical flow velocities and natural frequencies of the cantilever pipe conveying fluid with the Kelvin model (flutter instability) are calculated with the modified finite difference method in the form of the recurrence formula. The curves between the complex frequencies of the first, second and third mode and flow velocity of the pipe are plotted. On the basis of the numerical, calculation results, the dynamic behaviors and stability of the pipe are discussed. It should be pointed out that the delay time of viscoelastic material with the Kelvin model has a remarkable effect on the dynamic characteristics and stability behaviors of the cantilevered pipe conveying fluid, which is a gyroscopic non-conservative system.     

EFFECT OF ELASTIC FOUNDATIONS ON DIVERGENCE AND FLUTTER OF AN ARTICULATED PIPE CONVEYING FLUID

In this study, we generalize earlier investigations of Benjamin and Sugiyama & Paı̈doussis devoted to the stability of articulated pipes conveying fluid. The present study additionally incorporates the translational and rotational elastic foundations in an attempt to answer the following question: Do the elastic foundations increase the critical velocity of the fluid? It turns out that the attachment of the elastic foundation along the entire length of the pipe may either strengthen or weaken the system, with attendant increase or decrease in the critical velocity. The physical mechanism of the change of type of instability plays a crucial role in deciding whether or not the elastic foundation increases the critical velocity. If the elastic foundations are attached within the first pipe only, the instability mechanism is by flutter. If the elastic foundations are attached beyond the first pipe, then divergence may occur. The interplay of the two mechanisms may lead to a decrease of the critical velocity of the system with elastic foundations. A remarkable nonmonotonous dependence of the critical velocity with respect to the attachment foundation ratio is established.     

Surface stress effect on the vibration and instability of nanoscale pipes conveying fluid based on a size-dependent Timoshenko beam model

Presented in this paper is a precise investigation of the effect of surface stress on the vibration characteristics and instability of fluid-conveying nanoscale pipes.To this end,the nanoscale pipe is modeled as a Timoshenko nanobeam.The equations of motion of the nanoscale pipe are obtained based on Hamilton's principle and the Gurtin-Murdoch continuum elasticity incorporating the surface stress effect.Afterwards,the generalized differential quadrature method is employed to discretize the governing equations and associated boundary conditions.To what extent important parameters such as the thickness,material and surface stress modulus,residual surface stress,surface density,and boundary conditions influence the natural frequency of nanoscale pipes and the critical velocity of fluid is discussed.     

Stabilization of a cantilever pipe conveying fluid using electromagnetic actuators of the transformer type

The article presents an investigation of the stabilization of a cantilever pipe discharging fluid using electromagnetic actuators of the transformer type. With the flow velocity reaching a critical value, the straight equilibrium position of the pipe becomes unstable, and self-excited lateral vibrations arise. Supplying voltage to the actuators yields two opposite effects. First, each of the actuators attracts the pipe, thus introduces the effect of negative stiffness which destabilizes the middle equilibrium. Second, lateral vibrations change the gap in magnetic circuits of the actuators, which leads to oscillations of magnetic field in the cores and the electromagnetic phenomena of induction and hysteresis that impede the motion of the pipe. The combination of these two non-linear effects is ambiguous, so the problem is explored both theoretically and experimentally. First, a mathematical model of the system in form of a partial differential equation governing the dynamics of the pipe coupled with two ordinary differential equations of electro-magnetodynamics of the actuators is presented. Then, the equation of the pipe’s dynamics is discretized using the Galerkin procedure, and the resultant set of ordinary equations is solved numerically. It has been shown that the overall effect of actuators action is positive: the critical flow velocity has been increased and the amplitude of post-critical vibrations reduced. These results have been validated experimentally on a test stand.

     

双通道旋转输流管临界流速和振动模态分析

旋转叶片是航空发动机重要零件之一,服役条件十分恶劣,常常因振动过量导致其失效.为了合理设计含冷却通道的叶片,保证其可靠性与安全性,需对含冷却通道的叶片的振动特性进行研究.基于EulerBernoulli梁理论,将叶片简化为含两通道的悬臂旋转输流管,考虑了通道轴线偏移量对流体动能的影响,采用Lagrange原理结合假设模态法建立包含双陀螺效应的运动控制方程,采用降阶扩维的方法求解系统特征值.研究两通道模型的流速比、转速和长细比等对前3阶特征根曲线影响.将文章模型退化为简支单通道输流管,与文献报道结果进行对比,部分验证建模方法的正确性.研究发现:在相同的管道截面积下,两通道模型的临界流速值大于单通道模型的;旋转运动引入的陀螺效应会使得第2, 3阶特征根轨迹发生绕圈现象,并多次穿越虚轴;随着长细比的增大,系统会表现出类似非旋转的悬臂输流管的动力学行为;系统的横向位移模态响应呈现出行波特性,且在不同参数组合下,阻尼因子对前3阶模态产生不同的增强或减弱作用.     

DIVERGENCE INSTABILITY OF VARIABLE-ARC-LENGTH ELASTICA PIPES TRANSPORTING FLUID

A flexible elastic pipe transporting fluid is held by an elastic rotational spring at one end, while at the other end, a portion of the pipe may slide on a frictional support. Regardless of the gravity loads, when the internal flow velocity is higher than the critical velocity, large displacements of static equilibrium and divergence instability can be induced. This problem is highly nonlinear. Based on the inextensible elastica theory, it is solved herein via the use of elliptic integrals and the shooting method. Unlike buckling with stable branching of a simply supported elastica pipe with constant length, the variable arc-length elastica pipe buckles with unstable branching. The friction at the support has an influence in shifting the critical locus over the branching point. Alteration of the flow history causes jumping between equilibrium paths due to abrupt changes of direction of the support friction. The elastic rotational restraint brings about unsymmetrical bending configurations; consequently, snap-throughs and snap-backs can occur on odd and even buckling modes, respectively. From the theoretical point of view, the equilibrium configurations could be formed like soliton loops due to snapping instability.     

VIBRATION AND STABILITY OF VERTICAL UPWARD-FLUID-CONVEYING PIPE IMMERSED IN RIGID CYLINDRICAL CHANNEL

A theoretical model is developed for the vibration and stability of a vertical pipe subjected concurrently to two dependent axial flows. The external fluid, after exiting the outer annular region between the pipe and a rigid cylindrical channel, is conveyed upwards inside the pipe. This configuration thus resembles of a pipe that aspirating fluid. The equation of planar mo- tion is solved by means of the differential quadrature method （DQM）. Calculations are conducted for a slender drill-string-like and a bench-top-size system, for different confinement conditions of the outer annular channel. It is shown that the vibrations of these two systems are closely related to the degree of confinement of the outer annular channel. For a drill-string-like system with narrow annuli, buckling instability may occur in the second and third modes. For a bench-top-size system, however, both buckling and flutter may occur in the lowest three modes. The form of instability depends on the annuli size.     

Analysis of coupled-mode flutter of pipes conveying fluid on the elastic foundation

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Nonlinear Analysis of a Cantilever Pipe Containing Pulsatile Flow

In this paper we investigate the nonlinear dynamics of a cantilever elastic pipe that contains pulsatile flow. The equation of motion was derived by using Hamiltonian action function. We use Galerkin's technique to include only finite number of spatial modes in the solution.The stability chart of the time-varying system was computed in the space of the relative perturbation amplitude of the flow velocity and dimensionless forcing frequency using an efficient numerical method based on Chebyshev polynomials. In the near of some critical regions bifurcation diagrams were also computed which show secondary Hopf bifurcations and phase locking followed by chaotic motion.     

INSTABILITY AND CHAOS IN A PIPE CONVEYING FLUID WITH ADDED MASS AT FREE END

This paper shows the mechanism of instability and chaos in a cantilevered pipe conveying steady fluid. The pipe under consideration has added mass or a nozzle at the free end. The Galerkin method is used to transform the original system into a set of ordinary differential equations and the standard methods of analysis of the discrete system are introduced to deal with the instability. With either the nozzle parameter or the flow velocity increasing, a route to chaos can be observed very clearly: the pipe undergoing buckling (pitchfork bifurcation), flutter (Hopf bifurcation), doubling periodic motion (pitchfork bifurcation) and chaotic motion occurring finally. The project supported by the National Key Projects of China under grant No. PD9521907 and Science Foundation of Tongji University under grant No. 1300104010.     

Chaotic oscillations in pipes conveying pulsating fluid

Chaotic motions of a simply supported nonlinear pipe conveying fluid with harmonie velocity fluetuations are investigated. The motions are investigated in two flow velocity regimes, one below and above the critical velocity for divergence. Analyses are carried out taking into account single mode and two mode approximations in the neighbourhood of fundamental resonance. The amplitude of the harmonic velocity perturbation is considered as the control parameter. Both period doubling sequence and a sudden transition to chaos of an asymmetric period 2 motion are observed. Above the critical velocity chaos is explained in terms of periodic motion about the equilibrium point shifting to another equilibrium point through a saddle point. Phase plane trajectories, Poincaré maps and time histories are plotted giving the nature of motion. Both single and two mode approximations essentially give the same qualitative behaviour. The stability limits of trivial and nontrivial solutions are obtained by the multiple time scale method and harmonic balance method which are in very good agreement with the numerical results.     

FLOW-INDUCED INTERNAL RESONANCES AND MODE EXCHANGE IN HORIZONTAL CANTILEVERED PIPE CONVEYING FLUID （Ⅱ）

Based on the nonlinear mathematical model of motion of a horizontally can-tilevered rigid pipe conveying fluid, the 3:1 internal resonance induced by the minimum critical velocity is studied in details. With the detuning parameters of internal and primary resonances and the amplitude of the external disturbing excitation varying, the flow in the neighborhood of the critical flow velocity yields that some nonlinearly dynamical behaviors occur in the system such as mode exchange, saddle-node, Hopf and co-dimension 2 bifurcations. Correspondingly, the periodic motion losses its stability by jumping or flutter, and more complicated motions occur in the pipe under consideration. The good agreement between the analytical analysis and the numerical simulation for several parameters ensures the validity and accuracy of the present analysis.     

Nonplanar post-buckling analysis of simply supported pipes conveying fluid with an axially sliding downstream end

In this study,the nonplanar post-buckling behavior of a simply supported fluid-conveying pipe with an axially sliding downstream end is investigated within the framework of a three-dimensional(3 D)theoretical model.The complete nonlinear governing equations are discretized via Galerkin’s method and then numerically solved by the use of a fourth-order Runge-Kutta integration algorithm.Different initial conditions are chosen for calculations to show the nonplanar buckling characteristics of the pipe in two perpendicular lateral directions.A detailed parametric analysis is performed in order to study the influence of several key system parameters such as the mass ratio,the flow velocity,and the gravity parameter on the post-buckling behavior of the pipe.Typical results are presented in the form of bifurcation diagrams when the flow velocity is selected as the variable parameter.It is found that the pipe will stay at its original straight equilibrium position until the critical flow velocity is reached.Just beyond the critical flow velocity,the pipe would lose stability by static divergence via a pitchfork bifurcation,and two possible nonzero equilibrium positions are generated.It is shown that the buckling and post-buckling behaviors of the pipe cannot be influenced by the mass ratio parameter.Unlike a pipe with two immovable ends,however,the pinned-pinned pipe with an axially sliding downstream end shows some different features regarding post-buckling behaviors.The most important feature is that the buckling amplitude of the pipe with an axially sliding downstream end would increase first and then decrease with the increase in the flow velocity.In addition,the buckled shapes of the pipe varying with the flow velocity are displayed in order to further show the new post-buckling features of the pipe with an axially sliding downstream end.