On the dynamics of free and excited oscillations of a simple portal frame foundation

In this paper we search for the dynamics of a simple portal structure in the free and in the periodic excitation cases. By using the Center Manifold approach and Averaging Method, we obtain results on both stability and bifurcation of equilibrium points and periodic orbits.     

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.     

HOPF BIFURCATION OF A NONLINEAR RESTRAINED CURVED PIPE CONVEYING FLUID BY DIFFERENTIAL QUADRATURE METHOD

This paper proposes a new method for investigating the Hopf bifurcation of a curved pipe conveying fluid with nonlinear spring support. The nonlinear equation of motion is derived by forces equilibrium on microelement of the system under consideration. The spatial coordinate of the system is discretized by the differential quadrature method and then the dynamic equation is solved by the Newton-Raphson method. The numerical solutions show that the inner fluid velocity of the Hopf bifurcation point of the curved pipe varies with different values of the parameter,nonlinear spring stiffness. Based on this, the cycle and divergent motions are both found to exist at specific fluid flow velocities with a given value of the nonlinear spring stiffness. The results are useful for further study of the nonlinear dynamic mechanism of the curved fluid conveying pipe.     

Adapting simulation codes to compute unstable solutions and bifurcation behaviour

Simulation codes for solving large systems of ordinary differential equations suffer from the disadvantage that bifurcation‐theoretic results about the underlying dynamical system cannot be obtained from them easily, if at all. Bifurcation behaviour typically can be inferred only after significant computational effort, and even then the exact location and nature of the bifurcation cannot always be determined definitively. By incorporating relatively minor changes to an existing simulation code for the Taylor–Couette problem, specifically, by implementing the Newton–Picard method, we have developed a computational structure that enables us to overcome some of the inherent limitations of the simulation code and begin to perform bifurcation‐theoretic tasks. While a complete bifurcation picture was not developed, three distinct solution branches of the Taylor–Couette problem were analysed. These branches exhibit a wide variety of behaviours, including Hopf bifurcation points, symmetry‐breaking bifurcation points, turning points and bifurcation to motion on a torus. Unstable equilibrium and time‐periodic solutions were also computed. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Dynamic stability of electrostatic torsional actuators with van der Waals effect

The influence of van der Waals (vdW) force on the stability of electrostatic torsional nano-electro-mechanical systems (NEMS) actuators is analyzed in the paper. The dependence of the critical tilting angle and voltage is investigated on the sizes of structure with the consideration of vdW effects. The pull-in phenomenon without the electrostatic torque is studied, and a critical pull-in gap is derived. A dimensionless equation of motion is presented, and the qualitative analysis of it shows that the equilibrium points of the corresponding autonomous system include center points, stable focus points, and unstable saddle points. The Hopf bifurcation points and fork bifurcation points also exist in the system. The phase portraits connecting these equilibrium points exhibit periodic orbits, heteroclinic orbits, as well as homoclinic orbits.     

Bifurcations of a cantilevered pipe conveying steady fluid with a terminal nozzle

This paper studies interactions of pipe and fluid and deals with bifurcations of a cantilevered pipe conveying a steady fluid, clamped at one end and having a nozzle subjected to nonlinear constraints at the free end. Either the nozzle parameter or the flow velocity is taken as a variable parameter. The discrete equations of the system are obtained by the Ritz-Galerkin method. The static stability is studied by the Routh criteria. The method of averaging is employed to examine the analytical results and the chaotic motions. Three critical values are given. The first one makes the system lose the static stability by pitchfork bifurcation. The second one makes the system lose the dynamical stability by Hopf bifurcation. The third one makes the periodic motions of the system lose the stability by doubling-period bifurcation. The project supported by the Science Foundation of Tongji University and Tongji University and National Key Projects of China under Grant No. PD9521907.     

The dynamics of coupled planar rigid bodies. II. Bifurcations,periodic solutions,and chaos

We give a complete bifurcation and stability analysis for the relative equilibria of the dynamics of three coupled planar rigid bodies. We also use the equivariant Weinstein-Moser theorem to show the existence of two periodic orbits distinguished by symmetry type near the stable equilibrium. Finally we prove that the dynamics is chaotic in the sense of Poincaré-Birkhoff-Smale horseshoes using the version of Melnikov's method suitable for systems with symmetry due to Holmes and Marsden.     

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.     

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.     

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 cantilevered 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.     

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.     

Bifurcations of double homoclinic flip orbits with resonant eigenvalues

Concerns double homoclinic loops with orbit flips and two resonant eigen- values in a four-dimensional system.We use the solution of a normal form system to construct a singular map in some neighborhood of the equilibrium,and the solution of a linear variational system to construct a regular map in some neighborhood of the double homoclinic loops,then compose them to get the important Poincarémap.A simple cal- culation gives explicitly an expression of the associated successor function.By a delicate analysis of the bifurcation equation,we obtain the condition that the original double homoclinic loops are kept,and prove the existence and the existence regions of the large 1-homoclinic orbit bifurcation surface,2-fold large 1-periodic orbit bifurcation surface, large 2-homoclinic orbit bifurcation surface and their approximate expressions.We also locate the large periodic orbits and large homoclinic orbits and their number.     

Hopf Bifurcation in a Diffusive Logistic Equation with Mixed Delayed and Instantaneous Density Dependence

A diffusive logistic equation with mixed delayed and instantaneous density dependence and Dirichlet boundary condition is considered. The stability of the unique positive steady state solution and the occurrence of Hopf bifurcation from this positive steady state solution are obtained by a detailed analysis of the characteristic equation. The direction of the Hopf bifurcation and the stability of the bifurcating periodic orbits are derived by the center manifold theory and normal form method. In particular, the global continuation of the Hopf bifurcation branches are investigated with a careful estimate of the bounds and periods of the periodic orbits, and the existence of multiple periodic orbits are shown.     

Local Hopf bifurcation and global existence of periodic solutions in TCP system

This paper investigates the dynamics of a TCP system described by a first- order nonlinear delay differential equation. By analyzing the associated characteristic transcendental equation, it is shown that a Hopf bifurcation sequence occurs at the pos- itive equilibrium as the delay passes through a sequence of critical values. The explicit algorithms for determining the Hopf bifurcation direction and the stability of the bifur- cating periodic solutions are derived with the normal form theory and the center manifold theory. The global existence of periodic solutions is also established with the method of Wu （Wu, J. H. Symmetric functional differential equations and neural networks with memory. Transactions of the American Mathematical Society 350（12）, 4799-4838 （1998））.     

Hopf Bifurcation on a Two-Neuron System with Distributed Delays: A Frequency Domain Approach

In this paper, a more general two-neuron model with distributed delays and weak kernel is investigated. By applying the frequency domain approach and analyzing the associated characteristic equation, the existence of bifurcation parameter point is determined. Furthermore, we found that if the mean delay is used as a bifurcation parameter, Hopf bifurcation occurs for the weak kernel. This means that a family of periodic solutions bifurcates from the equilibrium when the bifurcation parameter exceeds a critical value. The direction and stability of the bifurcating periodic solutions are determine by the Nyquist criterion and the graphical Hopf bifurcation theorem. Some numerical simulations for justifying the theoretical analysis are also given.     

Dynamics of a cantilevered pipe discharging fluid,fitted with a stabilizing end-piece

In this communication, the dynamics of a flexible cantilevered pipe fitted with a special end-piece is considered, both theoretically and experimentally. This end-piece can be configured in two ways: (i) with the flow going straight through, unimpeded, and emerging at the free end as a jet, and (ii) with the straight-through path blocked, so that the flow is discharged radially from a number of holes perpendicular to the pipe. The dynamics in the first case is similar to that of a pipe with no end-piece: the system loses stability by flutter via a Hopf bifurcation, though the dynamics becomes more complex at higher flow velocities. The dynamics in the second case is entirely different: the system remains stable over the full range of flow velocities considered. This study provides insight into the mechanism of flutter of cantilevered pipes conveying fluid and the key role played by the mathematically obvious but physically counter-intuitive compressive follower force generated by the straight-through discharging jet.     

Stability, bifurcation and chaos of a delayed oscillator with negative damping and delayed feedback control

This paper presents a detailed analysis on the dynamics of a delayed oscillator with negative damping and delayed feedback control. Firstly, a linear stability analysis for the trivial equilibrium is given. Then, the direction of Hopf bifurcation and stability of periodic solutions bifurcating from trivial equilibrium are determined by using the normal form theory and center manifold theorem. It shows that with properly chosen delay and gain in the delayed feedback path, this controlled delayed system may have stable equilibrium, or periodic solutions, or quasi-periodic solutions, or coexisting stable solutions. In addition, the controlled system may exhibit period-doubling bifurcation which eventually leads to chaos. Finally, some new interesting phenomena, such as the coexistence of periodic orbits and chaotic attractors, have been observed. The results indicate that delayed feedback control can make systems with state delay produce more complicated dynamics.     

CO-DIMENSION 2 BIFURCATIONS AND CHAOS IN CANTILEVERED PIPE CONVEYING TIME VARYING FLUID WITH THREE-TO-ONE INTERNAL RESONANCES

The nonlinear behavior of a cantilevered fluid conveying pipe subjected to principal parametric and internal resonances is investigated in this paper. The flow velocity is divided into constant and sinusoidai parts. The velocity value of the constant part is so adjusted such that the system exhibits 3:1 internal resonances for the first two modes. The method of multiple scales is employed to obtain the response of the system and a set of four first-order nonlinear ordinary-differential equations for governing the amplitude of the response. The eigenvalues of the Jacobian matrix are used to assess the stability of the equilibrium solutions with varying parameters. The codimension 2 derived from the double-zero eigenvaiues is analyzed in detail. The results show that the response amplitude may undergo saddle-node, pitchfork, Hopf, homoclinic loop and period-doubling bifurcations depending on the frequency and amplitude of the sinusoidal flow. When the frequency of the sinusoidal flow equals exactly half of the first-mode frequency, the system has a route to chaos by period-doubling bifurcation and then returns to a periodic motion as the amplitude of the sinusoidal flow increases.     

挤压油膜阻尼器－滑动轴承－刚性转子系统的稳定性及分岔行为

对挤压油膜阻尼器－滑动轴承－转子系统的稳定性及分岔行为进行了研究，由于该动力系统为一强非线性系统，具有复杂的非线性现象。本文采用Ｆｌｏｑｕｅｔ理论对其周期解的稳定性进行了计算分析：随着系统参数的变化，该系统将出现稳态周期解、准周期分岔、倍周期分岔。文中也对系统平衡点的稳定性进行了分析，讨论了其Ｈｏｐｆ分岔行为     

Design of piezoaeroelastic energy harvesters

We design a piezoaeroelastic energy harvester consisting of a rigid airfoil that is constrained to pitch and plunge and supported by linear and nonlinear torsional and flexural springs with a piezoelectric coupling attached to the plunge degree of freedom. We choose the linear springs to produce the minimum flutter speed and then implement a linear velocity feedback to reduce the flutter speed to any desired value and hence produce limit-cycle oscillations at low wind speeds. Then, we use the center-manifold theorem to derive the normal form of the Hopf bifurcation near the flutter onset, which, in turn, is used to choose the nonlinear spring coefficients that produce supercritical Hopf bifurcations and increase the amplitudes of the ensuing limit cycles and hence the harvested power. For given gains and hence reduced flutter speeds, the harvested power is observed to increase, achieve a maximum, and then decrease as the wind speed increases. Furthermore, the response undergoes a secondary supercritical Hopf bifurcation, resulting in either a quasiperiodic motion or a periodic motion with a large period. As the wind speed is increased further, the response becomes eventually chaotic. These complex responses may result in a reduction in the generated power. To overcome this adverse effect, we propose to adjust the gains to increase the flutter speed and hence push the secondary Hopf bifurcation to higher wind speeds.