The mutual interaction of molecular rotation and translation

The dynamics of molecular rototranslation are treated with an equation of motion with a non-Markovian, stochastic force/torque. It is shown that this Mori/Kubo/Zwanzig representation is equivalent to a multidimensional Markov equation which may be identified with analytical models of the molecular motion. Langevin and Fokker-Planck equations for two such models are derived from the general equations of motion. The analytical results are compared with a computer simulation of the velocity/angular velocity mixed autocorrelation function, C _vω(t) = <v(0) . ω(t)> for a triatomic of C _2v symmetry.     

Zur Theorie der Teilchenbewegung in zeitabhängigen elektromagnetischen Feldern

The Langevin equation – i.e. the equation of motion for a charged particle including a collision term proportional to the particle velocity – is solved for arbitrary time-dependent electric and magnetic fields by a new general method. Instead of the usual ansatz: particle velocity = cyclotron velocity + drift velocity the method given makes the ansatz: particle velocity = tensor = cyclotron velocity. The unknown tensor obeys a simple differential equation of the first order which can be generally solved at once. This method is a modification of the variation of constants method for inhomogeneous differential equations. The electromagnetic fields considered must be spatially homogeneous; for (weakly) inhomogeneous fields an iteration procedure of Pytte (1962) may be applied. Some examples are discussed shortly. The Langevin equation treated is completely equivalent to the equation of motion in a magnetohydrodynamic one-fluid theory.     

Decoherence effects in Bose–Einstein condensate interferometry I. General theory

The present paper outlines a basic theoretical treatment of decoherence and dephasing effects in interferometry based on single component Bose–Einstein condensates in double potential wells, where two condensate modes may be involved. Results for both two mode condensates and the simpler single mode condensate case are presented. The approach involves a hybrid phase space distribution functional method where the condensate modes are described via a truncated Wigner representation, whilst the basically unoccupied non-condensate modes are described via a positive P representation. The Hamiltonian for the system is described in terms of quantum field operators for the condensate and non-condensate modes. The functional Fokker–Planck equation for the double phase space distribution functional is derived. Equivalent Ito stochastic equations for the condensate and non-condensate fields that replace the field operators are obtained, and stochastic averages of products of these fields give the quantum correlation functions that can be used to interpret interferometry experiments. The stochastic field equations are the sum of a deterministic term obtained from the drift vector in the functional Fokker–Planck equation, and a noise field whose stochastic properties are determined from the diffusion matrix in the functional Fokker–Planck equation. The stochastic properties of the noise field terms are similar to those for Gaussian–Markov processes in that the stochastic averages of odd numbers of noise fields are zero and those for even numbers of noise field terms are the sums of products of stochastic averages associated with pairs of noise fields. However each pair is represented by an element of the diffusion matrix rather than products of the noise fields themselves, as in the case of Gaussian–Markov processes. The treatment starts from a generalised mean field theory for two condensate modes, where generalised coupled Gross–Pitaevskii equations are obtained for the modes and matrix mechanics equations are derived for the amplitudes describing possible fragmentations of the condensate between the two modes. These self-consistent sets of equations are derived via the Dirac–Frenkel variational principle. Numerical studies for interferometry experiments would involve using the solutions from the generalised mean field theory in calculations for the stochastic fields from the Ito stochastic field equations.     

Burgers equation with self-similar gaussian initial data: Tail probabilities

The statistical properties of solutions of the one-dimensional Burgers equation in the limit of vanishing viscosity are considered when the initial velocity potential is fractional Brownian motion (FBM). We establish the asymptotic power-law order for log-probability of large values, both velocity and shock (amplitude of velocity discontinuity). This confirms the conjecture of U. Frisch and his collaborators. Rigorous results for this problem were previously derived for the case of Brownian motion using Markov techniques. Our approach is based on the intrinsic properties of FBM and the theory of extreme values for Gaussian processes.     

The Hamiltonian dynamics of the soliton of the discrete nonlinear Schrödinger equation

Hamiltonian equations are formulated in terms of collective variables describing the dynamics of the soliton of an integrable nonlinear Schrödinger equation on a 1D lattice. Earlier, similar equations of motion were suggested for the soliton of the nonlinear Schrödinger equation in partial derivatives. The operator of soliton momentum in a discrete chain is defined; this operator is unambiguously related to the velocity of the center of gravity of the soliton. The resulting Hamiltonian equations are similar to those for the continuous nonlinear Schrödinger equation, but the role of the field momentum is played by the summed quasi-momentum of virtual elementary system excitations related to the soliton.     

Elastic response of an orthogonally reinforced plate

This paper develops a three-dimensional fully elastic analytical model of a solid plate that has two sets of embedded, equally spaced stiffeners that are orthogonal to each other. The dynamics of the solid plate are based on the Navier–Cauchy equations of motion of an elastic body. This equation is solved with unknown wave propagation coefficients at two locations, one solution for the volume above the stiffeners and the second solution for the volume below the stiffeners. The forces that the stiffeners exert on the solid body are derived using beam and bar equations of motion. Stress and continuity equations are then written at the boundaries and these include the stiffener forces acting on the solid. A two-dimensional orthognalization procedure is developed and this produces an infinite number of double indexed algebraic equations. These are all written together as a global system matrix. This matrix can be truncated and solved resulting in a solution to the wave propagation coefficients which allows the systems displacements to be determined. The model is verified by comparison to thin plate theory and finite element analysis. An example problem is formulated. Convergence of the series solution is discussed. The frequency limitations of the model are examined.     

Broad band resonant light pressure

This paper treats the mechanical pressure of resonant light acting on a two-level system, where the degenerate magnetic sublevels are taken into account. The theory is developed with arbitrary relations between the quantization axis and the propagation and polarization of the light. Rate terms are obtained both for spontaneous and induced transitions; the requirements of incoherence put restrictions on the possible geometries of the experiment. The rate equations are restricted to motion along a light beam only; this one-dimensional case is simpler to handle. For small recoil velocities a Fokker-Planck equation is derived, and an adiabatic elimination procedure enables us to derive an equation for the velocity distribution of the total population. The assumptions and approximations are formulated and discussed.     

Post-Newtonian approximation for a rotating frame of reference

The field equations of general relativity are solved to post-Newtonian order for a rotating frame of reference. A new method of approximation is used based on a 3+1 decomposition of the equations. The results are expressed explicitly in terms of the gravitational potentials. The space-time is asymptotically flat but not locally flat. The space-time metric contains gravitational terms, inertial terms, and coupled gravitational-inertial terms. The inertial terms in the equation of motion are in agreement with terms obtained by other authors using kinematic methods. The metric and equation of motion reduce to those for an inertial frame of reference under a simple coordinate transformation. The total energy of a particle is given. For the restricted three-body problem this represents the relativistic extension of Jacobi's integral to post-Newtonian order.This article received an honorable mention from the Gravity Research Foundation for the year 1984—Ed.     

Post-Newtonian approximation for an accelerated,rotating frame of reference

The field equations of general relativity are solved to post-Newtonian order for a frame of reference having an arbitrary time-dependent, translational acceleration and an arbitrary time-dependent angular velocity. The derivation is based on a new 3+1 decomposition of the Einstein field equations and geodesic equation of motion. The resulting space-time metric and equation of motion contain gravitational terms, inertial terms, and coupled gravitational-inertial terms. These effects are expressed explicitly in terms of the Newtonian potential and standard post-Newtonian scalar and vector potentials. The physical meaning of the formulas derived is illustrated by application to a system of point-like gravitating masses. These results should be useful for the investigation of general relativistic effects in the analysis of real experimental measurements made with respect to a noninertial frame of reference, such as the surface of the rotating earth or an accelerated spacecraft.     

Continuity and momentum equations for moist atmospheres

The moist atmosphere with occurring precipitation is considered to be a multiphase fluid composed of dry air, water vapor and hydrometeors. These compositions move with different velocities: they take a macroscopic motion with a reference velocity and a relative motion with a velocity deviated from the reference velocity. The reference velocity can be chosen as the velocities of dry air, a gas mixture and the total air mixture. The budget equations of continuity and momentum are formulated in the three reference-velocity frames. It is shown that the resulting equations are dependent on the chosen reference velocity. The diffusive flux due to compositions moving with velocities deviated from the reference velocity and the internal sources due to the phase transitions of water substances result in additional source terms in continuity and momentum equations. A continuity equation of the total mass is conserved and free of diffusive flux divergence if the reference velocity is referred to the velocity of the total air mixture. However, continuity equations in the dry-air and gasmixture frames are not conserved due to the mass diffusive flux divergence. The diffusive flux introduces additional source terms in the momentum equation. In the dry-air frame, the diffusive flux of water substances and the phase transitions of water substances contribute to the change of the total momentum. The additional sources of total momentum in the frame of a gas mixture are associated with the diffusive flux of hydrometeors, the phase transitions of hydrometeors and the gasmixture diffusive flux. In the frame of total air mixture, the contribution to the total momentum comes from the diffusive flux of all atmospheric compositions instead of the phase transitions. The continuity and momentum equations derived here are more complicated than the traditional model equations. With increasing computing power, it becomes possible to simulate atmospheric processes with these sophisticated equations. It is helpful to the improvement of precipitation forecast.     

Symplectic random vibration analysis of a vehicle moving on an infinitely long periodic track

Based on the pseudo-excitation method (PEM), symplectic mathematical scheme and Schur decomposition, the random responses of coupled vehicle-track systems are analyzed. The vehicle is modeled as a spring-mass-damper system and the track is regarded as an infinitely long substructural chain consisting of three layers, i.e. the rails, sleepers and ballast. The vehicle and track are coupled via linear springs and the “moving-vehicle model” is adopted. The latter assumes that the vehicle moves along a static track for which the rail irregularity is further assumed to be a zero-mean valued stationary Gaussian random process. The problem is then solved efficiently as follows. Initially, PEM is used to transform the rail random excitations into deterministic harmonic excitations. The symplectic mathematical scheme is then applied to establish a low degree of freedom equation of motion with periodic coefficients. In turn these are transformed into a linear equation set whose upper triangular coefficient matrix is established using the Schur decomposition scheme. Finally, the frequency-dependent terms are separated from the load vector to avoid repeated computations for different frequencies associated with the pseudo-excitations. The proposed method is subsequently justified by comparison with a Monte-Carlo simulation; the fixed-vehicle model and the moving-vehicle model are compared and the influences of vehicle velocity and class of track on system responses are also discussed.     

The effect of the negative particle velocity in a soliton gas within Korteweg–de Vries-type equations

The effect of changing the direction of motion of a defect (a soliton of small amplitude) in soliton lattices described by the Korteweg–de Vries and modified Korteweg–de Vries integrable equations (KdV and mKdV) was studied. Manifestation of this effect is possible as a result of the negative phase shift of a small soliton at the moment of nonlinear interaction with large solitons, as noted in [1], within the KdV equation. In the recent paper [2], an expression for the mean soliton velocity in a “cold” KdV-soliton gas has been found using kinetic theory, from which this effect also follows, but this fact has not been mentioned. In the present paper, we will show that the criterion of negative velocity is the same for both the KdV and mKdV equations and it can be obtained using simple kinematic considerations without applying kinetic theory. The averaged dynamics of the “smallest” soliton (defect) in a soliton gas consisting of solitons with random amplitudes has been investigated and the average criterion of changing the sign of the velocity has been derived and confirmed by numerical solutions of the KdV and mKdV equations.     

Flexural and transversal wave motion in homogeneous isotropic thermoelastic plates by using asymptotic method

The present investigation is concerned with the flexural and transversal wave motion in an infinite, transversely isotropic, thermoelastic plate by asymptotic method. The governing equations for the flexural and transversal motions have been derived from the system of three-dimensional dynamical equations of linear theory of coupled thermoelasticity. The asymptotic operator plate model for free vibrations; both flexural and transversal, in a homogenous thermoelastic plate leads to fifth degree and cubic polynomial secular equations, respectively, that governs frequency and phase velocity of various possible modes of wave propagation at all wavelengths. All the coefficients of differential operator have been expressed as explicit functions of the material parameters. The velocity dispersion equations for the flexural and transversal wave motion have been deduced from the three-dimensional analog of Rayleigh-Lamb frequency equation for thermoelastic plate waves. The approximations for long and short waves and expression for group velocity have also been derived. The thermoelastic Rayleigh-Lamb frequency equations for the considered plate are expanded in power series in order to obtain polynomial frequency and velocity dispersion relations whose equivalence is established with that of asymptotic method. The dispersion curves for phase velocity, group velocity and attenuation coefficient of various flexural and transversal wave modes are shown graphically for aluminum-epoxy material elastic and thermoelastic plates.     

Effect of the ion slip on the MHD flow of a dusty fluid with heat transfer under exponential decaying pressure gradient

In the present study, the unsteady Hartmann flow with heat transfer of a dusty viscous incompressible electrically conducting fluid under the influence of an exponentially decreasing pressure gradient is studied without neglecting the ion slip. The parallel plates are assumed to be porous and subjected to a uniform suction from above and injection from below while the fluid is acted upon by an external uniform magnetic field applied perpendicular to the plates. The equations of motion are solved analytically to yield the velocity distributions for both the fluid and dust particles. The energy equations for both the fluid and dust particles including the viscous and Joule dissipation terms, are solved numerically using finite differences to get the temperature distributions.     

An integral equation analysis of the harmonic response of three-layer beams

The integral equations of harmonic motion have been derived and solved for three-layer sandwich beams with a constrained linear viscoelastic core. The method of solution required first the construction of the Green's vector for a beam in analytical form. Following this, the integral equations were derived and readily approximated by matrix equations which were finally solved numerically. In addition to this analysis, the corresponding eigenvalue problem has been solved so that the modal frequencies and the beam loss factor could be calculated directly. The integral equation analysis offers a fast and efficient alternative to the traditional methods based on the solution of the differential equations of motion. The method has been verified by comparison with experimental results for three-layer cantilevers and simply supported beams.     

两相湍流色噪声扩维法PDF模型及数值模拟

由颗粒运动的朗之万方程出发,对流体脉动速度采用扩维方法,得到两个不同层次的PDF输运方程.通过对颗粒运动方程求解和高斯分布假设,解决PDF方程的封闭问题,获得颗粒二阶矩模型,然后将颗粒应力方程简化成代数方程,建立代数应力模型.将对流扩散方程的有限分析法运用到求解两相流模型中,对壁面两相射流进行数值模拟,对比分析数值结果与实验结果.     

Algebraic decay in self-similar Markov chains

A continuous-time Markov chain is used to model motion in the neighborhood of a critical invariant circle for a Hamiltonian map. States in the infinite chain represent successive rational approximants to the frequency of the invariant circle. For the case of a noble frequency, the chain is self-similar and the nonlinear integral equation for the first passage time distribution is solved exactly. The asymptotic distribution is a power law times a function periodic in the logarithm of the time. For parameters relevant to the critical noble circle, the decay proceeds ast ^–4.05.     

Numerical modeling of wave development under the action of wind

Three-dimensional numerical modeling is performed for development of surface waves under the action of wind. The model is based on equations for potential motion of a fluid with a free surface, which are transformed to a curvilinear system of coordinates where the height is counted from the moving surface. The problem is solved in the doubly periodic domain by the Fourier method with calculation of nonlinearity using a high-resolution mesh (Fourier transform method). The three-dimensional elliptic equation for the velocity potential is solved as the Poisson equation by the marching method with iterations. The energy input from wind and the wave energy dissipation are introduced on the basis of the earlier developed and verified algorithms. The long-period evolution of the three-dimensional flow is demonstrated with the wave surface spectra and energy input and output spectra. The results are compared to the experimental data.