On multiscale significance of Rice’s normality structure

The normality structure proposed by [Rice, J.R., 1971. Inelastic constitutive relations for solids: an integral variable theory and its application to metal plasticity. J. Mech. Phys. Solids 19, 433–455.] provides a minimal framework of multiscale thermodynamics. As shown in this paper, Rice’s multiscale thermodynamic formalism is exactly consistent with Ziegler’s essential notion [Ziegler, H., 1977. An Introduction to Thermomechanics, North-Holland, Amsterdam.] that the entire constitutive response is determined by the knowledge of two scalar potential functions: an energy function and a dissipation function. In Rice’s multiscale thermodynamic formulation, the variational equation relating macroscale and microscale thermodynamic fluxes and forces plays a central role and ensures the equality between microscale and macroscale dissipation rate. The variational equation can be further reformulated into a principle of maximum equivalent dissipation. Based on the variation equation, the transformation from microscale to macroscale is characterized by two linear transformations with the same corresponding matrix.     

Turbulent boundary-layer analysis using finite elements

The use of finite element methods for turbulent boundary-layer flow is relatively recent and of limited extent.¹ In the present study, we extend the group variable approach of Fletcher and Fleer^2,3 to treat turbulent boundary layer flows with heat transfer using a two-equation turbulence model. The main concepts in the formulations include a Dorodnitsyn-type transformation which uses a velocity component as the transverse variable, a ‘variational’ formulation for the transformed equations using special test functions and development of a two-equation turbulence model in terms of the turbulent kinetic energy and turbulence dissipation rate as additional field variables. Several numerical test cases have been examined comparing the results with finite difference calculations and comparing the two-equation turbulence model with an algebraic turbulence model.     

Modelling microstructure evolution in engineering materials

In this paper we describe a general thermodynamically consistent variational principle for the rate of evolution of microstructure, which considers the competition between energy dissipation and the rate of change of Gibbs free energy of the system. We describe how numerical and approximate analytical procedures can be developed from the variational principle. Two examples are presented which demonstrate the utility of the approach: the kinetics of precipitate growth in an elastically strained body and the influence of an elastic strain on interdiffusion in a two-component system. Within these examples we pay particular attention to the effect of changes of elastic stored energy on the evolution process. The sensitivity of the morphology of growing phases to the ratio of the driving forces arising from elastic and chemical considerations is explored.     

THE EXTREMITY LAWS OF HYDRO-THERMODYNAMICS

This paper presents the law of maximum rate of energy dissipa-tion in hydrodynamics and also in general continuum dynamicsas an addition to the classical conservation laws expressed inthe equation of continuity and the equations of motion.Thecorollary of the law is B(?)langer-B(?)ss theorem of minimum reser-ved specific energy in applied hydraulics.The mechanical energy dissipated is transformed into heatreserved in the substance.The rate of energy dissipation ata time at a given temperature gives rise to the increase in en-tropy production.Hence the maximum rate of energy dissipationsuggests itself the idea of reformulation of the second law ofthermodynamics that the rate of entropy production in mech-anical motion is always the maximum possible.The proposed extremity law in continuum dynamics has beenderived from the variational principle and the reformulatedsecond law of thermodynamics analyzed microscopically in thepaper.The two laws together form the extremity laws of hydro-thermodynamics.     

Variational principle for a viscous heat-conducting fluid with relaxation

In continuum mechanics a large number [1] of variational principles are known, but only some of them can be used for continua with energy dissipation and heat conduction. A classical example is the Helmholtz minimum energy dissipation principle for creeping motion. It is well known [1] that there is no holonomic variational principle from which the Navier-Stokes equations follow. Nevertheless, the local potential method [2], which represents a certain variational approach to obtaining these equations, has been developed. The disadvantages of this method include the dependence of the functional on the varied variables satisfying the Navier-Stokes equation, which, essentially, must also be obtained by minimizing the functional. Accordingly, the local potential method requires the use of a certain convergent iterative procedure that minimizes the functional. In this article an alternative approach is considered. The variational principle is holonomic; therefore its extremals are not solutions of the Navier-Stokes equations. However, it is possible to construct the unknown solutions by imposing simple constraints on the extremals obtained. This approach requires an extension of the space on which the varied variables are defined.     

一类平衡大气边界层边界条件研究

基于标准k-ε湍流模型,首先利用湍流粘度方程和剪切应力在整个边界层内恒定的假设,推导出一类耗散率表达式,并根据常用的湍动能入口剖面方程以及平均风速剖面方程,计算获得相应的耗散率方程;然后在输运方程中添加自定义源项,通过已经确定的平均速度方程、湍动能方程、耗散率方程计算得到相应输运方程的自定义源项表达式,并进行空风洞数值模拟,从而得到了一类满足平衡大气边界层的来流边界条件．通过将这种边界条件与由湍流平衡条件得到的边界条件进行比较,表明本方法获得的边界条件更适用．并且,本方法无需考虑修正壁面函数和修正湍流模型常数,因而计算更为简单,可为平衡大气边界层的研究提供一种新的思路．     

Performance of a probe for measuring turbulent energy and temperature dissipation rates

A probe consisting of four X-wires (a total of eight hot wires operated in constant temperature mode) and two pairs of parallel cold wires (operated in constant current mode) is in principle capable of providing simultaneous data for the instantaneous energy and temperature dissipation rates. To evaluate the performance of this probe, measurements have been made in decaying turbulence downstream of a grid/screen combination. The directly measured mean values of the energy and temperature dissipation rates are compared with those obtained from the streamwise decay rates of the mean turbulent energy and temperature variance. The probe also yields all three fluctuating vorticity components; after applying spatial resolution corrections, their spectra are in close agreement with isotropic calculations over nearly all wavenumbers. Both the vorticity variance and the mean energy dissipation rate exhibit the same power-law decay rate. Transport equations for the mean energy and temperature dissipation rates are satisfied to within ᆞ%.     

A unified residual-based thermodynamic framework for strain gradient theories of plasticity

A unified thermodynamic framework for gradient plasticity theories in small deformations is provided, which is able to accommodate (almost) all existing strain gradient plasticity theories. The concept of energy residual (the long range power density transferred to the generic particle from the surrounding material and locally spent to sustain some extra plastic power) plays a crucial role. An energy balance principle for the extra plastic power leads to a representation formula of the energy residual in terms of a long range stress, typically of the third order, a macroscopic counterpart of the micro-forces acting on the GNDs (Geometrically Necessary Dislocations). The insulation condition (implying that no long range energy interactions are allowed between the body and the exterior environment) is used to derive the higher order boundary conditions, as well as to ascertain a principle of the plastic power redistribution in which the energy residual plays the role of redistributor and guarantees that the actual plastic dissipation satisfies the second thermodynamics principle. The (nonlocal) Clausius-Duhem inequality, into which the long range stress enters aside the Cauchy stress, is used to derive the thermodynamic restrictions on the constitutive equations, which include the state equations and the dissipation inequality. Consistent with the latter inequality, the evolution laws are formulated for rate-independent models. These are shown to exhibit multiple size effects, namely (energetic) size effects on the hardening rate, as well as combined (dissipative) size effects on both the yield strength (intrinsic resistance to the onset of plastic strain) and the flow strength (resistance exhibited during plastic flow). A friction analogy is proposed as an aid for a better understanding of these two kinds of strengthening effects. The relevant boundary-value rate problem is addressed, for which a solution uniqueness theorem and a minimum variational principle are provided. Comparisons with other existing gradient theories are presented. The dissipation redistribution mechanism is illustrated by means of a simple shear model.     

基于广义非线性统一强度理论的隧道塌落拱分析

基于广义非线性统一强度的剪切破坏理论,在平面应变状态下,根据极限上限定理和隧道顶部的围岩塌落机制,在耗散能中引入了包含曲线型破裂面方程的目标函数,建立了围岩中任意断面的隧道顶部围岩的塌落机制。基于塑性位势理论,考虑塑性应变增量与塑性势函数的应力梯度成正比,由此得出了在速度间断线上任意点内能的耗散率;再运用虚功原理,建立内能耗散率和外力做功相等的关系式,从而通过变分原理得出了隧道顶部塌落面的解析表达式,由该表达式计算出隧道顶部塌落面的形状。以圆形断面隧道为例,对影响塌落拱形状的隧道半径和中间主剪应力系数等相关参数进行了讨论分析。由此得出:在平面应变状态下,隧道顶部围岩塌落体的宽度和高度随着中间主剪应力系数的不断增大而减小;塌落面的高度随着广义非线性统一强度参数的不断增大而增大,而塌落面的宽度则不断减小;塌落宽度和塌落高度随隧道半径的增大而增大。     

耗散系统的虚功变分不等式及其应用

对于保守系统,能量变分原理为推导力学系统控制方程提供了简洁的途径.对于耗散系统,控制方程的建立往往需要引入经验的或理性的假定,增大了建模的难度.针对耗散系统,引入系统局部稳定的概念,并在此基础上,提出一类虚功变分不等式.这一不等式事实上揭示了耗散系统的一类虚功不等原理.该原理的物理含义为:使系统状态稳定的必要条件是,在该状态附近所有可能的虚拟路径上系统释放的势能不大于系统耗散的能量.研究表明:仅需结合虚功不等原理和能量守恒原理,即可导出准静态系统力学状态量的全部控制方程.作为应用,文章重新讨论了塑性力学,结合虚功不等原理与能量守恒原理,导出经典塑性力学的全部控制方程,并证明了经典的最大塑性耗散原理可以作为虚功不等原理的推论导出;同时,以Mohr-Coulomb强度准则为例,讨论了虚功不等原理在强度理论中的应用,说明基于应力的强度准则可以是基于能量的稳定性准则的推论.上述例子说明了虚功不等原理的广泛适用性和在建立耗散系统控制方程中的有效性.     

Turbulence modulation in two-phase jets

A simple model is presented which can be used to predict the modifying effect of a dispersed-phase on the turbulence structure of two-phase jets. It is based on Kolmogorov's concept of spectral energy transfer and takes into account the additional energy dissipation resulting from the inability of dispersed-phase particles to completely follow turbulent eddy fluctuations. According to the analysis presented, high-frequency eddies are attenuated preferentially and a reduction of the total rate of turbulent energy dissipation results. Turbulence intensities were also reduced. Good agreement between predictions and experimental findings were obtained.     

Unified theory of variation principles in non-linear theory of elasticity

The purpose of this paper is to introduce and to discuss several main variation principles in nonlinear theory of elasticity——namely the classic potential energy principle, complementary energyprinciple, and other two complementary energy principles (Levinson principle and Fraeijs de Veu-beke principle) which are widely discussed in recent literatures. At the same time, the generalized variational principles are given also for all these principles. In this paper, systematic derivation and rigorous proof are given to these variational principles on the unified bases of principle of virtual work, and the intrinsic relations between these principles are also indicated. It is shown that, these principles have unified bases, and their differences are solely due to the adoption of different variables and Legendre tarnsformation. Thus, various variational principles constitute an organized totality in an unified frame. For those variational principles not discussed in this paper, the same frame can also be used, a diagram is given to illustrate the interrelationships between these principles.     

Semi-inverse method and generalized variational principles with multi-variables in elasticity

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Dissipation rate correction methods

Dissipation rates of the turbulent kinetic energy and of the scalar variance are underestimated when the measurement resolution of the small scales of a turbulent flow field are insufficient. Results are presented of experiments conducted in a salt-stratified water tunnel (Schmidt number ∼700). Dissipation rates are determined to be underestimated, and thus correction techniques based on velocity structure functions and mixed-moment functions are proposed. Dissipation rates in laboratory experiments of shear-free, grid-generated turbulence are determined from balance calculations of the kinetic energy and scalar variance evolution equations. Comparisons between the structure function and balance estimates of dissipation show that the corrections are O(1) for the kinetic energy dissipation rate, and are O(100) for the scalar variance dissipation rate. This difference is due to the lack of resolution down to the Batchelor scales that is required for a high Schmidt number flow. Simple correction functions based on microscale Reynolds numbers are developed for both turbulent kinetic energy and scalar variance dissipation rates. Application of the technique to the results of laboratory experiments of density stratified turbulence, sheared turbulence, and sheared density stratified turbulence yields successful corrections. It is also demonstrated that the Karman–Howarth equality (and the analogous Yaglom equation) that relates second and third-order structure functions to dissipation rates is valid for both unstrained (decaying grid-generated turbulence) and density stratified and sheared turbulence at least up to the magnitudes of strains of the current experiments Nt∼10, St∼10, respectively. This is helpful for it allows the use of these equations in the analysis of turbulence even when the large scale background profiles of velocity and scalar are unknown.     

时间尺度上Herglotz变分原理及其Noether定理

Herglotz变分原理的作用量是由微分方程定义的,不仅可以描述所有经典变分原理能够描述的动力学过程,还可以对经典变分原理不能适用的非保守系统或耗散系统进行变分描述．时间尺度上微积分理论提供了一种可同时研究离散系统和连续系统的有效方法．本文结合Herglotz变分原理和时间尺度微积分理论来研究时间尺度上的Herglotz变分原理及其Noether定理．首先,给出时间尺度上Lagrange系统的Herglotz变分原理．其次,根据Herglotz变分原理和Dubois-Reymond引理,推导出时间尺度上Lagrange系统的Herglotz变分问题的运动微分方程．再次,基于时间尺度上Hamilton-Herglotz作用量在群的无限小变换下的不变性,给出Noether对称性的定义并导出其Noether等式．最后,建立了时间尺度上Lagrange系统的Herglotz变分问题的Noether定理,给出了连续和离散两种情况下基于Herglotz变分问题的Noether守恒量．文末举例说明结果的应用．     

Direct numerical simulation of turbulence over resolved and modeled rough walls with irregularly distributed roughness

To simulate turbulent flow over a rough wall without resolving complicated rough geometries, a macroscopic rough wall model is developed based on spatial (plane) averaging theory. The plane-averaged drag force term, which arises through averaging the Navier–Stokes equations in a plane parallel to a rough wall, can be modeled using a plane porosity and a plane hydraulic diameter. To evaluate the developed model, direct and macroscopic model simulations for turbulence over irregularly distributed semi-spheres at Reynolds number of 300 are carried out using the D3Q27 multiple-relaxation time lattice Boltzmann method. The results show that the developed model can be used to predict rough wall skin friction. The results agree quantitatively with standard turbulence statistics such as mean velocity and Reynolds stress profiles with the fully resolved DNS data. Since velocity dispersion occurs inside the rough wall and is found to contribute to turbulence energy dissipation, which the developed model cannot account for, the developed model fails to reproduce dispersion-related turbulence energy dissipation. However, it is found that the plane-averaged drag force term can successfully recover the deficiency of dispersion-related turbulence energy dissipation.