Supercritical as well as subcritical Hopf bifurcation in nonlinear flutter systems

The Hopf bifurcations of an airfoil flutter system with a cubic nonlinearity are investigated, with the flow speed as the bifurcation parameter. The center manifold theory and complex normal form method are Used to obtain the bifurcation equation. Interestingly, for a certain linear pitching stiffness the Hopf bifurcation is both supercritical and subcritical. It is found, mathematically, this is caused by the fact that one coefficient in the bifurcation equation does not contain the first power of the bifurcation parameter. The solutions of the bifurcation equation are validated by the equivalent linearization method and incremental harmonic balance method.     

Complex dynamics of a harmonically excited structure coupled with a nonlinear energy sink

Nonlinear behaviors are investigated for a structure coupled with a nonlinear energy sink. The structure is linear and subject to a harmonic excitation, modeled as a forced single-degree-of-freedom oscillator. The nonlinear energy sink is modeled as an oscillator consisting of a mass,a nonlinear spring, and a linear damper. Based on the numerical solutions, global bifurcation diagrams are presented to reveal the coexistence of periodic and chaotic motions for varying nonlinear energy sink mass and stiffness. Chaos is numerically identified via phase trajectories, power spectra,and Poincaré maps. Amplitude-frequency response curves are predicted by the method of harmonic balance for periodic steady-state responses. Their stabilities are analyzed.The Hopf bifurcation and the saddle-node bifurcation are determined. The investigation demonstrates that a nonlinear energy sink may create dynamic complexity.     

Vibration reduction evaluation of a linear system with a nonlinear energy sink under a harmonic and random excitation

The nonlinear behaviors and vibration reduction of a linear system with a nonlinear energy sink(NES)are investigated.The linear system is excited by a harmonic and random base excitation,consisting of a mass block,a linear spring,and a linear viscous damper.The NES is composed of a mass block,a linear viscous damper,and a spring with ideal cubic nonlinear stiffness.Based on the generalized harmonic function method,the steady-state Fokker-Planck-Kolmogorov equation is presented to reveal the response of the system.The path integral method based on the Gauss-Legendre polynomial is used to achieve the numerical solutions.The performance of vibration reduction is evaluated by the displacement and velocity transition probability densities,the transmissibility transition probability density,and the percentage of the energy absorption transition probability density of the linear oscillator.The sensitivity of the parameters is analyzed for varying the nonlinear stiffness coefficient and the damper ratio.The investigation illustrates that a linear system with NES can also realize great vibration reduction under harmonic and random base excitations and random bifurcation may appear under different parameters,which will affect the stability of the system.     

Stability analysis of viscoelastic curved pipes conveying fluid

Based on the Hamilton' s principle for elastic systems of changing mass, a differential equation of motion for viscoelastic curved pipes conveying fluid was derived using variational method, and the complex characteristic equation for the viscoelastic circular pipe conveying fluid was obtained by normalized power series method. The effects of dimensionless delay time on the variation relationship between dimensionless complex frequency of the clamped-clamped viscoelastic circular pipe conveying fluid with the Kelvin-Voigt model and dimensionless flow velocity were analyzed. For greater dimensionless delay time, the behavior of the viscoelastic pipe is that the first, second and third mode does not couple, while the pipe behaves divergent instability in the first and second order mode, then single-mode flutter takes place in the first order mode.     

Limit cycle oscillation suppression of 2-DOF airfoil using nonlinear energy sink

This paper presents a novel mechanical attachment, i.e., nonlinear energy sink （NES）, for suppressing the limit cycle oscillation （LCO） of an airfoil. The dynamic responses of a two-degree-of-freedom （2-DOF） airfoil coupled with an NES are studied with the harmonic balance method. Different structure parameters of the NES, i.e., mass ratio between the NES and airfoil, NES offset, NES damping, and nonlinear stiffness in the NES, are chosen for studying the effect of the LCO suppression on an aeroelastic system with a supercritical Hopf bifurcation or subcritical Hopf bifurcation, respectively. The results show that the structural parameters of the NES have different influence on the supercritical Hopf bifurcation system and the subcritical Hopf bifurcation system.     

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.     

DYNAMIC STABILITY OF A BEAM-MODEL VISCOELASTIC PIPE FOR CONVEYING PULSATIVE FLUID

The dynamic stability in transverse vibration of a viscoelastic pipe for conveying pulsative fluid is investigated for the simply-supported case.The material property of the beam- model pipe is described by the Kelvin-type viscoelastic constitutive relation.The axial fluid speed is characterized as simple harmonic variation about a constant mean speed.The method of mul- tiple scales is applied directly to the governing partial differential equation without discretization when the viscoelastic damping and the periodical excitation are considered small.The stability conditions are presented in the case of subharmonic and combination resonance.Numerical results show the effect of viscosity and mass ratio on instability regions.     

NONLINEAR DYNAMICS AND SYNCHRONIZATION OF TWO COUPLED PIPES CONVEYING PULSATING FLUID

In this paper, the nonlinear dynamical behavior of two coupled pipes conveying pulsating fluid is studied. The connection between the two pipes is considered as a distributed linear spring. Based on this consideration, the equations of motion of the coupled two-pipe system are obtained. The two coupled nonlinear partial differential equations, discretized using the fourth- order Galerkin method, are solved by a fourth-order Runge-Kutta integration algorithm. Results show that the connection stiffness has a significant effect on the dynamical behavior of the coupled system. It is found that for some parameter values the motion types of the two pipes might be synchronous.     

Bifurcation of piecewise-linear nonlinear vibration system of vehicle suspension

A kinetic model of the piecewise-linear nonlinear suspension system that consists of a dominant spring and an assistant spring is established. Bifurcation of the resonance solution to a suspension system with two degrees of freedom is investigated with the singularity theory. Transition sets of the system and 40 groups of bifurcation diagrams are obtained. The local bifurcation is found, and shows the overall character- istics of bifurcation. Based on the. relationship between parameters and the topological bifurcation solutions, motion characteristics with different parameters are obtained. The results provides a theoretical basis for the optimal control of vehicle suspension system parameters.     

DYNAMIC ANALYSIS OF FLEXIBLE BODY WITH DEFINITE MOVING ATTITUTE

The nonlinear dynamic control equation of a flexible multi-body system with definite moving attitude is discussed.The motion of the aircraft in space is regarded as known and the influence of the flexible structural members in the aircraft on the motion and attitude of the aircraft is analyzed.By means of a hypothetical mode,the defor- mation of flexible members is regarded as composed of the line element vibration in the axial direction of rectangular coordinates in space.According to Kane’s method in dy- namics,a dynamic equation is established,which contains the structural stiffness matrix that represents the elastic deformation and the geometric stiffness matrix that represents the nonlinear deformation of the deformed body.Through simplification the dynamic equation of the influence of the planar flexible body with a windsurfboard structure on the spacecraft motion is obtained.The numerical solution for this kind of equation can be realized by a computer.     

Dynamics of a pipe conveying fluid flexibly restrained at the ends

The subject of this paper is the study of dynamics and stability of a pipe flexibly supported at its ends and conveying fluid. First, the equation of motion of the system is derived via the extended form of Hamilton׳s principle for open systems. In the derivation, the effect of flexible supports, modelled as linear translational and rotational springs, is appropriately considered in the equation of motion rather than in the boundary conditions. The resulting equation of motion is then discretized via the Galerkin method in which the eigenfunctions of a free-free Euler–Bernoulli beam are utilized. Thus, a general set of second-order ordinary differential equations emerges, in which, by setting the stiffness of the end-springs suitably, one can readily investigate the dynamics of various systems with either classical or non-classical boundary conditions. Several numerical analyses are initially performed, in which the eigenvalues of a simplified system (a beam) with flexible end-supports are obtained and then compared with numerical results, so as to verify the equation of motion, in its simplified form. Then, the dynamics of a pinned-free pipe conveying fluid is systematically investigated, in which it is found that a pinned-free pipe conveying fluid is generally neutrally stable until it becomes unstable via a Hopf bifurcation leading to flutter. The next part of the paper is devoted to studying the dynamics of a pinned-free pipe additionally constrained at the pinned end by a rotational spring. A wide range of dynamical behaviour is seen as the mass ratio of the system (mass of the fluid to the fluid+pipe mass) varies. It is surprising to see that for a range of rotational spring stiffness, an increase in the stiffness makes the pipe less stable. Finally, a pipe conveying fluid supported only by a translational and a rotational spring at the upstream end is considered. For this system, the critical flow velocity is determined for various values of spring constants, and several Argand diagrams along with modal shapes of the unstable modes are presented. The dynamics of this system is found to be very complex and often unpredictable (unexpected).     

Nonlinear dynamics of imperfectly-supported pipes conveying fluid

In this paper, the nonlinear dynamics of a pipe imperfectly supported at the upstream end and free at the other and conveying fluid is investigated. The imperfect support is modelled via cubic translational and rotational springs. The equation of motion is obtained via Hamilton’s principle for an open system, and the Galerkin method is used for discretizing the resulting partial differential equation. The dynamics of a system with either strong rotational or strong translational stiffness is examined in details. Numerical results show that similarly to a cantilevered pipe, the system undergoes a supercritical Hopf bifurcation leading to period-1 limit cycle oscillations. The Hopf bifurcation may, however, occur at a much lower flow velocity compared to the perfect system. At higher flow velocities, quasi-periodic and chaotic-like motions may be observed. The amplitude of transverse displacement is generally much higher than that for a cantilevered pipe, mainly due to large-amplitude rigid-body motion. In addition, effects of the mass ratio, internal dissipation, hardening- or softening-type nonlinearity, as well as concentrated- or distributed-type nonlinearity on the dynamics of the system are examined.     

Nonlinear dynamics of a fluid-conveying curved pipe subjected to motion-limiting constraints and a harmonic excitation

This paper investigates the dynamical behaviour of a fluid-conveying curved pipe subjected to motion-limiting constraints and a harmonic excitation. Based on a Newtonian method, the in-plane equation of motion of this curved pipe is derived. Then a set of discrete equations in spatial space obtained by the differential quadrature method (DQM) is solved numerically. Emphasis is placed on the possible dynamical behaviour of the curved pipe conveying fluid. The numerical results show that the pipe without motion-limiting constraints but with a harmonic force behaves as an ordinary linear system. If, however, the pipe is subjected to cubic motion-limiting constraints, nonlinear dynamic phenomena of the system will occur. Calculations of bifurcation diagrams, phase-plane portraits, time responses, power spectrum diagrams, and Poincaré maps of the oscillations clearly demonstrate the existence of chaotic and quasiperiodic motions. Moreover, it is shown that the route to chaos is via a sequence of period-doubling bifurcations.     

接地惯容式减振器对悬臂输流管稳定性 和动态响应的影响研究

输流管道广泛应用于机械、航空、核电和石油等重要工程领域.为防止管道结构因流致振动破坏造成的损失, 很有必要对其稳定性、动力学响应及其调控进行深入研究.本文提出一种由惯容器、弹簧和阻尼器并联组成的减振器模型, 研究了这种接地惯容减振器对悬臂输流管稳定性和非线性振动的影响. 首先, 基于哈密顿原理给出了带有接地惯容减振器非保守系统的非线性动力学模型; 然后, 利用高阶伽辽金方法对非线性方程进行离散化; 最后, 分别从线性和非线性角度分析了不同减振器参数下输流管道的被动控制效果, 着重讨论了惯容系数和减振器安装位置对悬臂管稳定性和动态响应的影响机制.线性理论模型的研究结果显示, 接地惯容减振器可显著影响悬臂管的失稳临界流速, 故通过调节减振器参数能有效提高输流管道的稳定性;惯容系数和弹簧刚度对系统稳定性的控制效果还与减振器的安装位置密切相关.非线性理论模型的分析结果显示, 惯容系数和减振器位置对输流管的非线性动态响应也有显著影响, 且这种影响还依赖于管道的流速取值; 在某些参数条件下, 减振器还可使输流管道由周期运动演化为复杂的混沌行为. 本文研究结果表明, 通过设计合理的惯容式减振器参数, 可提升悬臂输流管道的稳定性并有效抑制其颤振幅值.      

分布式运动约束下悬臂输液管的参数共振研究

输液管道结构在航空、航天、机械、海洋、水利和核电等工程领域都有广泛应用,其稳定性、振动与安全评估备受关注.针对具有分布式运动约束悬臂输液管的非线性动力学模型,分别采用立方非线性弹簧和修正三线性弹簧来模拟运动约束的作用力,研究了管道在脉动内流激励下的参数共振行为.首先,从输液管系统的非线性控制方程出发,利用Galerkin方法进行离散化;然后,由Floquet理论得出线性系统在失稳前两个不同平均流速下脉动幅值和脉动频率变化时的共振参数区域;最后,考虑系统的几何非线性项和分布式非线性运动约束力的影响,求解了管道的非线性动力学响应,讨论了非线性项及运动约束力对管道参数共振行为的影响.研究结果表明,系统非线性共振响应的参数区域与线性系统的共振参数区域是一致的,分布式运动约束力对发生参数共振时管道的位移响应有显著影响;立方非线性弹簧和修正三线性弹簧模型所预测的分岔路径存有较大差异,但都可诱发管道在一定的参数激励下出现混沌运动.      

Nonlinear vibration of slightly curved pipe with conveying pulsating fluid

The nonlinear governing motion equation of slightly curved pipe with conveying pulsating fluid is set up by Hamilton’s principle. The motion equation is discretized into a set of low dimensional system of nonlinear ordinary differential equations by the Galerkin method. Linear analysis of system is performed upon this set of equations. The effect of amplitude of initial deflection and flow velocity on linear dynamic of system is analyzed. Curves of the resonance responses about \(\varOmega \approx {\omega _\mathrm{{1}}}\) and \(\varOmega \approx \mathrm{{2}}{\omega _\mathrm{{1}}}\) are performed by means of the pseudo-arclength continuation technique. The global nonlinear dynamic of system is analyzed by establishing the bifurcation diagrams. The dynamical behaviors are identified by the phase diagram and Poincare maps. The periodic motion, chaotic motion and quasi-periodic motion are found in this system.     

Nonlinear dynamics of cantilevered pipes conveying fluid: Towards a further understanding of the effect of loose constraints

The nonlinear dynamics of a fluid-conveying cantilevered pipe with loose constraints placed somewhere along its length is investigated. The main objective of this study is to determine the effects of several geometrical and physical parameters of the loose constraints on the characteristics and behavior of pipes conveying fluid. Based on the full nonlinear equation of motion, the dynamical behavior of the pipe system is investigated. Phase portraits and bifurcation diagrams are constructed for a selected set of system parameters. Typical results are firstly compared to numerical ones reported previously and excellent agreement is obtained. Then, the threshold flow velocities for several key bifurcations including pitchfork, period doubling, chaos, and sticking behaviors are predicted, showing that in many cases, the gap size, stiffness, and asymmetry of the loose constraints have remarkable effects on the nonlinear responses of the cantilevered pipe conveying fluid. For a pipe system with small/large constraint gap sizes, small constraint stiffness, or large constraint offset, some of the complex dynamical behaviors including chaos and period-doubling bifurcations would disappear, at least in the flow velocity range of interest.     

Nonlinear dynamics of functionally graded pipes conveying hot fluid

For improved stability of fluid-conveying pipes operating under the thermal environment, functionally graded materials (FGMs) are recommended in a few recent studies. Besides this advantage, the nonlinear dynamics of fluid-conveying FG pipes is an important concern for their engineering applications. The present study is carried out in this direction, where the nonlinear dynamics of a vertical FG pipe conveying hot fluid is studied thoroughly. The FG pipe is considered with pinned ends while the internal hot fluid flows with the steady or pulsatile flow velocity. Based on the Euler–Bernoulli beam theory and the plug-flow model, the nonlinear governing equation of motion of the fluid-conveying FG pipe is derived in the form of the nonlinear integro-partial-differential equation that is subsequently reduced as the nonlinear temporal differential equation using Galerkin method. The solutions in the time or frequency domain are obtained by implementing the adaptive Runge–Kutta method or harmonic balance method. First, the divergence characteristics of the FG pipe are investigated and it is found that buckling of the FG pipe arises mainly because of temperature of the internal fluid. Next, the dynamic characteristics of the FG pipe corresponding to its pre- and post-buckled equilibrium states are studied. In the pre-buckled equilibrium state, higher-order parametric resonances are observed in addition to the principal primary and secondary parametric resonances, and thus the usual shape of the parametric instability region deviates. However, in the post-buckled equilibrium state of the FG pipe, its chaotic oscillations may arise through the intermittent transition route, cyclic-fold bifurcation, period-doubling bifurcation and subcritical bifurcation. The overall study reveals complex dynamics of the FG pipe with respect to some system parameters like temperature of fluid, material properties of FGM and fluid flow velocity.     

CHAOTIC TRANSIENTS IN A CURVED FLUID CONVEYING TUBE

I. INTRODUCTIONChaotic motion is a kind of reciprocal non-periodic motion caused by a deterministic system. Itis very sensitive to the initial conditions, apparently random and incapable of long-term prediction.Chaotic transient is such a motion that the system will undergo a final steady state, which is one ofseveral or much more possible steady motions of the system. But this final steady state is very sensitiveto the initial conditions of the system. As it is e?ected by many uncertain…     

Effects of supported angle on stability and dynamical bifurcations of cantilevered pipe conveying fluid

The effects of the supported angle on the stability and dynamical bifurcations of an inclined cantilevered pipe conveying fluid are investigated. First, a theoretical model of the pipe is developed through the force balance and stress-strain relationship. Second, the response surfaces, stability, and critical lines of the typical hanging system (H-S) and standing system (S-S) are discussed based on the modal analysis. Last, the bifurcation diagrams of the pipe are presented for different supported angles. It is shown that pipes will undergo a series of bifurcation processes and show rich dynamic phenomena such as buckling, Hopf bifurcation, period-doubling bifurcation, chaotic motion, and divergence motion.