Shedding patterns of the near-wake vortices behind a circular cylinder

The unsteady incompressible Navier-Stokes equations have been accurately solved for the laminar flow past a circular cylinder in the Reynolds number range 50–200. A direct elliptic solver called the SEVP is used to rapidly advance the streamfunction in time, facilitating the overall convergence to the fully periodic or quasi-steady state. A new integral-series method is developed for the far-field streamfunction condition on a finite two-dimensional computational domain. The use of fourth-order Hermitian relations for the convection terms in the conservation-form vorticity transport equation has also contributed to the good comparison of the present results with the earlier experimental data. The vortex-shedding patterns visualized by the experimentalist are numerically reproduced here in the given Reynolds number range. Discussions that may be helpful in interpreting the behaviour of the shedding frequency are presented in the main text.     

Efficient computation of mean drag for the subcritical flow past a circular cylinder using general Galerkin G2

General Galerkin (G2) is a new computational method for turbulent flow, where a stabilized Galerkin finite element method is used to compute approximate weak solutions to the Navier–Stokes equations directly, without any filtering of the equations as in a standard approach to turbulence simulation, such as large eddy simulation, and thus no Reynolds stresses are introduced, which need modelling. In this paper, G2 is used to compute the drag coefficient c_D for the flow past a circular cylinder at Reynolds number Re=3900, for which the flow is turbulent. It is found that it is possible to approximate c_D to an accuracy of a few percent, corresponding to the accuracy in experimental results for this problem, using less than 10⁵ mesh points, which makes the simulations possible using a standard PC. The mesh is adaptively refined until a stopping criterion is reached with respect to the error in a chosen output of interest, which in this paper is c_D. Both the stopping criterion and the mesh‐refinement strategy are based on a posteriori error estimates, in the form of a space–time integral of residuals times derivatives of the solution of a dual problem, linearized at the approximate solution, and with data coupling to the output of interest. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Symbolic evaluation of coefficients in Airy-type asymptotic expansions

Computer algebra algorithms are developed for evaluating the coefficients in Airy-type asymptotic expansions that are obtained from integrals with a large parameter. The coefficients are defined from recursive schemes obtained from integration by parts. An application is given for the Weber parabolic cylinder function.     

可变焦列阵柱面透镜均匀线聚焦系统

用两个列阵柱面透镜与非球面透镜组成变焦线聚焦系统，能将入射激光束会聚成辐照均匀、长度连续可调的焦线，它可用于Ｘ光激光实验研究．文中详细分析了焦线上光场分布的情况，给出了物理光学分析的结果，并与巳有技术作了比较．     

Optimum design of vibrating cantilevers: A classical probem revisited

Optimum design of vibrating cantilevers is a classical problem widely used in the literature and textbooks in structural optimization. The problem, originally formulated and solved by Karihalloo and Niordson (Ref. 5), was to find the optimal beam shape that will maximize the fundamental vibration frequency of a cantilever. Upon reexamination of the problem, it has been found that the original analysis and solution procedure can be simplified and improved substantially. Specifically, the time-consuming inner loop devised for solving the Lagrange multiplier in the original work has been proved to be tolally unnecessary and thus should not be considered in the problem solution. This conclusion has led to a new set of simplified equations for the construction of iteration schemes. New asymptotic expressions for the optimum design solution have been obtained and verified by numerical results. Numerical analysis has shown a significant improvement in convergence rate by the proposed new procedure. Also some obvious numerical errors in the original paper have been identified and corrected.This work was suppoted in part by the University of Arizona Foundation and the Office of the Vice President for Research. The author is grateful to the reviewers for their valuable comments.     

Numerical exploration of new features on three-dimensional transition of a cylinder wake

The three-dimensional transition of the wake flow behind a circular cylinder is studied in detail by direct numerical simulations using 3D incompressible N-S equations for Reynolds number ranging from 200 to 300. New features and vortex dynamics of the 3D transition of the wake are found and investigated. At Re = 200, the flow pattern is characterized by mode A instability. However, the spanwise characteristic length of the cylinder determines the transition features. Particularly for the specific spanwise charac-     

Vibrations of a piezoceramic cylinder subject to nonstationary electric excitation

The paper proposes a method to solve the problem of vibrations of a radially polarized piezoelectric cylinder subject to nonstationary electric excitation. The dynamic electromechanical state of the cylinder is analyzed. The time-dependences of electric and mechanical characteristics are plotted. The distribution of these characteristics over the cross section of a short cylinder is examined. The region of end disturbances in a long cylinder is identified __________ Translated from Prikladnaya Mekhanika, Vol. 43, No. 3, pp. 73–79, March 2007.     

Wave Motions in a Two-Layer Fluid Driven by Small Oscillations of a Cylinder Intersecting the Interface

The plane problem of steady-state small oscillations of a horizontal cylinder located at the interface between two fluids of different densities and indefinite depth is considered in the linear formulation. Boundary integral equations for the surface source distribution are derived. The behavior of the distributed singularities at points of intersection of the body contour and the interface is investigated. The problem of oscillations of a circular cylinder is solved by the multipole expansion method. The apparent mass and damping coefficients of the radiation problem and the reflection coefficient of the problem of scattering of an impinging wave by a floating body are calculated.     

Free Vibrations of Transversely Isotropic Hollow Cylinders

An asymptotic process for evaluating the frequencies of free axisymmetric vibrations of transversely isotropic hollow cylinders is proposed. This process is developed in detail for a cylinder with hinge-supported ends and free lateral surfaces. The approaches which make it possible to construct algorithms for identifying their natural frequencies within the given interval are tested on model problems. The results from the Kirchhoff-Love and Ambartsumyan theories are compared with those from the 3D elasticity theory. In the first term of an asymptotic expansion, two frequencies coinciding with those obtained using the applied shell theory are found and a countable set of frequencies absent in this theory is determined.     

横观各向同性圆柱体自由振动的弹性力学解

本文由横观各向同性的弹性力学方程出发，研究有限长圆柱体的自由振动问题。利用文献「１」的通解，将位移分量和应力分量分别表达成傅里叶－塞尔级数和双曲－贝塞尔级数的形式。通过边界条件和级数的正交关系，得到关于有限长圆柱自由振动频率的特征方程。利用数值方法求解特征根，从而得到圆柱体三维振动的自振频率。