Control Problems for the Steady-State Equations of Magnetohydrodynamics of a Viscous Incompressible Fluid

Control problems for a steady-state model of the magnetohydrodynamics of a viscous incompressible fluid in a bounded domain with an impermeable, perfectly conducting boundary are formulated. The resolvability of the problems is studied, the use of the Lagrange principle is justified, and optimality systems are analyzed.     

Spatial Motion of a Rod in a Viscous Fluid Flow

Equations of spatial motion of a curved finitelength rod in a viscous fluid flow are derived. Analytical solutions of problems on the motion of a straight rod under conditions of pure shear, simple shear, and uniaxial extension of the fluid are obtained. Longitudinal stability of the straight rod during its spatial motion is considered. Effective viscosity of a suspension filled by rigid straight rods is evaluated.     

流体阻尼器中粘性发热的反馈作用与热平衡研究

主要针对长阻尼孔形式下的流体阻尼器进行分析,在三参数模型的基础上研究了流体粘性发热对流体阻尼力的反馈作用,从而建立了含热能转换与热交换的阻尼器的动力学模型,同时对系统的热平衡状态进行了分析。最后通过数值分析对该时变系统从时域和频域上讨论了粘性发热对隔振效果的影响,发现温度变化对共振频率的漂移及幅值大小的影响较大。     

Flow of a Nonlinearly Viscous Fluid over the Surface of a Rotating Flat Disk

The flow of a nonlinearly viscous (power-law) fluid over the surface of a rotating flat disk is investigated. A solution form which makes it possible to reduce the complete system of partial differential equations to a system of ordinary differential equations is found. This system is integrated using the Runge-Kutta method and reduction to a Cauchy problem on the basis of Newton's method. The velocity and pressure fields in a power-law fluid film flowing over the surface of a rotating flat disk are found numerically.     

壁面约束对柱状粒子在牛顿流体中沉降影响的研究

格子Boltzmann方法(LBM)直接数值模拟了在有壁面约束的流场中柱状粒子的沉降。结果说明粒子在壁面的影响下，会离开管壁向管中心移动，移动速度先是增大，然后随着与管壁距离的增加，逐渐减小，粒子中心最后并不一定停留在管中心。随着粒子与壁面距离的增加，粒子的沉降速度将增大，可见壁面对粒子沉降有阻碍作用，平行于粒子轴线的壁面对粒子沉降的影响比垂直于粒子轴线壁面的影响大。     

Flow Asymptotics of a Viscous Compressible Fluid with Discontinuous Initial Data

Asymptotics of a continuous solution to a plane problem on the motion of a viscous incompressible fluid with discontinuous initial velocity and pressure fields is studied by the boundarylayer method with simultaneous stretching of space and time coordinates.     

Steady Film Flow of a Highly Viscous Heavy Fluid with Mass Supply

Asymptotic models of a thin layer of highly viscous heavy incompressible Newtonian fluid are constructed for steady axisymmetric (plane) flow on a curved rigid surface with distributed or point mass supply on a surface section near the axis (plane) of symmetry. Examples of analytical and numerical investigations of the free-surface shape and hydrodynamic-parameter fields are given. The models constructed are generalized for the case of a viscoplastic fluid and solutions which can be used for describing extrusive volcanic eruptions are obtained.     

Bifurcation of a Main Steady-State Viscous Fluid Flow in a Plane Divergent Channel

The evolution of steady-state viscous incompressible fluid flows in a plane divergent channel is investigated. For the classical formulation of the Jeffery-Hamel problem a complete solution is given as a function of the determining parameters. For a fixed angle of divergence the behavior of the main unimodal flow is determined as a function of the Reynolds number. Critical values at which the flow pattern bifurcates and the steady-state unimodal flow ceases to exist are found. The mechanism of bifurcation is established and its diagram is constructed. This mechanism and the diagram were not previously known in the scientific literature in connection with the investigation of the Jeffery-Hamel problem. The critical Reynolds number at which bifurcation occurs is given as a function of the channel divergence angle. The results may be of interest for hydromechanical, technological, and geophysical applications.__________Translated from Izvestiya Rossiiskoi Academii Nauk, Mekhanika Zhidkosti i Gaza, No. 3, 2005, pp. 25–36.Original Russian Text Copyright © 2005 by Akulenko and Kumakshev.     

黏滞阻尼器在超高层结构体系中的效率研究

250m以上的超高层结构主要有框架-核心筒、框筒-核心筒和巨型框架-核心筒等三种结构体系．由于超高层结构的高宽比通常较大（5以上）,结构的侧向变形往往成为控制因素．随着消能减震技术的不断成熟,黏滞阻尼器越来越多的应用于建筑结构领域．本文分别将黏滞阻尼器均匀布置在上述三种超高层结构体系中,对比其消能减震效果并分析原因,最后建议了黏滞阻尼器在这些结构中的较优布置．     

Investigation of the Relative Motion of a Viscous Fluid and a Porous Medium Using the Brinkman Equations

Exact solutions are obtained for the following three problems in which the Brinkman filtration equations are used: laminar fluid flow between parallel plane walls, one of which is rigid while the other is a plane layer of saturated porous medium, motion of a plane porous layer between parallel layers of viscous fluid, and laminar fluid flow in a cylindrical channel bounded by an annular porous layer.     

Transformation of Long Nonlinear Waves in a Two-Layer Viscous Fluid Between a Gently Sloping Lid and Bottom

Dynamics of three-dimensional disturbances of the interface between two fluid layers of different densities is considered analytically and numerically. An evolutionary integrodifferential equation is derived, which takes into account long-wave contributions of inertia of the layers and surface tension, small but finite amplitude of disturbances of the interface between two incompressible immiscible fluids, gentle slopes of the lid and bottom, and nonstationary shear stresses at all boundaries. Numerical solutions of this model equation for several (most typical) nonlinear problems of transformation of two- and three-dimensional waves are obtained. __________ Translated from Prikladnaya Mekhanika i Tekhnicheskaya Fizika, Vol. 46, No. 6, pp. 45–57, November–December, 2005.     

Motion of a Rod in a Viscous Flow

The equations of the dynamics of a finitelength curved rod in a viscous flow are derived. The longitudinal stability of the rod against small deflections from a rectilinear form is studied for two types of flow (pure and simple shear). The minimum flexural rigidity of the rod that ensures rod stability for any orientation in the flow is found. The effective viscosity of a suspension filled with rectilinear discrete fibers is estimated.     

Hydrodynamic Load Associated with the Oscillations of a Cylinder at the Interface in a Two-Layer Fluid of Finite Depth

The results of numerically solving the linear problem of the small steady-state oscillations of a horizontal cylinder located at the interface between two fluids of different densities are presented. The hybrid element method is used. In this method the velocity potentials are represented by means of the finite element method in a narrow zone in the neighborhood of the body and by means of the boundary integral equations in the outer domain. The Green’s functions for an oscillating source in a two-layer fluid bounded from above by a free boundary and from below by an even horizontal bottom are derived. Numerical calculations of the apparent mass and damping coefficients are carried out for an elliptic cylinder beneath a free surface and for a cylinder with the cross-section in the form of a Lewis rib contour which floats on the free surface.__________Translated from Izvestiya Rossiiskoi Academii Nauk, Mekhanika Zhidkosti i Gaza, No. 2, 2005, pp. 122–131Original Russian Text Copyright © 2005 by Sturova and Syui.     

Stability of Poiseuille flow in the presence of a longitudinal magnetic field

The stability of the plane flow of an electrically conducting fluid with respect to small perturbations was studied at large Reynolds numbers in the presence of a longitudinal magnetic field. The dependence of the critical Reynolds number on the electrical conductivity is investigated. At large Reynolds numbers, a new branch of instability and a sudden change in the critical Reynolds numbers is found. __________ Translated from Prikladnaya Mekhanika i Tekhnicheskaya Fizika, Vol. 49, No. 3, pp. 45–53, May–June, 2008.     

Numerical modeling of the rotation of a solid body with a liquid-filled cavity having radial ribs

The boundary-value problem of unsteady vortex flow of a viscous incompressible fluid in a cylindrical vessel with radial ribs rotating at a variable angular velocity is solved using a finite-difference method. The results of the solution are used to calculate the motion of a system of a solid body and a cavity filled with a liquid. The results are compared with available experimental data. __________ Translated from Prikladnaya Mekhanika i Tekhnicheskaya Fizika, Vol. 48, No. 2, pp. 135–139, March–April, 2007.     

Evolution of Concentrated Vortices in a Viscous Fluid

Evolution of the vortices of monopole and dipole types in a viscous fluid is considered numerically. Theory and numerical results are compared for some particular exact solutions. A good agreement is obtained for the dipole vortices (viscous Chaplygin-Lamb vortices) moving with variable velocities due to viscosity. For the monopole type vortices, the agreement is more or less good only at an initial stage of their evolution; while in the long-lime asymptotics the law of vorticity decay other than the theoretical one is discovered. The reason for such a discrepancy is discussed. The interactions of dipole vortices with each other and with rigid boundaries are studied too. The stability of dipole vortices with complex internal structures is considered briefly.     

Effects of Viscous Dissipation on Unsteady Free Convection in a Fluid Past a Vertical Plate Immersed in a Porous Medium

The effects of viscous dissipation on unsteady free convection from an isothermal vertical flat plate in a fluid saturated porous medium are examined numerically. The Darcy–Brinkman–Forchheimer model is employed to describe the flow field. A new model of viscous dissipation is used for the Darcy–Brinkman–Forchheimer model of porous media. The simultaneous development of the momentum and thermal boundary layers are obtained by using a finite difference method. Boundary layer and Boussinesq approximation have been incorporated. Numerical calculations are carried out for various parameters entering into the problem. Velocity and temperature profiles as well as local friction factor and local Nusselt number are shown graphically. It is found that as time approaches infinity, the values of friction factor and heat transfer coefficient approach steady state.     

Interaction of a heavy fluid flow in a channel with a transverse jet barrier

An experimental and numerical analysis of the interaction between a plane horizontal water flow in a rectangular channel (free water current) and a plane thin water jet (water jet curtain) is presented; the jet flows out vertically from either a slot nozzle in the bottom of the channel or the crest of a rigid spillway at a velocity appreciably (several times) greater than the water velocity in the channel. Numerical calculations were carried out using the STAR-CD software package preliminarily tested against the experimental data obtained. The dependence of the water level in the channel at a certain distance ahead of the jet barrier on the main jet parameters and the water flow rate in the horizontal channel is studied. It is found that in the region of the interface between the flows both steady and unsteady (self-oscillatory) flow patterns can be realized. Steady stream/jet interaction patterns of the “ejection” and “ejection-spillway” types are distinguished and a criterion separating these regimes is obtained. The notion of a rigid spillway equivalent to a jet curtain is introduced and an approximate dependence of its height on the relevant parameters of the problem is derived. The possibility of effectively controlling the water level ahead of a rigid spillway with a sharp edge by means of a plane water jet flowing from its crest is investigated. The boundary of transition to self-oscillation interaction patterns in the region of the flow interface is determined. The structure of these flows and a possible mechanism of their generation are described. Within the framework of the inviscid incompressible fluid model in the approximate formulation for a “thin” jet, an analytical dependence of the greatest possible depth of a reservoir filled with a heavy fluid at rest and screened by a vertical jet barrier on the jet parameters is obtained.     

Interaction of Internal Gravity Current with an Obstacle on the Channel Bottom

The problem of hydrodynamic loads arising from the interaction of gravity currents with an obstacle on the channel bottom was studied experimentally. The gravity-current structure was visualized at the stage of formation and at the stage of interaction with the obstacle. The dependence of the propagation velocity of the gravity-current front on the nondimensional current depth and the Archimedes number was studied. In the region of self-similarity in the Archimedes number, the behavior of hydrodynamic-load coefficients was studied as a function of the nondimensional gravity current depth.__________Translated from Prikladnaya Mekhanika i Tekhnicheskaya Fizika, Vol. 46, No. 4, pp. 39–46, July–August, 2005.     

Analytical Solution for the Effect of Viscous Dissipation on Mixed Convection in Saturated Porous Media

A new analytical solution is introduced for the effect of viscous dissipation on mixed convection flow and heat transfer about an isothermal vertical wall embedded in Darcy and non-Darcy porous media with uniform free stream velocity. The effect of viscous dissipation on mixed convection in both regimes has been analyzed for both the aiding and opposing flows using Gebhart number, Ge _x =gx/c _p. The governing parameters are Re, Ra, Pe and Ge _x . The case of Re=0 corresponds to Darcy mixed convection region and Re/Pe is identified as the mixed convection governing parameter, Ra=0 leading to pure forced convection. A good agreement was found between the numerical and analytical solutions. It was found from the Nusselt number results that viscous dissipation lowers the heat transfer rate in both Darcy and Forchheimer flow regimes for aiding as well as opposing flows.