Investigation of Friction in a Natural Cartilage-Microporous Ultrahigh-Molecular-Weight Polyethylene Pair

Investigation results for a friction pair incorporating a UHMWPE specimen with a microporous surface layer carrying an electret charge and a counterbody of an animal cartilage are presented. Based on the results obtained, theoretical and experimental bases for manufacturing metal-polymer unipolar heads of hip joint endoprostheses have been developed. The experimental results have proved that the modified polymer head of the unipolar hip joint excels the initial one when operated in a human organism.     

Analysis of the Stress State of the Surface Layer of a Polymeric Mass upon Filling of Bulky Compression Molds

The stress state of the surface layer of a polymeric mass during filling of bulky compression molds is analyzed. It is shown that, at particular rheological characteristics of the mass, temperature, and filling rates, cracking of the surface layer occurs, which leads to defects in the finished products. A physical analysis of this process makes it possible to conclude that the cracks arise due to the normal stresses operating in the front region of the moving polymeric mass. It is found that, under certain flow conditions, areas with a pressure lower than the atmospheric one appear on the surface of the polymer. If the tensile stresses arising in these local regions are higher than the tensile strength of the mass, the continuity of the composition is broken in the direction determined by the greatest rate of the normal deformation. To confirm the reliability of the crack-formation mechanism proposed, the distribution of the pressure and normal stresses over the free surface is calculated based on a numerical method. These calculations show that, by comparing the stress level achieved in the front region with the tensile-strength characteristics of the polymeric composition, it is possible to predict, with a sufficient accuracy, the possibility of crack formation in the surface layer of such a mass under given flow conditions and thus to solve the question on flawless manufacturing of products.     

湍流边界层内准流向发卡涡生成的数值模拟

采用根据共振三波理论模型建立的初始准二维流场和直接数值模拟方法,对湍流边界层近壁区流向涡的生成进行了研究．计算得到了准流向发卡涡和次生准流向涡结构的生成过程及其主要特征,讨论了它们的产生机理．作为相干结构的主要特征,利用共振三波理论模型对流向涡结构生成与演化过程的研究为湍流边界层内相干结构的研究与流动控制提供了新的途径和思路．     

采用可变边界层法削弱一类非线性变结构系统的抖振

针对一类非线性系统,提出一种削弱变结构控制系统抖振的新方法-可变边界层法,推导出变结构控制系统的稳态误差与饱和特性宽度之间定量的数学关系,通过系统的稳态误差指标可以设计出边界层宽度变化的饱和特性,从而既削弱了系统的抖振又满足系统稳态误差指标,仿真结果验证了该方法的有效性.     

超音速边界层中二维扰动的演化及小激波的产生

通过直接数值模拟的方法,对二维超音速边界层中扰动的演化进行了研究．以某一剖面作为入口,加入T-S波,研究小扰动波逐渐增长的演化过程．发现了扰动非线性演化的特征．探讨了二种判断激波存在的方法,证实了超音速边界层中当扰动达到一定的幅值时会有小激波出现．为建立可压缩流稳定性非线性理论提供一定的依据．     

湍流边界层外区扰动激发近壁区相干结构的一种机制

应用直接数值模拟的方法,研究了湍流边界层近壁区由于外区扰动的作用而导致相干结构产生的问题．结果表明:在湍流边界层近壁区的上边界存在的速度扰动,可以在近壁区内激发出相干结构,从而完善了单个相干结构的理论模型．     

夹杂与基体对界面层螺旋位错的干涉效应

研究圆形夹杂与基体对有限厚度界面层螺旋位错的干涉问题。结合复变函数的分区亚纯函数理论、施瓦兹对称原理与柯西型积分运算,发展了多连通域联结问题的一个有效分析方法,将3个区域应力函数的联结问题化归为界面层应力函数的函数方程,并求得了显式级数解。利用该结果,研究与讨论了界面层螺旋位错能与位错力。     

湍流边界层底层相干结构的一个理论模型*

本文采用非线性稳定性分析方法,研究了湍流边界层底层相干结干结构的成因.计算得到的增长最快的不稳定波的展向尺度与纵向尺度都与实验相符.这一分析的特点是采用了不同于湍流平均速度剖面的更合理的速度剖面作为稳定性分析的基础,并采用了新的非线性理论.文中结果有助于理解湍流边界层底层相干结构的拟有序现象.     

Surface tension stabilization of the Rayleigh-Taylor instability for a fluid layer in a porous medium

This paper studies the dynamics of an incompressible fluid driven by gravity and capillarity forces in a porous medium. The main interest is the stabilization of the fluid in Rayleigh-Taylor unstable situations where the fluid lays on top of a dry region. An important feature considered here is that the layer of fluid is under an impervious wall. This physical situation has been widely study by mean of thin film approximations in the case of small characteristic high of the fluid considering its strong interaction with the fixed boundary. Here, instead of considering any simplification leading to asymptotic models, we deal with the complete free boundary problem. We prove that, if the fluid interface is smaller than an explicit constant, the solution is global in time and it becomes instantly analytic. In particular, the fluid does not form drops in finite time. Our results are stated in terms of Wiener spaces for the interface together with some non-standard Wiener-Sobolev anisotropic spaces required to describe the regularity of the fluid pressure and velocity. These Wiener-Sobolev spaces are of independent interest as they can be useful in other problems. Finally, let us remark that our techniques do not rely on the irrotational character of the fluid in the bulk and they can be applied to other free boundary problems.     

On the smallest eigenvalue of the Stokes operator in a domain with fine-grained random boundary

This article deals with a problem arising in localization of the principal eigenvalue (PE) of the Stokes operator under the Dirichlet condition on the fine-grained random boundary of a domain contained in a cube of size t ? 1. The random microstructure is assumed identically distributed in distinct unit cubic cells and, in essence, independent. In this setting, the asymptotic behavior of the PE as t → ∞ is deterministic: it proves possible to find nonrandom upper and lower bounds on the PE which apply with probability that converges to 1. It was proved earlier that in two dimensions the nonrandom unilateral bounds on the PE can be chosen asymptotically equivalent, which implies the convergence in probability to a nonrandom limit of the appropriately normalized PE. The present article extends this result to higher dimensions.     

Implementation of a finite‐volume method for the determination of effective parameters in fissured porous media

Many studies have proposed one‐equation models to represent transport processes in heterogeneous porous media. This approach is based on the assumption that dependent variables such as pressure, temperature, or concentration can be expressed in terms of a single large‐scale averaged quantity in regions having very different chemical and/or mechanical properties. However, one can also develop large‐scale averaged equations that apply to the distinct regions that make up a heterogeneous porous medium. This approach leads to region‐averaged equations that contain traditional convective and dispersive terms, in addition to exchange terms that account for the transfer between the different media. In our approach, the fissures represent one region, and the porous media blocks represent the second region. The analysis leads to upscaled equations having a domain of validity that is clearly identified in terms of time and length‐scale constraints. Closure problems are developed that lead to the prediction of the effective coefficients that appear in the region averaged equations, and the main purpose of this article is to provide solutions to those closure problems. The method of solution makes use of an unstructured grid and a joint element method in order to take care of the special characteristics of the fissured network. This new numerical method uses the theory developed by Quintard and Whitaker and is applied on considerably more complex geometries than previously published results. It has been tested for several special cases such as stratified systems and “sugarbox” media, and we have compared our calculations with other computational methods. © 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Numer Methods Partial Differential Eq 16: 237–263, 2000