Tensorial generalized Stokes–Einstein relation for anisotropic probe microrheology

In thermal “passive” microrheology, the random Brownian motion of anisotropically shaped probe particles embedded within an isotropic viscoelastic material can be used to extract the material’s frequency-dependent linear viscoelastic modulus. We unite the existing theoretical frameworks for separately treating translational and rotational probe motion in a viscoelastic material by extending the generalized Stokes–Einstein relation (GSER) into a tensorial form that reflects simultaneous equilibrium translational and rotational fluctuations of one or more anisotropic probe particles experiencing viscoelastic drag. The tensorial GSER provides a formal basis for interpreting the complex Brownian motion of anisotropic probes in a viscoelastic material. Based on known hydrodynamic calculations of the Stokes mobility of highly symmetric shapes in a simple viscous liquid, we show simple examples of the tensorial GSER for spheroids and half-stick, half-slip Janus spheres.     

Analytic solutions for the generalized complex Ginzburg–Landau equation in fiber lasers

Nonlinear Dynamics - This paper presents a study on the energy exchange taking place on articulated helicopter main rotor blades. The blades are hinged, and the flap/lag modes are highly coupled....     

Boundary control of the generalized Korteweg–de Vries–Burgers equation

This paper considers the boundary control problem of the generalized Korteweg–de Vries–Burgers (GKdVB) equation on the interval [0, 1]. We derive a control law of the form and α is a positive integer, and prove that it guarantees L ²-global exponential stability, H ¹-global asymptotic stability, and H ¹-semiglobal exponential stability. Numerical results supporting the analytical ones for both the controlled and uncontrolled equations are presented using a finite element method.     

Stokes＇ first problem for a viscoelastic fluid with the generalized Oldroyd-B model

The flow near a wall suddenly set in motion for a viscoelastic fluid with the generalized Oldroyd-B model is studied. The fractional calculus approach is used in the constitutive relationship of fluid model. Exact analytical solutions of velocity and stress are obtained by using the discrete Laplace transform of the sequential fractional derivative and the Fox H-function. The obtained results indicate that some well known solutions for the Newtonian fluid, the generalized second grade fluid as well as the ordinary Oldroyd-B fluid, as limiting cases, are included in our solutions. The project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (10272067), the Doctoral Program Foundation of the Education Ministry of China (20030422046), the Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province, China (Y2006A14) and the Research Foundation of Shandong University at Weihai. The English text was polished by Keren Wang.     

A new interpretation for the dynamic behaviour of complex fluids at the sol–gel transition using the fractional calculus

We propose to analyse power law shear stress relaxation modulus observed at the sol–gel transition (SGT) in many gelling systems in terms of fractional calculus. We show that the critical gel (gel at SGT) can be associated to a single fractional element and the gel in the post-SGT state to a fractional Kelvin–Voigt model. In this case, it is possible to give a physical interpretation to the fractional derivative order. It is associated to the power law exponent of the shear modulus related to the fractal dimension of the critical gel. A preliminary experimental application to silica alkoxide-based systems is given.

Derivation of dynamic equation of viscoelastic manipulator with revolute–prismatic joint using recursive Gibbs–Appell formulation

Nonlinear Dynamics - In this paper, the motion analysis of a viscoelastic manipulator with N-flexible revolute–prismatic joints is being studied with the help of a systematic algorithm. The...     

Nonlinear boundary control of the unforced generalized Korteweg–de Vries–Burgers equation

In this paper, we consider the boundary control problem of the unforced generalized Korteweg–de Vries–Burgers (GKdVB) equation when the spatial domain is [0,1]. Three control laws are derived for this equation and the L ²-global exponential stability of the solution is proved analytically. Numerical results using the finite element method (FEM) are presented to illustrate the developed control schemes.     

Adaptive boundary control of the unforced generalized Korteweg–de Vries–Burgers equation

This paper deals with the adaptive control problem of the unforced generalized Korteweg?Cde Vries?CBurgers (GKdVB) equation when the spatial domain is [0,1]. Three adaptive control laws are designed for the GKdVB equation when either the kinematic viscosity ?? or the dynamic viscosity ?? is unknown, or when both viscosities ?? and ?? are unknowns. Using the Lyapunov theory, the L ²-global exponential stability of the solutions of this equation is shown for each of the proposed control laws. Also, numerical simulations based on the Finite Element method (FEM) are given to illustrate the analytical results.     

Extracting the stress–strain properties of non-linear viscoelastic materials using the bubble inflation test

In this study, an inverse method based on the Levenberg–Marquardt algorithm was evaluated in a numerical experiment to determine the large strain viscoelastic properties from the bubble inflation test. The properties were determined by iteratively matching the calculated bubble pressure–piston displacement data from finite element simulations to a single set of bubble pressure–piston displacement data. The strain-dependent behaviour was characterised by a two-parameter Mooney–Rivlin hyperelastic model, while the time-dependent behaviour was characterised by a three-parameter power law equation. Different initial guesses were used to evaluate the inverse method, and transformation functions were applied to constrain the intermediate guesses to be within bounds. It was found that estimates of the viscoelastic properties could be obtained reasonably using only one set of bubble pressure–piston displacement data. Estimates of the properties were likely affected by the limited time duration of the test, as the behaviour at shorter and particularly larger time scales was less accurately predicted.     

Lumps and rogue waves of generalized Nizhnik–Novikov–Veselov equation

In this paper, via generalized bilinear forms, we consider the (\(2+1\))-dimensional bilinear p-Sawada–Kotera (SK) equation. We derive analytical rational solutions in terms of positive quadratic functions. Through applying the dependent transformation, we present a class of lump solutions of the (\(2+1\))-dimensional SK equation. Those rationally decaying solutions in all space directions exhibit two kinds of characters, i.e., bright lump wave (one peak and two valleys) and bright–dark lump wave (one peak and one valley). In addition, we also obtain three families of bright–dark lump wave solutions to the nonlinear p-SK equation for \(p=3\).     

An immersed boundary vector potential-vorticity meshless solver of the incompressible Navier–Stokes equation

We present a strong form meshless solver for numerical solution of the nonstationary, incompressible, viscous Navier–Stokes equations in two (2D) and three dimensions (3D). We solve the flow equations in their stream function-vorticity (in 2D) and vector potential-vorticity (in 3D) formulation, by extending to 3D flows the boundary condition-enforced immersed boundary method, originally introduced in the literature for 2D problems. We use a Cartesian grid, uniform or locally refined, to discretize the spatial domain. We apply an explicit time integration scheme to update the transient vorticity equations, and we solve the Poisson type equation for the stream function or vector potential field using the meshless point collocation method. Spatial derivatives of the unknown field functions are computed using the discretization-corrected particle strength exchange method. We verify the accuracy of the proposed numerical scheme through commonly used benchmark and example problems. Excellent agreement with the data from the literature was achieved. The proposed method was shown to be very efficient, having relatively large critical time steps.     

Wronskian solutions and integrability for a generalized variable-coefficient forced Korteweg–de Vries equation in fluids

Under investigation in this paper is a generalized variable-coefficient forced Korteweg–de Vries equation, which can describe the shallow-water waves, internal gravity waves, and so on. With symbolic computation, the soliton solutions in the Wronskian form are derived based on the given bilinear form. Bäcklund transformation and Lax pair for such equation are also constructed. Variable coefficients and parameters of three solitons are managed to observe the features of the solitonic propagation and interaction, e.g., the solitonic velocity, amplitude and background. Our results could be expected to benefit the relevant problems in fluids.     

Different wave structures for the completely generalized Hirota–Satsuma–Ito equation

Under investigation is a completely generalized Hirota–Satsuma–Ito equation in (2 + 1)-dimensional. Multiple lump solutions are obtained based on three test functions, including 1-, 2- and 3-order lump solutions. Subsequently, the interaction between lump wave and solitary waves, and the interaction solution between lump wave and periodic wave are studied by using the bilinear form. Final, the stability and phase velocity are investigated. In order to analyze the dynamic behavior of these solutions, some 3D plots and contour plots are given by Mathematica.

     

Several new types of bounded wave solutions for the generalized two-component Camassa–Holm equation

Li and Qiao studied the bifurcations and exact traveling wave solutions for the generalized two-component Camassa–Holm equation $$\begin{aligned} \left\{ \begin{array}{l} m_{t}+\sigma um_{x}-Au_{x}+2m \sigma u_{x}+3(1-\sigma )uu_{x}\\ \quad +\rho \rho _{x}=0, \\ \rho _{t} +(\rho u)_{x}=0, \end{array} \right. \end{aligned}$$ \(m=u-u_{xx}, A>0\) . They showed that there exist solitary wave solutions, cusp wave solutions, and periodic wave solutions for the equation, and their analysis focused on the bifurcations when \(\sigma >0\) . In this paper, we first complement the bifurcations when \(\sigma <0\) by following the same procedure as that of Li, and then show the existence and implicit expressions of several new types of bounded wave solutions, including solitary waves, periodic waves, compacton-like waves, and kink-like waves. In addition, the numerical simulations of the bounded wave solutions are given to show the correctness of our results.     

On the viscoelastic characterization of the Jeffreys–Lomnitz law of creep

In 1958, Jeffreys (Geophys J?R Astron Soc 1:92–95) proposed a power law of creep, generalizing the logarithmic law earlier introduced by Lomnitz, to broaden the geophysical applications to fluid-like materials including igneous rocks. This generalized law, however, can be applied also to solid-like viscoelastic materials. We revisit the Jeffreys–Lomnitz law of creep by allowing its power law exponent α, usually limited to the range 0?≤?α?≤?1 to all negative values. This is consistent with the linear theory of viscoelasticity because the creep function still remains a Bernstein function, that is positive with a completely monotone derivative, with a related spectrum of retardation times. The complete range α?≤?1 yields a continuous transition from a Hooke elastic solid with no creep $\left(\alpha \,\to\, -\infty\right)$ to a Maxwell fluid with linear creep $\left(\alpha \,=\,1\right)$ passing through the Lomnitz viscoelastic body with logarithmic creep $\left(\alpha\, =0\right)$ , which separates solid-like from fluid-like behaviors. Furthermore, we numerically compute the relaxation modulus and provide the analytical expression of the spectrum of retardation times corresponding to the Jeffreys–Lomnitz creep law extended to all α?≤?1.     

Novel characteristics of lump and lump–soliton interaction solutions to the generalized variable-coefficient Kadomtsev–Petviashvili equation

Nonlinear Dynamics - With the inhomogeneities of media taken into account, a generalized variable-coefficient Kadomtsev–Petviashvili (vcKP) equation is proposed to model nonlinear waves in...