On the sensitive dynamical system and the transition from the apparently deterministic process to the completely random process

The detailed analysis of the dynamical process of coin tossing is made. Through calculations, it is illustrated how and why the result is extremely sensitive to the initial conditions. It is also shown that, as the initial height of the mass center of the coin increases, the final configuration, i.e. head or tail, becomes more and more sensitive to the initial parameters (the initial velocity angular velocity, and the initial orientation), the coefficient of the air drag, and the energy absorption factor of the surface on which the coin bounces. If we keep the head upward initially but allow a small range for the change of some other initial parameters, the frequency that the final configuration is head, would be 1 if the initial height h of the mass center is sufficiently small, and would be clo to 1/2 if h is sufficiently large. An interesting question is how this frequency changes continuously from 1 to 1/2 as h increases. Detailed calculations show that such a transition is very similar to the transition from laminar to turbulent flows. A basic difference between the transition stage and the completely random stage is indicated: In the completely random stage, the deterministic process of the individual case is extremely sensitive to the initial conditions and the dynamical parameters, out the statistical properties of the ensemble are insensitive to the small changes of the initial conditions and the dynamical parameters. On the contrary, in the transition stage, both the deterministic process of the individual case and the statistical properties of the ensemble are sensitive to the initial conditions and the dynamical parameters. The mechanism for this feature of the transition stage is the existence of the long-train structure in the parameter space. The illuminations of this analysis on some other random phenomena are discussed.     

Exact Solutions of the Hydrodynamic Equations Derived from Partially Invariant Solutions

The paper proposes a heuristic approach to constructing exact solutions of the hydrodynamic equations based on the specificity of these equations. A number of systems of hydrodynamic equations possess the following structure: they contain a reduced system of n equations and an additional equation for an extra function w. In this case, the reduced system, in which w = 0, admits a Lie group G. Taking a certain partially invariant solution of the reduced system with respect to this group as a seed:rdquo; solution, we can find a solution of the entire system, in which the functional dependence of the invariant part of the seed solution on the invariants of the group G has the previous form. Implementation of the algorithm proposed is exemplified by constructing new exact solutions of the equations of rotationally symmetric motion of an ideal incompressible liquid and the equations of concentrational convection in a plane boundary layer and thermal convection in a rotating layer of a viscous liquid.     

Direct derivation of the two-shaft system balance conditions for the second order reciprocal inertia forces on the V-type eight cylinders internal combustion engines with a plane crankshaft

By employing the four shafts balance concept paper [1] has reported a balance regime for the second order reciprocal inertia forces on the V-type eight cylinder internal combustion engines with a plane crankshaft. Thereafter, paper [2] has acquired a two-shafts balance regime, but through a rather tedious roudabout degenerating manipulation. The present article has, but starting out directly from the two-shafts balance concept, successfully acquired the same results as those in paper [2]. In addition, we propose, herein, a third balance system which might be, in general, called the slipper balance regime.     

Das erweiterte Korrespondenzgesetz für die dynamische Idealviskosität und die Idealwärmeleitfähigkeit reiner Stoffe

Zusammenfassung Zur Berechnung der dynamischen Idealviskosität Ideal (T) und der Idealwärmeleitfähigkeit ideal (T) benötigt man die kritische TemperaturT _kr, das kritische spezifische Volum _kr, die MolmasseM, den kritischen Parameter _kr und die molare isochore WärmekapazitätC _v(T). Sowohl das theoretisch, als auch das empirisch abgeleitete erweiterte Korrespondenzgesetz ergeben eine für praktische Zwecke ausreichende Genauigkeit für die Meßwertwiedergabe, die bei den assoziierenden Stoffen und den Quantenstoffen jedoch geringer ist als bei den Normalstoffen.

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The extended correspondence law for the ideal dynamic viscosity and the ideal thermal conductivity of pure substances

For the calculation of the ideal dynamic viscosity Ideal (T) and the ideal thermal conductivity ideal (T) the critical temperatureT _kr, the critical specific volumev _kr, the molecular massM, the critical parameter _kr, and the molar isochoric heat capacityC _v(T) is needed. Not only the theoretically determined but also the empirically determined extended correspondence law gives for practical use a good representation of the measured data, which for the associating substances and the quantum substances is not so good as for the normal substances.

     

About the “normal growth” approximation in the dynamical theory of phase transitions

Nonequilibrium phase transitions can often be modeled by a surface of discontinuity propagating into a metastable region. The physical hypothesis of normal growth presumes a linear relation between the velocity of the phase boundary and the degree of metastability. The phenomenological coefficient, which measures the mobility of the phase boundary, can either be taken from experiment or obtained from an appropriate physical model. This linear approximation is equivalent to assuming the surface entropy production (caused by the kinetic dissipation in a transition layer) to be quadratic in a mass flux.In this paper we investigate the possibility of deducing the normal growth approximation from the viscosity-capillarity model which incorporates both strain rates and strain gradients into constitutive functions. Since this model is capable of describing fine structure of a thick advancing phase boundary, one can derive, rather than postulate, a kinetic relation governing the mobility of the phase boundary and check the validity of the normal growth approximation.We show that this approximation is always justified for sufficiently slow phase boundaries and calculate explicitly the mobility coefficient. By using two exact solutions of the structure problem we obtained unrestricted kinetic equations for the cases of piecewise linear and cubic stress-strain relations. As we show, the domain of applicability of the normal growth approximation can be infinitely small when the effective viscosity is close to zero or the internal capillary length scale tends to infinity. This singular behavior is related to the existence of two regimes for the propagation of the phase boundary — dissipation dominated and inertia dominated.     

Design of a Beam with Controllable Force Elements

A method for solving the problem of design of an intellectual structure formulated for the pair optimal position of actuators, optimal control of actuators is developed. In the method proposed, physical and logical objects are treated as equivalent.     

Electrode layers in flows of an inviscid plasma with good conductivity

The structure of the electromagnetic electrode layers that are produced in flows across a magnetic field by a completely ionized and inviscid plasma with good conductivity and a high magnetic Reynolds number is examined in a linear approximation. Flow past a corrugated wall and flow in a plane channel of slowly varying cross section with segmented electrodes are taken as specific examples. The possibility is demonstrated of the formation of nondissipative electrode layers with thicknesses on the order of the Debye distance or electron Larmor radius and of dissipative layers with thicknesses on the order of the skin thickness, as calculated from the diffusion rate in a magnetic field [2].In plasma flow in a transverse magnetic field, near the walls, along with the gasdynamie boundary layers, which owe their formation to viscosity, thermal conductivity, etc. (because of the presence of electromagnetic fields, their structures may vary considerably from that of ordinary gasdynamic layers), proper electromagnetic boundary layers may also be produced. An example of such layers is the Debye layer in which the quasi-neutrality of the plasma is upset. No less important, in a number of cases, is the quasi-neutral electromagnetic boundary layer, in which there is an abrupt change in the frozen-in parameter k=B/p (B is the magnetic field and p is the density of the medium). This layer plays a special role when we must explicitly allow for the Hall effect and the related formation of a longitudinal electric field (in the direction of the veloeiryv of the medium). We will call this the magnetic layer. The magnetic boundary layer can be dissipative as well as noudissipative (see below). The dissipative magnetic layer has been examined in a number of papers: for an incompressible medium with a given motion law in [1], for a compressible medium with good conductivity in [2], and with poor conductivity in [3]. In the present paper, particular attention will be devoted to nondissipative magnetic boundary layers.     

Second order phase equilibrium for classical bodies

Summary In this note the Author, recalling a previous work[15], gives a new formulation of second order phase equilibria for classical bodies such as those defined by Truesdell and Toupin in[8].The Author arrives at three equivalent systems of partial differential equations (generalized Ehrenfest equations), the conditions for whose integration are shown to be always satisfied.Finally, as particular cases, the equations ruling the phase equilibria for classical fluids and for n component-classical fluid mixtures are given.

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Sommario In questa nota l'Autore, rifacendosi ad un lavoro precedente[15], presenta una nuova formulazione degli equilibri di fase del secondo ordine per corpi classici come quelli definiti da Truesdell e Toupin in[8].L'Autore perviene a tre sistemi equivalenti di equazioni alle derivate parziali (equazioni di Ehrenfest generalizzate) dei quali viene dimostrata la integrabilità.Infine, come casi particolari, si ottengono le equazioni che governano l'equilibrio di fase per fluidi classici e per miscele fluide classiche ad n componenti.

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This work was supported by the Gruppo Nazionale per la Fisica Matematica of C.N.R.     

Some general rheological properties of dilute polymer solutions predicted from intrinsic viscosity measurements

Expressions for the rheological properties of dilute polymer solutions at low and moderate deformation rates are established through the computation and analysis of exact Zimm's eigenvalues. It is shown that they can be expressed in terms of measurable parameters from intrinsic viscosity data. Under moderate deformation rates one needs to introduce a slippage between the solvent and the smoothed polymer to be able to describe shear-thinning behaviour.     

Buckled states of a spherical shell under uniform external pressure

A method is outlined to obtain the preferred buckled states of a (complete) spherical shell under uniform external pressure. The shell model investigated is that of the John equations, a system of six nonlinear partial differential equations. Methods in bifurcation theory and group representations are used to reduce the problem to a finite-dimensional problem whose solutions generate buckled states that are preferred in a certain least-energy sense. Asymptotic methods and Newton's method are used in some special cases to relate the preferred buckled states obtained by the above approach to actual buckled states observed in experimental studies.G. H. Knightly's research was supported in part by the U.S. National Science Foundation Grants No. MCS 77-04927 and No. MCS 79-03555; that of D. Sather, in part by U.S. National Science Foundation Grant No. MCS 78-02140 and in part by the Council on Research and Creative Work of the University of Colorado.     

On elastic-plastic structures with associated stress-strain relations allowing for work softening

Summary For the elementary (finite or infinitesimal) constituents of the structure are assumed generalized stress-strain relations which satisfy the condition of normality but which may exhibit work-softening, concavity of yield surfaces, variation of elastic coefficients with stress and/or plastic strain.The usual phenomena of geometric instability are excluded. Sufficient conditions are formulated for overall stability in spite of the presence of unstable elements, and for uniqueness of the incremental boundary-values problem. Conditions are discussed with a view to applications and expressed in terms of positive definiteness of appropriate quadratic forms.Finally, yield surfaces and flow laws for the structure are examined, and among other things their necessary association is shown.

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Sommario Per i costituenti elementari (finiti o infinitesimi) della struttura si assumono legami incrementali tra sforzi e deformazioni generalizzati che soddisfano alla condizione di normalità ma che per il resto sono generici, cioè tali da presentare eventualmente incrudimento negativo, concavità del campo elastico, variazione dei coefficienti elastici con gli sforzi e/o con le deformazioni plastiche.Esclusi per il sistema i fenomeni usuali di instabilità geometrica si formulano condizioni sufficienti per la stabilità del complesso nonostante la presenza di parti a funzionamento instabile, e per l'unicità del problema incrementale al contorno. Le condizioni sono discusse in vista delle applicazioni ed espresse in termini di definizione positiva di forme quadratiche opportune.Si esaminano infine le superfici di snervamento e le leggi di scorrimento per l'intera struttura e, tra l'altro, se ne dimostra la necessaria associazione.

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First published in Italian in Rendiconti dell'Istituto Lombardo Classe Scienze e Lettere, A 100, 1966.The present investigation has been promoted and financed by the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (C.N.R.) at the Istituto di Scienza delle Costruzioni of the Facoltà di Architettura, Politecnico of Milano. Part of it was carried out at Brown University (Providence R. I. - U.S.A.). The author acknowledges with tanks the NATO Fellowship assigned by the C.N.R. in 1964, the encouragement and kind hospitality he received from Professor D.C. Drucker, and the interesting discussions he had with Professor Drucker and Dr. A. C. Palmer.     

Group Classification of Equations of the Form y″ = f(x,y)

The problem of classification of ordinary differential equations of the form y = f(x,y) by admissible local Lie groups of transformations is solved. Standard equations are listed on the basis of the equivalence concept. The classes of equations admitting a oneparameter group and obtained from the standard equations by invariant extension are described.     

The geometry of the „cones“ used in cone- and-plate viscometers

Summary The geometry of eighteen cones used in two commercial cone- and-plate viscometers has been determined by measuring the profiles along four radii at right angles to each other. It is found that the cones are not truly conical and that there is considerable uncertainty in assigning a value to the cone angle and to the position of the apex. Large differences were also found between the calculated mean values and those quoted by the manufacturers. Thus the latter values should not be used without confirmation. The effect of these results on viscosity determination is discussed.     

First order phase equilibrium for classical bodies

Summary In this note the Author gives a general and unified treatment of first order phase equilibria for classical bodies like those considered by Truesdell and Toupin in[3].The Author reaches a system of partial differential equations (generalized Clapeyron equations) the conditions of whose solution are shown always to be satisfied.In particular, the Author derives the equations governing the polarized phase equilibrium for a fluid.Besides the equations ruling the phase equilibrium for a two phase n-component fluid mixture are given and the equivalence with the statical Gibbs-Duhem relation is shown.

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Sommario In questa nota l'Autore presenta una trattazione generale ed unificata degli equilibri di fase del primo ordine per corpi classici come quelli definiti da Truesdell e Toupin in[3].L'Autore perviene ad un sistema di equazioni alle derivate parziali (equazioni di Clapeyron generalizzate) del quale si dimostra la integrabilità.In particolare, si deducono le equazioni che governano gli equilibri di fase polarizzati.Inoltre si ottengono le equazioni che regolano l'equilibrio di fase per una miscela fluida a n componenti; in questo caso si dimostra l'equivalenza delle equazioni con la relazione statica di Gibbs-Duhem.

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This work was supported by the Gruppo Nazionale per la Fisica Matematica of C.N.R.     

On Full Two-Scale Expansion of the Solutions of Nonlinear Periodic Rapidly Oscillating Problems and Higher-Order Homogenised Variational Problems

We consider a scalar quasilinear equation in the divergence form with periodic rapid oscillations, which may be a model of, e.g., nonlinear conducting, dielectric, or deforming in a restricted way hardening elastic-plastic composites, with outer periodicity conditions of a fixed large period. Under some natural growth assumptions on the stored-energy function, we construct for uniformly elliptic problems a full two-scale asymptotic expansion, which has a precise double-series structure, separating the slow and the fast variables in all orders, so that its slowly varying part solves asymptotically an infinite-order homogenised equation (cf. Bakhvalov, N.S., Panasenko, G.P.: Homogenisation: Averaging Processes in Periodic Media. Nauka, Moscow, 1984 (in Russian); English translation: Kluwer, 1989), and whose higher-order terms depend on the higher gradients of the slowly varying part. We prove the error bound, i.e., that the truncated asymptotic expansion is higher-order close to the actual solution in appropriate norms. The approach is extended to a non-uniformly elliptic case: for two-dimensional power-law potentials we prove the non-degeneracy using topological index methods. Examples and explicit formulae for the higher-order terms are given. In particular, we prove that the first term in the higher-order homogenised equations is related to the first-order corrector to the mean flux, and has in general the form of a fully nonlinear operator which is quadratic with respect to its highest (second) derivative being a linear combination of the second minors of the Hessian with coefficients depending on the first gradient, and in dimension two is of Monge-Ampère type. We show that this term is present at least for some examples (three-phase power-law laminates).In the second part of the paper we extend to this nonlinear context some of the results previously developed by us in the linear case (Smyshlyaev, V.P., Cherednichenko, K.D. J. Mech. Phys. Solids 48, 1325–1357, 2000). In particular, we prove that the slowly varying part of the full asymptotic expansion is the rigorous asymptotics in all orders for the translationally averaged actual solution and flux, or in the sense of a higher-order version of the weak convergence. We then explore to what extent the method of variational truncation of the infinite-order homogenised equation, successfully implemented by us in the linear context in the previous work for constructing explicit higher-order homogenised equations, is extendable to the nonlinear regime. We propose a natural extension and prove that at least under some further natural non-degeneracy assumptions it has a solution (the existence), and that any such solution is close to the actual solution in appropriate norms.Acknowledgement We acknowledge the support of the Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Bath, U.K. and partial support of the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge, U.K. KDC also acknowledges the support of St. Johns College, Oxford, U.K. and thanks the Mathematical Institute, Oxford for its hospitality.     

Über die Übertragungseinheiten und ein „Vierfelderdiagramm” zur Berechnung von Wärmeübertragern

Zusammenfassung Es wird dargelegt, wie man nach Einführung des bekannten Begriffes Übertragungseinheit und mit Hilfe eines Vierfelderdiagramms zu einer relativ einfachen und durchsichtigen Berechnung von Gleich- und Gegenstrom-Wärmeübertragern gelangt.

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On transfer units and a four-quadrant-diagram for the calculation of heat exchangers

It is shown that the introduction of the known concept of a transfer unit and the use of a four-quadrant diagram leads to a relatively simple and clear computation method for co-current and counter-current heat exchangers.

     

Sources of Complexity in Human Systems

Complex is a special attribute we can give to many kinds of systems. Although it is used often as a synonym of difficult, it has a specific epistemological meaning, which is going to be shared by the incoming science of complexity. Difficult is an object which, by means of an adequate computational power, can be deterministically or stochastically predictable. On the contrary complex is an object which can not be predictable because of logical impossibility or because its predictability would require a computational power far beyond any physical feasibility, now and forever. For complexity refers to some observing system, it is always subjective, and thus it is defined as observed irreducible complexity. Human systems are affected by several sources of complexity, belonging to three classes, in order of descending restrictivity. Systems belonging to the first class are not predictable at all, those belonging to the second class are predictable only through an infinite computational capacity, and those belonging to the third class are predictable only through a trans-computational capacity. The first class has two sources of complexity: logical complexity, directly deriving from self-reference and Gödel's incompleteness theorems, and relational complexity, resulting in a sort of indeterminacy principle occurring in social systems. The second class has three sources of complexity: gnosiological complexity, which consists of the variety of possible perceptions; semiotic complexity, which represents the infinite possible interpretations of signs and facts; and chaotic complexity, which characterizes phenomena of nonlinear dynamic systems. The third class coincides with computational complexity, which basically coincides with the mathematical concept of intractability. Artificial, natural, biological and human systems are characterized by the influence of different sources of complexity, and the latter appear to be the most complex.     

Shock Waves in a Fluid with Bubbles Containing Evaporating Drops of a Liquefied Gas

The propagation and reflection of one-dimensional plane unsteady waves and pulses in a mixture of a fluid with two-phase bubbles containing evaporating drops is investigated. A significant effect of unsteady evaporation of the drops in the zone ahead of the shock wave on the wave propagation is demonstrated. The evaporation of the drops results in a pressure increase ahead of the wave and the shock wave as it were climbs to increasing pressure level. In contrast to bubbly fluids with single-phase bubbles, in a fluid with two-phase bubbles, at a fixed phase volume fraction, a decrease in bubble size results in an increase rather than a decrease of the oscillation amplitude. The wave reflection from a solid wall is essentially nonlinear and the maximum pressure attained at the wall is several times greater than the incident-wave intensity.     

Minimum principles for linear elastodynamics

Two minimum principles which take into account inhomogeneous initial conditions are presented within the context of the linear dynamic theory of elasticity. One principle, formulated in terms of displacements alone, is the dynamic counterpart to the static principle of minimum potential energy; the other principle is formulated in terms of stresses alone, but has no counterpart in elastostatics. Both principles are motivated by taking Laplace transforms of the field equations and boundary values and then using established minimum functionals in the transform domain. The introduction of an appropriate weight function enables one to get back to the original time domain while preserving the minimum character of the transformed functionals.

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Resume Deux principes minimum qui tiennent compte de conditions initiales non linéaires sont présentés sans le contexte de la théorie dynamique linéaire de l'élasticité. Un des principes, exprimés en fonction seulement des déplacements, est la contrepartie dynamique du principe statique de l'energie potentielle minimum; le second principe, exprimé en fonction des efforts seulement, n'a pas de contrepartie en élasticité statique. Les deux principes sont obtenus en prenant les transformés de Laplace des équations differentielles et des conditions aux limites, puis en utilisant dans le domaine transformé des fonctionnels minimum connus. En introduisant une weight function appropriée, il est possible de retourner au domaine temporel d'origine tout en préservant le caractere minimum des fonctionnels transformés.

     

Singular surfaces of order one in magnetogasdynamics

Summary Singular surfaces of order one in Magnetogasdynamics are discussed by applying the compatibility conditions due to Thomas. The propagation of the transverse type of singular surface is discussed at length, and an expression is obtained for the variation of its strength. It is shown that the strength of a plane transverse singular surface remains constant when moving in a uniform medium at rest. For propagation in a non-uniform medium the strength is, however, shown to vary and an expression is derived giving the variation.