The limb deformation of the compound bow

A model of the archery round-wheel compound bow with a more realistic limb deformation is introduced. The model is based on the former compound bow model of the author with the supposition that the elastic limb deformation is consistent with the Euler–Bernoulli equation. The Young’s modulus of an example bow limb is determined. The model is compared to the experimental data and to the former model which uses the modified Hickman approximation for the bow limbs. The effects of the shape of the limb on the force-draw curve of the compound bow are also considered. The model presented here may be used when designing or adjusting the limbs of the compound bow. An approximation for the path of the limb tip for the straight limb of uniform bending stiffness for small deformations is also derived.     

Vortical regime of the flow behind the bow shock wave

A new nonstationary regime of the flow around a step and a cylinder was found to exist at high free-stream Mach numbers for gas specific heat ratios below 1.2. The main features of the flow are strong vortices in the shock-compressed region with supersonic reversal velocities at the body face. The bow shock wave takes on a complicated shape, fluctuating in time. The vortical regimes can result from local heterogeneities in the free stream. The case of the heterogeneity is studied in this paper in the form of a thin thermal layer of limited length. The vortical regime remains in existence after the source of disturbances is removed. The results have been obtained through computer simulations through the use of Eulerian hydrodynamic equations and by way of several numerical methods: FLIC, Godunov's scheme, TVD, and PPM. The influence of viscosity on the development of the vortical regime has been studied by computer solving the Navier–Stokes equations. Received 21 August 1998 / Accepted 6 June 2001     

中国古代计量弓力的方法及相关经验认识

 通过对现存传统弓箭制作工艺的调查，在对弓匠认识和解决具体的实践力学知识方法的 考察基础之上，从对物理知识历史认识论的视角，对中国传统弓箭制作及使用中的实践力学 知识进行了系统研究. 总结了中国古代计量弓力的单位和测试弓力的方法，分析了中国古代 对弓体力学性能的认识. 并对前人争论的``郑玄发现弹性定律'的观点，从解读郑玄注文的 含义、测试和解析弓体的力学性能、调查弓匠们的经验认识等多方面进行讨论，指出以前的 研究者对这个问题的认识是错误的.     

Simulation of ship breaking bow waves and induced vortices and scars

An unsteady single‐phase level set RANS method is used to resolve and investigate bow wave breaking around a surface combatant advancing in calm water, including induced vortices and free surface scars. A level set free surface capturing approach was extended and combined with local overset grid refinement for resolution of complex interfacial topologies and small‐scale free surface features. Although the focus of the paper is on wave breaking at Fr=0.35, results over three speeds (Fr=0.28, 0.35, and 0.41) show that the method can accurately predict the changes in resistance and free surface topology, with the two highest speeds showing bow wave breaking. For the Fr=0.35 case, comparison of wave elevation results shows good agreement with the data, including the development and thickening of the bow wave sheet, sequential formation of two overturning plungers with reconnections, and the formation of two free surface scars at the reconnection sites. The computational fluid dynamics (CFD) solution shows a steep shoulder wave, similar to the experiment, but does not predict the experimentally observed weak spilling breaking shoulder wave. Although the current predictions converge to steady state, the region of unsteady free surface measured experimentally can be reasonably well predicted from the region of the simulation where the wave slope exceeds 17°. Comparisons of velocity components and axial vorticity at four cross planes show that the method can accurately predict the wake of low axial velocity and vortical cross flow associated with the breaking bow wave. In addition, the simulation is used to explain the initial development of the overturning bow wave, induced vortices and scars and to fill in the relatively sparse experimental data set by providing a global picture of the axial vortex structure near the free surface. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Magnetohydrodynamic description of the process of collision of a solar wind shock perturbation with the bow shock

The interaction of the solar wind oblique shock wave with the bow shock front ahead of the earth's magnetosphere is considered in an ideal MHD approximation. It is shown that as the impinging shock wave propagates along the bow front, the pattern of the emerging flow is qualitatively and quantitatively modified, being asymmetrical on the flanks. The effect of the interplanetary magnetic field orientation and the obliqueness of the arriving solar wind shock wave on this process is studied. It is shown that sharp nonlinear restructurings may occur, with neighboring, oppositely poled current layers emerging somewhere on the flanks. Alfvén discontinuities and slow waves play a significant part in this process. The emerging current layers may account for the fact that only some solar wind shock waves are geoeffective.     

Nonlinear analysis of a rub-impact rotor-bearing system with initial permanent rotor bow

A general model of a rub-impact rotor-bearing system with initial permanent bow is set up and the corresponding governing motion equation is given. The nonlinear oil-film forces from the journal bearing are obtained under the short bearing theory. The rubbing model is assumed to consist of the radial elastic impact and the tangential Coulomb type of friction. Through numerical calculation, rotating speeds, initial permanent bow lengths and phase angles between the mass eccentricity direction and the rotor permanent bow direction are used as control parameters to investigate their effect on the rub-impact rotor-bearing system with the help of bifurcation diagrams, Lyapunov exponents, Poincaré maps, frequency spectrums and orbit maps. Complicated motions, such as periodic, quasi-periodic even chaotic vibrations, are observed. Under the influence of the initial permanent bow, different routes to chaos are found and the speed when the rub happens is changed greatly. Corresponding results can be used to diagnose the rub-impact fault in this kind of rotor systems and this study may contribute to a further understanding of the nonlinear dynamics of such a rub-impact rotor-bearing system with initial permanent bow.     

Oblique shock/bow shock interference in rarefied flow past a cylinder

Direct statistical simulation is employed to study the flow of a rarefied diatomic gas past a cylinder in the presence of an incident oblique shock. The distinctive features of the formation of a high-pressure compressed-gas jet in the case of interference between the oblique shock and the bow shock are studied for different Reynolds numbers. The variation of the pressure and the heat transfer to the surface with the shock position relative to the center of the cylinder, the Reynolds number, and the surface temperature is analyzed. The results obtained are compared with the experimental data and the results of the numerical solutions of the Euler and boundary layer equations. Free-molecular-to-continuum flow transition is demonstrated with reference to the example of interference-free flow past a cylinder.Translated from Izvestiya Rossiiskoi Academii Nauk, Mekhanika Zhidkosti i Gaza, No. 5, 2004, pp. 171–180. Original Russian Text Copyright © 2004 by Gusev and Erofeev.     

Analysis of structural behavior during collision event accounting for bow and side structure interaction

The main goal of this study was to investigate the effects of selected ship collision parameter values on the characteristics of the absorbed energy in several ship collision scenarios.Non-linear simulations were performed using a finite element method(FEM)to obtain virtual experiment data.In the present research,the size of the side damage from a collision phenomenon were measured and used to verify the numerical configuration together with the calculation results using an empirical equation.Parameters in the external dynamics of a ship collision such as the location of the contact point and velocity of the striking ship were taken into consideration.The internal energy and deformation size on the side structure were discussed further in a comparative study.The effects of the selected parameters on several structural behaviors,namely energy,force,and damage extent were also observed and evaluated in this section.Stiffener on side hull was found to contribute significantly into resistance capability of the target ship against penetration of the striking bow.Remarkable force during penetration was observed to occur when inner shell was crushed as certain velocity was applied in the striking bow.     

Supersonic low-concentration dusty-gas flow past a plane cylinder in the presence of an oblique shock wave interacting with the bow shock

The motion of an inertial dispersed admixture near a plane cylinder immersed in a steady-state hypersonic dusty flow in the presence of an oblique shock wave interacting with the bow shock is considered. It is assumed that the free-stream particle mass concentration is small and the particles do not affect the carrier flow. The III and IV shock wave interaction regimes are considered. The gas flow parameters in the shock layer are calculated from the numerical solution of the full Navier-Stokes equations for the perfect gas. A TVD second-order finite-difference scheme constructed on the basis of a finite volume method is used. For calculating the dispersed-phase parameters, including the concentration, the full Lagrangian method is used. On a wide range of variation of the particle inertia parameters, the patterns of the particle trajectories, velocity, concentration, and temperature in the shock layer are studied. The possibility of aerodynamic focusing of the particles behind the shock wave intersection point and the formation of narrow beams with a high particle concentration is revealed. These beams impinge on the cylinder surface and result in a sharp increase in the local heat fluxes. The maximal possible increase in the heat fluxes caused by the particles colliding with the cylinder surface is estimated for the flows with and without the incident oblique shock wave.     

Interaction of a centered isentropic compression wave with the bow shock ahead of a body in a rarefied gas

Rarefied gas flow with a centered isentropic compression wave is investigated using direct Monte Carlo simulation of the solution of the Boltzmann equation. For monatomic gas flow the pattern of formation of a suspended compression shock near the geometric center of the compression wave is considered. The flow pattern is compared with the results obtained within the framework of gas dynamics. For a diatomic gas the interference of a centered compression wave with the bow shock ahead of a cylinder is investigated. The dependence of the pressure and the heat transfer to the surface on the Reynolds number and the wave center position relative to the cylinder center is analyzed. The results are compared with those of numerical simulation of the Euler and boundary-layer equations.     

Aerodynamic calibration of TCM2 facility and study of a bow shock layer by emission and laser spectroscopy

Flow properties in the TCM2 free piston shock tube/tunnel are determined by time-resolved pressure and heat flux measurements in numerous points of the shock tube and the nozzle, and in the free flow for two stagnation enthalpy conditions (3.5 and 11 MJ/kg). These measurements demonstrate the homogeneity of the flow during more than 1 ms. The cleanness of the useful test time is shown with time-resolved emission measurements at critical wavelengths. NO fluorescence profiles are established with local and planar laser-induced fluorescence in the shock layer around a cylindrical model. It allows to determine the shock stand-off distance for both enthalpy conditions. The problems of quenching and amplified spontaneous emission are considered. The importance of atomic oxygen and atomic nitrogen densities as well as temperature effects is also shown. Evaluation of the temperatures behind the shock front through spectroscopic data agrees with calculations. The proof of the presence of vibrationally excited NO ahead of the shock layer is given. Received 14 March 2000 / Accepted 18 June 2001     

On the criterion for the absolute stability of the control system

In this paper, firstly we give the criterion for the absolute stability of the second canonical form for the control system, including the equation of the longitudinal motions of a plane as a particular example. The corresponding result in [8], [9] is a particular example given in this paper. Secondly, we give the criteria for the absolute stability of the first canonical form in the usual case and in the critical case. Finally, we give some criteria for the absolute stability of the general form for the direct control system.All the results in this paper merely depend upon the relations between the parameters of the system itself to give an explicit algebraic discriminant.     

Singularities of the boundary layer equations and the structure of the flow in the vicinity of the convergence plane on conical bodies

The singularities of the boundary layer equations and the laminar viscous gas flow structure in the vicinity of the convergence plane on sharp conical bodies at incidence are analyzed. In the outer part of the boundary layer the singularities are obtained in explicit form. It is shown that in the vicinity of a singularity a boundary domain, in which the flow is governed by the shortened Navier-Stokes equations, is formed; their regular solutions are obtained. The viscous-inviscid interaction effect predominates in a region whose extent is of the order of the square root of the boundary layer thickness, in which the flow is described by a two-layer model, namely, the Euler equations in the slender-body approximation for the outer region and the three-dimensional boundary layer equations; the pressure is determined from the interaction conditions. On the basis of an analysis of the solutions for the outer part of the boundary layer it is shown that interaction leads to attenuation of the singularities and the dependence of the nature of the flow on the longitudinal coordinate, but does not make it possible to eliminate the singularities completely.     

Evaluating the Impact of the Covariance of the Friction and Potential Gradient on Describing the Infiltration Process

During infiltration of water in soil, menisci form at the interface of water, grains, and air in the pores, inducing suction due to surface tension. Due to the random distribution of interconnected pores of different sizes, characteristic of porous media, differences in suction and friction inside pores give a diffusing infiltration front. The process of infiltration is often simulated by solving Richards’ equation in which the water flux is calculated with Darcy’s law. Underlying Darcy’s law is the assumption that the gradients in flow potential and the flow resistance due to viscous forces are independent from each other. This paper shows that these parameters are dependent and negatively correlated. A new method for calculating flows in unsaturated porous media has been developed to evaluate the impact of the covariance on infiltration predictions. The results show that the impact is significant and leads to a reduction in infiltration rate and mean friction experienced during infiltration. The method thereby provides a physical explanation for the subdiffusion observed during water infiltration in soil and is consequently expected to provide more insights into the processes of infiltration.     

捷联式惯性导航系统惯性元件的设置与可靠性

本文对惯性元件的最佳冗余设置及其在飞行器上的布局与可靠性之间的关系进行了研究，建立了相应的可靠性数学模型，探讨了３／６（Ｇ）冗余惯性元件出现第三个故障时故障的检测与识别的方法。所得结果可供惯性导航系统可靠性分析及工程上应用。