Stability of periodic motion of fluid in a planar channel

The stability of periodic motion of a fluid in a planar channel was investigated experimentally. Two mechanisms of departure from stability of rectilinear motion — at high and low frequencies, respectively — were observed. The critical Reynolds number was found as a function of the pulsation frequency. The results of the quasistationary theoretical approach to the stability of periodic flows [1] agree with the experiment.Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Mekhanika Zhidkosti i Gaza, No. 6, pp. 114–118, November–December, 1979.I thank G. F. Shaidurov, under whose guidance this work was carried out.     

Stability and bifurcation for a flexible beam under a large linear motion with a combination parametric resonance

Stability and bifurcation behaviors for a model of a flexible beam undergoing a large linear motion with a combination parametric resonance are studied by means of a combination of analytical and numerical methods. Three types of critical points for the bifurcation equations near the combination resonance in the presence of internal resonance are considered, which are characterized by a double zero and two negative eigenvalues, a double zero and a pair of purely imaginary eigenvalues, and two pairs of purely imaginary eigenvalues in nonresonant case, respectively. The stability regions of the initial equilibrium solution and the critical bifurcation curves are obtained in terms of the system parameters. Especially, for the third case, the explicit expressions of the critical bifurcation curves leading to incipient and secondary bifurcations are obtained with the aid of normal form theory. Bifurcations leading to Hopf bifurcations and 2-D tori and their stability conditions are also investigated. Some new dynamical behaviors are presented for this system. A time integration scheme is used to find the numerical solutions for these bifurcation cases, and numerical results agree with the analytic ones.     

Stability of plane-parallel convective fluid flow in a horizontal layer relative to spatial perturbations

The stability of stationary plane-parallel convective flow between horizontal planes along which a constant temperature gradient is given, is investigated relative to spatial perturbations. It is shown that the flow crisis is caused by spiral perturbations in a broad range of Prandtl number values (P > 0.24). Spiral perturbations are developed in unstably stratified fluid layers adjoining the upper and lower layer boundaries, and are of Rayleigh nature.     

Stability of elastic and viscoelastic systems under a random perturbations of their parameters

Summary The present paper is concerned with the investigation of the almost sure stability of elastic and viscoelastic systems, when their parameters assume a random wide-band stationary process. The parameters are parametric loads, characteristics of external damping and material viscosity. With the help of Liapunov's direct method, the sufficient condition of the almost sure asymptotic stability for distributed parameter systems with respect to perturbations of initial conditions of an arbitrary form is obtained. It is shown that, in some cases, this condition coincides with a similar condition derived from the assumption that the form of sure and required perturbations coincides with the first eigenfunction of system oscillations. However, an example is given for the stability of a viscoelastic rod, when the perturbations of initial conditions are more dangerous, if their form differs from the first eigenfunction.This research was sponsored by the Russian Foundation of Fundamental Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences under Grant 94-01-01522.     

Stability of spatial motion of a body of revolution in an elastoplastic medium

A previously constructed model that describes the spatial motion of a body of revolution in an elastoplastic medium (without flow separation and with nonsymmetric separation of the medium flow taken into account) is used to study the Lyapunov stability of rectilinear motion of a body in the case of frozen axial velocity on a half-infinite time interval. Some stability criteria are obtained and the influence of tangential stresses is analyzed.     

Stability of motion in a planar layer of inhomogeneous ideal incompressible liquid having free boundaries

Research performed with financial support from the Krasnoyarsk Scientific Fund (Project Code 2F0059).     

Rotary motion of the parametric and planar pendulum under stochastic wave excitation

In this paper a rotary motion of a pendulum subjected to a parametric and planar excitation of its pivot mimicking random nature of sea waves has been studied. The vertical motion of the sea surface has been modelled and simulated as a stochastic process, based on the Shinozuka approach and using the spectral representation of the sea state proposed by Pierson–Moskowitz model. It has been investigated how the number of wave frequency components used in the simulation can be reduced without the loss of accuracy and how the model relates to the real data. The generated stochastic wave has been used as an excitation to the pendulum system in numerical and experimental studies. For the first time, the rotary response of a pendulum under stochastic wave excitation has been studied. The rotational number has been used for statistical analysis of the results in the numerical and experimental studies. It has been demonstrated how the forcing arrangement affects the probability of rotation of the parametric pendulum.     

Stability of spatial motion of a body with flow separation and rotation about the symmetry axis

A model describing the spatial motion (without separation and with nonsymmetric separation of the flow in the medium) of a body rotating about its symmetry axis in a resisting medium is constructed. Several criteria for stability of the body rectilinear motion are obtained in the case of frozen axial velocity. The influence of retardation on the stability of rectilinear motion of a cone is considered.     

Frictionless planar motion of a couple of hinged rods

We treat the planar frictionless motion induced by a starting pulse on a two-body system with four degrees of freedom consisting of two equal rods hinged together. A full discussion of all possible planar forceless motions is given, and the hyperelliptic functions are found to be necessary. A particular case, namely the asymptotic one, in its two kinematic variants (open/closed) is faced. It is ruled by the nonlinear differential equation

Peristaltic motion of a third-order fluid in a planar channel

In order to determine the characteristics of the peristaltic transport of shear thinning non-Newtonian materials, the motion of a third-order fluid in a planar channel having walls that are transversely displaced by an infinite, harmonic traveling wave of large wavelength and negligibly small Reynolds number was analyzed using a perturbation expansion in terms of a variant of the Deborah number. Within the range of validity of this analysis, we found the pumping rate of a shear-thinning fluid is less than that for a Newtonian fluid having a shear viscosity the same as the lower-limiting viscosity of the nonNewtonian material. Also, the space of variables for which trapping of a bolus of fluid occurs is reduced for the shear-thinning fluid investigated here.     

Fragility analysis of bridges under ground motion with spatial variation

Seismic ground motion can vary significantly over distances comparable to the length of a majority of highway bridges on multiple supports. This paper presents results of fragility analysis of highway bridges under ground motion with spatial variation. Ground motion time histories are artificially generated with different amplitudes, phases, as well as frequency contents at different support locations. Monte Carlo simulation is performed to study dynamic responses of an example multi-span bridge under these ground motions. The effect of spatial variation on the seismic response is systematically examined and the resulting fragility curves are compared with those under identical support ground motion. This study shows that ductility demands for the bridge columns can be underestimated if the bridge is analyzed using identical support ground motions rather than differential support ground motions. Fragility curves are developed as functions of different measures of ground motion intensity including peak ground acceleration, peak ground velocity, spectral acceleration, spectral velocity and spectral intensity. This study represents a first attempt to develop fragility curves under spatially varying ground motion and provides information useful for improvement of the current seismic design codes so as to account for the effects of spatial variation in the seismic design of long-span bridges.     

Stability of controlled inverted pendulum under permanent horizontal perturbations of the supporting point

We consider the problem of choosing a test perturbation of a movable foundation of a single-link inverted pendulum so as to test a vestibular prosthesis prototype located at the top of this pendulum in an extreme situation. The obtained results permit concluding that the information transmitted from otolithic organs of the human vestibular system to muscles of the locomotor apparatus is very important and improves the quality of stabilization of the human vertical posture preventing the possible fall.     

Stability of wave forms of motion of a viscous fluid layer under tangential stress

We study the stability of wave flow of a viscous incompressible fluid layer subjected to tangential stress and an inclined gravity force with respect to long-wave disturbances.An asymptotic solution is constructed for the equations of the disturbed motion and the problem is reduced to the study of a second-order ordinary differential equation. It is shown that after loss of stability by a Poiseuille flow the laminar nature of the flow is not destroyed, but the form of the free surface acquires a wave-like profile. The Poiseuille regime is stable for low Reynolds numbers. The critical Reynolds number for wave flow is found, and the stability and instability regions are determined.     

Vortex perturbations of the nonstationary motion of a liquid with a free boundary

The first studies on the stability of nonstationary motions of a liquid with a free boundary were published relatively recently [1–4]. Investigations were conducted concerning the stability of flow in a spherical cavity [1, 2], a spherical shell [3], a strip, and an annulus of an ideal liquid. In these studies both the fundamental motion and the perturbed motion were assumed to be potential flow. Changing to Lagrangian coordinates considerably simplified the solution of the problem. Ovsyannikov [5], using Lagrangian coordinates, obtained equations for small potential perturbations of an arbitrary potential flow. The resulting equations were used for solving typical examples which showed the degree of difficulty involved in the investigation of the stability of nonstationary motions [5–8]. In all of these studies the stability was characterized by the deviation of the free boundary from its unperturbed state, i.e., by the normal component of the perturbation vector. In the present study we obtain general equations for small perturbations of the nonstationary flow of a liquid with a free boundary in Lagrangian coordinates. We find a simple expression for the normal component of the perturbation vector. In the case of potential mass forces the resulting system reduces to a single equation for some scalar function with an evolutionary condition on the free boundary. We prove an existence and uniqueness theorem for the solution, and, in particular, we answer the question of whether the linear problem concerning small potential perturbations which was formulated in [5] is correct. We investigate two examples for stability: a) the stretching of a strip and b) the compression of a circular cylinder with the condition that the initial perturbation is not of potential type.     

The region of possible motion of the planar circular restricted three-body problem under the influence of a ring

This paper discusses the region of possible motion of planar cir-cular restricted three-body problem that one primarg in them has aring and it gives the equation of motion of the third body.Some re-sults are as follows:(1)The location of equilibrium points depends on the parameter μof the system;inner radius a and outer radius b of the ring;the dis-tance l between two primaries;and the ratio θ of the mass of the ringwith the sum of masses of the primary which has the ring and the ringitself.when α,b,l,θare constant.the number of the equilibriumpoints varies with μ,it is five at most and three at least.Besideseach triangular point and two primaries form an isosceles triangle.(2)When α.b.l.θ are constant,we give a range of μ.If μ isin this range.the structure of the region of possible motion of thethird body is the same as that of general planar circular restrictedthree-body problem.