The application of the solid-angle theorem in the special theory of relativity

Ishlinskii's theorem, well known in classical mechanics, asserts that if an axis, selected in a rigid body, having zero projection of the angular velocity onto this axis, described a closed conical surface during the motion of the body, then, after the axis has returned to its initial position the body will have described an angle around it numerically equal to solid angle of the described cone. It is shown that the same relation also exists in the Special Theory of Relativity—the angle of rotation described by a rigid body during motion along a curvilinear trajectory due to the Thomas precession effect, is numerically equal to the solid angle observed in a fixed frame of reference described by an axis connected with the body due to a change in the rotation of the image of the rigid body. The latter phenomenon is due to the Lorentz contraction of the length and the retardation of light radiated by different parts of the body [10–13].     

关于湍流理论中的不封闭性的讨论*

有一种观点认为湍流的不封闭性是由于N-S方程的非线性,这是一似是而非的错误说法。因为工程上要求的量并不仅仅限于湍流的平均速度和平均压力,即使方程式是线性的,也无法把工程上要求的这些量逐个求出来。本文论证了湍流的不封闭性来源于目前的湍流理论中缺少了一个与实际情况符合的有关分布函数,并且进一步说明了湍流模式理论的局限性和用N-S方程直接计算机模拟亦是相当困难的原因。     

The problem of the time-optimal turning of a manipulator

Two types of manipulator that perform three-dimensional motions are considered, and the control problem in which the manipulator rotation is performed in minimum time is studied. The rate of rotation of a rigid body about an axis rises as the moment of inertia about this axis falls. Manipulator control amounts to a problem of the rotation of a system of rigid bodies about an axis. In addition to the angle of rotation, there is a further controlled coordinate, whose variation can vary the moment of inertia about the axis. Assuming that the moment of inertia can be stantaneously “frozen” (that pulse control signals are possible), the in-time-optimal control modes were found in /1, 2/, (see also Akulenko, L.D. et al., “Optimization of the control modes of manipulation robots”, Preprint 218, In-t. Problem Mekhaniki Akad. Nauk SSSR, Moscow 1983). In these modes, the rotation, occurs in the entire time interval with minimum moment of inertia about the axis of rotation. The rotation when there are constraints on the control (pulse control signals are not permitted) was considered in /3/. Numerical studies there led to the false conclusion that, in the optimal motion, with a finite number of control switchings, the moment of inertia is also a minimum throughout the time interval. Below, for a set of extreme configurations, a control is constructed for the two types of manipulator, which satisfies the Pontryagin maximum principle, when there are constraints on the control signals. During its rotation the manipulator section then performs oscillations about a position corresponding to minimum moment of inertia about the axis of rotation. It is shown that the motion considered in /3/, which contains a singular mode with minimum moment of inertia, is not optimal. The motion which satisfies the maximum principle is compared with it. There can be a singular mode in the optimal motion /4/ only when the number of control switchings is infinite.     

Heat flux effect on the droplet entrainment and deposition in annular flow dryout

This paper discusses the internal mass transfer process in annular flow dryout. The emphasis is put on the order of magnitude estimation of respective hydrodynamic and thermal mechanisms and the analysis of the heat flux effect on droplet entrainment and deposition. A simple interfacial turbulence model is developed to characterize the turbulence intensity suppression due to interface tension. The heat flux effect on droplet entrainment depends on the competition between the shear force decrease due to vapor effusion and the bubble emission: in low flow condition, the bubble emission outweighs the shear force decrease, thus the net effect is to increase the droplet entrainment; in high flow condition, the situation may reverse. The heat flux impact on droplet deposition is significant only for very fine droplets (less than 1 μm) because of the coupled effect of interface turbulence damping and the radial vapor effusion due to evaporation, but for droplets of medium and large sizes the heat flux effect is negligible. The analysis is then used to develop constitutive equations for droplet entrainment and deposition rates to take into account the interaction between thermal and hydrodynamic mechanisms, which gives improved CHF prediction for limiting quality regime (LQR) CHF experimental data.     

On conjugate complex time – II: equipotential effect of gravity retrodicts differential and predicts apparent anomalous rotation of the sun

Equipotential effect of gravity (EEG), as opposed to radial interactions between bodies, is introduced here as the impact of a tangential potential. EEG causes frequency decrease that was observed in two specially devised and several indirect experiments. It depends on the distance that is measured along equipotential parts of trajectories and can explain an extraneous frequency decrease found in radio signals emitted by navigational positioning systems. It retrodicts the observed differential rotation of the sun without the assumed drag of the sun's photosphere as its cause, and predicts apparent anomalous rotation of the sun, for from the shifts in spectra taken from the sun's limb it should appear as if the sun rotates away faster than it does towards an observer on earth. The value predicted by it is over 10.56% excess over Einstein's value of deflection of light near the sun and agrees with the 10–15% excess estimated from the data that was obtained in numerous, quite independent experiments.     

The effect of rapid rotation on a vertical bridgman furnace at large Rayleigh number

In quasi-steady operation, convection currents in a Bridgmandevice, used for producing a semi-conductor crystal, createinhomogeneities that may make the crystal unusable. It has oftenbeen suggested that additional forces due to rotation or magnetismmight be efficacious in reducing the segregation of the elementsof the alloy. It has been found that, over a wide range of rotationrates, there is no improvement in performance due to rotationabout the vertical axis. However, numerical results that havebeen obtained previously (Lee & Pearlstein, J. Crys. Growth240, 2002) indicate that, when effects of centrifugal buoyancyare introduced, a substantial reduction in segregation is achieved.In the work reported here, by contrast, in which we extend previouslarge-Rayleigh-number asymptotic analysis to include centrifugalbuoyancy, we find no improvement in radial segregation, butrather increasing segregation with increasing rotation rate.     

On the preliminary design of axial fans: extending the validity of the flow assumptions over the whole hydraulic characteristic and improvement of modeling

In order to carry out a preliminary axial fan design, established assumptions are made onto the flow structure within the fan at the design point. As an example the very common hypothesis of radial equilibrium, states that the radial velocity component downstream the fan is zero, and that the flow in this area is axisymmetric. With the help of this hypothesis, the flow is idealized in order to draw quantitative conclusions. The present communication aims at extending these assumptions on the whole flow regime in order to help fan designers to reduce the try-and-error cycle number. An analytical formulation for axial fan velocity distributions at design and off design conditions is proposed for an arbitrary work distribution. It is shown that the total pressure characteristics can be described by means of hyperbola and straight line. (© 2014 Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)     

Long time behaviour of the solutions of nonlinear wave equation

In this paper, we consider the nonlinear wave equation $$u_{tt}-\Delta u+mu+f(x,u)=0,\ x\in\mb{T}^{d}:=(\mb{R}/2\pi\mb{Z})^{d},$$ where $m>0$ and $f$ is an analytic function of order at least two in $u$. The long time behaviour of its solutions is proved by Birkhoff normal form.     

Normal Fans of Polyhedral Convex Sets

The normal fan of a polyhedral convex set in ? ⁿ is the collection of its normal cones. The structure of the normal fan reflects the geometry of that set. This paper reviews and studies properties about the normal fan. In particular, it investigates situations in which the normal fan of a polyhedral convex set refines, or is a subfan of, that of another set. It then applies these techniques in several examples. One of these concerns the face structure and normal manifold of the critical cone of a polyhedral convex set associated with a point in ? ⁿ . Another concerns how perturbation of the right hand side of the linear constraints defining such a set affects the normal fan and the face structure.     

Three‐dimensional boundary layer on wind turbine blades

This paper describes a three‐dimensional analysis of the laminar boundary layer that develops on the blades of an horizontalaxis wind turbine. The main aim was to investigate a fundamental phenomenon: the effect of rotation on the blade boundary layer of a wind turbine in conjunction with the widely observed phenomenon of stall‐delay. The separation position in retarded flows with pressure gradients is calculated and compared for the rotation and non‐rotation cases. It is concluded that the stall is linearly postponed due to the Coriolis force and the separation point is delayed as a result of increasing rotation speed or decreasing blade spanwise position. (© 2004 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)     

DNS of a Turbulent Channel Flow with Streamwise Rotation - Study of the Reverse Effect of the Cross Flow

Modeling of rotating turbulent flows is a major issue in engineering applications. In this work a turbulent channel flow rotating about the streamwise direction is presented. The theory is based on the investigations of [3] employing Lie group analysis. It was found that a cross flow in spanwise direction is induced. A series of direct numerical simulations (DNS) has been conducted for both different rotation rates and different Reynolds numbers to validate the cross flow. In addition some new interesting effects were observed. The averaged profile ū₃ of the cross flow is formed like a ‘S’ that means it exhibits a triple zero-crossing which denotes regions of reverse flow. Alaso a reverse effect is seen which means that for small rotation rates up to Ro=10 the spanwise mean velocity profiles increase and at rotation number Ro=14 this effect appears to reverse. Both effects were observed at two different Reynolds numbers Re = 180 and Re = 270. (© 2006 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)     

Formation patterns at the air-grain interfaces in spinning granular films at high rotation rates

Experimental and numerical studies are described in which a thin film of air-immersed grains is spun in vertical and tilted containers about their axis. At high rotation rates a steep depression appears around the axis of rotation. Interesting fractal type patterns with dimension D = 1.7 ± 0.05 are observed at the air-grain interfaces in the depression. By utilizing computer simulations, it is shown that the fractal-like patterns may be associated with a sharp deformation of the volume occupied by the particles within the depression hole due to turbulent diffusion.     

The vibrations' study to the burn gas exhaust fan from a thermoelectric power plant

The paper presents a diagnose analysis for an industrial fan having vertical axis rotation, which shows dangerous levels of vibration. The fan ejects the flue gases from a thermoelectric power plant. This is located and isolated on the roof of the power plant building by some elastic elements, in the form of some cassettes with coil springs. The cassettes are arranged symmetrically along the separation plane.The experimental research has been carried out in two steps. In the first step, we designed and we studied in laboratory a mathematical model to reproduce a real situation of the fan insulation. In the second step, we made experimental investigations on the spot. Comparing the measured vibration amplitudes to those obtained on mathematical model, we identified a hidden connection near one of cassettes with coil springs. The hidden connection has appeared during the cassettes mounting and so was created a mechanical asymmetry. Due to this, the dangerous levels of vibration have occurred and it was caused a temporary shutdown of the fan. The process for detecting and eliminating the mounting nonconformities it is presented in the paper.     

墙体绕墙顶转动情况下挡土墙主动土压力分布

根据库仑土压力理论的假设,挡土墙上的土压力是由墙后填土在极限平衡状态下出现的滑动楔体产生,给出了墙体绕墙顶转动变位模式下土压力强度、土压力合力和土压力合力作用点的理论公式,并与库仑土压力理论、墙体平动变位模式下土压力和有关实验结果进行了比较．结果表明,墙体绕墙顶转动变位模式下土压力合力与墙体平动变位模式下土压力合力相等,且等于库仑理论计算结果,但土压力合力作用点和土压力分布有显著差别．     

Undercompressive shock waves in Hall‐magnetohydrodynamics

We study the propagation of nonlinear waves in a Hall‐magnetohydrodynamic model. An asymptotic method is used to derive the Gardner‐Burgers equation for fast magnetosonic waves; here, the flux function is nonconvex with both quadratic and cubic nonlinearities, and the evolution equation involves both second‐ and third‐order derivatives representing diffusion and dispersion terms, respectively. Effects of Hall parameter are discussed on the evolution of waves and their interaction by solving a pair of Riemann problems both analytically and numerically. It is shown that the Hall parameter is responsible for shock splitting—a phenomenon that is completely absent in ideal magnetohydrodynamic; indeed, the Hall parameter plays a significant role in deciding about the structure of the solution that involves undercompressive shocks and their interaction with refracted waves and the Lax shocks. It is found that increasing Hall parameter means increasing dispersion that triggers the physical mechanism causing speed and strength of an undercompressive shock to increase and the wave‐fan width to decrease; numerical solutions substantiate these features predicted by the analytical solution.     

Ergodicity of Truncated Stochastic Navier Stokes with Deterministic Forcing and Dispersion

Turbulence in idealized geophysical flows is a very rich and important topic. The anisotropic effects of explicit deterministic forcing, dispersive effects from rotation due to the \(\beta \)-plane and F-plane, and topography together with random forcing all combine to produce a remarkable number of realistic phenomena. These effects have been studied through careful numerical experiments in the truncated geophysical models. These important results include transitions between coherent jets and vortices, and direct and inverse turbulence cascades as parameters are varied, and it is a contemporary challenge to explain these diverse statistical predictions. Here we contribute to these issues by proving with full mathematical rigor that for any values of the deterministic forcing, the \(\beta \)- and F-plane effects and topography, with minimal stochastic forcing, there is geometric ergodicity for any finite Galerkin truncation. This means that there is a unique smooth invariant measure which attracts all statistical initial data at an exponential rate. In particular, this rigorous statistical theory guarantees that there are no bifurcations to multiple stable and unstable statistical steady states as geophysical parameters are varied in contrast to claims in the applied literature. The proof utilizes a new statistical Lyapunov function to account for enstrophy exchanges between the statistical mean and the variance fluctuations due to the deterministic forcing. It also requires careful proofs of hypoellipticity with geophysical effects and uses geometric control theory to establish reachability. To illustrate the necessity of these conditions, a two-dimensional example is developed which has the square of the Euclidean norm as the Lyapunov function and is hypoelliptic with nonzero noise forcing, yet fails to be reachable or ergodic.     

Euler–Lagrange equations governing the flow of solids by extended slip with applications to plane torsion

The paper presents a variational principle based on a new physical law governing the rotationally continuous flow of a solid that flows by means of the recently identified mechanism of extended slip. The Euler–Lagrange equations derived from this principle are applied to the plane torsion problem. Theoretical results so obtained are compared to experimental measurements made using discs of cold-worked aluminium, and excellent agreement between experiment and theory is obtained. Interesting properties of plane torsion are revealed by this investigation. It is shown, for instance, that within the shear annulus in the disc, at each stage of its expansion, the rotation rate is independent of position. Moreover, if we consider the disc centre to be rotating relative to its edge, the rotation rate in the shear annulus is opposite to that in the rigid centre of the disc. At each stage, not only are the senses of rotation of the disc centre and the shear annulus opposite but the products of rotation rate and area for the two domains remain equal.     

A dual ascent heuristic for obtaining a lower bound of the generalized set partitioning problem with convexity constraints

In this paper we propose a dual ascent heuristic for solving the linear relaxation of the generalized set partitioning problem with convexity constraints, which often models the master problem of a column generation approach. The generalized set partitioning problem contains at the same time set covering, set packing and set partitioning constraints. The proposed dual ascent heuristic is based on a reformulation and it uses Lagrangian relaxation and subgradient method. It is inspired by the dual ascent procedure already proposed in literature, but it is able to deal with right hand side greater than one, together with under and over coverage. To prove its validity, it has been applied to the minimum sum coloring problem, the multi-activity tour scheduling problem, and some newly generated instances. The reported computational results show the effectiveness of the proposed method.     

针对壁面旋转变径管内螺旋流的压力应变项研究

通过壁面旋转变径圆管内螺旋湍流流动特征的分析，确定其切向速度场内涡流区为微团旋转主导的椭圆形流动，外涡流区为微团变形主导且受壁面旋转影响的双曲形流动.进而利用张量的不变量理论，引入旋转率张量与应变率张量的综合不变量作为模型系数，将适用于微团旋转主导的旋转湍流Reynolds应力压力应变项修正模型拓展到了非旋转效应主导的双曲形流动中.将修正压力应变项应用于壁面旋转变径圆管流场的模拟，并将结果与实测结果进行了对比，验证了修正模型的改进效果.     

A study of effects of wall-normal rotation on the turbulent channel flow

The effects of the wall–normal rotation on the turbulence channel flow have been studied. A series of direct numerical simulations have been performed with various rotation rates for Reynolds number 180 based on the friction velocity in the non–rotating case. All remarkable changes are discussed. (© 2008 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)