Force Action of a Body with a Permeable Boundary on a Wall in a Fluid

The ideal fluid flow due to fluid penetration through the boundary of an infinitely long solid cylinder in contact with a solid wall is determined. A formula is derived according to which the force exerted by a finite-length part of the cylinder on the wall is directed into the wall and can thus have an arbitrarily large absolute value. __________ Translated from Prikladnaya Mekhanika i Tekhnicheskaya Fizika, Vol. 47, No. 1, pp. 82–84, January–February, 2006.     

Simulation by a source of a thin jet from a body

An exact analytic solution is found to the following plane hydrodynamic problem. An unbounded flow of an ideal incompressible fluid flows around a plate BB' placed at right angles to the velocity vector of the flow at infinity. The pressure on the free boundary P is equal to the pressure in the flow. From an opening in the center of the plate, a jet with flow rate Q from a cavity with pressure P₀ encounters the flow head-on. As a result of the solution, it is found that for fixed width of the opening the values of Q allowed by the scheme are limited. In the limiting case Q = 0 Chaplygin's flow is obtained with stagnation region at the front [1], and in the limiting case Q = Q_max a jet out of a cavity with pressure P₀ into a cavity with pressure P. As Q varies in this interval, the total drag, regarded as the drag of the plate and the chamber from which the jet emerges, takes a minimal value at a certain point. If the width of the opening tends to the length of the slab, the problem of the collision of two jets is obtained; if the width of the opening tends to zero (Q o), the problem of jet flow past a slab with a source is obtained. It is shown that the replacement of the jet by the source gives a good approximation in both the sense of the force characteristics and in the sense of the behavior of the free streamlines.Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Hekhanika Shidkosti i Gaza, No. 5, pp. 47–54, September–October, 1979.We thank L. I. Sedov for his interest in the work and G. Yu. Stepanov for proposing the method of solution and for a helpful discussion.     

On a Paradox in the Motion of a Rigid Particle along a Wall in a Fluid

The results of an experimental investigation of spherical particles with different surface roughnesses rolling under their own weight down an inclined pipe wall in a Newtonian fluid at low Reynolds numbers, both with (friction should be taken into account) and without contact with the wall, are presented. It is shown that a fixed particle moves differently in different fluids with similar viscosities and densities. This fact, as well as the possibility of particle motion without contact with the wall, cannot be explained within the framework of the usual hydrodynamic theories. An example is the dependence of the particle motion on the static pressure.     

Interaction of a cylinder with a free surface and a jet

The problem of the asymmetric flow around a cylinder of a nonviscous jet is considered and, in particular, of flow with one free boundary. The problem of the choice of circulation is posed, based on a generalization of the Zhukovskii-Chaplygin postulate. Several possibilities are considered and the principle of the minimum of the maximum velocity on a contour is proposed, which qualitatively and quantitatively truly reflects certain aspects of the interaction of the cylinder with the flow.Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Mekhanika Zhidkosti i Gaza, No. 5, pp. 50–58, September–October, 1977.     

Unsteady-state filtration of a liquid in a fractured-porous stratum to a well with a hemispherical end-face

A study is made of the motion of a liquid toward a well with a hemispherical end-face with unsteady-state spherical-radial filtration in a fractured-porous stratum consisting of hemispherical regions with different values of the permeability of the system of cracks, superposed one on another. A Laplace transform is used to find exact solutions to the problem of the lowering of the stratum pressure as a function of time and distance as well as of the output of a well working with a constant end-face pressure. The article discusses partial cases corresponding to the exploitation of closed and bounded open fractured-porous strata by a central well with a hemispherical end-face. On the basis of numerical calculations, the effect of the parameters of fractured-porous strata on the change in the indices of the process of their exploitation is established. It is established that, with the exploitation of fractured-porous strata, the process of the lowering of the end-face pressure of the well and its output become stabilized with sufficiently large values of the time.Translated from Zhurnal Prikladnoi Mekhaniki i Tekhnicheskoi Fiziki, No. 6, pp. 115–123, November–December, 1973.     

Torsion problems for a cylinder with a rectangular hole and a rectangular cylinder with a crack

Using the method of singular integral equation and the crack-cutting technique, the rigorous solutions are obtained for a cylinder with a rectangular hole and a rectangular cylinder with a crack, which exactly satisfy the boundary conditions and the conditions at the corner points. After that the torsional rigidities and the stress intensity factors at the crack tip are determined. Next, for the doubly connected circular cylinder with a rectangular hole the expressions for the singular stresses around the concave corner points are derived and the generalized stress intensity factors are then defined. Since the crack-cutting technique is used in this paper, the solution of the matching rectangular cylinder is also obtained and its numerical results coincide with those in references. Thus the method proposed here is verified. The project supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China     

Interaction of a supersonic flow with a transverse jet injected through a circular aperture in a plate

A flow pattern created by the interaction of a supersonic flow with a transverse sonic or supersonic jet injected normally to the direction of the main flow through a circular aperture in a plate is considered. The pressure rises in front of the jet owing to the retarding action of the incident flow. The boundary layer building up on the wall in front of the injection nozzle is accordingly detached. The flow pattern in the region of interaction between the jet and the external flow is illustrated in Fig. 1. The three-dimensional zone of detachment thus formed deflects the incident flow from the wall, and in front of the jet a complicated system of sharp jumps in contraction develops. A three-dimensional system of jumps also develops in the jet itself.Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Mekhanika Zhidkosti i Gaza, No, 5, pp. 193–197, September–October, 1970.     

Pumping of a fluid through a microchannel by means of a bubble driven by a light beam

A new method of pumping a fluid through a microchannel device using a gas bubble-piston, set in motion by the thermocapillary force induced by a light beam, is proposed. To demonstrate the method, a model micropump has been assembled. The model consists of two reservoirs connected by two channels with a bubble-piston driven by a light beam. The pumping rate and the volume per piston stroke are evaluated experimentally. The method proposed is compared with known microfluid pumping methods. Some advantages of the new method are indicated.     

Transformation of a breaking wave at a drop of a channel bottom

This paper gives results of an experimental study of incident and reflected waves of the bore type in the neighborhood of a sharp change in the channel bed level. It is shown that under conditions typical of accidents at ship locks, the wave height can reach 8 m.Translated from Prikladnaya Mekhanika i Tekhnicheskaya Fizika, Vol. 46, No. 2, pp. 115–121, March–April, 2005.     

Motion of a cylindrical cavity near a free boundary of a liquid

The dynamics of a cylindrical cavity in a liquid with no allowance for vertical displacement are considered in [1–3]. The present study investigates the pulsation motion of a cylindrical cavity near a free boundary of a liquid, allowing for displacement of the axis of the cavity in the vertical direction.Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Mekhanika Zhidkosti i Gaza, No. 6, pp. 173–176, November–December, 1988.     

Ignition of a gas in a boundary layer at a heated plate

The problem of the ignition of a moving homogeneous gaseous combustible mixture in a boundary layer along a heated flat semiinfinite plate is one of the main problems of the ignition of a combustible mixture in a flow (for example, [1]). The formulation of the problem includes the two-dimensional equations of motion and the equations of the transfer of heat and of the reacting substance, written taking a chemical reaction into consideration, as well as boundary conditions, and should lead to determination of the steady-state fields of the concentration and the temperature and, by the same token, of the position of the combustion zone. Different approximate numerical solutions of the problem were analyzed in [1–5]. One of the most important characteristics of the process is the length of the ignition, i.e., the distance from the edge of the plate to the point at which, thanks to the intrinsic chemical heat evolution in the gas, the heat flux from the plate to the gas becomes equal to zero. In the present work, for the case of large values of the activation energy of the chemical reaction and a sufficiently great temperature difference between the wall and the flow, an approximate expression is obtained for the length of the ignition.Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Mekhanika Zhidkosti i Gaza, No. 5, pp. 142–148, September–October, 1977.The authors thank V. M. Shevtsov for his aid in making the calculations.     

Regular reflection of a shock wave from a wall with a bend

Novosibirsk. Translated from Prikladnaya Mekhanika i Tekhnicheskaya Fizika, No. 2, pp. 18–26, March April, 1994.     

Unsteady motion of a source in a fluid under a floating plate

This paper studies the three-dimensional unsteady problem of the hydroelastic behavior of a floating infinite plate under the impact of waves generated by horizontal straight motion of a point source of mass in a fluid of infinite depth. The solution is carried out using known integral and asymptotic methods. The formulas obtained are used to numerically analyze the effect of plate thickness, depth of submergence of the source, and its acceleration, deceleration, and velocity of uniform motion on the deflection of the floating plate.     

Motion of a load over a floating sheet in a variable-depth pool

A straightline unsteady motion of a load over a floating elastic sheet in a pool whose depth changes in the direction of load motion is studied. The influence of the pool depth, sheet thickness, load size and intensity, and velocity of uniform motion on the amplitude and maximum deflection of the sheet is analyzed.     

Solution of a contact problem for a plate with a deformable insert

Contact problems with friction are solved for a rectangular plate with a circular hole into which a ring plate (insert) is placed with a small clearance. Two versions of contact boundary conditions are formulated. According to the proposed approximate formulation of the problem, the boundary conditions in both versions are satisfied not at the actual contact points but at specified pairs of points. Therefore, it is sufficient to determine attachment, slip, contact, and contact-free regions on just one of the contacting contours. The finite-element method and the Boussinesq principle are used to solve the problem. One of the versions of boundary conditions, compared to the other, gives smaller values for the strain energies of the plate and insert, the stress-concentration coefficient, and the lengths of attachment and contact regions. Lavrent’ev Institute of Hydrodynamics, Siberian Division, Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk 630090. Translated from Prikladnaya Mekhanika i Tekhnicheskaya Fizika, Vol. 40, No. 5, pp. 216–226, September–October, 1999.     

Divergence of a helicoidal shell in a pipe with a flowing fluid

This paper considers a solution of the problem of coupled hydroelasticity for a helicoidal shell in a rigid tube with a flowing ideal incompressible fluid, which is of interest for the design of heat exchange systems. The flow is considered potential, and boundary conditions are imposed on the deformed surface. The version of the classical theory of elastic shells as the Lagrangian mechanics of deformable surfaces is used. The longitudinal-torsional vibrations of a long shell and a naturally twisted rod are studied. It is established that the obtained hydrodynamic loads are conservative, so that a divergence type instability is possible. A critical combination of parameters is determined.     

Impact of a body with a plane bottom on a thin liquid layer at a small angle

The problem of the impact of a body with a plane bottom (of the type of a box) on a thin liquid layer at a small angle is solved in the two-dimensional formulation. The nonlinear shallow water equations are used, together with the method of matched asymptotic expansions. It is found that at certain values of the input parameters of the problem the liquid pressure diminishes near the lower end of the body and becomes smaller than the atmospheric pressure, which results in liquid separation from the box bottom. The numerical results show that all input parameters of the problem have a considerable effect on the nature of body motion. The liquid separation effect on body motion is analyzed.     

Stability in a case of motion of a paraboloid over a plane

We solve a nonlinear orbital stability problem for a periodic motion of a homogeneous paraboloid of revolution over an immovable horizontal plane in a homogeneous gravity field. The plane is assumed to be absolutely smooth, and the body–plane collisions are assumed to be absolutely elastic. In the unperturbed motion, the symmetry axis of the body is vertical, and the body itself is in translational motion with periodic collisions with the plane.The Poincare´ section surfacemethod is used to reduce the problemto studying the stability of a fixed point of an area-preserving mapping of the plane into itself. The stability and instability conditions are obtained for all admissible values of the problem parameters.     

Internal waves in a pycnocline for a wing moving over a barrier

Translated from Zhurnal Prikladnoi Mekhaniki i Tekhnicheskoi Fiziki, No. 4, pp. 68–74, July–August, 1991.