Asymptotic analysis for micropolar fluidsAnalyse asymptotique des fluides micropolaires

The flow of a micropolar fluid through a wavy constricted channel which depends on a small parameter ε?1 is considered. The asymptotic solution is built and justified thanks to a study of the boundary layers terms. The Stokes and Navier–Stokes problems set in a tube structure were previously considered. The method of partial asymptotic decomposition of domain (MAPPD) is also applied and justified for the micropolar flow problem. This method reduces the initial problem to the problem set in the boundary layers domain. To cite this article: D. Dupuy et al., C. R. Mecanique 332 (2004).     

On the Dirichlet problem for quasi-linear elliptic equation with a small parameter

In this paper we deal with the Dirichlet problem for quasilinear elliptic equation with a small parameter at highest derivatives. In case the characteristics of the degenerated equation are curvilinear and the domain, where the problem is defined, is a bounded convex domain, we offer a method to construct the uniformly valid asymptotic solution of this problem, and prove that the solution of this problem really exists, and being uniquely determined as the small parameter is sufficiently small.     

Diffusion and wave behaviour in linear Voigt modelDiffusion et comportement ondulatoire dans le modèle linéaire de Voigt

A boundary value problem $\text{P}{}_{\mathrm{\epsilon }}$ related to a third order parabolic equation with a small parameter ε is analized. This equation models the one-dimensional evolution of many dissipative media as viscoelastic fluids or solids, viscous gases, superconducting materials, incompressible and electrically conducting fluids. Moreover, the third order parabolic operator regularizes various nonlinear second order wave equations. In this paper, the hyperbolic and parabolic behaviour of the solution of $\text{P}{}_{\mathrm{\epsilon }}$ is estimated by means of slow timeτ=εt and fast timeθ=t/ε. As consequence, a rigorous asymptotic approximation for the solution of $\text{P}{}_{\mathrm{\epsilon }}$ is established. To cite this article: M. De Angelis, P. Renno, C. R. Mecanique 330 (2002) 21–26     

NUMERICAL SOLUTION OF THE SINGULARLY PERTURBED PROBLEM WITH NONLOCAL BOUNDARY CONDITION

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Stability of the cylindrical precession of a satellite in an elliptic orbit

We study the linear problem on the stability of rotation of a dynamically symmetric satellite about the normal to the plane of the orbit of its center of mass. The orbit is assumed to be elliptic, and the orbit eccentricity is arbitrary. We assume that the Hamiltonian contains a small parameter characterizing the deviation of the satellite central ellipsoid of inertia from the sphere. This is a resonance problem, since if the small parameter is zero, then one of the frequencies of small oscillations of the symmetry axis in a neighborhood of the unperturbed rotation of the satellite about the center of mass is exactly equal to the frequency of the satellite revolution in the orbit. We indicate a countable set of values of the angular velocity of the unperturbed rotation for which the resonance is even double. The stability and instability domains are obtained in the first approximation with respect to the small parameter.     

Convective stability analysis of a micropolar fluid layer by variational method

This paper studies Rayleigh-Bénard convection of micropolar fluid layer heated from below with realistic boundary conditions. A specific approach for stability analysis of a convective problem based on variational principle is applied to characterize the Rayleigh number for quite general nature of bounding surfaces. The analysis consists of replacing the set of field equations by a variational principle and the expressions for Rayleigh number are then obtained by using trial function satisfying the essential boundary conditions. Further, the values of the Rayleigh number for particular cases of large and small values of the microrotation coefficient have been obtained. The effects of wave number and micropolar parameter on the Rayleigh numbers for onset of stationary instability for each possible combination of the bounding surfaces are discussed and illustrated graphically. The present analysis establishes that the nature of bounding surfaces combination and microrotation have significant effect on the onset of convection.     

Free vibration of a class of Hill's equation having a small parameter

In this paper, we consider the initial value problem of a class of Hill’s equation having a small parameter. Using the solvable condition of boundary value problem and the stretched parameter method in the perturbation techniques, we present the method which can be applied to obtain asymptotic periodic solution of the initial value problem. As an example, we consider Mathieu equation and present its computational result.     

Homogénéisation d'un milieu élastique fortement hétérogèneHomogenization of a strongly heteregeneous elastic medium

We consider the homogenization of an elastostatic problem in a strongly heterogeneous periodic medium made of two connected components having comparable tensors of elastic moduli, separated by a third medium (soft layer), the thickness of which is of the same order ε than the basic periodicity cell, and such that its elastic moduli tensor becomes infinitely small following a rate ε^r, r>0. If r?2, we identify the homogenized problem. Otherwise, we have to assume moreover that there are no volume forces in the third medium. To cite this article: M. Mabrouk, A. Boughammoura, C. R. Mecanique 330 (2002) 543–548.     

Effective equations describing the flow of a viscous incompressible fluid through a long elastic tubeEquations efficaces décrivant l'écoulement d'un fluide visqueux incompressible dans un tuyau long et élastique

We study the flow of a viscous incompressible fluid through a long and narrow elastic tube whose walls are modeled by the Navier equations for a curved, linearly elastic membrane. The flow is governed by a given small time dependent pressure drop between the inlet and the outlet boundary, giving rise to creeping flow modeled by the Stokes equations. By employing asymptotic analysis in thin, elastic, domains we obtain the reduced equations which correspond to a Biot type viscoelastic equation for the effective pressure and the effective displacement. The approximation is rigorously justified by obtaining the error estimates for the velocity, pressure and displacement. Applications of the model problem include blood flow in small arteries. We recover the well-known Law of Laplace and provide a new, improved model when shear modulus of the vessel wall is not negligible. To cite this article: S. ?ani?, A. Mikeli?, C. R. Mecanique 330 (2002) 661–666.     

Evolution Model for Linearized Micropolar Plates by the Fourier Method

In this paper we justify a two-dimensional evolution and eigenvalue model for micropolar plates starting from three-dimensional linearly micropolar elasticity. A small parameter representing the thickness of the plate-like body is introduced in the problem. The asymptotics of the evolution and eigenvalue problems is then developed as this small parameter tends to zero. First the appropriate convergences of the eigenpairs of the three-dimensional problem to the eigenpairs of the two-dimensional eigenvalue problem for micropolar plates is shown. Then these convergences are used in the Fourier method to obtain the convergences of the solution of the three-dimensional evolution problem to the solution of the two-dimensional evolution plate model.      

Mathematical modeling of an array of underground waste containersModélisation mathématique d'un réseau souterrain de stockage de déchets

We consider a mathematical model describing the behavior of an underground waste repository, once the containers start to leak. Due to the high contrast of the characteristic lengths, numerical simulations on a such model are unrealistic. After renormalization, a small parameter ε appears and the global model is obtained when ε tends to zero, by means of homogenization and boundary layers methods. The asymptotic model obtained could be used as a global repository model for large field numerical simulations. To cite this article: A. Bourgeat et al., C. R. Mecanique 330 (2002) 371–376.     

Flow in wavy tube structure: asymptotic analysis and numerical simulationÉcoulement dans une structure tubulaire ondulée : analyse asymptotique et résolution numérique

This paper deals with the study of the stationary, incompressible, 2D flow of a fluid in a thin wavy tube. In this work, we consider a domain which is the union of two wavy tubes depending on a small parameter. The asymptotic expansion is constructed. The method of partial asymptotic decomposition is applied. The numerical implementation of this method for the extrusion process is developed. The new physical effects are discussed. To cite this article: A. Ainser et al., C. R. Mecanique 331 (2003).     

Identification of elastic parameters by displacement field measurementIdentification de paramètres mécaniques par mesure de champ de déplacement

In this Note we study a parameter identification problem associated with a two-dimensional mechanical problem. In a first part, the experimental technique of determining the displacement field is presented. The variational method proposed herein is based on the minimization of a separate convex functional which leads to the reconstruction of the elastic tensor and the stress field. These two reconstructed fields are continuous and piecewise linear on a triangulation of the two-dimensional problem. Some numerical and experimental examples are presented to test the performance of the algorithm. To cite this article: G. Geymonat et al., C. R. Mecanique 330 (2002) 403–408.     

Asymptotic modelling of weakly twisted electrostatic problemsModélisation asymptotique de problèmes électrostatiques faiblement torsadés

We present an analysis of an electrostatic field within a helicoidal structure with a twist, which is small compared to the characteristic size of the cross-section. The asymptotic results are checked against exact computations thanks to helicoidal coordinates, which preserve the intrinsically two-dimensional nature of the problem. The numerical studies are performed using the finite elements. To cite this article: A. Nicolet et al., C. R. Mecanique 334 (2006).     

Homogenization of two-phase flow: high contrast of phase permeabilityHomogénéisation d'écoulement diphasique : grand contraste de perméabilité d'une phase

The steady-state two-phase flow non-linear equation is considered in the case when one of phases has low effective permeability in some periodic set, while on the complementary set it is high; the second phase has no contrast of permeabilities in different zones. A homogenization procedure gives the homogenized model with macroscopic effective permeability of the second phase depending on the gradient and on the second order derivatives of the macroscopic pressure of the first phase. This effect cannot be obtained by classical (one small parameter) homogenization. To cite this article: G.P. Panasenko, G. Virnovsky, C. R. Mecanique 331 (2003).     

The method of composite expansions applied to boundary layer problems in symmetric bending of the spherical shells

In this paper,the method of composite expansions which was proposed by W. Z. Chien (1948)[5]is extended to investigate two-parameter boundary layer problems.For the problems of symmetric deformations of the spherical shells under the action of uniformly distribution load q, its nonlinear equilibrium equations can be written as follows: where ε and δ are undetermined parameters.If δ=1 and ε is a small parameter, the above-mentioned problem is called first boundary layer problem; if ε is a small parameter, and δ is a small parameter, too, the above-mentioned problem is called second boundary layer problem.For the above-mentioned problems, however, we assume that the constants ε, δ and p satisfy the following equation: εp=1-ε In defining this condition by using the extended method of composite expansions, we find the asymptotic solution of the above-mentioned problems with the clamped boundary conditions.     

Asymptotic investigation of the water-pressure regime of a gas deposit in a bounded formation

In predicting and analyzing the depletion of a gas deposit in an aquiferous basin' it is necessary to solve jointly the material balance equation for the gas in the deposit and the diffusivity equation for the water. In this case, for aquiferous basins of limited size a certain dimensionless parameter enters into the problem, namely, the ratio of the time required for the pressure perturbation to be propagated from the deposit to the boundaries of the aquiferous formation to the total exploitation time. For many deposits this dimensionless parameter is small, which corresponds to quasisteady percolation of the water in the aquiferous basin. In this paper the problem of the depletion of a gas deposit in the water-pressure regime is solved by the method of singular expansion in a small parameter. For simplicity, the gas is assumed to be ideal.Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Mekhanika Zhidkosti i Gaza, No. 2, pp. 110–114, March–April, 1987.     

Approximate Analytical Solution of a Physically Nonlinear Spatial Problem on the Elastic Equilibrium of a Multilayer Rectangular Plate

A three-dimensional boundary-value problem for a multilayer rectangular plate is solved under the physically nonlinear theory of elasticity. Various types of interlayer contact conditions are considered. The nonlinear relation between stresses and small strains is assumed to be of the Kauderer form. The solution is represented by a series in powers of a dimensionless small parameter. The problem posed is reduced to a recurrent sequence of linear boundary-value problems. The stress distribution and the effect of physical nonlinearity on the elastic equilibrium of the plate are studied     

Diffusive limits of nonlinear hyperbolic systems with variable coefficients

We consider the initial-boundary value problem for a 2-speed system of first-order nonhomogeneous semilinear hyperbolic equations whose leading terms have a small positive parameter. Using energy estimates and a compactness lemma, we show that the diffusion limit of the sum of the solutions of the hyperbolic system, as the parameter tends to zero, verifies the nonlinear parabolic equation of the p-Laplacian type.     

Numerical solution of a boundary layer problem on a nonconducting surface of an MHD channel

The problem of boundary layer flow on a nonconducting wall has been considered in [1–3]. Therein, it was assumed that either the problem is self-similar [1], or the solution was found in the form of a power series in a small parameter [2,3]. The objective of these assumptions is to reduce the boundary layer equations to ordinary differential equations. In the present work the problem is solved without making these assumptions. The distribution along the channel length of the frictional resistance and heat transfer coefficients on the wall are obtained, and the variation of these coefficients with the load parameter is studied.