A theoretical computational model of a plate in hypersonic flow

A theoretical model of an elastic panel in hypersonic flow is derived to be used for design and analysis. The nonlinear von Kármán plate equations are coupled with 1st order Piston Theory and linearized at the nonlinear steady-state deformation due to static pressure differential and thermal loads. Eigenvalue analysis is applied to determine the system’s stability, natural frequencies and mode shapes. Numerically time marching the equations provides transient response prediction which can be used to estimate limit cycle oscillation amplitude, frequency and time to onset. The model’s predictive capability is assessed by comparison to an experiment conducted at a free stream flow of Mach 6. Good agreement is shown between the theoretical and experimental natural frequencies and mode shapes of the fluid–structure system. Stability analysis is performed using linear and nonlinear methods to plot stability, flutter and buckling zones on a free stream static pressure vs temperature differential plane.     

Boundary Integral Equations Method for the Analysis of Acoustic Scattering from Line-2 Elastic Targets

The prediction of the acoustic scattering from elastic structures is a recurrent problem of practical importance as, for example, in underwater detection and target identification. We aim at setting out the diffraction problem of a transient acoustic wave by an axisymmetric shell composed of a cylinder bounded by hemispherical endcaps, called Line-2. Its time-dependent response is expanded in terms of the resonance modes of the fluid-loaded structure. The latter are well suited when the structure is submerged in a heavy fluid: it is an alternative to modal methods whose expansions as series of natural modes of the in vacuo shell are much better for describing the interaction between a structure and a light fluid. The resonance frequencies are defined as solutions of the nonlinear eigenvalue problem described by the set of homogeneous equations governing the structure displacement coupled to the acoustic radiated pressure. The resonance modes of the coupled system are the corresponding eigenvectors. Both hemisphere and cylinder equations are modeled by the approximation of Donnel and Mushtari which governs thin shells oscillations. The modeling of the sound pressure by a hybrid potential integral representation leads to a system of integro-differential equations defined on the surface of the structure only (boundary integral equations). The unknowns, the hybrid potential density as well as the shell displacement vector, are developed into Fourier series with respect to the natural cylindrical coordinate. Each angular component of the unknown functions is then expanded as series of Legendre polynomials, the coefficients of which are calculated thanks to a Galerkin method derived from the energetic form of the equations. The whole method can also be applied to predict the response of the coupled structure to a harmonic or a random excitation. This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

Existence of Weak Solutions for the Three-Dimensional Motion of an Elastic Structure in an Incompressible Fluid

We study here the three-dimensional motion of an elastic structure immersed in an incompressible viscous fluid. The structure and the fluid are contained in a fixed bounded connected set Ω. We show the existence of a weak solution for regularized elastic deformations as long as elastic deformations are not too important (in order to avoid interpenetration and preserve orientation on the structure) and no collisions between the structure and the boundary occur. As the structure moves freely in the fluid, it seems natural (and it corresponds to many physical applications) to consider that its rigid motion (translation and rotation) may be large. The existence result presented here has been announced in [4]. Some improvements have been provided on the model: the model considered in [4] is a simplified model where the structure motion is modelled by decoupled and linear equations for the translation, the rotation and the purely elastic displacement. In what follows, we consider on the structure a model which represents the motion of a structure with large rigid displacements and small elastic perturbations. This model, introduced by [15] for a structure alone, leads to coupled and nonlinear equations for the translation, the rotation and the elastic displacement.     

二维含裂纹结构与声耦合问题研究

应用分形有限元方法结合边界元方法研究了二维含裂纹结构和声耦合问题.采用二级分形有限元方法对含裂纹的弹性结构体进行离散处理,这样可以使得自由度数大大地减少;无限大外域声场的计算使用边界元方法,可以自动满足无穷远辐射条件.数值仿真算例结果表明:结构声耦合系统的共振频率随着裂纹深度的增加而下降;裂纹附近的声场所受的影响较为明显.     

Domain Decomposition Methods for Sensitivity Analysis of a Nonlinear Aeroelasticity Problem

Abstract

We consider the nonlinear aeroelasticity problem of the interaction between a viscous, incompressible fluid and Lin elastic solid undergoing large displacement. The non-linearities of the problem formulation include the solid and fluid governing equations. as well as thc dependence of the How geometry on the solid deformation. The resulting coupling is thus two-way. We develop domain-decomposition methods for solution and sensitivity analysis of the coupled problem. The domain decomposition is in the form of a block-Gauss-Seidel-like prcconditioncr that decomposes ihc coupled-domain problem into distinct nonovcrlapping fluid and solid subdotnain problems. The preconditioner thus enables exploitation or single-domain algorithms for solid and fluid mechanics discretization and solution. On the other hand, two-way fluid-solid coupling is retained within the residuals, which is essential for correct sensitivities. Sensitivities of field quantities can be found with little additional work beyond that required for solving the coupled fluid-solid system. The methodology developed here is illustrated by the solution of a problem of viscous incompressible flow about an infinite clastic cylinder. Sensitivities of the resulting velocity and displacement fields with respect to elastic modulus and fluid viscosity are computed.     

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研究了埋置于弹性地基内充液压力管道中非线性波的传播. 假设管壁是线弹 性的,地基反力采用Winkler线性地基模型,管中流体为不可压缩理想流体. 假定系统初始 处于内压为$P_0$的静力平衡状态,动态的位移场及内压和流速的变化是叠加在静 力平衡状态上的扰动. 基于质量守恒和动量定理,建立了管壁和流体耦合作用的非 线性运动方程组; 进而用约化摄动法, 在长波近似情况下得到了KdV方程,表征 着系统有孤立波解.     

A semi-analytical approach to the study of an elastic circular cylinder confined in a cylindrical fluid domain subjected to small-amplitude transient motions

This paper deals with the transient motions experienced by an elastic circular cylinder in a cylindrical fluid domain initially at rest and subjected to small-amplitude imposed displacements. Three fluid models are considered, namely potential, viscous and acoustic, to cover different fluid–structure interaction regimes. They are derived here from the general compressible Navier–Stokes equations by a formal perturbation method so as to underline their links and ranges of validity a priori. The resulting fluid models are linear owing to the small-amplitude-displacement hypothesis. For simplicity, the elastic flexure beam model is chosen for the circular cylinder dynamics. The semi-analytical approach used here is based on the methods of Laplace transform in time, in vacuo eigenvector expansion with time-dependent coefficients for the transverse beam displacement and separation of variables for the fluid. Moreover, the viscous case is handled with a matched asymptotic expansion performed at first order. The projection of the fluid forces on the in vacuo eigenvectors leads to a fully coupled system involving the modal time-dependent displacement coefficients. These coefficients are then obtained by matrix inversion in the Laplace domain and fast numerical inversion of the Laplace transform. The three models, written in the form of convolution products, are described through the analysis of their kernels, involving both the wave propagation phenomena in the fluid domain and the beam elasticity. Last, the three models are illustrated for a specific imposed motion mimicking shock loading. It is shown that their combination permits coverage of a broad range of motions.     

二维弹性结构入水冲击过程中的流固耦合效应

描述了一个研究弹性结构入水冲击过程中水弹性效应的数值方法,在弹性结构入水冲击过程中,流体域作用在结构上的水动力载荷由边界元法获得,而结构的弹性动力响应则由有限元方法求解,通过线性给离散Ｂｅｒｎｏｕｌｌｉ方程将有限元方程和边界元方程耦合到一起,从而获得了求解流场和结构动力响应的相互耦合的运动方程。在数值考虑了自由表面的非线性边界条件,通过引入射流单元以及最大射流厚度,较好地处理了冲击引起的射流问题。     

Finite Difference Method for the Acoustic Radiation of an Elastic Plate Excited by a Turbulent Boundary Layer: A Spectral Domain Solution

A finite difference method is developed to study, on a two-dimensional model, the acoustic pressure radiated when a thin elastic plate, clamped at its boundaries, is excited by a turbulent boundary layer. Consider a homogeneous thin elastic plate clamped at its boundaries and extended to infinity by a plane, perfectly rigid, baffle. This plate closes a rectangular cavity. Both the cavity and the outside domain contain a perfect fluid. The fluid in the cavity is at rest. The fluid in the outside domain moves in the direction parallel to the system plate/baffle with a constant speed. A turbulent boundary layer develops at the interface baffle/plate. The wall pressure fluctuations in this boundary layer generates a vibration of the plate and an acoustic radiation in the two fluid domains. Modeling the wall pressure fluctuations spectrum in a turbulent boundary layer developed over a vibrating surface is a very complex and unresolved task. Ducan and Sirkis [1] proposed a model for the two-way interactions between a membrane and a turbulent flow of fluid. The excitation of the membrane is modeled by a potential flow randomly perturbed. This potential flow is modified by the displacement of the membrane. Howe [2] proposed a model for the turbulent wall pressure fluctuations power spectrum over an elastomeric material. The model presented in this article is based on a hypothesis of one-way interaction between the flow and the structure: the flow generates wall pressure fluctuations which are at the origin of the vibration of the plate, but the vibration of the plate does not modify the characteristics of the flow. A finite difference scheme that incorporates the vibration of the plate and the acoustic pressure inside the fluid cavity has been developed and coupled with a boundary element method that ensures the outside domain coupling. In this paper, we focus on the resolution of the coupled vibration/interior acoustic problem. We compare the results obtained with three numerical methods: (a) a finite difference representation for both the plate displacement and the acoustic pressure inside the cavity; (b) a coupled method involving a finite difference representation for the displacement of the plate and a boundary element method for the interior acoustic pressure; (c) a boundary element method for both the vibration of the plate and the interior acoustic pressure. A comparison of the numerical results obtained with two models of turbulent wall pressure fluctuations spectrums - the Corcos model [3] and the Chase model [4] - is proposed. A difference of 20 dB is found in the vibro-acoustic response of the structure. In [3], this difference is explained by calculating a wavenumber transfer function of the plate. In [6], coupled beam-cavity modes for similar geometry are calculated by the finite difference method. This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

Nonlinear Parametric Vibrations of an Elastic Structure with a Rectangular Liquid Tank

The nonlinear coupled vibrations of an elastic structure and liquidsloshing in a rectangular tank partially filled with liquid, are investigated.The structure on which the liquid tank is attached is vertically subjected to a sinusoidal excitation when the natural frequency of the structure is equal to twicethe natural frequency of one of the sloshing modes. In the theoretical analysis, the modal equations are derivedby taking nonlinear fluid force into account. Responses of the structure and the liquid surface are presented asresonance curves using the harmonic balance method. From this theoreticalanalysis the following predictions are obtained: (a) due to the nonlinearity of the fluid force, harmonic oscillations appear in the structure, while subharmonic oscillations occur on the liquid surface; (b) the shapes of the resonance curves markedly change depending on the liquid level; and (c) when the tuning condition is slightly deviated, amplitudemodulated motions and chaotic oscillations appear during a certain range of the excitation frequency. These were qualitatively in agreement with the experimental results.     

Love waves in functionally graded piezoelectric materials

To investigate the features of Love waves in a layered functionally graded piezoelectric structure, the mathematical model is established on the basis of the elastic wave theory, and the WKB method is applied to solve the coupled electromechanical field differential equation. The solutions of the mechanical displacement and electrical potential function are obtained for the piezoelectric layer and elastic substrate. The dispersion relations of Love waves are deduced for electric open and short cases on the free surface respectively. The actual piezoelectric layer–elastic substrate systems are taken into account, and some corresponding numerical examples are proposed comparatively. Thus, the effects of the gradient variation about material constants on the phase velocity, the group velocity, the coupled electromechanical factor and the cutoff frequency are discussed in detail. So the propagation behaviors of Love waves in inhomogeneous medium is revealed, and the dispersion and the anti-dispersion are analyzed. The conclusions are significant both theoretically and practically for the surface acoustic wave devices.     

Acoustic Radiation from a Finite Length Cylindrical Shell Excited by an Internal Acoustic Source: Solution Based on a Boundary Element Method and a Matched Asymptotic Expansion

This paper deals with acoustic radiation by a thin elastic shell, closed by two perfectly rigid discs, immersed in water and filled with air. The system is driven by an internal acoustic source. The shell has a length L, is clamped along one of its boundaries and is freely supported along the other boundary. Using the infinite domain Green's function, the radiated acoustic pressure is modeled by a hybrid layer potential (linear combination with nonreal coefficient of a simple layer and a double layer). Using Green's tensor of the in vacuo shell operator, the shell displacement is expressed as the sum of the field generated by the acoustic pressures and that due to boundary sources. Finally, the Green's function of the interior Neumann problem is used to express the acoustic pressure inside the shell in terms of the acoustic source and shell normal displacement: this representation fails for any frequency equal to one of the resonance frequencies of the shell interior. To overcome this, a light fluid approximation, which is allowed because the inner fluid is a gas, is adopted. Around each resonance frequency, an inner approximation is defined which matches the classical outer approximation. This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

Nonlinear flexural waves in fluid–filled elastic channels

Nonlinear waves on liquid sheets between thin infinite elastic plates are studied analytically and numerically. Linear and nonlinear models are used for the elastic plates coupled to the Euler equations for the fluid. One-dimensional time-dependent equations are derived based on a long-wavelength approximation. Inertia of the elastic plates is neglected, so linear perturbations are stable. Symmetric and mixed-mode travelling waves are found with the linear plate model and symmetric travelling waves are found for the nonlinear case. Numerical simulations are employed to study the evolution in time of initial disturbances and to compare the different models used. Nonlinear effects are found to decrease the travelling wave speed compared with linear models. At sufficiently large amplitude of initial disturbances, higher order temporal oscillations induced by nonlinearity can lead to thickness of the liquid sheet approaching zero.     

Nonlinear modeling of tuned liquid dampers (TLDs) in rotating wind turbine blades for damping edgewise vibrations

Tuned liquid dampers (TLDs) utilize the sloshing motion of the fluid to suppress structural vibrations and become a natural candidate for damping vibrations in rotating wind turbine blades. The centrifugal acceleration at the tip of a wind turbine blade can reach a magnitude of 7–8g. This facilitates the use of a TLD with a relatively small fluid mass and with feasible geometric dimensions to mitigate the lightly-damped edgewise vibrations effectively. In the present paper, modal expansions are carried out directly on the velocity field and the free surface of the sloshing liquid in the rotating coordinate system. A formulation has been proposed leading to coupled nonlinear ordinary differential equations, which have been obtained through the Galerkin variational approach together with the modal expansion technique. Two models, with one sloshing mode and three sloshing modes, have been studied in the numerical simulation. It is shown that the one-mode model is able to predict the sloshing force and the damped structural response accurately, since the primary damping effect on the structure is achieved by the first sloshing mode of the fluid. Although it is unable to predict the fluid free-surface elevation equally well, the one-mode model can still be utilized for the design of TLD. Parametric optimization of the TLD is carried out based on the one-mode model, and the optimized damper effectively improves the dynamic response of wind turbine blades.     

Analytical extension of Finite Element solution for computing the nonlinear far field of ultrasonic waves scattered by a closed crack

Nonlinear scattering of ultrasonic waves by closed cracks subject to contact acoustic nonlinearity (CAN) is determined using a 2D Finite Element (FE) coupled with an analytical approach. The FE model, which includes unilateral contact with Coulomb friction to account for contact between crack faces, provides the near-field solution for the interaction between in-plane elastic waves and a crack of different orientations. The numerical solution is then analytically extended in the far-field based on a frequency domain near-to-far field transformation technique, yielding directivity patterns for all linear and nonlinear components of the scattered waves. The proposed method is demonstrated by application to two nonlinear acoustic problems in the case of tone-burst excitations: first, the scattering of higher harmonics resulting from the interaction with a closed crack of various orientations, and second, the scattering of the longitudinal wave resulting from the nonlinear interaction between two shear waves and a closed crack. The analysis of the directivity patterns enables us to identify the characteristics of the nonlinear scattering from a closed crack, which provides essential understanding in order to optimize and apply nonlinear acoustic NDT methods.     

Active sloshing control in a smart flexible cylindrical floating roof tank

An exact three dimensional fully-coupled hydro-elastic analysis for transient liquid sloshing in a partially-filled vertically-standing flexible circular cylindrical shell container fitted with a freely floating smart piezo-sandwich thin elastic circular plate is presented. The problem formulation is based on the linear water wave theory, the classical (Kirchhoff/Sanders) thin plate and shell models, Maxwell's equations of electrodynamics, Stokes’ transformation, and eigen-function expansions in cylindrical coordinates. The control action is achieved by combined volume displacement and volume velocity feedbacks (VDF, VVF) implemented in a second order active damping (AD) compensator via two competent evolutionary heuristic optimization techniques that systematically tune the controller gain parameters while constraining the floating panel displacement and control voltage. The uncontrolled and controlled transient responses of the coupled hydro-elastic system under various external disturbances (i.e., a harmonic base excitation, a real seismic event, a severe launch vehicle liftoff event, and a distributed impulsive transverse load on the floating panel) are calculated by means of Durbin's numerical inverse Laplace transform scheme. Moreover, the free vibration characteristics of the coupled fluid/structure interaction (FSI) system are briefly studied. The superior performance of the proposed active floating roof control configuration in effective suppression of the key hydro-elastic parameters (panel displacement, and shell displacements/stresses) is demonstrated. It is also found that, in the current FSI control problem, the Multi-objective Particle Swarm Optimization (MOPSO)-based ADC outperforms the Non-dominated Sorting Genetic Algorithm (NSGA-II)-based method, in terms of convergence rate and computational effort. Limiting cases are examined and the precision of results is verified by comparisons with the existing data as well as with the results produced by a commercial finite element package.     

Coupled free vibration analysis of a fluid-filled rectangular container with a sagged bottom membrane

In the present paper, two-dimensional coupled free vibrations of a fluid-filled rectangular container with a sagged bottom membrane are investigated. This system consists of two rigid walls and a membrane anchored along two rigid vertical walls. It is filled with incompressible and inviscid fluid. The membrane material is assumed to act like an inextensible material with no bending resistance. First, the nonlinear equilibrium equation is solved and the equilibrium shape of the membrane is obtained using an analytical formulation neglecting the membrane weight. The small vibrations about the equilibrium configuration are then investigated. Along the contact surface between the bottom membrane and the fluid, the compatibility requirement is applied for the fluid–structure interactions and the finite element method is used to calculate the natural frequencies and mode shapes of the fluid–membrane system. The vibration analysis of the coupled system is accomplished by using the displacement finite element for the membrane and the pressure fluid-finite element for the fluid domain. The variations of natural frequencies with the pressure head, the membrane length, the membrane weight and the distance between two rigid walls are examined. Moreover, the mode shapes of system are investigated.     

Effect of initial stress on the propagation behavior of Love waves in a layered piezoelectric structure

The propagation behavior of Love waves in a layered piezoelectric structure with an initial stress is investigated in this article. It involves a thin piezoelectric layer bonded perfectly to an elastic substrate. Solutions of the mechanical displacement and electrical potential function are obtained for the piezoelectric layer and elastic substrate by solving the coupled electromechanical field equations. The phase velocity equations of the Love wave propagation and the stress fields in the layered piezoelectric structure are obtained for electrical open and short cases on the free surface, respectively. The effect of the initial stress on the phase velocity, the stress fields and the coupled electromechanical factor are discussed, respectively. Three sets of piezoelectric layer–elastic substrate systems are considered, i.e. BaTiO₃ ceramic layer–borosilicate glass substrate, PZT-5H ceramic layer–borosilicate glass substrate, and PZT-5H ceramic layer–SiO₂ glass substrate. It is seen that the phase velocity of the Love wave propagation decreases with the increase of the magnitude of the initial stress. The coupled electromechanical factor increases remarkably, as the magnitude of the initial the stress is greater than 100 MPa. This is useful for the design of acoustic surface wave devices.     

Dynamic coupling between horizontal vessel motion and two-layer shallow-water sloshing

Numerical and analytical results are presented for fluid sloshing, of a two-layer inviscid, incompressible and immiscible fluid with thin layers and a rigid lid, coupled to a vessel which is free to undergo horizontal motion governed by a nonlinear spring. Exact analytical results are obtained for the linear problem, giving the natural frequencies and the resonance structure, particularly between the fluid and vessel. A numerical method for the linear and nonlinear equations is developed based on the high-resolution f-wave-propagation finite volume methods due to Bale et al. (2002) [SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing 24, 955–978], adapted to include the pressure gradient at the rigid-lid, and coupled to a Runge–Kutta solver for the vessel motion. The numerical simulations in the linear limit are compared with the exact analytical solutions. The coupled nonlinear numerical solutions with simulations near the internal 1:1 resonance are presented. Of particular interest is the partition of energy between the vessel and fluid motion.