On the fall of a heavy rigid body in an ideal fluid

We consider a problem about the motion of a heavy rigid body in an unbounded volume of an ideal irrotational incompressible fluid. This problem generalizes a classical Kirchhoff problem describing the inertial motion of a rigid body in a fluid. We study different special statements of the problem: the plane motion and the motion of an axially symmetric body. In the general case of motion of a rigid body, we study the stability of partial solutions and point out limiting behaviors of the motion when the time increases infinitely. Using numerical computations on the plane of initial conditions, we construct domains corresponding to different types of the asymptotic behavior. We establish the fractal nature of the boundary separating these domains.     

Existence of solutions for the equations

We introduce a concept of weak solution for a boundary value problem modelling the interactive motion of a coupled system consisting in a rigid body immersed in a viscous fluid. The fluid, and the solid are contained in a fixed open bounded set of R3. The motion of the fluid is governed by the incompresible Navier-Stokes equations and the standard conservation's laws of linear, and angular momentum rules the dynamics of the rigid body. The time variation of the fluid's domain (due to the motion of the rigid body) is not known apriori, so we deal with a free boundary value problem. Our main theorem asserts the existence of at least one weak solution for this problem. The result is global in time provided that the rigid body does not touch the boundary     

Nonuniqueness of a Solution to the Problem on Motion of a Rigid Body in a Viscous Incompressible Fluid

This paper is devoted to the problem on motion of a rigid body in a viscous incompressible fluid. It is proved that there exist at least two weak solutions of this problem if collisions of the body with the boundary of the flow domain are allowed. These solutions have different behavior of the body after the collision. Namely, for the first solution, the body goes away from the boundary after the collision. In the second solution, the body and the boundary remain in contact. Bibliography 15 titles.To Vsevolod Alekseevich Solonnikov on the occasion of his jubilee__________Translated from Zapiski Nauchnykh Seminarov POMI, Vol. 306, 2003, pp. 199–209.     

The self-propulsion of a body with moving internal masses in a viscous fluid

An investigation of the characteristics of motion of a rigid body with variable internal mass distribution in a viscous fluid is carried out on the basis of a joint numerical solution of the Navier — Stokes equations and equations of motion for a rigid body. A nonstationary three-dimensional solution to the problem is found. The motion of a sphere and a drop-shaped body in a viscous fluid in a gravitational field, which is caused by the motion of internal material points, is explored. The possibility of self-propulsion of a body in an arbitrary given direction is shown.     

Stability of a Generalized Sobolev System

The linear stability problem of the rotational motion of a rigid body around a fixed point containing an inner cavity filled up with an ideal fluid is considered. In this paper, we also assume that the fluid is rotating. The effect of the angular velocities of the rigid body and the fluid in the stability problem is studied. The case of a cavity ellipsoidal is presented in detail.     

Attitude stabilization of a rigid body in conditions of decreasing dissipation

The paper presents the problem of triaxial stabilization of the angular position of a rigid body. The possibility of implementing a control system in which dissipative torque tends to zero over time and the restoring torque is the only remaining control torque is considered. The case of vanishing damping considered in this study is known as the most complicated one in the problem of stability analysis of mechanical systems with a nonstationary parameter at the vector of dissipative forces. The lemma of the estimate from below for the norm of the restoring torque in the neighborhood of the stabilized motion of a rigid body and two theorems on asymptotic stability of the stabilized motion of a body are proven. It is shown that the sufficient conditions of asymptotic stability found in the theorems are close to the necessary ones. The results of numerical simulation illustrating the conclusions obtained in this study are presented.     

Motion of a rigid body in a viscous fluid

We introduce a concept of weak solution for a boundary value problem modelling the motion of a rigid body immersed in a viscous fluid. The time variation of the fluid's domain (due to the motion of the rigid body) is not known a priori, so we deal with a free boundary value problem. Our main theorem asserts the existence of at least one weak solution for this problem. The result is global in time provided that the rigid body does not touch the boundary.     

The stability of a non-autonomous functional-differential equation relative to part of the variables

The asymptotic stability and instability of the trivial solution of a functional-differential equation of delay type relative to part of the variables are investigated using limit equations and a Lyapunov function whose derivative is sign-definite. The theorems thus obtained are used to solve the problem of stabilizing mechanical control systems with delayed feedback. As examples, solutions of problems of the uniaxial and triaxial stabilization of the rotational motion of a rigid body with a delay in the control system are presented.     

Invariant sets in the Clebsch–Tisserand problem: Existence and stability

Questions of the existence and stability of invariant sets in the problem of the motion of a rigid body with a fixed point in an axi-symmetric force field with a quadratic potential (with respect to the direction cosines of the axis of symmetry of the field) are discussed. This problem is isomorphic with the problem of the motion of a free rigid body bounded by a simply connected surface in an ideal homogeneous incompressible fluid which performs irrotational motion and is at rest at infinity. [Kirchhoff F G.R. Über die Bewegung eines Rotationskörpers in eine Flüssigkeit, J Reine und angew Math, B. 71, 1870, S.237–S.262; Clebsch A. Über die Bewegung eines Köipers in eine Flüssigkeit, Math Anmnalen, Bd. 3, 1870, S.238–S.262] In particular, in the second case of the Clebsch integrability of a problem of the motion of a body in a fluid, this problem is isomorphic with the Tisserand problem on the motion of a body with a fixed point in the case of a quadratic potential of special form,[Tisserand M.F. Sur le mouvement des planètes autour du Soleil d’apreès la lol èlectrodynamique de Weber, C.R. Acad. Sci. Paris, 1872. V. 75, P. 760–763] which corresponds to the satellite approximation of the potential of the forces of Newtonian attraction.     

On the motion of a rigid body immersed in a bidimensional incompressible perfect fluid

We consider the motion of a rigid body immersed in a bidimensional incompressible perfect fluid. The motion of the fluid is governed by the Euler equations and the conservation laws of linear and angular momentum rule the dynamics of the rigid body. We prove the existence and uniqueness of a global classical solution for this fluid–structure interaction problem. The proof relies mainly on weighted estimates for the vorticity associated with the strong solution of a fluid–structure interaction problem obtained by incorporating some viscosity.     

Approximate equations of rotational motion of a rigid body carrying a movable point mass

The dynamics of a compound system, consisting of a rigid body and a point mass, which moves in a specified way along a curve, rigidly attached to the body is investigated. The system performs free motion in a uniform gravity field. Differential equations are derived which describe the rotation of the body about its centre of mass. In two special cases, which allow of the introduction of a small parameter, an approximate system of equations of motion is obtained using asymptotic methods. The accuracy with which the solutions of the approximate system approach the solutions of the exact equations of motion is indicated. In one case, it is assumed that the point mass has a mass that is small compared with the mass of the body, and performs rapid motion with respect to the rigid body. It is shown that in this case the approximate system is integrable. A number of special motions of the body, described by the approximate system, are indicated, and their stability is investigated. In the second case, no limitations are imposed on the mass of the point mass, but it is assumed that the relative motion of the point is rapid and occurs near a specified point of the body. It is shown that, in the approximate system, the motion of the rigid body about its centre of mass is Euler–Poinsot motion.     

Dynamical systems with variable dissipation: approaches, methods, and applications

This work is devoted to the development of qualitative methods in the theory of nonconservative systems that arise, e.g., in such fields of science as the dynamics of a rigid body interacting with a resisting medium, oscillation theory, etc. This material can arouse the interest of specialists in the qualitative theory of ordinary differential equations, in rigid body dynamics, as well as in fluid and gas dynamics since the work uses the properties of motion of a rigid body in a medium under streamline flow-around conditions. The author obtains a full spectrum of complete integrability cases for nonconservative dynamical systems having nontrivial symmetries. Moreover, in almost all cases of integrability, each of the first integrals is expressed through a finite combination of elementary functions and is a transcendental function of its variables, simultaneously. In this case, the transcendence is meant in the complex analysis sense; i.e., after the continuation of the functions considered to the complex domain, they have essentially singular points. The latter fact is stipulated by the existence of attracting and repelling limit sets in the system considered (for example, attracting and repelling foci). The author obtains new families of phase portraits of systems with variable dissipation on lowerand higher-dimensional manifolds. He discusses the problems of their absolute or relative roughness, He discovers new integrable cases of rigid body motion, including those in the classical problem of motion of a spherical pendulum placed in an over-running medium flow.     

Closed geodesics on multiply connected manifolds

The existence of a finite number of non-hyperbolic periodic trajectories in Kirchhoff's problem of the motion of a rigid body in an ideal fluid as well as in its twin problem of the motion of a rigid body with a fixed point in a force field with a quadratic potential is proved using one of Klingenberg's theorems. The dynamical system is considered on a multiply connected manifold of even dimension with a Riemann metric.     

Brownian dynamics of rigid body by fluctuating hydrodynamic equations

In this work, Brownian dynamics of rigid body in an incompressible fluid with fluctuating hydrodynamic equations is presented. To demonstrate the Brownian motion of rigid body, fluctuating hydrodynamic equations have been coupled with equations of motion of rigid body. Thermal fluctuation is included in the fluid equations via random stress terms unlike the random terms in the conventional Brownian dynamics type approach. Calculation of random stress terms in the fluid is easier in comparison to the random terms in the particle motion. Direct numerical simulation for the Brownian motion of rigid body with a meshfree framework is analysed. (© 2012 Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)     

Wall effects on the slow steady motion of a particle in a viscous incompressible fluid

In this paper, asymptotic expansions with respect to small Reynolds numbers are proved for the slow steady motion of an arbitrary particle in a viscous, incompressible fluid past a single plane wall. The flow problem is modelled by a certain boundary value problem for the stationary, nonlinear Navier-Stokes equations. The coefficients of these expansions are the solutions of various, linear Stokes problems which can be constructed by single layer potentials and corresponding boundary integral equations on the boundary surface of the particle. Furthermore, some asymptotic estimates at small Reynolds numbers are presented for the slow steady motion of an arbitrary particle in a viscous, incompressible fluid between two parallel, plane walls and in an infinitely long, rectilinear cylinder of arbitrary cross section. In the case of the flow problem with a single plane wall, the paper is based on a thesis, which the author has written under the guidance of Professor Dr. Wolfgang L. Wendland.     

Existence of strong solutions for the problem of a rigid-fluid system

This Note is devoted to the study of a fluid–rigid body interaction problem. The motion of the fluid is modelled by the Navier–Stokes equations, written in an unknown bounded domain depending on the displacement of the rigid body. Our main result yields the existence and uniqueness of strong solutions, which are global provided that the rigid body does not touch the boundary. To cite this article: T. Takahashi, C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris, Ser. I 336 (2003).     

Exact controllability of a fluid–rigid body system

This paper is devoted to the controllability of a 2D fluid–structure system. The fluid is viscous and incompressible and its motion is modelled by the Navier–Stokes equations whereas the structure is a rigid ball which satisfies Newton's laws. We prove the local null controllability for the velocities of the fluid and of the rigid body and the exact controllability for the position of the rigid body. An important part of the proof relies on a new Carleman inequality for an auxiliary linear system coupling the Stokes equations with some ordinary differential equations.     

Solvability of a nonstationary problem of a rigid body motion in the flow of a viscous incompressible fluid in a pipe of arbitrary cross-section

The existence of a generalized weak solution is proved for the nonstationary problem of motion of a rigid body in the flow of a viscous incompressible fluid filling a cylindrical pipe of arbitrary cross-section. The fluid flow conforms to the Navier–Stokes equations and tends to the Poiseuille flow at infinity. The body moves in accordance with the laws of classical mechanics under the influence of the surrounding fluid and the gravity force directed along the cylinder. Collisions of the body with the boundary of the flow domain are not admitted and, by this reason, the problem is considered until the body approaches the boundary.     

Controlled motion of a rigid body with internal mechanisms in an ideal incompressible fluid

We consider the controlled motion in an ideal incompressible fluid of a rigid body with moving internal masses and an internal rotor in the presence of circulation of the fluid velocity around the body. The controllability of motion (according to the Rashevskii–Chow theorem) is proved for various combinations of control elements. In the case of zero circulation, we construct explicit controls (gaits) that ensure rotation and rectilinear (on average) motion. In the case of nonzero circulation, we examine the problem of stabilizing the body (compensating the drift) at the end point of the trajectory. We show that the drift can be compensated for if the body is inside a circular domain whose size is defined by the geometry of the body and the value of circulation.     

On the linearized theory op flow around bodies. Method of force sources

The method of force sources is proposed for solving linear problems related to the interaction between rigid bodies, and fluids, or gases. Method is based on the introduction of perturbation force sources into equation of motion of fluid media. Boundary conditions at the rigid body surface make it possible to reduce the problem of hydrodynamic reactions to an integral equation defining the function of force sources. Method is illustrated by the solution of three simple problems in the field of acoustics, and of viscous, and compressible media flow around bodies.

In the linearized theory of flow around rigid bodies, as well as in acoustics, an important part of the sound wave generation analysis concerns the determination of hydrodynamic reactions of the medium on moving, pulsating, or oscillating bodies. Such reactions make themselves felt as constant, or variable mechanical forces, such as drag and lift, or in the case of sound wave emitters, as the wave resistance. Various methods had been proposed for the computation of such forces, as for example, in the monographs [1 to 6].

Here, a different approach to the problem of determination of surface forces exerted by liquids and gases on the rigid body is proposed. By resorting to the formalism of the generalized functions it is possible to introduce into the equations of motion of fluid media a perturbation source in the form volume density of forces exercised by the body on the gas. The distribution of surface tension entering into the expression of this force is selected in such a manner as to satisfy boundary conditions at the body surface. It becomes possible with the use of this device to reduce the problem of determination of forces acting on the body surface to the solution of certain Integral equations. The proposed method is in all respects completely analogous to the well-known method of sources and sinks [1 to 1]. Both methods reduce the problem of interaction between body and gas to the solution of Integral equations. The method of sources and sinks, however, leads to an integral equation which describes the distribution of fictitious sources and sinks in the volume of the body having the density of the medium, while the method of force sources yields an integral equation which directly defines the distribution of mechanical forces over the surface of the body (*).

We may note that the method of force sources had to a certain extent been already used in papers [6 and 7] for the determination of sound radiation by means of point-force sources.