Mode Decomposition on Surface-Mounted Cube

In this paper, the flow around the surface-mounted cube is decomposed into modes using Proper Orthogonal Decomposition (POD) and Koopman mode decomposition, respectively. The objective of the paper is twofold. Firstly, a comparison of the two decomposition methods for a highly separated flow is performed. Secondly, an evaluation of Detached Eddy Simulation (DES) for simulating a time-accurate flow, to be used as input data for the two mode decomposition methods, is accomplished. The knowledge on the accuracy and usefulness of the modes computed with from DES flow fields can then be the foundation for other studies for applied geometries in vehicle aerodynamics. The flow is simulated using DES, which enables time-accurate simulations on flows around realistic vehicle geometries. Most of the first eight modes computed with DES in a reference domain can also be found among the first eight computed with LES in reference work. Since the POD modes computed with DES resemble those computed with LES, the conclusion is that DES is suitable to use for mode decomposition. When comparing the POD and Koopman modes, many similarities can be found in both the spatial and temporal modes. For this case, where the flow contains a broad band of frequencies, it is concluded that the advantage of using Koopman modes, decomposing by frequency, cannot be fully utilized, and Koopman modes are very similar to the POD modes.     

Large Eddy Simulation and Extended Dynamic Mode Decomposition of Flow-Flame Interaction in a Lean Premixed Low Swirl Stabilized Flame

In this paper, numerical studies are reported on the effect of flow-flame interaction at large and medium scales and its impact on flame stabilization in a lean premixed low swirl stabilized methane/air flame. The numerical simulations are based on a large eddy simulation (LES) approach with a three-scalar flamelet model with equations for mixture fraction and fuel mass fraction and the level-set G-equation to account respectively for stratification of the mixture, fuel leakage at the trailing edge of the flame, and tracking of the flame front. Distinct frequencies, associated with the flame stabilization process, are identified from point data of LES in the outer and inner shear layers of the burner induced flow field. To understand the effect of the spatial structures related to the observed flow frequencies, a dynamic mode decomposition (DMD) is performed. Based on the analysis of LES data, frequency specific coherent flow structures are extracted along with associated flame structures through an extended version of DMD. The inner shear layer generated vortices are associated with recurring frequency specific coherent structures of both flow and flame and contribute to the flame stabilization in the outer regions of the flow.     

Dynamic Mode Decomposition of a Wing-Body Junction Flow

Junction flows are subject to an intense adverse pressure gradient and three-dimensional separation when encountering a wall-mounted obstacle. A dynamically rich horseshoe vortex system is formed in this region. In this study the junction flow at the interaction of a wing and a flat plate is investigated. The numerical modelling is carried out using the three-dimensional large eddy simulation (LES) approach at the Reynolds number Re = 1.15×10⁵ based on the wing’s maximum thickness T and the free stream velocity U_ref. The comparison with the experimental results shows that the numerical simulations fairly accurately reproduce the phenomenon under study. The dynamic mode decomposition (DMD) of the resolved flow field is employed to obtain the coherent dynamics of the flow. To clearly demonstrate the oscillation characteristics and the horseshoe vortex structures of junction flow the velocity field in the plane of symmetry is decomposed with eduction of two dominant DMDmodes. These two DMDmodes are reconstituted and developed, together with the mean flow mode to explain the latent dynamics. Mode 1 reveals the merging of the horseshoe vortices and mode 2 is responsible for the process of fission and stretching.     

Extended Proper Orthogonal Decomposition: Application to Jet/Vortex Interaction

The Proper Orthogonal Decomposition (POD) is used in the present work to study the interactions between different regions of a flow. The standard analysis would select structures that are best correlated with the entire fluctuating velocity field. It is therefore not helpful if one flow region S of interest contains only a small percentage of the total kinetic energy. Using POD modes computed in the sub-domain S only, extended modes are introduced using the method of snapshots. We demonstrate that they provide a decomposition of the velocity field in the whole domain and that the extended mode number p provides the only local contribution to the velocity field correlated with the projection of the velocity field on POD mode p in S. This method is general and can be applied to either experimental or numerical velocity fields. As an example, it is applied to the analysis of an internal turbulent flow in a model engine cylinder with tumble. Data are obtained at a given phase with Particle Image Velocimetry. We focus our analysis on the middle of the intake stroke when the energy containing intake jet rolls up to feed a large vortex structure. Preferred directions of the jet/vortex interaction are clearly identified. This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

Estimation of Displacement Response from FBG Strain Sensors Using Empirical Mode Decomposition Technique

As an important factor in evaluating the safety of civil infrastructures, predictions of displacement become the basis for determining the decrease of structural performance and the degree of aging in general. It is, however, well known that it is not easy to measure the displacement response of civil infrastructures such as suspension bridges due to a lack of appropriate measurement techniques, despite the importance of measurements in the displacement response. Thus, as an alternative for predicting the displacement response indirectly, the conversion of the measured strain signal obtained using Fiber optic Bragg-Grating (FBG) sensors into the displacement response is suggested. In previous studies on the prediction of displacement response using FBG sensors, static displacement was mainly predicted. A known complication in the use of the measured strain signal to predict dynamic displacement is the fact that the measured strain signal includes higher modes, and that the predicted dynamic displacement can be inherently contaminated by broad-band noises. To overcome such a problem, a mode decomposition technique was used. This is a method that estimates the total displacement response combined with each displacement response about the major mode of the structure and the quasi-static displacement responses. In order to verify the suggested algorithm to predict the displacement responses from FBG strain signals, a model experiment and field tests were executed.     

非常应变模式数字相关方法的初值估计

本文给出了基于高精度非常应变子区位移模式数字相关方法的Newton-Raphson迭代法求解的新通用公式,对相关迭代算法中的初值估计问题进行了研究,提出两种初值估计方法：（1）利用“实时相减”和“精密调节”相结合的方法而获得零初值;（2）快速迭代初值估计方法,从而有效地解决了Newton-Raphson迭代算法中的初值估计问题,并提高了迭代的收敛速度。     

Scanning-Digital Image Correlation for Moving and Temporally Deformed Surfaces in Scanning Imaging Mode

Background

Images from scanning electron microscopes, transmission electron microscopes and atomic force microscopes have been widely used in digital image correlation methods to obtain accurate full-field deformation profiles of tested objects and investigate the object’s deformation mechanism. However, because of the raster-scanning imaging mode used in microscopic observation equipment, the images obtained from these instruments can only be used for quasi-static displacement measurements; otherwise, spurious displacements and strains may be introduced into the deformation results if these scanning microscopic images are used directly in general digital image correlation calculations for moving and temporally deformed surfaces.

Objective

Realizing kinematic parameter and dynamic deformation measurements on a scanning electron microscope platform.

Methods

Establishing a scanning imaging model of moving and temporally deformed objects that contains motion and deformation equations, a scanning equation and an intensity invariance assumption for small deformations. Then proposing a scanning-digital image correlation (S-DIC) method based on combing the characteristics of the scanning imaging mode with digital image correlation.

Results

Quantitatively investigating the effects of the spurious displacements and strains introduced when using scanning images to represent moving and temporally deformed surfaces in the measurement results. Numerical simulations verify that the accuracy of the S-DIC method is 10^?2pix for the displacement, 10^?4 for the strain, 10^?4pix/s for the velocity and 10^?6s^?1 for the strain rate. Experiments also show that the proposed S-DIC method is effective. Conclusions: The results of this work demonstrate the utility of S-DIC on the field of microscopic dynamic measurement.

     

基于数字散斑相关方法测定Ⅰ型裂纹应力强度因子

提出了一种通过数字散斑相关方法测定金属材料Ⅰ型裂纹尖端位置和应力强度因子的实验方法.实验采用疲劳试验机对含Ⅰ型缺口的Cr12MoV钢试件预制裂纹,通过数字散斑相关方法测试试件在三点弯曲加载条件下裂纹的扩展过程及裂尖区域的位移场.将位移场数据代入裂尖位移场方程组,采用牛顿-拉普森方法求解含未知参量的裂尖非线性位移场方程组,计算裂尖位置和应力强度因子.实验结果表明,采用该方法可以准确地测定金属材料Ⅰ型裂纹应力强度因子、裂尖位置及裂纹扩展长度,解决了以往研究中因不能准确测定裂纹尖端位置,而无法准确计算Ⅰ型裂纹裂尖断裂参数的难题,揭示了金属材料裂纹扩展过程中应力强度因子演化特征.     

Direct Evaluation of Cohesive Law in Mode I of Pinus pinaster by Digital Image Correlation

The direct identification of the cohesive law in pure mode I of Pinus pinaster is addressed in this work. The approach couples the double cantilever beam (DCB) test with digital image correlation (DIC). Wooden beam specimens loaded in the radial-longitudinal (RL) fracture propagation system are used. The strain energy release rate in mode I (G _I) is uniquely determined from the load–displacement curve by means of the compliance-based beam method (CBBM). This method relies on the concept of equivalent elastic crack length (a _eq) and therefore does not require the monitoring of crack propagation during test. DIC measurements are processed with two different purposes. Firstly, the physical evidence of a _eq is discussed with regard to actual estimation of the crack length based on post-processing full-field displacement measurements. Secondly, the crack tip opening displacement in mode I (w _I) is determined from the displacements near the initial crack tip. The cohesive law in mode I (σ _I???w _I) is then identified by numerical differentiation of the G _I???w _I relationship. The methodology and accuracy on this reconstruction are addressed. Moreover, the proposed procedure is validated by finite element analyses including cohesive zone modelling. It is concluded that the proposed data reduction scheme is adequate for assessing the cohesive law in pure mode I of P. pinaster.     

Postbuckling and Imperfection Sensitivity Analysis of Axially Stiffened Cylindrical Shells with Mode Interaction

Abstract

Interaction of nearly simultaneous buckling modes in the presence of imperfections is studied. The investigation is concerned with axially stiffened cylindrical shells under axial compression. In these structures, two modes are of particular interest, namely an overall long-wave and a local shortwave buckling mode. Numerical results show that in some cases bending of the stringers in the local mode postbuckling solution plays an important role. Exclusion of this effect, as was done in a previous study by Byskov and Hutchinson, may lead to an overestimation of the carrying capacity of the shell. Furthermore, it is found that apparently reasonable approximations to the postbuckling fields associated with both the local and the overall mode, as well as with the overall mode alone, may lead to inexact values of the buckling load.     

Canonical transformations in the optimal control of mechanical systems

In this paper the canonical perturbation method, which is widely used in analytical mechanics, is applied to optimal control problems. It is shown that the state and adjoint equations present additional interesting symmetries if the state equations are themselves of the Hamiltonian type, which is frequently the case if a mechanical system is to be controlled. The application of the canonical perturbation method to optimal control problems turns out to be particularly simple, if the optimal control is piecewise constant. Several examples are considered.     

An improved algorithm for the shallow water equations model reduction: Dynamic Mode Decomposition vs POD

We propose an improved framework for dynamic mode decomposition (DMD) of 2‐D flows for problems originating from meteorology when a large time step acts like a filter in obtaining the significant Koopman modes, therefore, the classic DMD method is not effective. This study is motivated by the need to further clarify the connection between Koopman modes and proper orthogonal decomposition (POD) dynamic modes. We apply DMD and POD to derive reduced order models (ROM) of the shallow water equations. Key innovations for the DMD‐based ROM introduced in this paper are the use of the Moore–Penrose pseudoinverse in the DMD computation that produced an accurate result and a novel selection method for the DMD modes and associated amplitudes and Ritz values. A quantitative comparison of the spatial modes computed from the two decompositions is performed, and a rigorous error analysis for the ROM models obtained is presented. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Mode I Fracture at Spot Welds in Dual-Phase Steel: An Application of Reverse Digital Image Correlation

Strain fields in 600 grade dual-phase steel V-notch tensile specimens, both with and without a spot weld, were measured after mode I fracture initiation. Starting with the final image of a fully developed crack, a novel reverse digital image correlation (DIC) analysis was used to determine the path that the crack followed at the onset of fracture as well as the crack tip deformation field. This gave the pixel coordinates of grid points on both sides (i.e. fracture surfaces) of the crack path in the undeformed image. Strain fields that develop in the base material regions surrounding the two fracture surfaces were subsequently measured with forward DIC analysis. Steady state values of the crack tip opening displacement (CTOD) and crack tip opening angle (CTOA), which are important fracture parameters, were measured for the base DP600 metal. Notch tip opening displacement (NTOD) and notch tip opening angle were also measured. It was found that steady state values of the CTOD and CTOA are reached within 2 mm or so of crack growth following completion of the flat-to-slant transition of the fracture surface and stabilization of the crack tunneling effect.     

Canonical and Anti-Canonical Transformations Preserving Convexity of Potentials

The aim of the paper is to characterize transformations that preserve the potential structure of a relationship between dual variables. The first step consists in deriving a geometric definition of the condition for the existence of a potential. Having at hand this formulation, it becomes clear that the canonical similitudes represents the class of transformations that preserves the potential form of a relationship. Next, we derive the conditions under which canonical similitudes preserve the convexity of the potential or change it into concavity. This new class of transformations can be viewed as a generalization of the Legendre-Fenchel transformation. These concepts are applied to the Hooke constitutive relationship.     

Hopf Bifurcation of the Generalized Lorenz Canonical Form

Hopf bifurcation of a unified chaotic system – the generalized Lorenz canonical form (GLCF) – is investigated. Based on rigorous mathematical analysis and symbolic computations, some conditions for stability and direction of the periodic obits from the Hopf bifurcation are derived.     

二层流体中波动问题的Hamilton正则方程

研究了两种常密度不可压缩理想流体组成的垂直分层的二流体系统的无旋等熵流动,考虑了上层流体与空气及两层流体间的表面张力。流动区域在水平方向无限伸展,上层流体有限深度,下层流体无限深。利用自由面及分界面相对于静止时平衡位置的偏移以及两层流体的速度势构造了Hamilton函数。为导出Hamilton正则方程引用了Euler描述下的流体运动的变分原理。自由面的位移是Hamilton意义下的正则变量,其对偶变量是上层流体在自由面上取值的速度势与密度的乘积。另一个正则变量是分界面的位移,其对偶变量是下层流体的密度与下层流体速度势在分界面上所取值的乘积减去上层流体密度与上层流体速度势在分界面上所取值的相应乘积。导出的Hamilton结构对分析分层流动中表面波与内波的相互作用是重要的。     

Canonical equations in the geometrically nonlinear theory of thin anisotropic shells

The functional in the principle of minimum potential energy of layered anisotropic shells with a nonlinear relationship between strains and displacements is transformed into a canonical integral that coincides with the functional in the Reissner principle. Partial forms of the functional are derived for problem formulations where the dimension can be reduced with respect to one of the coordinates. The canonical system of equations is linearized and then normalized. The boundary-value problem is solved by the numerical discrete-orthogonalization method. An anisotropic spherical shell under external compression is analyzed for stability as an example