Thermoelasticity without energy dissipation of materials with microstructure

In this article we propose a model of the thermoelastic theory without energy dissipation for materials with affine microstructure. The equations of the linear theory are also obtained. We obtain as well a uniqueness theorem for materials with a center of symmetry and an existence and uniqueness result in the general linear case.     

Time-harmonic sources in a generalized magneto-thermo-viscoelastic continuum with and without energy dissipation

In this paper, an attempt is made to estimate the influence due to a time-harmonic normal point load or thermal source in a homogeneous isotropic magneto-thermo-viscoelastic half-space. The system of fundamental equations is solved by using Hankel transform. The inverse transform integrals using Romberg integration with adaptive stepwise after using the results from successive refinements of the extended trapezoidal rule followed by extrapolation of the results to the limit when the step-size tends to zero. The two special cases: (i) normal point load acting on the surface and (ii) thermal point source acting on the surface, are studied in the cases of with and without energy dissipation of magneto-thermo-viscoelasticity. The displacements, temperature and stress components have been obtained in analytical form. Finally, the results obtained are displayed numerically and presented graphically for copper material.     

Optimal paths for minimizing entransy dissipation during heat transfer processes with generalized radiative heat transfer law

A common of finite-time heat transfer processes between high- and low-temperature sides with generalized radiative heat transfer law [q ∝ Δ(Tⁿ)] is studied in this paper. In general, the minimization of entropy generation in heat transfer processes is taken as the optimization objective. A new physical quantity, entransy, has been identified as a basis for optimizing heat transfer processes in terms of the analogy between heat and electrical conduction recently. Heat transfer analyses show that the entransy of an object describes its heat transfer ability, as the electrical energy in a capacitor describes its charge transfer ability. Entransy dissipation occurs during heat transfer processes, as a measure of the heat transfer irreversibility with the dissipation related thermal resistance. Under the condition of fixed heat load, the optimal configurations of hot and cold fluid temperatures for minimizing entransy dissipation are derived by using optimal control theory. The condition corresponding to the minimum entransy dissipation strategy with Newtonian heat transfer law (n = 1) is that corresponding to a constant heat flux rate, while the condition corresponding to the minimum entransy dissipation strategy with the linear phenomenological heat transfer law (n = −1) is that corresponding to a constant ratio of hot to cold fluid temperatures. Numerical examples for special cases with Newtonian, linear phenomenological and radiative heat transfer law (n = 4) are provided, and the obtained results are also compared with the conventional strategies of constant heat flux rate and constant hot fluid (reservoir) temperature operations and optimal strategies for minimizing entropy generation. Moreover, the effects of heat load changes on the optimal hot and fluid temperature configurations are also analyzed.     

Total energy decay for the wave equation in exterior domains with a dissipation near infinity

We show that the energy of solutions to the initial boundary value problem for the wave equation in exterior domains with a dissipation which is localized only near infinity tends to zero as the time goes to infinity. We do not make any geometrical condition like star-shapedness on the boundary.     

Heat transfer in a visco-elastic fluid past a stretching sheet with viscous dissipation and internal heat generation

This paper deals with the study of heat transfer characteristics in the laminar boundary layer flow of a visco-elastic fluid over a linearly stretching continuous surface with variable wall temperature subjected to suction or blowing. The study considers the effects of frictional heating (viscous dissipation) and internal heat generation or absorption. An analysis has been carried out for two different cases of heating processes namely: (i) Prescribed surface temperature (PST) and (ii) Prescribed wall heat flux (PHF) to get the effect of visco-elastic parameter for various situations. Further increase of visco-elastic parameter is to decrease the skin friction on the sheet. The solutions for the temperature and the heat transfer characteristics are obtained in terms of Kummers function. Received: June 16, 2004; revised: February 8, 2005     

Rotational and voids effect on the reflection of P waves from stress-free surface of an elastic half-space under magnetic field and initial stress without energy dissipation

The influence of rotation, magnetic field, voids and initial stress on the reflection of P waves in thermoelasticity without energy dissipation are studied. The basic governing equations for isotropic and homogeneous thermoelastic half-space with voids, rotation, are based on Green and Naghdi (GN) theory under the effect of initial stress, where there is an initial magnetic field parallel to the plane boundary of the half-space. The solution of the problem in xz-plane indicates the existence of four plane waves; $P_1\text{;}{P}_2\text{;}{P}_3$ and $P_4$ and an SV waves. The relevant boundary conditions at stress-free insulated surface are satisfied by appropriate solutions in the half-space to obtain the reflection coefficients for the incidence of P waves. The numerical values of the complex modulus of the reflection coefficients are visualized graphically to display the effect of the rotation, magnetic field, initial stress and voids parameters.     

Heat transfer in a liquid film over an unsteady stretching surface with viscous dissipation in presence of external magnetic field

This paper presents a mathematical analysis of MHD flow and heat transfer to a laminar liquid film from a horizontal stretching surface. The flow of a thin fluid film and subsequent heat transfer from the stretching surface is investigated with the aid of similarity transformation. The transformation enables to reduce the unsteady boundary layer equations to a system of non-linear ordinary differential equations. Numerical solution of resulting non-linear differential equations is found by using efficient shooting technique. Boundary layer thickness is explored numerically for some typical values of the unsteadiness parameter S and Prandtl number Pr, Eckert number Ec and Magnetic parameter Mn. Present analysis shows that the combined effect of magnetic field and viscous dissipation is to enhance the thermal boundary layer thickness.     

Global existence and blow-up of solutionsfor a higher-order kirchhoff-type equation with nonlinear dissipation

This paper deals with the higher-order Kirchhoff-type equation with nonlinear dissipationu_tt+(∫_Ω׀D^mu׀²dx)^q(−Δ)^mu+u_t׀u_t׀^r=׀u׀^pu,xΩ,t>0,in a bounded domain, where m < 1 is a positive integer, q, p, r < 0 arepositive constants. We obtain that the solution exists globally if p ≤ r, while ifp > max r, 2q , then for any initial data with negative initial energy, the solution blowsup at finite time in L^p+2 norm.     

Application of a spectral method to numerical modeling of the propagation of seismic waves in porous media with energy dissipation

This paper presents an algorithm based on the spectral Laguerre method for approximation of time derivatives as applied to a problem of seismic wave propagation in porous media with energy dissipation. The initial system of equations is written as a first-order hyperbolic system in terms of velocities, stresses, and pore pressure. To numerically solve the problem, a combination of an analytical Laguerre transform and a finite-difference method is used. The method proposed in the paper is an analog of a well-known spectral method based on the Fourier transform. However, unlike the Fourier transform, the integral Laguerre transform with respect to time reduces the initial problem to a system of equations in which the expansion parameter is present only in the right-hand side of the equations as a recurrence relation. As compared to the finite-difference method, with an analytical transform in the spectral method it is possible to reduce the original problem to a system of differential equations having only derivatives with respect to the spatial coordinates. This allows using the known stable difference scheme for the recurrence solutions to similar systems. Such an approach is effective when solving dynamic problems for porous media. Because of the presence of a second longitudinal wave with low velocity, the use of difference schemes in all the coordinates to obtain stable solutions requires a small step consistent both with respect to time and space, which inevitably increases the execution time.     

Unsteady mixed convection heat transfer along a vertical stretching surface with variable viscosity and viscous dissipation

The effect of variable viscosity on laminar mixed convection flow and heat transfer along a semi-infinite unsteady stretching sheet taking into account the effect of viscous dissipation is studied. The flow of the fluid and subsequent heat transfer from the stretching surface is investigated with the aid of suitable transformation variables. Solutions for the velocity and temperature fields are obtained for some representative values of the unsteadiness parameter, variable viscosity parameter, mixed convection parameter and Eckert number. Typical velocity and temperature profiles, the local skin friction coefficient and the local heat transfer rate are presented at selected controlling parameters.     

Self‐similar asymptotic profile of the solution to a nonlinear evolution equation with critical dissipation

In this paper, we obtain optimal decay estimates for the solutions to an evolution equation with critical, structural, dissipation, and absorbing power nonlinearity: with μ>0, θ is a positive integer, and p>1+4θ/n, in space dimension n∈(2θ,4θ). We use these estimates to find the self‐similar asymptotic profile of the solutions, when μ≥1.     

Finite dimensionality and regularity of attractors for a 2-D semilinear wave equation with nonlinear dissipation

We consider a semilinear wave equation, defined on a two-dimensional bounded domain Ω, with a nonlinear dissipation. Our main result is that the flow generated by the model is attracted by a finite dimensional global attractor. In addition, this attractor has additional regularity properties that depend on regularity properties of nonlinear functions in the equation. To our knowledge this is a first result of this type in the context of higher dimensional wave equations.     

A numerical investigation of blow-up in reaction-diffusion problems with traveling heat sources

This paper studies the numerical solution of a reaction-diffusion differential equation with traveling heat sources. According to the fact that the locations of heat sources are known, we add auxiliary mesh points exactly at heat sources and present a novel moving mesh algorithm for solving the problem. Several examples are provided to demonstrate the efficiency of the new moving mesh method, especially in the case of two or three traveling heat sources. Moreover, numerical results illustrate that the speed of the movement of the heat source is critical for blow-up when there is only one traveling heat source. For the case of two traveling heat sources, blow-up depends not only on the speed but also on the distance between the two traveling heat sources.     

On multi-dimensional compressible flows of nematic liquid crystals with large initial energy in a bounded domain

We study the global existence of weak solutions to a multi-dimensional simplified Ericksen–Leslie system for compressible flows of nematic liquid crystals with large initial energy in a bounded domain Ω⊂R^N$\Omega \subset {\mathbb{R}}^N$, where N=2 or 3$N=2\text{or}3$. By exploiting a maximum principle, Nirenberg?s interpolation inequality and a smallness condition imposed on the N  -th component of initial direction field _d0${\mathbf{d}}_0$ to overcome the difficulties induced by the supercritical nonlinearity |∇d|²d${|\mathrm{\nabla }\mathbf{d}|}^2\mathbf{d}$ in the equations of angular momentum, and then adapting a modified three-dimensional approximation scheme and the weak convergence arguments for the compressible Navier–Stokes equations, we establish the global existence of weak solutions to the initial-boundary problem with large initial energy and without any smallness condition on the initial density and velocity.     

Generalized thermo-visco-elastic problem of a spherical shell with three-phase-lag effect

This problem deals with the thermo-visco-elastic interaction due to step input of temperature on the stress free boundaries of a homogeneous visco-elastic isotropic spherical shell in the context of generalized theories of thermo-elasticity. Using the Laplace transformation the fundamental equations have been expressed in the form of vector–matrix differential equation which is then solved by eigen value approach. The inverse of the transformed solution is carried out by applying a method of Bellman et al. [R. Bellman, R.E. Kolaba, J.A. Lockette, Numerical Inversion of the Laplace Transform, American Elsevier Publishing Company, New York, 1966]. The stresses are computed numerically and presented graphically in a number of figures for copper material. A comparison of the results for different theories (TEWED (GN-III), three-phase-lag method) is presented. When the body is elastic and the outer radius of the shell tends to infinity, the corresponding results agree with the result of existing literature.     

Reconstruction of curves with minimal energy using a blending interpolator

A weighted blending interpolator, a kind of smooth rational spline based only on function values, is constructed using a rational cubic spline and a polynomial spline. In order to meet the needs of practical design, a new control method is employed to control the shape of curves. The advantage of the method is that it can be applied to modify the local shape of an interpolating curve by selecting suitable parameters and weight coefficients simply. Also, when the weight coefficient is in [0,1], the error estimation formula of this interpolator is obtained. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Flow of a non‐linear (density‐gradient‐dependent) viscous fluid with heat generation,viscous dissipation and radiation

In this paper, we study the flow of a compressible (density‐gradient‐dependent) non‐linear fluid down an inclined plane, subject to radiation boundary condition. The convective heat transfer is also considered where a source term, similar to the Arrhenius type reaction, is included. The non‐dimensional forms of the equations are solved numerically and the competing effects of conduction, dissipation, heat generation and radiation are discussed. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.