Stability of core-annular flow of power-law fluids in the presence of interfacial surfactant

The shear-thinning influence on the core-annular flow stability of two immiscible power-law fluids is considered by making a linear stability analysis.The flow is driven by an axial pressure gradient in a straight pipe with the interface between the two fluids occupied by an insoluble surfactant.Given the basic flow for this core-annular arrangement,the analytical solution is obtained with respect to the power-law fluid model.The linearized equations for the evolution of infinitesimal disturbances are deriv...     

斜压二层模式框架下的准地转理论及其应用

准地转理论是短期天气预报的理论基础.针对中纬度大尺度运动得到的准地转运动方程组是准地转理论的核心.在斜压二层模式框架下,由准地转运动方程组得出的准地转位势倾向方程和准地转垂直运动方程,可以更为明确地解释高空和地面天气系统的移动和发展.结果显示:500 hPa高空槽的移动取决于本层的涡度平流,500 hPa高空槽的发展取决于本层的涡度平流和250与750h Pa层的微差温度平流;地面气旋系统的移动和发展取决于500hPa的正温度平流,250与750 hPa层的微差涡度平流.由实际天气过程对上述应用进行的分析表明,在斜压二层模式框架下得到的准地转位势倾向方程及准地转垂直运动方程,可以更好地确定中纬度天气尺度斜压发展系统的特征,并有助于对天气系统发展客观规律的了解和对数值预报产品内含的物理依据的认识.     

On the stability of the inertial circulation in the 11/2-layer, quasi-geostrophic model

The effect of the time-dependent interface, separating an inertial quasi-geostrophic upper fluid layer from the quiescent abyss, on the non-linear stability of a steady circulation that takes place in this layer is explored. The analysis resorts to the method of Arnol'd's invariant resulting in a conditional stability criterion, which proves the stabilizing effect of the interface with respect to the single-layer case. The uniqueness of the stable basic flow field follows. Finally, non-linear and linear analyses are compared in the special case of a channeled flow with a fluctuating interface, the latter leading to an unconditional stability statement, whose meaning is clarified by resorting to the previously obtained nonlinear criterion. Received 8 June 2000 and Received in final form 18 September 2000     

Caldeira-Leggett model, Landau damping, and the Vlasov-Poisson system

The Caldeira-Leggett Hamiltonian describes the interaction of a discrete harmonic oscillator with a continuous bath of harmonic oscillators. This system is a standard model of dissipation in macroscopic low temperature physics, and has applications to superconductors, quantum computing, and macroscopic quantum tunneling. The similarities between the Caldeira-Leggett model and the linearized Vlasov-Poisson equation are analyzed, and it is shown that the damping in the Caldeira-Leggett model is analogous to that of Landau damping in plasmas (Landau, 1946 [1]). An invertible linear transformation (Morrison and Pfirsch, 1992 [18]; Morrison, 2000 [19]) is presented that converts solutions of the Caldeira-Leggett model into solutions of the linearized Vlasov-Poisson system.     

Adiabatic dynamics of one-dimensional classical Hamiltonian dissipative systems

A linearized plane pendulum with the slowly varying mass and length of string and the suspension point moving at a slowly varying speed is presented as an example of a simple 1D mechanical system described by the generalized harmonic oscillator equation, which is a basic model in discussion of the adiabatic dynamics and geometric phase. The expression for the pendulum geometric phase is obtained by three different methods. The pendulum is shown to be canonically equivalent to the damped harmonic oscillator. This supports the mathematical conclusion, not widely accepted in physical community, of no difference between the dissipative and Hamiltonian 1D systems.     

Completely Integrable Hamiltonian Systems with Weak Lyapunov Instability or Isochrony

The aim of this paper is to introduce a class of Hamiltonian autonomous systems in dimension 4 which are completely integrable and their dynamics is described in all details. They have an equilibrium point which is stable for some rare elements of the class, and unstable in most cases. Anyhow, it is linearly stable (all orbits of the linearized system are bounded) and no motion is asymptotic in the past, namely no non-constant solution has the equilibrium as limit point as time goes to minus infinity. In the unstable cases, there is a sequence of initial data which converges to the equilibrium point whose corresponding solutions are unbounded and the motion is slow. So instability is quite weak and perhaps no such explicit examples of instability are known in the literature. The stable cases are also interesting since the level sets of the 2 first integrals independent and in involution keep being non-compact and stability is related to the isochronous periodicity of all orbits near the equilibrium point and the existence of a further first integral. Hopefully, these superintegrable Hamiltonian systems will deserve further research.     

基于模糊模型的耦合时空混沌H_\infty$跟踪控制

由于子系统的时空耦合作用，实现耦合时空混沌的跟踪控制比较困难。然而模型未知的耦合时空混沌的子系统可由一系列模糊逻辑模型逼近，每个模糊逻辑模型代表子系统在特定运行点的局部线性化模型。基于该系列模糊模型，采用模糊跟踪控制方法实现了耦合时空混沌的模型参考跟踪控制，并用线性矩阵不等式的凸优化方法求解控制器参数，确保系统的全局渐近稳定性。仿真验证了方案的有效性。     

Hamiltonian finite-dimensional models of baroclinic instability

A hierarchy of N-dimensional systems is constructed starting from the standard continuous two-layer quasi-geostrophic model of the geophysical fluid dynamics. These models (“truncations”) preserve the Hamiltonian structure of the parent model and tend to it in the limit N → ∞. The construction is based on the known correspondence SU(N) → SDiff(T²) when N → ∞ between the finite-dimensional group of unitary unimodular N × N matrices and the group of symplectic diffeomorphisms of the torus and the fact that the above-mentioned continuous model has an intrinsic geometric structure related to SDiff(T²) in the case of periodic boundary conditions. A fast symplectic solver for these truncations is proposed and used to study the baroclinic instability. 7     

Nonlinear instability of elementary stratified flows at large Richardson number

Elementary stably stratified flows with linear instability at all large Richardson numbers have been introduced recently by the authors [J. Fluid Mech. 376, 319-350 (1998)]. These elementary stratified flows have spatially constant but time varying gradients for velocity and density. Here the nonlinear stability of such flows in two space dimensions is studied through a combination of numerical simulations and theory. The elementary flows that are linearly unstable at large Richardson numbers are purely vortical flows; here it is established that from random initial data, linearized instability spontaneously generates local shears on buoyancy time scales near a specific angle of inclination that nonlinearly saturates into localized regions of strong mixing with density overturning resembling Kelvin-Helmholtz instability. It is also established here that the phase of these unstable waves does not satisfy the dispersion relation of linear gravity waves. The vortical flows are one family of stably stratified flows with uniform shear layers at the other extreme and elementary stably stratified flows with a mixture of vorticity and strain exhibiting behavior between these two extremes. The concept of effective shear is introduced for these general elementary flows; for each large Richardson number there is a critical effective shear with strong nonlinear instability, density overturning, and mixing for elementary flows with effective shear below this critical value. The analysis is facilitated by rewriting the equations for nonlinear perturbations in vorticity-stream form in a mean Lagrangian reference frame. (c) 2000 American Institute of Physics.     

A Two-Layer Model for Superposed Electrified Maxwell Fluids in Presence of Heat Transfer

Based on a modified-Darcy-Maxwell model, two-dimensional, incompressible and heat transfer flow of two bounded layers, through electrified Maxwell fluids in porous media is performed. The driving force for the instability under an electric field, is an electrostatic force exerted on the free charges accumulated at the dividing interface. Normal mode analysis is considered to study the linear stability of the disturbances layers. The solutions of thelinearized equations of motion with the boundary conditions lead to an implicit dispersion relation between the growth rate and wave number. These equations are parameterized by Weber number, Reynolds number, Marangoni number, dimensionless conductivities, and dimensionless electric potentials. The case of long waves interfacial stability has been studied. The stability criteria are performed theoretically in which stability diagrams are obtained. Inthe limiting cases, some previously published results can be considered as particular cases of our results. It is found that the Reynolds number plays a destabilizing role in the stability criteria, while the damping influence is observed for the increasing of Marangoni number and Maxwell relaxation time.     

Index and Stability of Symmetric Periodic Orbits in Hamiltonian Systems with Application to Figure-Eight Orbit

In this paper, using the Maslov index theory in symplectic geometry, we build up some stability criteria for symmetric periodic orbits in a Hamiltonian system, which is motivated by the recent discoveries in the n-body problem. The key ingredient is a generalized Bott-type iteration formula for periodic solution in the presence of finite group action on the orbit. For second order system, we prove, under general boundary conditions, the close formula for the relationship between the Morse index of an orbit in a Lagrangian system and the Maslov index of the fundamental solution for the corresponding orbit in its Hamiltonian system counterpart, and the boundary conditions cover the cases which appeared in the n-body problem. As an application we consider the stability problem of the celebrated figure-eight orbit due to Chenciner and Montgomery in the planar three-body problem with equal masses, and we clarify the relationship between linear stability and its variational nature on various loop spaces. The basic idea is as follows: the variational characterization of the figure-eight orbit provides information about its Morse index; based on its relation to the Maslov index, our stability criteria come into play. Partially supported by NSFC (No.10801127) and the knowledge innovation program of the Chinese Academy of Science. Partially supported by NSFC (No.s 10401025, 10571123 and 10731080) and NSFB-FBEC (No. KZ20 0610028015).     

Retrieval of the quasi-optimal signal activating the excitable systems using preceding noise samples

We propose a method for obtaining a signal leading to the activation of an excitable dynamic system for a signal energy close to minimal. The efficiency of this technique, which is based on recording and processing of noise samples preceding the activation was tested using the FitzHugh–Nagumo, Hodgkin–Huxley, and Luo–Rudy models as examples. It is shown that the proposed procedure gives good results when the noise intensity is smaller than or close to the system activation energy. The criteria of “low” and “high” intensities of fluctuations are proposed. The method of increasing the stability of the excitable system with respect to “low-intensity” noise by filtering or another way of suppression of the spectral components that make the main contribution to the energetically optimal activation signal is justified. The relation between eigenvalues of the linearized system of the Hamiltonian equations, which describe the optimal trajectories and the activation signal, and eigenvalues of the excitable system linearized near the initial equilibroum state is found.     

Analysis of the Hamiltonian formulations of linearized general relativity

The different forms of the Hamiltonian formulations of linearized General Relativity/spin-2 theories are discussed in order to show their similarities and differences. It is demonstrated that in the linear model, non-covariant modifications to the initial covariant Lagrangian (similar to those modifications used in full gravity) are in fact unnecessary. The Hamiltonians and the constraints are different in these two formulations but the structure of the constraint algebra and the gauge invariance derived from it are the same. It is shown that these equivalent Hamiltonian formulations are related to each other by a canonical transformation, which is explicitly given. The relevance of these results to the full theory of General Relativity is briefly discussed.     

Aerodynamics and interaction noise of streamlined bodies in nonuniform flows

The unsteady aerodynamics and interaction noise of streamlined bodies are modeled in terms of the Euler equations linearized about a nonuniform flow. The validity of the inviscid approach is supported by recent LES simulations of an airfoil in a gust indicating that for not-too-small impinging excitations, the interaction process is dominated by inertia forces. Results in the present paper are focused on the aerodynamics and interaction noise of a turbofan modeled as an annular cascade. The model accounts for the inflow-fan-duct coupling and the high frequency of the interaction process. Two high-order numerical algorithms are developed with body-fitted coordinate system. One algorithm uses a primitive variable formulation, the other uses an efficient velocity splitting algorithm and is suitable for broadband computations. Analytical and numerical analysis of disturbances in rotational flows is developed and exact inflow/outflow boundary conditions are derived, yielding directly the radiated acoustics. The upstream disturbances evolve in rotational flows and as a result the aerodynamic-aeroacoustic response of the annular cascade depends on the initial conditions location. Computational results show that the three-dimensional geometry of the annular cascade, the mean flow swirl, and the blade geometry have strong influence on the blade sectional lift and the radiated sound. These results also show the inadequacy of using the popular linear cascade model particularly for realistic fan geometry and inflow conditions.     

Toward an extremum characterization of kinetic stability

In this paper the Hamiltonian Action-based stability ideas of Routh are combined with Trefftz's variational formulation of the adjacent configuration method of static buckling into a comprehensive time-integral-of-energy-based extremum criterion of kinetic stability. Specifically, if the action functional along a fundamental path is a minimum for an arbitrarily long time interval of integration then the path is unstable, whereas if it ceases to do so at some point, then the path is stable up to that point; this latter leads to a direct method for approximate stability limit calculations. Some relevant analytical tools are also discussed, and finally applications of the criteria to the stability of equilibrium, and that of the steady state of Duffing's (cubic and harmonically-forced) oscillator are presented.     

A piecewise linear mean flow model for studying stability in a lined channel

Acoustic liners are used to reduce sound emission by turbofan engines. Under grazing flow they may sustain hydrodynamic instabilities and these are studied using a stability analysis, based on a simplified model: the liner is a mass–spring–damper system, the base channel flow is piecewise linear, and the inviscid, incompressible Rayleigh equation is used. The model is an extension to the channel case of a boundary layer model by Rienstra and Darau. The piecewise linear profile introduces a finite boundary layer thickness which ensures well-posedness, allowing an initial value problem to be conducted to investigate absolute stability. For typical values in aeronautics the flow above the liner is unstable. Absolute instability is obtained for somewhat extreme values of the mean flow (tiny boundary layer thickness), and under realistic conditions the flow is convectively unstable. The effect of finite channel height is investigated in both cases. In particular, for large boundary layer thicknesses associated with convective instability the channel height has little effect on the unstable mode. Favorable outcomes and failures of the model are shown by comparison to a published experimental work.     

Some Stability and Instability Criteria for Ideal Plane Flows

We investigate stability and instability of steady ideal plane flows for an arbitrary bounded domain. First, we obtain some general criteria for linear and nonlinear stability. Second, we find a sufficient condition for the existence of a growing mode to the linearized equation. Third, we construct a steady flow which is nonlinearly and linearly stable in the L² norm of vorticity but linearly unstable in the L² norm of velocity.     

层结流体中在热外源和β效应地形效应作用下的非线性Rossby孤立波和非齐次Schrödinger方程

在层结流体中, 从带有地形、热外源耗散的下边界条件以及带有热外源的准地转位涡方程开始, 使用小参数展开方法和多尺度时空伸长变换推导出了具有热外源、β效应和地形效应的强迫Rossby孤立波方程, 得到孤立Rossby振幅满足的带有地形与热外源的非齐次非线性的Schrödinger方程. 通过分析Rossby孤立波振幅的变化, 指出了热外源、β效应和地形效应都是诱导Rossby孤立波产生的重要因素, 给出了切变基本流下地形、热外源和层结流体中Rossby的相互作用.     

Quantum Aspects of the Fundamental Dirac Membrane Model

The classical relativistic Hamiltonian derived by Dirac for a charged membrane is written in a linearized form and it is pointed out that the membrane has spin 1/2 under the action of an external magnetic field. A spin-rotation coupling term is included into the linearized Hamiltonian and the corresponding wave equation for the membrane is written. It leads to quantized radial modes of oscillations and its first eigenvalues are derived numerically. Asymptotic solutions are also considered.