Wave propagation in anisotropic turbulent superfluids

In this work, a hydrodynamical model of Superfluid Turbulence previously formulated is applied to study how the presence of a non-isotropic turbulent vortex tangle modifies the propagation of waves. Two cases are considered: wave front parallel and orthogonal to the heat flux. Using a perturbation method, the first-order corrections due to the presence of the vortex tangle to the speeds and to the amplitudes of the first and second sound are determined. It is seen that the presence of the quantized vortices couples first and second sound, and the attenuation of second sound is proportional to the line density L if the wave propagates orthogonal to the heat flux, while it is proportional to the square root of L if the wave propagates parallel with the heat flux.     

The Coupling of Gravity Waves and Convection: Amplitude Equations and Planform Selection

Convective motion in a layer of fluid heated from below is considered where the boundaries are stress free and the upper surface supports interfacial gravity waves. Inviscid, immiscible, constant density, ambient fluid is separated from the convecting layer below by a stable density jump. An important parameter in the problem is δ representing the ratio of the interfacial density jump to the density change across the convecting layer. Amplitude equations are derived describing convective motion in the plane and a planform selection analysis performed. It is demonstrated that the breaking of the translational and Galilean invariance of the problem allows a strong coupling between a large-scale interfacial mode and convection. The resulting phase dynamics is third order in time.     

Shape memory and phase transitions for auxetic materials

We present a mathematical model describing the auxetic‐austenitic phase transition phenomenon by a second order shape memory phase transition. The typical properties of auxetic materials, as the negative Poisson ratio ν, are described by a function of the phase ?, called order parameter, which relates the phase transition with a change of the internal order structure of the material. In our model, the auxetic phase is represented by an order parameter ? = 1, which provides a negative Poisson's ratio, while the austenitic phase will be denoted by ? = 0. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Numerical exploration of new features on three-dimensional transition of a cylinder wake

The three-dimensional transition of the wake flow behind a circular cylinder is studied in detail by direct numerical simulations using 3D incompressible N-S equations for Reynolds number ranging from 200 to 300. New features and vortex dynamics of the 3D transition of the wake are found and investigated. At Re = 200, the flow pattern is characterized by mode A instability. However, the spanwise characteristic length of the cylinder determines the transition features. Particularly for the specific spanwise characteristic length linear stable mode may dominate the wake in place of mode A and determine the spanwise phase difference of the primary vortices shedding. At Re = 250 and 300 it is found that the streamwise vortices evolve into a new type of mode’“dual vortex pair mode” downstream. The streamwise vortex structures switch among mode A, mode B and dual vortex pair mode from near wake to downstream wake. At Re = 250, an independent low frequency f _m in addition to the vortex shedding frequency f _s is identified. Frequency coupling between f _m and f _s occurs. These result in the irregularity of the temporal signals and become a key feature in the transition of the wake. Based on the formation analysis of the streamwise vorticity in the vicinity of cylinder, it is suggested that mode A is caused by the emergence of the spanwise velocity due to three dimensionality of the incoming flow past the cylinder. Energy distribution on various wave numbers and the frequency variation in the wake are also described.     

Parametrische Wechselwirkung in Medien mit hoher Nichtlinearität

Summary In the electromagnetic formulation of the parametric interaction two coupled differential equations of second order have to be solved in the case of nonlinear media with a large second power term of the polarisation. For reflection free amplification the solution of the complete system of equations differs only slightly from the solution of the approximate first order differential equations [2], even for very high nonlinearities. However backward waves of signal or idler frequency (propagating opposed to the pump wave) can cause a significant change of the amplification of the corresponding forward wave already for a smaller nonlinear term. In lossy nonlinear media even a cross coupling of a reflected signal on the forward idler wave (and vice versa) takes place.The solutions of the coupled inhomogeneous differential equations are deduced and some numerically calculated examples are given to illustrate the magnitude of the discussed effects.

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Gewidmet Herrn Professor Dr. K. P. Meyer zu seinem 60. Geburtstag     

Bose-Einstein condensation in the excited band and the energy spectrum of the Bose-Hubbard model

Based on the mean field approximation, we investigate the transition into the Bose-Einstein condensate phase in the Bose-Hubbard model with two local states and boson hopping in only the excited band. In the hard-core boson limit, we study the instability associated with this transition, which appears at excitation energies δ < |t ₀ |, where |t ₀ | is the particle hopping parameter. We discuss the conditions under which the phase transition changes from second to first order and present the corresponding phase diagrams (Θ,μ) and (|t ₀ |, μ), where Θ is the temperature and μ is the chemical potential. Separation into the normal and Bose-Einstein condensate phases is possible at a fixed average concentration of bosons. We calculate the boson Green’s function and one-particle spectral density using the random phase approximation and analyze changes in the spectrum of excitations of the “particle” or “hole” type in the region of transition from the normal to the Bose-Einstein condensate phase.     

Numerical exploration of new features on three-dimensional transition of a cylinder wake

The three-dimensional transition of the wake flow behind a circular cylinder is studied in detail by direct numerical simulations using 3D incompressible N-S equations for Reynolds number ranging from 200 to 300. New features and vortex dynamics of the 3D transition of the wake are found and investigated. At Re = 200, the flow pattern is characterized by mode A instability. However, the spanwise characteristic length of the cylinder determines the transition features. Particularly for the specific spanwise charac-     

Numerical simulation of Richtmyer-Meshkov instability

The compressible Navier-Stokes equations discretized with a fourth order accurate compact finite difference scheme with group velocity control are used to simulate the Richtmyer-Meshkov (R-M) instability problem produced by cylindrical shock-cylindrical material interface with shock Mach number Ms=1.2 and density ratio 1:20 (interior density/outer density). Effect of shock refraction, reflection, interaction of the reflected shock with the material interface, and effect of initial perturbation modes on R-M instability are investigated numerically. It is noted that the shock refraction is a main physical mechanism of the initial phase changing of the material surface. The multiple interactions of the reflected shock from the origin with the interface and the R-M instability near the material interface are the reason for formation of the spike-bubble structures. Different viscosities lead to different spike-bubble structure characteristics. The vortex pairing phenomenon is found in the initial double mode simulation. The mode interaction is the main factor of small structures production near the interface.

     

Hydrodynamic Theory of Sound Wave Propagation

We formulate the limits of applicability of the hydrodynamic equations and prove the necessity of introducing a correction to the potential energy transfer in the heat conductivity equation, which allows developing the hydrodynamic theory of the propagation of sound waves with small amplitudes. We show that this correction affects almost all predictions of the standard hydrodynamic theory. In particular, this correction allows extending the applicability domain of the hydrodynamic theory to the case of an arbitrarily viscous liquid. Moreover, in total accordance with the experimental data, the theory predicts that the sound speed and the damping rate remain finite at all frequencies up to frequencies of the order of 10^-12 sec^-1, while the hydrodynamic equations make no sense at higher frequencies and sound wave propagation in the medium consequently becomes impossible. We show that the dimensionless dispersion equation contains only one material parameter. We predict the existence of the highly damped second sound.     

A continuous–discontinuous second‐order transition in the satisfiability of random Horn‐SAT formulas

We compute the probability of satisfiability of a class of random Horn‐SAT formulae, motivated by a connection with the nonemptiness problem of finite tree automata. In particular, when the maximum clause length is three, this model displays a curve in its parameter space, along which the probability of satisfiability is discontinuous, ending in a second‐order phase transition where it is continuous but its derivative diverges. This is the first case in which a phase transition of this type has been rigorously established for a random constraint satisfaction problem. © 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Random Struct. Alg., 2007     

Perturbed Markov Chains with Damping Component

The paper is devoted to studies of regularly and singularly perturbed Markov chains with damping component. In such models, a matrix of transition probabilities is regularised by adding a special damping matrix multiplied by a small damping (perturbation) parameter ε. We perform a detailed perturbation analysis for such Markov chains, particularly, give effective upper bounds for the rate of approximation for stationary distributions of unperturbed Markov chains by stationary distributions of perturbed Markov chains with regularised matrices of transition probabilities, asymptotic expansions for approximating stationary distributions with respect to damping parameter, explicit coupling type upper bounds for the rate of convergence in ergodic theorems for n-step transition probabilities, as well as ergodic theorems in triangular array mode.

     

Direct numerical simulation of transition and turbulence in compressible mixing layer

The three-dimensional compressible Navier-Stokes equations are approximated by a fifth order upwind compact and a sixth order symmetrical compact difference relations combined with three-stage Ronge-Kutta method. The computed results are presented for convective Mach numberMc = 0.8 andRe = 200 with initial data which have equal and opposite oblique waves. From the computed results we can see the variation of coherent structures with time integration and full process of instability, formation of A -vortices, double horseshoe vortices and mushroom structures. The large structures break into small and smaller vortex structures. Finally, the movement of small structure becomes dominant, and flow field turns into turbulence. It is noted that production of small vortex structures is combined with turning of symmetrical structures to unsymmetrical ones. It is shown in the present computation that the flow field turns into turbulence directly from initial instability and there is not vortex pairing in process of transition. It means that for large convective Mach number the transition mechanism for compressible mixing layer differs from that in incompressible mixing layer.     

Resonantly Interacting,Weakly Nonlinear Hyperbolic Waves. II. Several Space Variables

A uniformly valid asymptotic theory of resonantly interacting high-frequency waves for nonlinear hyperbolic systems in several space dimensions is developed. When applied to the equations of two-dimensional compressible fluid flow, this theory both predicts the geometric location of the new sound waves produced from the resonant interaction of sound waves and vorticity waves as well as yielding a simplified system which governs the evolution of the amplitudes. In this important special case, this system is two Burgers equations coupled by a linear integral operator with known kernel given by the vortex strength of the shear wave. Several inherently multidimensional assumptions for the phases are needed in this theory, and theoretical examples are given which delineate these assumptions. Furthermore, explicit necessary and sufficient conditions for the validity of the earlier noninteracting wave theory of Hunter and Keller are derived; these explicit conditions indicate that generally waves resonate and interact in several dimensions.     

Dynamics of Vortex Rossby Waves in Tropical Cyclones,Part 1: Linear Time‐Dependent Evolution on an f‐Plane

Analyses of observational data on hurricanes in the tropical atmosphere indicate the existence of spiral rainbands which propagate outward from the eye and affect the structure and intensity of the hurricane. These disturbances may be described as vortex Rossby waves. This paper describes the evolution of barotropic vortex Rossby waves in a cyclonic vortex in a two‐dimensional configuration where the variation of the Coriolis force with latitude is ignored. The waves are forced by a constant‐amplitude boundary condition at a fixed radius from the center of the vortex and propagate outward. The mean flow angular velocity profile is taken to be a quadratic function of the radial distance from the center of the vortex and there is a critical radius at which it is equal to the phase speed of the waves. For the case of waves with steady amplitude, an exact solution is derived for the steady linearized equations in terms of hypergeometric functions; this solution is valid in the outer region away from the critical radius. For the case of waves with time‐dependent amplitude, asymptotic solutions of the linearized equations, valid for late time, are obtained in the outer and inner regions. It is found that there are strong qualitative similarities between the conclusions on the evolution of the vortex waves in this configuration and those obtained in the case of Rossby waves in a rectangular configuration where the latitudinal gradient of the Coriolis parameter is taken into account. In particular, the amplitude of the steady‐state outer solution is greatly attenuated and there is a phase change of across the critical radius, and in the linear time‐dependent configuration, the outer solution approaches a steady state in the limit of infinite time, while the amplitude of the inner solution grows on a logarithmic time scale and the width of the critical layer approaches zero.     

On wave propagation in a random conducting magneto-non-simple thermo-viscoelastic medium

The paper examines the problem of wave propagation in a random conducting magneto-non-simple thermo-viscoelastic medium. The medium has been assumed to be weakly conducting and weakly thermal. The thermomechanical coupling parameter and the conductivity are random functions, proportional to ε, with non-zero mean values, ε measuring the smallness of the scale of random fluctuation of inhomogeneities of the medium. The smooth perturbation technique enunciated by Keller (1964) has been employed to analyze the appropriate dispersion equation in non-simple thermoelastic medium. The longitudinal and transverse waves were discussed by using a particular form of thermomechanical coupling parameter representing the corresponding auto-correlation function. The effect of magnetic conductivity has been investigated. The phenomena of attenuation of waves and change of phase speed were discussed numerically in details.     

Forward and Inverse Viscoacoustic Modelling in a Tunnel Environment

In this work, the goal is to model forward acoustic waves in a tunnel environment with attenuation and to do full waveform inversion. In reality, there is no material without attenuation. Some materials, such as rocks, have so low attenuation that, in a small domain, the waves are almost not damped at all. At the same time, there are materials with high attenuation. In an environment with such materials, the attenuation has to be taken into account in order to model the waves properly. In this study, attenuation effect is integrated into acoustic equation by using Kolsky-Futterman model ( [1], [2]) which only replaces velocity field with a complex-valued field in frequency domain. Apart from attenuation, another objective is to consider an inhomogeneous density field. Mainly, acoustic equation with a constant density field is referred to in many studies. In many cases, it may suffice to model waves appropriately. However, in reality, the density field of ground can be highly inhomogeneous. The objective is to investigate the effect of the inhomogeneity in waves, and to search for density field ρ and attenuation parameter Q as well as pressure wave velocity c using full waveform inversion. (© 2015 Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)     

Sobolev regularity for first order mean field games

In this paper we obtain Sobolev estimates for weak solutions of first order variational Mean Field Game systems with coupling terms that are local functions of the density variable. Under some coercivity conditions on the coupling, we obtain first order Sobolev estimates for the density variable, while under similar coercivity conditions on the Hamiltonian we obtain second order Sobolev estimates for the value function. These results are valid both for stationary and time-dependent problems. In the latter case the estimates are fully global in time, thus we resolve a question which was left open in [23]. Our methods apply to a large class of Hamiltonians and coupling functions.     

A thermodynamically consistent Ginzburg–Landau model for superfluid transition in liquid helium

In this paper, we propose a thermodynamically consistent model for superfluid-normal phase transition in liquid helium, accounting for variations of temperature and density. The phase transition is described by means of an order parameter, according to the Ginzburg–Landau theory, emphasizing the analogies between superfluidity and superconductivity. The normal component of the velocity is assumed to be compressible, and the usual phase diagram of liquid helium is recovered. Moreover, the continuity equation leads to a dependence between density and temperature in agreement with the experimental data.     

Properties of Some Generalized Hypergeometric Functions Governing Coupling at Transition Points

Understanding of wave propagation problems is enhanced by consideringgeneralizations to differential equations of order 2n. In particular,reflection and coupling of waves at transition points can involvecertain types of generalized hypergeometric functions. In thispaper, properties of _oF_2n-1 functions are considered systematically,when the parameters are specially chosen for application totransition points; a wide range of interesting properties unfolds,which recall the properties of Bessel functions when n = 1.     

General relations for waves in one-dimensional elastic systems

Common features inherent in waves propagating in one-dimensional elastic systems are pointed out. Local laws of energy and wave momentum transfer when the Lagrangian of an elastic system depends on the generalized coordinates and their derivatives up to the second order inclusive are presented. It is shown that in a reference system moving with the phase velocity, the ratio of the energy flux density to the wave momentum flux density is equal to the phase velocity. It is established that for systems, the behaviour of which is described by linear equations or by nonlinear equations in the unknown function, the ratio of the mean values of the energy flux density to the wave momentum density is equal to the product of the phase and group velocities of the waves.