Convective Flows in a Melt During Crystal Growth under Periodic Temperature Field Conditions

The results of an analysis of thermo-gravitational convection in Czochralski single-crystal growth from a melt under periodic temperature field conditions are presented. The numerical modeling is based on solving the unsteady 3-D Navier-Stokes and heat conduction equations in the Boussinesq approximation. It is shown that using different heating regimes for the crystal medium provides additional opportunities for controlling heat and mass transfer.     

Liquid Crystal Flows in Two Dimensions

This paper is concerned with a simplified hydrodynamic equation, proposed by Ericksen and Leslie, modeling the flow of nematic liquid crystals. In dimension two, we establish both interior and boundary regularity theorems for such a flow under smallness conditions. As a consequence, we establish the existence of global (in time) weak solutions on a bounded smooth domain in \mathbbR²{\mathbb{R}^2} which are smooth everywhere with possible exceptions of finitely many singular times.     

The Onset of Double-Diffusive Convection in a Superposed Fluid and Porous Layer Under High-Frequency and Small-Amplitude Vibrations

We numerically simulate the initiation of an average convective flow in a system composed of a horizontal binary fluid layer overlying a homogeneous porous layer saturated with the same fluid under gravitational field and vibration. In the layers, fixed equilibrium temperature and concentration gradients are set. The layers execute high-frequency oscillations in the vertical direction. The vibration period is small compared with characteristic timescales of the problem. The averaging method is applied to obtain vibrational convection equations. Using for computation the shooting method, a numerical investigation is carried out for an aqueous ammonium chloride solution and packed glass spheres saturated with the solution. The instability threshold is determined under two heating conditions—on heating from below and from above. When the solution is heated from below, the instability character changes abruptly with increasing solutal Rayleigh number, i.e., there is a jump-wise transition from the most dangerous shortwave perturbations localized in the fluid layer to the long-wave perturbations covering both layers. The perturbation wavelength increases by almost 10 times. Vibrations significantly stabilize the fluid equilibrium state and lead to an increase in the wavelength of its perturbations. When the fluid with the stabilizing concentration gradient is heated from below, convection can occur not only in a monotonous manner but also in an oscillatory manner. The frequency of critical oscillatory perturbations decreases by 10 times, when the long-wave instability replaces the shortwave instability. When the fluid is heated from above, only stationary convection is excited over the entire range of the examined parameters. A lower monotonic instability level is associated with the development of perturbations with longer wavelength even at a relatively large fluid layer thickness. Vibrations speed up the stationary convection onset and lead to a decrease in the wavelength of most dangerous perturbations of the motionless equilibrium state. In this case, high enough amplitudes of vibration are needed for a remarkable change in the stability threshold. The results of numerical simulation show good agreement with the data of earlier works in the limiting case of zero fluid layer thickness.     

Infinite-Dimensional Control of Nonlinear Beam Vibrations by Piezoelectric Actuator and Sensor Layers

An infinite-dimensional approach for the active vibration control of a multilayered straight composite piezoelectric beam is presented. In order to control the excited beam vibrations, distributed piezoelectric actuator and sensor layers are spatially shaped to achieve a sensor/actuator collocation which fits the control problem. In the sense of von Kármán a nonlinear formulation for the axial strain is used and a nonlinear initial boundary-value problem for the deflection is derived by means of the Hamilton formalism. Three different control strategies are proposed. The first one is an extension of the nonlinear H-design to the infinite-dimensional case. It will be shown that an exact solution of the corresponding Hamilton–Jacobi–Isaacs equation can be found for the beam under investigation and this leads to a control law with optimal damping properties. The second approach is a PD-controller for infinite-dimensional systems and the third strategy makes use of the disturbance compensation idea. Under certain observability assumptions of the free system, the closed loop is asymptotically stable in the sense of Lyapunov. In this way, flexural vibrations which are excited by an axial support motion or by different time varying lateral loadings, can be suppressed in an optimal manner. A numerical example serves both to illustrate the design process and to demonstrate the feasibility of the proposed methods.     

Separation and Turbulence Control in Biomimetic Flows

The study of the flow around live marine animals and robotic mechanisms which emulate fish motion has revealed a number of mechanisms of flow control, optimised through evolution to minimize the energy required for steady and unsteady motion underwater. We outline some of the mechanisms used to (a) eliminate separation, (b) reduce turbulence, and (c) extract energy from oncoming vortical flows.     

Aspects of Passive Control of Structural Vibrations

A preliminary attempt to organize innovative strategies such as Base Isolation, Supplemental Energy Dissipation, Tuned Mass Damping and other combined approaches recently proposed by the authors, in a more general theory of Structural Control, is presented. To visualize the relationships between dynamic variables and subsystems, the block-diagram representations are used in order to obtain the regulation properties of the systems. It has been proven that the Base Isolation technique applies an open-loop control law and that Tuned Mass Damping and Supplemental Energy Dissipation realize closed-loop control laws. The block-diagram of the new combined strategy Base Isolation and Tuned Mass Damping is presented. The objectives of the regulating criteria are also discussed in order to shape the dynamic response in the frequency domain. The H ₂ and H methods are considered as optimal control algorithms.     

Control of Gear Vibrations at Their Source

Results are presented of study into the origin of spur gear vibrations and methods of reducing them at their source     

柔性变截面滑移式机器人手臂的动力学与控制

本文研究柔性变截面滑移式机械手的动力学与控制。首先利用Ｋａｎｅ方法分析柔性机械手的振动特性；然后基于有限元法导出一种控制机械手振动的模型，将控制过发为“粗控”和“精控”两步进行；最进行了数值模拟。     

Active Control of Wave Instabilities in Three-Dimensional Compressible Flows

In many fluid flows of practical importance transition is caused by the linear growth of wave instabilities, such as Tollmien–Schlichting waves, which eventually grow to a finite size at which stage secondary instabilities come into play. If transition is to be delayed or even avoided in such flows, then the linear growth of the disturbances must be prevented since control in the nonlinear regime would be a considerably more difficult task. Here a strategy for active control of two-dimensional incompressible and compressible Tollmien–Schlichting waves and its use in controlling the more practically relevant problem of crossflow instability which arises in swept-wing flows is discussed. The control is through an active suction/blowing distribution at the wall though the same result could be achieved by variable wall heating. In order to control the instability it is assumed that the wall shear stress and pressure are known from measurements. It is shown that, certainly at finite Reynolds numbers, it is sufficient to know the flow properties at a finite number of points along the wall. The cases of high and finite Reynolds numbers are discussed using asymptotic and numerical methods respectively. It is shown that a control strategy can be developed to stop the growth of all two-dimensional Tollmien–Schlichting waves at finite and large Reynolds numbers. Some discussion of nonlinear effects in the presence of active control is given and the possible control of other instability mechanisms investigated. Received 1 May 1998 and accepted 24 September 1998     

Blow Up Criterion for Compressible Nematic Liquid Crystal Flows in Dimension Three

In this paper, we consider the short time strong solution to a simplified hydrodynamic flow modeling compressible, nematic liquid crystal materials in dimension three. We establish a criterion for possible breakdown of such solutions at a finite time in terms of the temporal integral of both the maximum norm of the deformation tensor of the velocity gradient and the square of the maximum norm of the gradient of a liquid crystal director field.     

Investigation of Mechanisms of Excitation and Growth of Unstable Perturbations in Pulsating Flows

General laws of the processes of generation and amplification of secondary perturbations in oscillating viscous fluid flows are studied theoretically. The stability and receptivity are analyzed with reference to perturbations generated by fluctuations of the flow rate of Poiseuille flow induced by small two-dimensional roughnesses of the channel walls. It is shown that the presence of roughness leads to excitation in the flow of perturbations at all multiples of the main flow oscillation frequency. Using the Fourier transform along the streamwise coordinate, the problem of calculating the frequency harmonics is reduced to a system of equations of the Orr-Sommerfeld type interrelated via the oscillatory component of the main flow. On the basis of an investigation of the analytic properties of the Fourier-image it is shown that upstream and downstream of the roughness the perturbation can be represented in the form of a superposition of modes of the time-dependent Poiseuille flow. The modes are classified and their spectrum is calculated. The structure of the mean-square fluctuations generated by free perturbations is investigated. Examples of calculating the evolution of forced perturbations are given for cases in which the scattering of the oscillations of the main flow on the roughness leads to the generation of one or two modes growing downstream.     

Fuzzy Logic Control of Seat Vibrations of a Non-Linear Full Vehicle Model

In this paper, the dynamic behavior of a non-linear eight degrees of freedom vehicle model having active suspensions and a fuzzy logic (FL) controlled passenger seat is examined. The non-linearity occurs due to dry friction on the dampers. Three cases of control strategies are taken into account. In the first case, only the passenger seat is controlled. In the second case, only the vehicle body is controlled. In the third case, both the vehicle body and the passenger seat are fully controlled at the same time. The time responses of the non-linear vehicle model due to road disturbance and the frequency responses are obtained for each control strategy. At the end, the performances of these strategies are compared.     

Frequency-Temperature Analysis of Thickness-Shear Vibrations of SC-Cut Quartz Crystal Plates with the First-Order Mindlin Plate Equations

With the incremental thermal field theory by Lee and Yong,the Mindlin plate equa-tions for the analysis of thickness-shear vibrations of SC-cut quartz crystal w...     

Vibrations of asymmetric rotors supported by asymmetric bearings

Summary In this paper the vibrations of an asymmetric flexible rotor supported by asymmetric bearings is theoretically analyzed by using Galerkin's method and the perturbation method, and numerically calculated. The effects of the asymmetries of the rotor and the bearings and the changes of the main instability regions and the ultraharmonic resonance due to the external and internal dampings are investigated. The experimental tests are performed on a smaller laboratory model in order to verify the validity of the theoretical results.The following results are obtained; the instability regions divide into two ones by the lack of the symmetries in the rotor and the bearings. The ultraharmonic resonances appear at fractional values of the main critical speed. The character of the internal damping is changed by the magnitude of the asymmetries of the rotor and the bearings.

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Übersicht Es werden die Schwingungen eines unsymmetrischen Rotors in unsymmetrischen Lagern analysiert. Dabei wird sowohl das Galerkin-Verfahren als auch eine Störungs-Methode angewendet. Untersucht werden die durch die Unsymmetrien von Rotor und Lagerung entstehenden Effekte sowie die durch äußere und innere Dämpfung entstehenden Änderungen der wichtigsten Instabilitätsbereiche und der ultraharmonischen Resonanzen. Zur Stützung der theoretischen Ergebnisse wurden Versuche an einem Laboratoriumsmodell durchgeführt.Die wichtigsten Ergebnisse sind folgende: Die Instabilitätsbereiche werden durch die Unsymmetrie von Rotor und Lagerung aufgespalten; ultraharmonische Resonanzen treten bei gebroochenen Werten der Hauptkritischen auf; der Charakter der inneren Dämpfung wird durch die Größe der Unsymmetrien von Rotor und Lagerung verändert.

     

Adjoint Equation-Based Methods for Control Problems in Incompressible, Viscous Flows

A review of adjoint equation-based methodologies for viscous,incompressible flow control and optimization problems is given and illustrated by a drag minimization example. A number of approaches to ameliorating the high storage and CPU costs associated with straightforward implementations of adjoint equation based methodologies are discussed. Other issues, including the relative merits of the differentiate-then-discretize and discretize-then-differentiate approaches to deriving discrete adjoint equations, the incorporation of side constraints into adjoint equation-based methodologies, and inaccuracies that occur due to differentiations at the boundary, are also discussed. This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

Reduced Basis Method for Optimal Control of Unsteady Viscous Flows

In this article we discuss the reduced basis method (RBM) for optimal control of unsteady viscous flows. RBM is a reduction method in which one can achieve the versatility of the finite element method or another for that matter and gain significant reduction in the number of degrees of freedom. The essential idea in this method is to define a reduced order subspace spanned by few basis elements and then obtain the solution via a Galerkin projection. We present several ways to define this subspace. Feasibility of the approach is demonstrated on two boundary control problems in cavity and wall bounded channel flows. Control action is effected through boundary surface movement on part of the solid wall. Application of RBM to the control problems leads to finite dimensional optimal control problems which are solved using Newton's method. Through computational experiments we demonstrate the feasibility and applicability of the reduced basis method for control of unsteady viscous flows.     

Investigation of Crystal Growth in Enzymatically Induced Calcite Precipitation by Micro-Fluidic Experimental Methods and Comparison with Mathematical Modeling

Transport in Porous Media - Enzymatically induced calcite precipitation (EICP) is an engineering technology that allows for targeted reduction of porosity in a porous medium by precipitation of...