A miniaturization of the multi-degree-of-freedom ultrasonic actuator using a small cylinder fixed on a substrate

Multi-degree-of-freedom ultrasonic actuator has been studied for robot arms and multidimensional precision table and so on because of its simple structure, silent operation, and holding force. In this study, we aim to miniaturize multi-degree-of-freedom ultrasonic actuator for fabrication on a substrate. This actuator consists of a stainless steel cylinder and a PZT ring. The cylinder is fixed on a substrate and the PZT ring is glued to the substrate near the cylinder. The 1st longitudinal vibration and the 2nd bending vibration are simultaneously excited in the cylinder to make elliptical motion at the top of the cylinder and a ball rotor placed on the cylinder rotates because of the friction force. Length of the cylinder was decided so as to tune the resonance frequency of the 1st longitudinal vibration to the 2nd bending one. Actuator performances are evaluated experimentally using a 14 mm height and 7 mm diameter stainless steel cylinder with a 0.5 mm thickness PZT ring. The rotation about the cylinder axis is tested using the two orthogonal bending vibrations with 90 degrees phase difference. Also, the rotation about horizontal axes were investigated using the combination of the longitudinal vibration and one of two bending vibrations. We measured the rotation speed of a steel ball and obtained 15.8 rps using a 6 mm diameter ball rotor.     

Reflection and transmission at normal incidence onto air-saturated porous materials and direct measurements based on parametric demodulated ultrasonic waves

The present work is related to the characterization of air-saturated porous media by using parametric demodulated ultrasonic waves. One uses two different powerful ultrasonic emitters working either at 47 kHz or at 162 kHz which are electronically amplitude modulated over the 200 Hz-4 kHz or 2 kHz-40 kHz bandwidths respectively. The demodulation process takes place in air, due to its nonlinearity enabling to generate audio range acoustical waves or alternatively low frequency ultrasonic waves which can be used to characterize porous materials in the reflection configuration at normal incidence. Some appropriate theoretical calculations are introduced for three configurations of interest, i.e. a porous slab, a porous layer mounted onto a rigid plate, and a porous half space, in the case of the equivalent-fluid model. Comparisons between theoretical modeling and experimental data are provided and prospective industrial applications are discussed.     

Unsteady MHD double-diffusive convection boundary-layer flow past a radiate hot vertical surface in porous media in the presence of chemical reaction and heat sink

This paper presents an analytical study of the unsteady MHD free convective heat and mass transfer flow of a viscous, incompressible, gray, absorbing-emitting but non-scattering, optically-thick and electrically conducting fluid occupying a semi-infinite porous regime adjacent to an infinite moving hot vertical plate with constant velocity. We employ a Darcian viscous flow model for the porous medium the Rosseland diffusion approximation is used to describe the radiative heat flux in the energy equation. The homogeneous chemical reaction of first order is accounted in mass diffusion equation. The governing equations are solved in closed form by Laplace-transform technique. A parametric study of all involved parameters is conducted and representative set of numerical results for the velocity, temperature, concentration, shear stress function $\frac{\partial u}{\partial y} \vert_{y=0}$ , temperature gradient $\frac{\partial \theta }{ \partial y}\vert_{y=0}$ , and concentration gradient $\frac{ \partial \phi }{\partial y}\vert_{y=0}$ is illustrated graphically and physical aspects of the problem are discussed.     

Periodic and quasiperiodic galloping of a wind-excited tower under external excitation

The galloping of tall structures excited by steady and unsteady wind may be periodic or quasiperiodic (QP) with amplitudes having the same order of magnitude. While the onset of periodic and QP galloping was studied, their control on the other hand has received less attention. In this paper, we conduct analytical study on the effect of a fast harmonic excitation on the onset of periodic and QP galloping in the presence of steady and unsteady wind. We consider the cases where the unsteady wind activates either external excitation, parametric one or both. A perturbation analysis is performed to obtain close expressions of QP solution and the corresponding modulation envelopes. We show that at various loading situations, the periodic and QP galloping onset is significantly influenced by the amplitude of the fast external excitation. In the case where the unsteady wind activates parametric excitation, the QP galloping occurs with higher frequency modulation compared to the case where the unsteady wind activates external excitation. In the case where external and parametric excitations are activated simultaneously, fast harmonic excitation eliminates bistability in the amplitude response and gives rise to a new small QP modulation envelope.     

Computation of the Longitudinal and Transverse Dispersion Coefficient in an Adsorbing Porous Medium Using Homogenization

This article compares for the first time, local longitudinal and transverse dispersion coefficients obtained by homogenization with experimental data of dispersion coefficients in porous media, using the correct porosity dependence. It is shown that the longitudinal dispersion coefficient can be reasonably represented by a simple periodic unit cell (PUC), which consists of a single sphere in a cube. We present a slightly modified and simplified approach to derive the homogenized equations, which emphasizes physical aspects of homogenization. Subsequently, we give full dimensional expressions for the dispersion tensor based on a comparison with the convective dispersion equation used for contaminant transport, inclusive the correct dependence on porosity. For the PUC of choice, the dispersion relations are identical to the relations obtained for periodic media. We show that commercial finite element software can be readily used to compute longitudinal and transverse dispersion coefficients in 2D and 3D. The 3D results are for the first time obtained at relevant Peclet numbers. There is good agreement for longitudinal dispersion. The computed transverse dispersion coefficients for a single sphere in a cube are much too low. The effect of adsorption on the dispersion coefficient is also studied. Adsorption does not affect the transverse dispersion coefficient. However, adsorption enhances the longitudinal dispersion coefficient in agreement with an analysis of homogenization applied to Taylor dispersion discussed in the literature.     

Numerical studies of the cubic non-linear Schrodinger equation

In this paper, we are concerned with the problem of applying cubic non-polynomial spline functions to develop a numerical method for obtaining approximation for the solution for cubic non-linear Schrodinger equation. The truncation error of the method is theoretically analyzed. Using the Von Neumann method, the proposed method is shown to be unconditionally stable. The linearization technique is carried out to solve the system and to prove that the method is unconditionally stable. Two numerical examples are included to illustrate the practical implementation of the proposed method.     

Link-Wise Artificial Compressibility Method for attached and separated flows past airfoils

The performance of the recently developed Link-Wise Artificial Compressibility Method (LW-ACM) is evaluated for aerodynamic applications and then applied for both attached and separated flows. Numerical flow simulations are performed around NACA-0012 and TSAGI-12 shaped airfoils at low speed and high angle of attack. Results of aerodynamic characteristics of the airfoils were found in good agreements with previous investigations including LBM (PowerFLOW) and FVM (CFL3D). Results also showed that LW-ACM is efficient and rapidly convergent when used to solve both attached and separated flows.     

A double random phase encoding approach for cancelable iris recognition

In a cancelable iris recognition technique, all enrollment patterns are masked using a transformation function, and the invertibility process for obtaining the original data should not be possible. A novel cancelable iris authentication approach in the encrypted domain is presented in this paper. The double random phase encoding (DRPE) algorithm in the Fractional Fourier Transform (FrFT) Domain is utilized to generate the optical masked IrisCodes. For the transmitter side, two encryption keys (RPM1 and RPM2) are utilized, while the second phase mask is proposed to be the right iris feature vector of the same user. As a result, mixing the feature vectors of the left and right iris patterns of the same subject to an encrypted IrisCode results in enhancing the privacy and preserving the system performance. This proposed system success is attributed to the fact that the iris authentication issue is transformed to a key authentication process. Experimental results conducted on CASIA-IrisV3-Interval dataset achieve a significant gain for both privacy and performance proving the superiority of the proposed approach.     

Growth and characterization of L-phenylalanine nitric acid (LPN) and tris L-(phenylalanine)-phenylalanininum nitrate (TPLPN) as second and third order nonlinear optical materials

We synthesized noncentrosymmetric single crystals of L-phenylalanine nitrate (LPN) and tris L-(phenylalanine) L-phenylalaninium nitrate (TPLPN) by slow solvent evaporation technique. Both crystallized in monoclinic system with different acentric space groups namely P2₁ (LPN) and C2 (TPLPN) respectively. The IR and Raman spectral investigation was done for LPN and TPLPN and discussed. The UV-vis-studies accomplished the excitation wavelength of the grown crystals suitable to exhibit second harmonic generation signal. From the absorption data, remarkable optical properties such as direct band gap energy, Urbach energy, extinction coefficient were evaluated. The mechanical strength of the grown crystal was examined by Vickers micro hardness test. The temperature of decomposition was confirmed by TG/DSC analysis. Fluorescence emission spectrum of LPN and TPLPN were recorded and lifetime was also studied. The dielectric constant and dielectric loss of LPN and TPLPN has been determined as a function of frequency and temperature. Also the surface topologies of the crystallized salts were assessed by SEM studies. The third-order nonlinearities of LPN and TPLPN were determined by Z-scan technique with Nd: YAG at 532?nm and thereby from closed and open Z-scan data, third-order susceptibilities were calculated to be χ⁽³⁾?=?8.826?×?10^?6 esu for LPN and χ⁽³⁾?=?2.552?×?10^?7 esu for TPLPN.