A NUMERICAL METHOD FOR MODELLING THE MOTION OF A SPHERICAL BUBBLE

This paper presents a numerical method for predicting the motion of a spherical bubble close to a rigid structure. The velocity potential in the fluid due to the motin of the bubble is represented by a source and a dipole located at the centroid of the bubble. This leads to a coupled system of differential equations for the bubbble radius and the location of its centroid. This system of equations can be solved using an appropriate numerical scheme.     

Free Convection from a Vertical Plate in a Porous Medium Subjected to a Porous Medium Subjected to a Sudden Change in Surface Heat Flux

An analysis is made of the transient free convection from a vertical flat plate which is embedded in a fluid-saturated porous medium. It is assumed that for time a steady state temperature or velocity has been obtained in the boundary-layer which occurs due to a uniform flux dissipation rate . Then at time the heat flux on the plate is suddenly changed to and maintained at this value for 0$$ " align="middle" border="0"> . An analytical solution has been obtained for the temperature/velocity field for small times in which the transport effects are confined within an inner layer adjacent to the plate. These effects cause a new steady boundary layer. A numerical solution of the full boundary-layer equations is then obtained for the whole transient from to the steady state, firstly by means of a step-by-step method and then by a matching technique. The transition between the two distinct solution methods is always observed to occur very near to the turning point of the plate surface temperature, a time at which the fluid temperature is close to its steady state profile. The solution obtained using the step-by-step method shows excellent agreement with the small time analytical solution. Results are presented to illustrate the occurrence of transients from both small and large increases and decreases in the levels of existing energy inputs.     

ANALYSIS OF DISC BRAKE NOISE USING A TWO-DEGREE-OF-FREEDOM MODEL

Although a brake pad and disc have many modes of vibration, when it is unstable and hence noisy then frequently only a single mode of the complete system contributes to the vibration. In this condition, only a few modes are required to model the system. In this paper, a two-degree-of-freedom model is adopted where the disc and the pad are modelled as single modes connected by a sliding friction interface. Using this model, the interaction between the pad and the disc is investigated. Stability analysis is performed to show under what parametric conditions the system becomes unstable, assuming that the existence of a limit cycle represents the noisy state of the disc brake system. The results of this analysis show that the damping of the disc is as important as that of the pad. Non-linear analysis is also performed to demonstrate various limit cycles in the phase space. The results show that the addition of damping to either the disc or the pad alone may make the system more unstable, and hence noisy.