Thermoelastic contact problem of two rotating bodies with frictional heat generation in annular region

Summary An axisymmetric contact problem with frictional heating is considered in which a parabolic annular punch is pressed into a plane surface and rotates about its axis of symmetry at constant speed. The problem is formulated in terms of one governing equation with unknown pressure. This equation is solved numerically. The change of the geometry of the contact region and pressure has been investigated. Received 21 May 1997; accepted for publication 23 June 1997     

Distribution of Friction Heat Between a Stationary Pin and Rotating Ring

The analysis of the heat distribution between a stationary pin and rotating ring was considered. To solution of the governing quasi-stationary heat conductivity equation the finite Fourier transform was used. The convective cooling from outer and internal surface of the ring as the boundary conditions were considered. The ring surface temperature, the average temperature on the ring surface and the heat distribution coefficient for the studied system were determined. The numerical results for the temperatures and heat distribution coefficient which demonstrated the effects of the Biot number and internal radius of the ring on them, were presented.     

Heat transfer in MHD flow of dusty viscoelastic (Walters’ liquid model-B) stratified fluid in porous medium under variable viscosity

The paper investigates the effects of heat transfer in MHD flow of viscoelastic stratified fluid in porous medium on a parallel plate channel inclined at an angle θ. A laminar convection flow for incompressible conducting fluid is considered. It is assumed that the plates are kept at different temperatures which decay with time. The partial differential equations governing the flow are solved by perturbation technique. Expressions for the velocity of fluid and particle phases, temperature field, Nusselt number, skin friction and flow flux are obtained within the channel. The effects of various parameters like stratification factor, magnetic field parameter, Prandtl number on temperature field, heat transfer, skin friction, flow flux, velocity for both the fluid and particle phases are displayed through graphs and discussed numerically.     

Influence of laser pulse shape both on temperature profile and hardened layer depth

This paper presents a mathematical modelling and numerical calculations of heat conduction problems where laser generated heat is assumed as a surface heat source. Also the effect of a laser time structure on a hardened layer depth is examined. Temperature profiles for different laser pulse shapes are determined from the solution of a linear one-dimensional heat conduction equation for semi-infinite medium and discussed in terms of the parameters evolution such as dimensionless: temperature, heat flux, hardening depth, laser impulse duration and increasing time of triangular pulse shape.     

Adiabatic divergence of the chaotic layer width and acceleration of chaotic and noise-induced transport

We show that, in spatially periodic Hamiltonian systems driven by a time-periodic coordinate-independent (AC) force, the upper energy of the chaotic layer grows unlimitedly as the frequency of the force goes to zero. This remarkable effect is absent in any other physically significant systems. It gives rise to the divergence of the rate of the spatial chaotic transport. We also generalize this phenomenon for the presence of a weak noise and weak dissipation. We demonstrate for the latter case that the adiabatic AC force may greatly accelerate the spatial diffusion and the reset rate at a given threshold.     

Effect of Zr,Ti substitutions onT c in superconducting YBa2Cu3O7−δ system

Zr and Ti have been substituted in the system Y_1−x M _x Ba₂Cu₃O_7−δ(M=Zr, Ti,x=0.05,0.1). We find that theT _c value is unchanged, ∼90K for Zr substitutions up to 10% and in the case of Ti substitutions theT _c drops significantly. These changes may arise from their site preference.     

Influence of bath composition and deposition parameters on nanostructure and thermal stability of gold

Nanocrystalline gold is electrodeposited from a stable nontoxic bath, in which Au⁺ is stabilized by complex formation with 3-mercapto-1-propanesulfonic acid sodium salt. Nanoscaling is achieved by pulse techniques. The crystallite size is strongly dependent on physical and chemical process parameters, such as pulse duration, current density, bath temperature, type, and amount of additives; especially, we observe a decrease of the crystallite size down to 16 nm by the proper choice of current density and temperature, and down to 7 nm by the use of additives. The thermal stability of nanocrystalline gold is investigated by in situ high-temperature X-ray diffraction; nanogold exhibits a thermal stability up to 673 K. An activation energy of 37 kJ mol⁻¹ is determined for the grain-growth kinetics.Paper presented at the “Jahrestagung der Fachgruppe Angewandte Electrochemie der Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker, Düsseldorf, 11.–14.06.2005”     

Exact formulae for determination of the mean temperature and wear during braking

This paper deals with the one-dimensional transient heat conductivity contact problem of a sliding two semi-spaces, which induces effects of friction, heat generation and water during braking. In the present temperature analysis the capacity of the frictional source on the contact plane dependent on the time of braking. The problem solved exactly using the Laplace transform technique. Numerical results for the temperature are obtained for the different values of the input parameter, which characterise the duration of the increase of the contact pressure during braking from zero to the maximum value. An analytical formulae for the abrasive wear of the contact plane is obtained in the assumption, that the wear coefficient is the linear function of the contact temperature. Received on 8 September 1998     

The influence of distribution intensity form of heat flux on the temperature by the local quasi-stationary heating on external surface of the ring

The solution of the mixed quasi-stationary heat conduction problem for the ring has been obtained by using a finite Fourier transformation. The heating on the external side surface of the ring due to any locally distributed heat flux, as well as the convective cooling from internal side surface and from the end faces are considered. It has been proved that for some special geometrical and thermo-physical parameters of problem the received solution agrees with well known studies. The influence of some distribution intensity form of heat flux on the maximum temperature was studied.