Rheology of semiconcentrated fibre suspension in the Oldroyd-B fluid

The constitutive equation for a semiconcentrated fibre suspension in the Oldroyd-B fluid has been derived from a statistical model of such a suspension by employing the molecular theory for polymeric liquids. To circumvent theoretical difficulties in viscoelastic fluid mechanics, several simplified models are used to account for the interactions of fibres and polymer molecules. Some of material functions are calculated in terms of the constitutive equation. The project Supported by the University of Melbourne of Australia, the National Natural Science Foundation of China and Zhejiang Province     

船舶流体力学中若干逆问题的研究

在船舶流体力学中，给定物体（船、桨、附体或其组合体），要求确定其在不同的运行状态和环境条件下的某种性能（如阻力、运动等等）或周围的流场，这种问题称为正问题．与此相反，若给定物体的性能要求或场的信息，寻求满足要求的物体，就是逆问题．本文通过船舶流体力学中若干逆问题（如给定表面速度分布时螺旋桨桨叶剖面设计、轴对称物体设计等等）的介绍和讨论，对逆问题研究的特殊性、实用性及可能的发展方向作简要的评述．     

A nonlinear oscillatory system subjected to driving forces of elliptic type

The aim of this paper is to show how Jacobi elliptic functions in combination with the averaging and the harmonic balance methods can be applied to obtain the approximate solution of two coupled, ordinary differential equations having a spring with cubic nonlinearity and subjected to driving forces of elliptic type. By an appropriate choice of the system parameter values, it is possible to show that our derived solution represents the exact steady-state solution of the undamped Duffing equation with driving force of elliptic type. At the end of this work, we also demonstrate the validity of our derived solution by comparing the amplitude–time response curves with those of the numerical integration solutions.     

Technical stability of stationary automatic control systems of variable structure with switched filters

Sufficient conditions for the technical stability in measure of a nonstationary control system with variable structure are established. The controller of the system has feedback-switched filters functioning together with shaper and actuator. It is assumed that the nonstationary parameters of the system vary within given ranges, at a finite rate, with appropriate control laws, with adjustment against mismatch signal, its derivatives of finite order, and all variable parameters of the filter. The parameters of the switching hyperplane remain constant. This approach for analysis of technical stability does not involve sliding mode conditions. Criteria of technical instability in measure for the control system under consideration are formulated using the properties of systems of comparison from below. The general criteria of technical stability and instability are applied to nonstationary filtered-control systems of variable structure of the third order. The comparison method based on normalized Lyapunov functions is used __________ Translated from Prikladnaya Mekhanika, Vol. 42, No. 6, pp. 110–127, June 2006.     

Analytical solutions for cohesive zone models

Solutions are given for a cantilever beam specimen using a beam on elastic foundation model to incorporate various cohesive zone traction laws. These included both positive and negative linear slopes and constant stresses. Negative slopes give rise to multiple solutions. However, all the solutions give very similar results for energy release rate and beam root rotation confirming insensitivity to the form of the traction law. The use of these solutions to analyse peeling is discussed.     

改进的移动最小二乘法

近年来发展的无网格方法大多采用移动员小二乘法来构造试函数，而应用移动最小二乘法形成的方程组有时会是病态的甚至奇异的，从而限制了它的发展和应用。本文采用带权正交函数作为基函数对移动最小二乘法做了改进，避免出现病态方程组，且在计算过程中不需要进行短阵求逆运算，提高了计算速度。之后，借鉴牛顿法、平衡法和摄动法对由移动最小二乘法得到的非线性代数方程组提出了新的求解方法。     

Analytical Modeling of Nonaqueous Phase Liquid Dissolution with Green's Functions

Equilibrium and bicontinuum nonequilibrium formulations of the advection–dispersion equation (ADE) have been widely used to describe subsurface solute transport. The Green's Function Method (GFM) is particularly attractive to solve the ADE because of its flexibility to deal with arbitrary initial and boundary conditions, and its relative simplicity to formulate solutions for multidimensional problems. The Green's functions that are presented can be used for a wide range of problems involving equilibrium and nonequilibrium transport in semiinfinite and infinite media. The GFM is applied to analytically model multidimensional transport from persistent solute sources typical of nonaqueous phase liquids (NAPLs). Specific solutions are derived for transport from a rectangular source (parallel to the flow direction) of persistent contamination using first, second, or thirdtype boundary or source input conditions. Away from the source, the first and thirdtype condition cannot be expected to represent the exact surface condition. The secondtype condition has the disadvantage that the diffusive flux from the source needs to be specified a priori. Near the source, the thirdtype condition appears most suitable to model NAPL dissolution into the medium. The solute flux from the pool, and hence the concentration in the medium, depends strongly on the mass transfer coefficient. For all conditions, the concentration profiles indicate that nonequilibrium conditions tend to reduce the maximum solute concentration and the total amount of solute that enters the porous medium from the source. On the other hand, during nonequilibrium transport the solute may spread over a larger area of the medium compared to equilibrium transport.     

Comparison of different zero-slip definitions and a proposal to standardize tire traction performance

The traction properties of agricultural tires are of special importance because the tractive efficiency varies in a wide range to a maximum in the order of 75%. Different single wheel testing equipment is used to investigate tire performance and different mathematical methods are used to process the measured data. The different zero-slip definitions complicate a comparison between the measured data. In the paper the consequences of these differences are shown. For traction prediction it is necessary to make different measured and calculated data comparable so that all these data can be used for modelling tire behaviour. Therefore in this paper an effort to standardize tire traction performance is made.     

GENERALIZED FINITE SPECTRAL METHOD FOR 1D BURGERS AND KDV EQUATIONS

A generalized finite spectral method is proposed. The method is of high-order accuracy. To attain high accuracy in time discretization, the fourth-order Adams-Bashforth-Moulton predictor and corrector scheme was used. To avoid numerical oscillations caused by the dispersion term in the KdV equation, two numerical techniques were introduced to improve the numerical stability. The Legendre, Chebyshev and Her-mite polynomials were used as the basis functions. The proposed numerical scheme is validated by applications to the Burgers equation (nonlinear convection- diffusion problem) and KdV equation (single solitary and 2-solitary wave problems), where analytical solutions are available for comparison. Numerical results agree very well with the corresponding analytical solutions in all cases.     

A continuum analysis of charge induced ferroelectric domain wall motions

A continuum model is presented for the motion of a domain wall in a plane 90°-domain configuration subjected to an isolated extrinsic charge near the surface of a ferroelectric single crystal. Local pinning is postulated for the kinetic law. Before the appearance of the extrinsic charge, all polarization surface charges are taken to be neutralized by environmental charges. The domain wall motion after the appearance of the extrinsic charge is assumed to proceed sufficiently fast without any significant conductive currents on the surface or in the interior of the crystal such that new surface and interface polarization charges remain unscreened and contribute to the ferroelectric anisotropy energy. A non-admissible divergence of the electric field and consequently of the local thermodynamic driving force and of the domain wall velocity appears in the model if the domain wall charged by interface polarization charges intersects the crystal surface charged by surface polarization charges under an arbitrary angle. The physically possible domain wall angle is identified using the condition of a non-divergent driving force. The ferroelectric anisotropy energy and an intrinsic surface energy of the domain wall, however, do not provide stability of the domain wall trajectory against an unlimited increase of its curvature at the surface. The problem has been solved conceptually by proper account of the domain wall bending energy. Numerical and dimensional analysis explain also why domain walls driven by extrinsic charges remain almost straight in soft ferroelectrics.