INSTABILITY AND CHAOS IN A PIPE CONVEYING FLUID WITH ADDED MASS AT FREE END

This paper shows the mechanism of instability and chaos in a cantilevered pipe conveying steady fluid. The pipe under consideration has added mass or a nozzle at the free end. The Galerkin method is used to transform the original system into a set of ordinary differential equations and the standard methods of analysis of the discrete system are introduced to deal with the instability. With either the nozzle parameter or the flow velocity increasing, a route to chaos can be observed very clearly: the pipe undergoing buckling (pitchfork bifurcation), flutter (Hopf bifurcation), doubling periodic motion (pitchfork bifurcation) and chaotic motion occurring finally. The project supported by the National Key Projects of China under grant No. PD9521907 and Science Foundation of Tongji University under grant No. 1300104010.