{"title":"The steady-state response of a three-phase elliptical inhomogeneity with interface slip and diffusion under an edge dislocation in the matrix","authors":"Xu Wang, Peter Schiavone","doi":"10.1093/qjmam/hbae010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/qjmam/hbae010","url":null,"abstract":"We study the steady-state response of a three-phase elliptical inhomogeneity in which the internal elliptical elastic inhomogeneity is bonded to the surrounding infinite matrix through an interphase layer with two confocal elliptical interfaces permitting simultaneous interface slip and diffusion. The matrix is subjected to an edge dislocation at an arbitrary position and uniform remote in-plane stresses. An analytical solution to the steady-state problem is derived using Muskhelishvili’s complex variable formulation. The effect of the edge dislocation and remote loading on the elastic fields in the inhomogeneity and the interphase layer is exhibited through a single loading parameter. More specifically, when divided by this loading parameter, the expressions for the stresses and strains in the inhomogeneity and the interphase layer are uninfluenced by the specific loading applied in the matrix. After excluding a particular common factor, the stresses and strains in the inhomogeneity and the interphase layer are also unaffected by the mismatch in shear moduli between the interphase layer and the matrix.","PeriodicalId":92460,"journal":{"name":"The quarterly journal of mechanics and applied mathematics","volume":"22 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142269272","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Second-order water wave properties over Roseau’s three-parameter bottom topography","authors":"Ulf Ehrenmark","doi":"10.1093/qjmam/hbae004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/qjmam/hbae004","url":null,"abstract":"Summary In his book Asymptotic Wave Theory (North-Holland 1976), Roseau develops the only known exact solution for linear wave propagation over a shoal. Remarkably, almost half a century later, the only properties of that solution which appear to have been used to validate more wide-ranging models are the limiting values of wave height in the far field. The primary aim of this work is to remedy this situation by providing a robust computational setting where the solution may be fully evaluated randomly both on the surface and the interior, speedily and to a high degree of accuracy. Such ‘benchmark’ solutions will facilitate a much more rigorous approach to validation of more general alternative approximation models. One such has some of its numerical results here examined and subsequently largely vindicated by the present calculations. Computation of the absolutely convergent solution integrals is supported by cubic spline approximation of an integrand component which satisfies a certain difference equation and the work is extended to cover bottom profiles with overhang including the extreme case where the overhang degenerates to a semi-infinite flat plate. The further development of solutions at second-order reveals details of mean Eulerian current and the attendant Stokes drift enabling mass transport computations; all illustrated through the entire depth with a range of contouring and arrows plots. The force field that drives a second harmonic component is calculated and shows excellent agreement with its equivalent in the more general modal expansion model applied to a non-identical but somewhat similar profile. This further validates the modelling approach and application described in that work.","PeriodicalId":92460,"journal":{"name":"The quarterly journal of mechanics and applied mathematics","volume":"21 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141171689","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A numerical investigation on the vibration of a two-deck Euler–Bernoulli beam flooded by a potential flow","authors":"Zihua Liu, Tao Gao, Choi-Hong Lai, Wenxing Guo","doi":"10.1093/qjmam/hbae006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/qjmam/hbae006","url":null,"abstract":"This work concerns the structural vibration of a bladeless wind turbine, modelled by a two-deck Euler–Bernoulli beam, due to a surrounding potential flow. The deflection is governed by the Euler–Bernoulli equation which is studied first by a linear theory and then computed numerically by a finite difference method in space with a collocation method over the arc length, and an implicit Euler method in time. The fluid motion in the presence of gravity is governed by the full Euler equations and solved by the time-dependent conformal mapping technique together with a pseudo-spectral method. Numerical experiments of excitation by a moving disturbance on the fluid surface with/without a stochastic noise are carried out. The random process involved in generating the noise on the water surface is driven by a Wiener Process. A Monte Carlo method is used for stochastic computations. The generated surface waves impinge on the beam causing structural vibration which is presented and discussed in detail. By elementary statistical analysis, the structural response subject to the stochastic hydrodynamic disturbance caused by white noise is found to be Gaussian.","PeriodicalId":92460,"journal":{"name":"The quarterly journal of mechanics and applied mathematics","volume":"2016 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141171688","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Linear stability of a compressible flow in a channel","authors":"M Deka, G Tomar, V Kumaran","doi":"10.1093/qjmam/hbad010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/qjmam/hbad010","url":null,"abstract":"Summary Modal instabilities in a compressible flow through a channel at high Reynolds numbers are studied for three-dimensional (3D) perturbations. In addition to the Tollmien–Schlichting (TS) mode, there exist compressible modes in a channel flow that do not have a counterpart in the incompressible limit. The stability characteristics of these compressible modes, obtained through numerical calculations, are compared with boundary layer and Couette flows that have been previously studied. The dominant compressible instabilities in a channel flow are shown to be viscous in nature, in contrast to compressible boundary layer modes. For general compressible bounded-domain flows, a necessary condition for the existence of neutral modes in the inviscid limit is obtained, and this criterion is used to determine critical Mach numbers below which the compressible modes remain stable. This criterion also delineates a range of wave-angles which could go unstable at a specified Mach number. Asymptotic analysis is carried out for the lower and upper branches of the stability curve in the limit of high Reynolds number for both the T-S and the compressible modes. A common set of relations are identified for the scaling exponents, and the leading order eigenvalues for the unstable modes are obtained through an adjoint-based procedure. The asymptotic analysis shows that the stability boundaries for 3D perturbations at high Reynolds numbers can be calculated from the strain rate and the temperature of the base flow at the wall.","PeriodicalId":92460,"journal":{"name":"The quarterly journal of mechanics and applied mathematics","volume":"486 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138824198","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The behaviour of a forced spherical pendulum operating in a weightless environment","authors":"R E Grundy","doi":"10.1093/qjmam/hbad008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/qjmam/hbad008","url":null,"abstract":"Summary In this article, we show that by subjecting the pivot of a simple inextensible pendulum to small amplitude high frequency rectilinear oscillations it is possible to make it operate in a weightless environment. The axis of vibration of the pivot defines a preferred direction in space and a consequential dynamical structure which is completely absent when the pivot is fixed. Using spherical polar coordinates centred at the pivot, we show that the motion of such a pendulum has fast and slow-scale components which we analyse using the method of multiple scales. The slow scale equation for the polar angle is autonomous, and a phase plane analysis reveals the essential orbital structure including the existence of conical solutions analogous to the terrestrial fixed pivot conical pendulum. In the absence of an azimuthal velocity component, its behaviour can provide a direct simulation of a plane terrestrial simple fixed pivot pendulum with a correspondingly simple form for the small amplitude period. We can also use a two-scale analysis to examine the effects of damping. Here, the slow scale polar equation has two asymptotically stable states, and we employ a combination of numerical and asymptotic analyses to elicit the slow scale orbital trajectories.","PeriodicalId":92460,"journal":{"name":"The quarterly journal of mechanics and applied mathematics","volume":"21 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138528022","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Large Amplitude Non-Spherical Bubbles","authors":"Madeleine Cockerill, L. Forbes, A. Bassom","doi":"10.1093/qjmam/hbac019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/qjmam/hbac019","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 We consider the long-term evolution of an axisymmetric bubble and explore the ways in which it may develop. Linearised inviscid analysis is used to predict the stability of the bubble with a small disturbance while a nonlinear inviscid extension shows that the growth of unstable modes is ultimately limited by the formation of axisymmetric curvature singularities. The addition of surface tension is shown to delay, but not entirely prevent, these singularities. Our results are found to agree well with a viscous Boussinesq theory at least to early times. The inclusion of viscosity means that the development of the bubble structure is not limited by the creation of singularities, and the bubble may ultimately adopt one of a wide range of possible large-scale deformations. Among these, perhaps the most exotic are jet-like structures which can pinch off and break into several distinct parts. Spectral methods are employed to solve the inviscid and Boussinesq models while the linearised inviscid model admits a closed-form series solution.","PeriodicalId":92460,"journal":{"name":"The quarterly journal of mechanics and applied mathematics","volume":"123 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74830169","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Superhydrophobicity Can Enhance Convective Heat Transfer in Pressure-Driven Pipe Flow","authors":"Henry Rodriguez-Broadbent, Darren G Crowdy","doi":"10.1093/qjmam/hbac016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/qjmam/hbac016","url":null,"abstract":"Summary Theoretical evidence is given that it is possible for superhydrophobicity to enhance steady laminar convective heat transfer in pressure-driven flow along a circular pipe or tube with constant heat flux. Superhydrophobicity here refers to the presence of adiabatic no-shear zones in an otherwise solid no-slip boundary. Adding such adiabatic no-shear zones reduces not only hydrodynamic friction, leading to greater fluid volume fluxes for a given pressure gradient, but also reduces the solid surface area through which heat enters the fluid. This leads to a delicate trade-off between competing mechanisms so that the net effect on convective heat transfer along the pipe, as typically measured by a Nusselt number, is not obvious. Existing evidence in the literature suggests that superhydrophobicity always decreases the Nusselt number, and therefore compromises the net heat transfer. In this theoretical study, we confirm this to be generally true but, significantly, we identify a situation where the opposite occurs and the Nusselt number increases thereby enhancing convective heat transfer along the pipe.","PeriodicalId":92460,"journal":{"name":"The quarterly journal of mechanics and applied mathematics","volume":"13 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138528039","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
W. Reinberger, M. S. Holland, N. Barlow, S. J. Weinstein
{"title":"On The Power Series Solution to The Nonlinear Pendulum","authors":"W. Reinberger, M. S. Holland, N. Barlow, S. J. Weinstein","doi":"10.1093/qjmam/hbac013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/qjmam/hbac013","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The exact solution to the simple pendulum problem has long been known in terms of Jacobi elliptic functions, of which an efficient numerical evaluation is standard in most scientific computing software packages. Alternatively, and as done in V. Fairén, López and L. Conde (Power series approximation to solutions of nonlinear systems of differential equation, Am. J. Phys. 56 (1988) 57–61], the pendulum equation can be analytically solved exactly by the power series solution method. Although recursive formulae for the series coefficients were provided in V. Fairén et al., the series itself—as well as the optimal location about which an expansion should be chosen to maximize the domain of convergence—has not yet been examined, and this is provided here. By virtue of its representation as an elliptic function, the pendulum function has singularities that lie off of the real axis in the complex time plane. This, in turn, imposes a radius of convergence on the power series solution in real time. By choosing the expansion point at the top of the trajectory, the power series converges all the way to the bottom of the trajectory without being affected by these singularities. We provide an exact resummation of the pendulum series that accelerates the series’ convergence uniformly from the top to the bottom of the trajectory. We also provide the formulae needed to extend the pendulum series for all time via symmetry. The pendulum problem, in its relative simplicity, provides an explicit demonstration of the effect of singularity structure and initial condition location on convergence properties of power series solutions.","PeriodicalId":92460,"journal":{"name":"The quarterly journal of mechanics and applied mathematics","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89154299","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Exact Solution to Axisymmetric Interface Crack Problem in Magneto-Piezo-Electric Transversely Isotropic Materials","authors":"V I Fabrikant","doi":"10.1093/qjmam/hbac009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/qjmam/hbac009","url":null,"abstract":"Summary This seems to be the first exact closed-form solution to the problem of a penny-shaped interface crack, subjected to an axisymmetric normal and tangential loading. The crack is located at the boundary between two bonded magneto-piezo-electric transversely isotropic half-spaces, made of different materials. We use the combination of Green’s functions for two different half-spaces and Fourier transform. We derive first the governing equations, which are valid for a crack of arbitrary shape. The usual approach leads to five hypersingular integral equations, we arrive at four integro-differential equations (one of them being complex). While the coefficients of the governing equations in existing publications are presented in terms of the results of the solution of a set of linear algebraic equations and are too cumbersome to be written explicitly in terms of the basic constants, our choice of the basic constants leads to quite elegant explicit expressions for these coefficients and reveals certain symmetry, which was noticed only numerically in previous publications or not noticed at all. In the particular case of axial symmetry, the problem is reduced to just one singular equation, for which an exact closed-form solution is known. We are not aware of any other publication with which our results can be compared.","PeriodicalId":92460,"journal":{"name":"The quarterly journal of mechanics and applied mathematics","volume":"23 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138528013","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Steady Normal-Mode Vortices in Circular Cavities","authors":"P. Tyvand","doi":"10.1093/qjmam/hbac010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/qjmam/hbac010","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This article establishes elementary families of steady two-dimensional (2D) vortices in circular enclosures filled with inviscid fluid. A normal-mode vortex is a continuous vortex that satisfies a Helmholtz equation for the streamfunction. An individual normal-mode vortex satisfies the steady 2D vorticity equation. A way to satisfy the vorticity equation with two superposed normal-mode vortices is to let one of them have circular streamlines, trivially satisfying the kinematic boundary condition at the circle boundary. The requirement for steady flow is that the wavenumber eigenvalues for the Helmholtz equations are identical. This eigenvalue has to be dictated by a normal-mode vortex that is fully 2D. In a circle sector with a designed angle, it is possible to add two fully 2D normal-mode vortices so that their superposed flow is steady. One such example is demonstrated, where the circle sector has an angle of $63.77^circ$. While conventional stability analysis does not apply to these families of steady normal-mode vortices, there is a latent algebraic instability in terms of linearly growing offspring vortices evolving from an initial state where a small initial perturbation is added to the steady normal-mode vortex.","PeriodicalId":92460,"journal":{"name":"The quarterly journal of mechanics and applied mathematics","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72999326","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}