{"title":"Green's functions for an anisotropic elastic parabolic inhomogeneity under generalised plane strain deformations","authors":"X Wang;P Schiavone","doi":"10.1093/qjmam/hbab008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/qjmam/hbab008","url":null,"abstract":"On the basis of the Stroh sextic formalism, we propose a novel method to derive Green's functions for a two-phase composite composed of an anisotropic elastic parabolic inhomogeneity perfectly bonded to an anisotropic elastic matrix. The composite is subjected to a line force and a line dislocation, which can be located anywhere inside or outside the inhomogeneity or on the parabolic interface itself. Explicit expressions describing the analytic vector function defined in the parabolic inhomogeneity are derived for each of the three aforementioned cases associated with the location of the line force and line dislocation. When the line dislocation is located inside the parabolic inhomogeneity, the image force acting on the line dislocation is expediently derived using the Peach–Koehler formula.","PeriodicalId":92460,"journal":{"name":"The quarterly journal of mechanics and applied mathematics","volume":"74 3","pages":"351-366"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49978818","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 axisymmetric vortices in radial stagnation flows","authors":"Prabakaran Rajamanickam;Adam D Weiss","doi":"10.1093/qjmam/hbab009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/qjmam/hbab009","url":null,"abstract":"A class of axisymmetric vortex solutions superposed upon radial stagnation flows is described. The new vortex solutions generalize the classical Burgers’ vortex and Sullivan's vortex solutions in the presence of a volumetric line source at the symmetry axis, the former approaching the Burgers’ vortex sheet when the source strength becomes very large. The stability of the generalized Burgers’ vortex is studied. In a different manner from the classical solution, the generalized Burgers’ vortices are found to be unstable for two-dimensional disturbances when the vortex Reynolds number is increased above a critical value, for a fixed strength of the volumetric source.","PeriodicalId":92460,"journal":{"name":"The quarterly journal of mechanics and applied mathematics","volume":"74 3","pages":"367-378"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49978817","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":"Integral and integro-differential equations with an exponential kernel and applications","authors":"Y A Antipov;S M Mkhitaryan","doi":"10.1093/qjmam/hbab007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/qjmam/hbab007","url":null,"abstract":"A convolution integral equation of the first kind and integro-differential equation of the second kind with the kernel \u0000<tex>$e^{-gamma |y-eta|}$</tex>\u0000 on a finite and semi-infinite interval are analyzed. For the former equation necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence and uniqueness of the solution are obtained, and when the solution exists, a closed-form representation for the solution is derived. On the basis of these results new integral relations for the spheroidal functions and Laguerre polynomials are obtained. The integro-differential equations on a finite and semi-infinite interval are transformed into a vector and scalar Riemann–Hilbert problem, respectively. Both problems are solved in closed-form. An application of these solutions to bending problems of a strip-shaped and a half-plane-shaped plate contacting with an elastic linearly deformable three-dimensional foundation characterized by the Korenev kernel \u0000<tex>$AK_0(delta r)$</tex>\u0000 (\u0000<tex>$A$</tex>\u0000 and \u0000<tex>$delta$</tex>\u0000 are parameters, \u0000<tex>$K_0(cdot)$</tex>\u0000 is the modified Bessel function, and \u0000<tex>$r=sqrt{(x-xi)^2+(y-eta)^2}$</tex>\u0000) is considered.","PeriodicalId":92460,"journal":{"name":"The quarterly journal of mechanics and applied mathematics","volume":"74 3","pages":"297-322"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49978820","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":"Dynamic Green's functions in discrete flexural systems","authors":"K H Madine;D J Colquitt","doi":"10.1093/qjmam/hbab006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/qjmam/hbab006","url":null,"abstract":"The article presents an analysis of the dynamic behaviour of discrete flexural systems composed of Euler–Bernoulli beams. The canonical object of study is the discrete Green's function, from which information regarding the dynamic response of the lattice under point loading by forces and moments can be obtained. Special attention is devoted to the interaction between flexural and torsional waves in a square lattice of Euler–Bernoulli beams, which is shown to yield a range of novel effects, including extreme dynamic anisotropy, asymmetric wave propagation, wave-guiding, filtering and the ability to create localised defect modes, all without the need for additional resonant elements or interfaces. The analytical study is complimented by numerical computations and finite element simulations, both of which are used to illustrate the effects predicted. A general algorithm is provided for constructing Green's functions as well as defect modes. This algorithm allows the tuning of the lattice to produce pass bands, band gaps, resonant modes, wave-guides and defect modes, over any desired frequency range.","PeriodicalId":92460,"journal":{"name":"The quarterly journal of mechanics and applied mathematics","volume":"74 3","pages":"323-350"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/iel7/8016817/9579149/09579152.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49978819","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Vertex Green's Functions of a Quarter-Plane: Links Between the Functional Equation, Additive Crossing and Lamé Functions","authors":"R C Assier;A V Shanin","doi":"10.1093/qjmam/hbab004","DOIUrl":"10.1093/qjmam/hbab004","url":null,"abstract":"In our previous work (R. C. Assier and A. V. Shanin, Q. J. Mech. Appl. Math., 72, 2019), we gave a new spectral formulation in two complex variables associated with the problem of plane-wave diffraction by a quarter-plane. In particular, we showed that the unknown spectral function satisfies a condition of additive crossing about its branch set. In this article, we study a very similar class of spectral problem and show how the additive crossing can be exploited in order to express its solution in terms of Lamé functions. The solutions obtained can be thought of as tailored vertex Green's functions whose behaviours in the near-field are directly related to the eigenvalues of the Laplace–Beltrami operator. This is important since the correct near-field behaviour at the tip of the quarter-plane had so far never been obtained via a multivariable complex analysis approach.","PeriodicalId":92460,"journal":{"name":"The quarterly journal of mechanics and applied mathematics","volume":"74 3","pages":"251-295"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1093/qjmam/hbab004","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44519842","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":"Adaptive modelling of variably saturated seepage problems","authors":"B Ashby;C Bortolozo;A Lukyanov;T Pryer","doi":"10.1093/qjmam/hbab001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/qjmam/hbab001","url":null,"abstract":"In this article, we present a goal-oriented adaptive finite element method for a class of subsurface flow problems in porous media, which exhibit seepage faces. We focus on a representative case of the steady state flows governed by a nonlinear Darcy–Buckingham law with physical constraints on subsurface-atmosphere boundaries. This leads to the formulation of the problem as a variational inequality. The solutions to this problem are investigated using an adaptive finite element method based on a dual-weighted a posteriori error estimate, derived with the aim of reducing error in a specific target quantity. The quantity of interest is chosen as volumetric water flux across the seepage face, and therefore depends on an a priori unknown free boundary. We apply our method to challenging numerical examples as well as specific case studies, from which this research originates, illustrating the major difficulties that arise in practical situations. We summarise extensive numerical results that clearly demonstrate the designed method produces rapid error reduction measured against the number of degrees of freedom.","PeriodicalId":92460,"journal":{"name":"The quarterly journal of mechanics and applied mathematics","volume":"74 1","pages":"55-81"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1093/qjmam/hbab001","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49986252","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":"On The Vibrations of Pyramidal Beams With Rectangular Cross-Section and Application to Unswept Wings","authors":"L M B C Campos;A C Marta","doi":"10.1093/qjmam/hbaa017","DOIUrl":"10.1093/qjmam/hbaa017","url":null,"abstract":"The bending frequencies of an unswept wing are calculated based on the model of a beam clamped at the root and free at the tip. For a tapered wing with straight leading- and trailing-edges, the chord is a linear function of the span; the same linear function of the span applies to thickness, in the case of constant thickness-to-chord ratio. The latter is usually small, so that the beam differs from the more frequent cases of a conical beam with a circular cross-section or a prismatic beam with a square cross-section. Thus, the bending modes of a non-uniform beam are considered, with mass and area moment of inertia which are respectively quadratic and quartic functions of the span. There is no exact solution expressible in finite terms using elementary functions, and thus power series expansions are used. The bending frequencies are calculated for a delta wing and compared with a rectangular wing, with the same span, mean chord and thickness, mass density and Young’s modulus. It is shown that the fundamental frequency is higher by a factor 4.96 for the delta wing; it is also shown that the general case of the tapered wing is intermediate between the delta and the rectangular wing. Lastly, the analytical results obtained for the bending modes are compared with numerical modal analyses of general tapered wing beams using high-fidelity finite-element model software.","PeriodicalId":92460,"journal":{"name":"The quarterly journal of mechanics and applied mathematics","volume":"74 1","pages":"1-31"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1093/qjmam/hbaa017","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43085483","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":"Trapped modes in a multi-layer fluid","authors":"F S Cal;G A S Dias;B M M Pereira;J H Videman","doi":"10.1093/qjmam/hbaa019","DOIUrl":"10.1093/qjmam/hbaa019","url":null,"abstract":"In this article, we study the existence of solutions for the problem of interaction of linear water waves with an array of three-dimensional fixed structures in a density-stratified multi-layer fluid, where in each layer the density is assumed to be constant. Considering time-harmonic small-amplitude motion, we present recursive formulae for the coefficients of the eigenfunctions of the spectral problem associated with the water-wave problem in the absence of obstacles and for the corresponding dispersion relation. We derive a variational and operator formulation for the problem with obstacles and introduce a sufficient condition for the existence of propagating waves trapped in the vicinity of the array of obstacles. We present several (arrays of) structures supporting trapped waves and discuss the possibility of approximating the continuously stratified fluid by a multi-layer model.","PeriodicalId":92460,"journal":{"name":"The quarterly journal of mechanics and applied mathematics","volume":"74 1","pages":"34-54"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1093/qjmam/hbaa019","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47178910","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}
Antoine Bera;Anne-Sophie Bonnet-Ben Dhia;Lucas Chesnel
{"title":"A continuation method for building invisible obstacles in waveguides","authors":"Antoine Bera;Anne-Sophie Bonnet-Ben Dhia;Lucas Chesnel","doi":"10.1093/qjmam/hbaa020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/qjmam/hbaa020","url":null,"abstract":"We consider the propagation of acoustic waves in a waveguide which is unbounded in one direction. We explain how to construct at a given wavenumber penetrable obstacles characterised by a physical coefficient \u0000<tex>$rho$</tex>\u0000 which are invisible in various ways. In particular, we focus our attention on invisibility in reflection (the reflection matrix is zero), invisibility in reflection and transmission (the scattering matrix is the same as if there were no obstacle) and relative invisibility (two different obstacles have the same scattering matrix). To study these problems, we use a continuation method which requires to compute the scattering matrix \u0000<tex>$mathbb{S}(rho)$</tex>\u0000 as well as its differential with respect to the material index \u0000<tex>$dmathbb{S}(rho)$</tex>\u0000. The justification of the method also needs for the proof of abstract results of surjectivity of well-chosen functionals constructed from the terms of \u0000<tex>$dmathbb{S}(rho)$</tex>\u0000. We provide a complete proof of the results in monomode regime when the wavenumber is such that only one mode can propagate. And we give all the ingredients to implement the method in multimode regime. We end the article by presenting numerical results to illustrate the analysis.","PeriodicalId":92460,"journal":{"name":"The quarterly journal of mechanics and applied mathematics","volume":"74 1","pages":"83-116"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1093/qjmam/hbaa020","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49979206","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}
Panayiotis Vafeas;Johan C -E Sten;Ioannis K Chatjigeorgiou
{"title":"On the electrostatic potential for the two-hyperboloid and double-cone of a single sheet with elliptic cross-section","authors":"Panayiotis Vafeas;Johan C -E Sten;Ioannis K Chatjigeorgiou","doi":"10.1093/qjmam/hbaa021","DOIUrl":"10.1093/qjmam/hbaa021","url":null,"abstract":"The study of the response of divergence-free electric fields near corners and edges, resembling singularities that accumulate charges, is significant in modern engineering technology. A sharp point can mathematically be modelled with respect to the tip of the one sheet of a double cone. Here, we investigate the behaviour of the generated harmonic potential function close to the apex of a single-sheeted two-hyperboloid with elliptic cross-section, whose asymptote is the corresponding elliptic double cone with one sheet present. Hence, the electrostatic potential problem, involving a single sheet of a two-hyperboloid, is developed using the theory of ellipsoidal-hyperboloidal harmonics, wherein the particular consideration enforces as solution in terms of generalised Lamé functions of non-integer order. A numerical method to determine these functions is outlined and tested. We demonstrate our technique to the solution of a classical boundary value problem in electrostatics, referring to a metallic and charged single-sheeted elliptic two-hyperboloid and its double-cone limit. Semi-analytical expressions for the related fields are derived, all cases being accompanied by the necessary numerical implementation.","PeriodicalId":92460,"journal":{"name":"The quarterly journal of mechanics and applied mathematics","volume":"74 1","pages":"117-135"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1093/qjmam/hbaa021","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46689786","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}