Multiple-scale analysis

About: Multiple-scale analysis is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 1360 publications have been published within this topic receiving 27530 citations.

On the Modulation of Water Waves on Shear Flows

Abstract: The method of multiple scales is used to examine the slow modulation of a harmonic wave moving over the surface of a two dimensional channel. The flow is assumed inviscid and incompressible, but the basic flow takes the form of an arbitrary shear. The appropriate nonlinear Schrodinger equation is derived with coefficients that depend, in a complicated way, on the shear. It is shown that this equation agrees with previous work for the case of no shear; it also agrees in the long wave limit with the appropriate short wave limit of the Korteweg-de Vries equation, the shear being arbitrary. Finally, it is remarked that the stability of Stokes waves over any shear can be examined by using the results derived here.

Nonlinear dynamics of parametrically excited piezoelectric energy harvester with 1:3 internal resonance

Abstract: In this work, the nonlinear dynamic analysis of a parametrically base excited cantilever beam based piezoelectric energy harvester is carried. The system consists of a cantilever beam with piezoelectric patches in bimorph configuration and attached mass at an arbitrary position. The attached mass is placed in such a way that the system exhibits 3:1 internal resonance. The governing spatio-temporal equation of motion is discretized to its temporal form by using generalized Galerkin’s method. To obtain the steady state voltage response and stability of the system, Method of multiple scales is used to reduce the resulting equation of motion into a set of first-order differential equations. The response and stability of the system under principal parametric resonance conditions has been studied. The parametric instability regions are shown for variation in different system parameters such as excitation amplitude and frequency, damping and load resistance. Bifurcations such as turning point, pitch-fork and Hopf are observed in the multi-branched non-trivial response. By tuning the attached mass an attempt has been made to harvest the electrical energy for a wider range of frequency. Such kind of smart self-sufficient systems may find application in powering low power wireless sensor nodes or micro electromechanical systems.

Chaotic motion and its control for nonlinear nonplanar oscillations of a parametrically excited cantilever beam

Abstract: This paper presents an analysis of the chaotic motion and its control for the nonlinear nonplanar oscillations of a cantilever beam subjected to a harmonic axial excitation and transverse excitations at the free end. A new method of controlling chaotic motion for the nonlinear nonplanar oscillations of the cantilever beam, refereed as to the force control approach, is proposed for the first time. The governing nonlinear equations of nonplanar motion under combined parametric and external excitations are obtained. The Galerkin procedure is applied to the governing equation to obtain a two-degree-of-freedom nonlinear system under combined parametric and forcing excitations for the in-plane and out-of-plane modes. The work is focused on the case of 2:1 internal resonance, principal parametric resonance-1/2 subharmonic resonance for the in-plane mode and fundamental parametric resonance-primary resonance for the out-of-plane mode. The method of multiple scales is used to transform the parametrically and externally excited system to the averaged equations which have a constant perturbation force. Based on the averaged equations obtained here, numerical simulation is utilized to discover the periodic and chaotic motions for the nonlinear nonplanar oscillations of the cantilever beam. The numerical results indicate that the transverse excitation in the z direction at the free end can control the chaotic motion to a period n motion or a static state for the nonlinear nonplanar oscillations of the cantilever beam. The methodology of controlling chaotic motion by using the transverse excitation is proposed. The transverse excitation in the z direction at the free end may be thought about to be an open-loop control. For the problem investigated in this paper, this approach is an effective methodology of controlling chaotic motion to a period n motion or a static state for the nonlinear nonplanar oscillations of the cantilever beam.

Nonlinear normal modes in multi-mode models of an inertially coupled elastic structure

Abstract: Nonlinear normal modes for elastic structures have been studied extensively in the literature. Most studies have been limited to small nonlinear motions and to structures with geometric nonlinearities. This work investigates the nonlinear normal modes in elastic structures that contain essential inertial nonlinearities. For such structures, based on the works of Crespo da Silva and Meirovitch, a general methodology is developed for obtaining multi-degree-of-freedom discretized models for structures in planar motion. The motion of each substructure is represented by a finite number of substructure admissible functions in a way that the geometric compatibility conditions are automatically assured. The multi degree-of-freedom reduced-order models capture the essential dynamics of the system and also retain explicit dependence on important physical parameters such that parametric studies can be conducted. The specific structure considered is a 3-beam elastic structure with a tip mass. Internal resonance conditions between different linear modes of the structure are identified. For the case of 1:2 internal resonance between two global modes of the structure, a two-mode nonlinear model is then developed and nonlinear normal modes for the structure are studied by the method of multiple time scales as well as by a numerical shooting technique. Bifurcations in the nonlinear normal modes are shown to arise as a function of the internal mistuning that represents variations in the tip mass in the structure. The results of the two techniques are also compared.