Nonlinear Response Characteristics of Discus Data Buoy Hull

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Balaji ◽  
S. A. Sannasiraj ◽  
V. Sundar
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Investigation ◽  
Response Time ◽  
Nonlinear Wave ◽  
Nonlinear Response ◽  
Phase Portraits ◽  
Testing Conditions ◽  
Response Characteristics ◽  
Wave Elevation ◽  
Time Histories ◽  
Spectral Representations

The response characteristics of the discus hull shaped data buoy under the influence of nonlinear wave conditions was studied in an experimental investigation. The measured wave elevation and the buoy response time histories were analyzed by phase-portraits as well as through the spectral representations. The details of the model, instrumentation, testing conditions and the analysis are presented and discussed in this paper.

Effect of Wave Loading on the Seismic Behavior of a Typical Fixed Jacket-Type Platform

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Z. Omrani ◽  
A. R. M. Gharabaghi ◽  
S. R. Hosseini ◽  
S. Nouri
Keyword(s):  
Seismic Behavior ◽  
Nonlinear Response ◽  
Offshore Platforms ◽  
Wave Loading ◽  
Response Characteristics ◽  
Finite Element Software ◽  
Structure Response ◽  
Wave Characteristics ◽  
Damping Characteristics ◽  
Time Histories

Design of fixed offshore platforms to resist earthquakes involves many of the same problems and issues as other onshore structures. However, there are some important differences that the most important one is the presence of seawater. It influences the mass, stiffness, damping and strength characteristics of the platform, which can have important effects on the structure response characteristics. The entrained water inside the platform elements and the water that is accelerated by the motions of the structure, have very important effects on the mass and damping characteristics of the platform. The presence of other environmental loads, particularly waves can also influence the response of these structures. In this paper, the nonlinear response of a typical jacket type platform, which has been installed in Persian Gulf, under wave and earthquake loadings are studied. The structure is modeled by ANSYS, finite element software. Time histories of different earthquake loadings are applied. Wave characteristics are based on local information. These loadings are applied separately and simultaneously. Moreover, they are applied in the same direction and different directions. The results are compared with each other and the most sever cases are extracted.

scholarly journals A comparison of different methods of evaluating glacier response characteristics: application to glacier AX010, Nepal Himalaya

2009 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 765-804 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Adhikari ◽  
S. J. Marshall ◽  
P. Huybrechts
Keyword(s):  
Response Time ◽  
Flow Model ◽  
Ice Flow ◽  
Nepal Himalaya ◽  
Response Characteristics ◽  
Response Behaviour ◽  
Himalayan Glaciers ◽  
Valley Glacier ◽  
Volume Response ◽  
Small Valley

Abstract. Himalayan glaciers are considered to be amongst the most sensitive glaciers to climate change. However, the response behaviour of these glaciers is not well understood. Here we use several approaches to estimate characteristic timescales of glacier AX010, a small valley glacier in the Nepal Himalaya, as a measure of glacier sensitivity. Assuming that temperature solely defines the mass budget, glacier AX010 waits for about 8 yr (reaction time) to exhibit its initial terminus response to changing climate. On the other hand, it takes between 29–56 yr (volume response time) and 37–70 yr (length response time) to adjust its volume and length following the changes in mass balance conditions, respectively. A numerical ice-flow model, the only method that yields both length and volume response time, confirms that a glacier takes longer to adjust its length than its volume.

Development and Assessment of a Nonlinear Wave Prediction Methodology for Surface Vessels

2000 ◽  
Vol 44 (02) ◽  
pp. 96-107
Author(s):  
Donald C. Wyatt
Keyword(s):  
Nonlinear Wave ◽  
Solution Procedure ◽  
Boundary Integral ◽  
Dimensional Solution ◽  
Hull Form ◽  
Ship Waves ◽  
Model Scale ◽  
Wave Elevation ◽  
Elevation Data ◽  
Surface Combatant

A numerical method for the prediction of steady nonlinear ship waves and their dependence on hull geometry is developed and assessed. The method employs desingularized Rankine singularities and Havelock singularities in an iterative boundary-integral solution procedure. The Fortran code incorporating this methodology, Das Boot, is tested on three validation cases and applied to a surface combatant hull form. Nonlinear wave elevation predictions for the case of a moving pressure pulse show a 0.988 correlation with a validated fifth-order spectral prediction. Nonlinear wave elevation predictions for a Series 60 hull form show a 0.974 correlation with model-scale wave elevation data. A nonlinear transom stern boundary condition is implemented. Stern wave predictions employing this model are shown to agree with an analytic two-dimensional solution. Initial predictions for a naval surface combatant incorporating a transom stern geometry show encouraging correlation, 0.81, with model-scale tank test data.

Transfer Functions for Helical Springs

1969 ◽  
Vol 91 (4) ◽  
pp. 1011-1016 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. L. Johnson ◽  
E. E. Stewart
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Data ◽  
Experimental Investigation ◽  
Steady State ◽  
Transfer Functions ◽  
Helical Springs ◽  
Response Characteristics ◽  
Transmitted Force ◽  
Vibratory Motion ◽  
Frequency Response Characteristics ◽  
Displacement Force

This study reports the results of an analytical and experimental investigation of helical springs subjected to vibratory motion. Transfer functions are presented for both displacement and transmitted force as outputs with force as the input. Steady-state sinusoidal Magnitude Ratio (displacement—force) and Transmittance Ratio (force—force) are plotted along with substantiating experimental data. It is shown that an actual spring displays frequency response characteristics over most of the frequency spectrum that would render its function useless in many cases.

Shooting With Deflation Algorithm-Based Nonlinear Response and Neimark-Sacker Bifurcation and Chaos in Floating Ring Bearing Systems

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sitae Kim ◽  
Alan B. Palazzolo
Keyword(s):  
Nonlinear Response ◽  
Nonlinear Behavior ◽  
Rotor System ◽  
Operating Conditions ◽  
Fluid Film ◽  
Stable Limit ◽  
Bifurcation And Chaos ◽  
Chaotic Motions ◽  
Response Characteristics ◽  
Computation Efficiency

The double-sided fluid film force on the inner and outer ring surfaces of a floating ring bearing (FRB) creates strong nonlinear response characteristics such as coexistence of multiple orbits, Hopf bifurcation, Neimark-Sacker (N-S) bifurcation, and chaos in operations. An improved autonomous shooting with deflation algorithm is applied to a rigid rotor supported by FRBs for numerically analyzing its nonlinear behavior. The method enhances computation efficiency by avoiding previously found solutions in the numerical-based search. The solution manifold for phase state and period is obtained using arc-length continuation. It was determined that the FRB-rotor system has multiple response states near Hopf and N-S bifurcation points, and the bifurcation scenario depends on the ratio of floating ring length and diameter (L/D). Since multiple responses coexist under the same operating conditions, simulation of jumps between two stable limit cycles from potential disturbance such as sudden base excitation is demonstrated. In addition, this paper investigates chaotic motions in the FRB-rotor system, utilizing four different approaches, strange attractor, Lyapunov exponent, frequency spectrum, and bifurcation diagram. A numerical case study for quenching the large amplitude motion by adding unbalance force is provided and the result shows synchronization, i.e., subsynchronous frequency components are suppressed. In this research, the fluid film forces on the FRB are determined by applying the finite element method while prior work has utilized a short bearing approximation. Simulation response comparisons between the short bearing and finite bearing models are discussed.

Theoretical and Experimental Analysis of Nonlinear Dynamics in a Linear Compressor

2001 ◽  
Vol 124 (1) ◽  
pp. 152-154 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gyu-Sang Choe ◽  
Kwang-Joon Kim
Keyword(s):  
Steady State ◽  
Nonlinear Response ◽  
Dynamic Models ◽  
Steady State Response ◽  
Describing Function ◽  
Linear Compressor ◽  
Response Characteristics ◽  
State Response ◽  
Jump Phenomena ◽  
Method Effects

Steady-state nonlinear response characteristics of a linear compressor are investigated theoretically and experimentally. In the theoretical approach, motions of not only piston but also cylinder are considered and dynamic models for steady-state response predictions are formulated by applying the describing function method. Effects of piston mass on the jump phenomena are predicted by the derived models as an example of design parameter variation and compared with actual experimental results.

Estimating Wave Induced Kinematics Underneath Measured Time Histories of Surface Elevation

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas B. Johannessen
Keyword(s):  
Boundary Condition ◽  
Wave Field ◽  
Nonlinear Wave ◽  
Velocity Potential ◽  
Laboratory Data ◽  
Surface Elevation ◽  
Surface Boundary ◽  
Wave Impact ◽  
Measured Time ◽  
Time Histories

Abstract The present paper is concerned with the accurate prediction of nonlinear wave kinematics underneath measured time histories of surface elevation. It is desired to develop a method which is useful in analysis of offshore measurements close to wind turbine foundations. The method should therefore be robust in relatively shallow water and should be able to account for the presence of the foundation and the shortcrestedness of offshore seastates. The present method employs measurements of surface elevation time histories at one or a small number of locations and solves the associated velocity potential by minimizing the error in the free surface boundary conditions. The velocity potential satisfies exactly Laplace’s equation, the bed boundary condition and (optionally) the boundary condition on the wall of a uniform surface piercing column. This is achieved by associating one wavenumber with every wave frequency thereby sacrificing the possibility of following the nonlinear wave evolution but ensuring a good description of the wave properties locally. For shortcrested waves, the direction of wave component propagation is drawn from a known or assumed directional spectrum. No attempt is made to calculate the directional distribution of the wave field from the surface elevation measurements since this is usually not realistically possible with the available data. The method is set up for analysis with or without a uniform current, for shortcrested or longcrested waves and with or without a surface piercing column in the wave field. It has been compared with laboratory data for steep longcrested and shortcrested waves. The method is shown to be in good agreement with measurements. Since the method is based on a Fourier series of surface elevation, however, it cannot model overtopping breaking waves and associated wave impact loading. For problems where wave breaking is important, the method may serve as a screening analysis used to select wave events for detailed analysis using Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD).

scholarly journals Nonlinear response characteristics of neural networks and single neurons undergoing optogenetic excitation

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 852-870
Author(s):  
Jannik Luboeinski ◽  
Tatjana Tchumatchenko
Keyword(s):  
Neural Networks ◽  
Nonlinear Response ◽  
Pulse Frequency ◽  
Simulation Code ◽  
Response Characteristics ◽  
Optogenetic Stimulation ◽  
Spatial Response ◽  
Temporal And Spatial ◽  
Light Beams ◽  
Indirect Stimulation

Optogenetic stimulation has become the method of choice for investigating neural computation in populations of neurons. Optogenetic experiments often aim to elicit a network response by stimulating specific groups of neurons. However, this is complicated by the fact that optogenetic stimulation is nonlinear, more light does not always equal to more spikes, and neurons that are not directly but indirectly stimulated could have a major impact on how networks respond to optogenetic stimulation. To clarify how optogenetic excitation of some neurons alters the network dynamics, we studied the temporal and spatial response of individual neurons and recurrent neural networks. In individual neurons, we find that neurons show a monotonic, saturating rate response to increasing light intensity and a nonmonotonic rate response to increasing pulse frequency. At the network level, we find that Gaussian light beams elicit spatial firing rate responses that are substantially broader than the stimulus profile. In summary, our analysis and our network simulation code allow us to predict the outcome of an optogenetic experiment and to assess whether the observed effects can be attributed to direct or indirect stimulation of neurons.

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