Quasi‐static transient response of a conducting half‐space— An approximate representation

Geophysics ◽  
1979 ◽  
Vol 44 (10) ◽  
pp. 1700-1705 ◽  
Author(s):  
Misac N. Nabighian

For a step‐function excitation, it is shown that, to a first‐order approximation, the quasi‐static transient response in the air due to an arbitrary loop situated at the earth’s surface can be represented by a downward and outward moving current filament, of diminishing amplitude and having the same shape as the transmitter loop.

2002 ◽  
Vol 69 (6) ◽  
pp. 811-818 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. J. Niklasson ◽  
S. K. Datta

Transient response of multilayered superconducting tapes has been studied in this paper. These tapes are usually composed of layers of a superconducting material (like YBa2Cu3O7−δ, or YBCO, for simplicity) alternating between layers of a metallic material (like nickel or silver). The tapes are thin, in the range of 100–200 μm. The superconducting layer is orthotropic with a thickness of 5–10 μm. In applications, tapes are long and have a finite width. In this paper, attention has been focused on the transient response of homogeneous and three-layered tapes assuming that the width is infinite and that the thickness of the superconducting layer is much smaller than the metal layer. The problem considered here is of general interest for understanding the effect of anisotropy of thin coating or interface layers in composite plate structures on ultrasonic guided waves. Three plate geometries are considered as prototype examples: a homogeneous nickel (Ni) layer, a three-layered YBCO/Ni/YBCO, and a three-layered Ni/YBCO/Ni. Transient response due to a line force applied normal to the surface of the tape has been studied by means of Fourier transforms and direct numerical integration. Numerical results are presented using an exact model and a first-order approximation to the thin YBCO layer. The first-order approximation simplifies the problem to that of a homogeneous isotropic plate subject to effective boundary conditions representing the thin anisotropic layers. Both are seen to agree well (except when the center frequency of the force is high) and capture the coupling of the longitudinal, S, (or flexural, A) motion and the shear-horizontal (SH) motion. Detailed analysis of the influence of the thin layers, especially their anisotropy, on this coupling and the transient response shows significant differences among the three cases. The model results provide insight into the coupling phenomenon and indicate the feasibility of careful experiments to exploit the significant changes in the transient response caused by coupling for the determination of the in-plane elastic constants of thin coating or interface layers.


AIAA Journal ◽  
1998 ◽  
Vol 36 ◽  
pp. 1721-1727
Author(s):  
Prasanth B. Nair ◽  
Andrew J. Keane ◽  
Robin S. Langley

2021 ◽  
Vol 76 (3) ◽  
pp. 265-283
Author(s):  
G. Nath

Abstract The approximate analytical solution for the propagation of gas ionizing cylindrical blast (shock) wave in a rotational axisymmetric non-ideal gas with azimuthal or axial magnetic field is investigated. The axial and azimuthal components of fluid velocity are taken into consideration and these flow variables, magnetic field in the ambient medium are assumed to be varying according to the power laws with distance from the axis of symmetry. The shock is supposed to be strong one for the ratio C 0 V s 2 ${\left(\frac{{C}_{0}}{{V}_{s}}\right)}^{2}$ to be a negligible small quantity, where C 0 is the sound velocity in undisturbed fluid and V S is the shock velocity. In the undisturbed medium the density is assumed to be constant to obtain the similarity solution. The flow variables in power series of C 0 V s 2 ${\left(\frac{{C}_{0}}{{V}_{s}}\right)}^{2}$ are expanded to obtain the approximate analytical solutions. The first order and second order approximations to the solutions are discussed with the help of power series expansion. For the first order approximation the analytical solutions are derived. In the flow-field region behind the blast wave the distribution of the flow variables in the case of first order approximation is shown in graphs. It is observed that in the flow field region the quantity J 0 increases with an increase in the value of gas non-idealness parameter or Alfven-Mach number or rotational parameter. Hence, the non-idealness of the gas and the presence of rotation or magnetic field have decaying effect on shock wave.


1999 ◽  
Vol 08 (05) ◽  
pp. 461-483
Author(s):  
SEIYA NISHIYAMA

First-order approximation of the number-projected (NP) SO(2N) Tamm-Dancoff (TD) equation is developed to describe ground and excited states of superconducting fermion systems. We start from an NP Hartree-Bogoliubov (HB) wave function. The NP SO(2N) TD expansion is generated by quasi-particle pair excitations from the degenerate geminals in the number-projected HB wave function. The Schrödinger equation is cast into the NP SO(2N) TD equation by the variation principle. We approximate it up to first order. This approximate equation is reduced to a simpler form by the Schur function of group characters which has a close connection with the soliton theory on the group manifold.


Author(s):  
Bappaditya Banerjee ◽  
Anil K. Bajaj

Abstract Dynamical systems with two degrees-of-freedom, with quadratic nonlinearities and parametric excitations are studied in this analysis. The 1:2 superharmonic internal resonance case is analyzed. The method of harmonic balance is used to obtain a set of four first-order amplitude equations that govern the dynamics of the first-order approximation of the response. An analytical technique, based on Melnikov’s method is used to predict the parameter range for which chaotic dynamics exist in the undamped averaged system. Numerical studies show that chaotic responses are quite common in these quadratic systems and chaotic responses occur even in presence of damping.


2014 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 132-141 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jianfeng Guo

The iteratively reweighted least-squares (IRLS) technique has been widely employed in geodetic and geophysical literature. The reliability measures are important diagnostic tools for inferring the strength of the model validation. An exact analytical method is adopted to obtain insights on how much iterative reweighting can affect the quality indicators. Theoretical analyses and numerical results show that, when the downweighting procedure is performed, (1) the precision, all kinds of dilution of precision (DOP) metrics and the minimal detectable bias (MDB) will become larger; (2) the variations of the bias-to-noise ratio (BNR) are involved, and (3) all these results coincide with those obtained by the first-order approximation method.


1992 ◽  
Vol 47 (3) ◽  
pp. 683-694 ◽  
Author(s):  
H.S. Kheshgi ◽  
S.F. Kistler ◽  
L.E. Scriven

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