scholarly journals THE CONTROL OF WAVE ASYMMETRIES IN RANDOM WAVES

1982 ◽  
Vol 1 (18) ◽  
pp. 46
Author(s):  
E.R. Funke ◽  
E.P.D. Mansard

The concept of wave asymmetry is reviewed and a prototype wave record is analysed. A three stage non-linear transformation, together with a Fourier transform substitution technique, is described. The method is tested by numerical simulation using statistical analysis procedures. Physical realizations are compared graphically.

2003 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 297-307
Author(s):  
V.V. Denisov

An approach to the study of the stability of non-linear multiply connected systems of automatic control by means of a fast Fourier transform and the resonance phenomenon is considered.


Author(s):  
Nilanjan Chakraborty ◽  
Alexander Herbert ◽  
Umair Ahmed ◽  
Hong G. Im ◽  
Markus Klein

AbstractA three-dimensional Direct Numerical Simulation (DNS) database of statistically planar $$H_{2} -$$ H 2 - air turbulent premixed flames with an equivalence ratio of 0.7 spanning a large range of Karlovitz number has been utilised to assess the performances of the extrapolation relations, which approximate the stretch rate and curvature dependences of density-weighted displacement speed $$S_{d}^{*}$$ S d ∗ . It has been found that the correlation between $$S_{d}^{*}$$ S d ∗ and curvature remains negative and a significantly non-linear interrelation between $$S_{d}^{*}$$ S d ∗ and stretch rate has been observed for all cases considered here. Thus, an extrapolation relation, which assumes a linear stretch rate dependence of density-weighted displacement speed has been found to be inadequate. However, an alternative extrapolation relation, which assumes a linear curvature dependence of $$S_{d}^{*}$$ S d ∗ but allows for a non-linear stretch rate dependence of $$S_{d}^{*}$$ S d ∗ , has been found to be more successful in capturing local behaviour of the density-weighted displacement speed. The extrapolation relations, which express $$S_{d}^{*}$$ S d ∗ as non-linear functions of either curvature or stretch rate, have been found to capture qualitatively the non-linear curvature and stretch rate dependences of $$S_{d}^{*}$$ S d ∗ more satisfactorily than the linear extrapolation relations. However, the improvement comes at the cost of additional tuning parameter. The Markstein lengths LM for all the extrapolation relations show dependence on the choice of reaction progress variable definition and for some extrapolation relations LM also varies with the value of reaction progress variable. The predictions of an extrapolation relation which involve solving a non-linear equation in terms of stretch rate have been found to be sensitive to the initial guess value, whereas a high order polynomial-based extrapolation relation may lead to overshoots and undershoots. Thus, a recently proposed extrapolation relation based on the analysis of simple chemistry DNS data, which explicitly accounts for the non-linear curvature dependence of the combined reaction and normal diffusion components of $$S_{d}^{*}$$ S d ∗ , has been shown to exhibit promising predictions of $$S_{d}^{*}$$ S d ∗ for all cases considered here.


Author(s):  
Antonio Carlos Fernandes ◽  
Ronaldo Rosa Rossi

With the introduction of the polyester ropes as mooring lines of large systems such as semi-submersibles, the need to simulate these lines in model tests became a necessity. Although the non-linear behavior is clear, depending on the type of cycling, the polyester rope responds in ways that may be considered linear as a steel wire rope. Because of that, the early model tests have been performed using a linear restoring capability, with different restoring coefficients. The use of equivalent springs seemed the proper way. However, with the help of fundamental investigation on the similarity laws, the present work shows that the use of very thin polyester lines in model scaling is feasible and will indeed allow a closer physical representation. By avoid using springs, but using the same material as in full scale, the same non-linear behavior is present during the tests and even the response to random excitation due to random waves is better represented. The paper closely describes the application of these ideas in a model test of a FPSO (Floating Production Storage and Offloading) comparing both the linear springs and new approach with the model scale equivalent polyester line.


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