Turbulent boundary layer control with DBD plasma actuators

The flat-plate turbulent boundary layer at Reτ=1140 is manipulated using a spanwise array of bidirectional dielectric barrier discharge(DBD)plasma actuators.Based on the features of no moving mechanical parts in the DBD plasma control technology and hot-wire anemometer velocity measurements,a novel convenient method of local drag reduction(DR)measurement is proposed by measuring the single-point velocity within the linear region of the viscous sublayer.We analyze the premise of using the method,and the maximum effective measurement range of-73.1%<DR<42.2%is obtained according to the experimental environment in this work.The local drag decreases downstream of the center of two adjacent upper electrodes and increases downstream of the upper electrodes.The magnitude of the local DR increases with increasing voltage and decreases as it moves away from the actuators.For the spanwise position in between,the streamwise distribution of the local DR is very dependent on the voltage.The variable-interval time-average detection results reveal that all bursting intensities are reduced compared to the baseline,and the amount of reduction is comparable to the absolute values of the local DR.Compared with previous results,we infer that the control mechanism is that many meandering streaks are combined together into single stabilized streaks.

Optimal Boundary Control Method for Domain Decomposition Algorithm

To study the domain decomposition algorithms for the equations of elliptic type, the method of optimal boundary control was used to advance a new procedure for domain decomposition algorithms and regularization method to deal with the ill posedness of the control problem. The determination of the value of the solution of the partial differential equation on the interface——the key of the domain decomposition algorithms——was transformed into a boundary control problem and the ill posedness of the control problem was overcome by regularization. The convergence of the regularizing control solution was proven and the equations which characterize the optimal control were given therefore the value of the unknown solution on the interface of the domain would be obtained by solving a series of coupling equations. Using the boundary control method the domain decomposion algorithm can be carried out.

Vibration Control of a High-Rise Building Structure:Theory and Experiment

In this study,an innovative solution is developed for vibration suppression of the high-rise building.The infinite dimensional system model has been presented for describing high-rise building structures which have a large inertial load with the help of the Hamilton’s principle.On the basis of this system model and with the use of the Lyapunov’s direct method,a boundary controller is proposed and the closed-loop system is uniformly bounded in the time domain.Finally,by using the Smart Structure laboratory platform which is produced by Quancer,we conduct a set of experiments and find that the designed method is resultful.

Dynamic analysis, simulation, and control of a 6-DOF IRB-120 robot manipulator using sliding mode control and boundary layer method

Because of its ease of implementation,a linear PID controller is generally used to control robotic manipulators.Linear controllers cannot effectively cope with uncertainties and variations in the parameters;therefore,nonlinear controllers with robust performance which can cope with these are recommended.The sliding mode control(SMC)is a robust state feedback control method for nonlinear systems that,in addition having a simple design,efficiently overcomes uncertainties and disturbances in the system.It also has a very fast transient response that is desirable when controlling robotic manipulators.The most critical drawback to SMC is chattering in the control input signal.To solve this problem,in this study,SMC is used with a boundary layer(SMCBL)to eliminate the chattering and improve the performance of the system.The proposed SMCBL was compared with inverse dynamic control(IDC),a conventional nonlinear control method.The kinematic and dynamic equations of the IRB-120 robot manipulator were initially extracted completely and accurately,and then the control of the robot manipulator using SMC was evaluated.For validation,the proposed control method was implemented on a 6-DOF IRB-120 robot manipulator in the presence of uncertainties.The results were simulated,tested,and compared in the MATLAB/Simulink environment.To further validate our work,the results were tested and confirmed experimentally on an actual IRB-120 robot manipulator.

Geometrical design of blade's surface and boundary control of Navier-Stokes equations

In this article a new principle of geometric design for blade's surface of an impeller is provided.This is an optimal control problem for the boundary geometric shape of flow and the control variable is the surface of the blade.We give a minimal functional depending on the geometry of the blade's surface and such that the flow's loss achieves minimum.The existence of the solution of the optimal control problem is proved and the Euler-Lagrange equations for the surface of the blade are derived.In addition,under a new curvilinear coordinate system,the flow domain between the two blades becomes a fixed hexahedron,and the surface as a mapping from a bounded domain in R2 into R3,is explicitly appearing in the objective functional.The Navier-Stokes equations,which include the mapping in their coefficients,can be computed by using operator splitting algorithm.Furthermore,derivatives of the solution of Navier-Stokes equations with respect to the mapping satisfy linearized Navier-Stokes equations which can be solved by using operator splitting algorithms too.Hence,a conjugate gradient method can be used to solve the optimal control problem.

Finite-time consensus of multi-agent systems driven by hyperbolic partial differential equations via boundary control

The leaderless and leader-following finite-time consensus problems for multiagent systems(MASs)described by first-order linear hyperbolic partial differential equations(PDEs)are studied.The Lyapunov theorem and the unique solvability result for the first-order linear hyperbolic PDE are used to obtain some sufficient conditions for ensuring the finite-time consensus of the leaderless and leader-following MASs driven by first-order linear hyperbolic PDEs.Finally,two numerical examples are provided to verify the effectiveness of the proposed methods.

EXACT BOUNDARY CONTROLLABILITY FOR HIGHER ORDER QUASILINEAR HYPERBOLIC EQUATIONS

By means of the existence and uniqueness of semi-global C1 solution to the mixed initial-boundary value problem with general nonlinear boundary conditions for first order quasilinear hyperbolic systems with zero eigenvalues,the local exact boundary controllability for higher order quasilinear hyperbolic equations is established.

Turbulent boundary layer control with a spanwise array of DBD plasma actuators

The turbulent boundary layer control on NACA 0012 airfoil with Mach number ranging from 0.3 to 0.5 by a spanwise array of dielectric barrier discharge(DBD)plasma actuators by hot-film sensor technology is investigated.Due to temperature change mainly caused through heat produced along with plasma will lead to measurement error of shear stress measured by hot-film sensor,the correction method that takes account of the change measured by another sensor is used and works well.In order to achieve the value of shear stress change,we combine computational fluid dynamics computation with experiment to calibrate the hot-film sensor.To test the stability of the hot-film sensor,seven repeated measurements of shear stress at Ma=0.3 are conducted and show that confidence interval of hot-film sensor measurement is from−0.18 to 0.18 Pa and the root mean square is 0.11 Pa giving a relative error 0.5%over all Mach numbers in this experiment.The research on the turbulent boundary layer control with DBD plasma actuators demonstrates that the control makes shear stress increase by about 6%over the three Mach numbers,which is thought to be reliable through comparing it with the relative error 0.5%,and the value is hardly affected by burst frequency and excitation voltage.

Boundary Control of Coupled Nonlinear Three Dimensional Marine Risers

This paper presents a design of boundary controllers implemented at the top end for global stabilization of a marine riser in a three dimensional space under environmental loadings. Based on the energy approach, nonlinear partial differential equations of motion, including bending-bending and longitudinal-bending couplings for the risers are derived. The couplings cause mutual effects between the three independent directions in the riser＇s motions, and make it difficult to minimize its vibrations. The Lyapunov direct method is employed to design the boundary controller. It is shown that the proposed boundary controllers can effectively reduce the riser＇s vibration. Stability analysis of the closed-loop system is performed using the Lyapunov direct method. Numerical simulations illustrate the results.

Boundary Control Problems for 2 ×2 Cooperative Hyperbolic Systems with Infinite Order Operators

In this study, boundary control problems with Neumann conditions for 2 × 2 cooperative hyperbolic systems involving infinite order operators are considered. The existence and uniqueness of the states of these systems are proved, and the formulation of the control problem for different observation functions is discussed.

Discharge Control on Boundary of Tidal Models and Measuring Techniques of Low Current Velocity

This paper describes the discharge control technique on boundary used in two models, one is the model of hot water drainning in Dayawan Nyclear Power Plant, Guangdong, and the other is the model for trainhing the sand bar at the Guanhe Estuary, Jiangsu. Many years of application shows that this technique has the advantages of good reliability, repeatability and validity. The speedometer of hydrogen bubble is also introduced in this paper. The device can display and store tracing lines in a computer, and help operators to obtain the value and direction of transient velocity of a nonsteady current, thus, the problem of measurment of low current velocity in tidal model tests is solved and the automation of the measurement of current velocity is realized.

BOUNDARY CONTROL OF MKDV-BURGERS EQUATION

The boundary control of MKdV-Burgers equation was considered by feedback control on the domain [0,1]. The existence of the solution of MKdV-Burgers equation with the feedback control law was proved. On the base, priori estimates for the solution was given. At last, the existence of the weak solution of MKdV-Burgers equation was proved and the global-exponential and asymptotic stability of the solution of MKdV-Burgers equation was given.

Boundary Control for an Unstable Wave Equation in Annular with Symmetrical Initial Data

A problem of boundary stabilization of a wave equation with anti-damping term in annular is considered.This term puts some eigenvalues of the open-loop system in the right half of the complex plane.Suppose the initial and boundary conditions are rotationally symmetric,the equation in two-dimensional(2-D)annular is transformed to an equivalent one-dimensional(1-D)equation in polar coordinates.A feedback law based on the backstepping method is designed.By a successive approximation,it's proved that there exists a unique solution of the integral kernel which weights the state feedback on boundary.It's also proved that the energy function of the closed-loop system decays exponentially,implying the exponential stability of the closed-loop system.The effectiveness of the control is illustrated with numerical simulations.

SEPARATION CONTROL FOR THE OUTWING OF A STRAKE－WING BY ROTATING CONE PLACED NEAR THE LEADING EDGE

Based on the research result on the strake-wing, when the size of a strakeis not large, there is a separation zone near the leading edge of the outwing of thestrake-wing at middle angles of attack. So the idea on separation control by rotating acone placed near the leading edge is presented. The cone surface consists of the part ofthe wing. The effect of rotating the cone on aerodynamic characteristics of thestrake-wing is investigated. The results show that a rotating surface could play an important role in controlling the flow separation for a 3-dimensional wing. For example,the relative increment in maximum lift coefficient attains 30%. The separation zone issuppressed to a certain extent.

WELL－POSEDNESS AND CONTROLLABILITY AND OBSERVABILITY OF A COUPLED VIBRATING SYSTEM

In this paper, we derive a new description form of coupled bending and torsionalvibrating system with boundary control and observation through Green's formula and provethat it is equivalent to the original form. On the basis of this. we prove the control system iswell-posed in time and frequency domain and completely controllable and observable.

An approximation for the boundary optimal control problem of a heat equation defined in a variable domain

In this paper, we consider a numerical approximation for the boundary optimal control problem with the control constraint governed by a heat equation defined in a variable domain. For this variable domain problem, the boundary of the domain is moving and the shape of theboundary is defined by a known time-dependent function. By making use of the Galerkin finite element method, we first project the original optimal control problem into a semi-discrete optimal control problem governed by a system of ordinary differential equations. Then, based on the aforementioned semi-discrete problem, we apply the control parameterization method to obtain an optimal parameter selection problem governed by a lumped parameter system, which can be solved as a nonlinear optimization problem by a Sequential Quadratic Programming （SQP） algorithm. The numerical simulation is given to illustrate the effectiveness of our numerical approximation for the variable domain problem with the finite element method and the control parameterization method.

Finite Volume Element Method for Solving the Elliptic Neumann Boundary Control Problems

Solving optimization problems with partial differential equations constraints is one of the most challenging problems in the context of industrial applications. In this paper, we study the finite volume element method for solving the elliptic Neumann boundary control problems. The variational discretization approach is used to deal with the control. Numerical results demonstrate that the proposed method for control is second-order accuracy in the L2 (Γ) and L∞ (Γ) norm. For state and adjoint state, optimal convergence order in the L2 (Ω) and H1 (Ω) can also be obtained.

EXACT BOUNDARY CONTROLLABILITY OF 1-D NONLINEAR SCHRDINGER EQUATION

In this paper, the boundary control problem of a distributed parameter system described by the Schrodinger equation posed on finite interval α≤x≤β：{ iyt ＋yzz＋｜y｜^2y = 0, y（α, t） = h1 （t）, y（β, t）=h2（t） for t〉0 （S）is considered. It is shown that by choosing appropriate control inputs （hi）, （j = 1, 2） one can always guide the system （S） from a given initial state φ∈H^S（α,β）, （s ∈ R） to a terminal state φ∈ H^s（α,β）, in the time period [0, T]. The exact boundary controllability is obtained by considering a related initial value control problem of SchrSdinger equation posed on the whole line R. The discovered smoothing properties of Schrodinger equation have played important roles in our approach; this may be the first step to prove the results on boundary controllability of （semi-linear） nonlinear Schrodinger equation.

Numerical Approximation of Port-Hamiltonian Systems for Hyperbolic or Parabolic PDEs with Boundary Control

We consider the design of structure-preserving discretization methods for the solution of systems of boundary controlled Partial Differential Equations (PDEs) thanks to the port-Hamiltonian formalism. We first provide a novel general structure of infinite-dimensional port-Hamiltonian systems (pHs) for which the Partitioned Finite Element Method (PFEM) straightforwardly applies. The proposed strategy is applied to abstract multidimensional linear hyperbolic and parabolic systems of PDEs. Then we show that instructional model problems based on the wave equation, Mindlin equation and heat equation fit within this unified framework. Secondly, we introduce the ongoing project SCRIMP (Simulation and Control of Interactions in Multi-Physics) developed for the numerical simulation of infinite-dimensional pHs. SCRIMP notably relies on the FEniCS open-source computing platform for the finite element spatial discretization. Finally, we illustrate how to solve the considered model problems within this framework by carefully explaining the methodology. As additional support, companion interactive Jupyter notebooks are available.

Boundary Control for Cooperative Elliptic Systems under Conjugation Conditions

The existence and uniqueness of the state for 2 × 2 Dirichlet cooperative elliptic systems under conjugation conditions are proved using Lax-Milgram lemma, then the boundary control for these systems is discussed. The set of equations and inequalities that characterizes this boundary control is found by theory of Lions, Sergienko and Deineka. The problem for cooperative Neumann elliptic systems under conjugation conditions is also considered. Finally, the problem for n × n cooperative elliptic systems under conjugation conditions is established.