Based on strength reduction theory,the stability numbers of shallow tunnels were investigated within the framework of upper and lower bound theorems of limit analysis. Stability solutions taking into account of water ...Based on strength reduction theory,the stability numbers of shallow tunnels were investigated within the framework of upper and lower bound theorems of limit analysis. Stability solutions taking into account of water seepage were presented and compared with those without considering seepage. The comparisons indicate that the maximum difference does not exceed 3.7%,which proves the present method credible. The results show that stability numbers of shallow tunnels considering seepage are much less than those without considering seepage,and that the difference of stability numbers between considering seepage and without considering seepage increase with increasing the depth ratio. The stability numbers decrease with increasing permeability coefficient and groundwater depth. Seepage has significant effects on the stability numbers of shallow tunnels.展开更多
In order to study the mechanism of water inrush from a concealed, confined karst cave, we established a fluid–solid coupling model of water inrush from a concealed karst cave ahead of a roadway and a strength reducti...In order to study the mechanism of water inrush from a concealed, confined karst cave, we established a fluid–solid coupling model of water inrush from a concealed karst cave ahead of a roadway and a strength reduction method in a rock pillar for preventing water inrush based on catastrophic theory. Fluid–solid coupling effects and safety margins in a rock pillar were studied. Analysis shows that rock pillar instability, exerted by disturbance stress and seepage stress, is the process of rock pillar catastrophic destabilization induced by nonlinear extension of plastic zones in the rock pillar. Seepage flow emerges in the rock pillar for preventing water inrush, accompanied by mechanical instability of the rock pillar. Taking the accident of a confined karst cave water-inrush of Qiyi Mine as an example, by studying the safety factor of the rock pillar and the relationship between karst cave water pressure and thickness of the rock pillar,it is proposed that rock pillar thickness with a safety factor equal to 1.5 is regarded as the calculated safety thickness of the rock pillar, which should be equal to the sum of the blasthole depth, blasting disturbance depth and the calculated safety thickness of the rock pillar. The cause of the karst water inrush at Qiyi Mine is that the rock pillar was so small that it did not possess a safety margin. Combining fluid–solid coupling theory, catastrophic theory and strength reduction method to study the nonlinear mechanical response of complicated rock engineering, new avenues for quantitative analysis of rock engineering stability evaluation should be forthcoming.展开更多
The meander channel is one of the most common channel patterns in nature.The characteristics of the flow and sediment in a meander channel which have significant effect on the development of watercourse are important ...The meander channel is one of the most common channel patterns in nature.The characteristics of the flow and sediment in a meander channel which have significant effect on the development of watercourse are important subjects in river dynamics.The transition of the flow patterns in a meander channel concerns with the development mode of the channel pattern and the river regime including the generation conditions of the three-dimensional coherent vortex and secondary flow,the hierarchical scale of coherent vortex in different flow conditions,the large-scale turbulent eddy structure adapted to a meander,etc.In this paper we study the laminar flow instability of the two-dimensional channel in a meander channel.It is essentially different from that in a straight channel:The neutral curve will move forward and the critical Reynolds number will decrease.The flow is unstable in response to a wider range of the disturbance wave number,or the laminar flow instability can happen more easily.The above results could not be obtained in the traditional hydrodynamic stability theory so that our work in this paper would make up for the deficiency and blank in this aspect.展开更多
The crossflow instability of a three-dimensional (3-D) boundary layer is an important factor which affects the transition over a swept-wing.In this report,the primary instability of the incompressible flow over a swep...The crossflow instability of a three-dimensional (3-D) boundary layer is an important factor which affects the transition over a swept-wing.In this report,the primary instability of the incompressible flow over a swept wing is investigated by solving nonlinear parabolized stability equations (NPSE).The Floquet theory is applied to study the dependence of the secondary and high-frequency instabilities on curvature,Reynolds number and angle of swept (AOS).The computational results show that the curvature in the present case has no significant effect on the secondary instabilities.It is generally believed that the secondary instability growth rate increases with the magnitude of the nonlinear mode of crossflow vortex.But,at a certain state,when the Reynolds number is 3.2 million,we find that the secondary instability growth rate becomes smaller even when the magnitude of the nonlinear mode of the crossflow vortex is larger.The effect of the angle of swept at 35,45 and 55 degrees,respectively,is also studied in the framework of the secondary linear stability theory.Larger angles of swept tend to decrease the spanwise spacing of the crossflow vortices,which correspondingly helps the stimulation of 'z' mode.展开更多
In a meandering fiver, a certain scale of turbulent vortex dominates the development of fiver morphology, making the river bend with s particular curvature. This kind of vortex is denoted as "bend-forming vortex". T...In a meandering fiver, a certain scale of turbulent vortex dominates the development of fiver morphology, making the river bend with s particular curvature. This kind of vortex is denoted as "bend-forming vortex". The coordinated relationship of bend-forming vortex and meandering fiver channel is then known as "self-adaption feature" of rivers. With these two concepts, this paper investigated the stability and self-adaption character of coherent vortex in the U-shape river bend with a constant curvature. On the basis of fluid mechanics theory and in consideration of turbulent coherent vortex as disturbance, the growth rate and the wave number response range of coherent vortex in meandering rivers with different curvatures were calculated in this paper. Moreover, the responses of different scales of coherent turbulence structure to river bend parameters were analyzed to explain the mechanism of fiver bend maintenance. These methods could provide a theoretical basis for further investigation on fiver meandering.展开更多
The emergence of any new infectious disease poses much stress on the government to control the spread of such disease. The easy, fast and less expensive way to slow down the spread of disease is to make the population...The emergence of any new infectious disease poses much stress on the government to control the spread of such disease. The easy, fast and less expensive way to slow down the spread of disease is to make the population be aware of its spread and possible control mechanisms. For this purpose, government allocates some funds to make public aware through mass media, print media, pamphlets, etc. Keeping this in view, in this paper, a nonlinear mathematical model is proposed and analyzed to assess the effect of time delay in providing funds by the government to warn people. It is assumed that suscep- tible individuals contract infection through the direct contact with infected individuals; however the rate of contracting infection is a decreasing function of funds availability. The proposed model is analyzed using stability theory of delay differential equations and numerical simulations. The model analysis shows that the increase in funds to warn people reduces the number of infected individuals but delay in providing the funds desta- bilizes the interior equilibrium and may cause stability switches.展开更多
The crossflow instability of a three-dimensional boundary layer is a main factor affecting the transition around the swept-wing.The three-dimensional boundary layer flow affected by the saturated crossflow vortex is v...The crossflow instability of a three-dimensional boundary layer is a main factor affecting the transition around the swept-wing.The three-dimensional boundary layer flow affected by the saturated crossflow vortex is very sensitive to the high frequency disturbances,which foreshadows that the swept wing flow transition will happen.The primary instability of the compressible flow over a swept wing is investigated with nonlinear parabolized stability equations (NPSE).The Floquet theory is then applied to the analysis of the influence of localized steady suction on the secondary instability of crossflow vortex.The results show that suction can significantly suppress the growth of the crossflow mode as well as the secondary instability modes.展开更多
In this paper, a new lattice model of two-lane traffic flow with the honk effect term is proposed to study the influence of the honk effect on wide moving jams under lane changing. The linear stability condition on tw...In this paper, a new lattice model of two-lane traffic flow with the honk effect term is proposed to study the influence of the honk effect on wide moving jams under lane changing. The linear stability condition on two-lane highway is obtained by applying the linear stability theory. The modified Korteweg-de Vries (KdV) equation near the critical point is derived and the coexisting curves resulted from the modified KdV equation can be described, which shows that the critical point, the coexisting curve and the neutral stability line decrease with increasing the honk effect coe^cient. A wide moving jam can be conceivably described approximately in the unstable region. Numerical simulation is performed to verify the analytic results. The results show that the honk effect could suppress effectively the congested traffic patterns about wide moving jam propagation in lattice model of two-lane traffic flow.展开更多
The main objective of this article is to study both dynamic and structural transitions of the Taylor-Couette flow, by using the dynamic transition theory and geometric theory of incompressible flows developed recently...The main objective of this article is to study both dynamic and structural transitions of the Taylor-Couette flow, by using the dynamic transition theory and geometric theory of incompressible flows developed recently by the authors. In particular, it is shown that as the Taylor number crosses the critical number, the system undergoes either a continuous or a jump dynamic transition, dictated by the sign of a computable, nondimensional parameter R. In addition, it is also shown that the new transition states have the Taylor vortex type of flow structure, which is structurally stable.展开更多
In this paper, we investigate the spatiotemporal dynamics of a reactio^diffusion epi- demic model with zero-flux boundary conditions. The value of our study lies in two aspects: mathematically, by using maximum princ...In this paper, we investigate the spatiotemporal dynamics of a reactio^diffusion epi- demic model with zero-flux boundary conditions. The value of our study lies in two aspects: mathematically, by using maximum principle and the linearized stability theory, a priori estimates of the steady state system and the local asymptotic stability of positive constant solution are given. By using the implicit function theorem, the exis- tence and nonexistence of nonconstant positive steady states are shown. Applying the bifurcation theory, the global bifurcation structure of nonconstant positive steady states is established. Epidemiologically, through numerical simulations, under the conditions of the existence of nonconstant positive steady states, we find that the smaller the space, the easier the pattern formation; the bigger the diffusion, the easier the pattern formation. These results are beneficial to disease control, that is, we must do our best to control the diffusion of the infectious to avoid disease outbreak.展开更多
基金Project(200550) supported by the Foundation for the Author of National Excellent Doctoral Dissertation of ChinaProject(09JJ1008) supported by Hunan Provincial Natural Science Foundation of ChinaProject(200631878557) supported by West Traffic of Science and Technology of China
文摘Based on strength reduction theory,the stability numbers of shallow tunnels were investigated within the framework of upper and lower bound theorems of limit analysis. Stability solutions taking into account of water seepage were presented and compared with those without considering seepage. The comparisons indicate that the maximum difference does not exceed 3.7%,which proves the present method credible. The results show that stability numbers of shallow tunnels considering seepage are much less than those without considering seepage,and that the difference of stability numbers between considering seepage and without considering seepage increase with increasing the depth ratio. The stability numbers decrease with increasing permeability coefficient and groundwater depth. Seepage has significant effects on the stability numbers of shallow tunnels.
基金Financial supports for this work, provided by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 51274097)the Scientific Research Fund of Hunan Provincial Education Department of China (No. 13A020)the Open Projects of State Key Laboratory of Coal Resources and Safe Mining, CUMT (No. 13KF03)
文摘In order to study the mechanism of water inrush from a concealed, confined karst cave, we established a fluid–solid coupling model of water inrush from a concealed karst cave ahead of a roadway and a strength reduction method in a rock pillar for preventing water inrush based on catastrophic theory. Fluid–solid coupling effects and safety margins in a rock pillar were studied. Analysis shows that rock pillar instability, exerted by disturbance stress and seepage stress, is the process of rock pillar catastrophic destabilization induced by nonlinear extension of plastic zones in the rock pillar. Seepage flow emerges in the rock pillar for preventing water inrush, accompanied by mechanical instability of the rock pillar. Taking the accident of a confined karst cave water-inrush of Qiyi Mine as an example, by studying the safety factor of the rock pillar and the relationship between karst cave water pressure and thickness of the rock pillar,it is proposed that rock pillar thickness with a safety factor equal to 1.5 is regarded as the calculated safety thickness of the rock pillar, which should be equal to the sum of the blasthole depth, blasting disturbance depth and the calculated safety thickness of the rock pillar. The cause of the karst water inrush at Qiyi Mine is that the rock pillar was so small that it did not possess a safety margin. Combining fluid–solid coupling theory, catastrophic theory and strength reduction method to study the nonlinear mechanical response of complicated rock engineering, new avenues for quantitative analysis of rock engineering stability evaluation should be forthcoming.
基金supported by the National Basic Research Program of China ("973" Program) (Grant No. 2007CB714101)the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 50979066, 50809045, 51021004)
文摘The meander channel is one of the most common channel patterns in nature.The characteristics of the flow and sediment in a meander channel which have significant effect on the development of watercourse are important subjects in river dynamics.The transition of the flow patterns in a meander channel concerns with the development mode of the channel pattern and the river regime including the generation conditions of the three-dimensional coherent vortex and secondary flow,the hierarchical scale of coherent vortex in different flow conditions,the large-scale turbulent eddy structure adapted to a meander,etc.In this paper we study the laminar flow instability of the two-dimensional channel in a meander channel.It is essentially different from that in a straight channel:The neutral curve will move forward and the critical Reynolds number will decrease.The flow is unstable in response to a wider range of the disturbance wave number,or the laminar flow instability can happen more easily.The above results could not be obtained in the traditional hydrodynamic stability theory so that our work in this paper would make up for the deficiency and blank in this aspect.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos. 90505005 and 10932005)
文摘The crossflow instability of a three-dimensional (3-D) boundary layer is an important factor which affects the transition over a swept-wing.In this report,the primary instability of the incompressible flow over a swept wing is investigated by solving nonlinear parabolized stability equations (NPSE).The Floquet theory is applied to study the dependence of the secondary and high-frequency instabilities on curvature,Reynolds number and angle of swept (AOS).The computational results show that the curvature in the present case has no significant effect on the secondary instabilities.It is generally believed that the secondary instability growth rate increases with the magnitude of the nonlinear mode of crossflow vortex.But,at a certain state,when the Reynolds number is 3.2 million,we find that the secondary instability growth rate becomes smaller even when the magnitude of the nonlinear mode of the crossflow vortex is larger.The effect of the angle of swept at 35,45 and 55 degrees,respectively,is also studied in the framework of the secondary linear stability theory.Larger angles of swept tend to decrease the spanwise spacing of the crossflow vortices,which correspondingly helps the stimulation of 'z' mode.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation for Innovative Research Groups of China (Grant No.51021004)the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos.50979066,50809045)
文摘In a meandering fiver, a certain scale of turbulent vortex dominates the development of fiver morphology, making the river bend with s particular curvature. This kind of vortex is denoted as "bend-forming vortex". The coordinated relationship of bend-forming vortex and meandering fiver channel is then known as "self-adaption feature" of rivers. With these two concepts, this paper investigated the stability and self-adaption character of coherent vortex in the U-shape river bend with a constant curvature. On the basis of fluid mechanics theory and in consideration of turbulent coherent vortex as disturbance, the growth rate and the wave number response range of coherent vortex in meandering rivers with different curvatures were calculated in this paper. Moreover, the responses of different scales of coherent turbulence structure to river bend parameters were analyzed to explain the mechanism of fiver bend maintenance. These methods could provide a theoretical basis for further investigation on fiver meandering.
文摘The emergence of any new infectious disease poses much stress on the government to control the spread of such disease. The easy, fast and less expensive way to slow down the spread of disease is to make the population be aware of its spread and possible control mechanisms. For this purpose, government allocates some funds to make public aware through mass media, print media, pamphlets, etc. Keeping this in view, in this paper, a nonlinear mathematical model is proposed and analyzed to assess the effect of time delay in providing funds by the government to warn people. It is assumed that suscep- tible individuals contract infection through the direct contact with infected individuals; however the rate of contracting infection is a decreasing function of funds availability. The proposed model is analyzed using stability theory of delay differential equations and numerical simulations. The model analysis shows that the increase in funds to warn people reduces the number of infected individuals but delay in providing the funds desta- bilizes the interior equilibrium and may cause stability switches.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 90505005 and 10932005)
文摘The crossflow instability of a three-dimensional boundary layer is a main factor affecting the transition around the swept-wing.The three-dimensional boundary layer flow affected by the saturated crossflow vortex is very sensitive to the high frequency disturbances,which foreshadows that the swept wing flow transition will happen.The primary instability of the compressible flow over a swept wing is investigated with nonlinear parabolized stability equations (NPSE).The Floquet theory is then applied to the analysis of the influence of localized steady suction on the secondary instability of crossflow vortex.The results show that suction can significantly suppress the growth of the crossflow mode as well as the secondary instability modes.
基金Supported by the Key Project of Chinese Ministry of Education under Grant No.211123the Scientific Research Fund of Hunan Provincial Education Department under Grant No.10B072+1 种基金Doctor Scientific Research Startup Project Foundation of Hunan University of Arts and Science under Grant No.BSQD1010the Fund of Key Construction Academic Subject of Hunan Province
文摘In this paper, a new lattice model of two-lane traffic flow with the honk effect term is proposed to study the influence of the honk effect on wide moving jams under lane changing. The linear stability condition on two-lane highway is obtained by applying the linear stability theory. The modified Korteweg-de Vries (KdV) equation near the critical point is derived and the coexisting curves resulted from the modified KdV equation can be described, which shows that the critical point, the coexisting curve and the neutral stability line decrease with increasing the honk effect coe^cient. A wide moving jam can be conceivably described approximately in the unstable region. Numerical simulation is performed to verify the analytic results. The results show that the honk effect could suppress effectively the congested traffic patterns about wide moving jam propagation in lattice model of two-lane traffic flow.
基金supported by the National Science Foundation, the Office of Naval Research and the National Natural Science Foundation of China
文摘The main objective of this article is to study both dynamic and structural transitions of the Taylor-Couette flow, by using the dynamic transition theory and geometric theory of incompressible flows developed recently by the authors. In particular, it is shown that as the Taylor number crosses the critical number, the system undergoes either a continuous or a jump dynamic transition, dictated by the sign of a computable, nondimensional parameter R. In addition, it is also shown that the new transition states have the Taylor vortex type of flow structure, which is structurally stable.
文摘In this paper, we investigate the spatiotemporal dynamics of a reactio^diffusion epi- demic model with zero-flux boundary conditions. The value of our study lies in two aspects: mathematically, by using maximum principle and the linearized stability theory, a priori estimates of the steady state system and the local asymptotic stability of positive constant solution are given. By using the implicit function theorem, the exis- tence and nonexistence of nonconstant positive steady states are shown. Applying the bifurcation theory, the global bifurcation structure of nonconstant positive steady states is established. Epidemiologically, through numerical simulations, under the conditions of the existence of nonconstant positive steady states, we find that the smaller the space, the easier the pattern formation; the bigger the diffusion, the easier the pattern formation. These results are beneficial to disease control, that is, we must do our best to control the diffusion of the infectious to avoid disease outbreak.