Excitation of Zonal Flows by ion-temperature-gradient Modes Excited by the Fluid Resonance

We apply the reductive perturbation method to the simple electrostatic ion-temperature-gradient mode in an advanced fluid description. The fluid resonance turns out to play a major role for the excitation of zonal flows. This is the mechanism recently found to lead to the low-to-high （L-H） mode transition and to the nonlinear Dimits upshift in transport code simulations. It is important that we have taken the nonlinear temperature dynamics from the Reynolds stress as the convected diamagnetic flow. This has turned out to be the most relevant effect as found in transport simulations of the L-H transition, internal transport barriers and Dimits shift. This is the first time that an analytical method is applied to a system which numerically has been found to give the right experimental dynamics.

Vibration power flow in infinite stiffened-plate with force excitation applied on plate

The formula of the vibration response and power flow in beam-stiffened plate with force excitation applied on.the plate, have been obtained by using the Steepest Descent Integral method. The characteristics of the power flow have been studied through computer simulation.It is shown that the stiffener acts as an extra lineal excitation applied on the plate and changes the characteristics of the power flow of the infinite plate greatly The greater the stiffness and the smaller the distance between the exciting point and the stiffener is, the greater the induence is. Lastly, experiments have been carried out by using the dualaccelerometer measurement technique that based on cross spectrum, and the test data agree well with the theoretical results

Large eddy simulations of a turbulent mixing layer periodically excited with fundamental and third harmonic frequency

A better understanding of the mixing behavior of excited turbulent mixing layers is critical to a number of aerospace applications.Previous studies of excited turbulent mixing layers focused on single frequency excitation or the excitation with fundamental and its second harmonic frequency.There is a lack of detailed studies on applying low and higher frequency excitation.In this study,we have performed large-eddy simulations of periodically excited turbulent mixing layers.The excitation consists of a fundamental frequency and its third harmonic.We have used phase-averaging to identify the vortex structure and strength in the mixing layer,and we have studied the vortex dynamics.Two different vortex paring mechanisms are observed depending on the phase shift between the two excitation frequencies.The influence of these two mechanisms on the mixing of a passive scalar is also studied.It is found that exciting the mixing layer with these low and high frequencies has initially an adverse influence on the mixing process;however,it improves the mixing further downstream of the splitter plate with the excitation using a phase shift ofΔφ=πshowing the best mixing performance.The present works shed lights on the fundamental vortex dynamics,and has great potential for aeronautical,automotive and combustion engineering applications.