Spatial Rigid-Flexible-Liquid Coupling Dynamics of Towed System Analyzed by a Hamiltonian Finite Element Method

An effective Hamiltonian finite element method is presented in this paper to investigate the three-dimensional dynamic responses of a towed cable-payload system with large deformation. The dynamics of a flexible towed system moving in a medium is a classical and complex rigid-flexible-liquid coupling problem. The dynamic governing equation is derived from the Hamiltonian system and built-in canonical form. A Symplectic algorithm is built to analyze the canonical equations numerically. Logarithmic strain is applied to estimate the large deformation effect and the system stiffness matrix will be updated for each calculation time step. A direct integral solution of the medium drag effect is derived in which the traditional coordinate transformation is avoided. A conical pendulum system and a 180° U-turn towed cable system are conducted and the results are compared with those retraced from the existing Hamiltonian method based on small deformation theory and the dynamic software of Livermore software technology corp. (LS-DYNA). Furthermore, a circularly towed system is analyzed and compared with experimental data. The comparisons show that the presented method is more accurate than the existing Hamiltonian method when large deformation occurred in the towed cable due to the application of logarithmic strain. Furthermore, it is more effective than LS-DYNA to treat the rigid-flexible-liquid coupling problems in the costs of CPU time.

Global existence and blowup in infinite time for a fourth order wave equation with damping and logarithmic strain terms

<p style='text-indent:20px;'>We consider the well-posedness of solution of the initial boundary value problem to the fourth order wave equation with the strong and weak damping terms, and the logarithmic strain term, which was introduced to describe many complex physical processes. The local solution is obtained with the help of the Galerkin method and the contraction mapping principle. The global solution and the blowup solution in infinite time under sub-critical initial energy are also established, and then these results are extended in parallel to the critical initial energy. Finally, the infinite time blowup of solution is proved at the arbitrary positive initial energy.</p>

Finite Deformations of an Elastic Cylinder During Indentation

The problem about the indentation of the rigid spherical stamp into the cylindrical specimen was considered. The material of the specimen was assumed to be weakly compressible. The formulation of the problem was performed for the case of finite deformations. The method of construction of the constitutive relations in terms of logarithmic strain tensor for elastic media and the variant of the algorithm to take into account the variation of the contact zone were proposed. The expansion of Hencky tensor and its time derivative into the series in powers of Cauchy strain tensor were used to calculate correctly the components of these tensors. Within the indentation problem, we used the model of nonlinear elastic material which provides the best agreement between numerical solution and experimental data among other used types of constitutive relations including various elastic and hypoelastic models.