This paper delineates experimental and numerical results concerning the effect of the stratification and the tilt on the 3D instabilities of a cylinder wake led at moderate Reynolds numbers from the 2D von Karman vortex street. For a vertical cylinder, shadowgraph visualisations put forward an unstable mode similar to the mode A well known in homogeneous fluids. When the cylinder is tilted a ne...

Shape optimization problem for a nonlinear elastic plate governed by von Karman equation is considered. Using material derivative method, sensitivity analysis of the solution to the von Karman system with respect to the variation of the domain is performed and a necessary optimality condition is derived.

in the present paper, we shall attempt to make a contribution to approximate analytical evaluation of the harmonic decomposition of an arbitrary continuous function. the basic assumption is that the class of functions that we investigate here, except the verification of dirichlet's principles, is concurrently able to be expanded in taylor's representation, over a particular interval o...

A variant of a gauge theory is formulated to describe disclinations on Riemannian surfaces that may change both the Gaussian (intrinsic) and mean (extrinsic) curvatures, which implies that both internal strains and a location of the surface in R 3 may vary. Besides, originally distributed disclinations are taken into account. For the flat surface, an extended variant of the Edelen-Kadi´c gauge ...

Julien Christophe, Stéphane Moreau, Jérome Anthoine 1 von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics, 72 Chaussée de Waterloo, 1640 Rhode-St-Genèse, Belgium, [email protected] 2 Université de Sherbrooke, 2500 Boulevard de l’Université, Sherbrooke, J1K 2R1 Québec, Canada, [email protected] 3 ONERA The French Aerospace Lab, Midi-Pyrenees Center, Mauzac, France, Jerome.Anthoine@one...

A nonlinear transmisson problem for an elastic full von Karman beam is considered here. We prove that the system possesses a compact global attractor.

b Institut Français du Pétrole, 1 et 4 avenue de Bois Préau 92852 Rueil Malmaison, France c present address : Institut Français du Pétrole, 1 et 4 avenue de Bois Préau 92852 Rueil Malmaison, France, [email protected] d present address : Laboratoire LIP CNRS UMR 7623, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France, [email protected] * corresponding author August 31, 2009 Lectur...

This paper deals with a variational model applicable to small-deformation structural analysis expressed for linearly elastic-perfectly plastic (von Mises-Hubcr-Hencky) material. The model comprises a unification of the minimum complementary energy principal, the Haar-von Karman principle for deformation elastoplasticity, and (in a sense) the lower bound theorem of Limit Analysis. Thus it corres...

A stochastic model is derived to predict the turbulent torque produced by a swirling flow. It is a simple Langevin process, with a colored noise. Using the unified colored noise approximation, we derive analytically the PDF of the fluctuations of injected power in two forcing regimes: constant angular velocity or constant applied torque. In the limit of small velocity fluctuations and vanishing...