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Nonlinear potential analysis techniques for supersonic-hypersonic configuration design
Approximate nonlinear inviscid theoretical techniques for predicting aerodynamic characteristics and surface pressures for relatively slender vehicles at moderate hypersonic speeds were developed. Emphasis was placed on approaches that would be responsive to preliminary configuration design level of effort. Second order small disturbance and full potential theory was utilized to meet this objective. Numerical pilot codes were developed for relatively general three dimensional geometries to evaluate the capability of the approximate equations of motion considered. Results from the computations indicate good agreement with higher order solutions and experimental results for a variety of wing, body and wing-body shapes for values of the hypersonic similarity parameter M delta approaching one. Case computational times of a minute were achieved for practical aircraft arrangements
Spanwise variation of potential form drag
The finite element method is used to calculate the spanwise variation of potential form drag of a wing at subsonic and supersonic speeds using linearly varying panels. The wing may be of arbitrary planform and nonplanar provided the wing panels are parallel to the aircraft axis
Supersonic second order analysis and optimization program user's manual
Approximate nonlinear inviscid theoretical techniques for predicting aerodynamic characteristics and surface pressures for relatively slender vehicles at supersonic and moderate hypersonic speeds were developed. Emphasis was placed on approaches that would be responsive to conceptual configuration design level of effort. Second order small disturbance theory was utilized to meet this objective. Numerical codes were developed for analysis and design of relatively general three dimensional geometries. Results from the computations indicate good agreement with experimental results for a variety of wing, body, and wing-body shapes. Case computational time of one minute on a CDC 176 are typical for practical aircraft arrangement
Nonlinear potential analysis techniques for supersonic-hypersonic aerodynamic design
Approximate nonlinear inviscid theoretical techniques for predicting aerodynamic characteristics and surface pressures for relatively slender vehicles at supersonic and moderate hypersonic speeds were developed. Emphasis was placed on approaches that would be responsive to conceptual configuration design level of effort. Second order small disturbance and full potential theory was utilized to meet this objective. Numerical codes were developed for relatively general three dimensional geometries to evaluate the capability of the approximate equations of motion considered. Results from the computations indicate good agreement with experimental results for a variety of wing, body, and wing-body shapes
Subharmonic bifurcation cascade of pattern oscillations caused by winding number increasing entrainment
Convection structures in binary fluid mixtures are investigated for positive
Soret coupling in the driving regime where solutal and thermal contributions to
the buoyancy forces compete. Bifurcation properties of stable and unstable
stationary square, roll, and crossroll (CR) structures and the oscillatory
competition between rolls and squares are determined numerically as a function
of fluid parameters. A novel type of subharmonic bifurcation cascade (SC) where
the oscillation period grows in integer steps as is found
and elucidated to be an entrainment process.Comment: 7 pages, 4 figure
Dynamics and Selection of Giant Spirals in Rayleigh-Benard Convection
For Rayleigh-Benard convection of a fluid with Prandtl number \sigma \approx
1, we report experimental and theoretical results on a pattern selection
mechanism for cell-filling, giant, rotating spirals. We show that the pattern
selection in a certain limit can be explained quantitatively by a
phase-diffusion mechanism. This mechanism for pattern selection is very
different from that for spirals in excitable media
Rotating Convection in an Anisotropic System
We study the stability of patterns arising in rotating convection in weakly
anisotropic systems using a modified Swift-Hohenberg equation. The anisotropy,
either an endogenous characteristic of the system or induced by external
forcing, can stabilize periodic rolls in the K\"uppers-Lortz chaotic regime.
For the particular case of rotating convection with time-modulated rotation
where recently, in experiment, chiral patterns have been observed in otherwise
K\"uppers-Lortz-unstable regimes, we show how the underlying base-flow breaks
the isotropy, thereby affecting the linear growth-rate of convection rolls in
such a way as to stabilize spirals and targets. Throughout we compare
analytical results to numerical simulations of the Swift-Hohenberg equation
The state of democracy in Zambia.
ReportZambia became renowned for its peaceful transition from one party to multi-party democracy when in 1991 it replaced a sitting president through peaceful elections three years before the end of his term of office. This was part of a general trend in Africa which began in the late 1980s and saw many African one-party regimes replaced by multi-party democracies following political changes in Europe, including the end of the Cold War. Although formally, Zambia has been a multi-party democracy, it was virtually a one-party state for two decades from 1991 to 2011 as the ruling Movement for Multi-Party Democracy (MMD) remained in power. The MMD is a political party that was formed by an amalgamation of organizations, which included civil society organizations, student groups, trade unions, church organizations and other interest groups of the same name that championed the return to multi-party democracy
Finite size effects near the onset of the oscillatory instability
A system of two complex Ginzburg - Landau equations is considered that applies at the onset of the oscillatory instability in spatial domains whose size is large (but finite) in one direction; the dependent variables are the slowly modulated complex amplitudes of two counterpropagating wavetrains. In order to obtain a well posed problem, four boundary conditions must be imposed at the boundaries. Two of them were already known, and the other two are first derived in this paper. In the generic case when the group velocity is of order unity, the resulting problem has terms that are not of the same order of magnitude. This fact allows us to consider two distinguished limits and to derive two associated (simpler) sub-models, that are briefly discussed. Our results predict quite a rich variety of complex dynamics that is due to both the modulational instability and finite size effects
Efficient Algorithm on a Non-staggered Mesh for Simulating Rayleigh-Benard Convection in a Box
An efficient semi-implicit second-order-accurate finite-difference method is
described for studying incompressible Rayleigh-Benard convection in a box, with
sidewalls that are periodic, thermally insulated, or thermally conducting.
Operator-splitting and a projection method reduce the algorithm at each time
step to the solution of four Helmholtz equations and one Poisson equation, and
these are are solved by fast direct methods. The method is numerically stable
even though all field values are placed on a single non-staggered mesh
commensurate with the boundaries. The efficiency and accuracy of the method are
characterized for several representative convection problems.Comment: REVTeX, 30 pages, 5 figure
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