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Investigation of power-type variational principles in liquid-filled system

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  • School of Aerospace and Civil Engineering, Harbin Engineering University, Harbin 150001, China

Received date: 2014-12-16

  Revised date: 2015-06-08

  Online published: 2015-12-01

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Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No. 10272034) and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities of China(No. HEUCF130205)

Abstract

Starting from the basic equations of hydrodynamics, the maximum powertype variational principle of the hydrodynamics of viscous fluids was established by Weizang CHIEN in 1984. Through long-term research, it is clarified that the maximum power-type variational principle coincides with the Jourdian principle, which is one of the common principles for analytical mechanics. In the paper, the power-type variational principle is extended to rigid-body dynamics, elasto-dynamics, and rigid-elastic-liquid coupling dynamics. The governing equations of the rigid-elastic-liquid coupling dynamics in the liquid-filled system are obtained by deriving the stationary value conditions. The results show that, with the power-type variational principles studied directly in the state space, some transformations in the time domain space may be omitted in the establishing process, and the rigid-elastic-liquid coupling dynamics can be easily numerically modeled. Moreover, the analysis of the coupling dynamics in the liquid-filled system in this paper agrees well with the numerical analyses of the coupling dynamics in the liquid-filled system offered in the literatures.

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Haiyan SONG, Lifu LIANG . Investigation of power-type variational principles in liquid-filled system[J]. Applied Mathematics and Mechanics, 2015 , 36(12) : 1651 -1662 . DOI: 10.1007/s10483-015-2004-6

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