In recent years, small gain (or H(infinity)) analysis has been used to analyze feedback systems for robust stability and performance. However, since small gain analysis allows uncertainty with arbitrary phase in the f...
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In recent years, small gain (or H(infinity)) analysis has been used to analyze feedback systems for robust stability and performance. However, since small gain analysis allows uncertainty with arbitrary phase in the frequency domain and arbitrary time variations in the time domain, it can be overly conservative for constant real parametric uncertainty. More recent results have led to the development of robustness analysis tools, such as extensions of Popov analysis, that are less conservative. These tests are based on parameter-dependent Lyapunov functions, in contrast to the small gain test, which is based on a fixed quadratic Lyapunov function. This paper uses a benchmark problem to compare Popov analysis with small gain analysis and positivity analysis (a special case of Popov analysis that corresponds to a fixed quadratic Lyapunov function). The state-space versions of these tests, based on Riccati equations, are implemented using continuation algorithms. The results show that the Popov test is significantly less conservative than the other two tests and for this example is completely nonconservative in terms of its prediction of robust stability.
A finite element method for solving of the Euler and Navier-Stokes equations is used to study the unsteady aerodynamics of a two-dimensional canard-wing aerodynamic interference. The method used a discontinuous finite...
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A finite element method for solving of the Euler and Navier-Stokes equations is used to study the unsteady aerodynamics of a two-dimensional canard-wing aerodynamic interference. The method used a discontinuous finite element method for spatial discretization and an explicit Runge-Kutta time integration for temporal discretization. The problems of a flow over an airfoil with/without viscosity, a flow over a pitching airfoil, and an airfoil-vortex interaction are tested to show the accuracy of the proposed numerical method. Finally, the results of two-dimensional canard-wing aerodynamic interference in steady and unsteady transonic flows are shown to demonstrate the robustness of the numerical algorithm, and qualitative and quantitative aerodynamic influence of one airfoil on the other.
The application of fuzzy controllers and neural networks in industrial and consumer products is steadily gaining grounds. These practical utilities included reading handwritten addresses, analyzing satellite data, and...
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The application of fuzzy controllers and neural networks in industrial and consumer products is steadily gaining grounds. These practical utilities included reading handwritten addresses, analyzing satellite data, and stabilizing hand-held video camera representations. The extension of fuzzy controllers and neural networks applications to computational fluid dynamics was suggested. In this article, Harten's second-order total variation diminishing scheme was discussed as a fuzzy controller and as a single-input single-output neuron.
The demand for sophisticated turbulence models to efficiently compute the complex aerodynamic flows of technological focus has promoted a revived interest in second-order closure models. It was implied in research con...
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The demand for sophisticated turbulence models to efficiently compute the complex aerodynamic flows of technological focus has promoted a revived interest in second-order closure models. It was implied in research conducted by Shih-Lumley that second-order closure models in turbulent shear flows performed better that two other previously recommended second-order closure models in homogeneous shear flow as well as in even more complex boundary-free turbulent shear flows. However, the current studies of second-order closure models in benchmark turbulent shear flows produced dissimilar results.
A numerical procedure is developed for the simultaneous implicit numerical solution of the coupled k-epsilon and Navier-Stokes equations for compressible viscous flows. The numerical algorithm is based on the approxim...
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A numerical procedure is developed for the simultaneous implicit numerical solution of the coupled k-epsilon and Navier-Stokes equations for compressible viscous flows. The numerical algorithm is based on the approximate factorization scheme of Beam and Warming for the strongly coupled set of equations. The scheme incorporates a new second-order Jameson type damping model that enhances the stability and relieves the stiffness associated with the solution to the k-epsilon equations. The model, which is based on the changes in both pressure and turbulent kinetic energy, eliminates the need to use subiteration techniques. Unsteady calculations were performed for supersonic flow over an open cavity at a freestream Mach number of 1.5 and Reynolds number of 1.09 x 10(6). The computed results are compared with experiments and predictions from computations using uncoupled k-epsilon and Navier-Stokes equations.
In this paper we describe a systematic technique for designing parallel algorithms to solve linear systems. Our approach is based on the logic derivation of a target algorithm from specification of basic relations in ...
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The high angle of attack flow about a slender body in supersonic and subsonic flow was computed for an angle of attack of 38.5 deg to study the phenomena associated with vortex asymmetry. A laminar thin-layer Navier-S...
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The high angle of attack flow about a slender body in supersonic and subsonic flow was computed for an angle of attack of 38.5 deg to study the phenomena associated with vortex asymmetry. A laminar thin-layer Navier-Stokes algorithm was used to determine whether vortex asymmetry in numerical computations is the result of a numerically induced perturbation or a property of the governing equations. The fully upwind code used in this study was symmetric in the crossflow plane to 12 orders of magnitude, the level of roundoff error on the Cray Y-MP. It was found that, with a completely symmetric grid and algorithm with respect to the crossflow plane, a bump was needed to perturb the flow to asymmetry. When the bump was taken away, the flow returned to a symmetric state. This corroborates the previous assertion of other investigators that vortex asymmetry at high angles of attack on slender bodies is due lo a convective instability.
A linearized Euler solver for calculating unsteady flows in turbomachinery blade rows due to both incident gusts and vibratory blade motion is presented. Using the linearized Euler technique, one decomposes the flow i...
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The unsteady, three-dimensional flowfield of a helicopter rotor blade in forward night encountering a concentrated line vortex is calculated using an implicit, finite difference numerical procedure for the solution of...
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The unsteady, three-dimensional flowfield of a helicopter rotor blade in forward night encountering a concentrated line vortex is calculated using an implicit, finite difference numerical procedure for the solution of Euler equations. A prescribed vortex method is adopted to preserve the structure of the interacting vortex. The test cases considered for computation correspond to the two-bladed model rotor experimental conditions of Caradonna et al. and consist of parallel and oblique interactions. Comparison of numerical results with the test data show good agreement for the surface pressures for both parallel and oblique interactions at subsonic and transonic flow conditions. The results indicate that the subsonic parallel blade-vortex interaction is nearly two-dimensional-like and the unsteady time-lag effects appear to be negligible. However, both the three-dimensional and unsteady time-lag effects are found to be important under supercritical now conditions and these effects are accentuated in the presence of transonic shocks. In contrast, the oblique blade-vortex interaction is unsteady and three dimensional at both the subsonic and transonic now conditions.
An iterative numerical algorithm for simultaneously improving multiple performance and stability robustness criteria for multivariable feedback systems is developed. The unsatisfied design criteria are improved by upd...
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An iterative numerical algorithm for simultaneously improving multiple performance and stability robustness criteria for multivariable feedback systems is developed. The unsatisfied design criteria are improved by updating the free parameters of an initial, stabilizing controller's state-space matrices. Analytical expressions for the gradients of the design criteria are employed to determine a parameter correction that improves all of the feasible, unsatisfied design criteria al each iteration. A controller design is performed using the algorithm with experimentally derived data from a large space structure test facility. Experimental results of the controller's performance at the facility are presented.
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