In this paper, an experimental analysis performed on a simplified brake apparatus is presented. Brake squeal is a major concern in braking design. During past years a common approach for squeal prediction was the complex eigenvalues analysis. Squeal phenomenon is treated like a dynamic instability. When two modes of the brake system couple at the same frequency, one of them becomes unstable lea...

A family history of shoulder instability in first-degree relatives was found in 24 of 100 patients who had been operated on for recurrent anterior shoulder instability. The patients with and without a family history were similar in respect of sex ratio, age at first dislocation and age at operation. The initial dislocation was non-traumatic in 22% of the patients with and in 13% of those withou...

In this special technical report we present fundamental studies on instability analysis. When an electromagnetic wave linearly interacts with an active medium or system, there can occur basically two types of instabilities. One of them, in which the wave grows indefinitely with tin», Is called absolute Instability, and the other, in which the wave grows spatially as it travels, is called convec...

Tall vegetation and complex terrain create difficult conditions for measuring and modeling net ecosystem– atmosphere exchanges of carbon, water vapor, and pollutants. The instability of canopy flow regimes over complex terrain is critical for understanding what factors are essential to control exchanges between different canopy flow regimes. In this paper, an analytical criterion of instability...

Rayleigh-Taylor instability is investigated in the laboratory using a simple apparatus of novel design to set up the unstable initial conditions. Visualisation techniques give a qualitative view of the development of the instability. Quantitative measurements are obtained through digital image analysis. Of primary interest is the evolution of the velocity field. Measurements are made over a two...

This paper presents a novel application of multiparameter spectral theory to the study of structural stability, with particular emphasis on aeroelastic flutter. Methods of multiparameter analysis allow the development of new solution algorithms for aeroelastic flutter problems; most significantly, a direct solver for polynomial problems of arbitrary order and size, something which has not befor...

We consider a new type of integrable coupled nonlinear Schrodinger (CNLS)equations proposed by our self [submitted to Phys. Plasmas (2011)]. The explicitform of soliton solutions are derived using the Hirota's bilinear method.We show that the parameters in the CNLS equations only determine the regionsfor the existence of bright and dark soliton solutions. Finally, throughthe linear stability an...