The limits imposed on diffusive shock acceleration by upstream ion-neutral Alfvén wave damping, and by ionisa-tion and Coulomb losses of low energy particles, are calculated. Analytic solutions are given for the steady upstream wave ex-citation problem with ion-neutral damping and the resulting escaping upstream flux calculated. The time dependent problem is discussed and numerical solutions pr...

Numerical example shows that when the damping ratio of the isolation device is given, the overall reliability of the structure increases at first then decreases with increased frequency ratio, when the frequency ratio is constant, the overall reliability of the structure increases with increased damping ratio. In addition, compared to the aseismic system, the overall reliability of the mega-sub...

Data from the near-wall region of an attached and a separated turbulent boundary layer are used for the development of near-wall damping functions utilized in turbulence modelling. The model considered is an explicit algebraic Rey-nolds stress model. The data are taken from two direct numerical simulations. The turbulent boundary layer equation is analyzed in order to extend the validity of exi...

Discrete solitons in the Ablowitz-Ladik (AL) and discrete nonlinear Schrödinger (DNLS) equations with damping and strong rapid drive are investigated. The averaged equations have the forms of the parametric AL and DNLS equations. An additional type of parametric bright discrete soliton and cnoidal waves are found and the stability properties are analyzed. The analytical predictions of the pertu...

The dynamic responses of mooring line serve important functions in the station keeping of a floating wind turbine (FWT). Mooring line damping significantly influences the global motions of a FWT. This study investigates the estimation of mooring line damping on the basis of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory 5 MW offshore wind turbine model that is mounted on the ITI Energy barge. A numer...

Damping of collective rotational motion in A ∼ 190 and A ∼ 150 superdeformed nuclei is studied by means of the cranked shell model with two-body residual force. Numerical calculations predict that in a typical A ∼ 190 superdeformed nucleus, Hg, the rotational damping width is significantly small, Γrot ∼ 30 keV, and that the number of superdeformed bands in the off-yrast region amounts up to 150...

Dynamic behavior of a circular shaft with geometrical nonlinearity and constant spin, subjected to periodic axial load is investigated. The case of parametric combination resonance is studied. Extension of shaft center line is the source of nonlinearity. The shaft has gyroscopic effect and rotary inertia but shear deformation is neglected. The equations of motion are derived by extended Hamilto...

In real systems, the phenomena, such as pipe-wall viscoelasticity, unsteady friction or fluid structure interaction induce additional damping and dispersion of transient pressure waves than that defined by classical waterhammer. In this paper, unsteady friction models and viscoelastic damping models will be presented and a theoretical formulation of the viscoelastic damping in piping systems wi...

The low-rank damping term appears commonly in quadratic eigenvalue problems arising from physical simulations. To exploit the low-rank damping property, we propose a Padé approximate linearization (PAL) algorithm. The advantage of the PAL algorithm is that the dimension of the resulting linear eigenvalue problem is only nC `m, which is generally substantially smaller than the dimension 2n of th...