The threefold classification of unstable disturbances in flexible surfaces bounding inviscid flows
The threefold classification of unstable disturbances in flexible surfaces bounding inviscid flows
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边界无粘流的柔性表面不稳定扰动的三重分类
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发表时间:
1963
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3.7
通讯作者:
By T. Brooke
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作者:
By T. Brooke
This paper discusses the general idea that in systems where a flexible solid is coupled with a flowing fluid three different types of instability are possible. These were originally designated by Brooke Benjamin (1960) as ‘class A’, ‘class B’ and ‘Kelvin-Helmholtz’ instability, and their collective significance has been clarified recently by Landahl (1962). Class A and class B disturbances are essentially oscillations involving conservative energy-exchanges between the fluid and solid, but their stability is determined by the net effect of irreversible processes, which include dissipation and energy-transfer to the solid by non-conservative hydrodynamic forces. Dissipation in the solid tends to stabilize class B distrbances but to destabilize class A ones. Class C instability (i.e. the ‘Kelvin-Helmholtz’ type) occurs when conservative hydrodynamic forces cause a unidirectional transfer of energy to the solid. In § 2 this idea is examined fundamentally by way of the Lagrangian method of generalized co-ordinates, and in § 3 the example of inviscid-fluid flow past a flexible plane boundary is considered. The treatment of this example amplifies the work of Landahl, in particular by including the effect of non-conservative forces of the kind investigated by Miles in his series of papers on water-wave generation by wind.