Analysis of a Premature Failure of a Hub from a Diesel Generator of a High-Speed Motor Ship

Failure analysis is carried out on a fractured hub obtained from a diesel generator of a high-speed motor ship. Macrofractography, microfractography, standard optical metallography, material characterization techniques, and numerical modeling were used to verify the findings of the current investigation. Cracking initiation is attributed to fretting fatigue caused by a modification performed in the vicinity of the fractured hub. Operational vibrations contributed to the propagation of the cracks as typical fatigue cracks until final fracture.     

Resistance of a sphere in a slow flow of a viscoelastic fluid

The authors have obtained an approximate solution of the problem of the resistance of a rigid sphere in a slow flow of a Maxwell viscoelastic fluid that is in good agreement with experimental data [1] for Weissenberg numbers We ≤ 0.7. It is shown that the effect of a decrease in the coefficient of resistance of a sphere in the interval 0.1 ≤ We ≤ 0.7 established experimentally is determined in full measure by the linear viscoelastic properties of the Maxwell fluid. Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 71, No. 6, pp. 1138–1140, November–December, 1998.     

Dispersion of a solute in a Poiseuille flow of a viscoelastic fluid

Gill and Sankarasubramanian's analysis of the dispersion of Newtonian fluids in laminar flow between two parallel walls is extended to the flow of non-Newtonian viscoelastic fluids (known as Phan-Thein-Tanner (PTT)). Using a generalized dispersion model which is valid for all times after the solute injection, the diffusion coefficient K_i(t) is obtained exactly and numerically for linearized and exponential forms of the PTT fluids, respectively. The analysis leads to the novel result for K₁ and K₂(t) (which is a measure of the longitudinal dispersion coefficient of the solute). It is found that the value of K₂(t) depends on the value of Deborah number (De=a measure of the level of elasticity in the fluid) whereas the value of K₁ is constant in both cases. Finally, the effect of the Deborah number on the axial distribution of the mean concentration θ_m is investigated in detail.     

聚醚砜四元制膜液体系的相图计算

以Ｆｌｏｒｙ－Ｈｕｇｇｉｎｓ理论为基础，对ＰＥＳ－ＰＧ－ＮＭＰ＿Ｈ２Ｏ＿）聚醚砜丙二醇－Ｎ－甲基－２－哟咯烷酮水）四元制液体系的相图进行了计算，利用三元相图考察Ｈ２Ｏ和ＰＧ对液－液相分离的影响，在三元的理论的基础上提出了低分子量添加剂的卤元改性Ｆｌｏｒｙ－Ｈｕｇｇｉｎｓ理论，并提出了一种获得四元相图的方法，利用四元相图能较争地描述四元体系，利用改性的四元理论，能了地理解该种体系的液－液相分离行为。     

Flow of a thin film of a viscous liquid in a gas jet

An approximate formulation is considered for the steady-state wave flow of a thin film of viscous liquid subject to tangential frictional stresses at the boundary. Measurements have been made on the stability limit for droplet detachment, and it has been found that the detachment rate and fractional composition of the droplets are dependent on the boundary conditions.Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 40, No. 4, pp. 622–630, April, 1981.     

Drag of a plate in a uniform flow of a weak polymer solution

The problem of the drag of a plate moving in a weak polymer solution is solved on the basis of a three-layer schematization of the velocity distribution in the turbulent boundary layer.Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vo. 41, No. 5, pp. 819–826, November, 1981.     

Heat Transfer of a Sphere in a Constrained Flow of a Viscous Fluid

Results of an experimental investigation of the average heat transfer of a sphere in the region of Reynolds numbers 0.1–40 are given. The increase in the Nusselt number with increase in the constraint parameter of flow is established. Based on the fractal theory, the influence of the degree of constraint on the heat transfer is physically explained and a quantitative correction is introduced.     

Heat exchange of a swirled stream of a gas suspension in a pipe

The results of an experimental investigation of heat exchange during turbulent flow of a gas containing suspended particles of a solid material in a horizontal pipe are presented.Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 51, No. 2, pp. 198–202, August, 1986.     

Stress analysis of a strip with a step and a crack

Stress analysis for a strip of which widths are different at the right and left handsides is carried out for before and after occurrence of a crack at a corner of a step. The strip is analyzed as a thin plate bending problem subject to transverse bending and torsion, and as a plane eleastic problem subject to bending in the plane and uniaxial tension. The rational mapping function of a sum of fractional expressions and complex variable method are used. Stress distribution and stress intensity factors are obtained.     

Calculation of a transient in a two-pole network with a thermistor

An analytical expression is derived which describes the variation of the thermistor temperature during a relay-effect transient process following an instantaneous change in the supply voltage in an R — R_T two-pole network.Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 38, No. 3, pp. 465–472, March, 1980.     

Transformation of a system of differential equations of heat and mass transfer in a domain with a variable boundary into a system of equations for a domain with a fixed boundary

We present a method for transforming a system of differential equations of heat and mass transfer in a region with a variable boundary into an equivalent system of equations for a region with a fixed boundary.Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 31, No. 5, pp. 873–875, November, 1976.     

Reminiscence of a teacher and a researcher

Abstract

The names of previous after-dinner speakers at this conference read like a Who is Who of Quantum Optics and Photonics research. When the organizers of this conference asked me to present an after-dinner talk I felt honored by the invitation, but also humbled by joining such a distinguished company. This fact gives me a “Leitmotiv” for my present talk, because being humbled by, and feeling inferior to, all the brilliant minds one encounters in one's career is a necessary occurrence, which most of the younger listeners in this audience have either experienced or will experience. I have witnessed these feelings as advisor to students at MIT. Many of them fear that everything worth doing has already been done. There is a simple answer to this. Do not get discouraged, work harder and you will also make a respectable contribution to science or engineering.     

Interval Estimation of the Parameters of a Distribution from a Sample of a Random Quantity

A program is developed for solving the problem of making an interval estimation of the parameters of a distribution from a single sample of a random quantity, based on a statistical modeling method. The results of a solution of the problem for certain symmetric and asymmetric distributions are presented. The average error in estimating the confidence intervals and their limits is 4–15% in the range of values of the confidence level of 0.8 P 0.998 for a sample volume of N = 500–1000.     

Resistance of a body of rotation with a central hole in a supersonic flow

Simulation is applied to a body with conical inlet and outlet to determine the dependence of the resistance on the geometrical characteristics and the Mach number of the supersonic flow.Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 42, No. 3, pp. 405–408, March, 1982.     

Flow of a fine-dispersed heterogeneous medium in a turning channel of a gas duct

Results of a numerical study of turbulent flow of a polydispersed two-phase mixture in a turning section of a gas duct are presented. Calculated data allow a localization of the zone of particle accumulation at the channel walls and an evaluation of efficiency of the particle entrapment in a hopper.Scientific Research Institute of Applied Nathematics, Tomsk, Russia. Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 63, No. 1, pp. 51–57, July, 1992.     

Dissipative heating of a medium during rotation of a disk in a bounded space

A method is proposed for calculating dissipative heating of a medium in a model of a turbine stage. Results of the calculation are compared with experiment.Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 32, No. 4, pp. 697–702, April, 1977.     

Convective instability of a layer of a ferromagnetic fluid rotating about a vertical axis

Thermal instability in a layer of a ferromagnetic fluid rotating about a vertical axis and permeated by a vertical magnetic field is investigated within the framework of linear theory. Overstability cannot occur if the Prandtl number $\text{P > 1}$. For overstable oscillations, Rayleigh number is plotted as a function of wave number for several values of the magnetization parameter $\text{M}{}_3$. Critical Rayleigh number is found to decrease with increase in $\text{M}{}_3$.