Transition scenario to turbulence in thin vibrating plates

A thin plate, excited by a harmonic external forcing of increasing amplitude, shows transitions from a periodic response to a chaotic state of wave turbulence. By analogy with the transition to turbulence observed in fluid mechanics as the Reynolds number is increased, a generic transition scenario for thin vibrating plates, first experimentally observed, is here numerically studied. The von Karman equations for thin plates, which include geometric non-linear effects, are used to model large amplitude vibrations, and an energy-conserving finite difference scheme is employed for discretisation. The transition scenario involves two bifurcations separating three distinct regimes. The first regime is the periodic, weakly non-linear response. The second is a quasiperiodic state where energy is exchanged between internally resonant modes. It is observed only when specific internal resonance relationships are fulfilled between the eigenfrequencies of the structure and the forcing frequency; otherwise a direct transition to the last turbulent state is observed. This third, or turbulent, regime is characterized by a broadband Fourier spectrum and a cascade of energy from large to small wavelengths. For perfect plates including cubic non-linearity, only third-order internal resonances are likely to exist. For imperfect plates displaying quadratic nonlinearity, the energy exchanges and the quasiperiodic states are favored and thus are more easily obtained. Finally, the turbulent regime is characterized in the light of available theoretical results from wave turbulence theory.

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abstract: The concept of nonlinear normal modes (NNMs) is discussed in the present paper and its companion, Part II. Because there is virtually no application of the NNMs to large-scale engineering structures, these papers are an attempt to highlight several aspects that might drive their development in the future. Specifically, we support that (i) numerical methods for the continuation of periodic solutions pave the way for an effective and practical computation of NNMs, and (ii) time–frequency analysis is particularly suitable for the analysis of the resulting dynamics. Another objective of the present paper is to describe, in simple terms, and to illustrate the fundamental properties of NNMs. This is achieved to convince the structural dynamicist not necessarily acquainted with them that they are a useful framework for the analysis of nonlinear vibrating structures.

title: Nonlinear normal modes, Part II: Toward a practical computation using numerical continuation techniques
abstract: The concept of nonlinear normal modes (NNMs) is discussed in the present paper and its companion, Part I. One reason of the still limited use of NNMs in structural dynamics is that their computation is often regarded as impractical. However, when resorting to numerical algorithms, we show that the NNM computation is possible with limited implementation effort, which paves the way to a practical method for determining the NNMs of nonlinear mechanical systems. The proposed algorithm relies on two main techniques, namely a shooting procedure and a method for the continuation of NNM motions. The algorithm is demonstrated using four different mechanical systems, a weakly and a strongly nonlinear two-degree-of-freedom system, a simplified discrete model of a nonlinear bladed disk and a nonlinear cantilever beam discretized by the finite element method.

title: Nonlinear Targeted Energy Transfer in Mechanical and Structural Systems
abstract: Volume I: Preface Abbreviations 1 Introduction 2 Preliminary Concepts, Methodologies and Techniques 2.1 Nonlinear Normal Modes (NNMs) 2.2 Energy Localization in Nonlinear Systems 2.3 Internal Resonances, Transient and Sustained Resonance Captures 2.4 Averaging, Multiple Scales and Complexification 2.5 Methods of Advanced Signal Processing 2.5.1 NumericalWavelet Transforms 2.5.2 Empirical Mode Decompositions and Hilbert Transforms 2.6 Perspectives on Hardware Development and Experiments 3 Nonlinear Targeted Energy Transfer in Discrete Linear Oscillators with Single-DOF Nonlinear Energy Sinks 3.1 Configurations of Single-DOF NESs 3.2 Numerical Evidence of TET in a SDOF Linear Oscillator with a SDOF NES 3.3 SDOF Linear Oscillators with SDOF NESs: Dynamics of the Underlying Hamiltonian Systems 3.3.1 Numerical Study of Periodic Orbits (NNMs) 3.3.2 Analytic Study of Periodic Orbits (NNMs) 3.3.3 Numerical Study of Periodic Impulsive Orbits (IOs) 3.3.4 Analytic Study of Periodic and Quasi-Periodic IOs 3.3.5 Topological Features of the Hamiltonian Dynamics 3.4 SDOF Linear Oscillators with SDOF NESs: Transient Dynamics of the Damped Systems 3.4.1 Nonlinear Damped Transitions Represented in the FEP 3.4.2 Dynamics of TET in the Damped System 3.5 Multi-DOF (MDOF) Linear Oscillators with SDOF NESs: Resonance Capture Cascades and Multi-frequency TET 3.5.1 Two-DOF Linear Oscillator with a SDOF NES 3.5.2 Semi-Infinite Chain of Linear Oscillators with an End SDOF NES 4 Targeted Energy Transfer in Discrete Linear Oscillators with Multi-DOF NESs 4.1 Multi-Degree-of-Freedom(MDOF) NESs 4.1.1 An AlternativeWay for Passive Multi-frequency Nonlinear Energy Transfers 4.1.2 Numerical Evidence of TET in MDOF NESs 4.2 The Dynamics of the Underlying Hamiltonian System 4.2.1 System I: NES with O(1) Mass 4.2.2 System II: NES with O(e) Mass 4.2.3 Asymptotic Analysis of Nonlinear Resonant Orbits 4.2.4 Analysis of Resonant Periodic Orbits 4.3 TRCs and TET in the Damped and Forced System 4.3.1 Numerical Wavelet Transforms 4.3.2 Damped Transitions on the Hamiltonian FEP 4.4 Concluding Remarksl Index. Volume 2: 5 Targeted Energy Transfer in Linear Continuous Systems with Singlean Multi-DOF NESs 5.1 Beam of Finite Length with SDOF NES 5.1.1 Formulation of the Problem and Computational Procedure 5.1.2 Parametric Study of TET 5.2 Rod of Finite Length with SDOF NES 5.2.1 Formulation of the Problem, Computational Procedure and Post-Processing Algorithms 5.2.2 Computational Study of TET 5.2.3 Damped Transitions on the Hamiltonian FEP 5.3 Rod of Semi-Infinite Length with SDOF NES 5.3.1 Reduction to Integro-differential Form 5.3.2 Numerical Study of Damped Transitions 5.3.3 Analytical Study 5.4 Rod of Finite Length with MDOF NES 5.4.1 Formulation of the Problem and FEPs 5.4.2 Computational Study of TET 5.4.3 Multi-Modal Damped Transitions and Multi-Scale Analysis 5.5 Plate with SDOF and MDOF NESs 5.5.1 Case of a SDOF NES 5.5.2 Case of Multiple SDOF NESs 5.5.3 Case of a MDOF NES 5.5.4 Comparative Study with Linear Tuned Mass Damper 6 Targeted Energy Transfer in Systems with Periodic Excitations 6.1 Steady State Responses and Generic Bifurcations 6.1.1 Analysis of Steady State Motions 6.1.2 Numerical Verification of the Analytical Results 6.2 Strongly Modulated Responses (SMRs) 6.2.1 General Formulation and Invariant Manifold Approach 6.2.2 Reduction to One-DimensionalMaps and Existence Conditions for SMRs 6.2.3 Numerical Simulations 6.3 NESs as Strongly Nonlinear Absorbers for Vibration Isolation 6.3.1 Co-existent Response Regimes 6.3.2 Efficiency and Broadband Features of the Vibration Isolation 6.3.3 Passive Self-tuning Capacity of the NES 7 NESs with Non-Smooth Stiffness Characteristics 7.1 Systems with Multiple NESs Possessing Clear

title: Modulation instability: The beginning
abstract: We discuss the early history of an important field of “sturm and drang” in modern theory of nonlinear waves. It is demonstrated how scientific demand resulted in independent and almost simultaneous publications by many different authors on modulation instability, a phenomenon resulting in a variety of nonlinear processes such as envelope solitons, envelope shocks, freak waves, etc. Examples from water wave hydrodynamics, electrodynamics, nonlinear optics, and convection theory are given.

title: Modulational instability: first step towards energy localization in nonlinear lattices
abstract: We study the modulational instability in discrete lattices and we show how the discreteness drastically modifies the stability condition. Analytical and numerical results are in very good agreement. We predict also the evolution of a linear wave in the presence of noise and we show that modulational instability is the first step towards energy localization.

title: Modulation instability and capillary wave turbulence
abstract: Formation of turbulence of capillary waves is studied in laboratory experiments. The spectra show multiple exponentially decreasing harmonics of the parametrically excited wave which nonlinearly broaden with the increase in forcing. Spectral broadening leads to the development of the spectral continuum which scales as ∝f− 2.8, in agreement with the weak turbulence theory (WTT). Modulation instability of capillary waves is shown to be responsible for the transition from discrete to broadband spectrum. The instability leads to spectral broadening of the harmonics, randomization of their phases, it isolates the wave field from the wall, eventually allows the transition from 4- to 3-wave interactions as the dominant nonlinear process, thus creating the prerequisites assumed in WTT.

title: Space-time resolved wave turbulence in a vibrating plate.
abstract: Wave turbulence in a thin elastic plate is experimentally investigated. By using a Fourier transform profilometry technique, the deformation field of the plate surface is measured simultaneously in time and space. This enables us to compute the wave-vector-frequency (k, omega) Fourier spectrum of the full space-time deformation velocity. In the 3D (k, omega) space, we show that the energy of the motion is concentrated on a 2D surface that represents a nonlinear dispersion relation. This nonlinear dispersion relation is close to the linear dispersion relation. This validates the usual wave-number-frequency change of variables used in many experimental studies of wave turbulence. The deviation from the linear dispersion, which increases with the input power of the forcing, is attributed to weak nonlinear effects. Our technique opens the way for many new extensive quantitative comparisons between theory and experiments of wave turbulence.

title: Linear versus nonlinear response of a forced wave turbulence system.
abstract: A vibrating plate is set into a chaotic state of wave turbulence by a forcing having periodic and random components. Both components are weighted in order to explore continuously intermediate forcing from the periodic to the random one, but keeping constant its rms value. The transverse velocity of the plate is measured at the application point of the force. It is found that whatever the detail of the forcing is, the velocity spectra exhibit a universal cascade for frequencies larger than the forcing frequency range. In contrast, the velocity spectra strongly depend on the nature of the forcing within the range of forcing frequencies. The coherence function is used to extract the contribution of the velocity fluctuations that display a linear relationship with the forcing. The nonlinear contribution to the velocity fluctuations is found to be almost constant, about 55% of the total velocity fluctuations whatever the nature of the forcing from random to periodic. On the other hand, the nonlinear contribution to the fluctuations of the injected power depends on the nature of the forcing; it is significantly larger for the periodic forcing (60%) and decreases continuously as the randomness is increased, reaching a value of 40% for the pure random forcing. For all the cases of intermediate forcing from random to periodic, a simple model of the velocity response recovers in a fairly good agreement the probability density function of the injected power. The consequence of the existence of a linear-response component is discussed in the context of the fluctuation-dissipation theorem validation in experiments of out-of-equilibrium systems.

title: Effective dissipation and turbulence in spectrally truncated euler flows.
abstract: A new transient regime in the relaxation towards absolute equilibrium of the conservative and time-reversible 3D Euler equation with a high-wave-number spectral truncation is characterized. Large-scale dissipative effects, caused by the thermalized modes that spontaneously appear between a transition wave number and the maximum wave number, are calculated using fluctuation dissipation relations. The large-scale dynamics is found to be similar to that of high-Reynolds number Navier-Stokes equations and thus obeys (at least approximately) Kolmogorov scaling.