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Mathematical models of suspension bridges

Gabriela Tajčová (1997)

Applications of Mathematics

In this work we try to explain various mathematical models describing the dynamical behaviour of suspension bridges such as the Tacoma Narrows bridge. Our attention is concentrated on the derivation of these models, an interpretation of particular parameters and on a discussion of their advantages and disadvantages. Our work should be a starting point for a qualitative study of dynamical structures of this type and that is why we have a closer look at the models, which have not been studied in literature...

Mécanique et géométrie dans les écrits de Mécanique de John Wallis. Le calcul du centre de gravité

Luigi Maierù (2004)

Revue d'histoire des mathématiques

John Wallis publie entre 1669 et 1671 les trois parties de son traité de Mécanique, qu’il caractérise lui-même comme un traité de géométrie. La mécanique est située à l’intérieur de la géométrie, dont elle partage les méthodes, puisque les propriétés du mouvement sont démontrées more geometrico. Wallis veut fonder la mécanique sur de nouvelles bases. Pour cela, il y applique une méthode qu’il a élaborée dans l’Arithmetica infinitorum, en partant de la méthode des indivisibles de Cavalieri, et qu’il...

Mechanical oscillators with dampers defined by implicit constitutive relations

Dalibor Pražák, Kumbakonam R. Rajagopal (2016)

Commentationes Mathematicae Universitatis Carolinae

We study the vibrations of lumped parameter systems, the spring being defined by the classical linear constitutive relationship between the spring force and the elongation while the dashpot is described by a general implicit relationship between the damping force and the velocity. We prove global existence of solutions for the governing equations, and discuss conditions that the implicit relation satisfies that are sufficient for the uniqueness of solutions. We also present some counterexamples...

Microscopic Modelling of Active Bacterial Suspensions

A. Decoene, S. Martin, B. Maury (2011)

Mathematical Modelling of Natural Phenomena

We present two-dimensional simulations of chemotactic self-propelled bacteria swimming in a viscous fluid. Self-propulsion is modelled by a couple of forces of same intensity and opposite direction applied on the rigid bacterial body and on an associated region in the fluid representing the flagellar bundle. The method for solving the fluid flow and the motion of the bacteria is based on a variational formulation written on the whole domain, strongly...

Modelling and control in pseudoplate problem with discontinuous thickness

Ján Lovíšek (2009)

Applications of Mathematics

This paper concerns an obstacle control problem for an elastic (homogeneous) and isotropic) pseudoplate. The state problem is modelled by a coercive variational inequality, where control variable enters the coefficients of the linear operator. Here, the role of control variable is played by the thickness of the pseudoplate which need not belong to the set of continuous functions. Since in general problems of control in coefficients have no optimal solution, a class of the extended optimal control...

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