Intense cross-scale energy cascades resembling “mechanical turbulence” in harmonically driven strongly nonlinear hierarchical chains of oscillators
Abstract In the present study, the dynamics of one- and two-degree-of-freedom linear oscillators attached to hierarchical chains of oscillators coupled by strongly nonlinear cubic springs in parallel with viscous dampers are investigated. The mass, stiffness, and damping properties of...
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| author | Chen, Jian E. Theurich, Timo Krack, Malte Sapsis, Themistoklis Bergman, Lawrence A. Vakakis, Alexander F. |
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| author_facet | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineering Chen, Jian E. Theurich, Timo Krack, Malte Sapsis, Themistoklis Bergman, Lawrence A. Vakakis, Alexander F. |
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In the present study, the dynamics of one- and two-degree-of-freedom linear oscillators attached to hierarchical chains of oscillators coupled by strongly nonlinear cubic springs in parallel with viscous dampers are investigated. The mass, stiffness, and damping properties of the nonlinear oscillators are specified to follow a certain scaling rule, in such a way that their mass, stiffness, and damping properties decrease along the chain. The linear oscillators are driven harmonically near to their primary resonances. For sufficiently low excitation levels, linear behavior prevails leading to nearly harmonic responses, where the mechanical energy remains localized in the directly forced linear oscillator. For sufficiently high excitation level (that is, above a critical level of the forcing amplitude), however, the system responds in a chaotic way, where a substantial part of the energy is transferred across the hierarchical nonlinear chain in an energy cascade. Interestingly, there exist “chaotic bands” where all cubic oscillators are simultaneously activated or deactivated depending on the frequency; hence, a chaotic synchronization occurs in the system. When energy cascading is initiated the smaller-scale cubic oscillators become driven by the chaotic dynamics of the larger-scale cubic oscillators. Once the oscillator chain enters the chaotic response regime, the pattern of nonlinear energy cascading resembles (but is not identical to) the –5/3 Kolmogorov energy cascading power law observed in fully developed turbulence. Similarities and differences in the observed mechanical energy cascades and those realized in turbulent flows are discussed. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1420402023-06-29T05:27:52Z Intense cross-scale energy cascades resembling “mechanical turbulence” in harmonically driven strongly nonlinear hierarchical chains of oscillators Chen, Jian E. Theurich, Timo Krack, Malte Sapsis, Themistoklis Bergman, Lawrence A. Vakakis, Alexander F. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineering Abstract In the present study, the dynamics of one- and two-degree-of-freedom linear oscillators attached to hierarchical chains of oscillators coupled by strongly nonlinear cubic springs in parallel with viscous dampers are investigated. The mass, stiffness, and damping properties of the nonlinear oscillators are specified to follow a certain scaling rule, in such a way that their mass, stiffness, and damping properties decrease along the chain. The linear oscillators are driven harmonically near to their primary resonances. For sufficiently low excitation levels, linear behavior prevails leading to nearly harmonic responses, where the mechanical energy remains localized in the directly forced linear oscillator. For sufficiently high excitation level (that is, above a critical level of the forcing amplitude), however, the system responds in a chaotic way, where a substantial part of the energy is transferred across the hierarchical nonlinear chain in an energy cascade. Interestingly, there exist “chaotic bands” where all cubic oscillators are simultaneously activated or deactivated depending on the frequency; hence, a chaotic synchronization occurs in the system. When energy cascading is initiated the smaller-scale cubic oscillators become driven by the chaotic dynamics of the larger-scale cubic oscillators. Once the oscillator chain enters the chaotic response regime, the pattern of nonlinear energy cascading resembles (but is not identical to) the –5/3 Kolmogorov energy cascading power law observed in fully developed turbulence. Similarities and differences in the observed mechanical energy cascades and those realized in turbulent flows are discussed. 2022-04-25T13:50:01Z 2022-04-25T13:50:01Z 2022-03-13 2022-04-23T03:40:20Z Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/142040 Chen, Jian E., Theurich, Timo, Krack, Malte, Sapsis, Themistoklis, Bergman, Lawrence A. et al. 2022. "Intense cross-scale energy cascades resembling “mechanical turbulence” in harmonically driven strongly nonlinear hierarchical chains of oscillators." en https://doi.org/10.1007/s00707-022-03159-w Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer-Verlag GmbH Austria, part of Springer Nature application/pdf Springer Vienna Springer Vienna |
| spellingShingle | Chen, Jian E. Theurich, Timo Krack, Malte Sapsis, Themistoklis Bergman, Lawrence A. Vakakis, Alexander F. Intense cross-scale energy cascades resembling “mechanical turbulence” in harmonically driven strongly nonlinear hierarchical chains of oscillators |
| title | Intense cross-scale energy cascades resembling “mechanical turbulence” in harmonically driven strongly nonlinear hierarchical chains of oscillators |
| title_full | Intense cross-scale energy cascades resembling “mechanical turbulence” in harmonically driven strongly nonlinear hierarchical chains of oscillators |
| title_fullStr | Intense cross-scale energy cascades resembling “mechanical turbulence” in harmonically driven strongly nonlinear hierarchical chains of oscillators |
| title_full_unstemmed | Intense cross-scale energy cascades resembling “mechanical turbulence” in harmonically driven strongly nonlinear hierarchical chains of oscillators |
| title_short | Intense cross-scale energy cascades resembling “mechanical turbulence” in harmonically driven strongly nonlinear hierarchical chains of oscillators |
| title_sort | intense cross scale energy cascades resembling mechanical turbulence in harmonically driven strongly nonlinear hierarchical chains of oscillators |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/142040 |
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