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Numerical simulations of constrained multibody systems. / CUHK electronic theses & dissertations collection

As the second task of this thesis, we shall propose some mathematical model to simulate the movement of a floating bridge under some moving loadings. The floating bridge system consists of three parts, i.e. river (fluid), floating bridge (multibody system) and vehicles (load) which pass the bridge. Our objective is to find the motion and dynamical responses of the floating bridge with a truck or tracklayer passing on it. The floating bridge is a system of steel rectangular boxes which can be seen as rigid bodies connected by some kinematic joints. In fact, such system is a fluid-structure coupled system and one must treat the governing equations for the floating bridge and fluid, i.e. Euler-Lagrange equations and Navier-Stokes equations, simultaneously. In our work, we apply the one-leg method and operator splitting arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian method to solve the coupled system. / When performing dynamical analysis of a constrained mechanical system, a set of index-3 differential algebraic equations, i.e. Euler-Lagrange equations, are often needed to describe the time evolution of the mechanical system. In this thesis, we apply one-leg multi-step methods to integrate the DAEs directly. To overcome some difficulties leading to certain numerical instabilities, a velocity elimination technique is applied to generate a framework that the position and velocity profiles can be obtained in two separate stages: only the position variables and Lagrange multipliers take part in the convergent nonlinear iterations at each time step while the velocity is calculated by the multi-step formula directly without any iteration. The framework is constructed in a manner such that it satisfies all the constraints at the position level and involves variables as few as possible during the iteration. Some convergence analysis are presented and good stability and high efficiency can be seen through the experiments of some benchmark problems. / Zhao Yubo. / "July 2005." / Adviser: Zou Jun. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-01, Section: B, page: 0310. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2005. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 244-276). / Electronic reproduction. Hong Kong : Chinese University of Hong Kong, [2012] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Electronic reproduction. [Ann Arbor, MI] : ProQuest Information and Learning, [200-] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / School code: 1307.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:cuhk.edu.hk/oai:cuhk-dr:cuhk_343612
Date January 2005
ContributorsZhao, Yubo., Chinese University of Hong Kong Graduate School. Division of Mathematics.
Source SetsThe Chinese University of Hong Kong
LanguageEnglish, Chinese
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeText, theses
Formatelectronic resource, microform, microfiche, 1 online resource (vii, 139 p. : ill.)
RightsUse of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons “Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International” License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/)

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