Intermittent Phenomenon Research Articles

Research on the jet active control mechanism of gas-liquid separation in helical-axial multiphase pumps

In the field of deep-water oil and gas extraction, the intermittent gas blocking phenomenon in helical-axial multiphase pumps leads to decreased pump performance and reliability, severely limiting their large-scale application and promotion in engineering projects. To address this challenge, this study is based on the principle of jet flow field control to flow separation, utilizing external energy for active intervention to suppress the separation phenomena and improve the hydraulic efficiency within the impeller flow channel. The research reveals that the jets achieved a reconstruction of the internal flow in the helical-axial gas-liquid mixed transport pumps. Using orthogonal experimental methods, a preliminary predictive analysis of the factors influencing the effectiveness of the jet system was conducted. The study explored the impact of jet parameters on enhancing the performance of helical-axial gas-liquid mixed transport pumps from the perspective of diminishing gas aggregation at the trailing edge of the rotor cascade and curtailing backflow conditions, and established a mathematical model for the head and efficiency of helical-axial multiphase pumps under jet active control. Research indicates that the jet velocity significantly impacts the efficiency enhancement of multiphase pumps, with an optimal jet speed coefficient, Cjet = 10, identified. Beyond this speed, the benefits brought by increased jet velocity do not compensate for the costs of introducing high-speed jets, and instead, may lead to a reduction in the efficiency of the pump. Jet flow field control methods alleviate the suction side gas aggregation downstream of the jet holes and in the flow domain traversed by the jets, effectively reducing the aggregation of gas phases in the rear channel of the rotor and suppressing backflow near the trailing edge of the rotor cascade. Jet control measures strengthen the working capacity of the blade in the flow direction beyond 0.35 times the length of the streamline, expanding the working range of the blade and enhancing the work efficiency of the multiphase mixed transport pump. Higher jet velocities result in more significant enhancements of blade working power, especially under conditions of high initial gas content, where the relative increase in blade load is more pronounced.

POD Analysis of the Wake of Two Tandem Square Cylinders

This study aims to investigate the wake of two tandem square cylinders based on the Proper Orthogonal Decomposition (POD) analyses of the PIV and hotwire data. The cylinder centre-to-centre spacing ratio L/w examined is from 1.2 to 4.2, covering the four flow regimes, i.e., extended body, reattachment, transition and co-shedding. The Reynolds number examined was 1.3 × 104. A novel Proper Orthogonal Decomposition (POD) technique (hereafter referred to as PODHW) is developed to analyse data from single point hotwire measurements, offering a new perspective compared to the conventional POD analysis (PODPIV) based on Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) data. A key finding is the identification of two distinct states, reattachment and co-shedding, within the transition flow regime at L/w = 2.8, which PODPIV fails to capture due to the limited duration of the PIV data obtained. This study confirms, for the first time, the existence of these states as proposed by Zhou et al. (2024), highlighting the advantage of using PODHW for capturing intermittent flow phenomena. Furthermore, the analysis reveals how the predominant coherent structures contribute to the total fluctuating velocity energy in each individual regime. Other aspects of the flow are also discussed, including the Strouhal numbers, the contribution to the total fluctuating energy of the flow from the first four POD modes, and a comparison between different regimes.

Nonlinear dynamic analysis and vibration reduction of two sandwich beams connected by a joint with clearance

The dynamics and vibration reduction characteristics of the clamped–clamped two sandwich beams jointed with clearance is studied theoretically and experimentally. A transverse and torsional spring system with clearance is used to equivalent the joint model. The homogenization method is used to equivalent the core layer and Rayleigh-Ritz method is utilized to derive the mode function of the interconnected sandwich beam by using a sequence of orthogonal polynomials. The nonlinear motion equation of the two jointed sandwich beam structure with clearance is derived by the application of the Hamilton principle and then solved using an improved Newmark integration approach. In order to validate the accuracy of the natural frequency and vibration mode, the finite element model is established. This paper examines the impact of clearance on the amplitude frequency response and vibration transmission of the two jointed sandwich beam structure, it is found the jointed sandwich beams show obvious nonlinear characteristics and intermittent vibration transmission phenomenon due to the clearance. Moreover, the vibration transmission analysis reveals that the existed clearance demonstrates significant vibration reduction effect, for which an experiment is conducted to validate the results. In general, this work proposes a novel approach for modeling sandwich structures with clearance with improved vibration reduction performance.

Three-dimensional particle image velocimetry experimental study of transient motion characteristics of different scale vortices in gasoline engine

The paper adopted three-dimensional (3D) Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) combined with high-speed measurement technology to study the transient motion characteristics of tumble flow induced by small and medium-sized vortices on an optical gasoline engine. Meanwhile, the Proper Orthogonal Decomposition (POD) method was introduced to analyze the evolution of transient vortices, revealing the three-dimensional motion principle of vortices with different spatial scales within the cylinder. The results showed that increasing the engine speed can cause boosted in-plane and out-of-plane velocity, especially for the in-plane velocity. However, the average velocity in the plane was higher than that out of the plane with the difference generally within an order of magnitude. The strong intake jet was the main reason for bringing turbulent kinetic energy in the cylinder. The average kinetic energy and turbulent kinetic energy in the cylinder are both significantly improved at high engine speed. From the results of this experiment, it was revealed that there exists isotropic turbulent pulsation characteristics. Overall, the corresponding flow characteristics of different decomposed modes were different. The first mode section had the lowest average velocity ratio, while the other two had the highest. Due to the dissipation of large vortices into small vortices or the shear action between flow layers, new vortices were generated, leading to the intermittent phenomenon of the motion path of the vortex cluster in the target plane. The average vortex size and velocity circularity corresponding to two varied engine speeds presented a downward trend. The average vortex size was smaller at high engine speed, while the vortex intensity was higher. In addition, increasing the engine speed would decrease the vortex scale but increase the vortex strength. This work provided new fundamental insights into analyzing the characteristics of micro-scaled vortices in turbulent flow, as well as the organization of intake in the gasoline engine.

Variational mode decomposition–based nonstationary coherent structure analysis for spatiotemporal data

The conventional modal analysis techniques face difficulties in handling nonstationary phenomena, such as transient, nonperiodic, or intermittent phenomena. This paper presents a variational mode decomposition–based nonstationary coherent structure (VMD-NCS) analysis that enables the extraction and analysis of coherent structures in the case of nonstationary phenomena from high-dimensional spatiotemporal data. The VMD-NCS analysis decomposes the input spatiotemporal data into intrinsic coherent structures (ICSs) that represent nonstationary spatiotemporal patterns and exhibit coherence in both spatial and temporal directions. Furthermore, unlike many conventional modal analysis techniques, the proposed method accounts for the temporal changes in the spatial distribution with time. The performance of the VMD-NCS analysis was validated based on the transient growth phenomena in the flow around a cylinder. It was confirmed that the temporal changes in the spatial distribution, depicting the transient growth of vortex shedding where fluctuations arising in the far-wake region gradually approach the near-wake region, were represented as a single ICS. Furthermore, in the analysis of the quasi-periodic flow field around a pitching airfoil, the temporal changes in the spatial distribution and the amplitude of vortex shedding behind the airfoil, influenced by the pitching motion of the airfoil, were captured as a single ICS. Additionally, the impact of two parameters that control the number of ICSs (K) and the penalty factor related to the temporal coherence (α), was investigated. The results revealed that K has a significant impact on the VMD-NCS analysis results. In the case of a relatively high K, the VMD-NCS analysis tends to extract more periodic spatiotemporal patterns resembling the results of dynamic mode decomposition. In the case of a small K, it tends to extract more nonstationary spatiotemporal patterns.

Unpredictable tunneling in a retarded bistable potential.

We have studied the rich dynamics of a damped particle inside an external double-well potential under the influence of state-dependent time-delayed feedback. In certain regions of the parameter space, we observe multistability with the existence of two different attractors (limit cycle or strange attractor) with well separated mean Lyapunov energies forming a two-level system. Bifurcation analysis reveals that, as the effects of the time-delay feedback are enhanced, chaotic transitions emerge between the two wells of the double-well potential for the attractor corresponding to the fundamental energy level. By computing the residence time distributions and the scaling laws near the onset of chaotic transitions, we rationalize this apparent tunneling-like effect in terms of the crisis-induced intermittency phenomenon. Further, we investigate the first passage times in this regime and observe the appearance of a Cantor-like fractal set in the initial history space, a characteristic feature of hyperbolic chaotic scattering. The non-integer value of the uncertainty dimension indicates that the residence time inside each well is unpredictable. Finally, we demonstrate the robustness of this tunneling intermittency as a function of the memory parameter by calculating the largest Lyapunov exponent.

Intermittent phase dynamics of non-autonomous oscillators through time-varying phase

Oscillatory dynamics pervades the universe, appearing in systems of all scales. Whilst autonomous oscillatory dynamics has been extensively studied and is well understood, the very important problem of non-autonomous oscillatory dynamics is less well understood. Here, we provide a framework for non-autonomous oscillatory dynamics, within which we can define intermittent phenomena such as intermittent phase synchronisation. Moreover, we demonstrate this framework with a coupled pair of non-autonomous phase oscillators as well as a higher-dimensional system comprising of two interacting phase-oscillator networks.

High-frequency visualization of flexible structures using an event-triggered camera: multiple flapping membranes

Optical measurements of fluid–structure interaction (FSI) usually require high-speed imaging techniques. Traditional high-speed cameras are expensive and cannot record data continuously for long periods. An inexpensive and high-frequency measurement method that utilizes an event-triggered camera and a strobe laser is proposed in this paper. In this method, the k-means clustering technique was first employed to determine the precise time window in which to reconstruct frames from event data. Then, a Kalman filtering algorithm was used to extract the dynamic deformation process of the flexible structures from the noisy event data. Wind tunnel flutter tests were conducted using various sets of parallel membranes to examine the proposed method. Under the illumination of a 30 mW strobe laser, membrane flapping was recorded at a resolution of 1280 × 720 pixels with a frame rate of 10 000 fps. With no camera memory storage limitations, the proposed method could continuously record the membrane flapping, thereby making it easy to capture the intermittent flutter phenomenon at the flutter boundary. Two flapping modes, i.e. symmetric mode and in-phase mode, were observed in the flutter of two membranes. Similar symmetric mode and out-of-phase mode were also observed in the flutter of three membranes. Membranes collisions and mode transitions were found in a certain wind speed range. For the first time, the collision processes between membranes were recorded during the flutter of multiple membranes. These collisions were found to be associated with the transitions between different flapping modes.

Effect of speed humps on instantaneous traffic emissions in a microscopic model with limited deceleration capacity

As a common transportation facility, speed humps can control the speed of vehicles on special road sections to reduce traffic risks. At the same time, they also cause instantaneous traffic emissions. Based on the classic instantaneous traffic emission model and the limited deceleration capacity microscopic traffic flow model with slow-to-start rules, this paper has investigated the impact of speed humps on traffic flow and the instantaneous emissions of vehicle pollutants in a single lane situation. The numerical simulation results have shown that speed humps have significant effects on traffic flow and traffic emissions. In a free-flow region, the increase of speed humps leads to the continuous rise of CO2, NO X and PM emissions. Within some density ranges, one finds that these pollutant emissions can evolve into some higher values under some random seeds. Under other random seeds, they can evolve into some lower values. In a wide moving jam region, the emission values of these pollutants sometimes appear as continuous or intermittent phenomenon. Compared to the refined NaSch model, the present model has lower instantaneous emissions such as CO2, NO X and PM and higher volatile organic components (VOC) emissions. Compared to the limited deceleration capacity model without slow-to-start rules, the present model also has lower instantaneous emissions such as CO2, NO X and PM and higher VOC emissions in a wide moving jam region. These results can also be confirmed or explained by the statistical values of vehicle velocity and acceleration.

Simulations of scalar transport in oscillatory flow over a wavy wall

A three-dimensional model that couples Reynolds–averaged Navier–Stokes equations with an advection–diffusion solver for flow and concentration fields over a fixed, non-permeable boundary is presented. The model simulates oscillatory flow over a wavy wall with a constant scalar source to assess the effects of a boundary-induced pressure gradient on passive scalar mixing. Results were compared to experimental data collected in an oscillating tray facility. Hydrodynamic quantities are in favourable agreement with observations. The model captured vortex dynamics correctly, and turbulence statistics were modelled reasonably well. Comparisons of time-resolved and bulk scalar quantities for crest and trough sources were in favourable agreement with observations. Results indicate that the model can be utilized to study processes with highly intermittent phenomena, such as the transport of wastes and dissolved nutrients in the coastal bottom.

Mechanism of width effects on cavity-induced transitions at hypersonic speed using direct numerical simulation

Cavities on the surfaces of hypersonic vehicles cannot be avoided easily. Moreover, they can trigger boundary layer transition under certain conditions. However, little progress has been reported on boundary layer transitions induced by a three-dimensional (3-D) shallow cavity. In this study, transitions induced by six 3-D shallow cavities with the same length–depth ratios of 20 and different widths of 0.25, 0.5, 0.75, 1.0, and 1.5 times the baseline width (W), as well as infinite width, were investigated. A direct numerical simulation was conducted using the Roe scheme with 4th-order minimum dispersion and controllable dissipation, and weighted essentially non-oscillatory reconstruction, based on our in-house code: Unsteady NavIer–STokes equations solver. Cavity width was observed to have non-monotonic influences on transition. Both the 0.25 and 1.0 W cavities could induce transition constantly. Moreover, flow was maintained as laminar past the 1.5 W and InfW cavities. For the 0.5 and 0.75 W cavities, intermittent transition was observed with different intermittency factors. The intermittent transition phenomenon was determined to be caused by the periodic increase and decrease in the adverse pressure gradient (APG) in the front part of cavity. Notably, the recirculation with a synchronic size change was the origin of the APG oscillation.

Dynamical Behavior of Two Coupled Two-Stroke Relaxation Oscillators

Starting from [J.-M. Ginoux et al., Torus breakdown in a uni junction memristor, Int. J. Bifurcation Chaos 28(10) (2018) 1850128; J.-M. Ginoux et al., Torus breakdown in a two-stroke relaxation memristor, Chaos Solitons Fractals 153 (2021) 111594], we define a model which describes the dynamical behavior of a class of two-stroke oscillators (i.e., nonlinear oscillators with two distinct phases per cycle). We highlight some properties of the model still not taken into account, like presence of a global bifurcation and bistability for some regions of the parameters space. We then extend the model to study two coupled two-stroke oscillators, where synchrony and anti-synchrony regimes appear as well as transient chaos and intermittency phenomena. We finally compare the theoretical results on synchrony regimes with the corresponding experimental data obtained from a circuit where two relaxation oscillators, based on the Unijunction Transistor (UJT) electronic component, are coupled together. The comparison shows a good qualitative agreement between the experiments and the theoretical results.

What is the role of the neutrophil extracellular traps in the cardiovascular disease burden associated with hemodialysis bioincompatibility?

Despite significant progress in dialysis modalities, intermittent renal replacement therapy remains an "unphysiological" treatment that imperfectly corrects uremic disorders and may lead to low-grade chronic inflammation, neutrophil activation, and oxidative stress due to repetitive blood/membrane interactions contributing to the "remaining uremic syndrome" and cardiovascular disease burden of hemodialysis patients. Understanding dialysis bioincompatibility pathways still remains a clinical and biochemical challenge. Indeed, surrogate biomarkers of inflammation including C-reactive protein could not discriminate between all components involved in these complex pathways. A few examples may serve to illustrate the case. Cytokine release during dialysis sessions may be underestimated due to their removal using high-flux dialysis or hemodiafiltration modalities. Complement activation is recognized as a key event of bioincompatibility. However, it appears as an early and transient event with anaphylatoxin level normalization at the end of the dialysis session. Complement activation is generally assumed to trigger leukocyte stimulation leading to proinflammatory mediators' secretion and oxidative burst. In addition to being part of the innate immune response involved in eliminating physically and enzymatically microbes, the formation of Neutrophil Extracellular Traps (NETs), known as NETosis, has been recently identified as a major harmful component in a wide range of pathologies associated with inflammatory processes. NETs result from the neutrophil degranulation induced by reactive oxygen species overproduction via NADPH oxidase and consist of modified chromatin decorated with serine proteases, elastase, bactericidal proteins, and myeloperoxidase (MPO) that produces hypochlorite anion. Currently, NETosis remains poorly investigated as a sensitive and integrated marker of bioincompatibility in dialysis. Only scarce data could be found in the literature. Oxidative burst and NADPH oxidase activation are well-known events in the bioincompatibility phenomenon. NET byproducts such as elastase, MPO, and circulating DNA have been reported to be increased in dialysis patients more specifically during dialysis sessions, and were identified as predictors of poor outcomes. As NETs and MPO could be taken up by endothelium, NETs could be considered as a vascular memory of intermittent bioincompatibility phenomenon. In this working hypothesis article, we summarized the puzzle pieces showing the involvement of NET formation during hemodialysis and postulated that NETosis may act as a disease modifier and may contribute to the comorbid burden associated with dialysis bioincompatibility.

Intermittency phenomena for mass distributions of stochastic flows with interaction

The intermittency phenomenon is the occurrence of very high but rare peaks in the density, which despite their rarity influence the asymptotic behavior of the underlying system. Mathematically this can be characterized with the asymptotics of moments. In this paper, we show the existence of intermittency phenomena for SDEs with interaction with dissipative coefficients by showing uniform convergence of their Lyapunov exponents.

Online data-driven changepoint detection for high-dimensional dynamical systems.

The detection of anomalies or transitions in complex dynamical systems is of critical importance to various applications. In this study, we propose the use of machine learning to detect changepoints for high-dimensional dynamical systems. Here, changepoints indicate instances in time when the underlying dynamical system has a fundamentally different characteristic-which may be due to a change in the model parameters or due to intermittent phenomena arising from the same model. We propose two complementary approaches to achieve this, with the first devised using arguments from probabilistic unsupervised learning and the latter devised using supervised deep learning. To accelerate the deployment of transition detection algorithms in high-dimensional dynamical systems, we introduce dimensionality reduction techniques. Our experiments demonstrate that transitions can be detected efficiently, in real-time, for the two-dimensional forced Kolmogorov flow and the Rössler dynamical system, which are characterized by anomalous regimes in phase space where dynamics are perturbed off the attractor at potentially uneven intervals. Finally, we also demonstrate how variations in the frequency of detected changepoints may be utilized to detect a significant modification to the underlying model parameters by utilizing the Lorenz-63 dynamical system.

A study on twitching motility dynamics in Ralstonia solanacearum microcolonies by live imaging.

Ralstonia solanacearum is a rod-shaped phytopathogenic bacterium that causes lethal wilt disease in many plants. On solid agar growth medium, in the early hour of the growth of the bacterial colony, the type IV pili-mediated twitching motility, which is important for its virulence and biofilm formation, is prominently observed under the microscope. In this study, we have done a detailed observation of twitching motility in R. solanacearum colony. In the beginning, twitching motility in the microcolonies was observed as a density-dependent phenomenon that influences the shape of the microcolonies. No such phenomenon was observed in Escherichia coli, where twitching motility is absent. In the early phase of colony growth, twitching motility exhibited by the cells at the peripheral region of the colony was more prominent than the cells toward the center of the colony. Using time-lapse photography and merging the obtained photomicrographs into a video, twitching motility was observed as an intermittent phenomenon that progresses in layers in all directions as finger-like projections at the peripheral region of a bacterial colony. Each layer of bacteria twitches on top of the other and produces a multilayered film-like appearance. We found that the duration between the emergence of each layer diminishes progressively as the colony becomes older. This study on twitching motility demonstrates distinctly heterogeneity among the cells within a colony regarding their dynamics and the influence of microcolonies on each other regarding their morphology.

Characterization of Multiple Regimes of Cardiorespiratory Phase Synchronization in Athletes Undergoing Inspiratory Muscle Training.

Cardiorespiratory phase synchronization (CRPS) is defined as the stable occurrence of n heartbeats within m respiratory cycles according to the n:m phase locking ratio (PLR). Since CRPS is an intermittent phenomenon where different phase synchronization regimes and epochs of phase unlocking can alternate within the same recording, an index of CRPS ideally should assess all potential PLRs present in the recording. However, traditional approaches compute the synchronization index (SYNC%) over a single n:m PLR, namely the one that maximizes CRPS. In the present work, we tested a synchronization index assessing the total percentage of heartbeats coupled to the inspiratory onset regardless of phase locking regimes (SYNC%sum) and we compared its efficacy to the more traditional SYNC%. Analysis was carried out in a cohort of 25 male amateur cyclists (age: 20-40 yrs) undergoing inspiratory muscle training (IMT) at different intensities. CRPS was assessed before and after the IMT protocol, during an experimental condition known to modify CRPS, namely active standing (STAND). We found that after a moderate intensity IMT at 60% of the maximal inspiratory pressure, SYNC%sum could detect the decrease in CRPS following STAND. This result was not visible using the more traditional SYNC%. Therefore, we stress the significant presence of different phase locking regimes in athletes and the importance of accounting for multiple PLRs in CRPS analysis.Clinical Relevance- Multiple phase locking regimes contribute significantly to cardiorespiratory control in amateur cyclists especially after inspiratory muscle training of moderate intensity.

The Lévy walk with rests under stochastic resetting

The Lévy walk with rests (LWR) model is a typical two-state stochastic process that has been widely and successfully adopted in the study of intermittent stochastic phenomena in physical and biological systems. Stochastic processes under resetting provide treatable and interesting schemes to study foraging and search strategies. In this manuscript, we focus on the anomalous diffusive behavior of the LWR under stochastic resetting. We consider both the case of instantaneous resetting, in which the particle stochastically returns to a given position immediately, and the case of noninstantaneous resetting, in which the particle returns to a given position with a finite velocity. The anomalous diffusive behaviors are analyzed and discussed by calculating the mean squared displacement analytically and numerically. Results reveal that the stochastic resetting can not only hinder the diffusion, where the diffusion evolves toward a saturation state, but also enhances it, where as compared with the LWR without resetting, the diffusion exponent surprisingly increases. As far as we know, the enhancement effect caused by stochastic resetting has not yet been reported. In addition, the resetting time probability density function (PDF) of the instantaneous resetting and the return time PDF of the noninstantaneous resetting are studied. Results reveal that the resetting time PDF could follow a power law provided that the sojourn time PDF is power-law distributed and the sojourn time with a heavier tail plays a decisive role in determining the resetting time PDF, whereas the shape of the return time PDF is determined by not only by the sojourn time PDF, but also by the return manner.

Fractal Geometric Model for Statistical Intermittency Phenomenon.

The phenomenon of intermittency has remained a theoretical concept without any attempts to approach it geometrically with the use of a simple visualization. In this paper, a particular geometric model of point clustering approaching the Cantor shape in 2D, with a symmetry scale θ being an intermittency parameter, is proposed. To verify its ability to describe intermittency, to this model, we applied the entropic skin theory concept. This allowed us to obtain a conceptual validation. We observed that the intermittency phenomenon in our model was adequately described with the multiscale dynamics proposed by the entropic skin theory, coupling the fluctuation levels that extended between two extremes: the bulk and the crest. We calculated the reversibility efficiency γ with two different methods: statistical and geometrical analyses. Both efficiency values, γstat and γgeo, showed equality with a low relative error margin, which actually validated our suggested fractal model for intermittency. In addition, we applied the extended self-similarity (E.S.S.) to the model. This highlighted the intermittency phenomenon as a deviation from the homogeneity assumed by Kolmogorov in turbulence.

Towards lube-free aluminum high pressure die casting using duplex AlCrN physical vapor deposition coatings

Aluminum high pressure castings (HPDC) were successfully produced on two simple but slightly different H13 steel dies that had been coated with AlCrN physical vapor deposition (PVD) coatings and without the use of conventionally-sprayed die lubricants. Over 200 lube-free (no lubricant) castings were produced in both of the dies. Temperature simulations of the dies matched well with thermal camera measurements taken during the trials, and helped explain the positions where small amounts of soldering and aluminum marks developed. Aluminum build-up on the die surfaces was observed as an intermittent phenomenon and did not lead to soldering. Due to the high gate velocities used in these trials, a large fraction of the AlCrN coating was washed out or cracked. No chemical reaction or intermetallic formation was observed on the analyzed surfaces, suggesting that build-up of aluminum on the die surface occurred by mechanical keying rather than by chemical soldering. A mechanistic model was developed to understand the correlation between surface roughness, wetting angle and HPDC pressure, in an attempt to explain why lube-free aluminum HPDC was possible for these simple die geometries, and to shed light on why it is more challenging for more complex die geometries. This study has demonstrated that lube-free aluminum die casting is possible by coating simple geometry dies with duplex AlCrN PVD coatings and suggests that lube-free castings might extend die life.