Irreversibility and Dissipation in Microscopic Systems

Irreversibility and Dissipation in Microscopic Systems
Author: Édgar Roldán
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 219
Release: 2014-06-13
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3319070797

After an insightful introductory part on recent developments in the thermodynamics of small systems, the author presents his contribution to a long-standing problem, namely the connection between irreversibility and dissipation. He develops a method based on recent results on fluctuation theorems that is able to estimate dissipation using only information acquired in a single, sufficiently long, trajectory of a stationary nonequilibrium process. This part ends with a remarkable application of the method to the analysis of biological data, in this case, the fluctuations of a hair bundle. The third part studies the energetics of systems that undergo symmetry breaking transitions. These theoretical ideas lead to, among other things, an experimental realization of a Szilard engine using manipulated colloids. This work has the potential for important applications ranging from the analysis of biological media to the design of novel artificial nano-machines.

Systems with Small Dissipation

Systems with Small Dissipation
Author: V. B. Braginsky
Publisher:
Total Pages: 168
Release: 1985
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN:

Electromagnetic and mechanical oscillators are crucial in such diverse fields as electrical engineering, microwave technology, optical technology, and experimental physics. For example, such oscillators are the key elements in instruments for detecting extremely weak mechanical forces and electromagnetic signals are essential to highly stable standards of time and frequency. The central problem in developing such instruments is to construct oscillators that are as perfectly simple harmonic as possible; the largest obstacle is the oscillator's dissipation and the fluctuating forces associated with it. This book, first published in Russian in 1981 and updated with new data for this English edition, is a treatise on the sources of dissipation and other defects in mechanical and electromagnetic oscillators and on practical techniques for minimizing such defects. Written by a team of researchers from Moscow State University who are leading experts in the field, the book is a virtual encyclopedia of theoretical formulas, experimental techniques, and practical lore derived from twenty-five years of experience. Intended for the experimenter who wishes to construct near-perfect instrumentation, the book provides information on everything from the role of phonon-phonon scattering as a fundamental source of dissipation to the effectiveness of a thin film of pork fat in reducing the friction between a support wire and a mechanically oscillating sapphire crystal. The researchers that V. B. Braginsky has led since the mid-1960s are best known in the West for their contributions to the technology of gravitational-wave detection, their experimental search for quarks, their test of the equivalency principle, and their invention of new experimental techniques for high-precision measurement, including "quantum nondemolition movements." Here, for the first time, they provide a thorough overview of the practical knowledge and experimental methods that have earned them a worldwide reputation for ingenuity, talent, and successful technique.

Recent Advances in the Design of Structures with Passive Energy Dissipation Systems

Recent Advances in the Design of Structures with Passive Energy Dissipation Systems
Author: Giuseppe Ricciardi
Publisher: MDPI
Total Pages: 266
Release: 2020-06-23
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3039360604

Passive vibration control plays a crucial role in structural engineering. Common solutions include seismic isolation and damping systems with various kinds of devices, such as viscous, viscoelastic, hysteretic, and friction dampers. These strategies have been widely utilized in engineering practice, and their efficacy has been demonstrated in mitigating damage and preventing the collapse of buildings, bridges, and industrial facilities. However, there is a need for more sophisticated analytical and numerical tools to design structures equipped with optimally configured devices. On the other hand, the family of devices and dissipative elements used for structural protection keeps evolving, because of growing performance demands and new progress achieved in materials science and mechanical engineering. This Special Issue collects 13 contributions related to the development and application of passive vibration control strategies for structures, covering both traditional and innovative devices. In particular, the contributions concern experimental and theoretical investigations of high-efficiency dampers and isolation bearings; optimization of conventional and innovative energy dissipation devices; performance-based and probability-based design of damped structures; application of nonlinear dynamics, random vibration theory, and modern control theory to the design of structures with passive energy dissipation systems; and critical discussion of implemented isolation/damping technologies in significant or emblematic engineering projects.

Dissipative Systems Analysis and Control

Dissipative Systems Analysis and Control
Author: Bernard Brogliato
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 589
Release: 2006-11-24
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1846285178

This second edition of Dissipative Systems Analysis and Control has been substantially reorganized to accommodate new material and enhance its pedagogical features. It examines linear and nonlinear systems with examples of both in each chapter. Also included are some infinite-dimensional and nonsmooth examples. Throughout, emphasis is placed on the use of the dissipative properties of a system for the design of stable feedback control laws.

Nonlinearity in Energy Harvesting Systems

Nonlinearity in Energy Harvesting Systems
Author: Elena Blokhina
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 361
Release: 2016-11-10
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 331920355X

This book is a single-source guide to nonlinearity and nonlinear techniques in energy harvesting, with a focus on vibration energy harvesters for micro and nanoscale applications. The authors demonstrate that whereas nonlinearity was avoided as an undesirable phenomenon in early energy harvesters, now it can be used as an essential part of these systems. Readers will benefit from an overview of nonlinear techniques and applications, as well as deeper insight into methods of analysis and modeling of energy harvesters, employing different nonlinearities. The role of nonlinearity due to different aspects of an energy harvester is discussed, including nonlinearity due to mechanical-to-electrical conversion, nonlinearity due to conditioning electronic circuits, nonlinearity due to novel materials (e.g., graphene), etc. Coverage includes tutorial introductions to MEMS and NEMS technology, as well as a wide range of applications, such as nonlinear oscillators and transducers for energy harvesters and electronic conditioning circuits for effective energy processing.

Controlling Chaos and Bifurcations in Engineering Systems

Controlling Chaos and Bifurcations in Engineering Systems
Author: Guanrong Chen
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 670
Release: 1999-09-28
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9780849305795

Over the last two decades, chaos in engineering systems has moved from being simply a curious phenomenon to one with real, practical significance and utility. Engineers, scientists, and mathematicians have similarly advanced from the passive role of analyzing chaos to their present, active role of controlling chaos-control directed not only at suppression, but also at exploiting its enormous potential. We now stand at the threshold of major advances in the control and synchronization of chaos for new applications across the range of engineering disciplines. Controlling Chaos and Bifurcations in Engineering Systems provides a state-of-the-art survey of the control-and anti-control-of chaos in dynamical systems. Internationally known experts in the field join forces in this volume to form this tutorial-style combination of overview and technical report on the latest advances in the theory and applications of chaos control. They detail various approaches to control and show how designers can use chaos to create a wider variety of properties and greater flexibility in the design process. Chaos control promises to have a major impact on novel time- and energy-critical engineering applications. Within this volume, readers will find many challenging problems-yet unsolved-regarding both the fundamental theory and potential applications of chaos control and anti-control. Controlling Chaos and Bifurcations in Engineering Systems will bring readers up-to-date on recent development in the field and help open the door to new advances.

Matrix Methods

Matrix Methods
Author: Vadim Olshevsky
Publisher: World Scientific
Total Pages: 604
Release: 2010
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 9812836020

Operators preserving primitivity for matrix pairs / L.B. Beasley, A.E. Guterman -- Decompositions of quaternions and their matrix equivalents / D. Janovská, G. Opfer -- Sensitivity analysis of Hamiltonian and reversible systems prone to dissipation-induced instabilities / O.N. Kirillov -- Block triangular miniversal deformations of matrices and matrix pencils / L. Klimenko, V.V. Sergeichuk -- Determining the Schein rank of boolean matrices / E.E. Marenich -- Lattices of matrix rows and matrix columns. Lattices of invariant column eigenvectors / V. Marenich -- Matrix algebras and their length / O.V. Markova -- On a new class of singular nonsymmetric matrices with nonnegative integer spectra / T. Nahtman, D. von Rosen -- Reduction of a set of matrices over a principal ideal domain to the Smith normal forms by means of the same one-sided transformation / V.M. Prokip -- Nonsymmetric algebraic Riccati equations associated with an M-matrix : recent advances and algorithms / D.A. Bini, B. Iannazzo, B. Meini, F. Poloni -- A generalized conjugate direction method for nonsymmetric large ill-conditioned linear systems / E.R. Boudinov, A.I. Manevich -- There exist normal Hankel ([symbol], [symbol])-circulants of any order [symbol] / V.N. Chugunov, Kh. D. Ikramov -- On the treatment of boundary artifacts in image restoration by reflection and/or anti-reflection / M. Donatelli, S. Serra-Capizzano -- Zeros of determinants of [symbol]-matrices / W. Gander -- How to find a good submatrix / S.A. Goreinov [und weiteren] -- Conjugate and semi-conjugate direction methods with preconditioning projectors / V.P. Il'in -- Some relationships between optimal preconditioner and superoptimal preconditioner / J.-B. Chen [und weiteren] -- Scaling, preconditioning, and superlinear convergence in GMRES-type iterations / I. Kaporin -- Toeplitz and Toeplitz-block-Toeplitz matrices and their correlation with syzygies of polynomials / H. Khalil, B. Mourrain, M. Schatzman -- Concepts of data-sparse tensor-product approximation in many-particle modelling / H.-J. Flad [und weiteren] -- Separation of variables in nonlinear fermi equation / Yu. I. Kuznetsov -- Faster multipoint polynomial evaluation via structured matrices / B. Murphy, R.E. Rosholt -- Testing pivoting policies in Gaussian elimination / B. Murphy [und weiteren] -- Newton's iteration for matrix inversion, advances and extensions / V.Y. Pan -- Truncated decompositions and filtering methods with reflective/antireflective boundary conditions : a comparison / C. Tablino Possio -- Discrete-time stability of a class of hermitian polynomial matrices with positive semidefinite coefficients / H.K. Wimmer -- Splitting algorithm for solving mixed variational inequalities with inversely strongly monotone operators / I. Badriev, O. Zadvornov -- Multilevel algorithm for graph partitioning / N.S. Bochkarev, O.V. Diyankov, V.Y. Pravilnikov -- 2D-extension of singular spectrum analysis : algorithm and elements of theory / N.E. Golyandina, K.D. Usevich -- Application of radon transform for fast solution of boundary value problems for elliptic PDE in domains with complicated geometry / A.I. Grebennikov -- Application of a multigrid method to solving diffusion-type equations / M.E. Ladonkina, O. Yu. Milukova, V.F. Tishkin -- Monotone matrices and finite volume schemes for diffusion problems preserving non-negativity of solution / I.V. Kapyrin -- Sparse approximation of FEM matrix for sheet current integro-differential equation / M. Khapaev, M. Yu. Kupriyanov -- The method of magnetic field computation in presence of an ideal conductive multiconnected surface by using the integro-differential equation of the first kind / T. Kochubey, V.I. Astakhov -- Spectral model order reduction preserving passivity for large multiport RCLM networks / Yu. M. Nechepurenko, A.S. Potyagalova, I.A. Karaseva -- New smoothers in multigrid methods for strongly nonsymmetric linear systems / G.V. Muratova, E.M. Andreeva -- Operator equations for eddy currents on singular carriers / J. Naumenko -- Matrix approach to modelling of polarized radiation transfer in heterogeneous systems / T.A. Sushkevich, S.A. Strelkov, S.V. Maksakova -- The Method of Regularization of Tikhonov Based on Augmented Systems / A.I. Zhdanov, T.G. Parchaikina

Adaptability

Adaptability
Author: M. Conrad
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 397
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1461583276