Parametric excitation of pipes through fluid flow

Abstract

In this paper the dynamic behaviour of a continuum inextensible pipe containing fluid flow is investigated. The fluid is considered to be incompressible, frictionless and its velocity relative to the pipe has the same but time-periodic magnitude along the pipe at a certain time instant. The equations of motion are derived via Lagrangian equations and Hamilton's principle. The system is non-conservative, and the amount of energy carried in and out by the flow appears in the model. It is wellknown, that intricate stability problems arise when the flow pulsates and the corresponding mathematical model, a system of ordinary or partial differential equations, becomes time-periodic. The method which constructs the state transition matrix used in Floquet theory in terms of Chebyshev polynomials is especially effective for stability analysis of systems with multi-degree-of-freedom. The stability charts are created w.r.t. the forcing frequency w, the perturbation amplitude l/ and the average flow velocity U.