Simple relaxation oscillation model

The rate oscillations produced by the model are always simple relaxation type oscillations (Fig. 5). The model cannot reproduce the rather complex oscillation waveform which was observed experimentally under many operating conditions (Fig. 1). However the model predicts the correct order of magnitude of the limit cycle frequency and also reproduces most of the experimentally observed features of the oscillations figure 2 compares the experimental results of the limit cycle frequency and amplitude (defined as maximum % deviation from the average rate) with the model predictions. The model correctly predicts a decrease in period and amplitude with increasing space velocity at constant T and gas composition. It also describes semiquantitatively the decrease in period and amplitude with increasing temperature at constant space velocity and composition (Fig. 3). 

Simple Spectral Method [23] In the simple spectral method, a model dielectric response function is used. It combines a Debye relaxation term to describe the response at microwave frequencies with a sum of terms of classical form of Lorentz electron dispersion (corresponding to a damped harmonic oscillator model) for the frequencies from IR to UV ... 

The heat capacity models described so far were all based on a harmonic oscillator approximation. This implies that the volume of the simple crystals considered does not vary with temperature and Cy m is derived as a function of temperature for a crystal having a fixed volume. Anharmonic lattice vibrations give rise to a finite isobaric thermal expansivity. These vibrations contribute both directly and indirectly to the total heat capacity directly since the anharmonic vibrations themselves contribute, and indirectly since the volume of a real crystal increases with increasing temperature, changing all frequencies. The constant volume heat capacity derived from experimental heat capacity data is different from that for a fixed volume. The difference in heat capacity at constant volume for a crystal that is allowed to relax at each temperature and the heat capacity at constant volume for a crystal where the volume is fixed to correspond to that at the Debye temperature represents a considerable part of Cp m - Cv m. This is shown for Mo and W [6] in Figure 8.15. 

We can illustrate this latter technique with the simple thermokinetic model with the Arrhenius temperature dependence discussed above. This will also allow us to see that the two approaches are not separate, but that oscillations change smoothly from the basically sinusoidal waveform at the Hopf bifurcation to the relaxation form in other parts of the parameter plane. 

In modeling the interaction of a liquid with plate modes, the high frequency of operation necessitates the consideration of viscoelastic response by the liquid. For the simple liquids examined, good agreement was obtained by modeling the liquid as a Maxwellian fluid with a single relaxation time r. When the Maxwellian fluid is driven in oscillatory flow with cot < 1, it responds as a Newtonian fluid characterized by the shear viscosity, rj. For wt > 1, the oscillation rate approaches the rate of molecular motion in the liquid and energy ceases to be dissipated in... 

Since the reduced spectrum x"( ) clearly shows the low-ftequency Raman modes, we introduced a simple model to analyze the spectral profile of x"(.v) for obtaining the quantitative information. The model is composed of two damped harmonic oscillator modes and one Debye type relaxation mode (liquid water) or one Cole-Cole type relaxation mode (aqueous solution). Cole-Cole type relaxation is usually adopted in analyzing the dielectric relaxation. The formula of Cole-Cole type relaxation is represented as ... 

The low-fiequency Raman spectra of water and aqueous solution are well fitted by a simple model which is a superposition of one relaxation mode and two damped oscillator modes. The dynamical aspect of liquid water and water in aqueous solutions can be characterized by the fitting analysis of these low-lying modes. 

The spectral density (see also Sections (7-5.2) and (8-2.5)) plays a prominent role in models of thermal relaxation that use harmonic oscillators description of the thermal environment and where the system-bath coupling is taken linear in the bath coordinates and/or momenta. We will see (an explicit example is given in Section 8.2.5) that /(co) characterizes the dynamics of the thermal environment as seen by the relaxing system, and consequently determines the relaxation behavior of the system itself. Two simple models for this function are often used ... 

Next, consider the relaxation of a diatomic molecule, essentially a single oscillator of frequency mq interacting with its thermal environment, and contrast its behavior with a polyatomic molecule placed under similar conditions. The results of the simple hannonic relaxation model of Section 9.4 may give an indication about the expected difference. The harmonic oscillator was shown to relax to the thermal equilibrium defined by its environment, Eq. (9.65), at a rate given by (cf. Eq. (9.57))... 

We have seen that vibrational relaxation rates can be evaluated analytically for the simple model of a hannonic oscillator coupled linearly to a harmonic bath. Such model may represent a reasonable approximation to physical reality if the frequency of the oscillator under study, that is the mode that can be excited and monitored, is well embedded within the spectrum of bath modes. However, many processes ofinterest involve molecular vibrations whose frequencies are higherthan the solvent Debye frequency. In this case the linear coupling rate (13.35) vanishes, reflecting the fact that in a linear coupling model relaxation cannot take place in the absence of modes that can absorb the dissipated energy. The harmonic Hamiltonian... 

The frequency shift is positive. The n-scaling depends on the value of cytR. In the limit of cytR 1, scaling is found. In this case, the relaxation time is much longer than the period of oscillation and the Maxwell element behaves elastically. The Maxwell model reduces to the simple-spring model (Sect. 2.2). If, on the other hand, the retardation time is short (cor 1), the frequency shift is still positive, but it scales linearly with n. If a positive frequency shift in conjunction with linear n-scaling is found, this in indicative of fast relaxation processes in the contact zone. If this is the case, the damping must also be large. 

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An analysis of the specificity of unimolecular decompositions and of intramolecular vibrational relaxation can be developed by starting with some simple models for coupled oscillators, for which different modes and (transitions among them) have been well characterized, both in classical and in quantum mechanics. 

Description of the mechanics of elastin requires the understanding of two interlinked but distinct physical processes the development of entropic elastic force and the occurrence of hydrophobic association. Elementary statistical-mechanical analysis of AFM single-chain force-extension data of elastin model molecules identifies damping of internal chain dynamics on extension as a fundamental source of entropic elastic force and eliminates the requirement of random chain networks. For elastin and its models, this simple analysis is substantiated experimentally by the observation of mechanical resonances in the dielectric relaxation and acoustic absorption spectra, and theoretically by the dependence of entropy on frequency of torsion-angle oscillations, and by classical molecular-mechanics and dynamics calculations of relaxed and extended states of the P-spiral description of the elastin repeat, (GVGVP) . The role of hydrophobic hydration in the mechanics of elastin becomes apparent under conditions of isometric contraction. 

This simple model explains why the oscillations can be sinusoidal or sawtooth shaped, depending on the shape of the limit cycle, and why the amplitude of oscillations changes with the imposed velocity V. It shows that Gj for crack initiation and G for crack arrest [the upper and lower points of the G(v) curve] differ from G and G j (except for the relaxation cycle) and are not a material property. 

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