Transient-response

The theoretical expressions describing the transient response of the fluid deformations are of the same general form for the different effects. A characteristic response time for the director reorientation is given approximately by  

Experimental observations for induced birefringence, 2 twisted nematic,and dynamic scattering 78,84 reasonable agreement 

The response times for both field- and conduction-induced phenomena can be changed by the presence of a second voltage source whose frequency is above some critical cutoff frequency, while the main source has a frequency less the critical frequency. For dynamic scattering, the critical frequency is /c, which is inversely proportional to the dielectric relaxation time of the fluid. For an applied frequency / /c, the conduction torques do not affect the fluid and, through 

For field-effect materials, the critical cutoff frequency occurs only in materials that have positive dielectric anisotropy at low frequencies. Above the critical frequency, the dielectric anisotropy is negative. Several materials have been developed with a critical frequency as low as a few kHz at As with dynamic scattering, the ap- 

In the cholesteric-nematic phase change with L/Pq 1, the wave-vector is given by tt/Pq not tt/L. The experimental rise and decay times are consistent with the theory for the field-induced phase transition.  

A brief summary of Laplace transforms necessary for understanding the problems in STM is compiled in Appendix G. 

To formulate the problem in a convenient way, we consider that during a scan, the contour of the sample surface has a unit jump at r = 0. In other words, the height is assumed to be a unit step function. 

We do not lose generality by considering such a unit step function. Because the differential equation is linear, by making superposition of the step function, the response from any surface contour can be treated. The Laplace transform of a step function is 

The problem is to find the response of the tip, zi t) by first finding its Laplace transform, Z-j s). 

From the definition of the Laplace transform, Eq. (11.28), it is straightforward to show that it replaces a differential operator d/dt by the Laplace variable s (see Appendix G for details). The feedback circuit is typically an amplifier with an RC network, as shown in Fig. 11.6. The RC network is used for compensation, which will be explained here. By denoting the Laplace transform of the voltage on the z piezo, Vz(t), by U(s), the Laplace transform of the feedback circuit is 

For this circuit, the initial current through the inductor is 1 A. The current will decay to zero with a time constant of 

We now need to set up a Transient Analysis. Select PSpice and then New Simulation Profile from the Capture menus and then enter a name for the profile and click the Create button. By default the Time Domain (TransientI Analysis type is selected  

We would like to run the transient simulation for 550 ms, so the Run tO time should be set to 550m. I would like to see at least 550 points in the simulation, so I will set the Maximum Step Size to lm. Fill in the dialog box as shown  

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The low MW power levels conuuonly employed in TREPR spectroscopy do not require any precautions to avoid detector overload and, therefore, the fiill time development of the transient magnetization is obtained undiminished by any MW detection deadtime. (3) Standard CW EPR equipment can be used for TREPR requiring only moderate efforts to adapt the MW detection part of the spectrometer for the observation of the transient response to a pulsed light excitation with high time resolution. (4) TREPR spectroscopy proved to be a suitable teclmique for observing a variety of spin coherence phenomena, such as transient nutations [16], quantum beats [17] and nuclear modulations [18], that have been usefi.il to interpret EPR data on light-mduced spm-correlated radical pairs. 

Central receiver systems not only require components that can withstand severe and frequent thermal cycling, but in addition they entail long warmup times and exhibit slow transient responses. As a result, energy production from the best systems have been about half of that expected. As development complexities became apparent, government support was curtailed and industrial commitment waned. 

Using the entries in Table 8-1, Eq. (8-13) can be inverted to give the transient response of as ... 

Distance-Velocity Lag (Dead-Time Element) The dead-time element, commonly called a distance-velocity lag, is often encountered in process systems. For example, if a temperature-measuring element is located downstream from a heat exchanger, a time delay occurs before the heated fluid leaving the exchanger arrives at the temperature measurement point. If some element of a system produces a dead-time of 0 time units, then an input to that unit,/(t), will be reproduced at the output a.s f t — 0). The transfer function for a pure dead-time element is shown in Fig. 8-17, and the transient response of the element is shown in Fig. 8-18. 

Foxboro developed a self-tuning PID controller that is based on a so-called expert system approach for adjustment of the controller parameters. The on-line tuning of K, Xi, and Xo is based on the closed-loop transient response to a step change in set point. By evaluating the salient characteristics of the response (e.g., the decay ratio, overshoot, and closed-loop period), the controller parameters can be updated without actually finding a new process model. The details of the algorithm, however, are proprietary... 

In a V/f control generally, only the frequency is varied to obtain the required speed control. Based on this frequency, the switching logistics of the inverter control circuit control the inverter s output voltage using the PWM technique to maintain the same ratio of V/f. A W/control is, however, not suitable at lower speeds. Their application is limited to fan, pump and compressor-type loads only, where speed regulation need not be accurate, and their low-spccd performance or transient response is not critical and they are also not required to operate at very low speeds. They arc primarily used for soft starts and to conserve energy... 

A good review of the transient response method in heterogeneous catalysis was published by Kobayashi and Kobayashi (1974). These authors credit Bermett (1967) for applying this previously microcatalytic research technique to recycle reactors and thereby, in view of this author, to engineering problems. 

The basic phenomenon was observed in modeling studies by Bjoreskov and Slinko (1965) that sudden increase in inlet temperature caused a transient drop of the peak temperature. The wrong-way response name was given by Mechta et al (1981) after they experienced the opposite a sudden of inlet temperature resulted in an increase of the peak temperature (which may eventually cause a runaway.) The work used a pseudo-homogeneous reaction model and explained the phenomenon by the different speeds of transient response in gas and solid. The example in the last part of Chapter 7.4 explained the speed difference by the large difference in heat capacity of gas and solid phases. For this a two-phase model is needed and spatial and time changes must be followed. 

Fuel cells, which rely on electrochemical generation of electric power, could be used for nonpolluting sources of power for motor vehicles. Since fuel cells are not heat engines, they offer the potential for extremely low emissions with a higher thermal effidency than internal combustion engines. Their lack of adoption by mobile systems has been due to their cost, large size, weight, lack of operational flexibility, and poor transient response. It has been stated that these problems could keep fuel cells from the mass-produced automobile market until after the year 2010 (5). 

This is a voltage-mode, forward eonverter. To produee the best transient response time, a 2-pole, 2-zero method of eompensation is going to be used. 

The gain eross-over frequency of the closed loop should not be any higher than 20 percent of the switching frequency (or 20 kHz). I have found that gain crossover frequencies of 10 kHz to 15 kHz are quite satisfactory for the majority of applications. This yields a transient response time around 200 uS. 

I shall use a gain eross-over frequency of 15 kHz, which is quite satisfactory for the majority of applications. This yields a transient response time around 200qS. 

The elosed-loop gain eross-over frequency should be as high as practically possible. This quickens the transient response time of the supply. 

As discussed in Section 3.1, the transient response of a system is independent of the input. Thus for transient response analysis, the system input can be considered to be zero, and equation (3.41) can be written as... 

This polynomial in. v is called the Characteristic Equation and its roots will determine the system transient response. Their values are... 

The term b — Aac), called the discriminant, may be positive, zero or negative which will make the roots real and unequal, real and equal or complex. This gives rise to the three different types of transient response described in Table 3.4. 

The transient response of a second-order system is given by the general solution... 

Equation (3.79) shows that the third-order transient response eontains both first-order and seeond-order elements whose time eonstants and equivalent time eonstants are 2 seeonds, i.e. a transient period of about 8 seeonds. The seeond-order element has a predominate negative sine term, and a damped natural frequeney of 4.97 rad/s. The time response is shown in Figure 3.23. 

When a unity gain seeond-order system is subjeet to a unit step input, its transient response eontains a first overshoot of 77%, oeeurring after 32.5 ms has elapsed. Find... 

Then maintaining K K at a high value will reduee the elosed-loop time eonstant and therefore improve the system transient response. 

Thus, when r t) and f2(f) are unehanging, or have step ehanges, there are no steady-state errors as ean be seen in Figure 4.25. The seeond-order dynamies of the elosed-loop system depend upon the values of T[, T, K and K. Again, a high value of K will provide a fast transient response sinee it inereases the undamped natural frequeney, but with higher order plant transfer funetions ean give rise to instability. 

Control problem For a speeifie hull, the eontrol problem is to determine the autopilot setting K ) to provide a satisfaetory transient response. In this ease, this will be when the damping ratio has a value of 0.5. Also to be determined are the rise time, settling time and pereentage overshoot. 

These roots determine the transient response of the system and for a second-order system can be written as... 

Fig. 5.5 Effect of closed-loop pole position in the s-plane on system transient response.

The design method requires the ciosed-ioop poies to be piotted in the. v-piane as K is varied from zero to infinity, and then a vaiue of K seiected to provide the necessary transient response as required by the performance specification. The ioci aiways commence at open-ioop poies (denoted by x) and terminate at open-ioop zeros (denoted by o) when they exist. 

The root locus method provides a very powerful tool for control system design. The objective is to shape the loci so that closed-loop poles can be placed in the. v-plane at positions that produce a transient response that meets a given performance specification. It should be noted that a root locus diagram does not provide information relating to steady-state response, so that steady-state errors may go undetected, unless checked by other means, i.e. time response. 

The root locus diagram is shown in Figure 5.19. In this case the real locus occurs between. v = —5 and —3 and the complex dominant loci breakaway at rrh = —1-15. Since these loci are further to the right than the previous option, the transient response will be slower. The compensator gain that corresponds to ( = 0.7 is K = 5.3. The resulting time response is shown in Figure 5.20, where the overshoot is 5.3% and the settling time is 3.1 seconds. 

The control strategy for the root-locus diagram shown in Figure 5.24 is called PIDD, because of the additional open-loop zero. The system is unstable between K = 0.17 and K = 1.06, but exhibits good transient response at A" = 10.2 on both complex loci. 

Note that the exponential indiees are the roots of the eharaeteristie equation (8.56). (e) From equation (8.51), the transient response is given by... 

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