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This paper investigates Mei symmetry and new adiabatic invariants of the disturbed non-material volumes. A infinitesimal transformation group and the infinitesimal transformations vectors of generators are proposed. The definition of Mei symmetry and the determining equation for the systems are presented. The perturbation to the Mei symmetry and new adiabatic invariants for non-material volumes is employed, two types of Mei adiabatic invariant induced by Mei symmetrical perturbation are obtained. Two theorems on new adiabatic invariants are given, and the corresponding deductions about new exact invariants are derived. An example is given to illustrate the application of the method, the corresponding adiabatic invariants are obtained. The example is verified numerically, and it proofs that the theoretical derivation is correct.
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1 Introduction
In the last decade, the field of non-material volumes has become a focal research topic, which possesses profound theoretical significance and important engineering application value [1, 2]. Researchers have addressed many fundamental principles of the non-material volumes. Irschik and Holl [3] derived the Lagrange’s equation of a non-material volume which instantaneously coincides with some part of a continuous and possibly deformable body. Casetta and Pesce [4] constructed the generalized Hamilton’s principle for a non-material volume utilizing Reynolds’ transport theorem. They [5] also proposed the inverse problem of Lagrangian mechanics for Meshchersky’s equation. Casetta [6] depicted the inverse problem of Lagrangian mechanics for a non-material volume by introducing the method of Darboux, proposed Hamiltonian formalism and a conservation law. Irschik and Holl [7] derived a formulation of Lagrange’s equations for non-material volumes, computed local forms and global form of Lagrange’s equations in the framework of the Lagrange description of continuum mechanics. Irschik et al. [8] concerned with Lagrange’s equations, applied to a deformable body in the presence of rigid body degrees of freedom. Casetta et al. [9] developed the generalization of Noether’s theorem for a non-material volume, proposed a Noether conserved quantity and the corresponding Killing equations. Jiang and Xia [10] presented the Lie symmetry of non-material volumes, and obtained four kinds of conserved quantities. Jiang et al. presented the algebraic structure and Poisson brackets [11], Mei symmetry and a new conserved quantity [12], dynamical equation of relative motion [13], conformal invariance [14] and Noether symmetrical perturbation and adiabatic invariants [15] for nonmaterial volumes. However, to the authors’ knowledge, the adiabatic invariants induced by Mei symmetrical perturbation of the non-material volumes have not been investigated yet.
Symmetry is a promising approach to seek conserved quantities for dynamical systems, which has profound theoretical significance. In 2000, Mei [16] pioneered a new symmetry, i.e., Mei symmetry which is an invariance of dynamical functions under infinitesimal transformations of Lie group. Subsequently, Jiang et al. [17] derived Mei conserved quantities for higher-order nonholonomic systems. Xia and Chen [18, 19] promoted the Mei symmetry to different difference systems. Zhang et al. [20] described Mei conserved quantities of generalized Hamilton systems with additional terms. Wang and Xue [21] considered Mei conserved quantities of thin elastic rod. Ding and Fang [22] reported Mei adiabatic invariants caused by Mei symmetry for Nonholonomic controllable dynamical systems. Song and Zhang [23] employed Mei symmetrical perturbation and adiabatic invariant of disturbed El-Nabulsi’s fractional Birkhoff system. Luo et al. [24] addressed Mei adiabatic invariants of disturbed fractional generalized Hamiltonian equation. So far, to the authors’ best knowledge, there is no Mei symmetrical perturbation analysis [25, 26] on non-material volumes. To address the lack of research in this aspect, the present work develops the symmetrical perturbation technique to determine the adiabatic invariant of non-material volumes.
The paper is organized as follows. In Sect. 2, we review the differential equations of the non-material volumes. In Sect. 3, we consider the definition of Mei symmetry for disturbed non-material volumes, obtain the determining equation of Mei symmetry of the non-material volumes. In Sect. 4, we treat Mei symmetrical perturbation and new adiabatic invariants of the non-material volumes. In Sect. 5, we give an example to illustrate the application of the method, obtain two types of new adiabatic invariants of the system under the Mei symmetrical transformations. Conclusions are presented in Sect. 6.
2 The differential equations of the non-material volumes
The Lagrange’s equation of non-material volumes is pioneered by Irschik and Holl ([3], p. 243, Eq. (5.6)), which can be given as
where \({T_u}\mathrm{{ = }}{T_u}\left( {{{\dot{q}}_k},{q_k},t} \right) \) is the total kinetic energy of the material particles come with non-material volume \({V_u}\), \({q_k}\) represent generalized coordinates, \({\varvec{v}}\) is the velocity of the material particles, \({\varvec{u}}\) is the velocity of the fictitious particles, \( \rho \) is the volumetric mass density, \({Q_k}\) is the k-th generalized force apply to the material body, \({\varvec{n}}\) is the outer normal unit vector at the surface of \({V_u}\), \({\partial {V_u}}\) depicts the bounding surface of \({V_u}\).
Then the motion differential equation of the system (1) can be rewritten as the form
where
Suppose that the systems (1) are nonsingular, i.e.
Expanding Eq. (2), we can obtain all generalized accelerations of the disturbed system as
3 Mei symmetry of the disturbed non-material volumes
Choose the infinitesimal transformations t and \({q_i}\) of Lie group as the following
and their expanding forms are
where \( \varepsilon \) is an infinitesimal parameter, and \( {\tau } \) and \(\xi _i\) represent the infinitesimal generators.
Take the infinitesimal generator vector is
and its first extension vector
From the definition of the Mei symmetry, we can easily obtain the criterion of the Mei symmetry for the disturbed non-material volumes, namely
Definition 1
If the generators of infinitesimal transformations (7) accords with the condition (10), then the invariance is called the Mei symmetry of the disturbed non-material volumes.
Moreover, Eq. (10) is called the determining equation of Mei symmetry of the disturbed non-material volumes.
4 Mei symmetrical perturbation and new adiabatic invariants of non-material volumes
Under the action of small forces of perturbation, the primary symmetries and invariants of the system may vary. Assume that the disturbed generators \(\tau (t, {\varvec{q}},\dot{{\varvec{q}}})\) and \({\xi _s}(t, {{\varvec{q}}},\dot{{\varvec{q}}})\) of infinitesimal transformations are small perturbation on the basis of the generators of symmetrical transformations of an undisturbed system, then we have
By virtue of Eqs. (9), and (5) can be rewritten as
where
Analogously, the gauge function can be expressed as the
Substituting Eqs. (11) and (12) into Eq. (10), and comparing the coefficients of \({\varepsilon }^m\) on the left side of equality with those on the right side, yields
Definition 2
If the generators of infinitesimal transformations (7) accords with the condition (14), then the invariance is called the Mei symmetrical perturbation of the disturbed non-material volumes.
In addition, Eq. (14) is called the determining equation of Mei symmetrical perturbation of the disturbed non-material volumes.
For the non-material volumes, the Mei symmetrical perturbation can directly lead to Mei adiabatic invariants. The following theorem gives the condition of the existence of adiabatic invariants directly induced by Mei symmetrical perturbation.
Theorem 1
For the disturbed non-material volumes (1), if the generators of the infinitesimal transformations (7) satisfy the Mei criterion (14) and exists a gauge function satisfying the following condition
then the system (1) furnishes the following Mei adiabatic invariants,
Proof
Differentiating Eq. (16) with respect to t, utilizing Eqs. (14) and (15), it yields
This shows that \({{\textrm{d}{I_{\text {M}z}}} / {\textrm{d}t}}\) is in direct proportion to \({\varepsilon ^{z+1}}\), so \(I_z\) is a z-th-order adiabatic invariant of the disturbed non-material volumes (1). \(\square \)
Theorem 2
For the disturbed non-material volumes (1), if the generators of the infinitesimal transformations (7) satisfy the Mei identities (14) and exists a new gauge function satisfying the following condition
then the system (1) furnishes the following new adiabatic invariants,
Proof
Differentiating Eq. (19) with respect to t, utilizing Eqs. (14) and (18), it yields
For the disturbed non-material volumes (3) without perturbations, then theorems 1 and 2 give the Mei symmetrical exact invariants of the undisturbed non-material volumes. Moreover, the Mei criterion (14) is reformatted as
\(\square \)
Deduction 1
For the undisturbed non-material volumes, if the generators of the infinitesimal transformations (7) satisfy the degraded criterion (21), and exists a gauge function satisfying the degraded condition
then the undisturbed system furnishes the exact invariant,
It’s worth noting that the exact invariant (23) has been reported and proved by Jiang et al. [12].
Deduction 2
For the undisturbed non-material volumes, if there exists a new gauge function satisfying the following condition
then the undisturbed system furnishes another new exact invariant,
Proof
Differentiating Eq. (25) with respect to t, utilizing Eqs. (21) and (24), it yields
Consequently, \({I_{\text {F0}}}\) is a conserved quantity. \(\square \)
5 Application
In order to express the applicability of the proposed scheme, the rocket motion example will be investigated in the following.
Casetta ([6], p. 11, Eq. (80)) considered the Lagrangian equations of rocket motion which can be expressed as
where q represents the displacement of the rocket, \({m_u}(t)\) is the total mass, \({v_{\mathrm{{rel}}}}(t)\) shows the relative velocity of the rocket with respect to the expelled propellant, Q(t) is the external force, and the total of kinetic energy is
and the force of the flow of mass through the control surface is
Suppose the system is disturbed by small quantities \(\varepsilon {W_k}(t, q, \dot{q} )= \varepsilon {{{m_u}(t)}}q\), then the governing equation of motion of the disturbed system is
In order to find a conservation law, we attempt to solve particular cases of system parameters, let us suppose that \({v_{\mathrm{{rel}}}}(t)\)=0 and \( Q(t)=-{{m}_u}(t)q \), then a simplify equation can be achieved as
Choose infinitesimal generators as
It is easy to check that the generators (32) satisfy the determining Eq. (10) of Mei symmetrical perturbation. Moreover, by using structure Eqs. (18) and (24), one has gauge functions
By introducing Deduction 2, we can get a Mei exact invariant of the undisturbed system
Taking account of Theorem 2, we can get a first-order Mei adiabatic invariant of the disturbed system
In order to deeply demonstrate the validity of the above results, Fig. 1 plots the time history of displacement, Mei exact invariant of the undisturbed system and Mei adiabatic invariant of the disturbed system under different system parameter conditions, where the black line represents the displacement response, the red plus denotes the Mei exact invariant, the cyan dot defines the Mei adiabatic invariant. From Fig. 1, we see that Mei exact invariant (34) is a conserved quantity, the first-order Mei adiabatic invariant (35) is a small perturbed quantity based on conserved quantity. We also observe from Fig. 1 that a good degree of correlation is obtained both in numerical calculation and theoretical derivation. In addition, as the disturbance parameter \(\varepsilon \) increases, the disturbance of adiabatic invariant becomes more obvious.
6 Conclusion
This paper has addressed the problem of Mei symmetrical perturbation and new adiabatic invariants for non-material volumes formulated within the framework of Ritzs method. By virtue of the infinitesimal transformation of Lie group, the definition of Mei symmetrical perturbation and determining equation for the system are presented. The corresponding structure equation is derived, two types of Mei adiabatic invariant induced by Mei symmetrical perturbation are obtained. To test the proposed formulation, we have addressed an example to illustrate the application of the method, and the corresponding adiabatic invariant is obtained under the Mei symmetrical perturbation transformations. The example is verified numerically, and it proofs that the theoretical derivation is correct.
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Li, L. New adiabatic invariants for disturbed non-material volumes. Acta Mech 234, 6123–6130 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00707-023-03698-w
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