Increase of awareness and high knowledge base of society in the field of climate change and environment in general in global and local ranges is vital to prevent future possible increase of climate changes in the world. In order to more involve society in prevention of future climate changes, national government has come up with National Climate Policy [1], which includes possibility for educational institutions such as University of Liepaja to develop educational programs, including lifelong and distance education programs. To achieve given objective, educational module “Climate Change” is created by University of Liepaja. Goal of this activity is to increase knowledge and capacity of governmental institutions, municipalities, scientific and educational institutions, private businesses, societies and foundations as well as separate members of society. Besides overall information on greenhouse gas emissions and adaptation to climate change, University of Liepaja concentrates more on practical questions, since, in our opinion, practical knowledge on how to use renewable resources, reduce greenhouse gas emissions or even reuse them in industry will create larger impact on achieving the objective. Therefore University of Liepaja concentrates on following topics: practical use of different technical solutions in industry, technical equipment used in industry of renewable energy, technologies used to prevent greenhouse gas emissions and mathematical modeling of possible scenarios, when pollution occurs in populated areas. Developed materials will be available for society, especially for the members of the target group for educational purposes. Materials also can and will be used for distance education.
A model of elastic magnetic filaments is developed, which allows investigating the dependence of filament dynamics on such physical parameters as magnetoelastic number (Cm), frequency of magnetic field, coefficient of friction, etc. By numerical simulation of the dynamics of filament shaping under the action of magnetic field it is shown that a characteristic U-like stable shape (hairpins) can form. Such a shape of filament can exist in the case of low-frequency rotating magnetic field. At the frequency increasing the U-like shape transforms to the S-like one. In the present work it is shown that in unsteady magnetic field a flexible magnetic filament "swims" in the direction of magnetic field.
The model of an elastic magnetic filament is developed. Model of elastic magnetic filament allows investigating dependence of dynamics of filaments on several physical parameters: magnetoelastic number Cm, frequency of magnetic field, coefficient of friction etc. By numerical simulation of the dynamics of filament shapes under action of magnetic field it is shown that the characteristic ‘U’ – like stable shapes (hairpins) can be formed. ‘U’ – like shapes of filament can exist in case of rotating magnetic field with small frequencies. If frequency increases ‘U’ – like shape relax to ‘S’ – like shape. Equations for describing critical frequency dependence on magnetoelastic number are obtained. It is shown that in unsteady magnetic field flexible magnetic filament swims in direction of magnetic field.
The model of an elastic magnetic rod is applied for a study of a behavior of the flexible magnetic particle chain in a rotating magnetic field. By numerical simulation it is shown that behavior of a flexible magnetic chain is characterized by the existence of a critical frequency beyond which the dynamics of the rod is periodic with subsequent stages of bending and straightening. The value of the critical frequency found is explained by a simple model. Below the critical frequency the chain is bent and rotates synchronously with a field. It is illustrated that in particular cases the considered model reproduces phenomena observed experimentally and numerically for the magnetic particle chains in magnetorheological suspensions. It is emphasized that the present approach gives the general framework for the description of different phenomena in magnetorheological suspensions.
The flexible inextensible magnetic rod model is applied for the study of bending and buckling deformations of the paramagnetic particle chains linked by polymer molecules. It is shown that the existing experimental results can be reasonably well described by this model which takes into account the normal magnetic forces arising at chain bending deformation. By matching the experimentally observed shapes with our numerical simulation results different physical properties of the linked paramagnetic particle chains are determined.
Incompressible fluid flow calculations are made by a variant of SIMPLER method. Usually, the velocities in IFCC are quite high reaching around 0.3-0.5 m/s and flow regime is highly turbulent. Therefore, model of turbulent viscosity has to be used. The model describes the complete transition from initial flat shape of the top of metal load to the final one by given power regime. Enthalpy function is used for detailed time dependent description of phase change. The velocities of the glass melt in ICF can be low (< 1 cm), therefore the laminar flow model can be applied.