Analysis of the vibration characteristics of fluid-conveying double-walled carbon nanotubes

Vibration characteristics of double-walled carbon nanotubes (DWCNTs) with conveying fluid are analyzed based on the Euler–Bernoulli beam theory and using the wave propagation approach. The DWCNTs are considered as two nanotube shells coupled through the van der Waals interaction between them. The influences of internal moving fluids, such as flow velocity and mass density of fluids, on the vibration frequency of DWCNTs and the DWCNTs embedded in an elastic matrix are investigated in detail. The effect of matrix surrounding carbon nanotubes is considered as a spring element defined by the Winkler model. In this paper, we consider the double-walled nanotubes with an inner diameter of 2.2 nm and an outer diameter of 3.0 nm. According to this analysis, the numerical results indicate that the vibration frequency for the first mode (mode 1) reduces to zero at a critical flow velocity in the case of higher flow velocity, which coincides with the previous study based on a single beam model. The critical flow velo...

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