The dimension splitting element-free Galerkin method for 3D transient heat conduction problems

By transforming a 3D problem into some related 2D problems, the dimension splitting element-free Galerkin(DSEFG) method is proposed to solve 3D transient heat conduction problems. The improved element-free Galerkin(IEFG) method is used for 2D transient heat conduction problems, and the finite difference method is applied in the splitting direction. The discretized system equation is obtained based on the Galerkin weak form of 2D problem; the essential boundary conditions are imposed with the penalty method; and the finite difference method is employed in the time domain. Four exemplary problems are chosen to verify the efficiency of the DSEFG method. The numerical solutions show that the efficiency and precision of the DSEFG method are greater than ones of the IEFG method for 3D problems.     

Transient heat conduction analysis using the MLPG method and modified precise time step integration method

The meshless local Petrov–Galerkin (MLPG) method in conjunction with the modified precise time step integration method in the time domain is proposed for transient heat conduction analysis in this paper. The MLPG method is often referred to as a truly meshless method because it requires no elements or background cells for either field interpolation or background integration. Local weak forms are developed using weighted residual method locally from the partial differential equation of transient heat conduction. In order to simplify the treatment of essential boundary conditions, the natural neighbour interpolation (NNI) is employed for the construction of trial functions. Moreover, the three-node triangular FEM shape functions are taken as test functions to reduce the order of integrands involved in domain integrals. The semi-discrete heat conduction equation is solved numerically with modified precise time step integration method in the time domain. The availability and accuracy of the present method for transient heat conduction analysis are tested through numerical examples.     

移动边界问题的时空域正则区域迭代配点法

考虑热传导方程的移动边界问题,其定解区域随着时间而变化。构造一种时空域上的高精度数值算法求解1+1维移动边界问题。在时空域上假设一个初始移动边界位置,构成移动边界问题的不规则计算区域,选择一个适当的正则区域（矩形区域）完全覆盖所计算的不规则区域,在正则区域上利用移动边界约束条件和固定边界条件,采用时空域重心插值配点法求解1+1维扩散方程,得到正则区域上扩散方程数据。采用二维重心插值计算假设移动边界上函数关于时间偏导数的数值,进而利用一维重心插值配点法求解移动界面控制常微分方程,得到新的假设移动界面位置。重复上述流程,最终得到问题的数值解和移动界面的最终位置。通过典型数值算例验证所建立的数值方法的有效性和数值计算精度。     

变系数瞬态热传导问题边界元格式的特征正交分解降阶方法

提出了一种基于边界元法求解变系数瞬态热传导问题的特征正交分解(POD)降阶方法,重组并推导出变系数瞬态热传导问题适合降阶的边界元离散积分方程,建立了变系数瞬态热传导问题边界元格式的POD降阶模型,并用常数边界条件下建立的瞬态热传导问题的POD降阶模态,对光滑时变边界条件瞬态热传导问题进行降阶分析.首先,对一个变系数瞬态热传导问题,建立其边界域积分方程,并将域积分转换成边界积分;其次,离散并重组积分方程,获得可用于降阶分析的矩阵形式的时间微分方程组;最后,用POD模态矩阵对该时间微分方程组进行降阶处理,建立降阶模型并对其求解.数值算例验证了本文方法的正确性和有效性.研究表明:1)常数边界条件下建立的低阶POD模态矩阵,能够用来准确预测复杂光滑时变边界条件下的温度场结果;2)低阶模型的建立,解决了边界元法中采用时间差分推进技术求解大型时间微分方程组时求解速度慢、算法稳定性差的问题.     

共轭梯度法求解双曲传热多宗量反问题

提出双曲传热反问题热物性参数和边界条件多宗量联合反演的一般数值求解模式,考虑了非均质和分布参数的影响,时域上采用时域精细算法进行离散,建立了便于敏度分析的有限元正演模型.由最小二乘原理建立反演模型,应用共轭梯度法进行求解.探讨了时间步长和测量误差对反演结果的影响,并进行了数值验证.     

An improved local radial point interpolation method for transient heat conduction analysis

The smoothing thin plate spline （STPS） interpolation using the penalty function method according to the optimization theory is presented to deal with transient heat conduction problems. The smooth conditions of the shape functions and derivatives can be satisfied so that the distortions hardly occur. Local weak forms are developed using the weighted residual method locally from the partial differential equations of the transient heat conduction. Here the Heaviside step function is used as the test function in each sub-domain to avoid the need for a domain integral. Essential boundary conditions can be implemented like the finite element method （FEM） as the shape functions possess the Kronecker delta property. The traditional two-point difference method is selected for the time discretization scheme. Three selected numerical examples are presented in this paper to demonstrate the availability and accuracy of the present approach comparing with the traditional thin plate spline （TPS） radial basis functions.     

Fourier spectral embedded boundary solution of the Poisson’s and Laplace equations with Dirichlet boundary conditions

A Fourier spectral embedded boundary method, for solution of the Poisson’s equation with Dirichlet boundary conditions and arbitrary forcing functions (including zero forcing function), is presented in this paper. This iterative method begins by transformation of the Dirichlet boundary conditions from the physical boundaries to some corresponding regular grid points (which are called the numerical boundaries), using a second order interpolation method. Then the transformed boundary conditions and the forcing function are extended to a square, smoothly and periodically, via multiplying them by some suitable error functions. Instead of direct solution of the resulting extended Poisson’s problem, it is suggested to define and solve an equivalent transient diffusion problem on the regular domain, until achievement of the steady solution (which is considered as the solution of the original problem). Without need of any numerical time integration method, time advancement of the solution is obtained directly, from the exact solution of the transient problem in the Fourier space. Consequently, timestep sizes can be chosen without stability limitations, which it means higher rates of convergence in comparison with the classical relaxation methods. The method is presented in details for one- and two-dimensional problems, and a new emerged phenomenon (which is called the saturation state) is illustrated both in the physical and spectral spaces. The numerical experiments have been performed on the one- and two-dimensional irregular domains to show the accuracy of the method and its superiority (from the rate of convergence viewpoint) to the other classical relaxation methods. Capability of the method, in dealing with complex geometries, and in presence of discontinuity at the boundaries, has been shown via some numerical experiments on a four-leaf shape geometry.     

Two transparent boundary conditions for the electromagnetic scattering from two-dimensional overfilled cavities

We consider electromagnetic scattering from two-dimensional (2D) overfilled cavities embedded in an infinite ground plane. The unbounded computational domain is truncated to a bounded one by using a transparent boundary condition (TBC) proposed on a semi-ellipse. For overfilled rectangular cavities with homogeneous media, another TBC is introduced on the cavity apertures, which produces a smaller computational domain. The existence and uniqueness of the solutions of the variational formulations for the transverse magnetic and transverse electric polarizations are established. In the exterior domain, the 2D scattering problem is solved in the elliptic coordinate system using the Mathieu functions. In the interior domain, the problem is solved by a finite element method. Numerical experiments show the efficiency and accuracy of the new boundary conditions.     

Sloshing waves in a heated viscoelastic fluid layer in an excited rectangular tank

In this paper, we have investigated the motion of a heated viscoelastic fluid layer in a rectangular tank that is subjected to a horizontal periodic oscillation. The mathematical model of the current problem is communicated with the linearized Navier–Stokes equation of the viscoelastic fluid and heat equation together with the boundary conditions that are solved by means of Laplace transform. Time domain solutions are consequently computed by using Durbin's numerical inverse Laplace transform scheme. Various numerical results are provided and thereby illustrated graphically to show the effects of the physical parameters on the free-surface elevation time histories and heat distribution. The numerical applications revealed that increasing the Reynolds number as well as the relaxation time parameter leads to a wider range of variation of the free-surface elevation, especially for the short time history.     

Efficient time-resolved thermal characterization of single and multi-injector rocket combustion chambers

In this work, an efficient methodology for the time-resolved thermal characterization of rocket combustion chambers at reasonable computational cost is presented. The multi-scale and multi-physics numerical framework tackles simultaneously an arbitrary number of contiguous domains, either fluid or solid, and takes advantage of several modeling solutions aimed at stiffness reduction. Non-premixed turbulent combustion is handled through a flamelet-based approach accounting for non adiabatic and non equilibrium effects, thermal wall functions adapted for rocket operating conditions are employed to overcome the stiffness induced by the boundary layer, and a coupling strategy is implemented to guarantee temperature and heat flux continuity across the interfaces. The coupling strategy is based on a Conjugate Heat Transfer (CHT) condition, yielding the interface temperature as a result of a heat flux continuity constraint, and is then reformulated for convection-dominated phenomena, allowing for a further reduction of the computational cost. This allows for the simulation of long time windows, of industrial and experimental relevance. In particular, the solution of the chemically reactive flow is initialized with a CHT condition, and replaced, upon attainment of a statistical fluid dynamic steady state, by an equivalent convective boundary condition. The numerical framework is validated and tested by means of several 2D and 3D cases, the latter consisting in both single-element and multi-element experimental combustor chambers operating in rocket-like conditions.     

Exact boundary condition for time-dependent wave equation based on boundary integral

An exact non-reflecting boundary conditions based on a boundary integral equation or a modified Kirchhoff-type formula is derived for exterior three-dimensional wave equations. The Kirchhoff-type non-reflecting boundary condition is originally proposed by L. Ting and M.J. Miksis [J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 80 (1986) 1825] and numerically tested by D. Givoli and D. Cohen [J. Comput. Phys. 117 (1995) 102] for a spherically symmetric problem. The computational advantage of Ting–Miksis boundary condition is that its temporal non-locality is limited to a fixed amount of past information. However, a long-time instability is exhibited in testing numerical solutions by using a standard non-dissipative finite-difference scheme. The main purpose of this work is to present a new exact boundary condition and to eliminate the long-time instability. The proposed exact boundary condition can be considered as a limit case of Ting–Miksis boundary condition when the two artificial boundaries used in their method approach each other. Our boundary condition is actually a boundary integral equation on a single artificial boundary for wave equations, which is to be solved in conjunction with the interior wave equation. The new boundary condition needs only one artificial boundary, which can be of any shape, i.e., sphere, cubic surface, etc. It keeps all merits of the original Kirchhoff boundary condition such as restricting the temporal non-locality, free of numerical evaluation of any special functions and so on. Numerical approximation to the artificial boundary condition on cubic surface is derived and three-dimensional numerical tests are carried out on the cubic computational domain.     

An approximation for the boundary optimal control problem of a heat equation defined in a variable domain

In this paper, we consider a numerical approximation for the boundary optimal control problem with the control constraint governed by a heat equation defined in a variable domain. For this variable domain problem, the boundary of the domain is moving and the shape of theboundary is defined by a known time-dependent function. By making use of the Galerkin finite element method, we first project the original optimal control problem into a semi-discrete optimal control problem governed by a system of ordinary differential equations. Then, based on the aforementioned semi-discrete problem, we apply the control parameterization method to obtain an optimal parameter selection problem governed by a lumped parameter system, which can be solved as a nonlinear optimization problem by a Sequential Quadratic Programming （SQP） algorithm. The numerical simulation is given to illustrate the effectiveness of our numerical approximation for the variable domain problem with the finite element method and the control parameterization method.     

A new complex variable meshless method for transient heat conduction problems

<正>In this paper,based on the improved complex variable moving least-square(ICVMLS) approximation,a new complex variable meshless method(CVMM) for two-dimensional(2D) transient heat conduction problems is presented. The variational method is employed to obtain the discrete equations,and the essential boundary conditions are imposed by the penalty method.As the transient heat conduction problems are related to time,the Crank-Nicolson difference scheme for two-point boundary value problems is selected for the time discretization.Then the corresponding formulae of the CVMM for 2D heat conduction problems are obtained.In order to demonstrate the applicability of the proposed method,numerical examples are given to show the high convergence rate,good accuracy,and high efficiency of the CVMM presented in this paper.     

Application of the Green functions to the problem of the thermally induced vibration of a beam

This paper considers the problem of the transverse vibrations of a beam induced by a mobile heat source. The formulation of the problem is based on the differential equations of heat conduction and transverse vibrations of the beam, which are complemented by suitable initial and boundary conditions. The effect of internal and external damping on the vibrations of the beam is considered. The solution to the problem in analytical form is obtained by using the properties of the Green functions. A time partitioning method has been used to avoid the difficulties associated with the slow convergence of the series occurring in the solution to the heat conduction problem. The numerical results of the thermally induced vibration of the beam are presented.     

Meshless analysis of three-dimensional steady-state heat conduction problems

Steady-state heat conduction problems arisen in connection with various physical and engineering problems where the functions satisfy a given partial differential equation and particular boundary conditions, have attracted much attention and research recently. These problems are independent of time and involve only space coordinates, as in Poisson’s equation or the Laplace equation with Dirichlet, Neuman, or mixed conditions. When the problems are too complex, it is difficult to find an analytical solution, the only choice left is an approximate numerical solution. This paper deals with the numerical solution of three-dimensional steady-state heat conduction problems using the meshless reproducing kernel particle method (RKPM). A variational method is used to obtain the discrete equations. The essential boundary conditions are enforced by the penalty method. The effectiveness of RKPM for three-dimensional steady-state heat conduction problems is investigated by two numerical examples.     

Numerical solution of the imprecisely defined inverse heat conduction problem

This paper investigates the numerical solution of the uncertain inverse heat conduction problem. Uncertainties present in the system parameters are modelled through triangular convex normalized fuzzy sets. In the solution process, double parametric forms of fuzzy numbers are used with the variational iteration method(VIM). This problem first computes the uncertain temperature distribution in the domain. Next, when the uncertain temperature measurements in the domain are known, the functions describing the uncertain temperature and heat flux on the boundary are reconstructed. Related example problems are solved using the present procedure. We have also compared the present results with those in [Inf.Sci.(2008) 178 1917] along with homotopy perturbation method(HPM) and [Int. Commun. Heat Mass Transfer(2012) 3930] in the special cases to demonstrate the validity and applicability.     

A stable and high-order accurate conjugate heat transfer problem

This paper analyzes well-posedness and stability of a conjugate heat transfer problem in one space dimension. We study a model problem for heat transfer between a fluid and a solid. The energy method is used to derive boundary and interface conditions that make the continuous problem well-posed and the semi-discrete problem stable. The numerical scheme is implemented using 2nd-, 3rd- and 4th-order finite difference operators on Summation-By-Parts (SBP) form. The boundary and interface conditions are implemented weakly. We investigate the spectrum of the spatial discretization to determine which type of coupling that gives attractive convergence properties. The rate of convergence is verified using the method of manufactured solutions.     

导热几何形状反演的变分原理及边界条件的确立

本文采用变域变分原理,建立了导热几何形状反演问题的变分原理,同时获得了该问题所需满足的边界条件和附加条件.该变分原理能将未知形状的几何变量及控制方程结合在一个变分泛函中,使得数学描述简洁、紧凑,且几何变量及控制方程的求解能耦合地进行.介绍了运用该变分原理并结合有限元方法进行数值计算的方法. 关键词： 几何形状反演 变分原理 有限元 导热     

抛物方程基于自然边界归化的耦合法

将冯康和余德浩提出的自然边界归化方法^[1~4]应用于求解抛物方程初边值外区域问题,提出一种自然边界元与有限元耦合算法。先将控制方程对时间进行离散化,得到关于时间步长的离散化格式,给出圆外域上的自然积分方程,基于此研究抛物方程无界区域问题的自然边界元与有限元耦合法,最后给出相应的数值例子。     

Spectral solvers for spherical elliptic problems

A new family of direct spectral solvers for the 3D Helmholtz equation in a spherical gap and inside a sphere for nonaxisymmetric problems is presented. A variational formulation (no collocation) is adopted, based on the Fourier expansion and the associated Legendre functions to represent the angular dependence over the sphere and using basis functions generated by Legendre or Jacobi polynomials to represent the radial structure of the solution. In the present method, boundary conditions on the polar axis and at the sphere center are not required and never mentioned, by construction. The spectral solution of the vector Dirichlet problem is also considered, by employing a transformation that uncouples the spherical components of the Fourier modes and that is implemented here for the first time. The condition numbers of the matrices involved in the scalar solvers are computed and the spectral convergence of all the proposed solution algorithms is verified by numerical tests.