Fitted finite element discretization of two‐phase Stokes flow

We propose a novel fitted finite element method for two‐phase Stokes flow problems that uses piecewise linear finite elements to approximate the moving interface. The method can be shown to be unconditionally stable. Moreover, spherical stationary solutions are captured exactly by the numerical approximation. In addition, the meshes describing the discrete interface in general do not deteriorate in time, which means that in numerical simulations, a smoothing or a remeshing of the interface mesh is not necessary. We present several numerical experiments for our numerical method, which demonstrate the accuracy and robustness of the proposed algorithm. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Material forces and phase transitions in elasticity

A computational scheme for the determination of the interface in a strain-induced phase-transition problem for an elastic bar is proposed. The algorithm is based on the material force notion and more specifically on the simultaneous solution of equilibrium equations for the physical and material forces. The weak form of both equations is derived with the aid of a variational principle that accounts for the variations of the dependent and the independent variables. The whole scheme concludes in a nonlinear algebraic system which is numerically solved by the Newton method. The numerical results thus derived seem to be quite encouraging for further application of the concept of material forces in computations related to phase transition problems. The austenite–martensite transformation could be a possible application of the proposed model.     

NON-INTERIOR SMOOTHING ALGORITHM FOR FRICTIONAL CONTACT PROBLEMS

A new algorithm for solving the three-dimensional elastic contact problem with friction is presented. The algorithm is a non-interior smoothing algorithm based on an NCP-function. The parametric variational principle and parametric quadratic programming method were applied to the analysis of three-dimensional frictional contact problem. The solution of the contact problem was finally reduced to a linear complementarity problem, which was reformulated as a system of nonsmooth equations via an NCP-function. A smoothing approximation to the nonsmooth equations was given by the aggregate function. A Newton method was used to solve the resulting smoothing nonlinear equations. The algorithm presented is easy to understand and implement. The reliability and efficiency of this algorithm are demonstrated both by the numerical experiments of LCP in mathematical way and the examples of contact problems in mechanics.     

Interface transport scheme of a two‐phase flow by the method of characteristics

In this paper, we study an interface transport scheme of a two‐phase flow of an incompressible viscous immiscible fluid. The problem is discretized by the characteristics method in time and finite elements method in space. The interface is captured by the level set function. Appropriate boundary conditions for the problem of mold filling are investigated, a new natural boundary condition under pressure effect for the transport equation is proposed, and an algorithm for computing the solution is presented. Finally, numerical experiments show and validate the effectiveness of the proposed scheme. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

模拟相变问题的精细积分边界元法

将精细积分边界元法和界面追踪法相结合求解相变问题。因为边界元法只需要将待求解空间域的边界离散,方便连续追踪移动界面位置和重构网格,所以边界元法适合应用于移动边界问题的模拟。首先,利用精细积分边界元法在固相区域和液相区域分别求解相应的瞬态热传导控制方程,从而求得温度场和边界热流密度。然后,根据固-液相变界面上的能量平衡方程,利用热流密度求得相变界面的移动速度,再采用界面追踪法预测移动相变界面的位置变化。最后,给出了几个数值算例,并通过与参考解的对比验证本文方法的准确性。     

高阶谱元区域分解算法求解定常方腔驱动流

主要利用Jacobian-free的Newton-Krylov方法求解定常不可压缩Navier-Stokes方程,将基于高阶谱元法的区域分解Stokes算法的非定常时间推进步作为Newton迭代的预处理,回避了传统Newton方法Jacobian矩阵的显式装配,节省了程序内存,同时降低了Newton迭代线性系统的条件数,且没有非线性对流项的隐式求解,大大加快了收敛速度。对有分析解的Kovasznay流动的计算结果表明,本高阶谱元法在空间上有指数收敛的谱精度,且对定常解的Newton迭代是二次收敛的。本文模拟了二维方腔顶盖一致速度驱动流,同基准解符合得很好,表明本文方法是准确可靠的。本文还考虑了Re=800时方腔顶盖正弦速度驱动流,除得到已知的一个稳定对称解和一对稳定非对称解外,还获得了一对新的不稳定的非对称解。     

基于相变松弛法则的水下爆炸空化模型研究

水下爆炸过程中存在着大量的空化现象,空化的产生、演化及其溃灭过程对于水下冲击波传播、爆炸气泡运动以及水下结构物冲击损伤都会产生重要影响。本文基于多相可压缩流体理论模型,考虑空化发生过程中汽-液两相流体亚平衡状态下两相之间发生的热力学-化学平衡机制,分析汽-液两相介质之间的质量和热量交换,从而实现对相变过程的自动捕捉。该系统的控制方程采用分步法处理,首先利用二阶MUSCL-Hancock格式和HLLC黎曼求解器来求解齐次双曲型方程,再采用牛顿迭代法求解相变方程。数值测试结果表明,本文的计算模型对于空化相变过程具有较好的捕捉能力。最后将该模型应用到水下近水面爆炸空化的数值模拟当中,研究发现空泡的溃灭压力峰值约为冲击波压力峰值的15%,有效作用时间是冲击波载荷有效作用时间的2倍以上。本文的空化相变模型能够为水下爆炸空化现象的机理研究提供重要支撑。     

An algorithm for the computation of multiple Hopf bifurcation points based on Pade approximants

Recently, a numerical method was proposed to compute a Hopf bifurcation point in fluid mechanics. This numerical method associates a bifurcation indicator and a Newton method. The former gives initial guesses to the iterative method. These initial values are the minima of the bifurcation indicator. However, sometimes, these minima do not lead to the convergence of the Newton method. Moreover, as only a single initial guess is obtained for each computation of the indicator, the computational time to obtain a Hopf bifurcation point can be quite long. The present algorithm is an enhancement of the previous one. It consists in automatically computing several initial guesses for each indicator curve. The majority of these initial values leads to the convergence of the Newton method. This method is evaluated through the problem of the lid‐driven cavity with several aspect ratios in the framework of the finite element analysis of the 2D Navier–Stokes equations. The results prove the efficiency and the robustness of the proposed algorithm. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Computation of phase response curves via a direct method adapted to infinitesimal perturbations

A new numerical algorithm for computation of phase response curves of stable limit cycle oscillators is proposed. The idea of the algorithm originates from a direct method that is based on computation of the oscillator response to short finite pulses delivered at different phases of oscillations. Here we adapt the direct method to the case of infinitesimal perturbations and compare our algorithm with the standard algorithm based on the backward integration of the adjoint equations. In contrast to the standard algorithm, our algorithm does not require any backward integration and it is easier to program since a necessity of numerical interpolation for the Jacobian matrix is avoided. In addition, we demonstrate by examples that our algorithm is faster than the standard algorithm and this advantage is especially notable for weakly stable limit cycle oscillators.     

Mixed finite element for two-dimensional incompressible convective Brinkman-Forchheimer equations

In this work, the two-dimensional convective Brinkman-Forchheimer equations are considered. The well-posedness for the variational problem and its mixed finite element approximation is established, and the error estimates based on the conforming approximation are obtained. For the computation, a one-step Newton(or semi-Newton)iteration algorithm initialized using a fixed-point iteration is proposed. Finally, numerical experiments using a Taylor-Hood mixed element built on a structured or unstructured triangular mesh are implemented. The numerical results obtained using the algorithm are compared with the analytic data, and are shown to be in very good agreement. Moreover,the lid-driven problem at Reynolds numbers of 100 and 400 is considered and analyzed.     

Aerodynamic design using the truncated Newton algorithm and the continuous adjoint approach

In this paper, the so‐called ‘continuous adjoint‐direct approach’ is used within the truncated Newton algorithm for the optimization of aerodynamic shapes, using the Euler equations. It is known that the direct differentiation (DD) of the flow equations with respect to the design variables, followed by the adjoint approach, is the best way to compute the exact matrix, for use along with the Newton optimization method. In contrast to this, in this paper, the adjoint approach followed by the DD of both the flow and adjoint equations (i.e. the other way round) is proved to be the most efficient way to compute the product of the Hessian matrix with any vector required by the truncated Newton algorithm, in which the Newton equations are solved iteratively by means of the conjugate gradient (CG) method. Using numerical experiments, it is demonstrated that just a few CG steps per Newton iteration are enough. Considering that the cost of solving either the adjoint or the DD equations is approximately equal to that of solving the flow equations, the cost per Newton iteration scales linearly with the (small) number of CG steps, rather than the (much higher, in large‐scale problems) number of design variables. By doing so, the curse of dimensionality is alleviated, as shown in a number of applications related to the inverse design of ducts or cascade airfoils for inviscid flows. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Inexact Newton method via Lanczos decomposed technique for solving box-constrained nonlinear systems

This paper proposes an inexact Newton method via the Lanczos decomposed technique for solving the box-constrained nonlinear systems. An iterative direction is obtained by solving an affine scaling quadratic model with the Lanczos decomposed technique. By using the interior backtracking line search technique, an acceptable trial step length is found along this direction. The global convergence and the fast local convergence rate of the proposed algorithm are established under some reasonable conditions. Furthermore, the results of the numerical experiments show the effectiveness of the pro- posed algorithm.     

晶体生长过程实时监测系统

实时监测晶体生长过程对研究晶体生长动力学以及调控晶体生长过程有着很重要的意义。结合干涉技术、相移技术以及时间序列位相提取技术,建立了一个晶体生长过程实时监测系统。该系统主要由三条光束组成,通过设定快门参数组成不同的Mach-Zehnder干涉光路,可同时用于无机盐晶体和蛋白质晶体生长过程的实时定量监测。利用该系统及时间序列位相提取方法,对NaCl晶体在自然蒸发情况下的生长过程以及溶菌酶蛋白悬滴法结晶过程进行了研究,对该系统和方法在研究晶体结晶过程中的可行性及优势进行了验证。结果表明,该系统不仅可以获得晶体结晶过程中的实时绝对浓度、过饱和度等晶体生长动力学参数;而且对于蛋白质结晶过程,快门系统的引入解决了蛋白溶液多浓度场叠加的分离问题,在一个实验周期内获得了溶菌酶蛋白结晶过程中的实时蛋白浓度演变、实时沉淀剂浓度变化等结晶动力学参数。这些关键参数为下一步探索结晶条件对晶体质量的影响、分析蛋白结晶相图以及优化蛋白质晶体质量提供了定量数据基础。     

A numerical study of the melting of phase change material heated from a vertical wall of a rectangular enclosure

This article presents the first research effort of our group to formulate, implement and validate a numerical method in order to optimise the design of solar passive walls involving phase change materials (PCMs). The fusion of ice, gallium and the commercially available PCM 27 (hydrated salt), engineered by Cristopia and later embedded within an experiment unit, was studied. Comparisons against other prediction methods and experimental data for the fusion of gallium were carried out with good agreement of the solutions. The proposed enthalpy-based method is found to be excellent to predict the fusion, but still fails to reproduce adequately the exact solidification pattern measured for the PCM 27. Further research is going on to improve the model.     

冲击下宏观相边界的传播

研究了具有CdS型相变本构材料的宏观相边界传播规律。相边界包括纯新相和混合相两段。纯新相段可用逐步近似法,混合相段则必须用数值方法求解。给出了三种加卸载应力边界条件下的算例。在突加突卸的应力边界条件下,给出了相边界传播的解析解。在算例中,各种解法得到的结果彼此很好符合。     

自主泳动弹性绳的轨迹模拟

研究柔性结构与流体间耦合作用,可以促进软体机器人的发展.通过速度快、精度高的数值模拟方法模拟水下机器人的实时运动轨迹,可以为真实实验提供测试方向与理论牵引,增大实验成功的可能性.本文研究有自主运动趋势的弹性绳在二维流场中的运动轨迹.首先,对弹性绳离散化建模并同时考虑拉压与扭转弹性力,从能量角度建立动力学方程,此模型可以较为真实地反映弹性绳内力对其运动产生的作用.然后基于半拉格朗日法建立流体求解器. 最后,提出简化的基于动量方程的浸入边界法作为耦合算法,通过直接修正网格速度代替浸入边界力法中力源项的作用.使用这种算法求解耦合作用兼具简便性与快速性.对弹性绳模型、流体模型与简化耦合模型依次解算,模拟了正弦形式波动弹性绳在水中的运动轨迹.结果显示,弹性绳在弹性内力与流固相互作用力共同影响下,该种新的浸入边界法可以实现对水下弹性绳运动轨迹的模拟.数值实验显示弹性绳的自主运动参考模型的初相位改变时,其前进方向会发生改变.该仿真模拟算法与平台可以为细长形软体水生机器人的研发提供参考.      

Finite element simulations of martensitic phase transitions and microstructures based on a strain softening model

A new approach for modeling multivariant martensitic phase transitions (PT) and martensitic microstructure (MM) in elastic materials is proposed. It is based on a thermomechanical model for PT that includes strain softening and the corresponding strain localization during PT. Mesh sensitivity in numerical simulations is avoided by using rate-dependent constitutive equations in the model. Due to strain softening, a microstructure comprised of pure martensitic and austenitic domains separated by narrow transition zones is obtained as the solution of the corresponding boundary value problem. In contrast to Landau-Ginzburg models, which are limited in practice to nanoscale specimens, this new phase field model is valid for scales greater than 100 nm and without upper bound. A finite element algorithm for the solution of elastic problems with multivariant martensitic PT is developed and implemented into the software ABAQUS. Simulated microstructures in elastic single crystals and polycrystals under uniaxial loading are in qualitative agreement with those observed experimentally.     

Temporal accuracy analysis of phase change convection simulations using the JFNK‐SIMPLE algorithm

The incompressible Navier–Stokes and energy conservation equations with phase change effects are applied to two benchmark problems: (1) non‐dimensional freezing with convection; and (2) pure gallium melting. Using a Jacobian‐free Newton–Krylov (JFNK) fully implicit solution method preconditioned with the SIMPLE (Numerical Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow. Hemisphere: New York, 1980) algorithm using centred discretization in space and three‐level discretization in time converges with second‐order accuracy for these problems. In the case of non‐dimensional freezing, the temporal accuracy is sensitive to the choice of velocity attenuation parameter. By comparing to solutions with first‐order backward Euler discretization in time, it is shown that the second‐order accuracy in time is required to resolve the fine‐scale convection structure during early gallium melting. Qualitative discrepancies develop over time for both the first‐order temporal discretized simulation using the JFNK‐SIMPLE algorithm that converges the nonlinearities and a SIMPLE‐based algorithm that converges to a more common mass balance condition. The discrepancies in the JFNK‐SIMPLE simulations using only first‐order rather than second‐order accurate temporal discretization for a given time step size appear to be offset in time. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Calculation of coupled problem between temperature and phase transformation during gas quenching in high pressure

The gas quenching is a modern, effective processing technology. On the basis of nonlinear surface heat-transfer coefficient obtained by Cheng during the gas quenching, the coupled problem between temperature and phase transformation during gas quenching in high pressure was simulated by means of finite element method. In the numerical calculation, the thermal physical properties were treated as the functions of temperature and the volume fraction of phase constituents. In order to avoid effectual "oscillation" of the numerical solutions under smaller time step, the Norsette rational approximate method was used.     

A Newton multigrid method for steady-state shallow water equations with topography and dry areas

A Newton multigrid method is developed for one-dimensional (1D) and two-dimensional (2D) steady-state shallow water equations (SWEs) with topography and dry areas. The nonlinear system arising from the well-balanced finite volume discretization of the steady-state SWEs is solved by the Newton method as the outer iteration and a geometric multigrid method with the block symmetric Gauss-Seidel smoother as the inner iteration. The proposed Newton multigrid method makes use of the local residual to regularize the Jacobian matrix of the Newton iteration, and can handle the steady-state problem with wet/dry transition. Several numerical experiments are conducted to demonstrate the efficiency, robustness, and well-balanced property of the proposed method. The relation between the convergence behavior of the Newton multigrid method and the distribution of the eigenvalues of the iteration matrix is detailedly discussed.