Teachers’ conceptions of tangent line

In order to study the conceptions, and their evolutions, of the tangent line to a curve an updating workshop which took place in México was designed for upper secondary school teachers. This workshop was planned using the methodology of cooperative learning, scientific debate and auto reflection (ACODESA) and the conception-knowing-concept model (cK¢) developed mainly by Balacheff. In order to initiate the conceptions reorganization, an initial activity was made in the graphic frame; it seems optimal to start the debates without leading participants to failure. The mathematical core of the workshop was formed by an algebraic method to find tangents to algebraic curves which is close to Descartes’ method. The ACODESA methodology allowed some intense debates mainly concerning the local character of a tangent, generating the teachers’ cognitive unbalance which is a starting point for the refinement or transformation of their conceptions. On the other hand, the cK¢ model allows to understand the conceptions of participants and to analyze the evolution of their knowings.     

Hodge numbers of nodal double octics

Let B be a surface of even degree d in P³ with nodes as the only singular points. In [1] Clemens proved that the topology of the small resolution of the double covering of P³ branched along B depends not only on the number of nodes but also on the so-called defect, a non-negative integer describing their configuration.

The aim of this note is to give an elementary proof of the Clemens. result and to present some geometric interpretation of defect.     

Are upwind techniques in multi-phase flow models necessary?

Two alternatives of primary variables are compared for two-phase flow in heterogeneous media by solving fully established benchmarks. The first combination utilizes pressure of the wetting fluid and saturation of the non-wetting fluid as primary variables, while the second employs capillary pressure of the wetting fluid and pressure of the non-wetting fluid. While the standard Galerkin finite element method (SGFEM) is known to fail in the physical reproduction of two-phase flow in heterogeneous media (unless employing a fully upwind correction), the second scheme with capillary pressure as a primary variable without applying an upwind technique produces correct physical fluid behaviour in heterogeneous media, as observed from experiments.     

An accurate gradient and Hessian reconstruction method for cell‐centered finite volume discretizations on general unstructured grids

In this paper, a novel reconstruction of the gradient and Hessian tensors on an arbitrary unstructured grid, developed for implementation in a cell‐centered finite volume framework, is presented. The reconstruction, based on the application of Gauss' theorem, provides a fully second‐order accurate estimate of the gradient, along with a first‐order estimate of the Hessian tensor. The reconstruction is implemented through the construction of coefficient matrices for the gradient components and independent components of the Hessian tensor, resulting in a linear system for the gradient and Hessian fields, which may be solved to an arbitrary precision by employing one of the many methods available for the efficient inversion of large sparse matrices. Numerical experiments are conducted to demonstrate the accuracy, robustness, and computational efficiency of the reconstruction by comparison with other common methods. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Finite element analysis of thermally coupled nonlinear Darcy flows

We consider a coupled system describing nonlinear Darcy flows with temperature dependent viscosity and with viscous heating. We first establish existence, uniqueness, and regularity of the weak solution of the system of equations. Next, we decouple the coupled system by a fixed point algorithm and propose its finite element approximation. Finally, we present convergence analysis with an error estimate between continuous solution and its iterative finite element approximation.© 2009 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Numer Methods Partial Differential Eq, 2010     

孔型立轧过程的三维刚塑性有限元分析

采用三维刚塑性有限元法对２Ｓ－Ａｌ板孔型立轧稳态过程进行了分析和比较，所得轧件断面形状，轧制力及轧制力矩与文献「１」的实验结果吻合很好，计算精度有所提高。     

NONCONFORMING STABILIZED FINITE ELEMENT METHODS BASED ON RIESZ-REPRESENTING OPERATORS

Following the framework of the finite element methods based on Riesz-representingoperators developed by Duan Huoyuan in 1997,through discrete Rieszonsome virtual(non-) conforming finite-dimensional subspaces,a stabilization formulation is presented for the Stokes problem by employing nonconforming elements. This formulation is uni-tormly coercive and not subject to the Babus Ka-Brezzi condition,and the resulted linearalgebraic system is positive definite with the spectral condition number O(h^-2).Quasi-optimal error bounds are obtained,which is consistent with the interpolation properties of the finite elements used.     

A comparison between a collocation and weak implementation of the rigid‐body motion constraint on a particle surface

In this work, we implemented and compared two different methods to impose the rigid‐body motion constraint on a solid particle moving inside a fluid. We consider a fictitious domain method to easily manage the particle motion. As the solid as well as the fluid inertia are neglected, the particle can be discretized through its boundary only. The rigid‐body motion is imposed via Lagrange multipliers on the boundary. In the first method, such constraints are imposed in discrete points on the boundary (collocation), whereas in the second the constraint is imposed in a weak way on elements dividing the particle surface. Two test problems, that is, a spherical and an ellipsoidal particle in a sheared Newtonian fluid, are chosen to compare the methods. In both cases, the analysis is carried out in 2D as well as in 3D. The results show that for the collocation method an optimal number of collocation points exist leading to the smallest error. However, small variations in the optimal value can generate large deviations. In the weak implementation, the error is only mildly affected by the number of elements used to discretize the particle boundary and by the Lagrange multiplier's interpolation space. A further analysis is carried out to study the effect of an approximated integration of weak constraints. A comparison between the two methods showed that the same accuracy can be achieved by using less constraints if the weak discretization is used. Finally, the rigid‐body motion imposed via weak constraints leads to better conditioned linear systems. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

平面应变不可压缩橡胶圆柱的大变形

针对一类新的橡胶材料应变能函数，推导了受内压作用下不可压缩橡胶圆柱的大变形公式，给出了位移、应力的解析表达式（用积分形式表示）。建立了适用于分析非线性不可压缩橡胶材料的罚有限元列式，算例表明：位移与应力能很好地与理论解吻合，并提出了控制计算稳定的方法，特别是详细地讨论罚因子的选取及对计算结果的影响。     

The boundary element method applied to elastic contact problems with friction

In the current paper the boundary integral equations (BIE) for elastic contact problems with friction are derived from the incremental virtual work principle. After introducing contact conditions of adhesion and slip into BIE all variants on boundary are made to discretize by quadratic isoparametric boundary element. In the current paper not only an auto-increment loading law is presented but also the iterative calculation laws for open, slip and adhesion condition are given. The results of numerical examples are satisfactory.