The free surface flow of Newtonian and non-Newtonian fluids trapped by surface tension

In this paper the position of the free surface of a swirling fluid held in by surface tension is calculated by the finite element method. A new locally mass-conserving quadratic velocity, linear pressure triangular element is used to overcome non-physical solutions produced by the well known Taylor-Hood element.     

A finite element method for free surface flows of incompressible fluids in three dimensions. Part II. Dynamic wetting lines

To date, few researchers have solved three‐dimensional free surface problems with dynamic wetting lines. This paper extends the free surface finite element method (FEM) described in a companion paper [Cairncross RA, Schunk PR, Baer TA, Sackinger PA, Rao RR. A finite element method for free surface flows of incompressible fluid in three dimensions. Part I. Boundary fitted mesh motion. International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids 2000; 33 : 375–403] to handle dynamic wetting. A generalization of the technique used in two‐dimensional modeling to circumvent double‐valued velocities at the wetting line, the so‐called kinematic paradox, is presented for a wetting line in three dimensions. This approach requires the fluid velocity normal to the contact line to be zero, the fluid velocity tangent to the contact line to be equal to the tangential component of web velocity, and the fluid velocity into the web to be zero. In addition, slip is allowed in a narrow strip along the substrate surface near the dynamic contact line. For realistic wetting line motion, a contact angle that varies with wetting speed is required because contact lines in three dimensions typically advance or recede at different rates depending upon location and/or have both advancing and receding portions. The theory is applied to capillary rise of static fluid in a corner, the initial motion of a Newtonian droplet down an inclined plane, and extrusion of a Newtonian fluid from a nozzle onto a moving substrate. The extrusion results are compared with experimental visualization. Copyright © 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

DYNAMICAL ARTIFICIAL BOUNDARY FOR FLUID MEDIUM IN WAVE MOTION PROBLEMS

无限域流体介质的波动辐射效应是影响海域工程动力反应的重要因素,人工边界是实现此类开放系统近场波动问题数值分析的有效方法.基于位移格式的流体波动理论推导开放域流体介质的人工边界,分别给出一维、二维和三维空间中平面波、柱面波和球面波的流体介质动力人工边界条件,其中一维平面波动人工边界为经典的黏性边界,二维柱面波、三维球面波的人工边界处节点应力与节点速度和加速度成正比,可等效为由阻尼与质量系统构成的人工边界条件.讨论相应的数值模拟技术,给出流体介质动力人工边界在ANSYS软件平台的具体实现方法.近场流体介质动力反应问题的算例表明,所发展的流体动力人工边界对于轴对称波动与非轴对称波动在近场有限域截断处的透射吸收作用的模拟计算精度均较为良好,说明此流体介质人工边界具有较高的可靠性与实用性.所发展的流体介质动力人工边界可较为方便地与大型商用有限元软件结合,可为包括海域地形和海岛在内的海域工程的动力分析提供一定的方法借鉴.     

任意的拉格朗日欧拉边界元－有限元混合法分析物体撞水响应

计算物体的撞水响应目前已有了一些专用的算法．本文在分析和比较这些算法的基础上，提出了一个解撞水问题的任意的拉格朗日欧拉边界元－有限元混合法（ＡＬＥ－ＢＥ－ＦＥＭ），这个方法不仅充分发挥了边界元法计算半空间流场的优越性，而且还能计及液面大晃动的非线性边界条件和物体变形所造成的影响．文中给出圆柱刚体和楔形刚柱体两个撞水算例，结果有力表明该方法的可靠性和有效性。     

三维非定常可压跨声速有旋流动的统一变域变分理论

本文利用Ｃｌｅｂｓｃｈ变量,应用半反推法首次建立了三维非定常可压跨声有旋流体的广义变分原理及变分原理族,应用变域变分工具,几乎所有界面条件（包括激波、尾涡面条件等）都转化成了自然边界条件,这给有限元计算带来了很大的方便。     

Lagrangian finite element analysis applied to viscous free surface fluid flow

A new Lagrangian finite element formulation is presented for time-dependent incompressible free surface fluid flow problems described by the Navier-Stokes equations. The partial differential equations describing the continuum motion of the fluid are discretized using a Galerkin procedure in conjunction with the finite element approximation. Triangular finite elements are used to represent the dependent variables of the problem. An effective time integration procedure is introduced and provides a viable computational method for solving problems with equality of representation of the pressure and velocity fields. Its success has been attributed to the strict enforcement of the continuity constraint at every stage of the iterative process. The capabilities of the analysis procedure and the computer programs are demonstrated through the solution of several problems in viscous free surface fluid flow. Comparisons of results are presented with previous theoretical, numerical and experimental results.     

Numerical simulation of transient planar flow of a viscoelastic material with two moving free surfaces

In this study, we examine the numerical simulation of transient viscoelastic flows with two moving free surfaces. A modified Galerkin finite element method is implemented to the two-dimensional non-steady motion of the fluid of the Oldroyd-B type. The fluid is initially placed between two parallel plates and bounded by two straight free boundaries. In this Lagrangian finite element method, the spatial mesh deforms in time along with the moving free boundaries. The unknown shape of the free surfaces is determined with the flow field u, v, τ, p by the deformable finite element method, combined with a predictor-corrector scheme in an uncoupled fashion. The moving free surfaces and fluid motion of both Newtonian and non-Newtonian flows are investigated. The results include the influence of surface tension, fluid inertia and elasticity.     

Three‐dimensional finite element analysis of transient fluid flow with free‐surface using marker surface method and adaptive grid refinement

For three‐dimensional finite element analysis of transient fluid flow with free‐surface, a new marker surface method is proposed, in which the fluid flow is represented by the marker surface composed of marker elements instead of marker particles used in the marker particle method. This also involves an adaptive grid that is created under a new criterion of element categorization of filling states and the locations in the total region at each time step. The marker surface is used in order to represent the free‐surface accurately, as well as to decrease the memory and computation time, and to effectively display the predicted three‐dimensional free‐surface. By using the adaptive grid in which the elements, finer than those in internal and external regions, are distributed in the surface region through refinement and coarsening procedures, the analysis of three‐dimensional transient fluid flow with free‐surface is achieved more efficiently. Through three‐dimensional analysis of two kinds of problems using several grids, the efficiency of the proposed marker surface method and the adaptive grid are verified. Copyright © 1999 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

聚合物熔体三维挤出胀大的数值模拟

采用有限元方法分析K-BKZ本构方程描述的聚合物熔体的三维挤出胀大.对于本构方程中偏应力张量的计算,首先给出质点的运动轨迹,分段求出局部的变形梯度张量,再求出整体的变形梯度、Cauchy-Green应变张量和 Finger应变张量,沿轨迹采用分段高斯积分计算应力.把应力作为方程的右端项,给出迭代方法,求解非线性方程组.并根据自由面处的边界条件,迭代得出出口处自由面的最终位置.对轴对称流道和矩形流道进行分析计算,并把结果与二维分析和实验结果进行了比较,显示方法是可行的.     

A finite element method for free surface flows of incompressible fluids in three dimensions. Part I. Boundary fitted mesh motion

Computational fluid mechanics techniques for examining free surface problems in two‐dimensional form are now well established. Extending these methods to three dimensions requires a reconsideration of some of the difficult issues from two‐dimensional problems as well as developing new formulations to handle added geometric complexity. This paper presents a new finite element formulation for handling three‐dimensional free surface problems with a boundary‐fitted mesh and full Newton iteration, which solves for velocity, pressure, and mesh variables simultaneously. A boundary‐fitted, pseudo‐solid approach is used for moving the mesh, which treats the interior of the mesh as a fictitious elastic solid that deforms in response to boundary motion. To minimize mesh distortion near free boundary under large deformations, the mesh motion equations are rotated into normal and tangential components prior to applying boundary conditions. The Navier–Stokes equations are discretized using a Galerkin–least square/pressure stabilization formulation, which provides good convergence properties with iterative solvers. The result is a method that can track large deformations and rotations of free surface boundaries in three dimensions. The method is applied to two sample problems: solid body rotation of a fluid and extrusion from a nozzle with a rectangular cross‐section. The extrusion example exhibits a variety of free surface shapes that arise from changing processing conditions. Copyright © 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

An orthogonal mapping technique for the computation of a viscous free-surface flow

In this paper we describe finite element computations of the free-surface flow of a viscous fluid down an undulating inclined plane. The technique developed here employs an orthogonal mapping that is computed along with the velocity and pressure. This is allied to a technique to compute symbolically the Jacobian and other derivatives required for numerical continuation methods. The solutions obtained are compared with laboratory experiments and finite element computations reported by Pritchard and co-workers. The finite element computational method used by these authors employs spines to represent the free surface. An excellent agreement is shown to exist between the new computations and the laboratory experiments, and with the numerical solutions of Pritchard and co-workers.     

An ‘assumed deviatoric stress–pressure–velocity’ mixed finite element method for unsteady,convective, incompressible viscous flow: Part I: Theoretical development

A formulation of a mixed finite element method for the analysis of unsteady, convective, incompressible viscous flow is presented in which: (i) the deviatoric-stress, pressure, and velocity are discretized in each element, (ii) the deviatoric stress and pressure are subject to the constraint of the homogeneous momentum balance condition in each element, a priori, (iii) the convective acceleration is treated by the conventional Galerkin approach, (iv) the finite element system of equations involves only the constant term of the pressure field (which can otherwise be an arbitrary polynomial) in each element, in addition to the nodal velocities, and (v) all integrations are performed by the necessary order quadrature rules. A fundamental analysis of the stability of the numerical scheme is presented. The method is easily applicable to 3-dimensional problems. However, solutions to several problems of 2-dimensional Navier-Stokes' flow, and their comparisons with available solutions in terms of accuracy and efficiency, are discussed in detail in Part II of this paper.     

Coating flow theory by finite element and asymptotic analysis of the navier-stokes system

Coating flows are laminar free surface flows, preferably steady and two-dimensional, by which a liquid film is deposited on a substrate. Their theory rests on mass and momentum accounting for which Galerkin's weighted residual method, finite element basis functions, isoparametric mappings, and a new free surface parametrization prove particularly well-suited, especially in coping with the highly deformed free boundaries, irregular flow domains, and the singular nature of static and dynamic contact lines where fluid interfaces intersect solid surfaces. Typically, short forming zones of rapidly rearranging two-dimensional flow merge with simpler asymptotic regimes of developing or developed flow upstream and downstream. The two-dimensional computational domain can be shrunk in size by imposing boundary conditions from asymptotic analysis of those regimes or by matching to one-dimensional finite element solutions of asymptotic equations. The theory is laid out with special attention to conditions at free surfaces, contact lines, and open inflow and outflow boundaries. Efficient computation of predictions is described with emphasis on a grand Newton iteration that converges rapidly and brings other benefits. Sample results for curtain coating and roll coating flows of Newtonian liquids illustrate the power and effectiveness of the theory.     

An ‘assumed deviatoric stress-pressure-velocity’ mixed finite element method for unsteady,convective, incompressible viscous flow: Part II: Computational studies

In Part I of this paper we presented a mixed finite element method, for solving unsteady, incompressible, convective flows, based on assumed ‘deviatoric stress–velocity–pressure’ fields in each element, which have the features: (i) the convective term is treated by the usual Galerkin technique; (ii) the unknowns in the global system of finite element equations are the nodal velocities, and the ‘constant term’ in the arbitrary pressure field over each element; and (iii) exact integrations are performed over each element. In this paper we present numerical studies, both for steady as well as unsteady cases, of the problems: (a) the driven cavity, (b) Jeffry–Hamel flow in a channel, (c) flow over a ‘backward’ or ‘downstream’ facing step, and (d) flow over a square step. All these problems are two-dimensional in nature, although certain 3-D solutions are to be presented in a separate paper. The present results are compared with those which are available in the literature and are based on alternative approaches to treat incompressibility and convective acceleration. The possible merits of the present method are thus pointed out.     

成层饱和介质平面波斜入射问题的一维化时域方法

地震波斜入射下自由场的输入是大型结构抗震分析中亟待解决的问题之一,尤其是成层饱和多孔介质自由场问题,由于问题的复杂性,目前研究甚少. 本文基于Biot提出的饱和多孔介质动力方程,建立了一种新的求解平面波斜入射下基岩上覆饱和多孔介质成层场地自由场分析的一维化时域计算方法. 该方法首先根据Snell定律将饱和多孔介质二维空间问题转化为一维时域问题,通过对深度方向的有限元离散,得到饱和多孔介质波动问题的一维化有限元方程,然后采用单相弹性介质精确人工边界条件模拟基岩半空间的波动辐射和输入特征,通过考虑基岩与饱和多孔介质间透水或不透水边界条件以及不同饱和多孔介质交界面边界条件,形成基岩上覆成层饱和介质系统的整体有限元方程,最后采用中心差分法与Newmark平均加速度近似格式相结合的方法对时间进行离散,得到节点的动力时程的显式表达. 典型场地的地震反应分析表明,本文方法的计算结果与传递矩阵法结合傅里叶变换的计算结果完全吻合,证明了其有效性.      

Finite element simulation of die swell for a Maxwell fluid

The finite element formulation recently developed [1] for viscoelastic fluids of singly memory type has been extended to handle problems involving free surfaces. Previously [1], flows without free surfaces were demonstrated by solving the die entry and reverse entry flows. The single integral Maxwell fluid is retained here as the constitutive model for this further test of the technique. New work in this paper includes an algorithm to track particles on the free surface and a new free surface updating scheme. For the present die swell problem, the method successfully converged up to Deborah number of about 1. As in the previous problems, convergence appears to be limited by numerically induced incompatibility of large strains. The resulting errors in the computed stress field have a more pronounced impact on free surface flows.     

A Hybrid Boundary/Finite Element Method for Simulating Viscous Flows and Shapes of Droplets in Electric Fields

A mixed boundary element and finite element numerical algorithm for the simultaneous prediction of the electric fields, viscous flow fields, thermal fields and surface deformation of electrically conducting droplets in an electrostatic field is described in this paper. The boundary element method is used for the computation of the electric potential distribution. This allows the boundary conditions at infinity to be directly incorporated into the boundary integral formulation, thereby obviating the need for discretization at infinity. The surface deformation is determined by solving the normal stress balance equation using the weighted residuals method. The fluid flow and thermal fields are calculated using the mixed finite element method. The computational algorithm for the simultaneous prediction of surface deformation and fluid flow involves two iterative loops, one for the electric field and surface deformation and the other for the surface tension driven viscous flows. The two loops are coupled through the droplet surface shapes for viscous fluid flow calculations and viscous stresses for updating the droplet shapes. Computing the surface deformation in a separate loop permits the freedom of applying different types of elements without complicating procedures for the internal flow and thermal calculations. Tests indicate that the quadratic, cubic spline and spectral boundary elements all give approximately the same accuracy for free surface calculations; however, the quadratic elements are preferred as they are easier to implement and also require less computing time. Linear elements, however, are less accurate. Numerical simulations are carried out for the simultaneous solution of free surface shapes and internal fluid flow and temperature distributions in droplets in electric fields under both microgravity and earthbound conditions. Results show that laser heating may induce a non-uniform temperature distribution in the droplets. This non-uniform thermal field results in a variation of surface tension along the surface of the droplet, which in turn produces a recirculating fluid flow in the droplet. The viscous stresses cause additional surface deformation by squeezing the surface areas above and below the equator plane.