Numerical solution of three-dimensional thermoplasticity problems for bodies of complex shape

Institute of Mechanics, Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR, Kiev. Translated from Prikladnaya Mekhanika, Vol. 24, No. 8, pp. 24–30, August, 1988.     

Numerical solution of the entrainment equation

An equation describing the change in body shape as a result of intense mass entrainment from the surface under the effect of convective aerodynamic heating under the simplest assumptions (dependence of the pressure on only the local slope of the surface, the method of local similarity to compute the heat fluxes) is considered. Mathematical questions originating during its numerical solution are investigated. The instability of explicit schemes is proved in the neighborhood of the stagnation point. A stable explicit-implicit scheme, suitable for a through computation of unsmooth solutions, is proposed.Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Mekhanika Zhidkosti i Gaza, No. 2, pp. 147–154, March–April, 1978.The author is grateful to V. V. Lunev for constant attention to the research and for useful discussions.     

Numerical solution of a nonlinear reaction-diffusion equation

A nonlinear reaction-diffusion equation is studied numerically by a Petrov-Galerkinfinite element method,which has been proved to be2nd-order accurate in time and4th-orderin space.The comparison between the exact and numerical solutions of progressive wavesshows that this numerical scheme is quite accurate,stable and efficient.It is also shown thatany local disturbance will spread,have a full growth and finally form two progressive wavespropagating in both directions.The shape and the speed of the long term progressive wavesare determined by the system itself,and do not depend on the details of the initial values.     

The use of complex valued functions for the solution of three-dimensional elasticity problems

For the treatment of plane elasticity problems the use of complex functions has turned out to be an elegant and effective method. The complex formulation of stresses and displacements resulted from the introduction of a real stress function which has to satisfy the 2-dimensional biharmonic equation. It can be expressed therefore with the aid of complex functions. In this paper the fundamental idea of characterizing the elasticity problem in the case of zero body forces by a biharmonic stress function represented by complex valued functions is extended to 3-dimensional problems. The complex formulas are derived in such a way that the Muskhelishvili formulation for plane strain is included as a special case. As in the plane case, arbitrary complex valued functions can be used to ensure the satisfaction of the governing equations. Within the solution of an analytical example some advantages of the presented method are illustrated.     

Numerical solution of the singularly perturbed problem for the hyperbolic equation with initial jump

In this paper we consider the initial-boundary value problem for a second order hyperbolic equation with initial jump. The bounds on the derivatives of the exact solution are given. Then a difference scheme is constructed on a non-uniform grid. Finally, uniform convergence of the difference solution is proved in the sense of the discrete energy norm.     

小波插值方法自适应数值求解时间进化微分方程

应用小波自相关函数的插值性质,得到任意给定函数的插值小波表达式,然后对其直接求导,可以得到函数导数的表达式。导数运算不再应用差分算法,扩展了小波方法在数值求解微分方程中的应用。由于小波基函数的有限支撑特点,小波方法可以有效地处理微分方程中解的局部突变问题。通过设定小波系数阀值,实现了求解过程的自适应。本文给出了两个算例,结果表明了算法的自适应特点及其向二维空间问题推广的有效性。     

Numerical solution of viscous flows using integral equation methods

A formulation of the boundary element method for the solution of non-zero Reynolds number incompressible flows in which the non-linear terms are lumped together to form a forcing function is presented. Solutions can be obtained at low to moderate Reynolds numbers. The method was tested using the flow of a fluid in a two-dimensional converging channel (Hamel flow) for which an exact solution is available. An axisymmetric formulation is demonstrated by examining the drag experienced by a sphere held stationary in uniform flow. Performance of the method was satisfactory. New results for an axisymmetric free jet at zero Reynolds number obtained using the boundary element method are also included. The method is ideal for this type of free-surface problem.     

Numerical solution of nonlinear ordinary differential equation for a turning point problem

By using the method in[3],several useful estimations of the derivatives of the solutionof the boundary value problem for a nonlinear ordinary differential equation with a turningpoint are obtained.With the help of the technique in[4],the uniform convergence on thesmall parameterεfor a difference scheme is proved.At the end of this paper,a numericalexample is given.The numerical result coincides with theoretical analysis.     

Numerical solution of the regularized long wave equation using nonpolynomial splines

In this paper, we employ nonpolynomial spline (NPS) basis functions to obtain approximate solutions of the regularized long wave (RLW) equation. By considering suitable relevant parameters, it is shown that the local truncation error behaves O(k ²+h ²) with respect to the time and space discretization. Numerical stability of the method is investigated by using a linearized stability analysis. To illustrate the applicability and efficiency of the aforementioned basis, we compare obtained numerical results with other existing recent methods. Motion of single solitary wave and double and triple solitary waves, wave undulation, generation of solitary waves using the Maxwellian initial condition and conservation properties of mass, energy, and momentum of numerical solutions of the equation are dealt with.     

A boundary collocation method for the solution of a flow problem in a complex three-dimensional porous medium

A flow problem in a complex three-dimensional domain with a free surface and mixed-type boundary conditions is solved by the boundary collocation method. The solution is expressed as a combination of source functions distributed all around the domain close to the boundary, plus a special basis function to take care of a corner singularity. The resulting procedure is compared with the boundary integral elements method and is found to be simpler and more flexible to implement and faster to compute.     

Numerical simulation of the three-dimensional micro-scale dispersion of air-pollutants in regions with complex topography

 A computational method for predicting the dispersion of gaseous emissions in regions with complex topography is presented. Different meteorological conditions, source data, and gas compositions and specific weights are taken into consideration. The three-dimensional governing equations of fluid- and thermodynamics are numerically solved by means of the finite volume method. The kɛ turbulence model is utilized to account for the turbulent nature of the flow. The numerical results obtained by the proposed method show satisfactory agreement with both results obtained by other numerical methods and experimental and/or measured data. The presented method is applied to four test cases, including steady and unsteady problems, in order to illustrate its usefulness. Received on 1 March 2001     

Numerical perturbation method for approximate solution of poisson's equation on a moderately deforming grid

In problems such as the computation of incompressible flows with moving boundaries, it may be necessary to solve Poisson's equation on a large sequence of related grids. In this paper the LU decomposition of the matrix A ₀ representing Poisson's equation discretized on one grid is used to efficiently obtain an approximate solution on a perturbation of that grid. Instead of doing an LU decomposition of the new matrix A , the RHS is perturbed by a Taylor expansion of A ^?1 about A ₀. Each term in the resulting series requires one ‘backsolve’ using the original LU . Tests using Laplace's equation on a square/rectangle deformation look promising; three and seven correction terms for deformations of 20% and 40% respectively yielded better than 1% accuracy. As another test, Poisson's equation was solved in an ellipse (fully developed flow in a duct) of aspect ratio 2/3 by perturbing about a circle; one correction term yielded better than 1% accuracy. Envisioned applications other than the computation of unsteady incompressible flow include: three-dimensional parabolic problems in tubes of varying cross-section, use of ‘elimination’ techniques other than LU decomposition, and the solution of PDEs other than Poisson's equation.     

Numerical solution of multiple hole problem by using boundary integral equation

This paper studies a numerical solution of multiple hole problem by using a boundary integral equation. The studied problem can be considered as a supposition of many single hole problems. After considering the interaction among holes, an algebraic equation is formulated, which is then solved by using an iteration technique. The hoop stress around holes can be finally determined. One numerical example is provided to check its accuracy.     

Probabilistic approach for transport of contaminants through porous media

The channels formed between individual particles in porous media have variable dimensions and orientations. The porosity, permeability and its anisotropy exhibit random spatial distributions. The probabilistic approach can effectively describe the transport of contaminants through porous media and is analysed in this paper. Numerical results are obtained by considering (I) random dispersion coefficients without and with spatial structure, (II) random time distribution of concentration at the inlet boundary, (III) random velocity distribution in the flow field without and (IV) with variable dispersion coefficient, (V) non-linearity of the governing equation and (VI) anisotropy of the dispersion coefficient. Two methods are used for probabilistic predictions: (1) Gaussian field approach in conjunction with Monte Carlo method and (2) random walk method. The input random parameters are assumed to have normal and log-normal distributions according to available experimental data. The probability distribution functions of the contaminant concentration at different locations within the flow domain are calculated and compared with the input distributions as a function of the mean and fluctuation Peclet numbers. The one-dimensional case is analysed in detail and the illustrative numerical predictions are compared with analytical and experimental results. The extension to a two-dimensional domain is discussed in the last part of this paper.