BEM for transient 2D elastodynamics using multiquadric functions

A new boundary element model for transient dynamic analysis of 2D structures is presented. The dual reciprocity method (DRM) is reformulated for the 2D elastodynamics by using the multiquadric radial basis functions (MQ). The required kernels for displacement and traction particular solutions are derived. Some terms of these kernels are found to be singular; therefore, a new smoothing technique is proposed to solve this problem. Hence, the limiting values of relevant kernels are computed. The validity and strength of the proposed formulation are demonstrated throughout several numerical applications. It is proven from the results that the present formulation is more stable than the traditional DRM, which uses the conical (1 + R) function, especially in predicting results in the far time zone.     

Integration of Singularities in FE/BE Analyses of Soil-foundation Interaction with Non-homogeneous Elastic Soils

This paper addresses the derivation of the boundary integral equations for a non-homogeneous elastic half-space subjected to constant surface tractions on an arbitrarily shaped area on the basis of the respective Green's functions. The type of non-homogeneity considered is a power law variation of Young's modulus with depth below the surface of the half-space. Two different methods, a contour integral and an integration-free approach are presented, applicable for arbitrarily and rectangular shaped boundary elements, respectively. In the first one the divergence theorem is used in order to reduce the integration of a two-dimensional surface element to an integration over the element's confining boundary only. In the second approach no integration at all is needed since the solution is found simply by evaluating functions to be determined at the boundaries of the loaded rectangle.     

PRECISE INTEGRAL ALGORITHM BASED SOLUTION FOR TRANSIENT INVERSE HEAT CONDUCTION PROBLEMS WITH MULTI-VARIABLES

IntroductionIHCPs (InverseHeatConductionProblems)arecloselyassociatedwithmanyengineeringaspects,andwelldocumentedintheliteratures,coveringtheidentificationsofthermalparameters[1,2 ],boundaryshapes[3],boundaryconditions[4 ]andsource_relatedterms[5 ,6 ]etc .Howeveritseemsthatonlylittleworkisdirectlyconcernedwithmulti_variablesidentificationsbyauthors’knowledge.Tsengetal.presentedanapproachtodeterminingtwokindsofvariables[7],butonlygavefewnumericalexamplestodeterminethemsimultaneously .Thesol…     

A Symmetric Galerkin BEM for Harmonic Problems and Multiconnected Bodies

A steady state harmonic solution of Navier equations of motion is presented using the symmetric Galerkin Boundary Element Method, which leads to a symmetric system of equations. For the integration, a two-step regularisation process is proposed to deal with the singularities of the involved kernels. It is also shown that the standard application of the symmetric Galerkin methodology for multiply connected bodies leads to the deterioration of the conditioning of the system for low frequencies. Two examples are presented comparing the solutions obtained with the proposed formulation with those obtained with the standard collocation method. A third example is presented to illustrate the behaviour of a simple multi-connected body.     

A new meshless method for steady-state heat conduction problems in anisotropic and inhomogeneous media

Summary A new meshless method is developed to analyze steady-state heat conduction problems with arbitrarily spatially varying thermal conductivity in isotropic and anisotropic materials. The analog equation is used to construct equivalent equations to the original differential equation so that a simpler fundamental solution of the Laplacian operator can be employed to take the place of the fundamental solutions related to the original governing equation. Next, the particular solution is approximated by using radial basis functions, and the corresponding homogeneous solution is solved by means of the virtual boundary collocation method. As a result, a new method fully independent of mesh is developed. Finally, several numerical examples are implemented to demonstrate the efficiency and accuracy of the proposed method. The numerical results show good agreement with the actual results.This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 10472082) and Australian Research Council.     

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.     

Non-element method of solving 2D boundary problems defined on polygonal domains modeled by Navier equation

The paper presents a non-element method of solving boundary problems defined on polygonal domains modeled by corner points. To solve these problems a parametric integral equation system (PIES) is used. The system is characterized by a separation of the approximation of boundary geometry from the approximation of boundary functions. This feature makes it possible to effectively investigate the convergence of the obtained solutions with no need of performing the approximation of boundary geometry. The testing examples included confirm high accuracy of the solutions.     

An improved exponential transformation for nearly singular boundary element integrals in elasticity problems

This paper presents an improved exponential transformation for nearly singular boundary element integrals in elasticity problems. The new transformation is less sensitive to the position of the projection point compared with the original transformation. In our work, the conventional distance function is modified into a new form in the polar coordinate system. Based on the refined distance function, an improved exponential transformation is proposed in the polar coordinate system. Moreover, to perform integrations on irregular elements, an adaptive integration scheme considering both the element shape and the projection point associated with the improved transformation is proposed. Furthermore, when the projection point is located outside the integration element, another nearest point is introduced to subdivide the integration elements into triangular or quadrilateral patches of fine shapes. Numerical examples are presented to verify the proposed method. Results demonstrate the accuracy and efficiency of our method.     

Recent advances on the fast multipole accelerated boundary element method for 3D time-harmonic elastodynamics

This article is mainly devoted to a review on fast BEMs for elastodynamics, with particular attention on time-harmonic fast multipole methods (FMMs). It also includes original results that complete a very recent study on the FMM for elastodynamic problems in semi-infinite media. The main concepts underlying fast elastodynamic BEMs and the kernel-dependent elastodynamic FM-BEM based on the diagonal-form kernel decomposition are reviewed. An elastodynamic FM-BEM based on the half-space Green’s tensor suitable for semi-infinite media, and in particular on the fast evaluation of the corresponding governing double-layer integral operator involved in the BIE formulation of wave scattering by underground cavities, is then presented. Results on numerical tests for the multipole evaluation of the half-space traction Green’s tensor and the FMM treatment of a sample 3D problem involving wave scattering by an underground cavity demonstrate the accuracy of the proposed approach. The article concludes with a discussion of several topics open to further investigation, with relevant published work surveyed in the process.     

Time-harmonic BEM for 2-D piezoelectricity applied to eigenvalue problems

We will derive the fundamental generalized displacement solution, using the Radon transform, and present the direct formulation of the time-harmonic boundary element method (BEM) for the two-dimensional general piezoelectric solids. The fundamental solution consists of the static singular and the dynamics regular parts; the former, evaluated analytically, is the fundamental solution for the static problem and the latter is given by a line integral along the unit circle. The static BEM is a component of the time-harmonic BEM, which is formulated following the physical interpretation of Somigliana’s identity in terms of the fundamental generalized line force and dislocation solutions obtained through the Stroh–Lekhnitskii (SL) formalism. The time-harmonic BEM is obtained by adding the boundary integrals for the dynamic regular part which, from the original double integral representation over the boundary element and the unit circle, are reduced to simple line integrals along the unit circle.The BEM will be applied to the determination of the eigen frequencies of piezoelectric resonators. The eigenvalue problem deals with full non-symmetric complex-valued matrices whose components depend non-linearly on the frequency. A comparative study will be made of non-linear eigenvalue solvers: QZ algorithm and the implicitly restarted Arnoldi method (IRAM). The FEM results whose accuracy is well established serve as the basis of the comparison. It is found that the IRAM is faster and has more control over the solution procedure than the QZ algorithm. The use of the time-harmonic fundamental solution provides a clean boundary only formulation of the BEM and, when applied to the eigenvalue problems with IRAM, provides eigen frequencies accurate enough to be used for industrial applications. It supersedes the dual reciprocity BEM and challenges to replace the FEM designed for the eigenvalue problems for piezoelectricity.     

Adaptive mixed least squares Galerkin/Petrov finite element method for stationary conduction convection problems

An adaptive mixed least squares Galerkin/Petrov finite element method (FEM) is developed for stationary conduction convection problems. The mixed least squares Galerkin/Petrov FEM is consistent and stable for any combination of discrete velocity and pressure spaces without requiring the Babuska-Brezzi stability condition. Using the general theory of Verfürth, the posteriori error estimates of the residual type are derived. Finally, numerical tests are presented to illustrate the effectiveness of the method.     

Adaptive mixed least squares Galerkin/Petrov finite element method for stationary conduction convection problems

An adaptive mixed least squares Galerkin/Petrov finite element method (FEM) is developed for stationary conduction convection problems. The mixed least squares Galerkin/Petrov FEM is consistent and stable for any combination of discrete velocity and pressure spaces without requiring the Babuska-Brezzi stability condition. Using the general theory of Verfürth, the posteriori error estimates of the residual type are derived. Finally, numerical tests are presented to illustrate the effectiveness of the method.     

压电介质边界元法及奇异性处理

本文从压电材料的基本方程出发,利用功的互等原理推导了边界积分方程,并详细地讨论了边界元的计算步骤,利用等参变换,着重研究了在边界元计算中基本解的奇异性问题,对各种情况讨论了系数矩阵H和G的算法,并给出院具体的表达式,作为算例,选取了均匀薄板和开孔薄板PZY-4压电材料,计算结果表明,本文提出的边界元的计算格式和奇异性的处理方法相当有效。     

A Finite Element Method for 3-D Eddy Current Problems Using an Iterative Approach

An iterative method is proposed for a finite element approximation of three-dimensional eddy current problems. The method is based on an iterative method derived from a perturbation problem of magnetostatic problems. The TEAM model and a transformer model are considered as numerical examples. In both examples, BiConjugate Gradient (BiCG) method is applicable for the complex symmetric linear system arising in each step of the iterative procedure for a rather wide range of the perturbation parameter, and the present results seem to be suitable.     

薄板稳定问题的边界元法

本文基于小挠度薄板弯曲问题的基本解,建立了求解薄板稳定问题的边界积分方程,并计算了若干算例,结果表明用边界元法求解薄板的稳定问题是行之有效的.     

线性船舶兴波阻力边界元新方法

采用常数边界元对船舶与流体界面进行离散，求解船舶兴波势及船舶兴波阻力。这种方法可避免在船舶与流体自由面交线上安置节点，因而避免了这些节点建立补充方程。因为满足自由面条件的Ｈａｖｅｌｏｃｋ源函数的源点和场点不能同时在自由面上，使得自由面上的节点无法用Ｈａｖｅｌｏｃｋ源函数的建立方程。如对自由面交线上的节点建立补充方程，则要对线性自由面条件中包含的未知势函数的二阶导数用差分形式表达，引入较大误差。     

移动荷载作用下地基动力分析的有限元方法

通过对地基动力问题的基本方程进行变换,把基本方程变换到随荷载移动的运动坐标系中,通过加权残数法推导了相应的单元刚度矩阵,从而建立了移动问题的有限元格式,并发现移动荷载问题的单元刚度矩阵是对相应静力问题单元刚度矩阵的修正,在静力单元刚度矩阵的主对角元素上增加与移动速度有关的项,即可得到移动问题有限元的单元刚度矩阵,这样就将动力学问题转化为“拟静力”问题处理。文中用移动问题有限元方法计算了地基的动力响应,并与解析解进行了对比,以说明本方法具有较好的精度。     

弹性力学轴对称问题的有限元线法

给出了解弹性力学空间轴对称问题的有限元线法的基本理论。该法包括了２－４条结线的等参数单元，沿结线方向的两点边值问题采用插值矩阵法解之。算例表明，本法具有良好的收敛性和较高的计算精度。     

A New Formulation of the Scaled Boundary Finite Element Method for Heterogeneous Media:Application to Heat Transfer Problems

The solution to heat transfer problems in two-dimensional heterogeneous media is attended based on the scaled boundary finite element method(SBFEM)coupled with equilibrated basis functions(EqBFs).The SBFEM reduces the model order by scaling the boundary solution onto the inner element.To this end,tri-lateral elements are emanated from a scaling center,followed by the development of a semi-analytical solution along the radial direction and a finite element solution along the circumferential/boundary direction.The discretization is thus limited to the boundaries of the model,and the semi-analytical radial solution is found through the solution of an eigenvalue problem,which restricts the methods'applicability to heterogeneous media.In this research,we first extracted the SBFEM formulation considering the heterogeneity of the media.Then,we replaced the semi-analytical radial solution with the EqBFs and removed the eigenvalue solution step from the SBFEM.The varying coefficients of the partial differential equation(PDE)resulting from the heterogeneity of the media are replaced by a finite series in the radial and circumferential directions of the element.A weighted residual approach is applied to the radial equation.The equilibrated radial solution series is used in the new formulation of the SBFEM.