Modeling the energy effect of gravitational differentiation in the early evolution of the Earth

Translated from Aktual'nye Voprosy Prikladnoi Matematiki, pp. 42–48, 1989.     

Modeling and numerical analysis of the thread rolling process

The paper presents the physical and mathematical models of deformations (displacements and strains) and the stress in the cold process of the thread rolling. The process is considered as a geometrical and physical nonlinear, initial as well as a boundary value problem. The phenomena of a typical incremental step were described using a step-by-step incremental procedure, in the updated Lagrangian formulation. The state of strains was described by Green-Lagrange's tensor, while the state of stress was described by the second symmetrical Pioli-Kirchhoff's tensor. The object was treated as an elastic (in the reversible zone) and visco-plastic body (in the non-reversible zone) with mixed hardening. The variational equation of the motion in three dimensions for this case was proposed. Then, the finite elements methods (FEM) and dynamic explicit method (DEM) were used to obtain the solution. In a numerical analysis, boundary condition for a displacement increment, was determined in the model investigation. The results of a numerical analysis were compared and verified in an experimental investigation. Examples of calculations of the influence of a friction coefficient on the state of the deformation and stress, and an example application for this method of thread rolling were presented. (© 2006 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)     

A numerical investigation of blow-up in reaction-diffusion problems with traveling heat sources

This paper studies the numerical solution of a reaction-diffusion differential equation with traveling heat sources. According to the fact that the locations of heat sources are known, we add auxiliary mesh points exactly at heat sources and present a novel moving mesh algorithm for solving the problem. Several examples are provided to demonstrate the efficiency of the new moving mesh method, especially in the case of two or three traveling heat sources. Moreover, numerical results illustrate that the speed of the movement of the heat source is critical for blow-up when there is only one traveling heat source. For the case of two traveling heat sources, blow-up depends not only on the speed but also on the distance between the two traveling heat sources.     

Modeling aspects and numerical analysis of offshore systems

There is a strong effort to improve the efficiency of renewable energy systems in order to reduce the CO₂ emissions. This paper addresses an approach to increase the efficiency of an ocean wave energy plant with a model based predictive controller. For this controller it is necessary to have a prediction of the ocean waves and a model of the whole system. The future development of the ocean waves is predicted by an AR-model. A system identification yields the model of the energy plant. (© 2011 Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)     

Asymptotic transport models for heat and mass transfer in reactive porous media

We propose an approach for deriving in a rigorous but formal way a family of models of mass and heat transfer in reactive porous media. At a microscopic level we set a model coupling the Boltzmann equation in the gas phase, the heat equation on the solid phase and appropriate interface condititons. An asymptotic expansion leads to a system of coupled diffusion equations where the effective diffusion tensors are defined from the microscopic geometry of the material through auxiliary problems. The ellipticity of the diffusion operator is addressed. To cite this article: P. Charrier, B. Dubroca, C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris, Ser. I 336 (2003).     

Optimization of vertical axisymmetric thermal displacements in a round plate using heat sources

We consider the problem of using heat sources for optimal control of the distribution of the vertical axisymmetric thermal displacements of a thin round plate with edge clamped at an angle of revolution. On the basis of the method of the inverse thermoelasticity problem we construct a solution of the control problem. For specific cases of heating the plate we carry out a numerical analysis of the behavior of the optimal control.Translated fromMatematicheskie Metody i Fiziko-Mekhanicheskie Poly a, Issue 36, 1992, pp. 105–110.     

A steady-state model of stirred-tank electrolysers with simultaneous heat and mass transport

The computation of steady-state temperature in stirred-tank electrolysers with a variety of thermal losses and surface evaporation is presented on the basis of a lumped-parameter model. The effect of simplifying assumptions on heat transfer modes, and the relative importance of various heat-balance terms is explored. The electrolysis of an aqueous acidic metal sulphate solution is employed for numerical illustration.     

A sequential algorithm and error sensitivity analysis for the inverse heat conduction problems with multiple heat sources

This paper proposes a sequential approach to determine the unknown parameters for inverse heat conduction problems which have multiple time-dependent heat sources. There are two main aims in this study, one is to derive an inverse algorithm that can estimate the unknown conditions effectively, and the other is to bring up a theoretical sensitivity analysis to discuss what causes the growth of errors. This paper has three major achievements with regard to the literature on IHCPs, as follows: (1) proposing an efficient sequential inverse algorithm that can simultaneously determine several unknown time-dependent parameters; (2) exploring why the sequential function specification method can provide a stable but inaccurate estimation when tackling problems with larger measurement errors; and (3) discussing the sensitivity problem and analyzing what factors cause the growth in error sensitivity. Three examples are applied to demonstrate the performance of the proposed method, and the numerical results show that the accurate estimations can be obtained by alleviating the error sensitivity when the measurement error is considered.     

Nonlinear analysis of capillary instability with heat and mass transfer

The nonlinear capillary instability of the cylindrical interface between the vapor and liquid phases of a fluid is studied when there is heat and mass transfer across the interface, using viscous potential flow theory. The fluids are considered to be viscous and incompressible with different kinematic viscosities. Both asymmetric and axisymmetric disturbances are considered. The analysis is based on the method of multiple scale perturbation and the nonlinear stability is governed by first-order nonlinear partial differential equation. The stability conditions are obtained and discussed theoretically as well as numerically. Regions of stability and instability have been shown graphically indicating the effect of various parameters. It has been observed that the heat and mass transfer has stabilizing effect on the stability of the system in the nonlinear analysis for both axisymmetric as well as asymmetric disturbances.     

Perturbation analysis of the heat transfer in porous media with small thermal conductivity

An approximate analytical solution for the one-dimensional problem of heat transfer between an inert gas and a porous semi-infinite medium is presented. Perturbation methods based on Laplace transforms have been applied using the solid thermal conductivity as small parameter. The leading order approximation is the solution of Nusselt (or Schumann) problem. Such solution is corrected by means of an outer approximation. The boundary condition at the origin has been taking into account using an inner approximation for a boundary layer. The gas temperature presents a discontinuous front (due to the incompatibility between initial and boundary conditions) which propagates at constant velocity. The solid temperature at the front has been smoothed out using an internal layer asymptotic approximation. The good accuracy of the resulting asymptotic expansion shows its usefulness in several engineering problems such as heat transfer in porous media, in exhausted chemical reactions, mass transfer in packed beds, or in the analysis of capillary electrochromatography techniques.     

Modeling the migration of cancer cells in the bloodstream

We model the migration of cancer cells that have broken away from a tumor and are circulating in the bloodstream. Using the immersed boundary method and culling from literature the material properties of cancer cells, we simulate how cells deform as a function of the flow properties of the bloodstream as well as the adhesive properties between the cancer cells and the endothelial cells of the bloodstream. We also simulate the migration characteristics as a function of the migrating cell density. (© 2008 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)     

Well-posedness analysis and numerical implementation of a linearized two-dimensional bottom sediment transport problem

A two-dimensional linearized model of coastal sediment transport due to the action of waves is studied. Up till now, one-dimensional sediment transport models have been used. The model under study makes allowance for complicated bottom relief, the porosity of the bottom sediment, the size and density of sediment particles, gravity, wave-generated shear stress, and other factors. For the corresponding initial–boundary value problem the uniqueness of a solution is proved, and an a priori estimate for the solution norm is obtained depending on integral estimates of the right-hand side, boundary conditions, and the norm of the initial condition. A conservative difference scheme with weights is constructed that approximates the continuous initial–boundary value problem. Sufficient conditions for the stability of the scheme, which impose constraints on its time step, are given. Numerical experiments for test problems of bottom sediment transport and bottom relief transformation are performed. The numerical results agree with actual physical experiments.     

General constitutive equations of heat transport at small length scales and high frequencies with extension to mass and electrical charge transport

A generalized heat transport equation applicable at small length and short time scales is proposed. It is based on extended irreversible thermodynamics with an infinite number of high-order heat fluxes selected as state variables. Extensions of Fick’s and Ohm’s laws are also formulated. As a numerical illustration, heat conduction in a rigid body subject to fixed and oscillatory temperature boundary conditions is discussed.     

Numerical analysis of heat and moisture transport with a finite difference method

In this article, we study a system of nonlinear parabolic partial differential equations arising from the heat and moisture transport through textile materials with phase change. A splitting finite difference method with semi‐implicit Euler scheme in time direction is proposed for solving the system of equations. We prove the existence and uniqueness of a classical positive solution to the parabolic system as well as the existence and uniqueness of a positive solution to the splitting finite difference system. We provide optimal error estimates for the splitting finite difference system under the condition that the mesh size and time step size are smaller than a positive constant which solely depends upon the physical parameters involved. Numerical results are presented to confirm our theoretical analysis. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Numer Methods Partial Differential Eq 2013     

Modeling of thermal comfort in air conditioned rooms by fuzzy regression analysis

Thermal comfort is a vague and subjective term. Thermally comfortable is not only influenced by the physical environment but also influenced by individual feelings and perception, which is completely subjective and is generally expressed in linguistic terms. Traditional statistic approaches cannot handle these subjective aspects effectively. Fuzzy sets appear to be ideally suited for the modeling of this partially subjective system. To illustrate the effectiveness of fuzzy regression, two particularly fuzzy regression approaches were used to model thermal comfort. To obtain the needed data, experiments were first carried out. The influencing factors considered in the experiments included both the environment influences and the individual differences such as metabolic rate. The results are analyzed and the influence of individual feeling or perception plays an important role in the experimental results and in the modeling.     

Speed-optimal control of heating of inhomogeneous bodies by internal heat sources with constraints on the parameters of the thermal process

We use the method of the inverse heat-conduction problem to state and construct a numerical solution of the problem of speed-optimal control of the one-dimensional nonstationary thermal regimes of inhomogeneous bodies using internal heat sources with constraints on the control and the parameters of the thermal process. The control problem is nonlinear since the maximal values of the constraining parameters are attained at internal points of the body whose position changes during heating. Translated fromMatematichni Metodi ta Fiziko-mekhanichni Polya, Vol. 39, No. 1, 1996, pp. 110–114.     

Boundary element analysis of uncoupled transient thermo-elastic problems with time- and space-dependent heat sources

A boundary element method (BEM) for the analysis of two- and three-dimensional uncoupled transient thermo-elastic problems involving time- and space-dependent heat sources is presented. The domain integrals are efficiently treated using the Cartesian transformation and the radial integration methods without considering any internal cells. Similar to the dual reciprocity method (DRM), some internal points without any connectivity are considered; however, in contrast to the DRM, any arbitrary mesh-free interpolation method can be used in the present formulation. There is no need to find any particular solutions and the shape functions in the mesh-free interpolation method can be arbitrary and sufficiently complicated. Unlike the DRM, the generated system of equations contains the unknowns only on the boundary. After finding the primary unknowns on the boundary, the temperature, displacement, and stress components at all internal points can directly be found without solving any system of equations. Three examples with different forms of heat sources are presented to demonstrate the efficiency and accuracy of the proposed method. Although the proposed BEM is mathematically more complicated than domain methods, such as the finite element method (FEM), it is more efficient from a modelling viewpoint since only the surface mesh has to be generated in the presented method.     

Debye sources and the numerical solution of the time harmonic Maxwell equations

In this paper, we develop a new representation for outgoing solutions to the time‐harmonic Maxwell equations in unbounded domains in ?³. This representation leads to a Fredholm integral equation of the second kind for solving the problem of scattering from a perfect conductor, which does not suffer from spurious resonances or low‐frequency breakdown, although it requires the inversion of the scalar surface Laplacian on the domain boundary. In the course of our analysis, we give a new proof of the existence of nontrivial families of time‐harmonic solutions with vanishing normal components that arise when the boundary of the domain is not simply connected. We refer to these as k‐Neumann fields, since they generalize, to nonzero wave numbers, the classical harmonic Neumann fields. The existence of k‐Neumann fields was established earlier by Kress. © 2009 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.     

Modeling the evolution of microstructures in finite plasticity

Kochmann and Hackl introduced in [1] a micromechanical model for finite single crystal plasticity. Based on thermodynamic variational principles this model leads to a non-convex variational problem. Employing the Lagrange functional, an incremental strategy was outlined to model the time-continuous evolution of a first order laminate microstructure. Although this model provides interesting results on the material point level, due to the global minimization in the evolution equations, the calculation time and numerical instabilities may cause problems when applying this model to macroscopic specimens. In order to avoid these problems, a smooth transition zone between the laminates is introduced to avoid global minimization, which makes the numerical calculations cumbersome compared to the model in [1]. By introducing a smooth viscous transition zone, the dissipation potential and its numerical treatment have to be adapted. We obtain rate-dependent time-evolution equations for the internal variables based on variational techniques and show as an example single slip shear. (© 2015 Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)     

Analytical and numerical analysis of time fractional dual-phase-lag heat conduction during short-pulse laser heating

Numerical Algorithms - In this study, we analytically and numerically investigate the non-Fourier heat conduction behavior within a finite medium based on the time fractional dual-phase-lag model....