Nodeless variable finite element method for heat transfer analysis by means of flux-based formulation and mesh adaptation

Based on flux-based formulation, a nodeless variable element method is developed to analyze two-dimensional steady-state and transient heat transfer problems. The nodeless variable element employs quadratic interpolation functions to provide higher solution accuracy without necessity to actually generate additional nodes. The flux-based formulation is applied to reduce the complexity in deriving the finite element equations as compared to the conventional finite element method. The solution accuracy is further improved by implementing an adaptive meshing technique to generate finite element mesh that can adapt and move along corresponding to the solution behavior. The technique generates small elements in the regions of steep solution gradients to provide accurate solution, and meanwhile it generates larger elements in the other regions where the solution gradients are slight to reduce the computational time and the computer memory. The effectiveness of the combined procedure is demonstrated by heat transfer problems that have exact solutions. These problems are: (a) a steady-state heat conduction analysis in a square plate subjected to a highly localized surface heating, and (b) a transient heat conduction analysis in a long plate subjected to a moving heat source. The English text was polished by Yunming Chen.     

弹塑性摩擦接触问题形状设计灵敏度分析

提出了一种计算二维有限变形弹塑性摩擦接触问题形状设计灵敏度的算法. 采用主动集策略和mortar方法处理接触边线上的约束条件. 在mortar接触边线的切线和法线方向上采用相同的名义罚函数,提出基于名义罚函数的移动摩擦锥算法来正则化接触约束条件,发展了一种新的二维多体有限变形摩擦接触算法. 在此基础上, 通过将离散形式的摩擦接触问题控制方程对形状设计变量微分,得到了该路径相关问题的直接微分法解析设计灵敏度计算格式, 其节点位移灵敏度方程在每个增量步不用迭代、直接求解. 与国际上现有的二维多体有限变形摩擦接触问题的解析设计灵敏度算法相比,本算法不需分解为法向和切向推导,表达式较简洁,便于编程实现. 数值算例验证了算法的精度和有效性.      

PZT-4紧凑拉伸试样的断裂分析

基于线性压电材料的复势理论,通过解析分析,导出了一种分析有限压电板裂纹问题的解析数值方法. 首先,计算了含中心裂纹有限板的断裂参数,与Woo和Wang的解析数值法(Int J Fract, 1993, 62: 203$\sim$218)相比较,表明该方法具有很高的精度和很好的计算效率. 随后,采用该方法和有限元法计算了PZT-4紧凑拉伸试样在绝缘裂纹面边界条件下断裂时的断裂参数,发现各断裂参数的临界值分散性很大,不能作为压电材料的单参数断裂准则. 进而,针对试样真实的裂隙形状,采用有限元法计算了裂隙尖端的应力、电位移场,比较了裂隙内介质的介电性能对裂隙尖端场的影响,计算了带微裂纹的真实裂隙模型的断裂参数并进行了理论分析.      

DYNAMICS ANALYSIS OF STOCHASTIC SPATIAL FLEXIBLE MULTIBODY SYSTEM 1)

轻质、高精度的柔性多体系统被广泛应用于实际工程领域中.由于实际设计公差、制造误差及环境温度等多种不确定因素的存在,使得柔性多体系统的结构参数(物理参数和几何参数)表现出随机性.具有随机结构参数的动力学模型能够客观地反映出真实系统的动力学行为,且结构参数的不确定性对空间柔性多体系统动力学响应的影响是不容忽视的.针对具有多个随机参数的空间柔性多体系统,提出了一种基于广义alpha算法的非侵入式随机柔性多体系统动力学计算方法.采用绝对节点坐标公式(absolute node coordinate formulation, ANCF)来描述柔性体, 推导建立多体系统动力学模型.利用混沌多项式展开(polynomial chaos expansion, PCE)法构建系统随机动力学方程的代理模型,然后将随机响应面法(stochastic response surface method, SRSM)嵌入广义-alpha方法中,分别采用改进抽样的回归方法(regression method of improved sampling, RMIS)和单项求容积法则(Monte Carlo simulation, MCR)来确定样本点.将数值计算结果与蒙特卡洛模拟(Monte Carlo simulation, MCS)结果进行对比, 验证了所提算法的有效性.在相同的定积分精度的条件下,根据单项求容积法则确定的样本点的计算结果稳定性更强, 且其计算效率更高.     

Effect of numerical integration in the DGFEM for nonlinear convection‐diffusion problems

This paper is concerned with the effect of numerical integration applied to the discontinuous Galerkin finite element discretization of nonlinear convection‐diffusion problems in 2D. In the space semidiscretization the volume and line integrals are evaluated by numerical quadratures. Our goal is to estimate the error caused by the numerical integration and to show what numerical quadratures guarantee that the accuracy of the method with exact integration is preserved. © 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Numer Methods Partial Differential Eq, 2007     

Time-harmonic acoustic propagation in the presence of a shear flow

This work deals with the numerical simulation, by means of a finite element method, of the time-harmonic propagation of acoustic waves in a moving fluid, using the Galbrun equation instead of the classical linearized Euler equations. This work extends a previous study in the case of a uniform flow to the case of a shear flow. The additional difficulty comes from the interaction between the propagation of acoustic waves and the convection of vortices by the fluid. We have developed a numerical method based on the regularization of the equation which takes these two phenomena into account. Since it leads to a partially full matrix, we use an iterative algorithm to solve the linear system.     

面积,行列式,积分因子和Green公式

利用二阶行列式的几何意义是有向面积及积分因子的存在性给Green公式一个新的证明.尽管技术上走得远了些,但从概念上揭示了Green公式异常简明的几何意义,即Green公式只是面积的两种不同表达方式.同时这也蕴含了一个更深刻的哲学含义,即一般性隐含于特殊性(或特例)之中.     

On streamline diffusion arising in Galerkin FEM with predictor/multi‐corrector time integration

In the present paper, the author shows that the predictor/multi‐corrector (PMC) time integration for the advection–diffusion equations induces numerical diffusivity acting only in the streamline direction, even though the equations are spatially discretized by the conventional Galerkin finite element method (GFEM). The transient 2‐D and 3‐D advection problems are solved with the PMC scheme using both the GFEM and the streamline upwind/Petrov Galerkin (SUPG) as the spatial discretization methods for comparison. The solutions of the SUPG‐PMC turned out to be overly diffusive due to the additional PMC streamline diffusion, while the solutions of the GFEM‐PMC were comparatively accurate without significant damping and phase error. A similar tendency was seen also in the quasi‐steady solutions to the incompressible viscous flow problems: 2‐D driven cavity flow and natural convection in a square cavity. Copyright © 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Cohomological aspects of gauge theories: superfield formalism

Some of the key cohomological features of the two (1 + 1)-dimensional (2D) free Abelian- and self-interacting non-Abelian gauge theories (having no interaction with matter fields) are briefly discussed first in the language of symmetry properties of the Lagrangian densities and the same issues are subsequently addressed in the framework of superfield formulation on the four (2 + 2)-dimensional supermanifold. Special emphasis is laid on the on-shell- and off-shell nilpotent (co-)BRST symmetries that emerge after the application of (dual) horizontality conditions on the supermanifold. The (anti-)chiral superfields play a very decisive role in the derivation of the on-shell nilpotent symmetries. The study of the present superfield formulation leads to the derivation of some new symmetries for the Lagrangian density and the symmetric energy-momentum tensor. The topological nature of the above theories is captured in the framework of superfield formulation and the geometrical interpretations are provided for some of the topologically interesting quantities.     

On stress rate and plasticity constitutive equations referred to a body-fixed coordinate system

Investigators have viewed the stress rate in two different ways: the material (body-fixed) point of view and the Eulerian point of view. We discuss the Zaremba–Jaumann rate and Oldroyd’s rate from the material viewpoint and apply them to the material formulation of a theory of plasticity for materials undergoing anisotropic plastic deformation. Significant advantages of the material formulation are that the derivation of equations is straight forward, the distortion of yield surface can be easily accounted for, and the issue of self-consistent elastic equation does not arise.