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THE BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD FOR POTENTIAL PROBLEMS WITH SINGULARITIES

  • YUN, BEONG IN
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
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    • v.3 no.2
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    • pp.17-28
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    • 1999
  • A new procedure of the boundary element method(BEM),say, singular BEM for the potential problems with singularities is presented. To obtain the numerical solution of which asymptotic behavior near the singularities is close to that of the analytic solution, we use particular elements on the boundary segments containing singularities. The Motz problem and the crack problem are taken as the typical examples, and numerical results of these cases show the efficiency of the present method.

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Evaluation of Boundary Conditions for Structural Analysis of Wheel Bearing Units (Wheel Bearing Unit의 구조해석을 위한 경계조건 설정에 관한 연구)

  • 김기훈;유영면;임종순;현준수
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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    • v.8 no.6
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    • pp.230-237
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    • 2000
  • The wheel bearing in vehicles has been improved to unit module by joining a bearing to a hub in order to achieve weight reduction and easy assembly. Currently, the contact force between a raceway and balls of a bearing is applied as the external force in order to analyse the structure of the unit type bearings. In this paper, simplified boundary conditions are discussed for structure analysis of wheel bearing unit. From the procedure, the contact conditions of balls and race in wheel bearing unit are considered as equivalent non-linear spring elements. The end node of a spring element is constrained in displacement. And the external force of boundary conditions is applied at the contact point between tire and road. For the evaluation of this analysis, its results for the force of spring elements are compared with contact forces of calculated results. and also maximum equivalent stresses of analysis are compared with results of test at the flange of inner ring. The analysis results with proposed boundary conditions are more accurate than results from analysis which is generally used.

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An Analysis of Electromagnetic Field Scattering for the Dielectric Cylinders (유전체주의 전자장 산란 해석)

  • 박동희;김정기
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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    • v.17 no.2
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    • pp.181-186
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    • 1992
  • The scattering property of TMz illuminated perfectly conducting and dielectric cylinders of arbitrary cross section are analyzed by the boundary element techniques. The boundary element equations are formulated via Maxwell’s equations, weighted residual or Green’s theorem, and the boundary conditions. The unknown surface fields on the boundaries are then calculated by the boundary element integral equations. Once the surface fields are found, the scattered fields in from a perfectly conducting circular and elliptic cylinders, a dielectric circular and elliptic cylinders are numerically analyzed. A general computer program has been developed using the quadratic elements(higher order boundary elements) and the Gaussian quadrature.

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Effects of Rod-roughened Wall on a Turbulent Boundary Layer (막대형 표면조도가 난류경계층에 미치는 영향)

  • Lee, Seung-Hyun;Kim, Jung-Hun;Doh, Deog-Hee;Sung, Hyung-Jin
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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    • v.32 no.7
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    • pp.518-528
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    • 2008
  • The effects of surface roughness on a turbulent boundary layer (TBL) were investigated using particle image velocimetry (PIV). The roughness elements used were periodically arranged two-dimensional spanwise rods, and the roughness height was ${\kappa}/{\delta}$. Introduction of the roughness elements increased the wake strength and the turbulent stress not only in the roughness sublayer but also in the outer layer. This indicates the existence of interaction between inner and outer layers for 2D rod-roughened wall. Roughness effects on a turbulence structure near the wall were obtained by PIV measurements. Iso-contours of mean velocities and Reynolds stresses in the roughness sublayer showed a very good agreement with previous DNS results.

Analysis of stiffened plates composed by different materials by the boundary element method

  • Fernandes, Gabriela R.;Neto, Joao R.
    • Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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    • v.56 no.4
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    • pp.605-623
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    • 2015
  • A formulation of the boundary element method (BEM) based on Kirchhoff's hypothesis to analyse stiffened plates composed by beams and slabs with different materials is proposed. The stiffened plate is modelled by a zoned plate, where different values of thickness, Poisson ration and Young's modulus can be defined for each sub-region. The proposed integral representations can be used to analyze the coupled stretching-bending problem, where the membrane effects are taken into account, or to analyze the bending and stretching problems separately. To solve the domain integrals of the integral representation of in-plane displacements, the beams and slabs domains are discretized into cells where the displacements have to be approximated. As the beams cells nodes are adopted coincident to the elements nodes, new independent values arise only in the slabs domain. Some numerical examples are presented and compared to a wellknown finite element code to show the accuracy of the proposed model.

PRECONDITIONING FOR THE p-VERSION BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD IN THREE DIMENSIONS WITH TRIANGULAR ELEMENTS

  • Cao, Wei-Ming;Guo, Benqi
    • Journal of the Korean Mathematical Society
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    • v.41 no.2
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    • pp.345-368
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    • 2004
  • A preconditioning algorithm is developed in this paper for the iterative solution of the linear system of equations resulting from the p-version boundary element approximation of the three dimensional integral equation with hypersingular operators. The preconditioner is derived by first making the nodal and side basis functions locally orthogonal to the element internal bases, and then by decoupling the nodal and side bases from the internal bases. Its implementation consists of solving a global problem on the wire-basket and a series of local problems defined on a single element. Moreover, the condition number of the preconditioned system is shown to be of order $O((1+ln/p)^{7})$. This technique can be applied to discretization with triangular elements and with general basis functions.

An Eeffective Mesh Generation Algorithm Using Singular Shape Functions

  • Yoo, Hyeong Seon;Jang, Jun Hwan;Pyun, Soo Bum
    • Transactions on Control, Automation and Systems Engineering
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    • v.3 no.4
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    • pp.268-271
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    • 2001
  • In this paper, we propose a simplified pollution adaptive mesh generation algorithm using singular elements. The algorithm based on the element pollution error indicator concentrate on boundary nodes. The automatic mesh generation method is followed by either a node-relocation or a node-insertion method. The boundary node relocation phase is introduced to reduce pollution error estimates without increasing the boundary nodes. The node insertion phase greatly improves the error and the factor with the cost of increasing the node numbers. It is shown that the suggested r-h version algorithm combined with singular elements converges more quickly than the conventional one.

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Direct numerical simulation of the turbulent boundary layer with rod-roughened wall (표면조도가 있는 난류경계층에서의 직접수치모사)

  • Lee, Seung-Hyun;Sung, Hyung-Jin
    • 유체기계공업학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2006.08a
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    • pp.445-448
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    • 2006
  • The effects of surface roughness on a spatially-developing turbulent boundary layer (TBL) were investigated by performing direct numerical simulations of TBLs over rough and smooth walls. The Reynolds number based on the momentum thickness was varied in the range $Re_{\theta}=300{\sim}1400$. The roughness elements used were periodically arranged two-dimensional spanwise rods, and the roughness height was $k=1.5{\theta}_{in}$, which corresponds to $k/{\delta}=0.045{\sim}0.125$. To avoid generating a rough wall inflow, which is prohibitively difficult, a step change from smooth to rough was placed $80{\theta}_{in}$ downstream from the inlet. The spatially-developing characteristics of the rough-wall TBL were examined. Along the streamwise direction, the friction velocity approached a constant value and a self-preserving form of the turbulent stress was obtained. Introduction of the roughness elements affected the turbulent stress not only in the roughness sublayer but also in the outer layer. Despite the roughness-induced increase of the turbulent stress in the outer layer, the roughness had only a relatively small effect on the anisotropic Reynolds stress tensor in the outer layer. Inspection of the triple products of the velocity fluctuations revealed that introducing the roughness elements onto the smooth wall had a marked effect on vertical turbulent transport across the whole TBL. By contrast, good surface similarity in the outer layer was obtained for the third-order moments of the velocity fluctuations.

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Modeling and Analysis of Arbitrarily Shaped Three-Dimensional Cracks (임의 형태의 삼차원 균열 모델링 및 해석)

  • Park, Jai-Hak;Nikishkov, G.P.
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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    • v.35 no.9
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    • pp.1091-1097
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    • 2011
  • The SGBEM-FEM alternating method has been known to be a very effective method for analyzing threedimensional cracks in a finite body. The accurate values of the stress intensity factor can be obtained for a general planar or nonplanar three-dimensional crack. In the existing method, eight-noded quadrilateral boundary elements are used to model a crack. In some cases, three-node triangle boundary elements are more convenient for the modeling of a crack with a general shape. In this study, a crack is modeled with three-noded triangular and seven-noded quadrilateral elements by using the advancing-front mesh generation method. The stress intensity factors are obtained for cracks with several shapes and the accuracy of results is examined.

A Study on the Space Determinants of the Medieval Plaza (중세광장의 공간결정요소에 관한 연구)

  • Nam, Ho-Hyeon;Min, Sang-Choong
    • Journal of architectural history
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    • v.17 no.4
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    • pp.83-95
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    • 2008
  • This study was firstly to reflect upon the background of the generation and the urban spatial value and significance of the medieval plaza. The main aim of this study was to extract the spatial determinants which give the great influence on the formation of the medieval plaza and in addition the endogenous rules and aesthetical grounds regarding the respective elements. Especially they could be applied to the design guideline. They are dimension(volume and scale), shape, elevation as the morphological elements and enclosure, proportion, grade difference, spatial sequence and plaza group as the spatial determinants and visual sequence, visual or spatial boundary, approaching axis and perspective effect as the aesthetic and visual elements and function(use), human behaviour as the social-behavioral elements and otherwise, for instance, plaza furniture, ground decoration and vegetation. This study was intended to analyze each elements based on the classical historical literatures and to suggest the planning conditions for composing the ideal plaza referring to the cases and literature review on the medieval plaza and finally is expected to contribute to the plaza design methodology.

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