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A Boundary Integral Equation Formulation for an Unsteady Anisotropic-Diffusion Convection Equation of Exponentially Variable Coefficients and Compressible Flow

  • Azis, Mohammad Ivan
    • Kyungpook Mathematical Journal
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    • v.62 no.3
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    • pp.557-581
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    • 2022
  • The anisotropic-diffusion convection equation with exponentially variable coefficients is discussed in this paper. Numerical solutions are found using a combined Laplace transform and boundary element method. The variable coefficients equation is usually used to model problems of functionally graded media. First the variable coefficients equation is transformed to a constant coefficients equation. The constant coefficients equation is then Laplace-transformed so that the time variable vanishes. The Laplace-transformed equation is consequently written as a boundary integral equation which involves a time-free fundamental solution. The boundary integral equation is therefore employed to find numerical solutions using a standard boundary element method. Finally the results obtained are inversely transformed numerically using the Stehfest formula to get solutions in the time variable. The combined Laplace transform and boundary element method are easy to implement and accurate for solving unsteady problems of anisotropic exponentially graded media governed by the diffusion convection equation.

Initial Shape Finding and Stress-Deformation Analysis of Pretensioned Membrane Structures with Triangular Constants Strain Element (TCS요소론 이용한 인장 막구조물의 초기명상해석 및 응력변형해석)

  • Ko, Hyuk-Jun;Song, Pyung-Hun;Song, Ho-San
    • 한국공간정보시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2004.05a
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    • pp.230-237
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    • 2004
  • In this study, equation of finite element is formulated to analyze relations of large deformation-small deformation considering geometrical nonlinear for membrane structure. Total Lagrangian Formulation(TLF) is introduced to formulate theory and equation of motion considering Triangular Constant Strain(TCS) element in finite, element analysis is formulated. Finite element program is made by equation of motion considering TLF. This study analyzed a variety of examples, so compared with the past results.

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Numerical Formulation of Axisymmetric Shell Element and Its Application to Geotechnical Problems (축대칭 쉘 요소의 유한요소 수식화와 지반공학적 활용)

  • Shin, Hosung;Kim, Jin-Wook
    • Journal of the Korean Geotechnical Society
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    • v.36 no.12
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    • pp.27-34
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    • 2020
  • Use of axisymmetric shell element for the structure increases the efficiency and accuracy in finite element analysis of the interaction between the ground and the structure. This paper derived the force balance equation and the moment balance equation for an axisymmetric shell element based on Kirchhoff's theory. The governing equation for the axial deformation used the isoparametric shape function in the Galerkin formulation, and the governing equation for the shell bending used the higher-order shape function. The developed axisymmetric shell element was combined with Geo-COUS, a geotechnical finite element program for the coupled analysis with the ground. The accuracy of the developed element was confirmed through the example analyses of the circular plate and the liquid storage tank. And the energy balance equation for the axisymmetric shell element is presented.

Development of the Direct Boundary Element Method for Thin Bodies with General bBundary Conditions (일반 경계 조건을 가진 얇은 물체에 대한 직접 경계 요소법의 개발)

  • 이강덕;이덕주
    • Journal of KSNVE
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    • v.7 no.6
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    • pp.975-984
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    • 1997
  • A direct boundary element method (DBEM) is developed for thin bodies whose surfaces are rigid or compliant. The Helmholtz integral equation and its normal derivative integral equation are adoped simultaneously to calculate the pressure on both sides of the thin body, instead of the jump values across it, to account for the different surface conditions of each side. Unlike the usual assumption, the normal velocity is assumed to be discontinuous across the thin body. In this approach, only the neutral surface of the thin body has to be discretized. The method is validated by comparison with analytic and/or numerical results for acoustic scattering and radiation from several surface conditions of the thin body; the surfaces are rigid when stationary or vibrating, and part of the interior surface is lined with a sound-absoring material.

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A CELL BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD FOR A FLUX CONTROL PROBLEM

  • Jeon, Youngmok;Lee, Hyung-Chun
    • Journal of the Korean Mathematical Society
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    • v.50 no.1
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    • pp.81-93
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    • 2013
  • We consider a distributed optimal flux control problem: finding the potential of which gradient approximates the target vector field under an elliptic constraint. Introducing the Lagrange multiplier and a change of variables the Euler-Lagrange equation turns into a coupled equation of an elliptic equation and a reaction diffusion equation. The change of variables reduces iteration steps dramatically when the Gauss-Seidel iteration is considered as a solution method. For the elliptic equation solver we consider the Cell Boundary Element (CBE) method, which is the finite element type flux preserving methods.

A CHARACTERISTICS-MIXED FINITE ELEMENT METHOD FOR BURGERS' EQUATION

  • Chen, Huanzhen;Jiang, Ziwen
    • Journal of applied mathematics & informatics
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    • v.15 no.1_2
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    • pp.29-51
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    • 2004
  • In this paper, we propose a new mixed finite element method, called the characteristics-mixed method, for approximating the solution to Burgers' equation. This method is based upon a space-time variational form of Burgers' equation. The hyperbolic part of the equation is approximated along the characteristics in time and the diffusion part is approximated by a mixed finite element method of lowest order. The scheme is locally conservative since fluid is transported along the approximate characteristics on the discrete level and the test function can be piecewise constant. Our analysis show the new method approximate the scalar unknown and the vector flux optimally and simultaneously. We also show this scheme has much smaller time-truncation errors than those of standard methods. Numerical example is presented to show that the new scheme is easily implemented, shocks and boundary layers are handled with almost no oscillations. One of the contributions of the paper is to show how the optimal error estimates in $L^2(\Omega)$ are obtained which are much more difficult than in the standard finite element methods. These results seem to be new in the literature of finite element methods.

LARGE TIME-STEPPING METHOD BASED ON THE FINITE ELEMENT DISCRETIZATION FOR THE CAHN-HILLIARD EQUATION

  • Yang, Yanfang;Feng, Xinlong;He, Yinnian
    • Journal of applied mathematics & informatics
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    • v.29 no.5_6
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    • pp.1129-1141
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    • 2011
  • In this paper, a class of large time-stepping method based on the finite element discretization for the Cahn-Hilliard equation with the Neumann boundary conditions is developed. The equation is discretized by finite element method in space and semi-implicit schemes in time. For the first order fully discrete scheme, convergence property is investigated by using finite element analysis. Numerical experiment is presented, which demonstrates the effectiveness of the large time-stepping approaches.

Optimum Alignment of Marine Engine Shaftings by the Finite Element Method (有限要素法에 의한 舶用機關軸系裝置의 最適配置에 關한 硏究)

  • Jeon, Hio-Jung;Park, Jin-Gil;Choi, Jae-Sung
    • Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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    • v.2 no.1
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    • pp.3-14
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    • 1978
  • The authors have developed a calculating method of propeller shaft alignment by the finite element method. The propeller shaft is divided into finite elements which can be treated as uniform section bars. For each element, the nodal point equation is derived from the stiffness matrix, the external force vector and the section force vector. Then the overall nodal point equation is derived from the element nodal point equation. The deflection, offset, bending moment and shearing force of each nodal point are calculated from the overall nodal point equation by the digital computer. Reactions and deflections of supporting points of straight shaft are calculated and also the reaction influence number is derived. With the reaction influence number the optimum alignment condition that satisfies all conditions is calculated by the simplex method of linear programming. All results of calculation are compared with those of Det norske Veritas, which has developed a computor program based on the three-moment theorem of the strength of materials. The authors finite element method has shown good results and will be used effectively to design the propeller shaft alignment.

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Study of the semi-segregation algorithms of the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations using P2P1 finite element formulation (P2P1 유한요소 공식을 이용한 비압축성 Navier-Stokes 방정식의 반-분리 해법에 관한 연구)

  • Cho, Myung-H.;Choi, Hyoung-G.;Yoo, Jung-Y.;Park, Jae-I.
    • 유체기계공업학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2006.08a
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    • pp.349-352
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    • 2006
  • The conventional segregated finite element formulation produces a small and simple matrix at each step than in an integrated formulation. And the memory and cost requirements of computations are significantly reduced because the pressure equation for the mass conservation of the Navier-Stokes equations is constructed only once if the mesh is fixed. However, segregated finite element formulation solves Poisson equation of elliptic type so that it always needs a pressure boundary condition along a boundary even when physical information on pressure is not provided. On the other hand, the conventional integrated finite element formulation in which the governing equations are simultaneously treated has an advantage over a segregated formulation in the sense that it can give a more robust convergence behavior because all variables are implicitly combined. Further it needs a very small number of iterations to achieve convergence. However, the saddle-paint-type matrix (SPTM) in the integrated formulation is assembled and preconditioned every time step, so that it needs a large memory and computing time. Therefore, we newly proposed the P2PI semi-segregation formulation. In order to utilize the fact that the pressure equation is assembled and preconditioned only once in the segregated finite element formulation, a fixed symmetric SPTM has been obtained for the continuity constraint of the present semi-segregation finite element formulation. The momentum equation in the semi-segregation finite element formulation will be separated from the continuity equation so that the saddle-point-type matrix is assembled and preconditioned only once during the whole computation as long as the mesh does not change. For a comparison of the CPU time, accuracy and condition number between the two methods, they have been applied to the well-known benchmark problem. It is shown that the newly proposed semi-segregation finite element formulation performs better than the conventional integrated finite element formulation in terms of the computation time.

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