简介:Thispaperdescribestheuseofoverlappinggridsforthecalculationofflowaroundsingleandmultiple-particleconfigurationsatthemicroscale.ThebasicequationsforcalculationarethoseforconservationofmassandmomentumwhicharesolvedusingacommonFinite-Volumeformulation.Thehydrodynamicparticle-particleandparticle-wallinteractioncanbecalculatedbyusinganoverlappingorChimeragridscheme.Withthegridstructuringprocedureitispossibletousesimpleandstructuredgridsaroundtheparticlesandtheoverallmaingridgeometry.Theparticlegridsarelappedoverthemaingridsuchthattheycanmoveindependentlyaftereachtimestepwithoutremeshingthewholegeometry.Thepapergivesresultsforthevalidationofthecodedevelopedforgeneraltestcases,forarotatingellipsoidinsimpleshearflow,theflowaroundparticlesattachedtoawall,themotionofaparticleinthevicinityofawallandsomeresultsfortheflowthroughapackedbedconfiguration.
简介:Ithasbeenevidentthatthetheoryandmethodsofdynamicderivativesareplayinganincreasinglyimportantrleinhybridmodelingandcomputations.Beingconstructedonvariouskindsofhybridgrids,thatis,timescales,dynamicderivativesoffersuperioraccuracyandflexibilityinapproximatingmathematicallyimportantnat-uralprocesseswithhard-to-predictsingularities,suchastheepidemicgrowthwithun-predictablejumpsizesandoptionmarketchangeswithhighuncertainties,ascom-paredwithconventionalderivatives.Inthisarticle,weshallreviewthenovelnewconcepts,exploredelicaterelationsbetweenthemostfrequentlyusedsecond-orderdy-namicderivativesandconventionalderivatives.Weshallinvestigatenecessarycondi-tionsforguaranteeingtheconsistencybetweenthetwoderivatives.Wewillshowthatsuchaconsistencymayneverexistingeneral.Thisimpliesthatthedynamicderivativesprovideentirelydifferentnewtoolsforsensitivemodelingandapproximationsonhy-bridgrids.Rigorouserroranalysiswillbegivenviaasymptoticexpansionsforfurthermodelingandcomputationalapplications.Numericalexperimentswillalsobegiven.
简介:Aclassofnormal-likederivativesforfunctionswithlowregularitydefinedonLipschitzdomainsareintroducedandstudied.Itisshownthatthenewnormal-likederivatives,whicharecalledthegeneralizednormalderivatives,preservethemajorprop-ertiesoftheexistingstandardnormalderivatives.Thegeneralizednormalderivativesarethenappliedtoanalyzetheconvergenceofdomaindecompositionmethods(DDMs)withnonmatchinggridsanddiscontinuousGalerkin(DG)methodsforsecond-orderel-lipticproblems.Theapproximatesolutionsgeneratedbythesemethodsstillpossesstheoptimalenergy-normerrorestimates,eveniftheexactsolutionstotheunderlyingellipticproblemsadmitverylowregularities.
简介:WeproposeanefficientandrobustalgorithmtosolvethesteadyEulerequa-tionsonunstructuredgrids.ThenewalgorithmisaNewton-iterationmethodinwhicheachiterationstepisalinearmultigridmethodusingblocklower-uppersymmetricGauss-Seidel(LU-SGS)iterationasitssmootherToregularizetheJacobianmatrixofNewton-iteration,weadoptedalocalresidualdependentregularizationasthereplace-mentofthestandardtime-steppingrelaxationtechniquebasedonthelocalCFLnumberTheproposedmethodcanbeextendedtohighorderapproximationsandthreespatialdimensionsinanatureway.Thesolverwastestedonasequenceofbenchmarkprob-lemsonbothquasi-uniformandlocaladaptivemeshes.Thenumericalresultsillustratedtheefficiencyandrobustnessofouralgorithm.
简介:Thispaperpresentsasimpleapproachforimprovingtheperformanceoftheweightedessentiallynonoscillatory(WENO)finitevolumeschemeonnon-uniformgrids.ThistechniquereliesonthereformulationofthefifthorderWENO-JS(WENOschemepresentedbyJiangandShuinJ.Comput.Phys.126:202–228,1995)schemedesignedonuniformgridsintermsofonecell-averagedvalueanditsleftand/orrightinterfacialvaluesofthedependentvariable.Theeffectofgridnon-uniformityistakenintoconsiderationbyaproperinterpolationoftheinterfacialvalues.Onnonuniformgrids,theproposedschemeismuchmoreaccuratethantheoriginalWENO-JSscheme,whichwasdesignedforuniformgrids.Whenthegridisuniform,theresultingschemereducestotheoriginalWENO-JSscheme.Inthemeantime,theproposedschemeiscomputationallymuchmoreefficientthanthefifth-orderWENOschemedesignedspecificallyforthenon-uniformgrids.Anumberofnumericaltestcasesaresimulatedtoverifytheperformanceofthepresentscheme.
简介:Themomentarystateofasemiconductordeviceisdescribedbyasystemofthreenonlinearpartialdifferentialequations.Afinitedifferenceschemeforsimulatingtransientbehaviorsofasemiconductordeviceongridswithlocalrefinementintimeandspaceisconstructedandstudied.Erroranalysisispresentedandisillustratedbynumericalexamples.
简介:LatticeBoltzmannmethodisoneofthewidelyusedinmultiphasefluidflow.However,thetwomaindisadvantagesofthismethodaretheinstabilityofnumericalcalculationsduetothelargedensityratiooftwophasesandimpossibilityofthetemperaturedistributiontobefedbackintothevelocitydistributionfunctionwhenthetemperatureissimulated.BasedonthecombinationprescribedbyInamuro,thelargedensityratiotwo-phaseflowmodelandthermalmodelmakesthedensityratioofthemodelsimulationtobeincreasedto2778:1byoptimizingtheinterfacedistributionfunctionoftwo-phasewhichimprovestheaccuracyofdifferentialformat.Thephasetransitiontermisaddedassourcetermintothedistributionfunctioncontrollingtwophaseorderparameterstodescribethetemperatureeffectonthegas-liquidphasetransition.Thelatentheatgeneratedfromthephasechangeisalsoaddedasasourcetermintothetemperaturedistributionfunctionwhichsimulatesthemovementoftheflowunderthecommoncouplingofdensity,velocity,pressureandtemperature.Thedensityandthetemperaturedistributionofsinglebubblearesimulated.Comparisonofthesimulationresultswithexperimentalresultsindicatesagoodagreementpointingouttheeffectivenessoftheimprovedmodel.
简介:AclassofnonlinearparabolicequationonapolygonaldomainΩR2isinves-tigatedinthispaper.Weintroduceafiniteelementmethodonoverlappingnon-matchinggridsforthenonlinearparabolicequationbasedonthepartitionofunitymethod.Wegivetheconstructionandconvergenceanalysisforthesemi-discreteandthefullydiscretefiniteelementmethods.Moreover,weprovethattheerrorofthediscretevariationalproblemhasgoodapproximationproperties.Ourresultsarevalidforanyspatialdimensions.Anumericalexampletoillustratethetheoreticalresultsisalsogiven.
简介:Thenonstaggeredgridsareadoptedinthispaperforsolvingthegoverningequationsofflowsinthecurvilinearcoordinatesystems.Thepresentpaperdemonstratesthebasicreasonandcorrespondingeliminatingmethodforthepressureoscillation,anddeducesthecorrectedexpressionsforthecurvilinearvelocitycomponentsinwhichandadditionaltermrepresentingthedifferencebetweenthe1-δand2-δdifferencevaluesforthepressuregradientappears.Thusifanoscillatorypressurefiledwerearisen,themagnitudeofthistermwouldbelargeandwouldacttoremovetheoscillation;whereasfornonoscillatoryfieldthemagnitudeofthistermremainssmall.Asexaminationforthenumericalmethod3-Dturbulentflowinasquareductwith90°bendand3-Dturbulentmixinglowinalobed-mixerwerecalculatiedrespectively.Thenumericalresultsaresatisfactory.