简介:Tobettersimulatemulti-phaseinteractionsinvolvingfailureevolution,thematerialpointmethod(MPM)hasevolvedforalmosttwentyyears.Recently,aparticle-basedmultiscalesimulationprocedureisbeingdeveloped,withintheframeworkoftheMPM,todescribethedetonationprocessofenergeticnano-compositesfrommoleculartocontinuumlevelsothatamultiscaleequationofstatecouldbeformulated.Inthisletter,amultiscaleMPMisproposedviabothhierarchicalandconcurrentschemestosimulatetheimpactresponsebetweentwomicrorodswithdifferentnanostructures.Preliminaryresultsarepresentedtoillustratethatatransitionregionisnotrequiredbetweendifferentspatialscaleswiththeproposedapproach.
简介:Thisletterpresentsananalyticalsolutiontothehydrodynamiclubricationofacircularpointcontactslidingoveraflatsurfacewithcavitation.ThesolutionisfoundbysolvingtheReynoldsequationwithReynoldsboundaryconditionforcavitation.Thecavitationboundaryisshowntobestraightlinesdirected108.4°againsttheslidingdirection.Theresultisexperimentallyverifiedinthelimitoflargevaluesofviscosity,slidingvelocityandradiusofasphericalball.Thesolutionraisesquestionsaboutthecouplingbetweencavitationandfilmruptureandcanbeusedasanindependentcheckonthevalidityofnumericalsolutions.