Non-isothermal flows in porous media with curing

1997 ◽  
Vol 8 (6) ◽  
pp. 623-637 ◽  
Author(s):  
LUCA BILLI

The motivation for this work arises from the study of the processes involved in the manufacturing of a class of composite materials, in particular, those that are obtained by injecting a resin through a porous preform. A one-dimensional model that describes the non-isothermal filtration of an incompressible fluid is presented, and it also includes the possibility of curing, i.e. the polymerization of the penetrating resin. It comes out a fully coupled system consisting of the heat diffusion equation, Darcy's law and an equation related to the kinetics of the chemical reaction. The system is regarded as a free boundary problem for the heat equation with non-constant discontinuous coefficients. Its weak formulation is studied and the local existence of solutions is proved.

1995 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 225-245
Author(s):  
Bei Hu ◽  
Jianhua Zhang

A one-dimensional free boundary problem arising in the modelling of internal oxidation of binary alloys is studied in this paper. The free boundary of this problem is determined by the equation u = 0, where u is the solution of a parabolic partial differential equation with discontinuous coefficients across the free boundary. Local existence, uniqueness and the regularity of the free boundary are established. Global existence is also studied.


2016 ◽  
Vol 138 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Elbara Ziade ◽  
Jia Yang ◽  
Gordie Brummer ◽  
Denis Nothern ◽  
Theodore Moustaks ◽  
...  

Frequency domain thermoreflectance (FDTR) is used to create quantitative maps of thermal conductivity and thickness for a thinning gallium nitride (GaN) film on silicon carbide (SiC). GaN was grown by molecular beam epitaxy on a 4H-SiC substrate with a gradient in the film thickness found near the edge of the chip. The sample was then coated with a 5 nm nickel adhesion layer and a 85 nm gold transducer layer for the FDTR measurement. A piezo stage raster scans the sample to create phase images at different frequencies. For each pixel, a periodically modulated continuous-wave laser (the red pump beam) is focused to a Gaussian spot, less than 2 um in diameter, to locally heat the sample, while a second beam (the green probe beam) monitors the surface temperature through a proportional change in the reflectivity of gold. The pump beam is modulated simultaneously at six frequencies and the thermal conductivity and thickness of the GaN film are extracted by minimizing the error between the measured probe phase lag at each frequency and an analytical solution to the heat diffusion equation in a multilayer stack of materials. A scanning electron microscope image verifies the thinning GaN. We mark the imaged area with a red box. A schematic of the GaN sample in our measurement system is shown in the top right corner, along with the two fitting properties highlighted with a red box. We show the six phase images and the two obtained property maps: thickness and thermal conductivity of the GaN. Our results indicate a thickness dependent thermal conductivity of GaN, which has implications of thermal management in GaN-based high electron mobility transistors.


2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (04) ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Wanwan Li

In mechanical engineering educations, simulating fluid thermodynamics is rather helpful for students to understand the fluid’s natural behaviors. However, rendering both high-quality and realtime simulations for fluid dynamics are rather challenging tasks due to their intensive computations. So, in order to speed up the simulations, we have taken advantage of GPU acceleration techniques to simulate interactive fluid thermodynamics in real-time. In this paper, we present an elegant, basic, but practical OpenGL/SL framework for fluid simulation with a heat map rendering. By solving Navier-Stokes equations coupled with the heat diffusion equation, we validate our framework through some real-case studies of the smoke-like fluid rendering such as their interactions with moving obstacles and their heat diffusion effects. As shown in Fig. 1, a group of experimental results demonstrates that our GPU-accelerated solver of Navier-Stokes equations with heat transfer could give the observers impressive real-time and realistic rendering results.


1986 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 368-381 ◽  
Author(s):  
L.M. Scarfone ◽  
J.D. Chlipala

Pulses of Q-switched Nd-YAG radiation have been used to remove polysilicon target links during the implementation of laser programmable redundancy in the fabrication of silicon memory. The link is encapsulated by transparent dielectric films that give rise to important optical interference effects modifying the laser flux absorbed by the link and the silicon substrate. Estimates of these effects are made on the basis of classical plane-wave procedures. Thermal evolution of the composite structure is described in terms of a finite-difference form of the three-dimensional heat diffusion equation with a heat generation rate having a Gaussian spatial distribution of intensity and temporal shapes characteristic of commercial lasers. Temperature-dependent thermal diffusivity and melting of the polysilicon link are included in the computer modeling. The calculations account for the discontinuous change in the link absorption coefficient at the transition temperature. A threshold temperature and corresponding pressure, sufficiently high to rupture the dielectric above the link and initiate the removal process, are estimated by treating the molten link as a hard-sphere fluid. Numerical results are presented in the form of three-dimensional temperature distributions for 1.06 and 0.53 μm radiation with pulse energies 3.5 and 0.15μJ, respectively. Similarities and differences between heating effects produced by long (190 ns FWHM/740 ns duration) and short (35 ns FWHM/220 ns duration) pulses are pointed out.


2010 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 291-316 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jordan Hristov

The fractional (half-time) sub-model of the heat diffusion equation, known as Dirac-like evolution diffusion equation has been solved by the heat-balance integral method and a parabolic profile with unspecified exponent. The fractional heat-balance integral method has been tested with two classic examples: fixed temperature and fixed flux at the boundary. The heat-balance technique allows easily the convolution integral of the fractional half-time derivative to be solved as a convolution of the time-independent approximating function. The fractional sub-model provides an artificial boundary condition at the boundary that closes the set of the equations required to express all parameters of the approximating profile as function of the thermal layer depth. This allows the exponent of the parabolic profile to be defined by a straightforward manner. The elegant solution performed by the fractional heat-balance integral method has been analyzed and the main efforts have been oriented towards the evaluation of fractional (half-time) derivatives by use of approximate profile across the penetration layer.


Author(s):  
Fande Kong ◽  
Xiao-Chuan Cai

Fluid-structure interaction (FSI) problems are computationally very challenging. In this paper we consider the monolithic approach for solving the fully coupled FSI problem. Most existing techniques, such as multigrid methods, do not work well for the coupled system since the system consists of elliptic, parabolic and hyperbolic components all together. Other approaches based on direct solvers do not scale to large numbers of processors. In this paper, we introduce a multilevel unstructured mesh Schwarz preconditioned Newton–Krylov method for the implicitly discretized, fully coupled system of partial differential equations consisting of incompressible Navier–Stokes equations for the fluid flows and the linear elasticity equation for the structure. Several meshes are required to make the solution algorithm scalable. This includes a fine mesh to guarantee the solution accuracy, and a few isogeometric coarse meshes to speed up the convergence. Special attention is paid when constructing and partitioning the preconditioning meshes so that the communication cost is minimized when the number of processor cores is large. We show numerically that the proposed algorithm is highly scalable in terms of the number of iterations and the total compute time on a supercomputer with more than 10,000 processor cores for monolithically coupled three-dimensional FSI problems with hundreds of millions of unknowns.


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