scholarly journals A Hybrid Time Integration Scheme for the Discontinuous Galerkin Discretizations of Convection-Dominated Problems

Energies ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (8) ◽  
pp. 1870
Author(s):  
Liang Li ◽  
Songping Wu

Discontinuous Galerkin (DG) method is a popular high-order accurate method for solving unsteady convection-dominated problems. After spatially discretizing the problem with the DG method, a time integration scheme is necessary for evolving the result. Owing to the stability-based restriction, the time step for an explicit scheme is limited by the smallest element size within the mesh, making the calculation inefficient. In this paper, a hybrid scheme comprising a three-stage, third-order accurate, and strong stability preserving Runge–Kutta (SSP-RK3) scheme and the three-stage, third-order accurate, L-stable, and diagonally implicit Runge–Kutta (LDIRK3) scheme is proposed. By dealing with the coarse and the refined elements with the explicit and implicit schemes, respectively, the time step for the hybrid scheme is free from the limitation of the smallest element size, making the simulation much more efficient. Numerical tests and comparison studies were made to show the performance of the hybrid scheme.

2019 ◽  
Vol 86 (8) ◽  
Author(s):  
Weicheng Huang ◽  
Mohammad Khalid Jawed

Discrete elastic rods (DER) algorithm presents a computationally efficient means of simulating the geometrically nonlinear dynamics of elastic rods. However, it can suffer from artificial energy loss during the time integration step. Our approach extends the existing DER technique by using a different time integration scheme—we consider a second-order, implicit Newmark-beta method to avoid energy dissipation. This treatment shows better convergence with time step size, specially when the damping forces are negligible and the structure undergoes vibratory motion. Two demonstrations—a cantilever beam and a helical rod hanging under gravity—are used to show the effectiveness of the modified discrete elastic rods simulator.


Author(s):  
G. F. Mathews ◽  
R. L. Mullen ◽  
D. C. Rizos

This paper presents the development of a semi-implicit time integration scheme, originally developed for structural dynamics in the 1970’s, and its implementation for use in Discrete Element Methods (DEM) for rigid particle interaction, and interaction of elastic bodies that are modeled as a cluster of rigid interconnected particles. The method is developed in view of ballast modeling that accounts for the flexibility of aggregates and the arbitrary shape and size of granules. The proposed scheme does not require any matrix inversions and is expressed in an incremental form making it appropriate for non-linear problems. The proposed method focuses on improving the efficiency, stability and accuracy of the solutions, as compared to current practice. A critical discussion of the findings of the studies is presented. Extended verification and assessment studies demonstrate that the proposed algorithm is unconditionally stable and accurate even for large time step sizes. It is demonstrated that the proposed method is at least as computationally efficient as the Central Difference Method. Guidelines for the implementation of the method to ballast modeling are discussed.


2014 ◽  
Vol 11 (05) ◽  
pp. 1350104 ◽  
Author(s):  
SACHIN S. GAUTAM ◽  
ROGER A. SAUER

Simulation of dynamic adhesive peeling problems at small scales has attracted little attention so far. These problems are characterized by a highly nonlinear response. Accurate and stable time integration schemes are required for simulation of dynamic peeling problems. In the present work, a composite time integration scheme is proposed for the simulation of dynamic adhesive peeling problems. It is shown through numerical examples that the proposed scheme remains stable and also has some gain in accuracy. The performance of the scheme is compared with two collocation-based schemes, i.e., Newmark scheme and Bathe composite scheme. It is shown that the proposed scheme and Bathe composite scheme perform equally. However, the proposed scheme adds very little to the computational cost of Newmark scheme. Through a numerical simulation of the peeling of a gecko spatula from a rigid substrate it is shown that the proposed scheme and the Bathe composite scheme are able to simulate the complete peeling process for given time step whereas the Newmark scheme diverges. It is also shown that the maximum pull-off force is within the range reported in the literature.


2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (10) ◽  
pp. 1850106 ◽  
Author(s):  
Saeed Mohammadzadeh ◽  
Mehdi Ghassemieh

Sub-stepping time integration methods attempt to march each time step with multiple sub-steps. Generally, for the first sub-step, a single-step method is applied and the following sub-steps are solved using a method that utilizes the data obtained from two or three previous equilibrium points. Despite the robust stability in problems, control of numerical dissipation in sub-stepping schemes is a tough task due to applying different algorithms on a time increment. In order to overcome this insufficiency, a new sub-stepping time integration scheme, which uses two sub-steps in each time increment, is proposed. Newmark and quadratic acceleration methods are applied on the first and second sub-steps, respectively. Both methods utilize constant parameters that enable the control of numerical dissipation in the analysis. For the proposed method, the stability analysis revealed the unconditional stability region for the pertinent parameters. Additionally, the precision investigation disclosed an advantage of the proposed method with the presence of minor period elongation error. Finally, the application of the proposed method is illuminated via several numerical examples. In addition to numerical dissipation control, the proposed method proved to have an outstanding advantage over other methods in solving highly flexible structures more efficiently and more accurately.


2004 ◽  
Vol 01 (03) ◽  
pp. 507-518
Author(s):  
J. C. MANDAL ◽  
J. BALLMANN

An efficient implicit unstructured grid algorithm for solving unsteady inviscid compressible flows over moving body employing an Arbitrary Lagrangian Eulerian formulation is presented. In the present formulation, the time discretization is performed using a second-order accurate 3-point time integration scheme and the upwind-biased space discretization using second-order accurate finite volume formulation with Venkatakrishnan limiter. The face-velocities of the control volumes are computed using Geometric Conservation Laws. The nonlinear system arising from the implicit formulation is solved using an ILU preconditioned Newton–Krylov iteration at every time step. The computed results for two test cases involving harmonically oscillating NACA0012 airfoil are presented in order to demonstrate the efficacy of the present solver.


Author(s):  
Gary A. Glatzmaier

This chapter describes a numerical method for solving equations of thermal convection on a computer. It begins by introducing the vorticity-streamfunction formulation as a means of conserving mass. The approach involves updating for the vorticity first and then solving for the fluid velocity each time step. The chapter continues with a discussion of two very different spatial discretizations, whereby the vertical derivatives are approximated with a finite-difference method and the horizontal derivatives with a spectral method. The nonlinear terms are computed in spectral space. The chapter also considers the Adams-Bashforth time integration scheme and explains how the Poisson equation can be solved at each time step for the updated streamfunction given the updated vorticity.


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