Plane thermoelastic harmonic waves in hemitropic micropolar media

В работе рассматривается решение задачи о распространении плоской термоупругой гармонической волны в гемитропной микрополярной среде. Приводятся два варианта динамических уравнений гемитропного микрополярного континуума. Определены пространственные поляризации волн перемещений и микровращений относительно волнового вектора плоской волны. Обсуждается качественный характер возможных волновых решений уравнений связанной термоупругости. Отдельно рассматривается случай атермической волны. Вычисление волновых чисел приводится к исследованию одного кубического уравнения с вещественными коэффициентами. The paper is devoted to the problem of a plane thermoelastic harmonic wave propagation in hemitropic micropolar media. Two versions of the dynamic equations of the hemitropic micropolar continuum are presented. The spatial polarizations of the displacements and microrotations waves relative to the wave vector of a plane wave are determined. The characterictic features of possible wave solutions of the coupled thermoelasticity problems are discussed. The case of athermal waves is separately considered. Computation of wave numbers is reduced to the analysis of a cubic equation with real coefficients.

Application of the RBF collocation method to transient coupled thermoelasticity

Purpose In this study, the authors aim to upgrade their previous developments of the local radial basis function collocation method (LRBFCM) for heat transfer, fluid flow, electromagnetic problems and linear thermoelasticity to dynamic-coupled thermoelasticity problems. Design/methodology/approach The authors solve a thermoelastic benchmark by considering a linear thermoelastic plate under thermal and pressure shock. Spatial discretization is performed by a local collocation with multi-quadrics augmented by monomials. The implicit Euler formula is used to perform the time stepping. The system of equations obtained from the formula is solved using a Newton–Raphson algorithm with GMRES to iteratively obtain the solution. The LRBFCM solution is compared with the reference finite-element method (FEM) solution and, in one case, with a solution obtained using the meshless local Petrov–Galerkin method. Findings The performance of the LRBFCM is found to be comparable to the FEM, with some differences near the tip of the shock front. The LRBFCM appears to converge to the mesh-converged solution more smoothly than the FEM. Also, the LRBFCM seems to perform better than the MLPG in the studied case. Research limitations/implications The performance of the LRBFCM near the tip of the shock front appears to be suboptimal because it does not capture the shock front as well as the FEM. With the exception of a solution obtained using the meshless local Petrov–Galerkin method, there is no other high-quality reference solution for the considered problem in the literature yet. In most cases, therefore, the authors are able to compare only two mesh-converged solutions obtained by the authors using two different discretization methods. The shock-capturing capabilities of the method should be studied in more detail. Originality/value For the first time, the LRBFCM has been applied to problems of coupled thermoelasticity.