scholarly journals Verification Assessment of Piston Boundary Conditions for Lagrangian Simulation of Compressible Flow Similarity Solutions

Author(s):  
Scott D. Ramsey ◽  
Philip R. Ivancic ◽  
Jennifer F. Lilieholm

This work is concerned with the use of similarity solutions of the compressible flow equations as benchmarks or verification test problems for finite-volume compressible flow simulation software. In practice, this effort can be complicated by the infinite spatial/temporal extent of many candidate solutions or “test problems.” Methods can be devised with the intention of ameliorating this inconsistency with the finite nature of computational simulation; the exact strategy will depend on the code and problem archetypes under investigation. For example, self-similar shock wave propagation can be represented in Lagrangian compressible flow simulations as rigid boundary-driven flow, even if no such “piston” is present in the counterpart mathematical similarity solution. The purpose of this work is to investigate in detail the methodology of representing self-similar shock wave propagation as a piston-driven flow in the context of various test problems featuring simple closed-form solutions of infinite spatial/temporal extent. The closed-form solutions allow for the derivation of similarly closed-form piston boundary conditions (BCs) for use in Lagrangian compressible flow solvers. The consequences of utilizing these BCs (as opposed to directly initializing the self-similar solution in a computational spatial grid) are investigated in terms of common code verification analysis metrics (e.g., shock strength/position errors and global convergence rates).

Author(s):  
Scott D. Ramsey ◽  
Jennifer F. Lilieholm

This work is concerned with the use of Guderley's converging shock wave solution of the inviscid compressible flow equations as a verification test problem for compressible flow simulation software. In practice, this effort is complicated by both the semi-analytical nature and infinite spatial/temporal extent of this solution. Methods can be devised with the intention of ameliorating this inconsistency with the finite nature of computational simulation; the exact strategy will depend on the code and problem archetypes under investigation. For example, scale-invariant shock wave propagation can be represented in Lagrangian compressible flow simulations as rigid boundary-driven flow, even if no such “piston” is present in the counterpart mathematical similarity solution. The purpose of this work is to investigate in detail the methodology of representing scale-invariant shock wave propagation as a piston-driven flow in the context of the Guderley problem, which features a semi-analytical solution of infinite spatial/temporal extent. The semi-analytical solution allows for the derivation of a similarly semi-analytical piston boundary condition (BC) for use in Lagrangian compressible flow solvers. The consequences of utilizing this BC (as opposed to directly initializing the Guderley solution in a computational spatial grid at a fixed time) are investigated in terms of common code verification analysis metrics (e.g., shock strength/position errors, global convergence rates). For the examples considered in this work, the piston-driven initialization approach is demonstrated to be a viable alternative to the more traditional, direct initialization approach.


1966 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 514-520 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. D. Fine ◽  
H. Kraus

The dynamic behavior of a medium, according to the uncoupled thermoplastic theory, is presented and is compared to the behavior that would be obtained from an uncoupled quasi-static analysis. Since the inertia terms are retained in the equations of motion, wave fronts (or surfaces of discontinuity) are produced in the medium. The normal velocity of the wave front separating the elastic and plastic regions is determined. General closed-form solutions of the displacement (according to both the dynamic and the quasi-static approaches) are obtained; their unique forms are found for the semi-infinite region, and an illustrative numerical example is then presented.


Axioms ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 226
Author(s):  
Efthimios Providas ◽  
Stefanos Zaoutsos ◽  
Ioannis Faraslis

This paper deals with the solution of boundary value problems for ordinary differential equations with general boundary conditions. We obtain closed-form solutions in a symbolic form of problems with the general n-th order differential operator, as well as the composition of linear operators. The method is based on the theory of the extensions of linear operators in Banach spaces.


2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 492-507 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Ramesh ◽  
Sartaj Ahmad Eytoo

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the three fundamental flows (namely, both the plates moving in opposite directions, the lower plate is moving and other is at rest, and both the plates moving in the direction of flow) of the Ree-Eyring fluid between infinitely parallel plates with the effects of magnetic field, porous medium, heat transfer, radiation and slip boundary conditions. Moreover, the intention of the study is to examine the effect of different physical parameters on the fluid flow. Design/methodology/approach The mathematical modeling is performed on the basis of law of conservation of mass, momentum and energy equation. The modeling of the present problem is considered in Cartesian coordinate system. The governing equations are non-dimensionalized using appropriate dimensionless quantities in all the mentioned cases. The closed-form solutions are presented for the velocity and temperature profiles. Findings The graphical results are presented for the velocity and temperature distributions with the pertinent parameters of interest. It is observed from the present results that the velocity is a decreasing function of Hartmann number. Temperature increases with the increase of Ree-Eyring fluid parameter, radiation parameter and temperature slip parameter. Originality/value First time in the literature, the authors obtained closed-form solutions for the fundamental flows of Ree-Erying fluid between infinitely parallel plates with the effects of magnetic field, porous medium, heat transfer, radiation and slip boundary conditions. Moreover, the results of this paper are new and original.


Author(s):  
Gen Li ◽  
Yufeng Xing ◽  
Zekun Wang

For rectangular thick plates with non-Levy boundary conditions, it is important to explore analytical free vibration solutions because the classical inverse and semi-inverse exact solution methods are not applicable to this category of problems. This work is to develop an extended separation-of-variable (SOV) method to find closed-form analytical solutions for the free vibration of rectangular Mindlin plates with arbitrary homogeneous boundary conditions. In the extended SOV method, characteristic differential equations and boundary conditions in two directions are obtained by employing the Rayleigh principle and the assumption that the mode functions are in the SOV form, and two transcendental eigenvalue equations are achieved through boundary conditions. But these two eigenvalue equations cannot be solved simultaneously since there are two equations and only the natural frequency is the unknown variable. Considering this, the second assumption in this method is that the natural frequencies corresponding to two-direction mode functions are independent of each other in the mathematical sense, thus there are two unknowns in two transcendental eigenvalue equations, and the closed-form solutions for plates with arbitrary boundary conditions can be obtained non-iteratively. From the physical sense, the natural frequencies pertaining to different direction mode functions should be the same, and this conclusion is validated analytically and numerically. The present natural frequencies and mode shapes agree well with those obtained by other analytical and numerical methods. Especially, for the plates with at least two opposite sides simply supported, the present solutions are exact.


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