A New Mathematical and Computational Framework for BVPs and IVPs in Solids, Fluids, Gases and their Interactions

Abstract

During this three year time period of the grant, five major areas listed under I-V have been investigated. Summary and conclusions resulting from this research, its impact and significance have been described at the end of each section in italics. Comments and in some cases, preliminary details, are also provided for future research. In each of the five major areas of research, model problems and their numerical solutions are presented to illustrate the features of the mathematical models and their applications. Computational mathematics frame for obtaining numerical solutions of the BVPs and IVPs in these areas is based on hpk finite element method with variationally consistent integral forms in which the space or space-time local approximations are in scalar product spaces. These spaces permit higher order global differentiability local approximations that are necessary to ensure integrals over the discretizations in the Riemann sense, so that when the integrated sum of squares of the residuals approaches zero for the whole discretization we are ensured that the GDEs are satisfied in the pointwise sense. Variationally consistent integral forms (in space or space-time) yield unconditionally stable computational processes for all BVPs and IVPs.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 04, 2015
Accession Number
ADA623641

Entities

People

  • D. Nunez
  • Junuthula N. Reddy
  • K. S. Surana

Organizations

  • University of Kansas

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Cauchy Problem
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Computational Science
  • Continuum Mechanics
  • Differential Equations
  • Fluid Dynamics
  • Fluid Flow
  • Heat Energy
  • Heat Of Fusion
  • Latent Heat
  • Mechanical Properties
  • Mechanics
  • Partial Differential Equations
  • Phase Transformations
  • Physics Laboratories
  • Thermodynamics
  • Two Dimensional

Fields of Study

  • Mathematics

Readers

  • Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
  • Finite Element Method (FEM) for solving Partial Differential Equations (PDEs)

Technology Areas

  • Space