Conservation law with the flux function discontinuous in the space variable- II - Convex-concave type fluxes and generalized entropy solutions

We deal with a single conservation law with discontinuous convex-concave type fluxes which arise while considering sign changing flux coefficients. The main difficulty is that a weak solution may not exist as the Rankine-Hugoniot condition at the interface may not be satisfied for certain choice of the initial data. We develop the concept of generalized entropy solutions for such equations by replacing the Rankine-Hugoniot condition by a generalized Rankine-Hugoniot condition. The uniqueness of solutions is shown by proving that the generalized entropy solutions form a contractive semi-group in L-1. Existence follows by showing that a Godunov type finite difference scheme converges to the generalized entropy solution. The scheme is based on solutions of the associated Riemann problem and is neither consistent nor conservative. The analysis developed here enables to treat the cases of fluxes having at most one extrema in the domain of definition completely. Numerical results reporting the performance of the scheme are presented. (C) 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Shallow Water Model On Cubed-Sphere By Multi-Moment Finite Volume Method

A global numerical model for shallow water flows on the cubed-sphere grid is proposed in this paper. The model is constructed by using the constrained interpolation profile/multi-moment finite volume method (CIP/MM FVM). Two kinds of moments, i.e. the point value (PV) and the volume-integrated average (VIA) are defined and independently updated in the present model by different numerical formulations. The Lax-Friedrichs upwind splitting is used to update the PV moment in terms of a derivative Riemann problem, and a finite volume formulation derived by integrating the governing equations over each mesh element is used to predict the VIA moment. The cubed-sphere grid is applied to get around the polar singularity and to obtain uniform grid spacing for a spherical geometry. Highly localized reconstruction in CIP/MM FVM is well suited for the cubed-sphere grid, especially in dealing with the discontinuity in the coordinates between different patches. The mass conservation is completely achieved over the whole globe. The numerical model has been verified by Williamson's standard test set for shallow water equation model on sphere. The results reveal that the present model is competitive to most existing ones. (C) 2008 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

Modelagem e simulação da propagação de ondas em barras não homogêneas envolvendo materiais elásticos não lineares.

O objetivo deste trabalho é tratar da simulação do fenômeno de propagação de ondas em uma haste heterogênea elástico, composta por dois materiais distintos (um linear e um não-linear), cada um deles com a sua própria velocidade de propagação da onda. Na interface entre estes materiais existe uma descontinuidade, um choque estacionário, devido ao salto das propriedades físicas. Empregando uma abordagem na configuração de referência, um sistema não-linear hiperbólico de equações diferenciais parciais, cujas incógnitas são a velocidade e a deformação, descrevendo a resposta dinâmica da haste heterogénea. A solução analítica completa do problema de Riemann associado são apresentados e discutidos.

Um modelo físico-matemático para escoamentos em meios porosos com transição insaturado-saturado.

Neste trabalho é apresentada uma nova modelagem matemática para a descrição do escoamento de um líquido incompressível através de um meio poroso rígido homogêneo e isotrópico, a partir do ponto de vista da Teoria Contínua de Misturas. O fenômeno é tratado como o movimento de uma mistura composta por três constituintes contínuos: o primeiro representando a matriz porosa, o segundo representando o líquido e o terceiro representando um gás de baixíssima densidade. O modelo proposto possibilita uma descrição matemática realista do fenômeno de transição insaturado/saturado a partir de uma combinação entre um sistema de equações diferenciais parciais e uma desigualdade. A desigualdade representa uma limitação geométrica oriunda da incompressibilidade do líquido e da rigidez do meio poroso. Alguns casos particulares são simulados e os resultados comparados com resultados clássicos, mostrando as consequências de não levar em conta as restrições inerentes ao problema.

Uma nova descrição para a transferência de massa em meios porosos com transição saturado-insaturado.

Esse texto trata do problema de um fluido contaminado escoando por um meio poroso, tratando os componentes na mistura como meios contínuos. Na primeira parte, desenvolvemos a teoria de misturas de meios contínuos e discutimos equações da continuidade, momento linear e momento angular. A seguir, descrevemos o problema em detalhe e fazemos hipóteses para simplificar o escoamento. Aplicamos as equações encontradas anteriormente para encontrarmos um sistema de equações diferenciais parciais. Desse ponto em diante, o problema se torna quase puramente matemático. Discutimos o caso insaturado, e depois a saturação do meio poroso. Finalmente, adicionamos um contaminante à mistura e, em seguida, N contaminantes.

Estudo de fluxos numéricos para modelos magneto-hidrodinâmicos utilizando o código Flash

A teoria magneto-hidrodinâmicos permite a estruturação de modelos computacionais, designados modelos MHDs, que são uma extensão da dinâmica dos fluidos para lidar com fluidos eletricamente carregados, tais como os plasmas, em que se precisa considerar os efeitos de forças eletromagnéticas. Tais modelos são especialmente úteis quando o movimento exato de uma partícula não é de interesse, sendo que as equações descrevem as evoluções de quantidades macroscópicas. Várias formas de modelos MHD têm sido amplamente utilizadas na Física Espacial para descrever muitos tipos diferentes de fenômenos de plasma, tais como reconexão magnética e interações de ventos estelares com diferentes objetos celestiais. Neste trabalho, o objetivo é analisar o comportamento de diversos fluxos numéricos em uma discretização de volumes finitos de um modelo numérico de MHD usando um esquema de malha entrelaçada sem separação direcional considerando alguns casos testes. Para as simulações, utiliza-se o código Flash, desenvolvido pela Universidade de Chicago, por ser um código de amplo interesse nas simulações astrofísicas e de fenômenos no espaço próximo à Terra. A metodologia consiste na inclusão de um fluxo numérico, permitindo melhoria com respeito ao esquema HLL.

A Conservative Front Tracking Algorithm

The discontinuities in the solutions of systems of conservation laws are widely considered as one of the difficulties in numerical simulation. A numerical method is proposed for solving these partial differential equations with discontinuities in the solution. The method is able to track these sharp discontinuities or interfaces while still fully maintain the conservation property. The motion of the front is obtained by solving a Riemann problem based on the state values at its both sides which are reconstructed by using weighted essentially non oscillatory (WENO) scheme. The propagation of the front is coupled with the evaluation of "dynamic" numerical fluxes. Some numerical tests in 1D and preliminary results in 2D are presented.

A cell by cell anisotropic adaptive mesh ALE scheme for the numerical solution of the Euler equations

In this paper a cell by cell anisotropic adaptive mesh technique is added to an existing staggered mesh Lagrange plus remap finite element ALE code for the solution of the Euler equations. The quadrilateral finite elements may be subdivided isotropically or anisotropically and a hierarchical data structure is employed. An efficient computational method is proposed, which only solves on the finest level of resolution that exists for each part of the domain with disjoint or hanging nodes being used at resolution transitions. The Lagrangian, equipotential mesh relaxation and advection (solution remapping) steps are generalised so that they may be applied on the dynamic mesh. It is shown that for a radial Sod problem and a two-dimensional Riemann problem the anisotropic adaptive mesh method runs over eight times faster.

An efficient numerical scheme for the Euler equations

A finite difference scheme based on flux difference splitting is presented for the solution of the Euler equations for the compressible flow of an ideal gas. A linearised Riemann problem is defined, and a scheme based on numerical characteristic decomposition is presented for obtaining approximate solutions to the linearised problem. An average of the flow variables across the interface between cells is required, and this average is chosen to be the arithmetic mean for computational efficiency, leading to arithmetic averaging. This is in contrast to the usual ‘square root’ averages found in this type of Riemann solver, where the computational expense can be prohibitive. The method of upwind differencing is used for the resulting scalar problems, together with a flux limiter for obtaining a second order scheme which avoids nonphysical, spurious oscillations. The scheme is applied to a shock tube problem and a blast wave problem. Each approximate solution compares well with those given by other schemes, and for the shock tube problem is in agreement with the exact solution.

Effective cell-centred time-domain Maxwell's equations numerical solvers

This research work analyses techniques for implementing a cell-centred finite-volume time-domain (ccFV-TD) computational methodology for the purpose of studying microwave heating. Various state-of-the-art spatial and temporal discretisation methods employed to solve Maxwell's equations on multidimensional structured grid networks are investigated, and the dispersive and dissipative errors inherent in those techniques examined. Both staggered and unstaggered grid approaches are considered. Upwind schemes using a Riemann solver and intensity vector splitting are studied and evaluated. Staggered and unstaggered Leapfrog and Runge-Kutta time integration methods are analysed in terms of phase and amplitude error to identify which method is the most accurate and efficient for simulating microwave heating processes. The implementation and migration of typical electromagnetic boundary conditions. from staggered in space to cell-centred approaches also is deliberated. In particular, an existing perfectly matched layer absorbing boundary methodology is adapted to formulate a new cell-centred boundary implementation for the ccFV-TD solvers. Finally for microwave heating purposes, a comparison of analytical and numerical results for standard case studies in rectangular waveguides allows the accuracy of the developed methods to be assessed. © 2004 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

Nonlinear Waves: An Introduction

This book deals with equations of mathematical physics as the different modifications of the KdV equation, the Camassa-Holm type equations, several modifications of Burger's equation, the Hunter-Saxton equation, conservation laws equations and others. The equations originate from physics but are proposed here for their investigation via purely mathematical methods in the frames of university courses. More precisely, we propose classification theorems for the traveling wave solutions for a sufficiently large class of third order nonlinear PDE when the corresponding profiles develop different kind of singularities (cusps, peaks), existence and uniqueness results, etc. The orbital stability of the periodic solutions of traveling type for mKdV equations are also studied. Of great interest too is the interaction of peakon type solutions of the Camassa-Holm equation and the solvability of the classical and generalized Cauchy problem for the Hunter-Saxton equation. The Riemann problem for special systems of conservation laws and the corresponding -shocks are also considered. As it concerns numerical methods we apply the CNN approach. The book is addressed to a broader audience including graduate students, Ph.D. students, mathematicians, physicist, engineers and specialists in the domain of PDE.

A Riemann-Hilbert problem with a vanishing coefficient and applications to Toeplitz operators

We study the homogeneous Riemann-Hilbert problem with a vanishing scalar-valued continuous coefficient. We characterize non-existence of nontrivial solutions in the case where the coefficient has its values along several rays starting from the origin. As a consequence, some results on injectivity and existence of eigenvalues of Toeplitz operators in Hardy spaces are obtained.

On the problem of algebraic completeness for the invariants of the Riemann Tensor: I

We present a new determining set, CZ, of Riemann invariants which possesses the minimum degree property. From an analysis on the possible independence of CZ, we are led to the division of all space-times into two distinct, invariantly characterized, classes: a general class M_G+, and a special, singular class M_S For each class, we provide an independent set of invariants (I_G+) ⊂ CZ and I_S ⊂ CZ, respectively) which, with the results of a sequel paper, will be shown to be algebraically complete.

On the problem of algebraic completeness for the invariants of the Riemann tensor. III.

We study the set CZ of invariants [Zakhary and Carminati, J. Math. Phys. 42, 1474 (2001)] for the class of space-times whose Ricci tensors possess a null eigenvector. We show that all cases are maximally backsolvable, in terms of sets of invariants from CZ, but that some cases are not completely backsolvable and these all possess an alignment between an eigenvector of the Ricci tensor with a repeated principal null vector of the Weyl tensor. We provide algebraically complete sets for each canonically different space-time and hence conclude with these results and those of a previous article [Carminati, Zakhary, and McLenaghan, J. Math. Phys. 43, 492 (2002)] that the CZ set is determining or maximal.

On the problem of algebraic completeness for the invariants of the Riemann tensor. II

We study the set of invariants CZ [E. Zakhary and J. Carminati, J. Math. Phys. 42, 1474 (2001)] for the class of space-times whose Ricci tensors do not possess a null eigenvector. We show that all cases are completely backsolvable in terms of sets of invariants from CZ. We provide algebraically complete sets for each canonically different space-time.