Pub Date : 2024-04-03DOI: 10.1007/s00366-024-01968-2
Guglielmo Federico Antonio Brunetti, Mario Maiolo, Carmine Fallico, Gerardo Severino
Untangling flow and mass transport in aquifers is essential for effective water management and protection. However, understanding the mechanisms underlying such phenomena is challenging, particularly in highly heterogeneous natural aquifers. Past research has been limited by the lack of dense data series and experimental models that provide precise knowledge of such aquifer characteristics. To bridge this gap and advance our current understanding, we present the findings of a pioneering experimental investigation that characterizes a unique, strongly heterogeneous, laboratory-constructed phreatic aquifer at an intermediate scale under radial flow conditions. This strong heterogeneity was achieved by randomly distributing 2527 cells across 7 layers, each filled with one of 12 different soil mixtures, with their textural characteristics, porosity, and saturated hydraulic conductivity measured in the laboratory. We placed 37 fully penetrating piezometers radially at varying distances from the central pumping well, allowing for an extensive pumping test campaign to obtain saturated hydraulic conductivity values for each piezometer location and scaling laws along eight directions. Results reveal that the aquifer’s strong heterogeneity led to significant vertical and directional anisotropy in saturated hydraulic conductivity. Furthermore, we experimentally demonstrated for the first time that the porous medium tends toward homogeneity when transitioning from the scale of heterogeneity to the scale of investigation. These novel findings, obtained on a uniquely highly heterogeneous aquifer, contribute to the field and provide valuable insights for researchers studying flow and mass transport phenomena. The comprehensive dataset obtained will serve as a foundation for future research and as a tool to validate findings from previous studies on strongly heterogeneous aquifers.
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Pub Date : 2024-04-02DOI: 10.1007/s00366-024-01954-8
Abdalla Elbana, Amar Khennane, Paul J. Hazell
This paper presents a novel and effective strategy for modelling three-dimensional periodic representative volume elements (RVE) of particulate composites. The proposed method aims to generate an RVE that can represent the microstructure of particulate composites with hollow spherical inclusions for homogenization (e.g., deriving the full-field effective elastic properties). The RVE features periodic and randomised geometry suitable for the application of periodic boundary conditions in finite element analysis. A robust algorithm is introduced following the combined theories of Monte Carlo and collision driven molecular dynamics to pack spherical particles in random spatial positions within the RVE. This novel technique can achieve a high particle-matrix volume ratio of up to 50% while still maintaining geometric periodicity across the domain and random distribution of inclusions within the RVE. Another algorithm is established to apply periodic boundary conditions (PBC) to precisely generate full field elastic properties of such microstructures. Furthermore, a user-friendly automatic ABAQUS CAE plug-in tool ‘Gen_PRVE’ is developed to generate three-dimensional RVE of any spherical particulate composite or porous material. Gen_PRVE provides users with a great deal of flexibility to generate Representative Volume Elements (RVEs) with varying side dimensions, sphere sizes, and periodic mesh resolutions. In addition, this tool can be effectively utilized to conduct a rapid mesh convergence study, an RVE size sensitivity study, and investigate the impact of inclusion/matrix volume fraction on the solution. Lastly, examples of these applications are presented.
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Pub Date : 2024-03-31DOI: 10.1007/s00366-024-01966-4
M. Yacouti, Maryam Shakiba
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Pub Date : 2024-03-31DOI: 10.1007/s00366-024-01958-4
H. M. Verhelst, A. Mantzaflaris, M. Möller, J. H. Den Besten
Mesh adaptivity is a technique to provide detail in numerical solutions without the need to refine the mesh over the whole domain. Mesh adaptivity in isogeometric analysis can be driven by Truncated Hierarchical B-splines (THB-splines) which add degrees of freedom locally based on finer B-spline bases. Labeling of elements for refinement is typically done using residual-based error estimators. In this paper, an adaptive meshing workflow for isogeometric Kirchhoff–Love shell analysis is developed. This framework includes THB-splines, mesh admissibility for combined refinement and coarsening and the Dual-Weighted Residual (DWR) method for computing element-wise error contributions. The DWR can be used in several structural analysis problems, allowing the user to specify a goal quantity of interest which is used to mark elements and refine the mesh. This goal functional can involve, for example, displacements, stresses, eigenfrequencies etc. The proposed framework is evaluated through a set of different benchmark problems, including modal analysis, buckling analysis and non-linear snap-through and bifurcation problems, showing high accuracy of the DWR estimator and efficient allocation of degrees of freedom for advanced shell computations.
网格自适应是一种在数值求解中提供细节的技术,无需在整个域中细化网格。等距几何分析中的网格自适应可由截断分层 B 样条线(THB 样条线)驱动,该样条线基于更精细的 B 样条线基局部增加自由度。细化元素的标记通常使用基于残差的误差估算器来完成。本文开发了用于等几何基尔霍夫-洛夫壳分析的自适应网格划分工作流程。该框架包括 THB-样条、细化和粗化相结合的网格容许性以及计算元素误差贡献的双加权残差(DWR)方法。DWR 可用于多个结构分析问题,允许用户指定感兴趣的目标量,用于标记元素和细化网格。该目标函数可涉及位移、应力、特征频率等。通过一系列不同的基准问题,包括模态分析、屈曲分析以及非线性快穿和分叉问题,对所提出的框架进行了评估,结果表明 DWR 估计器具有很高的准确性,并能为高级壳计算有效分配自由度。
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Pub Date : 2024-03-30DOI: 10.1007/s00366-024-01952-w
Emad Shakur
{"title":"Isogeometric analysis for solving discontinuous two-phase engineering problems with precise and explicit interface representation","authors":"Emad Shakur","doi":"10.1007/s00366-024-01952-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00366-024-01952-w","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":11696,"journal":{"name":"Engineering with Computers","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":8.7,"publicationDate":"2024-03-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140362490","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-03-29DOI: 10.1007/s00366-024-01959-3
Fatih Uzun, Alexander M. Korsunsky
This paper introduces the OxCM contour method solver, a console application structured based on the legacy version of the FEniCS open-source computing platform for solving partial differential equations (PDEs) using the finite element method (FEM). The solver provides a standardized approach to solving linear elastic numerical models, calculating residual stresses corresponding to measured displacements resulting from changes in the boundary conditions after minimally disturbing (non-contact) cutting. This is achieved through a single-line command, specifically in the case of availability of a domain composed of a tetrahedral mesh and experimentally collected and processed profilometry data. The solver is structured according to a static boundary condition rule, allowing it to rely solely on the cross-section occupied by the experimental data, independent of the geometric irregularities of the investigated body. This approach eliminates the need to create realistic finite element domains for complex-shaped, discontinuous processing bodies. While the contour method provides highly accurate quantification of residual stresses in parts with continuously processed properties, real scenarios often involve parts subjected to discontinuous processing and geometric irregularities. The solver’s validation is performed through numerical experiments representing both continuous and discontinuous processing conditions in artificially created domains with regular and irregular geometric features based on the eigenstrain theory. Numerical experiments, free from experimental errors, contribute to a novel understanding of the contour method's capabilities in reconstructing residual stresses in such bodies through a detailed error analysis. Furthermore, the application of the OxCM contour method solver in a real-case scenario involving a nickel-based superalloy finite-length weldment is demonstrated. The results exhibit the expected distribution of the longitudinal component of residual stresses along the long-transverse direction, consistent with the solution of a commercial solver that was validated by neutron diffraction strain scanning.
{"title":"The OxCM contour method solver for residual stress evaluation","authors":"Fatih Uzun, Alexander M. Korsunsky","doi":"10.1007/s00366-024-01959-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00366-024-01959-3","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper introduces the OxCM contour method solver, a console application structured based on the legacy version of the FEniCS open-source computing platform for solving partial differential equations (PDEs) using the finite element method (FEM). The solver provides a standardized approach to solving linear elastic numerical models, calculating residual stresses corresponding to measured displacements resulting from changes in the boundary conditions after minimally disturbing (non-contact) cutting. This is achieved through a single-line command, specifically in the case of availability of a domain composed of a tetrahedral mesh and experimentally collected and processed profilometry data. The solver is structured according to a static boundary condition rule, allowing it to rely solely on the cross-section occupied by the experimental data, independent of the geometric irregularities of the investigated body. This approach eliminates the need to create realistic finite element domains for complex-shaped, discontinuous processing bodies. While the contour method provides highly accurate quantification of residual stresses in parts with continuously processed properties, real scenarios often involve parts subjected to discontinuous processing and geometric irregularities. The solver’s validation is performed through numerical experiments representing both continuous and discontinuous processing conditions in artificially created domains with regular and irregular geometric features based on the eigenstrain theory. Numerical experiments, free from experimental errors, contribute to a novel understanding of the contour method's capabilities in reconstructing residual stresses in such bodies through a detailed error analysis. Furthermore, the application of the OxCM contour method solver in a real-case scenario involving a nickel-based superalloy finite-length weldment is demonstrated. The results exhibit the expected distribution of the longitudinal component of residual stresses along the long-transverse direction, consistent with the solution of a commercial solver that was validated by neutron diffraction strain scanning.</p>","PeriodicalId":11696,"journal":{"name":"Engineering with Computers","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":8.7,"publicationDate":"2024-03-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140324941","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-03-27DOI: 10.1007/s00366-024-01965-5
Giuliano Guarino, Pablo Antolin, Alberto Milazzo, Annalisa Buffa
This work focuses on the coupling of trimmed shell patches using Isogeometric Analysis, based on higher continuity splines that seamlessly meet the (C^1) requirement of Kirchhoff–Love-based discretizations. Weak enforcement of coupling conditions is achieved through the symmetric interior penalty method, where the fluxes are computed using their correct variationally consistent expression that was only recently proposed and is unprecedentedly adopted herein in the context of coupling conditions. The constitutive relationship accounts for generically laminated materials, although the proposed tests are conducted under the assumption of uniform thickness and lamination sequence. Numerical experiments assess the method for an isotropic and a laminated plate, as well as an isotropic hyperbolic paraboloid shell from the new shell obstacle course. The boundary conditions and domain force are chosen to reproduce manufactured analytical solutions, which are taken as reference to compute rigorous convergence curves in the (L^2), (H^1), and (H^2) norms, that closely approach optimal ones predicted by theory. Additionally, we conduct a final test on a complex structure comprising five intersecting laminated cylindrical shells, whose geometry is directly imported from a STEP file. The results exhibit excellent agreement with those obtained through commercial software, showcasing the method’s potential for real-world industrial applications.
{"title":"An interior penalty coupling strategy for isogeometric non-conformal Kirchhoff–Love shell patches","authors":"Giuliano Guarino, Pablo Antolin, Alberto Milazzo, Annalisa Buffa","doi":"10.1007/s00366-024-01965-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00366-024-01965-5","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This work focuses on the coupling of trimmed shell patches using Isogeometric Analysis, based on higher continuity splines that seamlessly meet the <span>(C^1)</span> requirement of Kirchhoff–Love-based discretizations. Weak enforcement of coupling conditions is achieved through the symmetric interior penalty method, where the fluxes are computed using their correct variationally consistent expression that was only recently proposed and is unprecedentedly adopted herein in the context of coupling conditions. The constitutive relationship accounts for generically laminated materials, although the proposed tests are conducted under the assumption of uniform thickness and lamination sequence. Numerical experiments assess the method for an isotropic and a laminated plate, as well as an isotropic hyperbolic paraboloid shell from the new shell obstacle course. The boundary conditions and domain force are chosen to reproduce manufactured analytical solutions, which are taken as reference to compute rigorous convergence curves in the <span>(L^2)</span>, <span>(H^1)</span>, and <span>(H^2)</span> norms, that closely approach optimal ones predicted by theory. Additionally, we conduct a final test on a complex structure comprising five intersecting laminated cylindrical shells, whose geometry is directly imported from a STEP file. The results exhibit excellent agreement with those obtained through commercial software, showcasing the method’s potential for real-world industrial applications.</p>","PeriodicalId":11696,"journal":{"name":"Engineering with Computers","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":8.7,"publicationDate":"2024-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140316253","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-03-27DOI: 10.1007/s00366-024-01951-x
Zheng Guojun, Li Runjin, Shen Guozhe, Zhang Xiangkui
Loaded shell structures may deform, rotate, and crack, leading to fracture. The traditional finite element method describes material internal forces through differential equations, posing challenges in handling discontinuities and complicating fracture problem resolution. Peridynamics (PD), employing integral equations, presents advantages for fracture analysis. However, as a non-local theory, PD requires discretizing materials into nodes and establishing interactions through bonds, leading to reduce computational efficiency. This study introduces a GPU-based parallel PD algorithm for large deformation problems in shell structures within the compute unified device architecture (CUDA) framework. The algorithm incorporates element mapping and bond mapping for high parallelism. The algorithm optimizes data structures and GPU memory usage for efficient parallel computing. The parallel computing capabilities of GPU expedite crack analysis simulations, greatly reducing the time required to address large deformation problems. Experimental tests confirm the algorithm’s accuracy, efficiency, and value for engineering applications, demonstrating its potential to advance fracture analysis in shell structures.
{"title":"A parallel acceleration GPU algorithm for large deformation of thin shell structures based on peridynamics","authors":"Zheng Guojun, Li Runjin, Shen Guozhe, Zhang Xiangkui","doi":"10.1007/s00366-024-01951-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00366-024-01951-x","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Loaded shell structures may deform, rotate, and crack, leading to fracture. The traditional finite element method describes material internal forces through differential equations, posing challenges in handling discontinuities and complicating fracture problem resolution. Peridynamics (PD), employing integral equations, presents advantages for fracture analysis. However, as a non-local theory, PD requires discretizing materials into nodes and establishing interactions through bonds, leading to reduce computational efficiency. This study introduces a GPU-based parallel PD algorithm for large deformation problems in shell structures within the compute unified device architecture (CUDA) framework. The algorithm incorporates element mapping and bond mapping for high parallelism. The algorithm optimizes data structures and GPU memory usage for efficient parallel computing. The parallel computing capabilities of GPU expedite crack analysis simulations, greatly reducing the time required to address large deformation problems. Experimental tests confirm the algorithm’s accuracy, efficiency, and value for engineering applications, demonstrating its potential to advance fracture analysis in shell structures.</p>","PeriodicalId":11696,"journal":{"name":"Engineering with Computers","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":8.7,"publicationDate":"2024-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140324901","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-03-23DOI: 10.1007/s00366-024-01960-w
Kuan-Chung Lin, Ting-Wei Chen, Huai-Liang Hsieh
This study introduces an innovative dynamic infinite meshfree method for robust and efficient solutions to half-space problems. This approach seamlessly couples this method with the nodal integral reproducing kernel particle method to discretize half-spaces defined by an artificial boundary. The infinite meshfree shape function is uniquely constructed using the 1D reproducing kernel shape function combined with the boundary singular kernel method, ensuring the Kronecker delta property on artificial boundaries. Coupled with the wave-transfer function, the proposed approach models dissipation actions effectively. The infinite domain simulation employs the dummy node method, enhanced by Newton–Cotes integrals. To ensure solution stability and convergence, our approach is based on the Galerkin weak form of the domain integral method. To combat the challenges of instability and imprecision, we integrated the stabilized conforming nodal integration method and the naturally stable nodal integration. The proposed methods efficacy is validated through various benchmark problems, with preliminary results showcasing superior precision and stability.
{"title":"A stable and efficient infinite meshfree approach for solving half-space eat conduction problems","authors":"Kuan-Chung Lin, Ting-Wei Chen, Huai-Liang Hsieh","doi":"10.1007/s00366-024-01960-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00366-024-01960-w","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study introduces an innovative dynamic infinite meshfree method for robust and efficient solutions to half-space problems. This approach seamlessly couples this method with the nodal integral reproducing kernel particle method to discretize half-spaces defined by an artificial boundary. The infinite meshfree shape function is uniquely constructed using the 1D reproducing kernel shape function combined with the boundary singular kernel method, ensuring the Kronecker delta property on artificial boundaries. Coupled with the wave-transfer function, the proposed approach models dissipation actions effectively. The infinite domain simulation employs the dummy node method, enhanced by Newton–Cotes integrals. To ensure solution stability and convergence, our approach is based on the Galerkin weak form of the domain integral method. To combat the challenges of instability and imprecision, we integrated the stabilized conforming nodal integration method and the naturally stable nodal integration. The proposed methods efficacy is validated through various benchmark problems, with preliminary results showcasing superior precision and stability.</p>","PeriodicalId":11696,"journal":{"name":"Engineering with Computers","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":8.7,"publicationDate":"2024-03-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140204397","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-03-21DOI: 10.1007/s00366-024-01957-5
Fabio V. Difonzo, Luciano Lopez, Sabrina F. Pellegrino
Deep learning is a powerful tool for solving data driven differential problems and has come out to have successful applications in solving direct and inverse problems described by PDEs, even in presence of integral terms. In this paper, we propose to apply radial basis functions (RBFs) as activation functions in suitably designed Physics Informed Neural Networks (PINNs) to solve the inverse problem of computing the perydinamic kernel in the nonlocal formulation of classical wave equation, resulting in what we call RBF-iPINN. We show that the selection of an RBF is necessary to achieve meaningful solutions, that agree with the physical expectations carried by the data. We support our results with numerical examples and experiments, comparing the solution obtained with the proposed RBF-iPINN to the exact solutions.
{"title":"Physics informed neural networks for an inverse problem in peridynamic models","authors":"Fabio V. Difonzo, Luciano Lopez, Sabrina F. Pellegrino","doi":"10.1007/s00366-024-01957-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00366-024-01957-5","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Deep learning is a powerful tool for solving data driven differential problems and has come out to have successful applications in solving direct and inverse problems described by PDEs, even in presence of integral terms. In this paper, we propose to apply radial basis functions (RBFs) as activation functions in suitably designed Physics Informed Neural Networks (PINNs) to solve the inverse problem of computing the perydinamic kernel in the nonlocal formulation of classical wave equation, resulting in what we call RBF-iPINN. We show that the selection of an RBF is necessary to achieve meaningful solutions, that agree with the physical expectations carried by the data. We support our results with numerical examples and experiments, comparing the solution obtained with the proposed RBF-iPINN to the exact solutions.</p>","PeriodicalId":11696,"journal":{"name":"Engineering with Computers","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":8.7,"publicationDate":"2024-03-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140204233","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}