On the effect of the bulk tangent matrix in partitioned solution schemes for nearly incompressible fluids

The purpose of this paper is to study the effect of the bulk modulus on the iterative solution of free surface quasi-incompressible fluids using a mixed partitioned scheme. A practical rule to set up the value of a pseudo-bulk modulus a priori in the tangent bulk stiffness matrix for improving the c...

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Autores: Franci, Alessandro|||0000-0002-2221-6342, Oñate Ibáñez de Navarra, Eugenio|||0000-0002-0804-7095, Carbonell Puigbó, Josep Maria|||0000-0002-2378-5053
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2015
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Repositorio:UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/86862
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2117/86862
https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/nme.4839
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Navier-Stokes equations
Fluid mechanics
quasi-incompressible fluid
bulk modulus
mass conservation
ill-conditioning
finite calculus
finite element method
particle finite element method
partitioned scheme
finite-element-method
saddle-point problems
lagrangian-formulation
numerical-solution
flow problems
simulation
calculus
equations
pfem
Equacions de Navier-Stokes
Mecànica de fluids
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Matemàtiques i estadística::Anàlisi numèrica::Mètodes en elements finits
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Sumario:The purpose of this paper is to study the effect of the bulk modulus on the iterative solution of free surface quasi-incompressible fluids using a mixed partitioned scheme. A practical rule to set up the value of a pseudo-bulk modulus a priori in the tangent bulk stiffness matrix for improving the conditioning of the linear system of algebraic equations is also given. The efficiency of the proposed strategy is tested in several problems analyzing the advantage of the modified bulk tangent matrix with regard to the stability of the pressure field, the convergence rate and the computational speed of the analyses. The technique has been tested on a finite calculus/particle finite element method Lagrangian formulation, but it can be easily extended to other quasi-incompressible stabilized finite element formulations. Copyright (C) 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.