The motion of a three-dimensional glacier is considered. Ice is modeled as an incompressible non-Newtonian fluid. At each time step, given the shape of the glacier, a nonlinear elliptic system has to be solved in order to obtain the two components of the horizontal velocity field. Then, the shape of the glacier is updated by solving a transport equation. Finite element techniques are used to compute the velocity field and to solve the transport equation. Numerical results are compared to experiments...
This paper is devoted to the numerical simulation of wave breaking. It presents the results of a numerical workshop that was held during the conference LOMA04. The objective is to compare several mathematical models (compressible or incompressible) and associated numerical methods to compute the flow field during a wave breaking over a reef. The methods will also be compared with experiments.
This paper is devoted to the numerical simulation of wave
breaking. It presents the results of a numerical workshop that was
held during the conference LOMA04. The objective is to compare
several mathematical models (compressible or incompressible) and
associated numerical methods to compute the flow field during a
wave breaking over a reef. The methods will also be compared with
experiments.
In this work we present new numerical methods to simulate the mechanics of head-tape magnetic storage devices. The elastohydrodynamic
problem is formulated in terms of a coupled system which is governed by a nonlinear compressible Reynolds equation for the air pressure over the head, and a
rod model for the tape displacement. A fixed point algorithm between the solutions of the elastic and
hydrodynamic problems is proposed. For the nonlinear Reynolds equation, a characteristics method and a...
This work is concerned with the numerical solution of a hydrodynamic model of the macroscopic behavior of flocks of birds due to Fornasier et al., 2011. The model consists of the compressible Euler equations with an added nonlocal, nonlinear right-hand side. As noticed by the authors of the model, explicit time schemes are practically useless even on very coarse grids in 1D due to the nonlocal nature of the equations. To this end, we apply a semi-implicit discontinuous Galerkin method to solve the...
The mathematical model of a ball-type vibration absorber represents a non-linear differential system which includes non-holonomic constraints. When a random ambient excitation is taken into account, the system has to be treated as a stochastic deferential equation. Depending on the level of simplification, an analytical solution is not practicable and numerical solution procedures have to be applied. The contribution presents a simple stochastic analysis of a particular resonance effect which can...
We consider the numerical solution, in two- and three-dimensional bounded domains, of the inverse problem for identifying the location of small-volume, conductivity imperfections in a medium with homogeneous background. A dynamic approach, based on the wave equation, permits us to treat the important case of “limited-view” data. Our numerical algorithm is based on the coupling of a finite element solution of the wave equation, an exact controllability method and finally a Fourier inversion for localizing...
We consider the numerical solution, in two- and three-dimensional
bounded domains, of the inverse problem for identifying the location
of small-volume, conductivity imperfections in a medium with homogeneous
background. A dynamic approach, based on the wave equation, permits
us to treat the important case of “limited-view” data. Our numerical
algorithm is based on the coupling of a finite element solution of
the wave equation, an exact controllability method and finally a Fourier
inversion for...