A face-based smoothed point interpolation method (FS-PIM) for analysis of nonlinear heat conduction in multi-material bodies
Introduction
In the past few years, composite structures have been widely applied in civilian industries, which can improve the performance of structures and provide significant weight saving. Usually, composite structures work under complex thermal loads and hence, the relevant heat transfer analysis is of great importance in many practical engineering areas [1], [2], [3].
So much research has been done in recent yeas, focusing on solving the heat transfer problems [4], [5], [6]. There is no doubt that when the geometries, material models and boundary conditions are complex, it is usually very difficult to find analytical solutions. Therefore, numerical methods are widely employed to deal with the related analysis by researchers. For instance, Liu and Tan [7] employed the meshless local Petrov–Galerkin (MLPG) method to deal with the heat transfer analysis. Hematiyan et al. [8] used the boundary element method (BEM) to analyze transient heat transfer problems, in which the problem domain is discretized using boundary elements. Khosravifard et al. [9] proposed an improved meshless radial point interpolation method (RPIM) for the analysis of transient heat conduction problems. Ching and Chen [10] employed the MLPG method to investigate the transient thermal response of two-dimensional solids. Singh et al. [11] utilized the element free Galerkin (EFG) method to obtain the numerical solution of heat transfer problems, in which the approximation function is constructed from a set of scattered nodes.
Among all these methods, the meshfree methods have been found to be a dominant numerical method, such as reproducing kernel particle (RKP) method [12], diffuse element method (DEM) [13], point interpolation method (PIM) [14], etc. The meshfree point interpolation method is formulated using the Galerkin weak form, in which shape functions are constructed through interpolation based on a set of nodes in a local support domain. The PIM shape functions constructed by such procedure possess the Delta function property, which can permit the straightforward imposition of essential boundary conditions. Using shape functions generated by PIM, Liu et al. have applied the smoothing technique [15], [16], [17], [18], [19], [20], [21] to the PIM. Then, a node-based smoothed point interpolation method (NS-PIM) [22], [23] and an edge-based smoothed point interpolation method (ES-PIM) [24] are proposed and extended to deal with heat transfer problems based on the generalized gradient smoothing operation, in which a generalized gradient smoothing technique [25], [26] is utilized to establish the smoothed Galerkin weak form and the quality of solutions can be improved effectively.
Based on these previous studies, a face-based smoothed point interpolation method (FS-PIM) is further formulated and extended to deal with nonlinear heat transfer analysis of three dimensional (3D) composite structures. The discretized system equations are derived using the smoothed Galerkin weak form. It is assumed that the material in each portion is homogeneous, and all portions of structures are perfectly bonded together without clearance or sliding. The material parameters are considered to be temperature-dependent. Due to nonlinearity, the Newton–Raphson iteration method is utilized to deal with the analysis. Numerical examples with various kinds of boundary conditions are presented to verify the validity of different FS-PIM schemes for the nonlinear heat transfer analysis of composite structures.
Section snippets
Thermal governing equations and boundary conditions
It has been assumed that the material obeys Fourier's Law of heat conduction. The differential equations governing steady and transient heat conduction are given as follows, respectivelywhere T is the temperature, qv is the internal heat generation, ρ is the density, c is the specific heat, kx, ky and kz are the thermal conductivities in the x, y, z directions, respectively. The initial condition and a set of thermal
Construction of PIM shape functions
Consider a problem domain with a set of arbitrarily scattered points xi (i = 1, 2, …, n), n is the number of nodes in the local support domain. For an interest point x, the approximation of temperature function T can be expressed aswhere P(x) is monomial basis function, n is the number of field nodes in the local support domain and a is the unknown coefficient yet to be determined.
The polynomial basis of first order and second order is utilized for three-dimensional
Results and discussion
Nonlinear steady, transient heat transfer and thermal elastic analysis of three-dimensional composite structures are presented here to illustrate the validity of FS-PIM schemes with various kinds of boundary conditions. For comparison, the standard FEM codes are also developed to evaluate the same problems in FORTRAN, using the same meshes as the FS-PIM schemes. In order to study the convergence, the thermal equivalent energy and thermal equivalent energy error norm are defined as
Conclusion
In this paper, a face-based smoothed point interpolation method (FS-PIM) is formulated to deal with the heat transfer analysis of composite structures with nonlinearity. Formulations based on the smoothed Galerkin weak form are presented. Different support nodes selection schemes are discussed and several numerical examples with different kinds of boundary conditions are then investigated to examine validity of the present FS-PIM schemes. From these studies, several remarks can be made as
Acknowledgments
The support of National Science Foundation of China (11472101), Key Project Supported by the Education Department of Henan Province (15A460002) and Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions are gratefully acknowledged.
Nomenclature
- hc
- convection coefficient, W/(m2 °C)
- k
- thermal conductivity, W/(m °C)
- N
- number of faces
- n0
- unit outward normal component
- q0
- heat flux, W/m2
- T0
- initial temperature, °C
- Tk
- known temperature, °C
- T∞
- environmental temperature, °C
Greek symbols
- φ
- shape functions
- c
- specific heat
- ρ
- density, kg/m3
- Ω
- problem domain
- Γ
- global or local boundary
- P
- monomial basis function
- Pm
- moment matrix
- Ts
- vector of nodal function values
Subscripts and superscripts
- i, j
- tensor indices
- k
- smoothing domain for face k
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