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The MOTIF code is a three-dimensional finite-element code capable of simulating steady state or transient coupled/uncoupled variable-density, variable- saturation fluid flow, heat transport, and conservative or nonspecies radionuclide) transport in deformable fractured/ porous media. In the code, the porous medium component is represented by hexahedral elements, triangular prism elements, tetrahedral elements, quadrilateral planar elements, and lineal elements. Discrete fractures are represented by biplanar quadrilateral elements (for the equilibrium equation), and monoplanar quadrilateral elements (for flow and transport equations). 

The discretization of a problem domain into a finite element mesh consisting of randomly sized triangular elements is shown in Figure 2,1. In the coarse mesh shown there are relatively large gaps between the actual domain boundary and the boundary of the mesh and hence the overall discretization error is expected to be large. 

Standard procedures for the derivation of the shape functions of common types of finite elements can be illustrated in the context of two-dimensional triangular and rectangular elements. Let us, first, consider a triangular element having three nodes located at its vertices as is shown in Figure 2.6. 

In the outlined procedure the derivation of the shape functions of a three-noded (linear) triangular element requires the solution of a set of algebraic equations, generally shown as Equation (2.7). 

Shape functions of the described triangular element are hence found on the basis of Equation (2.11) as... 

The number of terms of a complete polynomial of any given degree will hence correspond to the number of nodes in a triangular element belonging to this family. An analogous tetrahedral family of finite elements that corresponds to complete polynomials in terms of three spatial variables can also be constructed for three-dimensional analysis. 

The most convenient coordinate system for a triangular master element is based on a natural system similar to the one shown in Figure 2.19, where Li == 1 -- r/, L2 = and L3 = 77. 

Figure 2.19 Local natural coordinates in a master triangular element...

Therefore a = /nxl = hi, fl2i = hi, etc. (elements in the first column of a a,re the same as the elements in the first column of /) similarly multiplying rows of / by columns of u and equating the result with the corresponding element of a all of the elements of lower and upper triangular matrices are found. The general formula for obtaining elements of / and u can be expressed as... 

In some applications the diagonal elements of the upper triangular matrix are not predetermined to be unity. The formula used for the LU decomposition procedure in these applications is slightly different from those given in Equations (6.10) to (6.12), (Press et al., 1987). 

The tipper triangular part of the Huckel matrix for ethylene, Fq, (6-48), exclusive of the diagonal elements consists of only one element. It can be entered into Program QMOBAS by making the dimension of the matrix 2 and changing the data statement to enter 1 in the 1.2 position... 

From the geometry of this triangular display, it follows immediately-if one overlooks the exceptions—that the more widely separated a pair of comonomers are in Fig. 7.2, the greater is their tendency toward alternation. Conversely the closer they are together, the greater their tendency toward randomness We recognize a parallel here to the notion that widely separated elements in the periodic table will produce more polar bonds than those which are closei together and vice versa. 

A triangular matrix is a matrix all of whose elements above or below the main diagonal (set of elements an,. . . , a j) are zero. 

LV Factorization of a Matrix To eveiy m X n matrix A there exists a permutation matrix P, a lower triangular matrix L with unit diagonal elements, and a.nm X n (upper triangular) echelon matrix U such that PA = LU. The Gauss elimination is in essence an algorithm to determine U, P, and L. The permutation matrix P may be needed since it may be necessaiy in carrying out the Gauss elimination to... 

Crimped Metal Ribbon A flame arrester element that is manufactured of alternate layers of thin corrugated metal rihhon and a flat metal rihhon that are wound together on a mandrel to form a cylindrical assembly of many layers to produce a range of different sized triangular cells. The height and width of the triangular cells can he varied to provide the required quenching diameter. 

Figure 6.1 The icosahedron and some of its symmetry elements, (a) An icosahedron has 12 vertices and 20 triangular faces defined by 30 edges, (b) The preferred pentagonal pyramidal coordination polyhedron for 6-coordinate boron in icosahedral structures as it is not possible to generate an infinite three-dimensional lattice on the basis of fivefold symmetry, various distortions, translations and voids occur in the actual crystal structures, (c) The distortion angle 0, which varies from 0° to 25°, for various boron atoms in crystalline boron and metal borides.

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