Penalty continuous

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The penalty method is based on the expression of pressure in terms of the incompressibility condition (i.e. the continuity equation) as... 

Level of enforcement of the incompressibility condition depends on the magnitude of the penalty parameter. If this parameter is chosen to be excessively large then the working equations of the scheme will be dominated by the incompressibility constraint and may become singular. On the other hand, if the selected penalty parameter is too small then the mass conservation will not be assured. In non-Newtonian flow problems, where shear-dependent viscosity varies locally, to enforce the continuity at the right level it is necessary to maintain a balance between the viscosity and the penalty parameter. To achieve this the penalty parameter should be related to the viscosity as A = Xorj (Nakazawa et al, 1982) where Ao is a large dimensionless parameter and tj is the local viscosity. The recommended value for Ao in typical polymer flow problems is about 10. ... 

FINITE ELEMENT MODELLING OF POLYMERIC FLOW PROCESSES The continuous penalty technique... 

In the continuous penalty technique prior to the discretization of the governing equations, the pressure in the equation of motion is substituted from Fquation (3.6) to obtain... 

Equation (3.8) is the basic working equation of the continuous penalty method. 

The use of selectively reduced integration to obtain accurate non-trivial solutions for incompressible flow problems by the continuous penalty method is not robust and failure may occur. An alternative method called the discrete penalty technique was therefore developed. In this technique separate discretizations for the equation of motion and the penalty relationship (3.6) are first obtained and then the pressure in the equation of motion is substituted using these discretized forms. Finite elements used in conjunction with the discrete penalty scheme must provide appropriate interpolation orders for velocity and pressure to satisfy the BB condition. This is in contrast to the continuous penalty method in which the satisfaction of the stability condition is achieved indirectly through... 

Working equations of the continuous penalty scheme in Cartesian coordinate systems... 

Following the procedure described in the continuous penalty technique subsection in Chapter 3 the Galerkin-weighted residual statements corresponding to Equation (4.52) are written as... 

After application of Green s theorem to the second-order velocity derivatives (to reduce inter-element continuity requirement) and algebraic manipulations the working equations of the continuous penalty scheme are obtained as... 

As described in the discrete penalty technique subsection in Chapter 3 in the discrete penalty method components of the equation of motion and the penalty relationship (i.e. the modified equation of continuity) are discretized separately and then used to eliminate the pressure term from the equation of motion. In order to illustrate this procedure we consider the following penalty relationship... 

MODELLING OF STEADY-STATE VISCOMETRIC FLOW -WORKING EQUATIONS OF THE CONTINUOUS PENALTY SCHEME IN CARTESIAN COORDINATE SYSTEMS... 

Temperature variations are found by the solution of the energy equation. I he finite element scheme used in this example is based on the implicit 0 time-stepping/continuous penalty scheme described in detail in Chapter 4, Section 5. 

Solution of the flow equations has been based on the application of the implicit 0 time-stepping/continuous penalty scheme (Chapter 4, Section 5) at a separate step from the constitutive equation. The constitutive model used in this example has been the Phan-Thien/Tanner equation for viscoelastic fluids given as Equation (1.27) in Chapter 1. Details of the finite element solution of this equation are published elsewhere and not repeated here (Hou and Nassehi, 2001). The predicted normal stress profiles along the line AB (see Figure 5.12) at five successive time steps are. shown in Figure 5.13. The predicted pattern is expected to be repeated throughout the entire domain. 

Continuous penalty method - to discretize the continuity and (r, z) components of the equation of motion, Equations (5.22) and (5.24), for the calculation of r,. and v. Pressure is computed via the variational recovery procedure (Chapter 3, Section 4). 

In the continuous penalty scheme used here the penalty parameter is defined as... 

As already mentioned, the present code corresponds to the solution of steady-state non-isothennal Navier-Stokes equations in two-dimensional Cartesian domains by the continuous penalty method. As an example, we consider modifications required to extend the program to the solution of creeping (Stokes) non-isothermal flow in axisymmetric domains ... 

CONTINUOUS PENALTY SCHEME IN CONJUNCTION VJITH SELECTIVELY REDUCED... 

From the continuity of the penalty operator it follows that... 

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