TY - JOUR
T1 - Thermoelasticity at finite strains with weak and strong discontinuities
AU - Masud, Arif
AU - Chen, Pinlei
N1 - Funding Information:
This paper was dedicated to Professor T.J.R. Hughes at the symposium celebrating his 75th birthday during the 13th World Congress on Computational Mechanics, New York City, July 2018. This work was partially supported by NSF grant NSF-DMS-16-20231 which is gratefully acknowledged.
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PY - 2019/4/15
Y1 - 2019/4/15
N2 - This paper presents a monolithic coupled formulation for finite strain thermoelasticity with weak and strong discontinuities. Thermal and mechanical properties can vary sharply across embedded interfaces where weak discontinuities are allowed to grow into strong discontinuities as the coupled nonlinear process evolves. Significant contributions in this work are: (i) variationally consistent coupling of multiple fields that have jumps across embedded interfaces, (ii) non-matching meshes with provision of different element types across interfaces, (iii) evolution of interfacial kinematics via embedding phenomenological models at the interfaces, and (iv) consistent linearization of the two-way coupled formulation leading to quadratic convergence of the method. The new Variational Multiscale Coupled Field (VMCF) formulation is developed by embedding Discontinuous Galerkin (DG) ideas in the Continuous Galerkin (CG) method within the context of the Variational Multiscale (VMS) framework. Starting from a thermomechanically coupled formulation over the elastic domain with Lagrange multipliers that couple fields along the interfaces, the Lagrange multipliers are eliminated by deriving analytical expressions for the multipliers via the interfacial fine-scale problems facilitated by the VMS framework. The derived terms for interfacial stabilization are a function of the residual of Euler–Lagrange equations along the interfaces. Stabilization tensors are functions of the evolving mechanical and thermal fields and are free of user-defined parameters. Several test cases are presented to illustrate the versatility and the range of applicability of the method.
AB - This paper presents a monolithic coupled formulation for finite strain thermoelasticity with weak and strong discontinuities. Thermal and mechanical properties can vary sharply across embedded interfaces where weak discontinuities are allowed to grow into strong discontinuities as the coupled nonlinear process evolves. Significant contributions in this work are: (i) variationally consistent coupling of multiple fields that have jumps across embedded interfaces, (ii) non-matching meshes with provision of different element types across interfaces, (iii) evolution of interfacial kinematics via embedding phenomenological models at the interfaces, and (iv) consistent linearization of the two-way coupled formulation leading to quadratic convergence of the method. The new Variational Multiscale Coupled Field (VMCF) formulation is developed by embedding Discontinuous Galerkin (DG) ideas in the Continuous Galerkin (CG) method within the context of the Variational Multiscale (VMS) framework. Starting from a thermomechanically coupled formulation over the elastic domain with Lagrange multipliers that couple fields along the interfaces, the Lagrange multipliers are eliminated by deriving analytical expressions for the multipliers via the interfacial fine-scale problems facilitated by the VMS framework. The derived terms for interfacial stabilization are a function of the residual of Euler–Lagrange equations along the interfaces. Stabilization tensors are functions of the evolving mechanical and thermal fields and are free of user-defined parameters. Several test cases are presented to illustrate the versatility and the range of applicability of the method.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.cma.2018.12.024
DO - 10.1016/j.cma.2018.12.024
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85061634601
VL - 347
SP - 1050
EP - 1084
JO - Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering
JF - Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering
SN - 0374-2830
ER -