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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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A study of the effects of bifurcations in swirling flows using Large Eddy Simulation and mesh adaptation / Etude du phénomène de bifurcation des écoulements vrillés par la Simulation aux Grandes Échelles et l'adaptation de maillage

Falese, Mario 07 October 2013 (has links)
Les écoulements vrillés, qui sont largement utilisés dans les turbines à gaz, sont connus pour être sujet à des bifurcations entre différentes topologies (grandes reconfigurations de l'écoulement) qui peuvent affecter les performances et la sécurité du moteur. Ce travail se concentre sur l'étude de ces bifurcations en utilisant la Simulation aux Grandes Echelles (SGE). Cette étude montre qu'un petit changement dans les conditions dynamique du fluide, induite par les différents modèles de sous-maille utilisés, peut provoquer une transition entre deux régimes d'écoulement distincts lorsque l'écoulement tourbillonnaire est proche des conditions critiques de transition. La sensibilité de la SGE aux modèles de sous-maille est également identifiée comme le résultat d'un manque de résolution à certains endroits critiques, un problème qui est analysé en utilisant une méthode d'adaptation de maillage. L’adaptation de maillage est testée sur des cas académiques et industriels. Ici, par ajustement de la résolution du maillage sur la base des caractéristiques de l'écoulement étudié (raffinement et grossissement de la grille en maintenant constant le coût numérique), des améliorations substantielles peuvent être obtenues, en terme de prédictions de la SGE. Ce travail peut être considéré comme une des premières étapes vers la mise en place d'une procédure standard (reproductible et indépendante de l’utilisateur) de maillage pour la SGE. / Swirling flows, which are widely employed in gas turbines, are known to undergo bifurcation between different topologies (large reconfigurations of the flow field) affecting the engine performance and safety. This work focuses on the study of such bifurcations using Large-Eddy Simulation (LES). It shows that a small change in the fluid dynamics conditions, induced by the different Sub-Grid Scale (SGS) models used in the simulations, can cause a transition between two, distinct, flow states when the swirling flow is close to transition conditions. The sensitivity of LES to SGS modeling is also identified as the result of a lack of mesh resolution at some critical locations, a problem which is analyzed using mesh adaptation. Mesh adaptation is tested on canonical and industrial flows. Here, by adjusting the mesh resolution based on the characteristics of the flow examined (refining and coarsening the grid keeping constant the numerical cost), substantial improvements of the LES predictions can be obtained. This work can be considered as the first step toward the establishment of a standard (repeatable and user independent) meshing procedure for LES.
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A posteriorní odhady chyby nespojité Galerkinovy metody pro eliptické a parabolické úlohy / A posteriori error estimates of discontinuous Galerkin method for elliptic and parabolic methods

Grubhofferová, Pavla January 2013 (has links)
The presented work deals with the discontinuous Galerkin method with the anisotropic mesh adaptation for stationary convection-diffusion problems. Basic definitions are included in an introduction where we also present the used method. The following parts describe various methods for evaluating a Riemann metric, which is necessary for anisotropic mesh adaptation. The most important part of work follows - numerical experiments carried out with ADGFEM and ANGENER software packages. In these experiments, we compare different approaches for the definition of Riemann metrics and compare their efficiency. The main output of this thesis are subroutines for evaluation of the Riemann metric including its source code.
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Qualification des simulations numériques par adaptation anisotropique de maillages / Qualification of numerical simulations by anisotropic mesh adaptation

Nguyen-Dinh, Maxime 19 March 2014 (has links)
La simulation numérique est largement utilisée pour évaluer les performances aérodynamiques des aéronefs ainsi qu'en optimisation de forme. Ainsi l'objectif de ces simulations est souvent le calcul de fonctions aérodynamiques. L'objet de cette thèse est d'étudier des méthodes d'adaptation de maillages basées sur la dérivée totale de ces fonctions par rapport aux coordonnées du maillage (notée dJ/dX). Celle-ci pouvant être calculée par la méthode adjointe discrète. La première partie de cette étude concerne l'application de méthodes d'adaptation de maillages appliquées à des écoulements de fluides parfaits. Le senseur qui détecte les zones de maillage à raffiner s'appuie sur la norme de cette dérivée pour adapter des maillages pour le calcul d'une fonction J. La seconde partie du travail est la construction et l'étude de critères plus fiables basés sur dJ/dX pour d'une part adapter des maillages et d'autre part estimer si un maillage est bien adapté ou non pour le calcul de la fonction J. De plus une méthode de remaillage plus efficace basée sur une EDP elliptique est aussi présentée. Cette nouvelle méthode est appliquée pour des écoulements bidimensionnels de fluides parfaits ainsi que pour un écoulement décrit par les équations RANS. La dernière partie de l'étude est consacrée à l'application de la méthode proposée à des cas tridimensionnels d'écoulement RANS sur des géométries d'intérêt industriel. / Numerical simulation is widely used for the assessment of aircraft aerodynamic performances and shape optimizations. Hence the objective of these simulations is often to compute aerodynamic outputs. The purpose of this thesis is to study mesh adaptation methods based on the total derivative of the outputs with respect to mesh coordinates (denoted dJ/dX). This derivative can be computed using the discrete adjoint method. The first part of this study is about the application of mesh adaptation methods applied for Eulerian flows. The mesh locations to refine are detected using a sensor based on the norm of the derivative dJ/dX. This study confirmed that this derivative is relevant in order to adapt a mesh for the computation of the output J. The second part of this work is the construction and the study of reliable criteria based on dJ/dX for both mesh adaptation and the quality assessment of a given mesh for the computation of the output J. Moreover a more efficient remeshing method based on an elliptic PDE is presented too. This new method is applied for both two-dimensional Eulerian flows and a flow described by the RANS equations. The last part of the study is devoted to the application of the proposed method to three-dimensional RANS flows on geometries of industrial interest.
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Simulation des grands espaces et des temps longs / Numerical modeling of large scales and long time

Veysset, Jérémy 29 September 2014 (has links)
L'interaction fluide structure est présente dans beaucoup de problèmes industriels, dans les domaines d'ingénierie mécanique, civile ou biomécanique. Même si les performances informatiques s'améliorent considérablement et que les méthodes en mécanique numérique gagnent en maturité, certaines difficultés ne permettent pas encore de réaliser des simulations numériques précises. Actuellement deux méthodes numériques gagnent en popularité pour la simulation numérique d'interactions fluide structure: la méthode de partitionnement et la méthode monolithique. Des résultats de la littérature montrent que la première est efficace et précise mais qu'elle peut rencontrer des problèmes d'instabilité si les ratios de densité sont élevés ou que les géométries sont complexes. Les méthodes d'immersion sont de plus en plus utilisées par la communauté scientifique. Différentes approches ont été développées, dont la Méthode d'Immersion de Volume. Cette méthode permet de faciliter la mise en place des calculs. Ainsi il n'est pas nécessaire de construire des maillages concordant avec la géométrie des objets, et le couplage entre les fluides et les solides se fait naturellement. C'est sur cette analyse qu'a été développé le logiciel Thost. Il permet de simuler des procédés industriels tels que le chauffage de pièces métalliques dans les fours industriels ou la trempe sans caractériser expérimentalement des coefficients de transfert. Le but d'un tel logiciel est de permettre une meilleure compréhension des procédés et ainsi de les optimiser. Cependant les coûts de calcul restant élevés, le but de la thèse est de les diminuer en s'appuyant sur des méthodes numériques innovantes tels que l'adaptation dynamique de maillage anisotrope, des méthodes éléments finis stabilisées ou l'immersion directe des objets à partir de la Conception Assistée par Ordinateur. / Fluid-Structure Interaction (FSI) describes a wide variety of industrial problems arising in mechanical engineering, civil engineering and biomechanics. In spite of the available computer performance and the actual maturity of computational fluid dynamics and computational structural dynamics, several key issues still prevent accurate FSI simulations.Two main approaches for the simulation of FSI problems are still gaining attention lately: partitioned and monolithic approaches. Results in the literature show that the partitioned approach is accurate and efficient but some instabilities may occur depending on the ratio of the densities and the complexity of the geometry. Monolithic methods are still of interest due to their capability to treat the interaction of the fluid and the structure using a unified formulation. In fact it makes the build up of a FSI problem easier as the mesh do not have to fit the geometry of the solids and the transfers are treated naturally.The software Thost has been created based on these analyzes. Thost is a 3D aerothermal numerical software. It has been developped for the numerical simulation of industrial processes like the heating in industrial furnaces as well as quenching. Its target is to model numericaly the thermal history of the industrial pieces in their environment without using any transfer coefficient. However the computational costs are still high and therefore the software is not fully efficient from an industrial point of view to simulate, analize and improve complex processes. All the work in this PhD thesis has been done to reduce the computational costs and optimize the accuracy of the simulations in Thost based on innovatives numerical methods such as dynamic anisotropic mesh adaptation, stabilized finite elements methods and immersing the objects directly from their Computer Aided Design files.
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Modélisation du rayonnement thermique en immersion de volume / Numerical radiative transfer using an immerse volume method

Schmid, Quentin 14 December 2016 (has links)
Dans le cadre des procédés de chauffage et de trempe réalisés lors d’opération de mise en forme des matériaux, le rayonnement thermique joue un rôle prépondérant. Lors de l’élaboration de modèles numériques permettant la simulation de ces procédés, il est donc nécessaire de disposer d’outils performants pour simuler ce phénomène.La simulation numérique de tels procédés soulèvent de nombreuses problématiques, comme la représentation d’un environnement complexe impliquant plusieurs composants (pièces, bruleurs, buses d’injection, parois), la gestion des divers phénomènes physiques couplés (écoulement, transfert thermiques, ébullition, rayonnement). Dans cette perspective, les méthodes dites « d’immersion », permettant un traitement généraliste de ces divers problèmes, rencontrent depuis quelques années un intérêt grandissant dans la communauté scientifique.C’est dans ce contexte que s’inscrit le projet Thost, au sein duquel est réalisée cette thèse. L’objectif est donc de développer des outils pour la modélisation du rayonnement dans le contexte d’immersion de volume propre au logiciel Thost. Deux approches sont développées : l’une consistant en l’adaptation d’une méthode existante au contexte de l’immersion de volume, l’autre explorant l’élaboration d’une formulation pour un modèle particulier de rayonnement. Les outils développés sont ensuite mis à l’épreuve sur des simulations de cas industriels fournis par nos partenaires. / For heating and quenching operations occurring during material forming processes, thermal radiation is the the predominant physical phenomenon. Hence, when one tries to simulate such processes, it is important to have at disposal powerful tools for the numerical modelling of thermal radiation.The numerical simulation of these processes often rises numerous problems and questions, as the representation of a complex environment, involving several components ( ingots, burners, nozzles, walls), to deal with different coupled physical phenomena ( flow, heat transfer, boiling, thermal radiation). In this regard, some “immersed” numerical methods, allows a generalist treatment of these different problems, have gained popularity and drag interest of the scientific community in the recent years.The Thost project, aiming to produce a software for heat transfer during material forming processes, fits in the framework, and this PhD is part of this project. The goal is therefore to design tools for numerical modelling of thermal radiation within the immersed volume method of the Thost software. Two approaches are presented: one consisting in the adaptation of an existing method to the context of the immersed volume method, another concerning the development of a formulation for a specific model of radiation. These methods are then tested on industrial applications provided by our partners.
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Modélisation de la solidification dendritique d’un alliage Al-4.5%pdsCu atomisé avec une méthode de champs de phase anisotrope adaptative / Phase-field modeling of dendritic solidification for an Al-4.5wt%Cu atomized droplet using an anisotropic adaptive mesh

Sarkis, Carole 01 December 2016 (has links)
La croissance dendritique est calculée en utilisant un modèle champ de phase avec adaptation automatique anisotrope et non structurées d’un maillage éléments finis. Les inconnues sont la fonction champ de phase, une température adimensionnelle et une composition adimensionnelle, tel que proposé par [KAR1998] et [RAM2004]. Une interpolation linéaire d’éléments finis est utilisée pour les trois variables, après des techniques de stabilisation de discrétisation qui assurent la convergence vers une solution correcte non-oscillante. Afin d'effectuer des calculs quantitatifs de la croissance dendritique sur un grand domaine, deux ingrédients numériques supplémentaires sont nécessaires: un maillage adaptatif anisotrope et non structuré [COU2011], [COU2014] et un calcul parallèle [DIG2001], mis à disposition de la plateforme numérique utilisée (CimLib) basée sur des développements C++. L'adaptation du maillage se trouve à réduire considérablement le nombre de degrés de liberté. Les résultats des simulations en champ de phase pour les dendrites pour une solidification d'un matériau pur et d’un alliage binaire en deux et trois dimensions sont présentés et comparés à des travaux de référence. Une discussion sur les détails de l'algorithme et le temps CPU sont présentés et une comparaison avec un modèle macroscopique sont faite. / Dendritic growth is computed using a phase-field model with automatic adaptation of an anisotropic and unstructured finite element mesh. Unknowns are the phase-field function, a dimensionless temperature and a dimensionless composition, as proposed by [KAR1998] and [RAM2004]. Linear finite element interpolation is used for all variables, after discretization stabilization techniques that ensure convergence towards a correct non-oscillating solution. In order to perform quantitative computations of dendritic growth on a large domain, two additional numerical ingredients are necessary: automatic anisotropic unstructured adaptive meshing [COU2011], [COU2014] and parallel implementations [DIG2001], both made available with the numerical platform used (CimLib) based on C++ developments. Mesh adaptation is found to greatly reduce the number of degrees of freedom. Results of phase-field simulations for dendritic solidification of a pure material and a binary alloy in two and three dimensions are shown and compared with reference work. Discussion on algorithm details and the CPU time are outlined and a comparison with a macroscopic model are made.
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Simulação de escoamentos compressíveis turbulentos no entorno de corpos móveis usando malhas adaptativas de elementos finitos / Simulation of turbulent compressible flows around moving bodies using adaptative finite element meshes

Linn, Renato Vaz January 2017 (has links)
Neste trabalho, é apresentada a simulação de escoamentos compressíveis turbulentos no entorno de corpos móveis rígidos ou deformáveis empregando-se técnicas adaptativas. As simulações numéricas são conduzidas utilizando-se o método dos elementos finitos. A discretização espaço-temporal é desenvolvida através do método das linhas ou direções características (Characteristic-Based Split - CBS) e a modelagem da turbulência é feita através de um modelo de Simulação de Grandes Escalas (SGE, ou na terminologia em inglês, Large Eddy Simulation – LES) com o coeficiente de Smagorinsky variável no tempo e espaço (SGE ou LES dinâmico). A análise estrutural de corpos deformáveis imersos no fluido é realizada através de um modelo de elementos finitos triangulares para análise de placas e cascas com não linearidade geométrica, usando materiais elásticos com comportamento linear. Conjuntamente, um método de adaptação anisotrópica transiente de malhas é empregado para obter resultados com boa resolução a baixos custos computacionais. A consideração do movimento relativo de corpos imersos no escoamento é feita através de um método híbrido de movimento da malha que emprega interpolação com funções de base radial. Exemplos bidimensionais e tridimensionais são apresentados de forma a validar cada uma das metodologias desenvolvidas. Por fim, exemplos de simulações complexas são investigados, comparando-se os resultados obtidos com resultados experimentais e numéricos presentes na literatura. / In this work, the simulation of compressible turbulent flows around rigid and flexible moving bodies is presented using adaptative techniques. The numerical simulations are solved employing the finite element method. The space-time discretization is performed using the Characteristic-Based Split scheme (CBS) and turbulence is modelled with Large Eddy Simulation (LES) and a dynamic Smagorinsky sub-grid model. The structural analysis of deformable bodies immersed on the flow is performed using a triangular finite element model for the analysis of geometrically non-linear elastic plates and shells. An anisotropic mesh adaptation algorithm for transient simulations is coupled with the solver to achieve results with good resolution and low computational costs. The consideration of the relative movement of immersed bodies on the flow is performed employing an hybrid method of mesh movement based on radial basis function interpolation. Twodimensional and three-dimensional examples are presented in order to validate the proposed methodologies. Finally, complex simulations are investigated, where results are compared with experimental and numerical data available in the literature.
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Numerical Computations of Action Potentials for the Heart-torso Coupling Problem

Rioux, Myriam 10 January 2012 (has links)
The work developed in this thesis focusses on the electrical activity of the heart, from the modeling of the action potential originating from cardiac cells and propagating through the heart, as well as its electrical manifestation at the body surface. The study is divided in two main parts: modeling the action potential, and numerical simulations. For modeling the action potential a dimensional and asymptotic analysis is done. The key advance in this part of the work is that this analysis gives the steps to reliably control the action potential. It allows predicting the time/space scales and speed of any action potential that is to say the shape of the action potential and its propagation. This can be done as the explicit relations on all the physiological constants are defined precisely. This method facilitates the integrative modeling of a complete human heart with tissue-specific ionic models. It even proves that using a single model for the cardiac action potential is enough in many situations. For efficient numerical simulations, a numerical method for solving the heart-torso coupling problem is explored according to a level set description of the domains. This is done in the perspective of using directly medical images for building computational domains. A finite element method is then developed to manage meshes not adapted to internal interfaces. Finally, an anisotropic adaptive remeshing methods for unstructured finite element meshes is used to efficiently capture propagating action potentials within complex, realistic two dimensional geometries.
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Numerical Computations of Action Potentials for the Heart-torso Coupling Problem

Rioux, Myriam 10 January 2012 (has links)
The work developed in this thesis focusses on the electrical activity of the heart, from the modeling of the action potential originating from cardiac cells and propagating through the heart, as well as its electrical manifestation at the body surface. The study is divided in two main parts: modeling the action potential, and numerical simulations. For modeling the action potential a dimensional and asymptotic analysis is done. The key advance in this part of the work is that this analysis gives the steps to reliably control the action potential. It allows predicting the time/space scales and speed of any action potential that is to say the shape of the action potential and its propagation. This can be done as the explicit relations on all the physiological constants are defined precisely. This method facilitates the integrative modeling of a complete human heart with tissue-specific ionic models. It even proves that using a single model for the cardiac action potential is enough in many situations. For efficient numerical simulations, a numerical method for solving the heart-torso coupling problem is explored according to a level set description of the domains. This is done in the perspective of using directly medical images for building computational domains. A finite element method is then developed to manage meshes not adapted to internal interfaces. Finally, an anisotropic adaptive remeshing methods for unstructured finite element meshes is used to efficiently capture propagating action potentials within complex, realistic two dimensional geometries.
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High-performance computing of sintering process at particle scale.

Pino Munoz, Daniel Humberto 26 October 2012 (has links) (PDF)
Within the general context of solid-state sintering process, this work presents a numerical modeling approach, at the particle scale, of ceramic particle packing consolidation. Typically, the sintering process triggers several mass transport paths that are thermally activated. Among those diffusion paths, the most important ones are: surface diffusion, grain boundary diffusion and volume diffusion. Including this physics into a high-performance computing framework would permit to gain precious insights about the driving mechanisms. The aim of the present work is to develop a model and a numerical strategy able to integrate the different diffusion mechanisms into continuum mechanics framework. In the cases of surface diffusion and volume diffusion, the mass flux is calculated as a function of the surface curvature Laplacian and the hydrostatic pressure gradient, respectively. The physical model describing these two transport mechanisms is first presented within the framework of continuum mechanics. Then the numerical strategy developed for the simulation of the sintering of many particles is detailed. This strategy is based on a discretization of the problem by using a finite element approach coupled with a Level-Set method used to describe the particles free surface. This versatile strategy allows us to perform simulations involving a relatively large number of particles. Furthermore, a mesh adaptation technique allows the particles surface description to be improved, while the number of mesh elements is kept reasonable. Several 3D simulations, performed in a parallel computing framework, show the changes occurring in the structure of 3D granular stacks.

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