Cette thèse est consacrée à l’étude théorique ainsi qu’au traitement numérique de fluides incompressibles à surface libre. La première partie concerne un système d’équations appelé le système de Green–Naghdi. Comme le système de Saint-Venant, il s’agit d’une approximation d’eaux peu-profondes du problème de Zakharov. La différence est que le système de Green–Naghdi est d’un degré plus élevé en ordre d’approximation. C’est pourquoi il contient tous les termes du système de Saint-Venant plus de termes d’ordre trois non-linéairement dispersives. Autrement dit, le système de Green–Naghdi peut être vu comme une perturbation dispersive du système de Saint-Venant. Ce dernier système étant hyperbolique, il entre dans le cadre classique développé pour des systèmes hyperboliques. En particulier, il est entropique (au sense de Lax) et symétrique. On peut donc lui appliquer les résultats d’existence et d’unicité bien connus pour des systèmes hyperboliques. Dans la première partie de ce travail, on généralise la notion de symétrie à une classe plus générale de systèmes contenant le système de Green–Naghdi. Ceci nous permet de symétriser les équations de Green–Naghdi et d’utiliser la symétrie obtenue pour déduire un résultat d’existence globale après avoir ajouté un terme dissipative d’ordre 2 au système. Ceci est fait en adaptant l’approche utilisée dans la littérature pour des systèmes hyperboliques. La deuxième partie de ce travail concerne le traitement numérique des équations de Navier–Stokes à surface libre avec un terme de tension de surface. Ici, la surface libre est modélisée en utilisant la formulation des lignes de niveaux. C’est pourquoi la condition cinématique (condition de l’évolution de surface libre) s’écrit sous la forme d’une équation d’advection satisfaite par la fonction de ligne de niveaux. Cette équation est résolue sur une domaine de calcul contenant strictement le domaine de fluide, sur de petits sous-intervalles du temps. Chaque itération de l’algorithme global correspond donc à l’advection du domaine du fluide sur le sous-intervalle du temps associé et ensuite de résoudre le système de Navier–Stokes discrétisé en temps sur le domaine du fluide. Cette discrétisation en temps est faite par la méthode des caractéristiques. L’outil clé qui nous permet de résoudre ce système uniquement sur le domaine du fluide est l’adaptation de maillage anisotrope. Plus précisément, à chaque itération le maillage est adapté au domaine du fluide tel que l’erreur d’approximation et l’erreur géométrique soient raisonnablement petites au voisinage du domaine du fluide. La résolution du problème discrétisé en temps sur le domaine du fluide est faite par l’algorithme d’Uzawa utilisé dans la cadre de la méthode des éléments finis. Par ailleurs, la condition de glissement de Navier est traité ici en ajoutant un terme de pénalisation à la formulation variationnelle associée. / This thesis is about theoretical study and numerical treatment of some problems raised in incompressible free-surface fluid dynamics. The first part concerns a model called the Green–Naghdi (GN) equations. Similarly to the non linear shallow water system (called also Saint-Venant system), the Green–Naghdi equations is a shallow water approximation of water waves problem. Indeed, GN equation is one order higher in approximation compared to Saint-Venant system. For this reason, it contains all the terms of Saint-Venant system in addition to some non linear third order dispersive terms. In other words, the GN equations is a dispersive perturbation of the Saint-Venant system. The latter system is hyperbolic and fits the general framework developed in the literature for hyperbolic systems. Particularly, it is entropic (in the sense of Lax) and symmertizable. Therefore, we can apply the well-posedness results known for symmetric hyperbolic system. During the first part of this work, we generalize the notion of symmetry to a more general type of equations including the GN system. This lets us to symmetrize the GN equation. Then, we use the suggested symmetric structure to obtain a global existence result for the system with a second order dissipative term by adapting the approach classically used for hyperbolic systems. The second part of this thesis concerns the numerical treatment of the free surface incompressible Navier–Stokes equation with surface tension. We use the level set formulation to represent the fluid free-surface. Thanks to this formulation, the kinematic boundary condition is treated by solving an advection equation satisfied by the level set function. This equation is solved on a computational domain containing the fluid domain over small time subintervals. Each iteration of the algorithm corresponds to the adevction of the fluid domain on a small time subinterval and to solve the time-discretized Navier–Stokes equations only on the fluid domain. The time discretization of the Navier–Stokes equation is done by the characteristic method. Then, the key tool which lets us solve this equation on the fluid domain is the anisotropic mesh adaptation. Indeed, at each iteration the mesh is adapted to the fluid domain such that we get convenient approximation and geometric errors in the vicinity of the fluid domain. This resolution is done using the Uzawa algorithm for a convenient finite element method. The slip boundary conditions are considered by adding a penalization term to the variational formulation associated to the problem.

Experimental data convincingly show that viscosity of a fluid may change significantly with pressure. This observation leads to various generalizations of well-known models, like Darcy's law, Stokes' law or the Navier-Stokes equations, among others. This thesis investigates three such models in a series of three published papers. Their unifying topic is development of existence theory and finding a weak solution to systems of partial differential equations stemming from the considered models.

This project presents the development and implementation of a GPU-accelerated meshless two-phase incompressible fluid flow solver. The solver uses a variant of the Generalized Finite Difference Meshless Method presented by Gerace et al. [1]. The Level Set Method [2] is used for capturing the fluid interface. The Compute Unified Device Architecture (CUDA) language for general-purpose computing on the graphics-processing-unit is used to implement the GPU-accelerated portions of the solver. CUDA allows the programmer to take advantage of the massive parallelism offered by the GPU at a cost that is significantly lower than other parallel computing options. Through the combined use of GPU-acceleration and a radial-basis function (RBF) collocation meshless method, this project seeks to address the issue of speed in computational fluid dynamics. Traditional mesh-based methods require a large amount of user input in the generation and verification of a computational mesh, which is quite time consuming. The RBF meshless method seeks to rectify this issue through the use of a grid of data centers that need not meet stringent geometric requirements like those required by finite-volume and finite-element methods. Further, the use of the GPU to accelerate the method has been shown to provide a 16-fold increase in speed for the solver subroutines that have been accelerated.

Flow of granular materials is usually initiated when the shear stress is large enough and exceeds certain critical value. This can result in the presence of the dead-zones in which the flow itself does not take place. Motions of such materials are frequently described by Bingham model. Flows of granular fluids are frequently connected with the presence of free surface. In the thesis Bingham model is incorporated into a more general framework of Bingham-Korteweg fluids, which is a suitable way how to transfer free- boundary problems into the problems on fixed domains. A part of the thesis concerns mathematical analysis of interesting relevant problems for incompressible fluids. 1

Tato diplomová práce prezentuje metodu spektrálních prvků. Tato metoda je použita k řešení stacionárního 2-D laminárního proudění Newtonovské nestlačitelné tekutiny. Proudění je popsáno stacionarní Navier-Stokesovou rovnicí. Dohromady s okrajovou pod- mínkou tvoří Navier-Stokesův problém. Na slabou formulaci této úlohy je aplikována metoda spektrálních prvků. Touto discretizací se získá soustava nelineárních rovnic. K obrdžení lineární soustavy je použita Newtonova iterační metoda. Podorobný algorit- mus tvoří jádro Navier-Stokeseva solveru, který je naprogramován v Matlabu. Na závěr jsou pomocí tohoto solveru řešeny dva příklady: proudění v kavitě a obtékání válce. Přík- lady jsou řešeny pro různé Reynoldsovy čísla. První od 1 do 1000 a druhý od 1 do 100.

Le but de cette thèse pluridisciplinaire est d’étudier le problème de l’interaction fluide-structure à partir du point de vue mathématique et physique. Des problèmes d’interaction d’un fluide visqueux avec une structure élastique décrivent, par exemple, des interactions entre le manteau terrestre et de la croûte terrestre, le sang et la paroi vasculaire dans un vaisseau sanguin, etc. En génie l’interaction fluide visqueux-structure apparaît lors de la formation de solution colloïdale quand un laser passe à travers le fluide influençant le substrat (ablation laser dans un liquide). Fusion sélective au laser (FSL) est utilisée pour étudier le comportement des contraintes résiduelles en dépendance des propriétés thermoélastiques et mécaniques du matériau et des formes variées des cordons rechargés. A partir du point de vue mathématique le système couplé “flux fluide visqueux – plaque mince élastique” en 3D lorsque l’épaisseur de la plaque, E, tend vers zéro, tandis que la densité et le module de Young du matériau élastique sont d’ordre 1 et E-3, respectivement, est considéré. Le solide est couché par le fluide qui occupe un domaine épais. La modélisation multi-échelle est effectuée pour la partie élastique. Le développement asymptotique complet est construit lorsque E tend vers zéro. L’existence, la régularité et l’unicité de la solution pour le problème initial sont étudiées au moyen de techniques variationnelles. La méthode de décomposition asymptotique partielle du domaine est appliquée pour le système couplé. L’erreur de la méthode est évaluée / The goal of this multi-disciplinary thesis is to study the fluid-structure interaction problem from mathematical and physical viewpoints. Viscous fluid-structure interaction problems describe, for example, interactions between the Earth mantle and the Earth crust, the blood and the vascular wall in a blood vessels, etc. In engineering viscous fluid-structure interaction appears during colloidal solution formation when a laser pierce through the fluid influencing the substrate (laser ablation in a liquid). Selective laser melting (SLM) is used to study the behavior of residual stresses depending on the thermoelastic and mechanical properties of the material and on various forms of reloaded beads. From mathematical point of view the coupled system “viscous fluid flow-thin elastic plate” in 3D when the thickness of the plate, E, tends to zero, while the density and the Young’s modulus of the plate material are of order 1 and E-3, respectively, is considered. The plate lies on the fluid which occupies a thick domain. The multi-scale modeling is performed for the elastic part. The complete asymptotic expansion is constructed when E tends to zero. The existence, the regularity and the uniqueness of the solution for the original problem are studied by means of variational techniques. The method of asymptotic partial domain decomposition is applied for the coupled system. The error of the method is evaluated

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In present finite element study, the dynamics of incompressible isothermal flows of Newtonian and two generalised non-Newtonian models through complex mixing-separating planar channel and circular pipe filled with and without porous media, including Darcy's term in momentum equation, is presented. Whilst, in literature this problem is solved only for planar channel flows of Newtonian and viscoelastic fluids. The primary aim of this study is to examine the laminar flow behaviour of Newtonian and inelastic non-Newtonian fluids, and investigate the robustness of the numerical algorithm. The rheological properties of non-Newtonian fluids are defined utilising a range of constitutive equations, for inelastic non-Newtonian fluids non-linear viscous models, such as Power Law and Bird-Carreau models are used to capture the shear thinning behaviour of fluids. To simulate such complex flows, steady-state solutions are sought employing time-dependent finite element algorithm. Temporal derivatives are discretised using second order Taylor series expansion, while, spatial discretisation is achieved through Galerkin approximation in combination to deal with incompressibility a pressure-correction scheme adopted. In order to achieve the algorithm of semi-implicit form Darcy's-Brinkman equation is utilized for the conversion in Darcy's terms and diffusion, while Crank-Nicolson approach is adopted for stability and acceleration. Simple and complex flows for various complex flow bifurcations of the combined mixing-separating geometries, for both two-dimensional planar channel in Cartesian coordinates, as well as axisymmetric circular tube in cylindrical polar coordinates system are investigated. These geometries consist of a two-inverted channel and pipe flows connected through a gap in common partitions, initially filled with non-porous materials and later with homogeneous porous materials. Computational domain is having variety it has been investigated with many configurations. These computational domains have been appeared in industrial applications of combined mixing and separating of fluid flows both for porous and non-porous materials. Fully developed velocity profile is applied on both inlets of the domain by imposing analytical solutions found during current study for porous materials. Numerical study has been conducted by varying flow rates and flow direction due to a variety in the domain. The influence of varying flow rates and flow directions are analysed on flow structure. Also the impact of increasing inertia, permeability and power law index on flow behaviour and pressure difference are investigated. From predicted solution of present numerical study, for Newtonian fluids a close agreement is realised between numerical solutions and experimental data. During simulations, it has been noticed that enhancing fluid inertia (flow rates), and permeability has visible effects on the flow domains. When the Reynolds number value increases the size and power of the vortex for recirculation increases. Under varying flow rates an early activity of vortex development was observed. During change in flow directions reversed flow showed more inertial effects as compared with unidirectional flows. Less significant influence of inertia has been observed in domains filled with porous media as compared with non-porous. The power law model has more effects on inertia and pressure as compared with Bird Carreau model. Change in the value of permeability gave significant impact on pressure difference. Numerical simulations for the domain and fluids flow investigated in this study are encountered in the real life of mixing and separating applications in the industry. Especially this purely quantitative numerical investigation of flows through porous medium will open more avenues for future researchers and scientists.

Title: Incompressible fluids with temperature dependent visco- sity, numerical analysis and computational simulations Author: RNDr. Oldřich Ulrych Department: Mathematical Institute of Charles University Supervisor: prof. RNDr. Josef Málek, CSc., DSc. Abstract: Flows of incompressible fluids connected with significant exchange of ther- mal and mechanical energy and with material moduli varying with the temperature and the shear rate, are described by the balance equations for linear momentum and energy, complemented by suitable constitution equations for the Cauchy stress and the heat flux. Assuming sufficient smoothness of quantities involved, the energy balance equation exhibits several equivalent formulations. However, within the context of weak solution, these formulations are, in general, not equivalent. This thesis is based on the existence theory for the generalized Navier-Stokes-Fourier system describing planar flow of fluids with a shear and temperature dependent vis- cosity. We specify parameters of a generalized power-law model under which weak formulations of balance equations are meaningful and both considered formulations of the energy balance equation are equivalent. Supported by the existence theory, we propose and numerically solve several problems pursuing the aim to systematically compare the...